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For anyone headline skimming, this was the original Raspberry Pi and that's £15 not 15lb!

• sdenton4 3y ago
  Isn't miniaturization great? What used to take a whole fifteen pounds of electronics now runs on this single little circuit board...
  • fanf2 3y ago
    I love this comparison of 60 years of progress https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20151129/ https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20151129/
    • HPsquared 3y ago
      And now we have 1TB microSD cards. (Edit: wow, actually that milestone was 5 years ago...)
• tessierashpool 3y ago
  admins, can you all change the title to say £15? imagine if you could somehow sum up the total aggregate cognitive drain accumulated by every HN reader outside the UK wondering why children need such heavy computers
  • nsteel 3y ago
    Isn't it only the US plodding on with non-metric weights and measures?
    • AltF4me 3y ago
      No, we like to use imperial and metric in the UK.
      • lewispollard 3y ago
        But it's very rare for us to use lbs as a measurement of weight (at least directly)
        • badcppdev 3y ago
          No you use "stones" for peoples weight. Which I consider to be the least useful unit of measurement in common use today.
          • nsteel 3y ago
            I live in the UK and I use the metric system for pretty much everything, including weighing humans. Everything except driving speed, for obvious reasons.
        • nsteel 3y ago
          And if you did for some reason, you'd almost certainly write it as lbs rather than pounds to avoid this entire thing.
  • KMnO4 3y ago
    I think the majority of educated people can figure out the title given the context of the domain. “15 pound... bbc.co.uk” took half a second for my brain to figure out. Similar to how you don’t get too confused with these (admittedly more common) titles: - “How memory works… (health.org)” - “Networking best practices… (sysadmin.info)” - “Languages of the future… (sociology.harvard.edu)”
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