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It would be so nice to not only give measures in freedom units...
by tharwan 7y ago
It would be so nice to not only give measures in freedom units...
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- astrea 7y agoIf only there was a large corpus of searchable knowledge only a click away where the conversions could be determined.
- tapland 7y agoKind regards, NASA
- Camas 7y agoTurning a 5 minute read into a 10 minute one.
- okmokmz 7y agoIt takes you as long to read the article as it does to google a simple conversion?
- amaccuish 7y agoYou have to do it multiple times since there is more than one value. Also include time for switching tabs etc, and then returning and working out where you were.
- jplayer01 7y agoMultiply this by every single person who has to do this whole process.
- kalleboo 7y agoFWIW if you're on a Mac, Spotlight will do simple unit conversions, so you can just cmd-space and do it in the popup without having to leave the page. That said yeah US units are absolutely brain-dead and confusing, how hard is it to put real units in parenthesis?
- stinos 7y agoWas having the same problem, then wondered: aren't their browser extensions which parse the text and convert units? Did a quick search but didn't find any - shouldn't be that hard though?
- Geimfari 7y agoThere's AutoConvert and EverythingMetric for Chrome. The automatic conversion is sometimes a bit annoying as there are edge cases.
- shin_lao 7y agoAbsolutely, and, living in the US, I can tell you a lot of mineral water bottles are packaged in metric units (1 or 1.5L bottles).
- dmitriz 7y agoWhat would be the use? These are just rough guidelines.