#units — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #units, aggregated by home.social.
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The CSS “lh” unit, by @shadeed9:
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Americans Will Use Anything But Metric, part 37:
> The cannonballs — the largest about the size of grapefruits
> and weighing about as much as a shot put ball [...]#metric #MetricSystem #AnythingButMetric #USA #units #UnitsOfMeasure
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I prefer imperial units, not because I'm an imperialist, lol. They are the more traditional, naturalistic units for my cultural heritage whereas SI units are a reflection of white supremacy and western cultural imperialism.
Whiteness is all about erasing all previous cultures in favor of a homogeneous, euro-centric but indistinct culture. SI is supposed to be "the international standard" but it is controlled by European institutions! Europe is the not the head of the world.
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https://theconversation.com/inclusion-bases-in-mainstream-schools-the-evidence-for-this-government-policy-is-lacking-279268. "When analysing #SEND #education using England’s near-universal #national #student #database, we found that #data on #special #educational #needs #units, resourced provision, pupil support units or internal alternative education is limited & incomplete."
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Orthogonalization speed-up from quantum coherence after a sudden quench
Beatrice Donelli, Gabriele De Chiara, Francesco Scazza, Stefano Gherardini
SciPost Phys. 20, 181 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.6.181#CNR_INO #LENS #UAB #QUB #UNITS
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Yep, those people are definitely experiencing 37°F in Paris :blobfoxfacepalm: #units #fail #theguardian
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European: "So, a two-by-four is ... ?"
North American: "In your terms, 89 by 38 millimeters."
European: "... I see. And that works out to an even number of inches or something?"
North American: "No."
#lumber #dimension #DimensionalLumber #NorthAmerica #Imperial #units #measurement #metric
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I think this guitarist might end up being quizzed by the Communications Ministry of their country, unless they have a ham licence and even then its more often used for satellite downlink rather than uplink (maybe they would play "Starman" by David Bowie :grin)
(A good lesson on why getting correct #units matters 😁 )
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I feel seen #xkcd #units
http://xkcd.com/3248 -
@nwarner
You may also enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWbfVcDcfFw -
@futurebird
Yes we do. And I apologise.
(Well, sort of.)
🙂
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“Intl” Can Localize Units, Too, by @stefan:
https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/intl-can-localize-units-too/
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#EclipseUOMo graduated from the #incubator a little over a month ago, as seen in the project details: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.uomo Congratulations and thanks to everyone involved at @EclipseFdn and the wider #UnitsOfMeasurement community. #Java #Units
