My first example was “a cup of frozen chicken strips”.
I know I can make a guess how much they mean, but I could easily be off by a factor of 2.
It really wouldn’t be hard to have the weight listed.
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This sounds like a catch-22 problem.
Maybe scales could be improvised, with a stick, some cups, and awkward-shaped chunks of chicken in one of the cups.
True, but that’s just replacing a cup with a length, and rules out using an existing tub.
Why not use weight, which is easy to measure and tolerant of different forms/shapes?
(Yes, the “bird poop” one is correct, it does talk about fuel consumption too).
A similar chart could be made for the US, proving that it does use metric: soda and wine bottles, medicine doses, eye-glasses measurements (in fact most medical things).
I think that both systems are used in schools now.
But then I see cooking instructions for a “cup of chicken strips” and a recipe having 1/4 cup of butter, and I wonder why anyone thought that volume was a good idea there.
- “Avocado?”
- “Don’t mind if I do!”
0·16 days agoPylon appreciation
Taxonomy of bread fasteners
Pathetic motorways
Due to a typo, I ended up with “The Cod War”
https://www.icelandreview.com/travel/the-cod-wars-in-iceland/
I have one of the earliest mp3 players, with a 32Mb expansion memory card.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300
And going back further: a Sharp PC1211 BASIC-programmable pocket computer
2·25 days agoIt’s on the list somewhere I think
Get a move on! It could be yards away by now.
Woot made a success of this, their most coveted product
Can “y’all” be singular, since there is “all y’all” for plural?
Well, I hope this thread has also put you off being a pedestrian.
Part of the problem is that if you get a green light, so can go ahead or turn right, the road to your right has a “walk” sign on at the same time. So pedestrians can start crossing. In the UK a walk-sign equivalent means that “the traffic has stopped so that you can cross”.
True. But I’d sum it up as “A roundabout is a group of T-junctions. A 4-way stop is a nightmarish hellscape that relies on people paying attention and being reasonable.” A 4-way stop near a school at drop-off time is basically Mad Max. Kids crossing at each corner holding up the vehicle that should be next, people splitting into two lanes so that they can turn right out-of-turn, buses obscuring the view, people who decided that “surely it’s my turn now”…
I noticed! That’s why my reply became a semi-crazed random stream of consciousness.
On the reality show The Amazing Race, it’s never the rock climbing or skiing or skydiving that holds back the teams. It’s driving the manual rental car from the airport.
I drive manual in the UK but have never tried a left-hand-drive manual car, I’d probably keep hitting the door with my left hand.
Only part of it.
There was a successful ad campaign based on how many people in the UK find it repulsive.
https://www.creativereview.co.uk/you-either-love-it-or-hate-it/
Before even getting to documentation, I see so many projects that don’t have a short summary of what they do (and maybe what to not expect them to do).
As an example, Home Assistant. I can tell that it involves home automation, so can I replace Google Home with it? It seems like it doesn’t do voice recognition without add-ons and it can work with Google Assistant. Do I still need accounts with the providers of smart appliances, or can it control my bulbs directly?
None of that is very clear from the website.
I’ve seen plenty of other projects where it’s assumed there’s no need to explain it’s overall purpose.