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  • ScampiLover@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlYou gained pounds
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    3 months ago

    It was actually pretty great when I worked for a company making things here in england:
    “That needs to move 50cm” meant it had to move exactly 500mm
    “That needs to move a foot” meant just kick it over about a foot

    It was just an unspoken thing that metric meant precise and imperial was just caveman measuring




  • People look down on Javascript (and therefore Typescript) but as someone who learned by doing I think its a really good option

    Once you get past the hello world phase you can take it any direction you want: websites/apps, command-line stuff, desktop apps you name it. Just avoid the trap of getting sucked into specific frameworks or loads of tooling early on and learn the language

    W3schools is a great resource and you can do the examples and exercises right there in your browser