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Cake day: March 24th, 2025

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  • yeah but I don’t know about that and I want to make this about me bc it’s the internet

    jokes aside, the only NASA unit issue I am aware of was indeed a software output thing, not a human using the wrong units. program B expected program A to use whatever, but it gave a different unit instead




  • I’ve seen suppliers ignore the reference dimensions on laser cut drawings and just send the dxf straight to the machine, so we ended up with parts at the wrong scale because view scale != sheet scale because the person who drew it ignored the multiple times they were told how to do this and why

    so we got back parts that were several feet big instead of inches

    not a unit issue, but still scaling

    now that I think about it, I wonder what we got charged for, as it would have been quoted by the drawing, even though it used way more steel the way they made it