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    TodPunk avatar TodPunk 2 years ago | link | on: Kilogram conflict resolved at last

    I like sharing these sorts of things with my kids. People in general don’t realize how important precision is. A lot of people assume because they are able to be loose that there is no value to precision. I believe it is because we are, as a society, precise in these kinds of areas that imprecision can be taken as a luxury further down the line without as much incident.

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      ltw avatar ltw 2 years ago | link

      Agreed. Considering that we’re measuring things on more minute scales than throughout history, having a precise base unit measurement also allows these derived measurements to be accurate.

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      ltw avatar ltw 3 years ago | link | on: What are you reading this week ?

      Going back to foundations by re-reading “Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in Distributed Systems”. Lamport’s writing is so damn dense, dear lord.

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        jm avatar jm 4 years ago | link | on: Henry Wang and Chris Curro invent The Rapid Packing Container

        I don’t understand what prevents the box from popping open when shipped, if all you have do do is press down on the lid.

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          ltw avatar ltw 4 years ago | link

          Yes, and my concern is that there’s no way to tell that the container has been opened in transit. Sticky-fingered USPS people would love this. You could use a piece of tape much like the old wax seals though.

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          ltw avatar ltw 5 years ago | link | on: 10 Reasons to Avoid Test Driven Development

          Reading those comments on the post itself… WHOOSH.