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Comparing the failure of a multi million dollar space probe to a stripped screw head seems like an even worse analogy to me.
by philwelch 5y ago
Comparing the failure of a multi million dollar space probe to a stripped screw head seems like an even worse analogy to me.
- carapace 5y agoThe moral of the story is "Don't mix metric and imperial." Using that as an example of a trivial thing that shouldn't be corrected is foolish and ignorant. It's practically inviting Murphy.
- philwelch 5y agoThe moral of the story is “don’t mix units”. It would have been the same problem if the units were inches and feet or meters and kilometers as it is with feet and meters.