• notacat@mander.xyz
    51·
    2 年前

    I do find cooking easier in grams. Just put the bowl on the scale and add ingredients until it hits the number. No measuring cups to wash. But it would life changing if woodworking switched to metric. Doing any sort of exact math is annoying as hell. What is 12’7” divided by 4? How many 1/8” is 0.55 inches?? It is my own personal hell.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
      191·
      2 年前

      It’s also a lot easier to multiply and divide recipes if you switch it over to metric. This is particularly useful if you don’t have enough of one ingredient and need to reduce the others by that ratio.

      Then there’s the ability to measure the ingredient directly out of the container, using any scoop you can find, rather than needing multiple sets of measuring spoons.

          • gordon@lemmy.world
            72·
            2 年前

            Ummm… It’s 2/3 cup, and that is a standard measurement. But maybe that wasn’t the best example. Let’s say 2/3 of 1/4 cup. Well that’s 2/12 or 1/6 cup which is far from common. However a cup is 48 tsp, so 1/6 cup is 8 tsp.

            I mean it’s dumb as hell but it does work.

            The Metric system is easier though.

            • Lemon1095@lemmy.ml
              81·
              2 年前

              It’s like when the crazy guy says it’s easy and then pulls out a pinboard with pictures and string connecting them and proceeds to explain how it makes sense in his head and you have to admit that you sort of follow but also can’t believe what you’re hearing is reality.

              • gordon@lemmy.world
                6·
                2 年前

                The thing that drives me bonkers is that ounces is both a volume and mass measurement, and they aren’t the same for water.

              • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
                12·
                2 年前

                You can just say you don’t know fractions.

                It’s okay.

                They used to give out a little conversion rotary slide rule at trade shows. Pretty nice tech, two circles of cardboard pop riveted together in the center, on the top one the units are written on a series of rings, smallest on the outside, biggest on the inside, there’s a cutout along the radius so you can see the numbers written on the bottom one. Spin the bottom one so the unit you know is showing and the one you want will be right there.

                I bet they still make em.

        • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 年前

          A metric egg is a little over 50 grams. You typically get a bit over 30 grams of white, 20 grams of yolk and 5-ish grams of shell.

    • Classy@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 年前

      I get around it by just working in inches entirely. If some guy needs the foot-and-inch measurement I’ll convert but generally calling for something to be 97 5/8" is sufficient, without needing to add feet into the equation.

      I do agree that metric would be interesting. I have a metric tape measure I use when I am practicing botany so I can work on familiarizing myself with common metric distances like 10/100cm

  • jg1i@lemmy.world
    401·
    2 年前

    I was born in the US and have switched by myself. My brother thought I was weird until one day we went to the hardware store.

    I needed to buy a 15/64 in drill bit, but they didn’t have it. So then we thought, fine, maybe we can use the next closest size…

    …

    Except WTF is the next size up or down from 15/64??!!! Neither of us could figure it out. Internet wasn’t great. Sales people didn’t know. We left because we weren’t sure what to buy.

    In metric, it’s trivial. 5mm drill bit, 4mm is smaller, 6mm is bigger.

    After this, he stopped thinking I was a weirdo for using metric measurements. But he still uses imperial because murica.

    Also, interesting, I learned that he thinks imperial units were invented by the US. I told him they were British units and I stopped caring about British units in 1776, but he didn’t seem to believe me.

    • cantsurf@lemm.ee
      152·
      2 年前

      16/64 is 1/4. Your next size up is a quarter inch. Is it intuitive? Maybe not. Is it really that hard? Only if your educational institutions have also failed you.

    • grandkaiser@lemmy.world
      111·
      2 年前

      Except WTF is the next size up or down from 15/64??!!!

      There’s lots of great reasons to switch to metric. Inability to do basic fractions isn’t one of them…

      For the record, it would be 16/64, or, 1/4

      • grue@lemmy.ml
        5·
        2 年前

        For the record, it would be 16/64, or, 1/4

        Nope! It’d be 6mm, then B gauge (6.045mm), then 1/4" (6.350mm). And that’s not including things like over/under reamers and such.

        (Sorry, I’ve been watching too much Blondihacks lately.)

      • Stuka@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 年前

        But somehow the brother is convinced, despite the fact that they left the hardware store without the bit they needed!

  • Esjee@lemmy.world
    24·
    2 年前

    We went from posting Twitter screenshots as memes to posting reddit screenshots as memes

    • Lemminary@lemmy.ml
      18·
      2 年前

      We use 24 h format here where I live but we speak in 12 h format because it’s less awkward. Not all that shines is gold, I guess

      • The Ramen Dutchman@ttrpg.network
        1·
        2 年前

        I use 24h in speech, it trips up some people a little but they all understand and I’ve gotten a few to switch!

        My native language is Dutch, but I to give an example I say “vijftien uur” for 15:00 / 3pm and “vijtien uur dertig” for 15:30 / 3:30pm. My closest English equivalents would be “fifteen oʼclocm” and “fifteen thirty”, really.

        My point is, make the tiniest possible step, only replace the number of the hour with the 24h variant and drop the am/pm part.

    • PenguinLover@lemmy.ml
      48·
      2 年前

      If we are doing this, shouldn’t we go straight to Kelvin? So we no longer have to deal with negative temperatures

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    23·
    2 年前

    It’s so nice the US and Liberia are the only two countries to share both Ebola AND the imperial system. They’re buddy buddy.

    • TheKingBee@lemmy.world
      28·
      2 年前

      I’d heard of that before so after a quick google America passed the Metric Conversion Act in 1975 then in 1982 the Metric Board was abolished by President Ronald Reagan…

      So like the harbinger of doom for American progress he was Regan killed it…

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
          21·
          2 年前

          We actually got rid of that in Denmark recently, but in a pretty foolish way: our time is now locked in on daylight savings time rather than the original unmodified time.

          Probably gonna mean some dark mornings when the times come and we don’t switch back, which’ll suck for those of us who have a hard time getting out of bed before the sun’s up…

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    151·
    2 年前

    tespoons? That’s what tsp means?

    Yeah what’d you think it meant, Eugene?

    …ten square pounds?

    Calzone explodes

    Jazz music intensifies

  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
    14·
    2 年前

    I personally fucking hate ounces. Recipes could mean volume or weight.