Perché gli inglesi non capiscono un cazzo di ingegneria

[8:58 AM] Buckweiser: @She got plane'd in the restroom What is your specialty in ME?
[8:59 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: By me so you mean Mechanical engineering?
[9:00 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Do*
[9:00 AM] Eng. Pansy: When I think of British construction engineering, I think of the Tay Bridge lol
[9:01 AM] Buckweiser: Yeah, mechanical eng
[9:02 AM] Eng. Pansy: Aren't MEs all-arounders by definition?(edited)
[9:04 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: I'm a machinist
[9:04 AM] Buckweiser: MEs can specialize in things like HVAC, conveying systems, fire protection, that sort
[9:04 AM] Buckweiser: At least, that's how I interpret it.
[9:05 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Normally I'm running lathes, currently running a bore Grinder.
[9:05 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Mechanical engineer is one for those terms ns that can mean anything
[9:05 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Within the corect category
[9:05 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Like environmental engineers
[9:05 AM] Eng. Pansy: In my college they have as specialization veichle design, general machine design, machining and technological processes, industrial plant design and management and turbomachinery/engines
[9:05 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: And sound engineer
[9:06 AM] Eng. Pansy: I know that in the Anglosaxon world "engineer" means even people who don't have a degree
[9:06 AM] Eng. Pansy: Kinda sucks tbh
[9:07 AM] Eng. Pansy: If you cannot solve ODEs and Complex Numbers Algebra by hand, you cannot qualify for the title of engineer in my mind
[9:11 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Naw
[9:11 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Then no one would be a engineer
[9:11 AM] Eng. Pansy: ... I can do it
[9:11 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: In modern day
[9:11 AM] Eng. Pansy: Ok I see your point
[9:11 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Back when the industrial revolution, yeah fair enough.
[9:12 AM] Eng. Pansy: I used the wrong word ahahahaha
[9:12 AM] Eng. Pansy: I meant know how to rearrange the problem in order to be solved
[9:12 AM] Eng. Pansy: Either by hand or by a computer
[9:12 AM] Eng. Pansy: In case of most modern stuff, you use Numerical analysis to get it done
[9:13 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Oh yeah, working out angles and shit like that.
[9:13 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Like I can convert inched to mm
[9:13 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: In my head
[9:13 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Instantly
[9:13 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Now
[9:13 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: And vice versa
[9:13 AM] Eng. Pansy: why use such dumb units in the first place
[9:13 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: I prefer working in inches
[9:13 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: I prefer the imperial system as a whole
[9:13 AM] Eng. Pansy: But it's not even decimal(edited)
[9:14 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: And it's why the UK refuses to let go of it.
[9:14 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: It is decimal
[9:14 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: When you go small enough
[9:14 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Inches are decimal
[9:14 AM] Eng. Pansy: But feet and yards aren't
[9:15 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Technically they are.
[9:15 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: 6'6" would technically be decimal
[9:15 AM] Eng. Pansy: Then why 1 ft is 12 in?
[9:15 AM] Eng. Pansy: By decimal I mean that every 10 bits makes a one bigger unit
[9:16 AM] Eng. Pansy: Not funky arbitrarily chosen quantities
[9:16 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: They aren't chosen
[9:16 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: They're measurements of King Henry 1st body
[9:16 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Haha
[9:16 AM] Buckweiser: My boss is a US-trained architect. I'm slowly but surely getting used to switching from imperial to metric and back.
[9:16 AM] Eng. Pansy: But that is indeed arbitrarily chosen
[9:16 AM] Buckweiser: Since we use metric here in the Philippines
[9:16 AM] Eng. Pansy: Every unit is a convention
[9:17 AM] Eng. Pansy: So is inherently arbitrarily chosen
[9:17 AM] Eng. Pansy: Though I am used to the inches (sort of) and feet as they appear in flight stuff
[9:18 AM] Eng. Pansy: I get more triggeres by calories
[9:18 AM] Eng. Pansy: And every other energy unit that is not Joules
[9:18 AM] Eng. Pansy: Or Watts
[9:18 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Imperial in my opinion is better for measuring weight and long distance
[9:18 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Where metric is better for small distances
[9:18 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Like cm -> mm
[9:19 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: But anything bigger than that I use ft yard and miles
[9:19 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Because miles as a whole are better than a km
[9:19 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: In my opinion
[9:20 AM] Eng. Pansy: How so? They are just a bit bjgger
[9:20 AM] Eng. Pansy: Also there are land miles and nautical miles
[9:20 AM] Eng. Pansy: To complicate things uneccessarily
[9:20 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: They're not complicated tho
[9:20 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Well nautical moles
[9:20 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Miles
[9:20 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Yeah
[9:21 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: But land miles
[9:21 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: No
[9:22 AM] Eng. Pansy: Also the shittiest unit ever
[9:22 AM] Eng. Pansy: Horsepower
[9:22 AM] Eng. Pansy: There are at least 3 definitions of horsepower that are all different
[9:22 AM] Eng. Pansy: the german one, the british one and the american one
[9:22 AM] Eng. Pansy: When I once got a paper that had HP as an unit, I didn't even know what horsepower definition to use
[9:22 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Also the American imperial is different to the original british empire imperial
[9:23 AM] Eng. Pansy: Yeah I know
[9:23 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: A british gallon
[9:23 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Very slightly different to a American gallon
[9:24 AM] Eng. Pansy: Which again makes things unccesarily complicated
[9:24 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Naw
[9:24 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: 1 UK gallon = 1.2 US gallon
[9:25 AM] Eng. Pansy: And then probes get crashed in the Mars Athmosphere
[9:25 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: It's not exactly hard to rember.
[9:25 AM] Eng. Pansy: And 767s ran out of fuel in mid air
[9:26 AM] Eng. Pansy: That's not hard for you, but I personally adopt as an empirical rule to never underestimate the stupidity or inability of people

