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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Actual poster from 1917 that made me laugh. A lot.

Also, those motherfuckers are measuring the weight of those balls in kilograms, aren't they?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

The US Government is entirely metric. It’s just the US Citizens that aren’t. So there’s this entire separation where no one uses metric, so nothing is made for metric, since nothing is made for metric, no one uses metric.

Obviously that’s changing over time plenty of people use a mixture of both systems all the time. The machines are mostly driving adoption at this point. 3D printers, cars, etc.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

1l of (4°C) water weighs 1kg. 1kg (of anything) is 1000g. 1g of water is 1cm³. Stack 1000 1cm³ blocks to get a 10m high column. This column exerts 100kPa of pressure on its base. To heat it by 1°C requires 1kcal. And 1N would accelerate it by 1m/s every second.

I've posted this before on my mastodon, and on feddit.de, before the instance was shut down, but I think it's still a nice showcase how SI units interact with one another.

The worst thing we have in the metric system is kWh/1000h. It's just watts, but whoever designed the energy labels thought a bunch of zeros would be funny or something.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I believe in some countries in the world, the year goes first, then the month, then the day (2024/08/08 or 2024, August 8). Seems more logical to me than the literal inverse (08/08/2024 or 8 August 2024).

But yeah, the metric system reigns supreme.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I would've mentioned it but I forgot what it's called. Thanks for reminding me.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Year, month, day is the most logical. I'll stand by month, day, year as being more logical than day, month, year because it's somewhat more sorted lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How in the world is (month/day/year) more sorted than (day/month/year)? I see two use-cases: Sorting things chronologically, in which case you want YYYY/MM/DD, or referring to nearby dates, where the year or even month can be assumed known implicitly, in which case you use DD/MM/YYYY. In no sane world does MM/DD/YYYY make sense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because you put big numbers first! Three hundred twenty one is written 321 not 1, 20, and 300. 21 and 300 is more sorted. MM/DD/YYYY only has one element out of place instead of being totally backwards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Big numbers first is not the only way to sort - look at say how they sort the speeds of runners in a race.

If it is "backwards", it is sorted, in reverse order. If it has an element out of place it is not sorted.

It's only when they extend to hh:mm:ss dd/mm/yyyy that it becomes assorted. They need to fully commit and either use tzmm:tzhh+ fff.ss:mm:hh dd/mm/yyyy or just use fucking iso 8601. Fuck everyone who doesn't; fuck M$, fuck oracle, fuck humans.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I mean, I'm fine with the long form (August 8, 2024), but definitely not the short form, which today looks indistinguishable from DD/MM/YYYY anyway. I often think it's the other way around and ask "since when was there a 26th month??".

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