• borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          We’re more familiar with 5.56x45mm thanks to all our school shootings thank you very much.

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            In the same way a US ton and a metric ton is like 10% different, a 556 bullet is actually 5.7 mm across.

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              Because the minor diameter of the barrel is 5.56 mm and the major diameter is 5.69 mm. If the bullet were smaller than that then the propellant would blow past it. They didn’t make a 'murican millimetre like they did with the imperial system.

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        In point of fact Americans have gotten impressive results out of far more complicated metrics than metric. It’s not a matter of understanding, it’s a matter of pride. And of not having to buy all new tools.

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        The best system would have 0 at a mild, comfortable temperature, and go up or down by 100 degrees per one degrees Fahrenheit.

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          But mild and comfortable is different for different people who are acclimated to different weather.

          We need a defined ‘mild’ temperature. i vote for 70F/21C.
          It’s a bit chilly for the warm weathered folks and a bit warm for the cold weathered folks. Seems reasonable but I’m open to suggestions.

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            I’d adjust it to 68/20 just so it lines up with whole numbers in both systems. And on second thought, make it 90 per degree Fahrenheit so any whole F or C value can convert to a whole number.

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        You can absolutely yell about that. And when Fahrenheit flips to negative, you’re ready to express some big feelings about how fucking cold it is.

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      And Rankine would be even better than Kelvin in terms of “big number go brrr.” Water boils at 671 R.

      Of course, Rankine is the most obnoxious unit I’ve ever had to deal with, but those numbers sure are big!

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      OK, but with Rankine, if it’s 101 out, you can go Five Hundred and SIXTY degrees??!

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      Please raise this temperature by 1.4x10^-23 Joules - statements of the utterly deranged

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        Joules are energy. You need thermal capacity to turn them into temperature.

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    For proof that this thread is just people justifying what they know as better somehow, look no further than Canada.

    We do cooking temps in Fahrenheit, weather in Celsius. Human weights in pounds, but never pounds and oz. Food weights in grams, cooking weights in pounds and oz. Liquid volume in millilitres and litres, but cooking in cups, teaspoons and tablespoons. Speed & distance in kilometres, heights in feet and inches.

    Try and give this any consistency and people will look at you like you’re fucked. The next town is 100km over, I’m 5ft 10in, a can of soda is 355ml, it’s 21c out and I have the oven roasting something at 400f. Tell me it’s 68f out and I will fight you.

    People like what they are used to, and will bend over backwards to justify it. This becomes blatantly obvious when you use a random mix of units like we do, because you realize that all that matters is mental scale.

    If Fahrenheit is “how people feel” then why are feet useful measurements of height when 90% of people are between 4ft and 6ft? They aren’t. You just know the scale in your head, so when someone says they’re 7ft tall you say “dang that’s tall”. That’s it.

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      As a Canadian idk why your using us an an example, we are wrong to do so and we blame Americans for giving us this bad habit.

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        I just see it positively and choose to believe you’re in the process of transitioning to enlightenment (metric). ;)

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      Outdoor temperature in °C, unless you’re talking about an outdoor pool then it’s often enough °F :-)

      I think part of the reasons it’s so mixed might just be due to how many Amero-centric devices and parts are common between the two countries.

      Y’all can take your shitty Phillips screws though. Roberts is by far superior ;-)

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      Imagine weighing people as big rocks, though.

      Until the UK changes that, us Americans and Canadians can rest assured that nothing we are doing is quite that ridiculous.

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      If Fahrenheit is “how people feel” then why are feet useful measurements of height when 90% of people are between 4ft and 6ft?

      Those are two different things. Hope this helps.

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        It doesn’t help at all, it’s being intentionally obtuse. You know what I mean, it’s unhelpful to pretend otherwise and pick a fight over it.

