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How fast does vote info propagate between your instance and others? Legitimately curious.
I am curious about how the QA is going to be. When Chinese companies decide to do QA, it's awesome. When they don't, its beyond bad.
This'll be fun to watch, actually.
piece in the pic is just found on the floor
This checks out. Even with all of my storage and shelving, I have found the floor to be a nice place to go parts shopping. JST bits are at the top of the list to find, usually. (What was that? You never bought any? You'll find some, don't worry.)
Do you need a bit of wire to patch a trace? Take your shoes off and walk around a bit and you will immediately find a lead you clipped off a through-hole component in about 15 seconds, even though you vacuumed 6 times since you lost it.
That is single most annoying and useful feature ever implemented into a track pad.
You are making some wild assumptions, but whatever.
Russian trolls follow a very distinct pattern and it's very similar to yours, actually. Insult, insinuate and make broad general assumptions about what other people think. It's not generalizing or stereotyping as much as it is pattern matching.
You are basically babbling and twisting comments, so conversation is pointless. Honestly, I thought I had blocked you months ago. K bai.
Wow. You really lean all-in to your handle, don't you?
After all these months, I really think your account is designed to create division and not actually promote a decent cause. Honestly. You are hurting your cause more than helping it.
Look at your last comment as an example. You default to name calling and broad stereotypes instead of making valid points that might convince me of something. TBH, it's more in the style of a Russian troll rather than someone who is sane and simply pissed off.
Even most hardcore, redneck gun owners I know are not as vile as you can be and some of those fuckers are seriously off their rockers. I would feel safer around them rather than you, actually. That's not to be taken as an insult.
The pro-gun crowd will never agree with you.
Some people should not own firearms. Period.
Well, that was the easiest way to prove that trying to generalize any group of people the way you did is just silly.
Your reading comprehension is what I've come to expect from Lemmy.
Chill. We both wrote walls of text and there are going to be misunderstood details. If we want to talk about details, I called out my ignorance of woodworking and why imperial is likely good for what you are talking about.
My overall points, and I'll summarize this time, is that:
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Wood working (carpentry? Whatever.) is not exact.
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Dividing 19mm by 3 is a weird example. Your example did a better job of highlighting a math peculiarity, TBH. (My first thought is that the cut was was going to account for any minor errors.)
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Fractions suck. You are comfortable with them, but I see them as a useless layer of an outdated measuring system. We made our points, for and against. Cool.
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A key point that I didn't call out specifically is that imperial does not work in high degrees of precision easily without eliminating fractions. It's possible, and vocalized, but not generally written. 1/1000" as a good example.
While I was awaiting your reply, I also thought of the abuse the imperial system has suffered over the years. A 2x4 is not a 2x4. In reloading (another hobby of mine), .300 actually means .308. .223 could mean .222, .223 or even .224. However, .222 always means .222. I am forced into imperial for safety and consistency reasons. (Don't even get me started on 'grains', wherever the fuck that came from.) For some reason, the metric system is now mixed up in that field as well and it's a mess.
The word "misleading" was chosen with purpose and doesn't mean that you writing with malice. It seemed, true or not, that conversions got mixed up in this which would even confuse an MIT graduate.
While neat, I believe your lumber example is misleading in the context of metric vs imperial. Woodworking is extremely imprecise compared to many other types of engineering and using that system for those problems may be ideal.
Deliberately using 1/3rd of 19mm to get 6.33333mm is not as a complex problem as it may look at first glance. 6.333mm IS 1/3rd of 19mm just with more precision. The nature of woodworking requires fairly large tolerances and .3333mm is likely within any tolerance range you would work with. Hell, even +/-3.333mm (10x) is probably within spec in many cases.
Your example conversion from 1/4in to 9.5mm is irrelevant unless you are working a project that is deliberately converting imperial to metric. If a project is designed in metric the measurements and reference points are going to be rounded to metric. The same goes for designs that are in imperial. While it's possible to design identical pieces in each measuring system, it's not ideal. Tolerance can compensate for most small differences and you will get two extremely similar pieces.
From your standpoint, everything has been imperial and you make design choices around how imperial works. It just makes sense to you. Design conversions from imperial to metric won't make any sense and the "natural math" of each system is lost. If you were raised on metric, the same situation would apply I suppose.
You explained the biggest complaint of imperial as a positive: fractions. Pure math is just easier then fractions when working up and down ranges of precision. Divide 10cm by 2? 5mm. 5mm by 4? 1.25mm, etc.. Problems like 19mm/3 are irrelevant because of allowable tolerance. Every exact measurement is not abstracted by a 16th or 8th or 32nd or 64th....
Admittedly, I am no woodworker. However, I am curious if someone from the EU could chime in on this problem from their perspective.
Ok, my bad. I thought you meant "your instance", as in you ran your own instance.