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Software Gore

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Deliberately bad software or bad design is not software gore, it must be something unintentional

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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No. A metre is always a metre. The prefixes are standardizex.

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Still: the difference between a kilometer and a centimeter is much bigger than the difference between a nautical mile and an Irish mile. And not even all meters are standardized. Thermometers and barometers vary hugely in size

[–] discostjohn@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I tried using my thermometer to measure my height and it turns out I'm like 20 meters tall

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Congrats! That makes you taller than my uncle

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah, you must live in the US. Because in the rest of the English speaking world, a metre is a unit of length, and a meter is a measuring device. Note the difference in spelling. ;)

Not that it makes a tonne of difference.

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Jokes on you: I live outside the English speaking world. Checkmate atheist