you can't just decide to build cutting edge chips
if the DoD needed cutting edge chips but had to purchase them from within the US, all that would happen is their technology would be worse for the next decade(s) until US production could catch up
given the current us procurement strategy of keeping at least a generation or so ahead of its next near-peer, i really doubt that would fly
Biden could have had this 30 minute conversation at literally any point over the past several months
in panel 2 what part of his anatomy is that
but it's not the hexbears making these memes...?
the ai:
def is_hamas(target):
return True
a supernova is caused by nuclear fusion
teleporters don't work through shields
even if you're in a situation where it's somehow possible to manually draw 1/3 of a mm to any accuracy, 1/3 scale draft rulers still exist for metric, so it's equivalent
I seem to remember you as the one who brought up calculators
because as soon as you have access to a calculator, "off the top of your head" is an irrelevance
well yeah, because 1/8" is 3.175mm
1/3 of a mm is a distance between 1/64" and 1/128"
mechanical pencil lead is only about 0.4mm
I still don’t see how a calculator helps though.
don't ask me ask the person who posed the "what's a third of 9.5mm" question
using a ruler to measure a length of 1/8" is as accurate as using a ruler to measure a length of 31mm and eyeballing 2/3 of a mm
the bottleneck at that point is your eyeball and pencil lead, not the unit of measurement
the one third of 9.5 conundrum, which was posed by a metric defender
they weren't a metric defender
which is literally not true
what scenario is there in your mind where you'd need a precision answer to what 1/3 of 9.5mm is, but also not have access to a calculator? and of those scenarios, how many of them would be solved by the knowledge that 1/3 of 1/8 is 1/24? i'm willing to bet the answer is more or less "none".
and for those that do exist, you can also get drafting rulers that give you 1/3rds of metric measurements.
the accuracy of your equipment isn't somehow better because you're dealing with fractions rather than decimal points
Barbary slave trade?