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Orange MenaceFrom now on I’m going to refer to Imperial units of measurement as Colonial Oppressor units, as I continue to be perplexed at how Ireland still clings to them, in defiance of all logic.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measurements</a>

Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️<a href="https://newsie.social/@ProPublica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ProPublica</a> Unfortunately all those <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/scientific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scientific</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measurements</a> have to be discarded because#scientists used <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metric</a> measurements which are <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/woke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#woke</a>.

Paul Houle💥 Nanomaterials used to measure first nuclear reaction on radioactive nuclei produced in neutron star collisions<a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-nanomaterials-nuclear-reaction-radioactive-nuclei.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-03-nanomaterials-nuclear-reaction-radioactive-nuclei.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/materials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#materials</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/instruments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#instruments</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/radioactivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radioactivity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measurements</a>

SkullvalancheLook, I'm sure there are reasons to ever have a logarithmic scale for measuring things, but there's a lot of scales out there in the world which are completely unintuitive to humans when it comes to quickly understanding something.Decibels? Utterly unintuitive. Earthquakes? nope. Scoville scale? garbage. Schmidt sting pain index? useless.I have invented the Skullvalanche Scale Usability Index (SSUI) to rank how useful these scales are.Rankings are 1 to 10. 1 being "nobody would understand this, possibly including the person who invented it" 10 being “anyone who can count to 10 would understand this"Now I will rank the aforementioned scales.Decibels: 3 Earthquakes: 4 Scovilles: 3 Schmidt: 2<a href="https://gladtech.social/tags/scales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scales</a> <a href="https://gladtech.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://gladtech.social/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measurements</a>

Paul Houle🔔 BioSonics spectroscopy can 'listen' to the sounds made by individual viruses<a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-01-biosonics-spectroscopy-individual-viruses.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-01-biosonics-spectroscopy-individual-viruses.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/virus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#virus</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/optics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#optics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/acoustics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#acoustics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/instruments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#instruments</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measurements</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/resonance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resonance</a>

Vesna Manojlović. <a href="https://cooperate.social/@IHI" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@IHI</a> please join our upcoming <a href="https://social.v.st/tags/DNS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DNS</a> (<a href="https://social.v.st/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#data</a> <a href="https://social.v.st/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measurements</a> ) <a href="https://social.v.st/tags/hackathon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hackathon</a> with <a href="https://mastodns.net/@dnsoarc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dnsoarc</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@ripencc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ripencc</a> <a href="https://bird.makeup/users/netnod" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@netnod</a> : <a href="https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/join-the-dns-hackathon-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/join-the-dns-hackathon-2025/</a>

Sally StrangeToday I learned that an acre, today defined as 43,560 square feet, was originally a measure of the area a yoke of oxen could plow in one day. Wikipedia says that would be 8 oxen. Anyway, that's why an acre is not square, but was traditionally a rectangle: one chain (66 ft) by one furlong (660 ft). An acre that was square would be ~208.7 ft on each edge<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Measurements</a>

Soh Kam Yung"Physicists have demonstrated all the ingredients of a nuclear clock — a device that keeps time by measuring tiny energy shifts inside an atomic nucleus. Such clocks could lead to vast improvements in precision measurements, as well as new insights into fundamental physics."<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02865-w" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02865-w</a><a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Clocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Clocks</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/NuclearClocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearClocks</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Timing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Timing</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Measurements</a>

Giuseppe Michieli<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Drivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Drivers</a> of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/epidemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#epidemic</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/dynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dynamics</a> in real time from daily digital <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#COVID19</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measurements</a>, Science: <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm8103" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm8103</a> In addition to its primary purpose as an intervention to reduce <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/transmission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transmission</a>, digital contact tracing for respiratory pathogens can provide insights into epidemic dynamics with unprecedented time resolution and rapid availability, facilitating responsive decision-making.

Soh Kam YungDifference ways of measuring the Hubble Constant still don't agree with each other, yet."A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists are still missing something."<a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-webb-telescope-further-deepens-the-biggest-controversy-in-cosmology-20240813/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-webb-telescope-further-deepens-the-biggest-controversy-in-cosmology-20240813/</a><a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Cosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cosmology</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/HubbleConstant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HubbleConstant</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Measurements</a>

Lydia SchochWhen I first moved up to Canada, it took me a while to get used to measuring various food items in grams or kilograms. Now I can visualize what 500 or 1000 grams of something looks like, but it feels weird to picture them in ounces or pounds. 😄<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Measurements</a>

Jote 🏳️‍🌈 :verified_gay:I hate it here.<a href="https://youtu.be/Zg7xe8MkJHs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Zg7xe8MkJHs</a><a href="https://social.plux.wtf/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#math</a> <a href="https://social.plux.wtf/tags/units" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#units</a> <a href="https://social.plux.wtf/tags/cgs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cgs</a> <a href="https://social.plux.wtf/tags/si" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#si</a> <a href="https://social.plux.wtf/tags/whyjustwhy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whyjustwhy</a> <a href="https://social.plux.wtf/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measurements</a>

