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>...technical people in the U.S. get along quite fine thinking in the units best suited to the task at hand. More like technical people in the U.S. get along q
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 7y ago
>...technical people in the U.S. get along quite fine thinking in the units best suited to the task at hand.
More like technical people in the U.S. get along quite fine thinking in the units traditionally used for the task at hand. I'd much rather actually use the units best suited for the task, which tend not to be imperial.
- edw 7y agoWhat are these tasks that were traditionally performed in customary units in the U.S. — and continue to be done in them — but are more suited to SI units? An important obstacle to my psychological well-being as an engineer is the failure of humanity to adopt UTC for use on their wall clocks, a failure that has little to do with America's metrical intransigence.