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Imperial Wastes So Much Time (infosec.pub)
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[โ€“] Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You can but there are real examples where mixing units results in failure. NASA lost a 125 million dollar mars probe in 1999 because JPL and NASA use metric but Lockheed Martin added acceleration data in American imperial units.

It might be a circle jerk but it is also best practice to use a standard system and there's really only one holdout on not using that system. I say this as an American who wishes people would just use metric because it's just easier unless you just fucking love fractions of an inch.

[โ€“] HarneyToker@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Your example of not mixing systems up within projects is somewhat valid, but not applicable to the whole. There are a lot of uses for Imperial, and using Imperial in landscaping does not have a chance of causing catastrophic failure in rocket science.

[โ€“] Sunshine@piefed.ca 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There are a lot of uses for Imperial

Other than it being โ€œculturalโ€ and laziness thereโ€™s no point in keeping imperial. Stop using an obsolete system so we Canadians can switch our stoves to Celsius without having to worry about you yanks cooking with our equipment and hurting yourselves.

Iโ€™m going to use metric for height and weight. I donโ€™t care if some wanker American complains they can always head south if they want or visit Liberia for a getaway, get with the times already.

[โ€“] HarneyToker@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The metric system, base 10, is not easily breakable into thirds without irrational numbers. In aesthetic fields, such as landscaping or interior design, the ability to break something into exact thirds, quarters, halves, fifths, sixths, and so on, is invaluable. Itโ€™s not just cultural. It sounds like it is to you, which is weirdโ€ฆ why are you personally identifying with a unit of measurement?

I also donโ€™t understand your Liberia reference. Could you elaborate?