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After reading replies to a post containing #Fahrenheit or United States customary units

#metric #TheGoodPlace #TheMetricSystem

After reading replies to a post containing #Fahrenheit or United States customary units

#metric #TheGoodPlace #TheMetricSystem

Found this fascinating piece of NZ history in a second hand book while sorting my shelves.
#NewZealand #history #conversion #metric #imperial

Found this fascinating piece of NZ history in a second hand book while sorting my shelves.
#NewZealand #history #conversion #metric #imperial

while doing stuff i found this and got to keep it ^_^

#hardware #screws #metric

while doing stuff i found this and got to keep it ^_^

#hardware #screws #metric

Best of de la semaine :
Goo - Oh wow, Oh well / Chalk Hands - The line that shapes the coast of us / The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Acknowledge kindness / Metric - Romanticize the dive
#metric #theredspinksandpurples #chalkhands #goo

Snagged complete set of of Marshall Cavendish #CarMaintenance and #Motoring partwork "On The Road" from 1978-1981 (in 10 binders)

If you are #GenX you may remember your dad buying at least some of these if he was into #cars (although to get the entire partwork would have cost about £300 (2026 money) in total, so relatively few people actually got whole set of 140)

These were sold not only in #UK but across #Commonwealth countries where folk drive on the left, one cool thing is all units are #metric first (with Imperial equivalents added afterwards)

Fair play to the previous owner, it looks like they did definitely make use of the section on changing #HeadGasket in #BritishLeyland engine 😁

#OldTimer #1970s #1980s #WeirdCarMastodon

Snagged complete set of of Marshall Cavendish #CarMaintenance and #Motoring partwork "On The Road" from 1978-1981 (in 10 binders)

If you are #GenX you may remember your dad buying at least some of these if he was into #cars (although to get the entire partwork would have cost about £300 (2026 money) in total, so relatively few people actually got whole set of 140)

These were sold not only in #UK but across #Commonwealth countries where folk drive on the left, one cool thing is all units are #metric first (with Imperial equivalents added afterwards)

Fair play to the previous owner, it looks like they did definitely make use of the section on changing #HeadGasket in #BritishLeyland engine 😁

#OldTimer #1970s #1980s #WeirdCarMastodon

Today’s top female lead singers of rock! 2026 Update

The list below identifies the reigning female lead singers of today’s rock music scene. Please note that it does not include singers who perform under their given name like Taylor Swift or Phoebe Bridgers. In Phoebe’s case, she does qualify for the list under Better Oblivion Community Center and boygenius.

However, in some instances, the band name listed is the same as the singer’s stage name, such as Blondshell and Girlhouse. As more outstanding female musical artists are discovered, they will added to the list. Peace and rock on!

Iona Lynch – Cliffords (Ireland)

Julie Dawson – NewDad (Ireland) – added 12/2/25

Ellie Rowsell – Wolf Alice (England)

Jessica Dobson – Deep Sea Diver

Hayley Williams – Paramore

Sabrina Mae Teitelbaum – Blondshell

Lily Aron – Florence Road (Ireland)

Ritzy Bryan – The Joy Formidable (Wales)

Sharon Van Etten – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten – Momma

Florence Welch – Florence & The Machine (Ireland)

Annie Clark – St. Vincent

Phoebe Bridgers – Better Oblivion Community Center and boygenius

Jane Fitzsimmons – Twen – added 4/4/26

Shirley Manson – Garbage (England and USA)

Rebecca Lovell – Larkin Poe

Jordan Miller – The Beaches (Canada) – added 4/4/26

Venus O’Broin – Swapmeet (Australia) – added 4/4/26

Emily Haines – Metric and Broken Social Scene (Canada)

Lauren Luiz – Girlhouse

Leah Fay Goldstein – July Talk (Canada)

Karen Orzolek – Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs

Maisie Everett – Belair Lip Bombs (Australia) – added 4/4/26

Diana Suteu – The Palais (England)

Today’s top female lead singers of rock! 2026 Update

The list below identifies the reigning female lead singers of today’s rock music scene. Please note that it does not include singers who perform under their given name like Taylor Swift or Phoebe Bridgers. In Phoebe’s case, she does qualify for the list under Better Oblivion Community Center and boygenius.

However, in some instances, the band name listed is the same as the singer’s stage name, such as Blondshell and Girlhouse. As more outstanding female musical artists are discovered, they will added to the list. Peace and rock on!

