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by 0_____0 1514 days ago
the US is a metric country that's in denial
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The US is a country that just does the engineering and doesn't constantly whine when they see a unit they don't like.
Reminds me of a bug in a certain laptop docking firmware that considers TjMax of 95F (instead of 95C) and running the CPU at full throttle mode (like 400MHz) at all times.
it only loses us a billion dollar spacecraft once in a while