Relevant units: https://i.redd.it/582slv24n1741.jpg PSA, don't use old deprecated units still pushed by confused country.
Please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN.
Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
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Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Measuring by volume was from a time period before we had reliable digital scales. These days all baking measuring should be done by weight since it is far more accurate. I won’t even consider a recipe that goes by volume. Fortunately those are all written by amateurs.
For where precision matters, 100% agree. For people like me who just want something halfway tasty but also quickly, the convenience of volumetric scoops is compelling.
I have a lot of junk in my kitchen drawers (admittedly a personal problem) and will opt for measuring directly from the bag into the bowl on a scale over digging around for that quarter cup every time.
Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
For where precision matters, 100% agree. For people like me who just want something halfway tasty but also quickly, the convenience of volumetric scoops is compelling.
I have a lot of junk in my kitchen drawers (admittedly a personal problem) and will opt for measuring directly from the bag into the bowl on a scale over digging around for that quarter cup every time.
Replace "convenience" with "low cost of equipping the kitchen" then.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interestingly, everytime I hear this I feel like the constitution is treated like the bible, some holy book holding the truth. That is very dangerous imo
The Constitution is THE Supreme Law of the land. It literally is the ‘bible’ in how America is to be governed. The difference is that The Constitution has mechanisms within itself for change. This is the opposite of dangerous. It is the reason slavery was abolished, women have the vote, etc. It is a living document and it serves the people.
I would say one of the tenet of the Bible and other holy books is that there are immutable. It's the words of God, and he doesn't make mistakes. (In theory at least, I've heard the Bible's translations haven't always been kind to the original text.)
That's a huge difference with the constitution, a fundamental one I'd say. And, most of the time, the people I see treating the constitution as gospel denies this very important mutability. The founding fathers were right and will always be right. The constitution must not be ammended, it is already perfect.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always thought hn was impartial and scientific, this is not.
Americans generally make up the majority of visits to most websites, including Hacker News, so you're generally going to see a slant towards it.
That would be very surprising considering how small it is compared to eg Europe alone.
So citation needeed, I guess.
Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
>PSA, don't use old deprecated units still pushed by confused country. I understand perfectly. Everyone, stop measuring weights in stone -- England has been declared confused!
I mean… the only thing still measured in stone is babies, and even that's falling out of favour.
Babies weigh less than 1 stone (14 lb), they would traditionally be weighed in pounds and ounces.
From searching "baby weight NHS", it looks like all the advice uses grams, so I assume that's current practise.
Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
#127Cool! This is the kind of things that I love to see on HN.
Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
#128I can't tell if this is intended to be serious or a parody? "All units set in inches" makes it sound like a parody, but the "God bless America" footer makes it sound serious? Hmmm
Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
#129Feels strange to have single decimal places in your inch figures. I’d have expected something like eighths, sixteenths and thirty-seconds of inches, even though the decimal representation of them is unwieldy (1⁄32″ becomes 0.03125in). That also helps you avoid fractional pixels, which is worth doing if convenient: 1⁄32″ is 3px, because 1in is defined as 96px. (As an Australian, the main place I’ve ever seen fractions…
Engineering and machining specifications are usually in 0.001” and referred to as thousandth’s or “thou’s”. Tools like wrenches or drill bits use fractions in the form x+1/2^n like 2 1/2 == 2.5”. It goes down to 1/64, I think.
They also speak of tenths which are 0.0001" units, i.e. "tenth of a thou". This jargon tends to confuse those who are new to it, but has been around for over a century.
Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Americans generally make up the majority of visits to most websites, including Hacker News, so you're generally going to see a slant towards it.
That would be very surprising considering how small it is compared to eg Europe alone. So citation needeed, I guess.
The United States is the world's third most populous country, and home to a number of technology businesses–one of the main draws of the site. I don't know if anyone has officially disclosed Hacker News's traffic data, but a lot of people have done analysis of what kind of traffic they get from being on the front page and it's invariably dominated by the United States: https://nicklafferty.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-th...