Iona Lynch – Cliffords (Ireland)

Julie Dawson – NewDad (Ireland) – added 12/2/25

Ellie Rowsell – Wolf Alice (England)

Jessica Dobson – Deep Sea Diver

Hayley Williams – Paramore

Sabrina Mae Teitelbaum – Blondshell

Lily Aron – Florence Road (Ireland)

Ritzy Bryan – The Joy Formidable (Wales)

Sharon Van Etten – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

Emily Massey – Slow Pulp – added 7/7/26

Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten – Momma

Florence Welch – Florence & The Machine (Ireland)

Annie Clark – St. Vincent

Phoebe Bridgers – Better Oblivion Community Center and boygenius

Jane Fitzsimmons – Twen – added 4/4/26

Shirley Manson – Garbage (England and USA)

Rebecca Lovell – Larkin Poe

Jordan Miller – The Beaches (Canada) – added 4/4/26

Venus O’Broin – Swapmeet (Australia) – added 4/4/26

Maisie Everett – Belair Lip Bombs (Australia) – added 4/4/26

Emily Haines – Metric and Broken Social Scene (Canada)

Lauren Luiz – Girlhouse

Leah Fay Goldstein – July Talk (Canada)

Karen Orzolek – Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs

Diana Suteu – The Palais (England)

Today’s top female lead singers of rock! 2026 Update

The list below identifies the reigning female lead singers of today’s rock music scene. Please note that it does not include singers who perform under their given name like Taylor Swift or Phoebe Bridgers. In Phoebe’s case, she does qualify for the list under Better Oblivion Community Center and boygenius.

However, in some instances, the band name listed is the same as the singer’s stage name, such as Blondshell and Girlhouse. As more outstanding female musical artists are discovered, they will added to the list. Peace and rock on!

Iona Lynch – Cliffords (Ireland)

Julie Dawson – NewDad (Ireland) – added 12/2/25

Ellie Rowsell – Wolf Alice (England)

Jessica Dobson – Deep Sea Diver

Hayley Williams – Paramore

Sabrina Mae Teitelbaum – Blondshell

Lily Aron – Florence Road (Ireland)

Ritzy Bryan – The Joy Formidable (Wales)

Sharon Van Etten – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten – Momma

Florence Welch – Florence & The Machine (Ireland)

Annie Clark – St. Vincent

Phoebe Bridgers – Better Oblivion Community Center and boygenius

Jane Fitzsimmons – Twen – added 4/4/26

Shirley Manson – Garbage (England and USA)

Rebecca Lovell – Larkin Poe

Jordan Miller – The Beaches (Canada) – added 4/4/26

Venus O’Broin – Swapmeet (Australia) – added 4/4/26

Emily Haines – Metric and Broken Social Scene (Canada)

Lauren Luiz – Girlhouse

Leah Fay Goldstein – July Talk (Canada)

Karen Orzolek – Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs

Maisie Everett – Belair Lip Bombs (Australia) – added 4/4/26

Diana Suteu – The Palais (England)

Today’s top female lead singers of rock! 2026 Update

The list below identifies the reigning female lead singers of today’s rock music scene. Please note that it does not include singers who perform under their given name like Taylor Swift or Phoebe Bridgers. In Phoebe’s case, she does qualify for the list under Better Oblivion Community Center and boygenius.

However, in some instances, the band name listed is the same as the singer’s stage name, such as Blondshell and Girlhouse. As more outstanding female musical artists are discovered, they will added to the list. Peace and rock on!

Iona Lynch – Cliffords (Ireland)

Julie Dawson – NewDad (Ireland) – added 12/2/25

Ellie Rowsell – Wolf Alice (England)

Jessica Dobson – Deep Sea Diver

Hayley Williams – Paramore

Sabrina Mae Teitelbaum – Blondshell

Lily Aron – Florence Road (Ireland)

Ritzy Bryan – The Joy Formidable (Wales)

Sharon Van Etten – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten – Momma

Florence Welch – Florence & The Machine (Ireland)

Annie Clark – St. Vincent

Phoebe Bridgers – Better Oblivion Community Center and boygenius

Jane Fitzsimmons – Twen – added 4/4/26

Shirley Manson – Garbage (England and USA)

Rebecca Lovell – Larkin Poe

Jordan Miller – The Beaches (Canada) – added 4/4/26

Venus O’Broin – Swapmeet (Australia) – added 4/4/26

Emily Haines – Metric and Broken Social Scene (Canada)

Lauren Luiz – Girlhouse

Leah Fay Goldstein – July Talk (Canada)

Karen Orzolek – Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs

Maisie Everett – Belair Lip Bombs (Australia) – added 4/4/26

Diana Suteu – The Palais (England)

Today’s top female lead singers of rock! 2026 Update

The list below identifies the reigning female lead singers of today’s rock music scene. Please note that it does not include singers who perform under their given name like Taylor Swift or Phoebe Bridgers. In Phoebe’s case, she does qualify for the list under Better Oblivion Community Center and boygenius.

