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Platystemon posted:lol if you use “tonnes” while “megagrammes” exists. You're forgetting about my personal favorite: kilopounds.
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Dec 27, 2018 07:24
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Platystemon posted:lol if you use “tonnes” while “megagrammes” exists. this reminds me: i think ive seen metric weirdos use "k km" to denote such as service intervals or mileage, when they could have said megameters. MEGAMETERS.
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Dec 27, 2018 07:58
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The Swedes routinely uses Miles. They mean 10km because gently caress you
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~95% of the time when I see M, it means 1,000, so $90M = $90,000 (M in Roman numerals is 1,000). MM would be 1,000 * 1,000, or 1 million. However, I end up running across M being used as 1 million just enough to make it that I can never assume M is 1,000, and I have to figure it out based on the context, which isn't always as easy as you'd think.
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Dec 27, 2018 10:47
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sharkytm posted:You're forgetting about my personal favorite: kilopounds. Stop that.
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Dec 27, 2018 10:56
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Computer viking posted:Norwegians routinely use millimeters in conversation, and the lab techs I work with don't seem afraid of milliliters either, though those tend to sound more like mi'liters. I don't think I've ever heard anyone use just "mill" for either unit. mil for millimetres. mils for millilitres. Still better than lunatics who use poo poo like hectograms and centilitres. Raluek posted:this reminds me: i think ive seen metric weirdos use "k km" to denote such as service intervals or mileage, when they could have said megameters. MEGAMETERS. Do it the Korean way* and count in multiples of 10,000. *please no one actually do this
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Dec 27, 2018 11:36
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MomJeans420 posted:~95% of the time when I see M, it means 1,000, so $90M = $90,000 (M in Roman numerals is 1,000). MM would be 1,000 * 1,000, or 1 million. However, I end up running across M being used as 1 million just enough to make it that I can never assume M is 1,000, and I have to figure it out based on the context, which isn't always as easy as you'd think. Where on earth are you seeing that frequently? K means thousand, not M.
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Dec 27, 2018 12:14
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I think on the show Ice Road Truckers, Canadian truckers often said "clicks" whenever referring to metric speed or distance. I thought it sounded kinda cool and a lot easier to say than kilometers per hour. *Edit yes I did mean to type clicks instead of icks Not Wolverine fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Dec 27, 2018 |
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Dec 27, 2018 12:47
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Crotch Fruit posted:I think on the show Ice Road Truckers, Canadian truckers often said "icks" whenever referring to metric speed or distance. I thought it sounded kinda cool and a lot easier to say than kilometers per hour. Are you sure they aren’t saying “clicks”? That’s a common slang term for kilometers or km/h, as in “go five clicks down the road and turn right at the traffic lights,” or “just got flashed by a speed camera, and I think I was about ten clicks over.” I can’t speak for all Commonwealth countries but it’s certainly used like this in Australia.
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Dec 27, 2018 13:40
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Crotch Fruit posted:I think on the show Ice Road Truckers, Canadian truckers often said "icks" whenever referring to metric speed or distance. I thought it sounded kinda cool and a lot easier to say than kilometers per hour. Pretty sure that's an accent saying the word 'click' or probably more accurately 'klick'. Which is cool dudebro military speak for kilometer or kilometers per hour. "How far to the target?" "About 3 clicks" "How fast were you going in that thing?" "60 clicks flat out" Which brings me to the question of why the US military were so ready to adopt the metric system for that but still talk in pounds and tonnage when it comes to munitions or loads? Why wont the whole world unify with one god drat unit of measurement that makes sense so we, as a species can stop doing stupid mathematical conversions on constants. I dont want a single currency or language (would be nice but a little NWO-ish) but when it comes to maths it's a universal language and whether you're talking miles, kilometers, fathoms, leagues, furlongs or whatever else you wanna make up for your specific cause the are all denoting the same thing. Same goes for temperature, weight, forces, all that sciency poo poo. Lets get all communist on this subject and speak the same* to avoid the confusion. (*the correct same to use is the infallible metric system because imperial measures just make no good drat sense and we don't have 12 fingers to make it easier!)
