as an analogy there's the type of company where when management finds out 6 months after an employee is hired that they lied about their credentials on their resume fires the employee on principle, and the type where management says "Yea but...he seems to be doing a pretty good job!"
I try to figure out which type I'm working for early on and start planning my rapid departure if it turns out to be the latter type
For example Google is probably the latter type of company
On my newsreader, this comes directly after 'New definition of SI units', so perhaps there's a new definition of the volt which has dropped slightly?
Cheers
I haven't come across the BIPM's definition for the volt, but in practice --since the late 1980's-- it has been some number of Josephson junctions in series, excited with some given frequency. So really it has been tied to h, e and the second for quite some time already.
Jeroen Belleman
But GM is a US company, so they probably used US Survey Inches which are a little less than the 25.4mm 'metric' standard.
Cheers
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bitrex wrote in news:n0lLD.1082332$ snipped-for-privacy@fx46.iad:
Not backpedaling, you retarded f*ck. I was disputing your 'from day one' claim. Learn to read, dipshit.
bitrex wrote in news:h3mLD.965415$ snipped-for-privacy@fx36.iad:
wrong. Initially lease only. I was there.
US Survey inches The United States retains the 1/39.37-metre definition for survey purposes, producing a 2 millionth part difference between standard and US survey inches. This is approximately 1/8 inch per mile. In fact, 12.7 kilometres is exactly 500,000 standard inches and exactly 499,999 survey inches. This difference is significant when doing calculations in State Plane Coordinate Systems with coordinate values in the hundreds of thousands or millions of feet.
Cheers
So actually, slightly more, oops. They must have redefined the volt using 'metric' inches.
Cheers
Clive Arthur wrote in news:ptm2sc$1ua$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:
Yeah, it is only in femtovolts though... the change.
It is tracking with the losses in the kilogram standard. Heheh...
Clive Arthur wrote in news:ptm8ha$84q$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:
US auto makers have been metric since the sixties.
You don't know what you missed, fella. I'm sorry for that. :)
the second is defined in terms of a certain number of Cesium-33 atom vibrat ions
the meter is defined in terms of the speed of light
So I guess they confirmed the definition of Planck's constant by measuring an artifact in Paris?
--Spehro Pefhany
yeah, until USA adopted the metric standard they had inches a little under 2.54mm and the English inch was a little larger.
Thus Canadian survey miles are longer than US survey miles.
Yes, previously, h was measured referring to the BIPM kg. That has now been turned around: h is defined, as are c, e and the second, so now the kg is derived. The Paris kg artefact is no longer *the* kg.
Jeroen Belleman
When the US went metric-definition on the inch, the surveying standard had been 39.37 inches per meter, and was retained at that distance, which defines the 'statute mile'. For all other uses, the inch is exactly 25.4 mm.
In short, it's a hysterical-raisins thing, never gonna make sense.
***% units surveyfoot foot * 1.000002 / 0.999998
You must be thinking of the GM EV1
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