However, in some instances, the band name listed is the same as the singer’s stage name, such as Blondshell and Girlhouse. As more outstanding female musical artists are discovered, they will added to the list. Peace and rock on!

Iona Lynch – Cliffords (Ireland)

Julie Dawson – NewDad (Ireland) – added 12/2/25

Ellie Rowsell – Wolf Alice (England)

Jessica Dobson – Deep Sea Diver

Hayley Williams – Paramore

Sabrina Mae Teitelbaum – Blondshell

Lily Aron – Florence Road (Ireland)

Ritzy Bryan – The Joy Formidable (Wales)

Sharon Van Etten – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

Emily Massey – Slow Pulp – added 7/7/26

Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten – Momma

Florence Welch – Florence & The Machine (Ireland)

Annie Clark – St. Vincent

Phoebe Bridgers – Better Oblivion Community Center and boygenius

Jane Fitzsimmons – Twen – added 4/4/26

Shirley Manson – Garbage (England and USA)

Rebecca Lovell – Larkin Poe

Jordan Miller – The Beaches (Canada) – added 4/4/26

Venus O’Broin – Swapmeet (Australia) – added 4/4/26

Maisie Everett – Belair Lip Bombs (Australia) – added 4/4/26

Emily Haines – Metric and Broken Social Scene (Canada)

Lauren Luiz – Girlhouse

Leah Fay Goldstein – July Talk (Canada)

Karen Orzolek – Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs

Diana Suteu – The Palais (England)

Goodhart’s Law in action 🙄:

“More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use.”, The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/technology/tokenmaxxing-ai-agents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UlA.Wda2.-3Rz1wP8LBVw&smid=url-share).

H/T: Dare Obasanjo

#AI #AITokenUsage #GoodhartsLaw #Metric #TokenMaxing #LLMs #Measure #FakeProductivity #Waste #Dashboard #Leaderboard #Work

Goodhart’s Law in action 🙄:

“More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use.”, The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/technology/tokenmaxxing-ai-agents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UlA.Wda2.-3Rz1wP8LBVw&smid=url-share).

H/T: Dare Obasanjo

#AI #AITokenUsage #GoodhartsLaw #Metric #TokenMaxing #LLMs #Measure #FakeProductivity #Waste #Dashboard #Leaderboard #Work

"Well, sure, all our sandwiches now come with shit. Shit is a very popular topping with our customers, so we thought we'd make it easy for all of you to get what you want. We determined it was too confusing for customers if some sandwiches came with shit, and some didn't, so we simplified our menu to make sure you could find exactly what you need. No, you can't order a sandwich 'but hold the shit'. After all, if you're that dead-set against eating shit, you can just order your sandwich and then eat around the shit."

This is a post about #Microsoft and #Google.

#Microslop #ShitSandwich #shit #EatShit #CoPilot #Gemini #AI #LLM #NobodyWants #bubble #GoodhartsLaw #Goodhart #metric #software #users

"Well, sure, all our sandwiches now come with shit. Shit is a very popular topping with our customers, so we thought we'd make it easy for all of you to get what you want. We determined it was too confusing for customers if some sandwiches came with shit, and some didn't, so we simplified our menu to make sure you could find exactly what you need. No, you can't order a sandwich 'but hold the shit'. After all, if you're that dead-set against eating shit, you can just order your sandwich and then eat around the shit."

This is a post about #Microsoft and #Google.

#Microslop #ShitSandwich #shit #EatShit #CoPilot #Gemini #AI #LLM #NobodyWants #bubble #GoodhartsLaw #Goodhart #metric #software #users

"The #culture that feels the most dangerous, and, thus, exciting to young people, will be what you can’t see online. And the most #dangerous thing for #platforms is not racist garbage. It’s #unmonetizeable content. The “#metric” that will matter most going forward will not be the numbers at the bottom of a post or video, but the #humanbeings in a room that left their house to experience something. Which, of course, will be filmed and put back online. You can’t escape #thematrix entirely."

