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That's when you forgot naming the unit of measure :) My brother-in-law had some funny ideas back in 1980s: -- It could be a chip with the music stored. You would listen to it the way you listen to a Walkman today. -- I think there will be a time when all computers in the world would be...

The Bob Dylan reference :D

Chez, I'm sorry to hear about your wrist but let me tell you something important for the future, something not many people realise. They get their wrists broken when they attempt to support themselves with a hand when falling, broken fingers are common, too. They get their legs (especially the...

One Stanisław Lem, a Polish Sci-Fi author predicted it well before you :) While "The Tales of Robots" are facetious, the "Summa Technologiae" is a serious philosophical treaty.

I must be dreaming. How come Metric countries measure the tolerance in the fraction of an inch? Belgium, Denmark?!

How so.

You shouldn't have brexited in the first place. Now you will be allowed to hang the English flag on public lamp-posts I'm sure.

You seem to have never grasped what gravel cycling is all about :) Crashing on asphalt is no fun but doing the same on the grass is harmless :)

This is the smartest thing. 10e-9 metre. The multiples are very precise. Does a millionth part of inch have even a name? :)

How come? Everything adjusted alright? It is hard to believe anyone would buy SRAM gear if it were so bad!

I won't live up to this happening Well, we do use mObywatel, which is a smartphone app with all the citizen related data here. Tommy (a disabled person and a Warsaw tax-payer) has the right for free travels on the Fast Urban Railway network. He stopped carrying his plastic/paper documents. Now...

Well, it is Empty, Reserve and Full on a traditional car fuel gauge, not litres either :) Still, the car can calculate the l/km or mile per gallon?

One learns for the entire lifetime! :) For all practical reasons, I'd prefer Celsius. P.S. please say "Kelvin" not "degree Kelvin". This the proper SI naming. Yes, degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit but just "Kelvins". My standard set of units that I teach my customers on. Note: I prefer kWh to...

Isopropanol (Iso Propyl Alcohol) :) The liquid you certainly use to clean some things :)

Preparing for Great Lakes Gravel 2026 We are riding Great Lakes Gravel the coming Saturday. "We" or I, my brother Jacek and our friend Pawel J. I hope all three of us would ride in the (e)RIDE100 format. Jacek is recovering from an illness, and I'm trying to convince Pawel riding with friends...

You would be amazed with Garbaruk quality, materials, and precision! Made by genius Ukrainian guys in a factory in Poland.

Chris, let me say something. I have lived off American software for the last 35 years, and am glad the Houston boys and girls took care of the unit conversion from the day 1 :) The name is CHEMCAD.

What was about that space probe that went off course and never came back because someone confused the decimal dot with decimal comma? :)

Reminds me of Engineer Mamoń from an old Polish comedy film :) The most famous Engineer Mamoń monologue was one in which he bashed Polish movies: "Bad actors... Bad dialogues... Lack of action..." while he was play-acting exactly the same! :D

Yes it was. Truly. In any country, a taxi driver at least tries to drive a big car. When I was there in 1990s, all cabs in Bourgas were Yugo-sized. Worse. I got into a larger taxi in the city of Rousse at night. The driver didn't tell me there was a gaping hole in the floor, and it was a lot...