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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
by 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 agoIsn't it only the US plodding on with non-metric weights and measures?
- AltF4me 3y agoNo, we like to use imperial and metric in the UK.
- lewispollard 3y agoBut it's very rare for us to use lbs as a measurement of weight (at least directly)
- badcppdev 3y agoNo you use "stones" for peoples weight. Which I consider to be the least useful unit of measurement in common use today.
- nsteel 3y agoI 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 agoAnd if you did for some reason, you'd almost certainly write it as lbs rather than pounds to avoid this entire thing.
- KMnO4 3y agoI 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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