I'm entering year 25 of my engineering career and it's really funny how much people think measuring systems matter, guess what, I work on car software and we just convert everything to even more nonsensical engineering units inside the ECU.
1 bit = .250 V? Sure, we don't need to measure over 64V and extra fidelity doesn't matter. 1 bit also = .125 A? Fine. Also sure. We need more precision and def don't measure anything up to 32A.
It's all just abstract, as long as everyone using the info is on the same page nothing matters.
my students get so disillusioned when they find out that as a physicist I use all sorts of different units, a mix of imperial and metric, some SI but most not, it's just all a mess and the important thing is just knowing what you're working with
I have been in this business since [redacted] and it’s only within the last couple of years that I finally got the mrad to μSv conversion straight in my head.
When I'm brewing beer, ℃ is way easier than ℉, but pounds/oz/gallons are usually more useful.
When I'm complaining about the heat, ℉ has bigger numbers, but it never gets below 0℃ around here.
And your 98.6℉ body temp isn't that precise; it's 37℃ converted to ℉, and most people run cooler now.
Tires are measured in mm, inches, and a ratio. Power generating efficiency is expressed in MMBtu/kWh, which is just a number pretending to have units. To merge in today's other discourse: air conditioning is measured in tons. All units are stupid and nothing matters!
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is that a pineapple
It's all just abstract, as long as everyone using the info is on the same page nothing matters.
anyway the speed of light is ~1 ft/ns
When I'm complaining about the heat, ℉ has bigger numbers, but it never gets below 0℃ around here.
And your 98.6℉ body temp isn't that precise; it's 37℃ converted to ℉, and most people run cooler now.
but 13 hectares of duke's, then we're talking
Philistines!!!