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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 13:51:18 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   In the USA I'm going to start asking mechinists and mechanics "Do you use the royal feet or scientific meters?"... maybe that will finally get people offended enough to switch to metric :)

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     tatzelbrumm@qoto.org's status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 13:55:16 JST tatzelbrumm

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     @freemo
     That's
     A Bridge Too Far
     <g,d&r>

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 19:52:43 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • cobratbq - cranky-by-design

     @cobratbq Its probably the only thing that might :)

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     cobratbq - cranky-by-design (cobratbq@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 19:52:44 JST cobratbq - cranky-by-design

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     @freemo this might actually work 😂

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     volkris@qoto.org's status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 22:58:44 JST volkris

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     @freemo meh, plenty of us are proud to use royal feet over scientific meters because they just make more sense for the particular application.

     We proudly use the better tool rather than following the crowd!

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 22:59:21 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • volkris

     @volkris There is no application where it makes better sense unless you mean something that already uses that and therefore youjust dont have the choice (often the case)

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     volkris@qoto.org's status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 23:03:42 JST volkris

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     @freemo as we apply measurements, we disagree :)

     We find that, for example, inches are scaled far better for so many projects than cm or mm, in the same way that degrees F are scaled better for human application than degrees C or K.

     When it comes down to something ranging in size from around a baseball up to a table leg--roughly human sized things--the royal feet units are simply more practical, so we prefer them.

     They make more practical sense.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 23:07:16 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • volkris

     @volkris As someone who has used inches his whole life I cant say I agree... they are big, bulky, and divided in an awkward way. There is literally no application they are better suited for that I can think of.

     how are they more practical? Im not getting it.. Even at that size, cm and mm give you the proper precision and grading. If you need something closer to feel you have dm which is a perfect size for something where a foot woould be appropriate. Not sure I get how inch is somehow more practical? How, why?

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     Rado1 (rado1@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 03:17:49 JST Rado1

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     @freemo Please, persuade them to use worlds billion, trillion,… as they should use it.
     (if you are using it american way, I just shot myself to the leg)

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     volkris@qoto.org's status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 22:27:37 JST volkris

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     @freemo you say proper precision and grading, but that's the whole point: in so many real world applications we find that the precision and grading isn't the most convenient for the work in front of us.

     Say you're aligning a platform by eye, see that you need to raise it by about the length of your thumb, so you call out to the lift operator to raise it by a quantized amount.

     "Two inches" happens to be a pretty convenient call out rather than "five centimeters" or, heaven forbid, "fifty millimeters."

     It's simply more intuitive at common human scales.

     Or, to put it another way, they're big and bulky, which is perfect for dealing with big and bulky human scale tasks!

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 22:29:31 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • volkris

     @volkris how is 2 inches more intuitive than 5 cm.... i dont get it. Sounds like whatever is more intuitive is just what youre used to

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     volkris@qoto.org's status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 22:39:14 JST volkris

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     @freemo Well, would you agree that 2 inches or even 5 cm is more intuitive than 50 mm? Many of the same reasons, I'd say.

     One is a matter of scaling of error. If your perception of any unit is off by a bit, then the more of the unit that you stack up stacks up those errors too.

     You might intuitively know about how big a cm is and about how big an inch is, but once you start stacking them, the errors add up.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 23:06:52 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • volkris

     @volkris I would say that 50 mm is equally intuitive. Its just more verbose than you need because you dont need that level of precision. In fact in this case I would use 1/2 dm myself.