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I’m not sure this is a pragmatic solution at all. You’ve now raised the possibility that someone who starts being educated in the field a few years down the li
by rhaway84773 4y ago
I’m not sure this is a pragmatic solution at all.
You’ve now raised the possibility that someone who starts being educated in the field a few years down the line, and never used the old foot at all, will look at old data with SFT measurements and assume they are IFT and introduce all sorts of errors in their analyses and calculations.
You’ve gone from 2 distinctly named standards with a 3x difference in value, which meansa mental sanity check should be sufficient to identify errors in most cases, to introducing a 3rd that is named very much like 1 of those and is close enough in value that a mental sanity check will not get you anywhere in most cases.
- xwolfi 4y agoAll other countries had to transition but the US is sadly stuck as long as they perceive themselves as leading and modern. Once they get left behind maybe a politician will finally propose to "modernize" the whole thing but feh... the US will drag this crap for centuries like we still have a completely special keyboard layout in France for reasons no one seem to remember lol
- nephanth 4y agoMost currently used keyboard layouts (like qwerty, azerty..) were made for one reason: to avoid jamming typewriters. They are old legacy that is clearly suboptimal, but no one wants to change it because it still works and the transition would be costly A bit like the imperial system
- School-Cotton 4y agoYou are making the common mistake of assuming that the US political system works similarly to the standard modern democracy found in Europe and parts of Asia. It doesn’t. It is infinitely more deadlocked and slow-moving, mostly by design. Switching to metric wouldn’t be a matter of “a politician” proposing it and 50%+1 of the parliament agreeing. It would be a massive, years-long all-consuming struggle.