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Metric is awful!
Unqualified bureaucrats, making policy on types of things, should be against the law…
I hope everyone has a great day; I know I will!@joe-the-surveyor
LOL.
Being in Canada all of the carpenters still stick with the old feet and inches bs. I had one of the least educated site supers I have to deal with asking me about an elevation and when I have him the elevation in metric (which all of the plot plans done by their engineers are also in) he arrogantly said “what’s that English”? To which I replied “you mean in American?”
- Posted by: @350rocketmike
Being in Canada all of the carpenters still stick with the old feet and inches bs. I had one of the least educated site supers I have to deal with asking me about an elevation and when I have him the elevation in metric (which all of the plot plans done by their engineers are also in) he arrogantly said “what’s that English”? To which I replied “you mean in American?”
That will persist as long as Canadian lumber mills continue to produce in nominal imperial dimensions so they can “dump” building materials on American markets. ????
- Posted by: @mightymoe
This should be a rule for every designer: Surveyors that don’t do construction should never have to deal with a spiral curve.
It should be carved in stone and put at the entrance to all highway/railway engineering offices!!!!
Now, back to the horror of my morning computations,,,,,,,,,,IN METRIC!!!!!
What is the proper way to draft a spiral curve?
Some years ago NYSDOT had a brief failed romance with the metric system. 4 rod roads now had a 20.1168m ROW, & other foolishness.
Did some layout on a metric highway job. Wasn’t a big deal for us, the GTS 3B would output meters, and the hp 41 didn’t care. The carpenters & concrete guys had folding rules; metric on one side, feet & inches on the other. They’d look at the plan, mark the metric dimension on the metric side with their thumbnail, then flop the rule over to translate.
- Posted by: @james-flemingPosted by: @aliquot
What was the point of the American Revolution?
Given that the metric system is a child of the French Revolution, and looking at how that turned out, I’m cool with what we got
Two thumbs up on 19 Thermidor CCXXX
@joe-the-surveyor
I wouldn’t say it’s awful but I do think it gets a silly amount of hype.
It’s basically the breaking bad of math. ????
It’s the American way. When I was in college, I could legally drink beer, but I couldn’t legally vote. Today, college kids can legally vote but they can’t legally drink beer. We made counting money easy but measuring little bitty stuff hard.
See, for us, it’s change that’s important, not results. We have three systems for everything: The one we’re on, the one we just left, and the one we’re going to.
Repeat: It’s the American way.
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