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          i still don’t see how this is intentionally obtuse, feet are a mid point between inches and yards, it just makes sense to break down things over a certain amount to a much more palatable scale. Everyone knows roughly what 1 ft is, and everyone knows roughly what 1 inch is. Paired together you can get a pretty rough and accurate guesstimate of height. I feel like it’s also pretty expected for it to be within the range of 4-6 ft. Most people don’t really measure feet outside of that range, unless you’re doing construction.

          humans are a comparatively arbitrary height so i feel like you’re just complaining about the height of humans being weirdly arbitrary? Out of all the systems you could use for height, ft and in is pretty well tuned to the human nature, you’re not gonna do much better.

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          If an argument is being made for one thing, Fahrenheit, it’s not relevant to bring up a different thing. Why is feet a useful measurement? Maybe it’s not, we’re talking about temperature.

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            Yeah like the metric system has good arguments for why it’s measurements and weights are better, mainly conversion being easier, but for temperature there really isn’t an argument. I would make an argument for Fahrenheit as it gives more precision without having to use decimals which at least in America isn’t a thing for temperature. But those are pretty minor things and I do tend to agree it comes down to what you grew up with.

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              without having to use decimals

              This fear of decimals is a strictly American thing. Celsius achieves more precision with decimals than fahrenheit without decimals. And this American fear of decimals is pretty funny, considering you will happily do advanced fractions as soon as you are doing length measurements.

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                I don’t mind decimals at all, it’s more that I don’t trust companies to actually deal with supporting decimals when making the switch. Plus the last time I discussed this on Lemmy someone was saying that decimals aren’t even universally used and it might depend on what you get whether you get that precision or not. Either way like the main point of my post was anyways these are minor arguments and at the end of the day there isn’t really a reason to use Celsius vs Fahrenheit.

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                  Can you feel the difference between 23.5° and 24? I can’t. You don’t often need precision to tenths.

                  In Australia most weather providers give you whole degrees, the bureau of meteorology gives you to one decimal in reports and whole degrees in forecasts

                  My coffee and beer boilers can hit high precision temperatures to variously 0.1° or 0.5° precision. The beer boiler gives 3 digits - hundredths below 10°, tenths below 100°, whole numbers 100° and over

                  You can choose the precision of thermometers you wish to buy for yourself

                  I have seen fahrenheit thermometers which are hard to read to better precision than 5 degrees

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              1cm3 of water weights 1 gr and needs 1 calorie to rise 1ºC.

              But calories are now obsolete and the unit is Joules.

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        You could bake something at 420 Celsius too, assuming your okay with charcoal as the end product

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        ok you actually convinced me, Fahrenheit is better (except I can’t spell it properly without autocorrect)

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          I can’t spell it properly without autocorrect

          This is genuinely the most inconvenient thing about Fahrenheit

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        you can also bake things at 420C if you’re not a coward about this (like proper thin pizza) (maybe it’s a bit too high but you get the idea)

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        You can make the temperature dial of an oven have matching degrees of rotation and degrees Celcius.

        Turn the dial to point straight down to bake at 180°

        Turn it 3/4 of the way to cook a pizza at 270°

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        A cup of lukewarm coffee please.

        Edit: my wrong, I thought it was 69°F !

        All my excuses

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          According to James Hoffmann, the ideal temperature to enjoy coffee is between 50°C and 60°C, he may know a thing or two about coffee, and you may think the coffee you drink is hotter that it really is.

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      Also it’s a 0-100 scale of how hot it is outside, and it requires no prior understanding to use it as such.

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        The freezing point of water is very important to weather, and requires prior knowledge of the arbitrary number 32.

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          Is it? Only pure water will actually freeze at 0c. Rain, puddles, lakes, etc aren’t all that pure… And we’re talking about ambient air temps here. The air can be below freezing and it can still rain. And you can get snow/hail above freezing…

          Knowing the freezing point is just one factor. Knowing it’s generally around 30F is pretty much always close enough (not that remembering 32 is actually very difficult)

          Edit: also water only freezes at 0c if it’s at sea level… I really don’t think 0°=freezing is the huge advantage that celcius stans think it is.

