Shit, you are right about the tires. I feel kind of stupid now. I ask you now (because of my utter unitrests to start to google anything right now.) How you guys mark the tire sizes? Like we have something like 175/65/14. 175 mm wide, profile is 65% and 14 inch diameter.

Ratchets tough, never once given even a tough about the size. It was just what fit in what ever bullshit hole it needs to fit and hopefully gave enough leverage. Sockets are in mm and those were the ones I usually needed to worry about.

Robbins and Lawrence is familiar name from school, but never really given any tought about them, nor i dont think im going to realistically ever travel to Vermont(?)

Born and raised on a farm, fixing farm equipment, did work on a autoshop and later gig work as welder in larger refineries and paper mills. Got my CNC operator licences too.

Only times i have seen inches in use was when i was moonlighting at the saw mill. We talked about two by fours, but the saw was calibrated with mm (50×100mm/ so it was not even the close to inches). Oh and my friends shitty transam that had the assbackwards lug nuts and was a pain to find right kind of hoops for.

If you want rest of my life too, i decited at some point i dont want travel for work and went to a culinary school where i meadured everything in grams and dl (also met my wife there.) Decited the pay was not worth of the hours and studied programming, but job market kicked my ass. Went in to sales and later found a company where i was able to use my culinary, programming amd sales history and now i have 8to16 job and my own team.

Never seen a lathe that has not used mm. Even the old ones lathes and colum drills from the 50’s i have seen use mm. My home town does every august work shows with old machines like steam engines, tractors and locomotives and as far as i can remember even those have both mm and inches in the levers and knobs. I think the closest i have seen with the old machines using imperial are some cars with mph meters. (Favorite being old marshall tractor with shotgun starter, having very optimistic meter going up to 100 mph.)

So… whats going to happen now?

What does it matter? I could say any one of the +190 countries and the answer would be more or less the same.

Uh? Done. What happens now?

Easy.

Can you quickly calculate how many gallons of water receptacle with dimensions of 5 inch x 3 feet x 1 yard can hold? Extra points if you can also calculate how many pounds it weight when filled.

This is first time i have heard compelling and sensible argument for farenheit.

You clearly dont know enough about how pipeline to make good 3d effects goes.

You cant just toss enough money and time to make good CGI scene. The director needs to understand how the effects work and how design the scene with that in mind. There is huge amount of work to make sure the real parts in the scene work with the CGI parts. It needs just as much planning, story boarding and collaborations between the different groubs than any other special effect shot needs. The lighting needs to match, the eye lines of the actors need to match. Any time when there is contact between real things and 3d modeled things it needs to be planned shot by shot to make it work. Even full CGI scenes need to be planned how they stransit in to ot from the real footage.

If you think special effects are just high speed pursuits or stunt men doing wire work, you really are selling the whole VFX industry short.

Exactly how i feel too.

Every now and then there are headlines how some restaurant made their immigrant chefs work absurd work days with very little pay, or how some construction workers had been told they cant leave the site at all and they are made to live in shipping containers etc etc.

Prostitution has deep connection to human trafficing and using narcotics to controll the workers with addiction, so its not like every professional of love would magically be saved in an instant.

Yes. Why?

I love hating epic just as much as anybody else, but those exclusivity deals are not necessary just bribing the devs.

The first Hades game would have been much smaller in scope and features, without epic funding them and helping them implementing something like EOS, the game would be definedly worse than it is.

Remedy has also stated they could not make Alan Wake 2 without Epics funding. People often say the Epic exclusivity ruined its salea, but realistically without it there would not be a game.

But even so, i think them suing Steam is a asshole move.

Have you tried to be born in to a rich family? I have understood its the bare minimum to get started. Atleast everybody who is serious about the hobby does that.

You asked why people bring conversions up when talking about metric system and i tried to explain it. When you are used to a system where you can do it, its jarring when people try to say system where it is impossible is better.

Both systems work in everyday use just as well, but one system is superior in those situations where you need to calculate something little different from the norm.

Personal example from last year was when person who owns a road with me and few others wanted to make it wider for heavy machinery (he is fellling lot of trees and he will get better price if the trucks collecting the logs can drive closer). It was really easy for me to calculate how many m² i would loose field and forest area when the road is widened because even if the amount road is widened is in cm and the lenght of the road is in km those numbers mix well. I could easily calculate everything accurately, while in feet and miles i think i would just had to questimate it.

