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Befriend ducks.

One day, they may do something for you in return.

My first example was "a cup of frozen chicken strips".

I know I can make a guess how much they mean, but I could easily be off by a factor of 2.

It really wouldn't be hard to have the weight listed.

This sounds like a catch-22 problem.

Maybe scales could be improvised, with a stick, some cups, and awkward-shaped chunks of chicken in one of the cups.

True, but that's just replacing a cup with a length, and rules out using an existing tub.

Why not use weight, which is easy to measure and tolerant of different forms/shapes?

https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/

(Yes, the "bird poop" one is correct, it does talk about fuel consumption too).

A similar chart could be made for the US, proving that it does use metric: soda and wine bottles, medicine doses, eye-glasses measurements (in fact most medical things).

I think that both systems are used in schools now.

But then I see cooking instructions for a "cup of chicken strips" and a recipe having 1/4 cup of butter, and I wonder why anyone thought that volume was a good idea there.

• "Avocado?"
• "Don't mind if I do!"

Programmable in BASIC, although with very little memory.

"Mee-out! Mee-out!"

There an app for that now.

At least, there is on the Flipper Zero.

These?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4,5V-AA-battery.jpg

I'd forgotten that they existed. I used to use them for something, maybe powering a Lego or meccano motor.

A tone dialer. Like this

https://images.app.goo.gl/fbdmckv44BY7fdWw9

Not for phone phreaking, just for speed-dialling.

I would make international calls frequently. I would buy calling cards. The process was: dial the 800 number on the card. Enter the id number on the card to use some of its credit. Dial the number to call. Their service would then connect me at a low rate to another country(probably making a voip call).

So I'd set up the 3 speed dial buttons with those. For each new card I'd only have to change the card's unique number.

Pylon appreciation

https://pylons.org/

Taxonomy of bread fasteners

https://www.horg.com/horg

Pathetic motorways

https://pathetic.org.uk/

Due to a typo, I ended up with "The Cod War"

https://www.icelandreview.com/travel/the-cod-wars-in-iceland/

I have one of the earliest mp3 players, with a 32Mb expansion memory card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300

And going back further: a Sharp PC1211 BASIC-programmable pocket computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_PC-1211

That was covered pretty well already!

Or maybe it's using Fluidic logic.

It's on the list somewhere I think

https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim

Well that's of the same order of magnitude as the quoted figure. I was suggesting that it sounded vastly larger than it should be.

It's true, I don't know how large the models are that are being accessed in data centers. Although if the article's estimate is correct, it's sad that such excessively-demanding models are always being used for use-cases that could often be handled with much lower power usage.