@benroyce
#Cuauhtemoc crew: how much is the clearance under the bridge?
the coast guard: 127
Cuauhtemoc crew: that is great, our mast is just 49 over water level.
Someone has to abandon the #imperial system and join the rest of the #metric world.
The Sunday Trading Act 1994 was definitely very secular, so is allowed to use #metric. (-:
Bona-fide *religious* laws about the Sabbath and Sunday are *far* more byzantine and arbitrary than the Sunday Trading Act. Constantine was nigh-on a reformer.
There are categories of things that may not be moved by hand but may be nudged with an elbow, for example.
And then there's the #Shabbat rule about fridge lights, which is on the fringes of Catch 22 territory.
Im #vereinigten #Königreich würden #DatenCenter #offiziell 0,79% der #Energie #verbrauchen, wobei die #eigentliche #Zahl eher 12% sein dürfte. Eine ähnliche #Diskrepanz gelte für #globale #Zahlen.
Melissa #Cogavin - #DataCentres & #Sustainability in 2024
#Broadband #Journal of the #SCTE Vol. 46 No. 2 May 2024, S. 17
Unfortunately all those #scientific #measurements have to be discarded because#scientists used #metric measurements which are #woke.
@mattly @puppygirlhornypost2 that's because #clickbait #FillerContent gets rewarded by #GAFAMs as it increases #PageTime / #WatchTime as a #metric for #advertising...
non-american English speakers, what word do you use instead of "mileage" in the following contexts?
It's used two ways here:
1) Gas (petrol) consumption.
"What kind of mileage does it get?" is asking about fuel efficiency, i.e."miles / gallon"
2) Distance on the odometer. "What's the car's mileage?" is asking what the odometer reading is.
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that’s the way I like it!
I live in the US, and while I like metric, and a lot of what I work on or build these days involves metric hardware, I don't have a lot on hand. It's EXPENSIVE here. So, when occasionally I find these strings of sealed hardware in a thrift store, it's a treasure. I suspect they're parts kits from flatpack, freight damaged goods, and most times, they're all metric. I only paid a buck for this one (several bags already opened). What a treasure!
#maker #workshop #tools #hardware #metric #sae
I finished the couch leg installation. Turns out I just needed the four M8 bolts and four nuts, which I had on hand, no spacers necessary. Still not as easy a job as it seemed. More details in the alt text.
#hardware #metric #SAE #screws #bolts #maker #diy #modelbuilding #makers #actionFigures #diorama #doll
US hardware standards are INSANE.
Working on a prop for my action-figure photo comic, "Minions at Work," and I want to attach some decorative lamp finials upside down as legs for a piece of furniture. Go to store, get some screws. Easy, right? A standard 1/4" screw is 20 pitch thread. But a lamp finial is 1/4" 27 pitch, for reasons that probably made sense to Tommy Edison. Can't find screws like I want, even online. (cont.)
#hardware #metric #SAE #screws #bolts #maker #diy #modelbuilding #makers
This is what happens every time my partner and I plan a road trip, build furniture, shop for beverages and basically perform any activity that involves measurements.
Protecting the pint: British Lords vote to safeguard cherished measure.
Britain's House of Lords voted on Wednesday to ensure pubs can still serve beer in pints (568.26125 ml) - a cherished unit of measurement that survived the country's switch to the metric system in 1965.
Despite Brexit, the UK government has given up on a return to the imperial system of measurement.
Now, a new safeguard will ensure pints shall stay pints.
TIL what was the most beautiful invention of all time and why. I don't know all inventions ever made, so I can't have an opinion on whether this is really so, but I think it is, in fact, beautiful.
