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[–] ultimitchow 133 points 9 months ago (2 children)

americans carefully using imperial units instead of metric to waste time of the rest of the world

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That link has your si in it. Your si is a tracking code Google uses to determine who clicked on links you shared. They want to know who your friends are for their social data models.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I had to explain this similar concept to a co-worker who always puts his tracking info in his parts orders. He didn't understand until I started asking him about firearms parts he had been browsing on his own Amazon account.

His links are now sufficiently sanitized.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Hold on... how were you able to find out about his amazon browsing habits from a tracking code? I thought end-users wouldn't have that information but only amazon themselves (+ their 391712 friends).

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The firearms parts he was viewing were suggested to me as things people you know are interested in. He talks about it all the time, so I have him a hard time on the patriotic-sounding names to the parts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

The firearms parts he was viewing were suggested to me as things people you know are interested in

Wow... that's disturbing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Additional recommendation: use https://linkcleaner.app or Léon URL Cleaner (Android) to automatically remove those pesky tracking parameters.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Firefox has a "copy link without tracking information", in the right click menu btw

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That was the most confusing discussion I've heard in a while. Don't even know what the initial question was. Had to rewatch the video

What's the difference between 6 and 7/8t and 7 and 1/4

The initial answer of 3/8 was right, but then he changed it and I just got confused.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Okay so NASA lost a $327 million Mars probe because said was transmitting trajectory corrections in the SI Units of Newton-Seconds, but the home base software was interpreting and calculating it as Pound Seconds.

Remembering that there was endless amounts of scientific equipment aboard that took years to make, and the whole enchilada took 10 months traveling through space before it could even crash.