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   RedTechEngineer (redtechengineer@fedi.lowpassfilter.link)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:00:49 JST RedTechEngineer
   The SI system is lunacy.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:00:47 JST 翠星石

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     @RedTechEngineer Works on my machine.
     
     What other system do you suggest then?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:06:22 JST 翠星石

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     @RedTechEngineer The SI units are very carefully based off natural constants, thus they are reproducible.
     
     Metric rulers, weight and measuring flasks are very easy to use and certainly not absurd.
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     RedTechEngineer (redtechengineer@fedi.lowpassfilter.link)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:06:23 JST RedTechEngineer

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     @Suiseiseki a system that isn't absurd and nonsensical.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:24:58 JST 翠星石

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     @RedTechEngineer >Go ahead and produce me a vacuum and measure how far light travels through it in 1/299792458th of a second.
     Yes, that can be easily measured.
     
     >Ah yes, the base unit "6.02214076×10^23", so glad that exists.
     Yes, you know the exact value.
     
     >Why is "kilogram" a base unit and not gram?
     Convenience - you can make gram the base unit just fine.
     
     >therefore a Second is defined as a function of a Second???
     Based.
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     RedTechEngineer (redtechengineer@fedi.lowpassfilter.link)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:25:00 JST RedTechEngineer

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     @Suiseiseki SI units are based off absurd unreproducible constants.
     Go ahead and produce me a vacuum and measure how far light travels through it in 1/299792458th of a second.
     
     
     The "base units" are also silly
     Ah yes, the base unit "6.02214076×10^23", so glad that exists.
     Why is "kilogram" a base unit and not gram?
     The wording in the definition of a Second uses a non-SI unit that itself is derived from a Second, therefore a Second is defined as a function of a Second???