Comparison shopping is difficult because the stores are allowed to get away with marking interchangeable items with wildly dissimilar units (type and/or magnitude), quoting per item, per ounce, per pound, per gram, per quart, etc., all on items that are sitting next to one another. All of the grocery chains that I've ever shopped at are guilty of this.
People who are serious about cooking know about the volumetric units used in cooking and the relationships between them. (teaspoons/3 = tablespoons)/16 = cups.
But your American friends who don't know how many ounces are in a pound? I hope you're kidding. That's basic stuff, taught in elementary (primary) school.
I am not kidding. Most seem to be resigned to the fact that it’s 12 or 16 and that’s close enough. Also nobody knows how many cups are in a pack of flour so buying something for a recipe is hard too.
These comparisons are much easier in the metric system : it is either per unit or per kg.
If it is per gram, it's easy still because *1000 or /1000 is very easy. (basically you just move the decimal point, no calculator needed)
It is because we count with base 10 numbers that metric is easy and imperial is difficult.
Another related thing is the nutritional value info box that every food item in the US is required to have. That's a good thing in itself, except the US allows this info box to show the values "per serving", which is usually a completely arbitrary measurement, making it impossible to compare two food items to determine which has more sugar, or which has more protein.
In the EU, the same thing exists, but it is always per 100g or per 100ml. No exceptions. So comparing two food items is always super easy. I don't know why the US allows this idiotic loophole of per serving.
(Hi Chuck!) I find myself to be in the mathematician camp ("A materials scientist, a Physicist, and a Mathematician were sharing a hotel room when a fire broke out, waking the materials scientist...") when it comes to things kinda like this. If it's a solved problem, I'm not interested in going any further - it's a solved problem, and therefore not really interesting.
Given that one wouldn't care about spectrum purity, the required budget becomes minimal, with a trivial hardware component resulting in components easily obtainable with an anonymous visit to a swap meet, if one were to visit the right swap meet. After that, it's a simple matter of programming.
I've found that a lot of people are so defined by their job that they have no idea what happens above or below them. The "I deal with packet filters" person can't explain basic networking, nor do they have any idea what the overall configuration of the (enterprise) network is like, to cite an example.
It was their "cheaper than gasoline" milk that got us in there. The overall quality of their offerings kept us going there. There are some specialty items that we have to go to our local grocery for.
From what I remember of my first exposure to Aldi about a decade ago, they were cash-only and had a horrid fruits & vegetables selection. Some of their stores in some parts of the country still have the fresh fruit & veg problem. (They have a distribution center two towns over from where we live.)
You can google up various "best beers at Aldi" list and find differing opinions. It's cheap enough that if you're willing to try something and abandon it at a party if it's not to your taste, you can probably find something that you like. They don't sell a porter or a stout, but their "Holland" is a decent enough summer Bier. (I'm surprised that they don't have a Weissbier, though.)
Really? I give location and context and the Why of the message. I make sure that every message is unique (unlike the code I changed in a certain once-prominent US firm's three-letter operating system) as well. I clearly know nothing and shouldn't be in the profession.
really? i think you might be mistaking exception logging for quick debug lines, like when a certain line isn't being hit for some reason and you just want to quickly know if it does hit. you would clearly delete these quick messages before checking in. No need to get so dramatic ...
Sure, now. It took the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter to end the Imperial madness at NASA.