Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb A little surprised they didn’t provide the weight in Sistine Chapels. You know, to further promote the ad at the top. Squeeze that revenue stream!
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb I can actually roughly imagine the weight of 109.5 golden retrievers. 7000 pounds feels more abstract.
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb This also looks like a problem that would be fixed by putting the power line in the ground (or for long distance high up).
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@Meyerweb I can actually roughly imagine the weight of 109.5 golden retrievers. 7000 pounds feels more abstract.
3175 kilos, that's one Cybertruck.
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb CBS Austin reaching for the lesser known “petric” system I see
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb that was a good laugh, needed that
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
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@Meyerweb CBS Austin reaching for the lesser known “petric” system I see
@ashur Oh, well played, sir. Well. Played.
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
but are those lean-mean-fighting-machine athletic golden retrievers? or couch-potato pupperoni-eating golden retrievers? I need to know whether to charge my phone.
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb Were the dog measurements really that precise that they had to say 109 and a half dogs? Why not just round up and say 110? When I assign homework, do I really need to specify that I want the answer to the nearest whole dog?
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb I'm more annoyed that they used 6.5 dogs to represent 109.5 dogs. Just cover the tree in dogs and I won't bother counting them but use that few and it's annoying
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb This is the second one of these I've seen today, slightly thankful that I'm old enough and British enough to be comfortable in imperial and metric.
The funny bit is why they chose dogs. If you can't envisage what 7000 lbs of ice weighs, would knowing what 109.5 dogs weighs help? Bizarre. Why not say "2 cars". Doesn't even have to be a specific car, just grab some clipart. It's very approximately 2 of any US car, and then you wouldn't need to have half a golden retriever.
Good job, CBS.
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb In metric units, this is only part #1000
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@kevinrj @Meyerweb :) it's become a funny meme at this point more than a serious suggestion, I think.
Where it matters, like in scientific experiments, I think the US is already quite good at managing.
After the Mars Climate Orbiter thing from the 90's, at least the scientific community woke up to the technical benefits. -
Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb this is not very accurate, I've had golden retrievers weighing anywhere from 55 to 104 pounds
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb Couldn’t they use, how far Cruz is travelling?
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb This has become the meme version of the "no press is bad press" desperate cry for attention. If you come up with the dumbest equivalent unit you can think of, a screen cap of your weather report will start trending.
I believe we could nip this in the bud if we only allowed newscasters to say "fuckload". Everybody—whether they use metric, imperial, whatever units our future alien overlords will use—everybody understands a fuckload.
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3175 kilos, that's one Cybertruck.
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb LLMs must be responsible for these utterly bizarre comparisons
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Quizzino della domenica: Strana equazione
784 - algebra
La sonda marziana Curiosity ha trovato delle scritte dell'antica civiltà marziana. Una di esse, una volta decifrata, è la seguente: 5x² − 50x + 125 = 0: x = 5 e x = 8. In effetti 5 è una soluzione dell'equazione, ma 8 non lo è: 5×64 − 50× + 125 = 45. Quante dita avevano i marziani?(trovate un aiutino sul mio sito, alla pagina https://xmau.com/quizzini/p784.html; la risposta verrà postata lì il prossimo me https://wp.me/p6hcSh-91s
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What a hole.
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Tamper Detection with Time-Domain Reflectometry
For certain high-security devices, such as card readers, ATMs, and hardware security modules, normal physical security isn’t enough – they need to wipe out their sensitive data if someone starts drilling through the case. Such devices, therefore, often integrate circuit meshes into their cases and regularly monitor them for changes that could indicate damage. To improve the sensitivity and accuracy of such countermeasures, [Jan Sebastian Götte] and [Björn Scheuermann] recently designed a time-domain reflectometer to monitor meshes (pre-print paper).
Many meshes are made from flexible circuit boards with winding traces built into the case, so cutting or drilling into the case breaks a trace. The problem is that most common ways to detect broken traces, such as by resistance or capacitance measurements, aren’t easy to implement with both high sensitivity and low error rates. Instead, this system uses time-domain reflectometry: it sends a sharp pulse into the mesh, then times the returning echoes to create a mesh fingerprint. When the circuit is damaged, it creates an additional echo, which is detected by classifier software. If enough subsequent measurements find a significant fingerprint change, it triggers a data wipe.
The most novel aspect of this design is its affordability. An STM32G4-series microcontroller manages the timing, pulse generation, and measurement, thanks to its two fast ADCs and a high-resolution timer with sub-200 picosecond resolution. For a pulse-shaping amplifier, [Jan] and [Björn] used the high-speed amplifiers in an HDMI redriver chip, which would normally compensate for cable and connector losses. Despite its inexpensive design, the circuit was sensitive enough to detect when oscilloscope probes contacted the trace, pick up temperature changes, and even discern the tiny variations between different copies of the same mesh.
It’s not absolutely impossible for an attacker to bypass this system, nor was it intended to be, but overcoming it would take a great deal of skill and some custom equipment, such as a non-conductive drill bit. If you’re interested in seeing such a system in the real world, check out this teardown of a payment terminal. One of the same authors also previously wrote a KiCad plugin to generate anti-tamper meshes.
Thanks to [mark999] for the tip!
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@DavidBHimself I guess we will have to agree to disagree on this one.
And yes, I did lose my right to vote when I moved a couple of times, even as a resident+citizen of said location. That’s how our imperfect electoral system works. 😥
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@evan I agree with @EricLawton -- "expatriate" is an imperial term. I see no confusion of terminology in his comment, quite the opposite.
In the context of the poll, "expatriate" was used about emigrants, not immigrants, but the point stands. The clearest term, if a bit long and pedantic, might have been "citizens who are not residents".
