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1 year agoLol, I’ve just fallen back in time to 2015
Lol, I’ve just fallen back in time to 2015
This attitude is exactly WHY the US failed to actually convert back in the 70s
interestingly enough, there is an incident where a unit conversion cause a spacecraft to crash.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
NASA specifies that companies who work with NASA should use metric units as a part of the contract. Lockheed produced software that output in imperial units and it caused the orbiter to flame out.
Why are you bringing the British into this? What did they do to you?
As an American, anyone who claims the Imperial system is better about anything is lying or stubborn. An argument could be barely made for Fahrenheit and even then it’s not worth it.
Or debian stable, for all the reliability of ubuntu without the drama