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Why still using the imperial system? (abananaforscale.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Dude, WTF are you talking about? When I was a machinist it was so much easier to deal with metric. 1 inch ~ 25 mm, from there it is just way easier to deal with measurements such as 27.5 mm instead of 1 5/64 inches and all of these inverse powers of 2. I was always jealous of the French machinist I worked with talking about how the only units you should ever have to work with is meters and millimeters. If you are concerned about "Human Scale" then intuitively a meter and a yard are close enough for estimates and you don't have to deal with "wait, what is 5/8 + 3/16 + 1 7/64?"

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

“wait, what is 5/8 + 3/16 + 1 7/64?”

Those are so easily commensurable! It's 1 and 59/64 obv.

It's set up to make this easy.

Let me ask: do you think people have usedit for hundreds of years for no reason?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Those are so easily commensurable! It's 1 and 59/64 obv.

I legit can't tell if this is sarcasm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It's redditor big-brain posturing.

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