If I were to write a programme where it would be typical to choose between units of measurement, which I’m not, the drop down menu would have a choice of “SI units” and “fuck no, you don’t get to choose!”
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ZealousSealion@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
pipows@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Programme?
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 4 months ago
We actually use program for computer programs, but programme for a programe of events. We like to be irregular.
hakase@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Almost half of all English words are borrowed from French, dating from when England was colonized and culturally subjugated by the Norman French starting in 1066.
MHanak@lemmy.world 4 months ago
For me as a non native it is computer program, put a tv programme
ZealousSealion@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Fun fact: J’aime la France, but I’m neither French, nor British. I just try to emulate my spoken pronunciation in my writing.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 4 months ago
British too like to give things a swing.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 4 months ago
SI or die, that’s what I always say. (Not actually, but it rhymed, and I prefer SI)
Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
For most people the imperial system is better. Fahrenheit puts 0-100 in relation to how humans feel heat, 0 is very cold, 100 is very hot, neither will kill you if you take minor precautions. Feet are the same, most everyday objects are spread across 0-10 feet long/tall. Using celsius and meters requires using a scale between -18 and 38, and a scale between 0 and 3.3. Both are clearly inferior number ranges to use when we arent required to.
ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 4 months ago
In Hamburgerland, we have the freedom to retardedly choose to use Freedom-units ™ like feet & inches
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Because quarter pounder just sounds better than eighth kilogrammer
ray@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Royale with cheese has a nice ring to it though
Nomad@infosec.pub 4 months ago
We just call it a Burger ;)
Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Throwback to when they tried introducing the third pounder and y’all complained because you thought it was smaller.
Jimbo@yiffit.net 4 months ago
You know what I like eighth kilogrammer, a kg especially of meat is heavy as hell
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Call it a gutfiller.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
No, you have the freedom to not chose anything other than feet.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s the M/D/Y that sneaks up on me as someone from the rest of the world.
Whenever you’re in the first 12 days of the month, you just don’t know :/
At least with feet and inches I’m quickly prompted to fix it.
Although sometimes, in all the developers wisdom that the only place in the world is the USA, you can’t change it.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Is this blender??
the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes, it is.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
why is the ui style so different? is this a newer version that I’m not familiar with?
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
The UX is onto something tho. What caused feet to become sooooooooo much more goddam popular in the last 10 years?
Like it’s my understanding that gays grew a condom fetish after AIDS began killing everyone in the 1900s…
shneancy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
a big group of people have always liked feet. It’s one of those kinks accidentally caused by our anatomy - the nerves going out to your feet connect to the spinal cord close to the nerves going out to your genitals, and sometimes the signal travels along both lines.
It’s such a close connection many people, myself included, can feel a particularly strong orgasm in their feet. It’s a very distinct feeling as if electricity running down through your leg, into the foot, and “climaxing” in your ring toe, making it curl and twitch a bit (i also suspect this is the exact reason why the ring toe is associated with love [though idk how farspread this factoid is]). I don’t have a foot fetish but I can definitely see how it’d be very easy to create an association between strong arousal and feet
and per the popularity part - people are just much more open about the kinks they have. To the point where even vanilla people start getting curious about soft kinks like spanking, blindfolds, or fluffy handcuffs
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
I forgot about the foot twitch
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 4 months ago
I’m bi and I don’t know anybody with a condom fetish lmaoooo. Almost everybody is on PREP now specifically so they don’t have to use condoms lol. Maybe your understanding is poisoned by the fact that you call us “the gays” and don’t actually seem to interact with any lgbt people on the regular.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Gay guy here. No condom fetish.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Clueless straight person question: Aren’t you worried about herpes or syphilis?
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 4 months ago
* breathes heavily in Tarantino *
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Hey, don’t kink-shame.
xavier666@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Nervously deletes all feet pics
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Well, it’s only on open source projects where this would be possible.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Well it is blender
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Blender was made for hentai, porn and 3d sex. It just happens to be good at other things.
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
I may get a lot of flack for this, but here is my perspective as someone with over 20 years experience as a machinist in the US. Over the course of my career, I have become more than comfortable using metric, imperial, and us custimary units.
For science? Metric is fantastic. For literally everything else - us customary is faster, easier, more understandable, and actually more approachable in terms of trying to actually build something.
Let’s start with simply building something as the first example. Fractions, (and angles relative to fractions) are more intuitive to work with, faster, and overall easier to work with than decimal equivalents. One could easily spend more time trying to measure 1.905 cm vs very quickly dividing 1 into 3/4".
Furthermore, units are just that. An arbitrarily agreed upon measurement. None of them make any “more sense” than any other. If the Royal Society had agreed on a hogs head as a standard unit of volume, we’d likely still be using it.
I may be rambling at thus point. However, my entire point here is that there is objectively no such thing as a superior unit of measure. They are all made up and have uses that they are best suited for.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
One could easily spend more time trying to measure 1.905 cm vs very quickly dividing 1 into 3/4".
If the standard is written in Metric, the factory that makes the parts uses metric, and the place where the parts are used uses metric, why don’t they just use 2cm screws instead?
Your argument for the convenience of imperial is that the standard uses imperial. No shit. It would be just as hard to cut something to 0.787" inches if the standard were in metric.