Okay so lets use your numbers and buy s sanwitch and a drink from deli. Lets say the bread is $4,50 and the drink is $2,60.

So by conversion sanwich is $4 and ¢72 and the drink is $2 and ¢86 (86,4 is the accurate, but lets just round it)

So the total is $6 and ¢158. Then we need to convert it to the wholes and its $7 and ¢14.

In base hundred system the last conversion is just easier because you can do it just by moving a decimal. And i dont see any benefit in a system that makes that harder. And that is the reason why i think units like miles and feet are worse than metric.

Because we are used to it and doing extra mental acrobatics for any conversions seems unnecessary.

You use money right? $1 = 100 cent, thousand is 1000 dollars or 100 000 cents. Imagine if somebody suddenly tried to tell you their money is just as easy to use when in their system $1 = 187 cents and thousand means 987 dollars, or by conversion 184 569 cents. Would you not see that as ridicilulous?

Simplify it for him.

How would he like if somebody would look trough his mail all the time?

How would he like if somebody would just come to his house and start to look around?

How would he like if all his conversations with his friends were taped?

Amd most importantly, how would he feel if all that information that previously was collected had no guarantee to only be accessible by the people he is giving the permission, but there is very real change somebody malevolent can access that information too.

Keep keeping contact with your friends even if adulthood would separate you.

Take care of your teeth. Those are expensive and painful to fix.

Try to make a habit of stretching and exersising. Its hard to start older.

Generally when you are doing big decisions in life try to think if its good in the ling term.

If you feel anxious or unsure about yourself, dont worry. Everybody has doubts. You just get better hiding them with age.

Practise media literacity and try to read things from many different perspectives. Its easy to start demonising one side of any situation if everything you know comes from the other side.

Wow. Needed to google those dog strories. Atleast the ones i found were because live wire was connecting to sewergrate due the degration or damage to the lines. It was hard to find any proper knowledge why that happened, but what i know about ground lines and safety regulations those things should be impossible to happen if the lines were build following regulations (at least by my countrys standards, cable must be dug deep enough, that frost does not effect to ground and it needs to be insulated. There needs to be also atleast 20cm or 7.8 inches of fine sand, or fine rockles dirt around it as a safety layer. So live wire should never be able to contact cement or any metal parts even if the cable is broken and soil is wet)

There was also incredible sad story about 15 dogs dying after overhead line dropped in to a kennel.

Im sorry i was little unclear. The safety part was mostly about doing repairs. Where i live number one reason for the lines to get damaged are fallen trees, be it by wind or packed snow. Cleaning windfall trees is difficult by it self as the trees are often tangled and if the tree is in tension when somebody cuts it wrong it, the tree might swing with an force enough to break a neck. Add to that mess tangled wires, constant hurry to fix it and the likelyhood that the wire that needs repairing is on the middle of nothing.

I mostly agree with you.

Underground footprint is kind of flimsy reason tough, because if the grid and the infra around it is well designed, in the plans should allready be a plan how to expand if other utilities are needed later.

Also enviroment where the lines are going to be build is important. Close to surface bedrock or soil with lots of big rocks. Overhead of course. Going trough or next to forest in area where winds may fell trees or snow packed on the branches may bend trees. Underground is the smart choise.

Also while underground is slower and more expensive to fix, its rare that multiple lines break at the same time. Most areas has backups upon backups, so even if one line gets damaged it does not mean large amount of households are going to be without power. Overhangs on the other hand are more on the mercy of nature and big storms are more likely to break same line from multiple points or break multiple lines.

Also broken overheads are more dangerous when broken and fixing them is more precarious.

Both have good and bad things.

Converting existing (and i hope working) infra has its own problems too and unless its absolutelly necessary it often gets sidelined.

You cant just dig a trench and drop the lines there. You need to make sure roadsides have enough space and if at any point it would require purchasing or getting permit from land owners it will get quickly complicate. Especially if there are many different owners on the stretch.

There needs to also be plans and precautions to secure that the electricity wont be cut for too long time during the work.

Also the road sides migh need to be cleaned from any vegetation and stones that might be big enough to be problem, not to mention the road it self might need additional work if its badly kept or if they need to widen it and that all rounds back to making sure there is enough space.

Its much easier to build underground cables from the get go, than change infrastructure that was build with telephone poles in mind.

I once played a game of twilight imperium where one player got eliminated within a hour. The game lasted over ten hours…