Therefore to reduce to a minimum anything that is not necessary
[9:27 AM] Eng. Pansy: Using arbitarily set unit systems that have the same names and differ by small quantities because MUH NATIONALISM is uneccessary and dangerous
[9:28 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Lol British will never completely stop using imperial.
[9:29 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: The only reason we semi adopted the Metric is because they cancerous European Union forced us.
[9:29 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: They gave up trying in 2007
[9:29 AM] Buckweiser: There goes Pansy, always in the constant pursuit of empirical perfection.
[9:29 AM] Buckweiser: ...as always.
[9:30 AM] Eng. Pansy: I am talking in the context of the technical world
[9:30 AM] Eng. Pansy: Then in your home you can use whatever you like
[9:31 AM] Eng. Pansy: It's the same reason why many components in the mechanical world are standardized, to be able to make technical communication easier, save money and time(edited)
[9:32 AM] Eng. Pansy: And also reduce the risk of making mistakes that can cost lives
[9:34 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Lol
[9:39 AM] Eng. Pansy: The least calculations you have to make, the least chances you have to make a mistake(edited)
[9:40 AM] Eng. Pansy: That's another way to put it
[9:47 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: The only ones who find imperial hard are the ones who are ignorant to it.
[10:04 AM] Eng. Pansy: If you say so

It's not hard, it's just uneccesary
[10:04 AM] Eng. Pansy: And incoherent
[10:05 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: It's not incoherent
[10:05 AM] Eng. Pansy: Because units of the same cathegory aren't related to eachother with decimal proportions
[10:05 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Which doesn't make it incoherent
[10:05 AM] Eng. Pansy: It does
[10:05 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: It doesn't
[10:05 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Because anyone with half a brain
[10:05 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Knows what's what
[10:05 AM] Eng. Pansy: Because that means these units weren't well tought out
[10:06 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: They're measurements of King Henry 1st body parts
[10:06 AM] Eng. Pansy: Exactly
That's not something you can repeat
[10:06 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: It is.
[10:06 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Make that a set length, give it a number.
[10:06 AM] Eng. Pansy: What if I need to make the sample of 1 foot to use to make other rulers?
[10:07 AM] Eng. Pansy: King Henry is dead
[10:07 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: You do realise
[10:07 AM] Eng. Pansy: While the metre is defined from the speed of light (or a fraction of the earth's circumference)
[10:08 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: There is the original measurement saved and conserved?
[10:08 AM] Eng. Pansy: That's something can be repeated in any lab
[10:08 AM] Eng. Pansy: What if that original sample gets destroyed?
Or it changes overtime?
[10:08 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Omg hahah, like I said.  Ignorance.
[10:08 AM] Eng. Pansy: Lol
[10:09 AM] Eng. Pansy: Whatever man, metrology is a more serious problem than you think  apparently
[10:09 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: Lol
[10:09 AM] She got plane'd in the restroom: ;^)