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Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by kibwen on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:32PM (#33660738)
Specifically, this happened in 1893: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendenhall_Order
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Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday November 18, 2022 @05:05PM (#33663037)
The inch wasn't converted to a derived metric unit in the US until 1959. This creates an issue for precision machinery manufactured before the redefinition because the slight difference is enough to matter where allowed to accumulate.
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Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by MiddleEndian on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:57PM (#33666343)
If only some governing body had been aggressive enough to redefine NTSC 60Hz as actually 60 fps.
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Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:06AM (#33667138)
It was 60fps. Color required an adjustment to prevent stationary artifacts.
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Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by MiddleEndian on Saturday November 19, 2022 @10:47AM (#33671172)
Right, but they should've put in the work to redo things back then so we wouldn't have to deal with stupid refresh rates now lol
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