The red squiggly underlines make me sad.
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Screenshooting a Word document is utterly disgusting.
Screenshooting, lol.
Absolutely! It should be an OpenDocument Spreadsheet
Sleep deprived Canadian approves.
God, I wish we used this here. It is such a better system than our system of potholes being measured in washing machines in some parts of the country.
What you're too fancy to divide by 25.4 or multiply by .0397?
...1" ≈ 2 ½ cm, 5' ≈ 1 ½ m, close-enough to convert in your head...
We do use it where necessary; in science, engineering and the military, for example. Some of our imperial units suck, but others, like pounds and feet and inches are superior because they are more intuitive. The reality is that it's a non-issue for most people and because of that we will almost always have some version of a mixed system, as do most of the other Anglophone countries.
What? How is feet and pounds more intuitive? To me metric is more intuitive and imperials are whole another language, because I only learnt metric in school and only remember very few things in imperial (such as some dimensions on specific parts of bicycles).
Converting yards to inches in your head is near damn impossible, but you don't even need to count to know 5.25km is 5250m or 525000cm
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Go to sleep!
I just awoke from 21ks of sleep.
This just made me think, why haven't those damn commie Europeans with their fancy metric system come up with a better system for measuring time yet?
People like to talk a lot of shit about how subjective the definitions for an inch or a mile are, but I never hear complaints about how a second or an hour are antiquated and based on things that only make sense from an Earth-centric point of view.
I just feel like someone be mad at Americans for still using hours (ugh, trivially decided on the amount of time it takes the Earth to rotate) and not something like the amount of time it takes for 1 kilogram of water to decay via natural radiation when under a vacuum.
By the way, before downvoting, this post is heavy with /s in case it wasn't obvious.
Edit: I just looked up the formal definition of a second and it is "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom".
It's all so arbitrary is funny. People get so passionate, but then I'll bring up,"Why aren't we using Swatch Time?" Or, why don't we have 13 months of exactly 28 days (With a bonus vacation day or two)?
They'll usually fall back on what people are used to or tradition or something that just supports staying on imperial measurements. To be clear, I don't give a shit what measurement system is used. It's not like it takes a big brain to figure out what is going on when you travel.
This can go even further. Why aren't we using base 12 numbers, which can be divided much more conveniently?
I remember watching the Numberphile video on base 12 a few years ago. I thought it was pretty interesting.
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Where are the metric units? All I see is prefixes explained
My sibling in Satan, that's the backbone of the metric system. Nobody said anything about units.
Gotcha, so we're talking kilotons and microinches then?
Or is it actually the units that make the metric system scary to Americans?
Woodworkers use the "metric system" all the time it seems. "Thousandths of an inch" is a common unit.
The metric system is not mathematically proven!
As an American, I upvoted.
Edit: Wait, why am I awake at 5am?
nooooo my teaspoon measurements!
It's just prefixes, you can use decateaspoons if you want.
And then there're the Americans who point at the Metric system and scream "why not us". Which is anyone who's sane and not afraid of change.
This is wrong. Some identifiers should start with a lowercase letter (like kilo)
Correct, except in Computing, there the Kilo, Mega, Giga ....are in uppercase, to differentiate it from the decimal system as it is based on powers of 2. 1 km is 1000 meters but 1 Kb is 1024 bytes
That is no correct. You are talking about kibi, mebi and gibi. The corresponding identifiers are Ki, Mi and Gi, not K M and G. K would mean Kelvin, M is 10⁶, G is 10⁹
You're both right, and that's the problem.
And it only gets more complicated from there.
In storage 1GB is 1000MB and 1MB is 1000KB and 1KB is 1000 bytes..... This is almost exclusive to hard drives. The rest of the industry uses what is now known as KiB, MiB and GiB, or kebibytes, mebibytes, and gibibytes. 1GiB is 1024MiB, and 1MiB is 1024KiB, and 1KiB is 1024 bytes.
If you're not talking about disk storage, then 1MB is 1MiB (1MB can be either 1024KB or 1000KB depending on context). The terms GiB/MiB/KiB were created because of the confusion between 1024 and 1000 for each jump in size, it's a relatively new term created to increase clarity between the various definitions, where MiB will always be the 1024 KiB version, and MB can be either; in this way, HDD manufacturers don't need to change anything that they are doing, and the industry can have a pure term, free of the confusion created by the disk drive industry.
To bake your brain even more, datacom uses 1000 instead of 1024 for increments, so 1Kbps is 1000bits/s and 1Mbps is 1000Kbits/s. So data transfer, link speeds and throughputs are generally going by the 10base numbering instead of the powers of 2.
The whole thing is a mess, and everyone wants to be the "will acktually" person to correct people about MB vs MiB and none of it actually matters, it's an entirely stupid situation created because the data storage jerks wanted to be able to put a slightly bigger number on their box to say how much capacity their drives had by just omitting the extra 24 bytes per KB, and extra 24 KB per MB, etc. So their product would look like it's bigger than it is.
Arguing about it is pointless.
It is not the result of inflating the data, but the consequence of the base 2 (binary system). 2^2 =4 2^3 = 8 ....16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 (1Kb), 2048, 4096, 8192, ......
I know of the new designations, but they are in my opinion unnecessary. It is true that K is the abbreviation for Kelvin, but in computing, if you don't use a liquid-cooled super game computer, it's clear to anyone that Kb has nothing to do with temperature.
I don't think I've ever seen thousands separators in decimals
Where are you from if I may ask? As far as I'm aware they are are pretty common, I know only of India which does them differently and maybe US / Canada? Although I think the point and the comma are switched in some countries, so a thousand Euros would be 1.000,00€
I'm from the US, but I'm not talking about thousands separators in the whole number. I guess a better word would be thousandths separators.
Pinch and/or dash... Fuck the rest.