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
That was also part of my point. I am tired of people trying to impose one unit or series of units being superior when they are all just made up.
ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
convert inches to miles
When will you ever convert inches to miles? One of these is for measuring things that you can pick up with one hand, the other is for measuring traveling distances.
The useful thing about standard measurements is that base-12 is much more useful in daily life than base-10, which is only easier to work with on paper. Make a footlong object and you can very easily make 1/2 1/3 1/4 1/6 and 1/12 versions of it, make a decimeter long object and you can only easily do 1/2 1/5 and 1/10.
Aux@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You can divide 1cm into 3/4 too if you want. There’s no point using inches.
Bertuccio@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is where the French messed up not using base 12. We could have had the best of both worlds.
swunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
This. Base 10 sucks because it’s harder to evenly divide. People give imperial a bunch of shit because the conversion factors are weird (and they really are), but have no problem with time units which are even more fucked up. We use a metric-like system for measuring units smaller than a second (milli, micro, nano seconds), but then there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, etc etc. The Gregorian calendar doesn’t even have a simple conversion between things like days and months! It depends on the fucking month!
stelelor@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
What is your professional opinion on decimal feet? I had to use such a measuring tape at work, it took me half a day to figure out what was going on with that abomination.
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Sadly, at that point, you need to know the decimal equivalent (this happpens often with precision measurement) for instance 1/4 is 0.25 etc. I agree that it is horrible for a tape measure style measurement, but it isn’t so bad once you’re used to seeing the fractional equivalent as a decimal.
discount_door_garlic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
For science? Metric is fantastic. For literally everything else - us customary is faster, easier, more understandable, and actually more approachable in terms of trying to actually build something.
Americans keep saying this shit as if the vast majority of the world doesn’t use grams for baking, celcius for temps, and cm for height daily - nobody is imposing anything on you guys, but you are going to continue to be ridiculed for using the dumbest measurement system. Yes, some systems absolutely make more sense than others - having even division of all orders of magnitude is a good example of that.
One could easily spend more time trying to measure 1.905 cm vs very quickly dividing 1 into 3/4". This is purely a skill issue. You’re also clearly being biased by picking a rounded imperial fraction as the basis of comparison, and complaining the metric equivalent is unwieldy. (50mm is 1.968504 inches - oh wow! oh no! how will anybody figure it out?) Of course they don’t neatly line up, they’re not meant to - it doesn’t make working in metric harder because I’m not using both systems? If I need hardware, I have M3 through to M8 for normal screws, bolts, washers, etc. - trying to use imperial is a clusterfuck - they don’t even use the same fucking denominator, thread pitch is not standardised, nothing makes sense, it’s a garbage system.
How many inches in a foot? thats easy - how many feet in a yard?..uh okay a little weirder, yards to a furlong? the fuck - furlongs to fathoms to miles to -… its inconsistent unpredictable garbage because it’s not in any way related to the units above or below it. That’s all WITHIN DISTANCE - good fucking luck if you want to convert that to volume or energy or anything else. mm > cm > m > km - all base 10. Predictable, consistently divisible.
There is no persecution here - you can use fucking apples to measure distance if you like - but please stop portraying SI units as this scientific conundrum which is incompatible with daily life or professional ease. Imperial isn’t actually any easier, americans are just familiar with it All but 2 countries in the entire world have switched over because the benefits self-evidently outweigh the costs…america acts like using dumb dumb units is a patriotic holdout but it is such an ongoing own-goal.
ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
all base 10.
You see, this is part of the problem. SI seems more logical on paper, but in practice if you want to divide by anything other than 2 or 5 you have to pile on the decimals or switch to an unwieldly small unit of measurement, which hampers the ability to use those measurements. The most commonly used “standard” measurements are the way they are because they were the most useful measurements for actual craftspeople to standardize to, while the SI system was dreamt up by a bunch of rich French people.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 4 months ago
I mean, 1m is ca. 1 step.
ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I’ve been fighting this battle on Lemmy for years, people who don’t make or repair things with any regularity just don’t accept the usefulness of standard units. The fact that they’re mostly in base-12 or -16 alone makes them far more useful than metric!
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
What if I need to measure the weight of my new trainers?
In stones?
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Lived in the UK for quite some time now. Still can’t wrap my head around stone…which is kinda ironic being a Stonemason and all…
el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
What’s to wrap your head around? It’s 6.35kg or 12lbs.
Importantly it is only ever used to measure the weight of humans
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Native UK here and I’ve never had a good reason to use stone as a unit of measurement. Kg works fine
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Imperial, or US customary?
TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I like the wording customary alot more then people spoutn’ “standard”
pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
As someone who isnt from the… I think two or three? countries in this world that still use the imperial system standard is metric for me. So yes, if someone means the US customary system and isn’t in the USA they shouldn’t say standard or they’ll confuse people
mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
The only place where feet makes sense as a unit is in aviation. And I think that’s it.
StitchIsABitch@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Why? What’s so special about aviation that it benefits from imperial units?
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
The only thing I can think of is nautical miles and knots because they’re based on arc minutes. But otherwise I have no idea
mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Because you have smaller steps. When flying very low for example helicopters it makes mor sense to have smaller steps.
kamen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sensible chuckle
fossphi@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Gnome users be like?
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Gnome users are weird, like Gnome (I use KDE Plasma btw)