Gnome users be like?

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Gnome users are weird, like Gnome (I use KDE Plasma btw)

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If I were to write a programme where it would be typical to choose between units of measurement, which I'm not, the drop down menu would have a choice of "SI units" and "fuck no, you don't get to choose!"

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Programme?

Edit: I looked it up, it's a British thing. I'm not a native speaker, I've never seen it written like that. It looks French, I thought you guys hated the French.

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- We actually use program for computer programs, but programme for a programe of events. We like to be irregular.
  
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- Almost half of all English words are borrowed from French, dating from when England was colonized and culturally subjugated by the Norman French starting in 1066.
  
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- For me as a non native it is computer program, put a tv programme
  
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- Fun fact: J'aime la France, but I'm neither French, nor British. I just try to emulate my spoken pronunciation in my writing.
  
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- British too like to give things a swing.
  
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SI or die, that's what I always say. (Not actually, but it rhymed, and I prefer SI)

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For most people the imperial system is better. Fahrenheit puts 0-100 in relation to how humans feel heat, 0 is very cold, 100 is very hot, neither will kill you if you take minor precautions. Feet are the same, most everyday objects are spread across 0-10 feet long/tall. Using celsius and meters requires using a scale between -18 and 38, and a scale between 0 and 3.3. Both are clearly inferior number ranges to use when we arent required to.

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In Hamburgerland, we have the freedom to retardedly choose to use Freedom-units (TM) like feet & inches

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Because quarter pounder just sounds better than eighth kilogrammer

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- Royale with cheese has a nice ring to it though
  
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- We just call it a Burger ;)
  
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- Throwback to when they tried introducing the third pounder and y'all complained because you thought it was smaller.
  
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- 125 grammer
  
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- You know what I like eighth kilogrammer, a kg especially of meat is heavy as hell
  
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- Call it a gutfiller.
  
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No, you have the freedom to not chose anything other than feet.

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It's the M/D/Y that sneaks up on me as someone from the rest of the world.

Whenever you're in the first 12 days of the month, you just don't know :/

At least with feet and inches I'm quickly prompted to fix it.

Although sometimes, in all the developers wisdom that the only place in the world is the USA, you can't change it.

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Is this blender??

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Yes, it is.

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- why is the ui style so different? is this a newer version that I'm not familiar with?
  
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The UX is onto something tho. What caused feet to become sooooooooo much more goddam popular in the last 10 years?

Like it’s my understanding that gays grew a condom fetish after AIDS began killing everyone in the 1900s…

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a big group of people have always liked feet. It's one of those kinks accidentally caused by our anatomy - the nerves going out to your feet connect to the spinal cord close to the nerves going out to your genitals, and sometimes the signal travels along both lines.

It's such a close connection many people, myself included, can feel a particularly strong orgasm in their feet. It's a very distinct feeling as if electricity running down through your leg, into the foot, and "climaxing" in your ring toe, making it curl and twitch a bit (i also suspect this is the exact reason why the ring toe is associated with love [though idk how farspread this factoid is]). I don't have a foot fetish but I can definitely see how it'd be very easy to create an association between strong arousal and feet

and per the popularity part - people are just much more open about the kinks they have. To the point where even vanilla people start getting curious about soft kinks like spanking, blindfolds, or fluffy handcuffs

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- I forgot about the foot twitch
  
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"1900s"

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- Ysvw 👵
  
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I'm bi and I don't know anybody with a condom fetish lmaoooo. Almost everybody is on PREP now specifically so they don't have to use condoms lol. Maybe your understanding is poisoned by the fact that you call us "the gays" and don't actually seem to interact with any lgbt people on the regular.

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- Gay guy here. No condom fetish.
  
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- Clueless straight person question: Aren't you worried about herpes or syphilis?
  
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Hey, don't kink-shame.

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Nervously deletes all feet pics

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Well, it's only on open source projects where this would be possible.

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Well it is blender

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- Blender was made for hentai, porn and 3d sex. It just happens to be good at other things.
  
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Feet pics in bio

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What if I need to measure the weight of my new trainers?

In stones?

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Lived in the UK for quite some time now. Still can't wrap my head around stone....which is kinda ironic being a Stonemason and all....

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- What's to wrap your head around? It's 6.35kg or 12lbs.
  
  Importantly it is only ever used to measure the weight of humans
  
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- Native UK here and I've never had a good reason to use stone as a unit of measurement. Kg works fine
  
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Imperial, or US customary?

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I like the wording customary alot more then people spoutn' "standard"

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- As someone who isnt from the... I think two or three? countries in this world that still use the imperial system standard is metric for me. So yes, if someone means the US customary system and isn't in the USA they shouldn't say standard or they'll confuse people
  
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The only place where feet makes sense as a unit is in aviation. And I think that's it.

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Why? What's so special about aviation that it benefits from imperial units?

