Beer and cider are the only drinks that are legally not sold by metric volume in the UK. They have to be served by the pint, 2/3, 1/2 or 1/3. Every other drink has to use metric.
But that just means the quantity has to be expressed in metric units, possibly in addition to imperial, correct? E.g. I currently have a carton of milk in my fridge that’s labelled “2272ml 4 pints”.
Not for alcohol measures. Beer and cider have to be sold in pints, and there is a list of allowed sizes used for other drinks. Also the size of the standard measure used for spirits needs to be displayed on a sign at the bar.
That's like asking "why would you use Swing when you can use Graphics2D". Sometimes you want something higher level. The DOM is great and very powerful, but when you're building a highly interactive web app you don't want to be manually mutating the DOM every time state changes.
I am a core maintainer of Astro, which is largely based around the idea that you don't need to always reach for something like React and can mostly use the web platform. However even I will use something like React (or Solid or Svelte or Vue etc) if I need interactivity that goes beyond attaching some event listeners. I don't agree with all of its design decisions, but I can still see its value.
The US arrested and imprisoned the bosses of multiple UK-based gambling sites that were not only legal in the UK – they were listed on the London Stock Exchange.
You need both the right geography and a lack of either people or democracy in the place you want to build it. That rules out new large hydro projects in most of Europe.
Bluesky won over Mastodon because the fedi model is fundamentally flawed in its UX. For a flood of people wamting "Twitter without Nazis", Bluesky was a good match. I don't think Dorsey had anything to do with it, because the influx happened after he'd already severed all ties.
Some people are getting introduced to similar and in some ways worse UX on Bluesky now that there are some actual efforts to make it slightly less centralized.
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