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• ultimitchow@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  americans carefully using imperial units instead of metric to waste time of the rest of the world

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  • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    … and themselves as well.

    youtu.be/EUpwa0je6_Y?si=YRaLuIV0ibA3wgzk

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    • exocrinous@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That link has your si in it. Your si is a tracking code Google uses to determine who clicked on links you shared. They want to know who your friends are for their social data models.

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    • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That was the most confusing discussion I’ve heard in a while. Don’t even know what the initial question was. Had to rewatch the video

      What’s the difference between 6 and 7/8t and 7 and 1/4

      The initial answer of 3/8 was right, but then he changed it and I just got confused.

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  • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Okay so NASA lost a $327 million Mars probe because said was transmitting trajectory corrections in the SI Units of Newton-Seconds, but the home base software was interpreting and calculating it as Pound Seconds.

    Remembering that there was endless amounts of scientific equipment aboard that took years to make, and the whole enchilada took 10 months traveling through space before it could even crash.

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• Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  wasting time getting used to converting between units.

  Pick one.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll have you know converting out of slugs was absolutely a waste of time. My prof searing 2.54cm/in into my brain was quite useful though

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  • xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If your goal is to teach a new material, you teach that material specifically. You dont mix other things into it because 1) it makes it harder for them to learn that new material and 2) it makes it harder for you to figure out what they dont understand.

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    • Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That is actually not backed by science. Mixing material is a lot more effective than focusing on one thing.

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• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At least it’s easy to remember the conversion between hours and seconds.

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  • lseif@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    if you ever forget, heres a neat mnemonic device: 3600, because 60*60=3600

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