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          Okay so fahrenheit has a well-defined high and low, but an arbitrary freezing point of one certain chemical. All other chemical freezing points are arbitrary.

          Celsius has an arbitrary high and low, but a well-defined freezing point of that same chemical. All other freezing points are arbitrary.

          If your motivation is to minimize the amount of arbitrary values you have to memorize, fahrenheit is the clear winner.

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            The zero C is freezing and 100 C is boiling, so not really arbitrary.

            But it’s pretty hard to define a scale that has intuitive, round numbers for everything we might care about.

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              You’re correct. In a lab setting, 0C and 100C are not arbitrary.

              In the weather forecast, they are.

              Which ties into your final point, it’s hard to define a scale that is best for everything, which is exactly what I’ve been saying this whole time. Fahrenheit is better for some things, Celsius for others.

              The only reason people in this thread are saying otherwise is because for some reason they’ve tied up some significant part of their self-worth into their belief that “lmao DAE fahrenheit bad amirite??1?”, and they mistakenly believe that those of us that understand nuance are trying to belittle or disparage them in some way. I assure you, we are not.

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            It’s not like the weather depends on the boiling point of formaldehyde…

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            The 0 in Fahrenheit was based on nothing and the 100F was supposed to be human temperature but it is off by some degrees

            The water is not an arbitrary temperature, the weather is water dependant, at 0C the water will freeze and you get snow/ice instead of rain

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              0°F is when the ocean freezes

              100° F was human body temperature, later revised somewhat with better measurements and a decrease of parasites . The average person in those days in London had a slightly higher body temperature than today

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                0F is not ocean freezing, is the freezing temp of a brine mix that he chose arbitrarily (some think that he chose that temp because it was close to the coldest his town had ever been and he used it to calibrate the scales of his thermometers)

                FYI, the ocean freezes at around 28F

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                  Oceans freezing also depends on currents, and mixing of the water from the surface. 28° will freeze water in a room.

                  This is why often the ocean is not frozen at much lower temperatures.

                  I’m not at all cognizant of how 0 was decided

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        If that was true outsiders should be able to use Fahrenheit without much explanation. I’ve never got a clue what the °F values mean, I always have to use a converter. It’s really not as intuitive as people who grew up with it seem to believe.

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    By that logic, Americans should use km/h instead of mph. Going 0-100 is much better than 0-60. For the same reason you keep telling us why Fahrenheit is so much more intuitive.

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      Actually, it’s the other way around. 100 degrees F weather is really hot. Driving 100 MPH is really fast.

      In metric we have 40 degrees C weather is really hot, and driving…uhhh… (gets out a calculator)… 160 km/h is really fast.

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        You guys have a lot of Max 100 zones?

        Because in km/h, we got lots of those

        Also you calculate acceleration using 0-100 mph?

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          I think the highest speed limit I have seen in America is 85mph, which is around 135km/h. Typical highway speed limits though are 65mph, but everyone goes 5-10 over (105-120km/h).

          The nice thing about mph is the whole mile a minute at 60mph. Makes it easy to mentally estimate time of arrival.

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            Highest I have driven on is 130km/h, but it has no speed enforcement.

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    Once again… the classic argument of: “Well, I grew up using this system, and I’m used to the system. I have built an internal intuition for how hot and cold the temperature is. I am used to >100 being hot! 40 is not hot!”

    Well then. I grew up using celcius and… “IT’S FOURTY FUCKING ONE DEGREES OUTSIDE?” sounds just as hot.

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    Sounds like a great time to propose my system of temperature: Super Celsius. I’ll connect it to the freezing and boiling points of water just like Celsius, but while freezing remains at 0, boiling is now 1000. Get ready for a nice mild day of 250.

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    it’s not about what makes more sense: what makes more sense is what you use everyday and is natural to you. 40+ C is freaking hot because when you experience it, it’s freaking hot. It’s about what the entire rest of the world is using as a standard.

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      Metric system is best system, no exceptions.

      Anything over 40°C is fuckin’ hot, anything under 4°C is fuckin’ cold.

