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Re:Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard by Joker_vD on Thursday April 15, 2021 @12:48PM (#26822936)
One of those pointless little distinctions that English language makes but many other European languages don't.

Another example is "velocity" vs "speed"—what other vector quantity has two distinct names, one for the vector, another for the vector's magnitude? The acceleration doesn't, for example; and distance and displacement are two slightly different concepts that deserve two distinct names.

Re:Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard by jbarberu on Thursday April 15, 2021 @01:49PM (#26823822)
Weight and mass comes to mind.
Re:Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard by binbag on Thursday April 15, 2021 @02:17PM (#26824227)
Weight isn't the vector quantity of mass. It's mass times acceleration, e.g. gravitational acceleration, g. In other words, it's a force.
Re:Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard by ghaff on Thursday April 15, 2021 @03:03PM (#26824805)
It's also one of the places where US units really break down. Working with pound-force, pound-mass, and slugs is really easy to mess up if you have to work that way. You're often better converting to SI, doing whatever calculations you have to do, and then converting back at the end.
Re:Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard by binbag on Thursday April 15, 2021 @03:35PM (#26825168)
Yeh, in general the term is just misused and confusing.
Re:Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard by jkonline on Thursday April 15, 2021 @02:12PM (#26824163)
Whoa... That's heavy

#groan