Less People Here?
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@fcarney said in Less People Here?:
Years ago a restaurant tried to introduce the 1/3 pounder. Nobody wanted to buy it as they thought a 1/4 pounder was bigger. Because 4 is bigger than 3. I wish I were making this up.
And...we let these people vote.
Civilization, meet your demise...
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@mzimmers said in Less People Here?:
And...we let these people vote.
Let me throw you a bone (the political kind):
"The biggest problem of Bulgaria is the bad (quality of the) human material in the country" ~B. Borissov, 2009For context:
B. Borissov had been the PM of Bulgaria for 12 years bar the last few months. So be optimistic - it can always get/be worse. ;) -
Anonymous_Banned275 Bannedreplied to fcarney on 3 Jun 2021, 22:53 last edited by Anonymous_Banned275 6 Mar 2021, 23:13
@fcarney said in Less People Here?:
Years ago a restaurant tried to introduce the 1/3 pounder. Nobody wanted to buy it as they thought a 1/4 pounder was bigger. Because 4 is bigger than 3. I wish I were making this up. Can you expect a population to accept metric over inch when those kinds of issues are going on? Also, there are millions of feet of imperially spec'd infrastructure installed. That is never going away. The best you can hope for is some hybrid at this point.
One of my ham radio hobbies is to play with antennas.
For an antenna to be effective its basic dimensions are related to frequency in use. The frequency is stated in meters or hertz.
Pretty much acceptable in Imperial or metric system.
I have never seen a radio dial marked in "feet per second ( seconds are imperial ) " .
But vast majority of US amateur radio enthusiasts measures antenna dimensions in feet and fraction of inches...memorizing some "magic numbers " formulas and struggling with adjustment in percentage ( metric ?) of fraction of feet and inches.
BTW my insulin is measured in 100 units = 3 ml . go figure.And since we mentioned "culture" "anomalies"
what is better a "warm pint" or "cold half a liter " ?Cheers
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@AnneRanch There is nothing better on a cold and rainy day than properly heated pint with some clover and mead ;)
Also, there is nothing better than cold half a liter on a warm and sunny day...(but that maybe just my Central Europe genes talking)
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@artwaw said in Less People Here?:
@AnneRanch There is nothing better on a cold and rainy day than properly heated pint with some clover and mead ;)
Also, there is nothing better than cold half a liter on a warm and sunny day...(but that maybe just my Central Europe genes talking)
Sounds a lot like "any day is good for beer" :D
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kshegunov Moderatorsreplied to artwaw on 4 Jun 2021, 11:39 last edited by kshegunov 6 Apr 2021, 11:45
@artwaw said in Less People Here?:
But when temperature drops below -10C one might want to switch to spirits.
When it drops under -10, you may want to switch to antifreeze ... ;)
@AnneRanch said in Less People Here?:
BTW my insulin is measured in 100 units = 3 ml . go figure.
(On a more serious note)
Often units are defined as it is convenient, even conversions, so I suppose that's the most easy for the reader of said test. In nuclear physics it's ubiquitous to measure mass (and momentum) in eV, which is a unit of energy; it's simply convenient to put the speed of light to equal 1. That nonsense even has a name: "natural units". -
@kshegunov
Absolutely. Can you remind me: when I ask for a pound of butter at the shops, how much should I ask for that in that useful eV? -
Can't give you an exact figure, but I'd imagine somewhere between 1 exa electron volt to a few zetta electron volts. Of course I'd suggest you don't get a pound of butter to begin with, but you better discuss this with your doctor. ;)
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I'm spoiled by supermarkets. I don't have to ask anyone and thus don't have to think about units at all most of the time. I just take a look - "that's about right" - and take it off the shelf :) Come to think about it I do it a lot - amount of beer, tire pressure in my bike, shoe size, water temperature for swimming, time spent coding...
Yes, "that's about right" is my daily driver unit :) -
Random thoughts:
I've read an article recently that people on average are superb predictors of probabilities, if the prob. density is symmetric. We fail rather miserably when the statistics is very skewed though. I found this very interesting - we tend to identify and predict additive factors excellently by intuition, but we are not so good when the dependency is multiplicative ... -
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