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The US customary units have a lot advantages. For example:

In Fahrenheit, 0 is really cold while 100 is really hot. In Celsius, 0 is kind of cold while 100 is damaging to life.

With feet and inches, you can easily divide a foot by 2, 3, 4, and 6 with no repeating decimal digits. It's the same reason the ancient sumerians used base 60 for their number system.

With liquid measure, a cup is roughly what would be considered a serving with a meal while a litre is one hundred millionth the distance from the equator to the north pole, cubed

Isn't this how all binning works? If some part of the chip doesn't work, cache, core, fpu, they cut the traces and sell it at a cheaper price point.

Sometimes real progress is made only by finding the proper place to "push" on an otherwise stubborn problem that won't budge.

I agree 100%. To add to this, I can't tell you how many engineers I run into who possess amazing programming skills, but can not convey their thoughts and designs meaningfully in written or spoken word. Taking a few more humanities classes might not be a bad idea for most.

What you should learn in college is how to teach yourself to always be learning. Or at least to be aware of the trap doors that await when you try to solve a problem in the real world.

Learning the Big O Notation performance of algorithms that traverse data structures isn't so you memorize all the different running times in perpetuity. It's so you realize that performance and the type of operations you want to commonly execute are something you need to consider for the data you have to work with.

If you didn't learn that from your college CS courses, I don't want you working on my team.

If the candidates that are put up in the general aren't what people want, why did they win the primary?

You do realize that by having more parties, you split the vote further and run an increased risk of no one having a majority.

Would you rather see politicians be elected with only a plurality of the votes?

Plants, reptiles, amphibians, insects, marsupials, fish, bacteria, algae, fungus, etc.

Key word... Mammal.

The thing that keeps me in reference is remembering that middle C is like ~250 Hz

> On the other hand, it's not considered honorable to win by mistake. Winning by catching a 3% is luck - but just screwing up isn't cool.

It's poker there is no honor in poker. Bluffing is part of the game.

Because in poker if you don't play the way people think you should play, they get snooty. Especially "pros".

>Science exists in a perpetual state of being supported or challenged by evidence

One problem with that. Some sciences, particularly soft or social sciences cross broadly into culture and "ways of life". There are certain things today that cannot be questioned without getting shouted down or deplatformed. So challenging the current widely held scientific facts can be career ending.

Diesel engines, like all internal combustion engines are limited by the Carnot Theorem. The maximum theoretical efficiency for diesel is in the low 80% range.

No actual diesel engines can muster up much higher than 60%.

Here's a nice logo to use ...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Pennsylv...

I wonder if us D800 owners will ever get a fix for the awful right side focus issues that plagued that camera.

It's not just Spotify that has this problem. All major, successful web applications have huge usability issues.

Software becomes successful not because of how it looks, but because of how it helps humans in their daily lives. The current fad is form over function to the nth degree.

X-trans is still a mosaic and the underlying tech is mostly the same (color filter array with monochrome "buckets"). Instead of a 2x2 pattern, it uses a 6x6 pattern.

Goes something like: GRBGBR BGGRGG RGGBGG

Instead of: RG GB

Sigma had their Foveon sensor in APS sized version several years ago but they're currently working on the 35mm version. https://www.dpreview.com/news/1885231343/sigma-releases-upda...

> Just do an Eve Online and let people fight each other for it. Its a game, who cares

Yeah, at least then people might learn the lessons of war that society should already know.

And, folks often forget, the fact that the states exist and have control of their elections is part of what helps with the incorruptibility of the system.

Interesting you had to use a throwaway for that comment. Pittsburgh has changed a lot in the last 20 years. The grouping of western MD counties in the Pittsburgh media market is purely one of geography.

I don't know... maybe because the rural areas grow their food?

Furthermore, I'm not sure your conjecture is even correct. Subsistence farming supported people for centuries before our megalopolises existed.

DC has about 700,000 residents and a population density on par with Chicago.

Isn't Bremen, Hamburg, and Berlin's "statehood" because of their former membership in the Hanseatic League?

If I could roughly generalize the sentiment:

Are you just going to stand there and lie through your teeth?!

Have you ever seen such an amazing sunset!?

I learned it as all prepositions and articles, unless they start the title.

I found this out years ago, and adopted the British style. It makes way more sense and reads better.

I'll also put in my two cents here about spaces after a period. I always use two spaces after a sentence and one after an abbreviation.

If you only ever use one, there is too much ambiguity around sentences that end with an abbreviation.

Yes, there needs to be support for ICE vehicles in certain areas for quite some time to come. Until EV technology can support those that rely on gasoline or diesel powered cars in remote places.

Once the fossil fuel infrastructure starts to lose mainstream use, folks that require larger range, better cold weather reliability, etc. will pay through the nose to be able to move freely using their existing cars.

It will be a slow transition until it's not, and then you have a bunch of useless piles of steel, glass, and rubber lying around.

I wonder how they will handle emergency and military vehicles in the future. For any of them to use it it has to just work, and work quickly.

We're not even recycling "recyclables" at very impressive rates. Our local waste management program here in Maryland has a Facebook page that talks about how there are a very very limited number and types of plastics that are even accepted at recycling facilities - and the market for recyclables is starting to dry up. Largely because a lot of the foreign countries that were taking it in by the container ship load have stopped doing so.