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Any zometool aficionados here https://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/zometool.html
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we don't use leagues or furlongs. I know what a chain is because i have one, but that's specifically to measure land against a plat map. Every location in this country is based off common reference locations (there's a literal marker on the ground), with only chains and angles to delimit things (generally). Read that last part again, because they use GPS to determine if the marker has moved, and that takes X minutes…
> we don't use leagues or furlongs. I know what a chain is because i have one, but that's specifically to measure land against a plat map. Every location in this country is based off common reference locations (there's a literal marker on the ground) The same holds for more obscure unit prefixes in the SI system like dam (decameter) or hm (hectometer) in the SI unit system (as far as I am aware, the only common usage…
But all that aside, and with apologies to mods and you for sneering; i wanted to say this in my prior reply but when reading it aloud to my wife i took it out:
Americans can, in general, divide and multiply by numbers other than 10.
yes, we use acres and hectares, too! it sounds better to say i live on 6.5 acres to an American neighbor who asks, than 0.02630457km^2...
These kits can have extraordinary longevity. I was playing with Lincoln Logs in 1967. Turns out they got started in 1918. Lego bricks have been around since 1945. The moat created by seriously delighting your customers at a young age is large.
> The moat created by seriously delighting your customers at a young age is large. I wish Meccano would get its shit together. I can’t see anything I want on their limited site and there is so much cool stuff that could be made. https://www.meccano.com/
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Indeed Amazon is chock full of shitty Chinese Lego ripoffs. The bricks do indeed fit together but the quality is abysmal.
Some of the Chinese brands have superior quality to LEGO these days.
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This is probably the case of a bodged migration from one CMS to another. My blog suffered the same, and going through loads of old pages to check and fix them just isn't worth the effort.
Yeah this really looks like an encoding issue during migration. I've run into similar problems when moving old content between systems, especially with MySQL and mixed encodings. It can get messy surprisingly quickly.
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It is a really nice concept. I had never heard of it. But then as GenX at young age I played with Fishertechnik [0] more than with Lego. Around since 1966 [1]. [0] https://www.fischertechnik.de/en [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischertechnik
Construx is what I played with. It was only sold for a few years.
That's an awesome project. I'm sure there are many kids that have been gifted LEGO knockoffs that are not compatible with legos from adults that didn't know any better. A similar "interop" project for those would be great
Almost all (back then, I hear the clone quality is much higher now) were "compatible" but had little to no clutch power, a wall built with some of them would inevitably break at the clone bricks.
> Note: all units are in inches. Not so universal as I'd hoped, but I love the concept and the organization behind it, Free Art and Technology Lab.
There's this universal constant 2.54 you can use it to divide any value in inches and badabing you get the value in centimeters