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        Anything over 31°C on a humid day is torture. As someone without AC, being indoors is the worst. What do you? Play games? Your devices heat up too.

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          My PC kept my room warm all winter, I now dread the incoming sun. Thank God for AC. Sorry for your loss there sir.

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        you can only be living in a dry as fuck area if your fuckin hot threshold is at 40

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          Thankfully I am, but I was born and raised on the coast, so I know the pain of a 44°C day at close to 100% humidity.

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      honestly in most of europe even thirty degrees is fucking hot, here in the nordics 25°C is considered too hot

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    In Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, the number of thieves wasn’t really necessarily 40. The number was likely just chosen because 40 was an exaggerated number, much like when we’d say “I’ve told you a hundred million times”. So 40 as a shorthand for “a huge amount” seems fitting in celcius.

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      What annoys me about that phrasing, is that “how water feels” is quite relevant to how humans feel.

      The obvious example is that if it’s below 0°C, it starts freezing, which causes slippery sidewalks, snow, dry air, all that stuff.
      But just in general having a feeling how much water will evaporate and later precipitate at certain temperatures, and even stuff like how hot beverages and cooking temperatures are, it’s all still relevant for humans…

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        Humans are mostly water. If water boils, then humans will mostly boil too.

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        The obvious example is that if it’s below 0°C, it starts freezing, which causes slippery sidewalks, snow, dry air, all that stuff. But just in general having a feeling how much water will evaporate and later precipitate at certain temperatures, and even stuff like how hot beverages and cooking temperatures are, it’s all still relevant for humans…

        that’s an interesting idea, BUT, the boiling point for water also exists under f as well, it’s just 212 f, which if you want to round for convenience, is 200f. 100f is just about half the boiling point of water.

        I guess you celsius folks might be more water pilled than the average US citizen, but it’s not like it’s impossible.

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          100F is just about half

          Your scale in water terms starts at 32. 100 is nowhere near halfway between 32 and 212

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            the celsius scale literally covers 55% of the range of the fahrenheit scale. I’d say “about half” is perfectly reasonable.

            granted, it skews since you’re starting on the low end. The figure is more like 122f right in the middle, which is, not great, but i wasn’t going to calculate the half boiling point as i’ve literally never seen it be relevant anywhere lol.

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              Celcius degrees are quite a bit larger than Fahrenheit degrees. 0 to 100C is much larger than 0 to 100F so I don’t get what you mean by Celcius covering about half of Fahrenheit. In any case neither scale runs out of numbers high or low

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                my main point was that accuracy matters a lot less with fahrenheit, because it’s so much broader. a range of about 10 degrees fahrenheit is the average subjectively experienced “change” in temperature, at least on the higher end, where there’s more difference between the individual numbers. On the cold side there’s a lot less variance as it meets at about -40 in both systems.

                In any case neither scale runs out of numbers high or low

                this is very true though, hard to run out of numbers when you can just make more up, although there is an ultimate limit in either direction, due to what temperature actually measures. That’s a physics thing though.

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                  The words you are looking for are that Fahrenheit is more precise. But it’s not as there are an infinity of numbers between any two integers.

                  My thermometer at work which I use for health and safety stuff reports temperature to two decimal places. Had we wanted more precision we could have gone with twenty decimal places. In too big or too small metric units we use multipliers - metres are too small for long distances so we use kilometres (thousands of metres), metres are too big for construction so we use millimetres (thousandths of metres)

                  Where Celcius degrees are too big, people (scientists, since whole degrees or a single decimal is enough for everyone else) use milikelvins

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      Fahrenheit is literally a German dude making a scale from, “scheiße its chilly outside” to “oh mein gott, its hot out!”

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    That’s why I only use Kelvin. 314.15 sounds like 3 times more “WTF HOW HOT IS TODAY??!?” than your paltry 107

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    Forty-one sounds insanely hot as an outside temperature if that’s the standard you’re used to. And that’s the thing that the Fahrentards refuse to wrap their head around.