How do American programmers deal with the Imperial measurement system? To me it looks like a bitch to use in any project. I guess that's why american software is so shit.
How do American programmers deal with the Imperial measurement system...
Owen Nguyen
Adam Morris
once again, a European is mad because America exists. Many such cases!
David Carter
its pretty straightforward.
stuff in imperial is usually some sort of superior highly composite number (e.g. base 12 or base 60)
if not these, imperial measurements are even easier than decimal to use in computers, because base 16 aka hexadecimal is just a power of two.
Bentley Turner
fpbp
Liam Brooks
So is this why all american cars have so shit electronics or is more like planned obsolescence on cars?
Bentley Scott
Different expectations. After market and diy tinkering is culturally forbidden in Europe and Asia (all VW GROUP)
Logan Jenkins
Eli Flores
A lot of people tinker with their cars a lot, the difference is that they mostly can't afford to get hacky on their cars since they're poor.
I've personally have seen the same type of cars they show on amerimutt tv shows, the only difference is that we don't have this car culture nor cities with hundreds of kilometers in between them.
Jacob Cox
>Eurpoors who can't do fraction arithmetic confused by customary units
Computers were a mistake.
Joseph Jones
> can't afford to get hacky on their cars since they're poor.
What the actual fuck is wrong with you people?
Jose Butler
Man the Europoors must struggle SO much with time. How the fuck could ANYONE ever figure out how to use a system that scales based on 60 instead of 100?
Jayden Wright
Why is the 11/32(9mm) and 5/16(8mm) switched on the imperial strip? They're confusing enough with these fractions, why wouldn't they at least leave them in the right order? Or did someone fuck up labeling it right because even they got confused?
Bentley Diaz
I used to be weirded out by customary for the longest time as a europoor. But I've come to realize it's actually based. Fuck cringe french revolution units. Anything that goes against globohomo and is traditional is good.
Justin Smith
America’s measurement system is the definition of globohomo, and any sense of authenticity is false. Their system wasn’t standardised until after metric and is defined in terms of it, an inch being exactly 25.4mm. This comes from people selling the same products in both England and the US and not wanting to cater to each countries earlier inch values (which were also defined in terms of the metric system).
Zachary Parker
Unlike other units, time has a physical basis on Earth, and legitimately is harder to work with than a metric based time keeping system would be.
From its original derivation it is also more consistent than the imperial system:
o. 360 days in a year
o. 36 days in a month
o. 24 hours in a day
o. 60 minutes in an hour
o. 60 seconds in a minute
Below an above these boundaries time does become metric.
Oliver Walker
Pixels per inch. That is all.
Jordan Kelly
You're a fag lol lmao
Ryder Nguyen
You should read a bit about car data bases, quite interesting and straightforward I'm surprised we haven't seen more diy car shit involving the electronics
Wyatt Williams
Highly composite numbers aren’t useful for a computer to work with, and switching to different basis is inefficient and complicated.
Nicholas Ward
It's not Europeans who can't do fractions, it's computers that can't do fractions.
Europeans worked with fractions a thousand years before your country even existed.
Connor Turner
Imagine being completely blown the fuck out by unit conversion.