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> Nobody uses anything but meters and seconds with metric in science. Sure, now. It took the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter to end the Imperial madness at NASA.

Comparison shopping is difficult because the stores are allowed to get away with marking interchangeable items with wildly dissimilar units (type and/or magnitude), quoting per ite…

(Hi Chuck!) I find myself to be in the mathematician camp ("A materials scientist, a Physicist, and a Mathematician were sharing a hotel room when a fire broke out, waking the mate…

It was their "cheaper than gasoline" milk that got us in there. The overall quality of their offerings kept us going there. There are some specialty items that we have to go to our…

People here in Kansas City will gift their paid-for cart to someone else rather than leaving it in the parking lot. From what I've seen on YT, cart rental is a Euro in Europe.

That takes me back 33 years...

If they're actually local and speak English well enough to be understood over a crummy cell phone connection, I'll keep in touch. If not, I whack the Spam button.

Really. Identical error and debugging messages that might as well have all said "Foo!" across a 300,000+ LOC subsystem.

Really? I give location and context and the Why of the message. I make sure that every message is unique (unlike the code I changed in a certain once-prominent US firm's three-lett…

"Great engineers do everything I do."

Failing to list the #1 reason: Your VC could decide that they want their money back at any moment. (#2 would be bad employees/decisions foisted on you by those handing you money)

I like how he rode in a friend's care.

Given that physicians average about US$225k, I'd say that this information is suspect.

It's loads of fun, especially when you have dedicated chillers and sufficient power for everything. However, as you come to the realization that your C-level execs negotiated forev…

Followed by Breadless Sandwiches of the Future?

"Froth" as in lots of bubbles? One little bubble collapsing wouldn't necessarily blow out the rest, unlike a singular bubble. Or "Froth" as in "frothing at the mouth" (from insanit…

She needs to analyze the sayings of Lord John Whorfin: * History is-a made at night. * Character is what you are in the dark. * Laugh while you can, monkey-boy! * Home... home is w…

Or if you're suddenly going from your walking pace to 20-30-65-75MPH, you probably aren't the fastest human on the planet. You got on a bus and forgot to turn the darn thing off wh…

The glaring omission I see in the article is any mention of BMORG's photography policy, which is much stricter than US law. Some of the FPV ROVs may be up there just to fly around……

Although it was nice to see, the Society of Women Engineers http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/ was in full advocacy swing at that point, with strong chapters at the major engi…

And this seems to hand out a wealth of information as to why they haven't gotten there yet: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1nxtyb/nuclear_f...

You're right. In my head "ignition"=fusion, so I was auto-translating as I was skimming. They're looking for something slightly different, and probably using energy output (among o…

While they have had problems in the recent past: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ignition-failed ~~ They've since had ignition: http://www.independentnews.com/news/article_7921…

> It's hard to find good music in the Bay Area, especially live blues. Surely you've missed finding out about JJ's…or you live on the opposite side of the bay from them. Long, long…

Yes, it is. However, they will probably lie to you about the cash they have on-hand, their burn rate, and when they'll hit break-even.