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  • The biggest lesson in my own journey and seeing a lot of people online talk about trying to do the conversion is that people get overly concerned with precision when first making the switch.

    YES! I think this is because they’re converting back to imperial units. You can always tell when someone was thinking in imperial because the metric units are like 17.4C or 8.12mm or 98.7km/h. For sure, things don’t need to be that precise. When I convert either way I always convert to a nice number. 100 km/h -> 60mi/h

    It’s just like translating language, you don’t translate the literal words of a sentence, you translate the overall idea.







  • YES! Do it brother! 👏 I’m US born and raised and I’ve voluntarily switched to metric a while ago. Metric is actually more intuitive to me now.

    I started with just memorizing all the conversions but that’s literally just adding another step.

    Personally, I think this is a mistake. What worked for me was to start building reference points in metric directly. No conversions.

    • yes: “Oh, it’s nice outside. What temperature is it? 20C, great. I’ll remember I like 20C.”
    • no: “I like 70F, what’s that in Celsius?”
    • yes: “Wow. That’s long board. How long is it? 2m, great. I’ll remember 2m is long.”
    • no: “What’s 6ft to meters?”

    Don’t ask, “What’s this in metric?” just ask directly “How long/fast/heavy/hot is this thing?”

    You need to get out there and start measuring and experiencing stuff. Measure parts of your body to build more reference points. For example, I know from the floor to my waist is about 1m, from the tip of my index finger to the first bend line is about 2.5cm. My weight is about 65kg. Normal body temperature is about 37C, but 38C and above is a fever. My mom’s house is about 30km away.

    Switching temperature to C is pretty easy, that’s a good start. Here are some other tools that may help.

    Also, did you know Amazon US limits the products available to us? But you can break out and shop from Amazon Japan, for example, and get products that aren’t available from Amazon US. I’ve found that Amazon Japan has way more metric-only options than other places.

    I really like buying metric only tools because:

    • it removes the possibility of relapse, forcing you to build new reference points
    • it removes the possibility of other people messing with the units
    • it removes clutter from the UI, making it easier to use

    Eventually, you could switch your car too, but I wouldn’t recommend you do that right now. After a few months, you’ll start getting the hang of metric more. It really doesn’t take that long to adjust.

    P.S. Does anyone know where I could get some metric-only measuring cups cans, containers, vessels?






  • get closed as a duplicate of the similar post

    I’ve definitely had this happen to be before. It’s annoying.

    What I do in that case is proactively say:

    I’m facing problem X. I’ve tried searching for solutions. I found post X2 and X3 that are similar, but my problem is actually different because of Y.

    Sometimes it helps.

    Also, if you see people being assholes you can report them. There’s a flag for “unfriendly or unkind”. I’ve definitely used that before.


  • paequ2toTechnology@lemmy.worldStack overflow is almost dead
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    Even without LLMs, it’s possible StackOverflow would have eventually faded into irrelevance

    Yeah, exactly. A lot of groups have a Discord :( or other forums where people ask questions. I know I’ve had to ask questions on Svelte’s Discord :( for example. And I think even once on some YouTube influencer’s Slack…

    Sucks cuz both of those places are silos and my questions and answers are forever lost.