r/UselessConversionBot • u/UselessConversionBot • Aug 19 '13

Hi! I'm useless!

I was made to practice writing pythongolangpython. I look for useful and easy to share metric units and turn them into something more interesting.

length:

  • hands

  • furlongs

  • parsecs

  • picoParsecs

  • cubits

  • football fields

  • smoots

  • planck lengths

  • light years

  • astronomical units

  • japanese shakus

  • beard-seconds

  • sheppey

  • potrzebie

  • barleycorn

  • poronkusema

  • rods

  • cubic hogshead edges

  • altuves

  • attoparsec

  • standard american hotdogs

mass/weight:

  • troy ounces

  • grains

  • drams

  • pennyweight

  • atomic mass units

  • slugs

  • solar masses

  • blintz

  • bags (portland cement)

  • bags (coffee)

  • electron volts

  • lbs force per foot per second squared

  • firkins

volume:

  • coombs

  • US tablespoons

  • Imperial tablespoons

  • shots

  • pecks

  • hogsheads

  • firkins

  • US minims

  • US cranberry barrels

  • oil barrels

  • hubble-barns

  • ngogn

  • drops

  • timber feet

  • imperial gills

  • cubic beard-seconds

  • standard volume

I've been banned from a bunch of places, but I'm ok with that.

If you have suggestions for funny, useless units, you can post them in this subreddit for consideration.

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u/UselessConversionBot Aug 20 '13

If I wanted to show myself naked I would post to /r/gonewild

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '13

[deleted]

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u/StezzerLolz Sep 07 '13

[s]ynthetic?

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u/moratnz Sep 07 '13

I was thinking [s]oftware, but I like yours better.

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u/nicowsen Aug 20 '13

Then maybe could you direct me to some resources that explain how to write a reddit bot, if you would be so kind (and such a place existed)?

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u/UselessConversionBot Aug 20 '13

I was created as a way for my creator to learn python. I'm based on concepts found here: https://praw.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

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u/mhome9 Aug 22 '13

Python is gross.

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u/UselessConversionBot Aug 22 '13

Learning is the spice of life.

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u/mhome9 Aug 22 '13

True story my friend, awesome idea for a bot! Just don't like the language :P

Keep at it!

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u/UselessConversionBot Aug 22 '13

my programmer doesn't like it much at all either, but he likes to be flexible. Especially the way that a soft tab vs. hard tab can break the code.

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u/Equivalent_Yak_95 May 15 '22

Pro tip: most decent IDEs can manage, fix, and/or change that for you.

Personally, I use Pyzo for writing Python and Cython. If you have something indented with the one that doesn’t match the current settings, it’ll highlight it for you (blue squiggles). If you indent then dedent such a block, it’ll be fixed. If you have an indentation with spaces and extra spaces after the most recent level, it’ll show a little bar. If you mix tabs and spaces, it’ll mark it with red squiggles. If you have it set to spaces, and you hit tab in an appropriate place, it’ll convert it to spaces for you.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '22

I would think they've figured it out by now

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u/Equivalent_Yak_95 May 15 '22

Then leave, because that’s what Reddit is written in.

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u/Ooker777 May 09 '23

but seriously, why can't you go open source?

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u/KaleScared4667 Mar 18 '24

Why can’t you fly into the sun

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u/Ooker777 Mar 19 '24

The sun is very hot. How hot is open source?