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Show HN: MetricPlease – Bookmarklet that turns 100 yards into 91.4 m

#1

Post by rufname » Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 10:58 PM UTC

Show HN: MetricPlease – Bookmarklet that turns 100 yards into 91.4 m
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Re: Show HN: MetricPlease – Bookmarklet that turns 100 yards into 91.4 m

#2

Post by rufname » Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 11:09 PM UTC

This little bookmarklet helps with reading webpages that use "inches", "feet", "yards" and "miles" for people (like me) used to the metric system. (It can also handle in. ft. yd. mi.)

Re: Show HN: MetricPlease – Bookmarklet that turns 100 yards into 91.4 m

#3

Post by kristianp » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 12:44 AM UTC

Great idea, it's so annoying that even science sites don't use metric, for example a recent article about room temperature superconductors:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-first-roo...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24777268

Re: Show HN: MetricPlease – Bookmarklet that turns 100 yards into 91.4 m

#4

Post by rufname » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 5:43 AM UTC

kristianp wrote: post #3

Great idea, it's so annoying that even science sites don't use metric, for example a recent article about room temperature superconductors: https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-first-roo... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24777268

Those sites will be good test cases for the bookmarklet. And I see I have to add Fahrenheit for the next release.