Casey LissYou š¬š§ folks can be mad about how we pronounce āhoverā, but at least we donāt absolutely butcher ārouterā.
Seriously, how in the hell did you get ārooterā from ārouterāā½
Dr. Drang@caseyliss And yet you put periods and commas outside quotation marks. Next youāll be putting an āsā on the end of āmath.ā
James Thomson@drdrang @caseyliss Casey was telling me only this week that he was broadly in favour of metric units.
@jamesthomson @caseyliss Thatās the saddest thing Iāve ever heard.
@drdrang @caseyliss I think it means we're finally getting through to him.
@jamesthomson Imperial units are moronic. Except Fahrenheit which is unimpeachably the better unit for ambient air temps.
@jamesthomson cc @drdrang who I meant to copy
@caseyliss @jamesthomson Donāt worry, I saw it. You might think otherwise if you were forced to measure stress in pascals.
@drdrang @jamesthomson No bullshit, Iām gobsmacked to hear you of all people defending imperial units. š±
@caseyliss @jamesthomson Every system of measurement is fine. The great advantage of SIāthat everything is scaled by powers of tenāis less advantageous when we all have computers in our pockets, but I have nothing against it. Except that pascals are were poorly definedāa newton per square meter?
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Joel D@drdrang @caseyliss @jamesthomson after an aborted career in home building I saw a set of prints where all dimensions were specified in mm and Iāve been insanely jealous ever since. Imperial units really are terrible for carpenters.
beasom@joeld @drdrang @caseyliss @jamesthomson Not really. 12 has more factors, so itās more easily divisible into consistent non-fractional units at that scale. In construction work itās often more necessary to be *consistent* than to be exact. Traditional Japanese carpentry units are still used even though most of everything else went metric in the Meiji Era. *Sun* (equivalent of a foot) are decimal, but grouped into units of 3 or 6 for most uses. Makes dividing by half or thirds much easier.
Jonathan Dechko@drdrang @caseyliss @jamesthomson At least we arenāt constantly doing unit conversions between Smoots and football fields.
Bill Lloyd
@wklj Lol. I saw that in the trending section and thought of that as well.
The Animal and the Machine@caseyliss @jamesthomson @drdrang
Firstly, Casey is the only successful person in making me appreciate Fahrenheit. āAligns to body temperatureā. I was starting to be converted in the summer with works aircon.
However. UK winters hover around zero degrees C. Believe me. Having no mental agility required to know if the local hill is ice slippy for death (yes exaggerated, but this is emotional), or a bit wet is QUITE THE DIFFERENCE SIR!
So yea. Celsius. šš»