I wonder if the when the US stops burning dinosaurs in it's cars, and is fully electric, if the electric car chargers are going to work in the metric kilowatt hours, or if they are going to have them calibrated in Horsepower per fortnights or something...
@quixoticgeek Should be in Furlongs per Fortnight, had a friend at college who answered and exam question in those units, just because it said "Use preferred units"
@Porcia in college I failed one test in electronics, I challenged the result, and the lecturer asked me to show my process (I had written all my workings out originally too). So I went through, keeping everything as fractions, and then only converting to a decimal number at the end. He had done it with decimals all the way, carrying floating point errors all the way through. I got 100% on appeal.
@quixoticgeek I grew up on both Imperial and metric, at college we used Imperial in the engineering shop, and I can visualize 3 thou as that the thickness of a green Rizla. At uni though, it was all SI metric units.
@Porcia 3 thou, that's about 75 microns right? I just remember that a thou is 25 microns, and a tenth is 2.5 microns. I watch too many american engeering gootubers...
@Porcia I am fortunate that the lathes I have access to are all metric. If I have to make something with a ¼-20 thread, I'll use a tap/die. Everything else I'll stick to metric.
@wonka@quixoticgeek younger people do prefer the simplicity of the decimal system and the SI system, I have never seen young people complain about cm, mm or m.
@tadbithuman@wonka and kg or tonnes. Makes so much sense. Seeing NASA launch streams talking about pounds just makes me shudder. The fact you get long and short tons as well... argh
@tadbithuman@wonka And when the units get so large... I remember the time a country the size of Wales played against a country the size of Belgium. (yes real headline).
I think Acre foot, and board foot are the units that make the least sense to me...
@quixoticgeek@wonka acre foot and hectare metres as irrigation units are better than so many others, especially because you have trans national transactions in other items.
@tadbithuman@wonka hectare meter has some logic to it. That's 1m x 100m x 100m, or 1000m³. Acre foot is what? 1ft x 22 yards x 1 furlong... Which makes a convenient what in cubic something?
@tadbithuman@quixoticgeek@wonka You only have to look at the cock-up with the Hubble Mirror, because of the merican not understanding the metric system.
Every maritime exchange is in (metric) tonnes, we buy most of our structural steel internationally, in tonnes, but my drawings have to show weights in pounds and (short) tons. It is supremely stupid.
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The problem is that the "useful" unit for charging is "how much additional distance can i travel with X additional charging time", but we are saved by the fact that "miles per hour" is already taken... @quixoticgeek
@eichin@tadbithuman But that varies a lot by driving conditions. You don't think of I'm putting 300km of diesel in the car. So why think of it as 300km of electrons ?
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