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dpack_1 posted:... A large portion of American smart bombs are actually Vietnam era or earlier dumb bombs with computer controlled winglets strapped on. The Vietnam war itself mostly used surplus bombs from WW2. Basically there's swaths of the logistics chain so old that it's not really worth it to switch, and it's not like you ever unexpectedly need to know what a 500 pound bomb is in kilos, or have a 378.5 pound bomb. Those weights are more like standard sizes, like Large, Extra Large, etc. A 500 lb bomb doesn't even weigh 500 lb. Bore size is in millimeters for everything but .50 BMG and .45 ACP. Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Dec 27, 2018 |
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Dec 27, 2018 14:08
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Most of the things that have metric designations are round numbers in U.S. customary units.  7.62 mm is precisely 0.3 inches
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Dec 27, 2018 14:19
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If you mean millimeter, use millimeter. A mil is a thousandth of an inch.
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Dec 27, 2018 14:46
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No a thou is a thousandth of an inch don't confuse me or I'll gently caress up this part. (Engineers would do this and confuse new guys so bad)
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MrYenko posted:If you mean millimeter, use millimeter. A mil is a thousandth of an inch. A mil is a thousandth of a radian, or 0.05625 degrees.
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Dec 27, 2018 15:05
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Platystemon posted:Most of the things that have metric designations are round numbers in U.S. customary units. Now explain British .303, German 7.92, Russian 7.62, and the fact that the civilian version of 7.62 NATO is .308. Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Dec 27, 2018 |
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Dec 27, 2018 16:04
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dpack_1 posted:Why wont the whole world unify with one god drat unit of measurement that makes sense so we, as a species can stop doing stupid mathematical conversions on constants. Mate, they did. The only countries left, in the entire world, which don't have metric as their official standard are Myanmar, Liberia and the US.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Mate, they did. We tried, we tried. We use to have the "destination to" signs on interstates with both miles and km. To be honest, we are fairly metric. But miles and cooking measurements will last well after I'm 6 feet under.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Now explain British .303, German 7.92, Russian 7.62, and the fact that the civilian version of 7.62 NATO is .308. "Are you measuring across grooves or lands?" That's it. That's your answer.
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Dec 27, 2018 16:35
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Metric is doing better all the time in the US, not because of regulation but because of capitalism. It just makes more sense to measure stuff the way the rest of the world does so more companies are doing it. Anyone in the scientific community is going to be all metric too. The issue with the government making an official cutover is it turns into an AMERICA SHOULD LEAD NOT FOLLOW argument and no candidate is going to want to risk sounding like they're not patriotic.
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Dec 27, 2018 16:48
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EXPLAIN 2x4s!!!!
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Midjack posted:m'liter *tips flask*
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:EXPLAIN 2x4s!!!! gently caress those measurements in the ear. Seriously. gently caress everyone involved in that whole wood measurement thing.
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Dec 27, 2018 17:18
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BitBasher posted:gently caress those measurements in the ear. Seriously. gently caress everyone involved in that whole wood measurement thing. Also pipes, while we're at it.
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Dec 27, 2018 17:31
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:EXPLAIN 2x4s!!!! 2" x 4" is the size of the wood before drying, or so I heard.
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Dec 27, 2018 17:38
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Also pipes, while we're at it. Pipes and tubing for air/liquid are usually measured on the inside diameter, so the OD is all over the place depending on material.
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Dec 27, 2018 17:39
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BitBasher posted:gently caress those measurements in the ear. Seriously. gently caress everyone involved in that whole wood measurement thing. I've always understood the 2x4 thing...but when plywood is in /32 dimensions that one makes me ponder.
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Dec 27, 2018 17:40
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Darchangel posted:2" x 4" is the size of the wood before drying, or so I heard. The wood is already dry when they cut it! (unless you're getting it from home depot amirite. drat curly rear end wood)
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Dec 27, 2018 17:53
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Fayez Butts posted:The wood is already dry when they cut it! (unless you're getting it from home depot amirite. drat curly rear end wood) Yeah, the spend a half hour flipping routine through poo poo wood to find a few good ones. (No porno jokes).