"The #culture that feels the most dangerous, and, thus, exciting to young people, will be what you can’t see online. And the most #dangerous thing for #platforms is not racist garbage. It’s #unmonetizeable content. The “#metric” that will matter most going forward will not be the numbers at the bottom of a post or video, but the #humanbeings in a room that left their house to experience something. Which, of course, will be filmed and put back online. You can’t escape #thematrix entirely."

Using a #Heinz #ketchup bottle as #snow gauge is just another fine example of how far my countrymen will go in order to avoid measuring ANYTHING in #metric units.

#wpxi #pittsburgh

"Normalized mutual information is a biased measure for classification and community detection"

#algorithm #classification #clustering #ML #bias #metric

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66150-8

"Normalized mutual information is a biased measure for classification and community detection"

#algorithm #classification #clustering #ML #bias #metric

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66150-8

A 3/4 (55 cm) #violin 🎻 [1] for the American chap whose posts I saw on Reddit whilst researching what was involved in changing #sparkplugs - it turns out in USA-land torque values for these are sometimes quoted in *inch*-pounds, but he got confused and ended up borrowing a ft-lbs #torquewrench, tried to put put 150 ft-lbs (203 Nm!) on a plug that should be about 150 inch-pounds (17 Nm). and wondered why the plug was still loose, and his truck was misfiring.

Luckily for him the ceramic had broken before the threads stripped in the cylinder head and the garage was able to extract the broken plug and he was back on the road.

[1] just the right size for a small child of about age 10 to play, and to suggest to the old man that using #metric units really isn't a bad idea..

A 3/4 (55 cm) #violin 🎻 [1] for the American chap whose posts I saw on Reddit whilst researching what was involved in changing #sparkplugs - it turns out in USA-land torque values for these are sometimes quoted in *inch*-pounds, but he got confused and ended up borrowing a ft-lbs #torquewrench, tried to put put 150 ft-lbs (203 Nm!) on a plug that should be about 150 inch-pounds (17 Nm). and wondered why the plug was still loose, and his truck was misfiring.

Luckily for him the ceramic had broken before the threads stripped in the cylinder head and the garage was able to extract the broken plug and he was back on the road.

[1] just the right size for a small child of about age 10 to play, and to suggest to the old man that using #metric units really isn't a bad idea..

Grafana Mimir finally getting rid of the clumsy #promql query engine: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/09/17/faster-more-memory-efficient-performance-in-grafana-mimir-a-closer-look-at-mimir-query-engine/ #grafana #prometheus #tsdb #metric

Grafana Mimir finally getting rid of the clumsy #promql query engine: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/09/17/faster-more-memory-efficient-performance-in-grafana-mimir-a-closer-look-at-mimir-query-engine/ #grafana #prometheus #tsdb #metric

Grafana Mimir finally getting rid of the clumsy #promql query engine: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/09/17/faster-more-memory-efficient-performance-in-grafana-mimir-a-closer-look-at-mimir-query-engine/ #grafana #prometheus #tsdb #metric

melodic dissonance (drum & bass mix)
https://soundcloud.com/uninoize/melodic-dissonance

#dancefloor #drumandbass #dnb #breakbeat #breaks #metric #pnau #camo&krooked #e11e #dimension #aktive #subfocus #90s #nostalgic #rock #altrock #electro #jungle #remix #mashup #turntablism

Can we please have one international standard for #shoesize? I don't care if it's #metric , I just don't think shoe sizes should go up to 13 by age four, then start over at 1 for kindergartners, then have completely different scales by gender and national origin.

Can we please have one international standard for #shoesize? I don't care if it's #metric , I just don't think shoe sizes should go up to 13 by age four, then start over at 1 for kindergartners, then have completely different scales by gender and national origin.

Im #vereinigt​en #Königreich würden #DatenCenter #offiziell 0,79% der #Energie #verbrauch​en, wobei die #eigentlich​e #Zahl eher 12% sein dürfte. Eine ähnliche #Diskrepanz gelte für #global​e #Zahl​en.

Melissa #Cogavin - #DataCentres & #Sustainability in 2024
#Broadband #Journal of the #SCTE Vol. 46 No. 2 May 2024, S. 17

#DataCenter #Energieverbrauch #Metric #Zahlen

Im #vereinigt​en #Königreich würden #DatenCenter #offiziell 0,79% der #Energie #verbrauch​en, wobei die #eigentlich​e #Zahl eher 12% sein dürfte. Eine ähnliche #Diskrepanz gelte für #global​e #Zahl​en.