Sam at BLAG<a href="https://mastodon.online/@hildabast" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@hildabast</a> I saved your post last year to come back to, and thought of it again today when I read this in the Publi Fluor book. (Alt text contains a transciption of the paragraph from the book pictured.)The use of Brussels isn't completely surprising, as the book is located in the city, but Lebanon felt a bit random.For more on the book/project, take a look at the bl.ag online article here: <a href="https://bl.ag/peeling-back-the-layers-of-chrystel-crickxs-typographic-legacy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bl.ag/peeling-back-the-layers-of-chrystel-crickxs-typographic-legacy/</a><a href="https://typo.social/tags/vinyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vinyl</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/lettering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lettering</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/brussels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brussels</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/lebanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lebanon</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/LayMetrology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LayMetrology</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/metrology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metrology</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measurements</a>

Rafagas LinksThe current height model of the Netherlands consists of approximately 950 billion measurements, which in this interactive application have been reduced so that a maximum of two million points are displayed simultaneously <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measurements</a><a href="https://ns_hwh.fundaments.nl/hwh-ahn/AHN_POTREE/index.html?position=[454929.78;174396.73;561501.83;]&target=[454429.78;174896.73;560794.72" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ns_hwh.fundaments.nl/hwh-ahn/AHN_POTREE/index.html?position=[454929.78;174396.73;561501.83;]&target=[454429.78;174896.73;560794.72</a>

Swapneel PatnekarGot a peek at the new RIPE Atlas hardware probe. If you can run a software probe, you should. Here are the details - <a href="https://atlas.ripe.net/landing/get-involved/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://atlas.ripe.net/landing/get-involved/</a> Here are some cool examples(shameless plug) of using the ripe atlas platform for running measurements. <a href="https://brainattic.in/blog/2022/01/27/the-curious-case-of-esic-in-dns/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://brainattic.in/blog/2022/01/27/the-curious-case-of-esic-in-dns/</a><a href="https://brainattic.in/blog/2020/11/18/jio-vowifi-issue-its-always-dns/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://brainattic.in/blog/2020/11/18/jio-vowifi-issue-its-always-dns/</a><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ripeatlas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ripeatlas</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measurements</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#internet</a>

synlogicLatLearn<a href="https://toot.io/tags/Golang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Golang</a> FOSS lib for <a href="https://toot.io/tags/latency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#latency</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/instrumentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#instrumentation</a> & reports:* ns scale <a href="https://toot.io/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measurements</a>* stat calcs for each named span, across set of all samples: min, max, last, mean, weight, cumul* report file gen (txt so VCS & parse friendly)* common <a href="https://toot.io/tags/benchmarks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#benchmarks</a>* host/runtime config probes & reports* overhead self-measuring & auto-comp* variant span families: by params, env conds & alt ends* concurrent/thread/parallel safe* plays well w/Contexts, defer & panic<a href="https://github.com/mkramlich/LatLearn" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/mkramlich/LatLearn</a>

Óli Gneisti (English)Yesterday day I saw something I don't remember seeing for years. It was the term "online blog".Funnily enough ship logs were also originally online, or at least on a line. They were thrown overboard and the knots on the lines were used to estimate how fast the ship was travelling, hence knots per hour.In <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measurements</a> one knot is equivalent to a nautical mile. Should we call them "nauts"?<a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blogging</a>

PSiReN-X :verified_paw:I will <a href="https://psiren.eu/tags/AlsoAlsoAdd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlsoAlsoAdd</a>... <a href="https://psiren.eu/tags/TheFormerUnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheFormerUnitedKingdom</a> has its own <a href="https://psiren.eu/tags/System" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#System</a> of <a href="https://psiren.eu/tags/Measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Measurements</a> including (but not limited to): • <a href="https://psiren.eu/tags/DoubleDeckerBuses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DoubleDeckerBuses</a> (Height) • <a href="https://psiren.eu/tags/OlympicSwimmingPools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OlympicSwimmingPools</a> / <a href="https://psiren.eu/tags/FootballPitches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FootballPitches</a> (Length) • <a href="https://psiren.eu/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wales</a> / <a href="https://psiren.eu/tags/Belgium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Belgium</a> (Geographic Landmass / Area) • <a href="https://psiren.eu/tags/Heffalumps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Heffalumps</a> (Weight) These are <a href="https://psiren.eu/tags/NonStandard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NonStandard</a> <a href="https://psiren.eu/tags/UnitsOfMeasurement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitsOfMeasurement</a>; we can <a href="https://psiren.eu/tags/BlameBrexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlameBrexit</a> if you <a href="https://psiren.eu/tags/Like" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Like</a>... <a href="https://psiren.eu/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IT</a> won't <a href="https://psiren.eu/tags/AffectTheOutcome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AffectTheOutcome</a>... 🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | ☕️🍪🍫🦄🍫🍪☕<a href="https://vmst.io/@PSiReN/110566782132271097" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://vmst.io/@PSiReN/110566782132271097</a>

MikeSo is time base 60, or base 12, or base 10, or some confusing mixture? This would be the place to get an answer, I bet. I used to do payroll and make time calculations all the time, but it always involved mental gymnastics. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#time</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measurements</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/number" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#number</a>

geographileI want to say "this is why we can't have nice things" but I am not sure who to blame. ‘Legacy’ sign on Bay Area's I-580 highlights America’s incompetence<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metric</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measurements</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nationalism</a><a href="https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/how-kilometers-appeared-on-bay-area-highway-sign-18601009.php" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/how-kilometers-appeared-on-bay-area-highway-sign-18601009.php</a>

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