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 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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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb 109 and a puppy
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb Most all of us have seen an ice cube 🧊, even touched one. How much does a Golden retriever weigh, 60-100 lbs? No effing clue how this helps me understand how much a lot of ice weighs. I do know that very little ice will cause trees to explode.
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@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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@kevinrj @Meyerweb @cachondo This doesn't explain why my job ignorantly uses the imperial system for our juice recipes. 99% of the ingredients are imported from more developed countries that use the metric system on their labeling. So we have to use an imprecise conversion formula for no damn reason other than the lab and management are dumdums
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb I don’t know if I’d rather be prepping for 7000 pounds of ice or 110 golden retrievers. Either way, the cleanup will be awful and take days.
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb That's the most roundabout way I've ever seen of reporting that the average golden retriever weighs 29.5 kg, or 14.75 chihuahuas. (I am not a veterinarian. Don't hold me to the chihuahua conversion.)
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb What do I need to do to get Golden Retrievers in my tree ?
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb that’s a whole bunch of updawg.
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@Meyerweb that’s a whole bunch of updawg.
@carbontwelve …well played, sir.
Well. Played.
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb Uh...is there a standardized weight that applies to all Golden Retrivers now? Because really, .5?
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb This tree has serious "Sierra game in the 90s" vibes to me.
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb I'm amazed about the ".5 Golden Retrievers". I mean, clever. How much *exactly* does a doggy weigh? I mean, is this a constant? (I know, a decimal point suggests accuracy)
Besides, I always wonder how anyone came to think of a *decimal* point in some crude ancient obsolete unit.
I suggest to always put it like: "the truck weights 7 11/17 long tonnes". This offers many more ridiculous comparisons like: "that's 14 bathtubs filled to a quarter with hello of raspberry, 9 pups and 3 hamster's penises."
Perhaps we should convince our American "friends" that ANY metric measurements including decimal points are socialism. -
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
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@Meyerweb LLMs must be responsible for these utterly bizarre comparisons
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@WriteDragon @Meyerweb Aha. That’s good context to have & that’s very good! I stand corrected.
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Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231
@Meyerweb Is the bottom image AI ? It has to be AI. I really hope it is AI.... It doesn't look like it is AI tho 😭
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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".