Melissa #Cogavin - #DataCentres & #Sustainability in 2024
#Broadband #Journal of the #SCTE Vol. 46 No. 2 May 2024, S. 17

#DataCenter #Energieverbrauch #Metric #Zahlen

Im #vereinigt​en #Königreich würden #DatenCenter #offiziell 0,79% der #Energie #verbrauch​en, wobei die #eigentlich​e #Zahl eher 12% sein dürfte. Eine ähnliche #Diskrepanz gelte für #global​e #Zahl​en.

Melissa #Cogavin - #DataCentres & #Sustainability in 2024
#Broadband #Journal of the #SCTE Vol. 46 No. 2 May 2024, S. 17

#DataCenter #Energieverbrauch #Metric #Zahlen

Im #vereinigt​en #Königreich würden #DatenCenter #offiziell 0,79% der #Energie #verbrauch​en, wobei die #eigentlich​e #Zahl eher 12% sein dürfte. Eine ähnliche #Diskrepanz gelte für #global​e #Zahl​en.

Melissa #Cogavin - #DataCentres & #Sustainability in 2024
#Broadband #Journal of the #SCTE Vol. 46 No. 2 May 2024, S. 17

#DataCenter #Energieverbrauch #Metric #Zahlen

I finished the couch leg installation. Turns out I just needed the four M8 bolts and four nuts, which I had on hand, no spacers necessary. Still not as easy a job as it seemed. More details in the alt text.
#hardware #metric #SAE #screws #bolts #maker #diy #modelbuilding #makers #actionFigures #diorama #doll

I finished the couch leg installation. Turns out I just needed the four M8 bolts and four nuts, which I had on hand, no spacers necessary. Still not as easy a job as it seemed. More details in the alt text.
#hardware #metric #SAE #screws #bolts #maker #diy #modelbuilding #makers #actionFigures #diorama #doll

US hardware standards are INSANE.
Working on a prop for my action-figure photo comic, "Minions at Work," and I want to attach some decorative lamp finials upside down as legs for a piece of furniture. Go to store, get some screws. Easy, right? A standard 1/4" screw is 20 pitch thread. But a lamp finial is 1/4" 27 pitch, for reasons that probably made sense to Tommy Edison. Can't find screws like I want, even online. (cont.)
#hardware #metric #SAE #screws #bolts #maker #diy #modelbuilding #makers

US hardware standards are INSANE.
Working on a prop for my action-figure photo comic, "Minions at Work," and I want to attach some decorative lamp finials upside down as legs for a piece of furniture. Go to store, get some screws. Easy, right? A standard 1/4" screw is 20 pitch thread. But a lamp finial is 1/4" 27 pitch, for reasons that probably made sense to Tommy Edison. Can't find screws like I want, even online. (cont.)
#hardware #metric #SAE #screws #bolts #maker #diy #modelbuilding #makers

It's a Little Piece of Normal [FEMA Waffle House Index]
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https://www.fema.gov/blog/its-little-piece-normal <-- shared FEMA blog post
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index <-- wiki page
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"... The index has three levels, based on the extent of operations and service at the restaurant following a storm:
• GREEN: full menu – Restaurant has power and damage is minimal or absent.
• YELLOW: limited menu – Power is either absent or delivered by a generator, or food supplies are running low.
• RED: the restaurant is closed – Indicates severe damage or severe flooding; Severe destruction to the restaurant…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #extremeweather #wafflehouse #wafflehouseindex #FEMA #disaster #hurricane #monitoring #appraisal #metric #informal #crowdsourcing #community #disastermanagement #disasterresponse #restuarant
@FEMA @WaffleHouse

#AmericanExeptionalism! #SNL

#metric #metricsystem #imperialmeasures #miles #gallons #kilo #litre

https://youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk?si=ZC_oI3xv9ggZCvRl

#TruthBeTold
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There's a clever math trick to convert from Celsius to Centigrade without using a calculator…

#math #temperature #metric #imperial #Fahrenheit #Kelvin #one #Sweden
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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

(PD image from Wikimedia commons)

These weird C-clamps are super weak. I googled the manufacturers "#Starrett, #BrownAndSharpe, #Mitutoyo and #Lufkin" and they aren't even known for making clamps! And these clocks aren't running, but even if they did it looks like some kind of #metric time. Useless.

At least there's some #Craftsman in the lot.

#machining

These weird C-clamps are super weak. I googled the manufacturers "#Starrett, #BrownAndSharpe, #Mitutoyo and #Lufkin" and they aren't even known for making clamps! And these clocks aren't running, but even if they did it looks like some kind of #metric time. Useless.

At least there's some #Craftsman in the lot.

#machining