Even the radical chic New Yorkers made fun of the metric system as a foot ball (as two words, to indicate how to measure length and ball like a bouncing ball). It's an exercise in radical chic, giving marginalized academics a frisson of pretend anti-colonialism, seasoned with a dose of edgy anti-Semitism.
RLD isn't filename extension, it is the abbreviated name of release group. RecLoad Definition. RLD file is a RecLoad Definition File for OSIsoft PI System Connectors. OSIsoft PI System is a real-time, event-driven enterprise infrastructure that uses an Office Business Application (OBA).
TIG stands for tungsten inert gas welding. Like GMAW, TIG welding uses a tank and inert gas to shield the weld. In both GMAW and SMAW the electrode is consumed by heat and becomes part of the weld. TIG stands out in that the tungsten electrode carries the arc, but is not consumed.