Post AolATfk6x96115xSWu by InkomTech@infosec.exchange
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(DIR) Post #Aokt02djYiqM7fGCTQ by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-06T02:40:21Z
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I think the metric system has obvious advantages over the US system, but for temperature scales it's less obviously a positive to use one scale over another.but I greatly support the Celsius scale over the Fahrenheit scale as it's much easier to spell.
(DIR) Post #AoktR5ceZtQJBweW7E by ericgus@mastodon.social
2024-12-06T02:45:14Z
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@foone Why is there no "metric time" .. seems an obvious one there.
(DIR) Post #AoktTsnGjPhyGxwwBE by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-06T02:45:48Z
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@ericgus oh there is. it just never caught on
(DIR) Post #AoktaJvCmc8S97jPRg by Spoon@aus.social
2024-12-06T02:46:57Z
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@foone Swedish astronomer Anders Celcius died in 1744 at the age of 43, however his contemporary, Daniel Farenheight maintained he was 109.
(DIR) Post #Aoktq4nsl9nHtKorAm by jbaggs@infosec.exchange
2024-12-06T02:49:48Z
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@foone ... and it's terrible.
(DIR) Post #AokuBo6DXvpASGl1GK by jbaggs@infosec.exchange
2024-12-06T02:53:39Z
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@foone @ericgus ...and it's terrible, unless you have no connection to planetary rotation. To get a good night sleep (8 standard hours) you'd sleep for 3.33 metric hours.Ah yes, that simplifies math for humans so much.
(DIR) Post #AokuH6PMty2EgeEweO by shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club
2024-12-06T02:55:05.749740Z
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@ericgus @foone metric time is commonly used when referring to sub second time scale though.
(DIR) Post #AokuOZPNTi9IeknzRg by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-06T02:56:02Z
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@Spoon or according to French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, 85. Such a pity, a few more months and he would have had his 84th birthday!
(DIR) Post #Aokuq1Ut9Vr7aiTQKe by ericgus@mastodon.social
2024-12-06T03:00:54Z
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@foone Ill wait for them to sort it out before committing to the whole "metric" package.. 😂
(DIR) Post #AokvA8nnhavg2TudRA by sabik@rants.au
2024-12-06T03:04:34Z
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@foone Either way, people complain when it's 40° out
(DIR) Post #Aokwchl7QY7QWAqHJY by MedeaVanamonde@chaosfem.tw
2024-12-06T03:20:58Z
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@foone narf
(DIR) Post #Aol1sQMEOOj6x7W3n6 by yirggzmb@lasersare.fun
2024-12-06T04:19:48Z
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@foone While I respect C for science reasons, I like F for human scale stuff. 0 is a tiny number. It sounds very cold. But 0c is only freezing, and it gets below freezing all the time. Now, if it hits 0f, THAT is very cold.
(DIR) Post #Aol3hypk4TNSbJT2Bc by A_C_McGregor@topspicy.social
2024-12-06T04:40:21Z
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@foone the main advantage of Celcius is it's much easier to convert to Kelvin.Seeing Fahrenheit in a paper induces a kind of mental wince in me because it's almost always a signal that some bullshit unit like "foot-pounds" is going to make an appearance.Metric all the things.
(DIR) Post #Aol5sk5DS99Lwlxrlo by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-06T05:04:43Z
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@A_C_McGregor I can think of at least one temperature scale that's even easier to convert to kelvin. Why don't we just use that one?
(DIR) Post #Aol80VQy0BQQjpy5JY by Video_Game_King@digipres.club
2024-12-06T05:28:18Z
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@foone I'm the inverse, in that while I acknowledge the metric system's superiority over imperial, I still prefer using miles over kilometers because walking twenty minutes every day instilled in me the intuition that a mile is twenty minutes' worth of walking.
(DIR) Post #Aol8atsyZIJ100QJBQ by Spoon@aus.social
2024-12-06T05:35:06Z
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@foone very nice
(DIR) Post #AolAQkxJ7D6YJbjwTA by technikhil@toot.cafe
2024-12-06T05:55:41Z
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@foone by that reasoning the best system to use would be Kelvin! No?
(DIR) Post #AolATfk6x96115xSWu by InkomTech@infosec.exchange
2024-12-06T05:56:01Z
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@foone if spelling matters, °C deserves bonus points for historical name Centigrade. I mean, ‘s a cincheroony for spelling cent-I-grade.
(DIR) Post #AolC726jpn2Rd0sGEi by StompyRobot@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-12-06T06:14:33Z
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@foone fahrenheit is better for communicating weather and indoor thermostats. Kelvin is better for science. I day this, having grown up with Celsius
(DIR) Post #AolKkIVJbdEpPLbTuq by madmoose@mastodon.social
2024-12-06T07:51:13Z
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@foone Fahrenheit is just a rip-off of the Rømer scale, scaled up and rounded off to make mass manufacturing easier! Rømer had the boiling point 60° and the freezing point at 7.5°…(Fahrenheit's family died of mushroom poisoning and he absconded to Copenhagen to learn from Rømer)
(DIR) Post #AolNuWXmYq2Hi4KEpE by thorsummoner@ibite.lol
2024-12-06T08:26:42Z
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@foone don't go soft on Fahrenheit just because it's units are in non fractional normal decimals! It's helpful to consider the fundamental ideas in the origin of the scale, there we can discover the absurdity that gives rise to "wow we just need someone, anything else, maybe something that's easy to do in lab conditions maybe" as the basis of a system of measurement, some kind of "metric system" of you will.
(DIR) Post #AolYpGLoRDAdXHQ8Om by Spoon@aus.social
2024-12-06T10:28:56Z
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@foone This is a very subtle and clever comment.I had to search my old brain and then have a look at Wikipedia.🙂