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Dec 27, 2018 17:59
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Fayez Butts posted:The wood is already dry when they cut it! (unless you're getting it from home depot amirite. drat curly rear end wood) See also: Lowe's, Menard's Get your lumber from a lumberyard.
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Dec 27, 2018 18:01
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Now explain British .303, German 7.92, Russian 7.62, and the fact that the civilian version of 7.62 NATO is .308. I was told in the army (Germany, 30+ years ago) that the Russians used 7.62 so that they could use NATO 7.62 rounds they picked up, but that their own rounds had some feature (changed grooves or similar) that made them unusable in our guns (G3, at the time). I have no idea if that was true, but I always thought it was stupid to let that happen.
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Dec 27, 2018 18:16
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Dagen H posted:See also: Lowe's, Menard's This could be a hilarious (but wrong thread) conversation. Get your boards from the "select" section.
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Fayez Butts posted:The wood is already dry when they cut it! (unless you're getting it from home depot amirite. drat curly rear end wood) Well, gently caress if I know, then. Dagen H posted:See also: Lowe's, Menard's Lowe's seems to be better about that than HD, at least... Colostomy Bag posted:This could be a hilarious (but wrong thread) conversation. Probably because I do that.
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Dec 27, 2018 18:32
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xzzy posted:The issue with the government making an official cutover is it turns into an AMERICA SHOULD LEAD NOT FOLLOW argument and no candidate is going to want to risk sounding like they're not patriotic. I think the issue was spending money to replace everything in imperial with metric. I think that's why Reagan killed it because GoVeRnMeNt WaStE. It doesn't even have to cost all that much. Design up some signs and templates that have both. When a sign needs to be replaced, you replace it with one that has both. Then once a big enough portion of signs have both systems, you start replacing signs with ones that are just metric. Everyone already has cars with both kilometers and miles so it wouldn't even matter. I guarantee people wouldn't even notice once they've seen metric enough and other people start talking about things in terms of metric.
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Old people, who are the ones in position to make laws and regulations, are definitely known for their adaptability to new systems and desire to see things change.
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Darchangel posted:Well, gently caress if I know, then. You're partly right. When the log is first sawn into boards, the 2x4 pieces are pretty close to those actual dimensions. The green wood is wet and so needs to be dried. It does shrink a bit in that process, but it also warps. The dry, warped boards are planed down to square them up again, and the lumber industry has settled on removing about 1/4" from each side as a balance between precision and efficiency. That leaves you with the now-standard slightly smaller dimensions.
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dpack_1 posted:Or, you know, most of the rest of the world. The context (which I should have mentioned) is when people in healthcare go "Give them 300 'mils' ". Plenty of stuff available in both, and it's just pointless. Thankfully I have only heard it once of twice in insignificant settings.
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Sagebrush posted:You're partly right. When the log is first sawn into boards, the 2x4 pieces are pretty close to those actual dimensions. The green wood is wet and so needs to be dried. It does shrink a bit in that process, but it also warps. The dry, warped boards are planed down to square them up again, and the lumber industry has settled on removing about 1/4" from each side as a balance between precision and efficiency. That leaves you with the now-standard slightly smaller dimensions. Yes precision and efficiency. The crap that is thrown out, one would be nuts to use it to make a tree house out of the crap.
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Zopotantor posted:I was told in the army (Germany, 30+ years ago) that the Russians used 7.62 so that they could use NATO 7.62 rounds they picked up, but that their own rounds had some feature (changed grooves or similar) that made them unusable in our guns (G3, at the time). I have no idea if that was true, but I always thought it was stupid to let that happen. The Russian 7.62x25 caliber pistols can fire German 7.63x25 Mauser ammo, but not the other way around (ww2 era) I’ve never heard of interchangeability between 7.62 nato and any other Russian calibers.
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