if you see an American (me) whining about it being -8 degrees just know that -8C is warm in comparison

  • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    since a °C isn’t even 2° F, this argument relies on there being a time where a difference of 1° F changed your decision-making

    and negative immediately lets you know it’s below freezing temperature visually much faster than checking if it’s lower than 32

        • ClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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          Well yeah but that’s the point, the fact that Celsius requires using decimal points in order to accommodate a human scale is the thing that makes it worse

          I’m not saying Celsius is unusable or anything, it honestly doesn’t really matter, we could measure temperature in Kelvin as long as we all understand. But if you’re designing a system, you should want it to be as smooth and painless as possible.

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            I have never used a decimal point tbc. I just don’t think you need that many gradations, and from my perspective having so many numbers seems like the opposite of painless. But it’s what you’re used to isn’t it, and not being bothered to learn a different system is perfectly valid. Just don’t try to tell me that farenheit makes more sense lol

            Out of curiosity, do you ever adjust your heating or air conditioning by a single degree?

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              Out of curiosity, do you ever adjust your heating or air conditioning by a single degree?

              Relatively frequently, although for the most part I’ve figured out the precise numbers that work well on my house and don’t change it

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        not for me, personally, but my thermostat does adjust in 0.5 °C increments. I guess I can’t assume that for everyone

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        Are you diabetic? Wait that sounds like I’m pathologising this. That’s rude and uncalled for. It’s just that I’ve heard of situations where people get that specific about room temperatures being linked to stuff like diabetes and I got curious.