Wow! It actually makes sense! - eviltoast
  • fidodo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I actually like fahrenheit for weather. 0 is really fucking cold, 100 is really fucking hot.

    • Cayograco@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I have always hated this argument. If that were the case, then 50 would be the most comfortable temperature and it’s not. This scale is about 20 degrees off since most everybody prefers a temperature of about 70 F.

      • bric@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        That makes the assumption that comfortable is at the center of weather patterns (which is what fahrenheit was made to describe), and there’s no real reason that that would be the case. The average temperature worldwide is in the 50’s, not in the 70’s. Likewise, 0° F is more similar frequency to 100° F than it is to 140° F, which tends to be an extreme only for the hottest places on earth. 50°-ish is the center of the temperature scale, it’s just that most people prefer temperatures that are abnormally warm

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          1 year ago

          But that’s the same argument that people use against Celsius: “the freezing and boiling points of water is an arbitrary scale, I prefer Fahrenheit because it’s more human centric” (Even though it’s not). What you’re saying is equally as arbitrary, the average temperatures of the planet as a whole is still not a human centric frame of reference.

        • TopRamenBinLaden@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Northern Mexico here. 0 C is literally freezing cold. I would be so bundled up in jackets. We got up to about 44 C today, though, to be fair. I imagine you would be oppositely uncomfortable in that.

          • TheFreed@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Swede in Oaxaca att the moment. 0 C we would put on a jacket, but something that is often missed is that we later go in and warm up. Many Mexican houses are not built to keep the cold out. I spent a couple of winter weeks in Toluca a few years ago and the nights was freaking cold. The concrete walls store the cold as ice blocks and there’s no heaters or radiators.

    • Michal@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Both are confusing. Let’s use colours instead:

      Red = hot, wear shorts and a t shirt

      Blue = cold, grab a jacket

      Pretty intuitive without any prior knowledge.

      • Brocken40@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Yeah until u gotta tell the difference between plum violet and purple to decide if you wear shorts and a jacket or pants and a tank top

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      1 year ago

      If it is 0 F° or 0 C° and tomorrow it’s double as cold, how cold is it?

      Neither Celsius nor Fahrenheit make rational sense. The numbers are just for fun in these scales. Kelvin is the only good choice.

    • ccunix@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m a Brit so am pretty bilingual when it come to weights and measures. However Fahrenheit just gives me a headache.

        • Waves@sh.itjust.works
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          Our thermostats haven’t. I really don’t understand it - it can’t possibly be more expensive to make, the cheapest of parts can give you better than tenths of a degree, just give us half degrees and we wouldn’t even need another button.

          Half of them use touch screens anyways! How are you going to give us WiFi on them while making them less adjustable than a 55 year old analog one?? I can set the freaking background and send messages to them from the other side of the world, but there’s not even a hidden option for fine adjustment.

          • Square Singer@feddit.de
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            1 year ago

            Having thermostats with sub-degree values actually doesn’t make a lot of sense since the temperature within a room fluctuates by a few degrees between the hottest and the coldest spot. Hence setting target temperatures with higher accuracy is as accurate as measuring micron-accurate distances by eye.

            “Yeah, I can totally see that this is 2154 microns long. I can see that from across the room!”