Not currently. But......

Nah, the redneck joke is BillyBob doesn't know the difference. And he doesn't know BillyBob should have a hyphen either.

Weather peoples talk in tenths of an inch for rain and often use fractions of an inch for snow fall around here. Go figure. Conversationally, people will turn .2" of an inch of rain into 1/4" inch of rain. I know I'm guilty of doing it. Instead of saying I had an 1.7" of rain in the rain gauge, I will tell my neighbor we had an 1 3/4" of rain. Does it make sense? No, it doesn't. And no one cares either.

They sell tape measures with 1/10 feet units. Inches and feet are cursed enough as it is, and now they combine it with decimal.

I think it's interesting that at large scales, when talking about land use, agriculture, flood risk, etc., the standard unit of measure for water volume in the U.S. is acre-foot.

Yes I do dump it out. I wanted to buy a wireless digital one to go with my digital temp and humidity gage, but I didn't think it would survive the winter unless I spent a lot more money than I wanted to,

I have 2

one gets dumped sometimes

the other one less

Or grow mosquitoes 🦟

If you get involved in the technical trades, it gets weird.

A gauge is something with a dial and a needle pointer and a scale printed on it. Something you would be familiar with is a fuel gauge on a car. That's a gauge. It gives you a reading of how much fuel is in your tank. They are mostly round. But linear ones exist, like a tire pressure gauge.

A gage is a physical thing used to measure or compare other things to. For example, I have set of Pin gages. Which are round, very accurately sized pieces of short rods. They are used for checking hole diameters quickly and easily. A gage you might have used could be a spark plug gage to set the gap of the plug for your car or motor bike. As a toolmaker, I've made a LOT of gages over the years. But I've never made a gauge.

Is it esoteric? Why yes, yes it is. But the different words exist because there are those of us that need to differentiate between the two. Should it matter to you? Probably not. So carry on and as you were.

Not really sure why but I hate it.

Your entire education -- if it was anything like mine -- was dominated by teachers following a curriculum that said that what is prescribed is more important than what is understood, as if at some point we reached an epiphany on the best way to spell things.

Reading Chaucer or Shakespeare is a joy not just because they were highly capable and clever writers, but also because they wrote how they felt. Language is about intelligibility and emotion, not about adherence to arbitrary rules.

That's not to say that there's no value in having maxims for spelling, punctuation, or grammar, just that we let ourselves police these things super zealously for very little benefit.

You cannot know for sure if something works or not without the true test of use in field conditions.

Yes, almost! It was a fine rainfall. Not too hard, not too misty. Just a nice all day rain.

CEO of Rain just announced that Rain 2 is delayed because those damn hackers won't stop leaking it.

No it's not. As a machinist, decimal inches matter - a lot. The problem for most people is they they can't seem to understand when you are using decimal inches, fractions don't matter and they don't exist in this world.

Just for the sake of mutual intelligibility, it's a little over 1 and 9/12ths of a centimeter of rain.