• ren (a they/them)@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    the fact that 20-30 points goes from freezing cold to death and destruction and fire is everything that’s wrong with Celsius for weather.

    F for weather C for chemistry K for astronomy

    FCK one unit of measure.

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        11 months ago

        Loss of precision. Most digital thermostats only display two digits for cost savings. I’ve had experiences with mini-splits that are too cold at 27 and too hot at 28.

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      11 months ago

      I got downvoted to hell for expressing this opinion on reddit. Like, I know metric and US customary. I use both everyday at work. But Celsius sucks for weather and I will die on this dumb hill.

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          11 months ago

          It’s not supposed to be.

          It’s supposed to be for “not relevant or doesn’t add value to the discussion”.

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            11 months ago

            You’d think after a decade or so somebody would figure out some system better than upvotes and downvotes that don’t mean what everyone assumes they mean. How about a tooltip to explain?

            Even adding a separate 5-star agreement scale next to the up/down arrows would help so I could like upvote for a good contribution and give one star to say I disagree.

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          11 months ago

          Not originally, but nobody on reddit follows the intent and just use it as a dislike button even if the argument is well thought out.

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        11 months ago

        I enjoy rabble rousing C-freaks. I lived in a Celsius country for 3 years (Hong Kong), each degree is too much, decimals for weather is silly.

        Farenheit is so simple, on a scale of 0-100, how fucking hold/cold is it?

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          11 months ago

          So what is 0F defined as and what is 100F?

          Can these units be reproduced without variance?

          Absolutely trash system.

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      11 months ago

      Mate, it’s metric, if you need more units just go down an order and you have 200 to 300 units.

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      11 months ago

      In Celsius we at least have some leeway to adapt to the rising temperature of the Climate.