Victor

Fractions are also way harder to understand if you need to [g]et precise

Not gonna lie, if you are working with carpentry or sewing or similar construction or creative work, you probably shouldn’t have any issues with fractions…

You’ve already gotten two real world uses here.

I’m not saying millimeters are a negative. Never did I say that. But I will say a base 10 doesn’t have that many prime factors, so using measurement equipment where halves and thirds and smaller marked out can be pretty helpful. Metric measuring stuff never has that.

I’m just saying that if you are working with some kind of base size, and want to do stuff in fractions or multiple of that base size, the inch is a pretty good size. 👍

I’m from and in Europe, and I don’t use inches myself. But there are obviously good uses for it.

The only thing I will hand to the imperial system is how it uses inches. Then again that’s really a part of the system but of its practical use.

What I like is the use of parts of inches. Especially the fractions which are powers of two. Very useful. That’s a little difficult with the cm and mm because they’re already so small. And a dm is quite large on the other hand.

I know my uncle uses inches to make flutes e.g. Supposedly helps with getting things lined up and accurate to tune. I dunno. But yeah. Otherwise, metric ftw.

Really depends on your situation.

I think this is key. Most people don’t have a situation where they both don’t have kids and don’t need to be at work early in the morning.

I have a job where I don’t need to be in very early or at all. But them darn kids gotta get to school or I’m breaking the law. 😅

That sounds wonderful. I want neighbors like that. I guess I can’t sit around waiting for neighbors like that, eh. I need to go out and make neighbors like that.

It’s believable if you imagine yourselves living their lives. But the lie for me was that I could have the same thing when I grew older. That is impossible for me, and a lot of people.

each other’s houses.

Must be nice though.

Can’t look away 😳

It was rhetorical 😄

Especially on WebOS. It’s so slow nowadays. Was so quick and good years ago.

As a person with close friends, there’s just no time in the morning. Even if we lived close by, like, no. I don’t even have time to eat breakfast in the morning those days when I drop the kids at school.

754° huh. So kinda slightly veering to the right after getting a little bit dizzy?

Still. Who does that.

More time to watch Ugly Naked Guy!

I know about DOS if that helps? I’m not too far off from having used it though, I bet. I’m 38.

TypeScript, because I like programming for the web, which is also my profession. Not a huge amount of choice in that space.

Otherwise I like the fish shell scripting language, very simple, very comfortable. Much smoother than bash. Has definitely helped me simplify all my helper scripts and made them more robust and less error-prone.

I’d like to learn OCaml next. Seems like fun. And maybe zig. Widely different, I imagine.

Is that Windows 95?

Into what did you type that? Wouldn’t something already have to have booted first in order to type it?