Comment on What has he done to deserve this?

• bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve designed and built those machines. We don’t care. Pick the proper units for the job and go at it.

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’ve built an interplanetary spacecraft!? Do go on…

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    • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oddly enough I have helped build a couple of items that flew on the space shuttle back in the day. Which is more than you can say. But most of my work involved industrial machines for manufacturing lines and associated custom tooling. I have machines all over the planet.

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        OK. So on projects with international teams you always picked metric?

        What are the circumstances that would give imperial units an advantage?

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• Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s people making the dumb mistake of using the wrong units. They could have just as easily used the wrong metric units.

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A second piece of code that read this data assumed it was in the metric unit—“newtons per square meter"

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    • Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes… Code doesn’t write itself.

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The machine running that code cares about the definition of the units in that code.

        Machines do care.

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