SpraynardKruger

@SpraynardKruger@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think most people would understand kph = kilometers per hour. Don’t tell the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, though. They might get mad you for saying that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re right about the international standardization. Also, I think another important factor is that the average American has a concept of how long a foot is, how hot 70°F is, how much a pound weighs, etc. These are easily to visualize because these measurements are used in everyday life outside of engineering applications. Most people don’t have a concept of the units we use to measure the invisible magic force in our walls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a civil engineer in the US, and can confirm that my industry uses US Customary units. I have some mechanical engineer friends, and most also use US Customary units, with certain exceptions. While in school, the intro classes I took used metric more often than not because it allowed for easier understanding of the source material. By the 3rd year, classes started employing more examples and problems in US Customary units. By year 4, it was almost exclusively US Customary units.

  Forgive my lack of understanding here, but for electrical engineering, what are the alternatives to metric units? I know BTUs can be used instead of Joules, hp can be used instead of Watts, and AWG can be used instead of… Whatever the metric measurement is. BTUs and hp seem to be mainly used for specific industries and consumer products (let’s be honest nobody likes them anyway). AWG is used because that’s the standard that commonly available wires in the US are measured to.

  Temperature and length are obvious. More specifically, I am thinking of volts, amps, and ohms (my understanding caps out at what I learned in my physics classes).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smh⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. I was looking at it thinking, “but 100m is only 10% of the other distance”.

  BTW for any curious non-muricans, miles is abbreviated “mi” so it doesn’t get confused with meters. The only slight exception is when you are dealing with transportation, where none of the units are abbreviated properly:

  • miles per hour = “mph” (should be mi/hr)
  • miles per gallon = “mpg” (should be mi/gal)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elijah Radcliffe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a great movie. Every bit of it is true to the real events of his life. I recommend that cinematic masterpiece to everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI content on Wikipedia - found via a simple ISBN checksum calculator (39C3)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but the specific type of irony that this situation fits the definition of does not come from whether or not the tool they used worked for the intended purpose. The irony comes from the fact that they are relying on the output from LLM-generated content (ISBN checksum calculator) to determine the reliability of other LLM-generated content (hallucinated ISBN numbers).

  Irony is a word that has a somewhat vague meaning and is often interpreted differently. If the tool they used did not work as intended and flagged a bunch of real ISBNs as being AI generated, the situation would (I think) be more ironic. They are still using AI to try and police AI, but with the additional layer of the outcome being the opposite of their intention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Water is wet. When it gets on things, it makes them wet until the water is gone. When the water is gone, the wetness is gone. The water was the wetness.

  🌎🧑‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Following Doom & Doom II, Duke Nukem 3D Is The Latest Classic FPS To Get A Voxel Transformation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a millennial and grew up in the time of the family computer being the one computer in the house. My father had an IBM Thinkpad with windows 98 on it, which he replaced some time around 2001/2 (it was a beast of a laptop for its time, but was from before track pads were a thing, so it had the red nub as the built-in mouse). When he replaced it, he let me have the old Thinkpad.

  When he was showing me all the cool game demos he collected from mail-in floppys, and one of them was for Duke Nukem 3D. It had the entire LA Meltdown part of the game on it. I remember him going into the adult theater, turning to me, and saying, “check this out”. He pressed the space bar, Duke whipped out a few dollars, and said, “shake it baby”. I didn’t understand why a few dollars and a one-liner from an overgrown Bart Simpson would cause a woman to bounce her boobs around, but I think I showed every friend I had those pixelated nipple tassels.

  It may have been the first sexualized breasts I had seen in my entire life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw your zodiac sign, tell me...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Came here to say this. I only recently found out and got rid of all my #7’s immediately. I don’t think I’ll accept hand-me-down plates anymore after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current chain of command⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A “high IQ individual” is the term Trump used. Of course, it doesn’t take much more than the intellect of a 4 year old to impress him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horse goals⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember hearing apple cores were poisonous when I was in elementary school, and that was before reddit existed. But yes, it is bullshit that they are poisonous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White House Faith Office⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  America

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a fellow American, I can simplify this (Americanize it) even further.

  I cannot overstate how dumb Americans are about shopping.

  Apologies, I’m just pissed off in general about my country, as I’m sure you are too.