Comment on iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal'

• Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Probably one thousandth of an inch.

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    inch

    Ew.

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    • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes.

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    • kaboom36@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hey thousands of an inch are the only part of our imperial system that actually makes sense

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  • Threeme2189@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve heard it referred to as ‘thou’ but not ‘mil’

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    • curiousPJ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      A couple old metrology equipment dated back from the 80s I still use calls them ‘mil’. It’s got dual dials for mil/mm. Gets me confused sometimes because the gauge can go down to couple millionths of an inch/couple nanometers.

      LVDT for those curious.

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    • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’ve never heard of that before either. What I have heard of is either MOA or MIL reticles. In that context a Mil stands for milliradian, which is a representation of angle. That definitely doesn’t track with the post though.

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      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And it’s especially confusing for people who use sane measurement systems where “mil” is short for “millimetre”, because it’s just the start of the word. I think anyone that still insists on measuring things in thousandths of an inch should keep their own bespoke lingo too, and everyone else should steadfastly refuse to acknowledge “mil” in this context.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Correct.

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• flying_gel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A millimeter i.e a thousands of a meter.

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  • Threeme2189@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    5 mm isn’t ‘just over 0.1 mm’. That can’t be right.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, it depends on your margin of error.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In the design and manufacture of PCBs (aka circuit boards) a “mil” is a one thousandth of an inch.

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    • flying_gel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I stand corrected, and I see I didn’t read the comment thoroughly enough either.

      Colloquially as a non-pcb maker I would use and hear the term “mill” as short form millimeter so I assumed it was that.

      so TIL :)

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      • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah, I found it wierd too when I started designing PCBs (as hobby) that “mill” actually stood for thousanth of an inch.

        Probably for historical reasons, there are tons of things in the older domains within electronics that are based on inches rather than metric units: for example the spacing between the legs of a microchip in the older chip package formats (so called DIP, the ones with legs that go into holes) is exactly 0.1"

        The sizes in more modern electronics isn’t usually based on inches anymore, but circuit boards are old tech (even if done with new materials) so there are still a number of measures in there which are based on inches.

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