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Fly Molo posted:In a frictionless vacuum, sure, but units do matter in the real world. Acre-feet is a weird as gently caress unit of volume, except it's actually useful for things. You've got 30 acres that need 6 inches of water per growing season? 15 acre-feet. Yeah, you can express that as 1.85e+7 liters, but that means more math, more steps, and more chances for error. 7 hectares that need 150mm water per growing season: 7 * 10000 * 0.15 = 10500 kilolitres. Seems pretty simple and error free here too, and the water utility can use the same units whether it’s a farm or a brewery or a manufacturing plant or whatever. 
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How's the weather today? Low 20s. 
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lemonadesweetheart posted:How's the weather today? Low 20s. Shorts weather!
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ante posted:holy poo poo no one cares Yes they do. They care so much!
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Memento posted:Smoot or gtfo Hell yes. Oliver Smoot went on to run both ANSI and the ISO, so it's clearly the right and proper choice.
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As a Canadian I get to experience both at the same time every day. Feet are better than metres when measuring short distances but metres are better when measuring longer distances. Fahrenheit is stupid and only the olds use it here. No young person here uses it, because it's pointless stupid. Pounds to Kgs are common here even though kilogram is a measure of mass while pound is a measure of weight. So it really should be Kgs to slugs and newtons to pounds. drat it America get your loving poo poo together.
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oldpainless posted:Name four things that America isn’t good at. Just try. 1) universal health care 2) keeping its citizens sane enough so they will not feel the need of shooting random people and then committing suicide 3) football (not american handegg) 4) controlling its CO2 emissions edit: funny pic 
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Fly Molo posted:In a frictionless vacuum, sure, but units do matter in the real world. Acre-feet is a weird as gently caress unit of volume, except it's actually useful for things. You've got 30 acres that need 6 inches of water per growing season? 15 acre-feet. Yeah, you can express that as 1.85e+7 liters, but that means more math, more steps, and more chances for error. Pararoid posted:I think the people saying the increased granularity of Fahrenheit is useful are greatly overstating their case. This has got to be my favorite nonsensical joke about units: that people who use a different system are robotic autists who never use round numbers and write them out to absurd levels of decimal precision, because that's what you get if you convert from your familiar system. It's so disingenuous and stupid but I love it anyway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaWCHSofq9A I VILL WAGER FIFTY-THREE MARKS AND THIRTY-SEVEN PFENNIGS
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RoboRodent posted:I love that there are Americans in this thread who apparently think the rest of the world has no idea what a given temperature in Celsius means just because they don't. I also laugh heartily at the Americans who think that temperatures below 0 F are rare and not just most of winter, like they frequently are here. Americans are dumb as gently caress, friend. I mean look at their country, it speaks for itself
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Look out guys that's the Reverse Flash 
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This whole 2 page derail is dumb as gently caress cut it out and post funny pictures   
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Sponge Baathist posted:This whole 2 page derail is dumb as gently caress cut it out and post funny pictures She looks familiar. Is she the same woman that ate like a whole block of cheese as a snack?
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Tough call
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Sponge Baathist posted:Tough call Keto is the best diet, I agree.
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I considered ignoring you for your lovely posts but my broken nerd brain finds this funny so now I'm conflicted. vvv But someone was wrong about the correct units of measurement on the internet 
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VodeAndreas posted:I considered ignoring you for your lovely posts but my broken nerd brain finds this funny so now I'm conflicted. You don't have to like everything everyone does and that's OK.
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AtomD posted:Imagine if data sizes were measured in a system like the imperial system instead of a system like the metric system. Everything would be measured in floppies, CDs, and DVDs. "But it's better for everyday use." Data sizes aren't metric.  1 megabyte = 1,048,576 bytes. https://imgur.com/gallery/3AS8qIy
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Elias_Maluco posted:1) universal health care Hand. Egg. XD
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CainFortea posted:Data sizes aren't metric. A megabyte is one million bytes, 1,048,576 bytes is a mebibyte. 
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CainFortea posted:Data sizes aren't metric. They streamlined it years ago, and the official SI and ISQ definition of a megabyte is exactly 10^6 bytes. The official prefixes for iterations of 2^10 are kibi, mebi, gibi, et cetera.
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drat you are some tedious motherfuckers.
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The real genius is having the "ignore me" note stamped with an Inquisitorial seal
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:A megabyte is one million bytes, 1,048,576 bytes is a mebibyte. Counterpoint: anyone who actually insists on this distinction is an insufferable pedant.
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Exotic Botanical is my porn name.
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May 7, 2018 15:11
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Plavski posted:Exotic Botanical is my porn name. Not "Asian Experience"?
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i agreed to split a case of steven seagal's lightning bolt with a friend but he chickened out so i never got to try it
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chitoryu12 posted:Not "Asian Experience"? That would be false advertising
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What about Cherry Charge
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punchymcpunch posted:i agreed to split a case of steven seagal's lightning bolt with a friend but he chickened out so i never got to try it It's not very good. It's like if red bull was actually made of Pictures of people who drank it:   E:vv bull semen. It's Monday and I'm fuckin tired Sponge Baathist has a new favorite as of 15:36 on May 7, 2018 |
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Sponge Baathist posted:It's not very good. It's like if red bull was actually made of bill semen and a fungus that mind controls ants. Yeah but Bill who? Bill Brasky?
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Counterpoint: anyone who actually insists on this distinction is an insufferable pedant. I'd never actually heard the word "mebibyte" before googling it for that post but if it get results this fast I'll have to whip it out more often. 
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