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

Isn't miniaturization great? What used to take a whole fifteen pounds of electronics now runs on this single little circuit board...

I love this comparison of 60 years of progress https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20151129/

And now we have 1TB microSD cards.

(Edit: wow, actually that milestone was 5 years 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

Isn't it only the US plodding on with non-metric weights and measures?

No, we like to use imperial and metric in the UK.

But it's very rare for us to use lbs as a measurement of weight (at least directly)

No you use "stones" for peoples weight. Which I consider to be the least useful unit of measurement in common use today.

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.

And if you did for some reason, you'd almost certainly write it as lbs rather than pounds to avoid this entire thing.

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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