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- The only thing I can think of is nautical miles and knots because they're based on arc minutes. But otherwise I have no idea
  
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- Because you have smaller steps. When flying very low for example helicopters it makes mor sense to have smaller steps.
  
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Sensible chuckle

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I may get a lot of flack for this, but here is my perspective as someone with over 20 years experience as a machinist in the US. Over the course of my career, I have become more than comfortable using metric, imperial, and us custimary units.

For science? Metric is fantastic. For literally everything else - us customary is faster, easier, more understandable, and actually more approachable in terms of trying to actually build something.

Let's start with simply building something as the first example. Fractions, (and angles relative to fractions) are more intuitive to work with, faster, and overall easier to work with than decimal equivalents. One could easily spend more time trying to measure 1.905 cm vs very quickly dividing 1 into 3/4".

Furthermore, units are just that. An arbitrarily agreed upon measurement. None of them make any "more sense" than any other. If the Royal Society had agreed on a hogs head as a standard unit of volume, we'd likely still be using it.

I may be rambling at thus point. However, my entire point here is that there is objectively no such thing as a superior unit of measure. They are all made up and have uses that they are best suited for.

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One could easily spend more time trying to measure 1.905 cm vs very quickly dividing 1 into 3/4".

If the standard is written in Metric, the factory that makes the parts uses metric, and the place where the parts are used uses metric, why don't they just use 2cm screws instead?

Your argument for the convenience of imperial is that the standard uses imperial. No shit. It would be just as hard to cut something to 0.787" inches if the standard were in metric.

Also the reason metric makes more sense is I don't need a calculator to convert centimeters to kilometres. You need a calculator to convert inches to miles. AND you have to memorise the conversion factor! What a waste of brainpower

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- That was also part of my point. I am tired of people trying to impose one unit or series of units being superior when they are all just made up.
  
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What is your professional opinion on decimal feet? I had to use such a measuring tape at work, it took me half a day to figure out what was going on with that abomination.

Edit: to clarify, feet were divided in 10 units, not 12, so one and a half feet was at the "5" mark between 1 and 2 ft, not the "6" mark.

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- Sadly, at that point, you need to know the decimal equivalent (this happpens often with precision measurement) for instance 1/4 is 0.25 etc. I agree that it is horrible for a tape measure style measurement, but it isn't so bad once you're used to seeing the fractional equivalent as a decimal.
  
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This is where the French messed up not using base 12. We could have had the best of both worlds.

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- This. Base 10 sucks because it's harder to evenly divide. People give imperial a bunch of shit because the conversion factors are weird (and they really are), but have no problem with time units which are even more fucked up. We use a metric-like system for measuring units smaller than a second (milli, micro, nano seconds), but then there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, etc etc. The Gregorian calendar doesn't even have a simple conversion between things like days and months! It depends on the fucking month!
  
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You can divide 1cm into 3/4 too if you want. There's no point using inches.

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For science? Metric is fantastic. For literally everything else - us customary is faster, easier, more understandable, and actually more approachable in terms of trying to actually build something.

Americans keep saying this shit as if the vast majority of the world doesn't use grams for baking, celcius for temps, and cm for height daily - nobody is imposing anything on you guys, but you are going to continue to be ridiculed for using the dumbest measurement system. Yes, some systems absolutely make more sense than others - having even division of all orders of magnitude is a good example of that.

One could easily spend more time trying to measure 1.905 cm vs very quickly dividing 1 into 3/4". This is purely a skill issue. You're also clearly being biased by picking a rounded imperial fraction as the basis of comparison, and complaining the metric equivalent is unwieldy. (50mm is 1.968504 inches - oh wow! oh no! how will anybody figure it out?) Of course they don't neatly line up, they're not meant to - it doesn't make working in metric harder because I'm not using both systems? If I need hardware, I have M3 through to M8 for normal screws, bolts, washers, etc. - trying to use imperial is a clusterfuck - they don't even use the same fucking denominator, thread pitch is not standardised, nothing makes sense, it's a garbage system.

How many inches in a foot? thats easy - how many feet in a yard?....uh okay a little weirder, yards to a furlong? the fuck - furlongs to fathoms to miles to -...... its inconsistent unpredictable garbage because it's not in any way related to the units above or below it. That's all WITHIN DISTANCE - good fucking luck if you want to convert that to volume or energy or anything else. mm > cm > m > km - all base 10. Predictable, consistently divisible.

There is no persecution here - you can use fucking apples to measure distance if you like - but please stop portraying SI units as this scientific conundrum which is incompatible with daily life or professional ease. Imperial isn't actually any easier, americans are just familiar with it All but 2 countries in the entire world have switched over because the benefits self-evidently outweigh the costs....america acts like using dumb dumb units is a patriotic holdout but it is such an ongoing own-goal.

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I mean, 1m is ca. 1 step. My dad is farmer, uses that a lot.

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