It was a long time ago.

Well that’s news.

Well, unless it creates its own language that we can’t read.

That’s human output surely?

Did the American technology giants think they had the monopoly on capturing human input too?

I seem to remember they didn’t get it quite right by modern standards.

Edit: ok, I remembered wrongly. 96 was as close as they could measure human body temperature. I always thought it was the other way.

I’m still not clear on why 100f was chosen.

I agree with you 240%!

Well, there is a significance to 100f, it’s the human body temperature. Hotter days = potential danger maybe?

Either way, it’s another base 10, not 12!

Edit: ignore me, my memory is terrible.

It’s always worth bringing this out again at times like these, while the US trots out the same old excuses for their lack of progress that every other country that used to have old measurements has made.

“It’s fine”.

Haven’t written a cheque for years, it’s been online banking and digital payments and money transfers for years.

It’s French.

*litre

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/litre_n2?tl=true

That’s fine, it’s the insistence that “cups” is a measurement that pisses me off.

Especially when you have oz, fl oz and cups in one recipe. Sort it the fuck out and just use grams.

Someone with twice your salary might have another million and one things to try and remember, rather than the thing they only need to do once or twice a year.

And Linux users

So he’s not all bad, and let’s be honest it doesn’t take much. Did he suggest using light mode, or tabs instead of spaces?

Is this Trumps new HQ?

I think it was even better than that. It wasn’t just the tax on the costume, it was the entire cost of them could be deducted from their tax bill. The more extravagant and expensive, the smaller that years tax bill!

I think it’s a case of the outfits essentially being akin to a work uniform. You wouldn’t wear it on the street, and you need it for work (as I guess stage and screen actors do too), and due to that you can claim it as a work expense and is tax deductible?

Why didn’t they just adopt the standard Norfolk time zone of -40 years?

It’s not unusual to end up in the fake entrance.