• Fal@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    I have only had the temperature described to me in celcius so Fahrenhite makes no sense to me.

    What doesn’t make sense to you. You can think of F as a percentage of how hot it is. 0 is 0% hot, meaning cold as fuck. 100 is 100% hot, hot as fuck. Things in the middle are are in the middle. 85 is 85% hot.

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          If 0 F is 0 % hot, and 100 F is 100 % hot; shouldn’t 50 F be the Goldilocks ideal of neither too hot or too cold at 50 %?

          And if 50 F isn’t the Goldilocks ideal, then where on the scale is it?

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            1 year ago

            That would depend on personal preference. Somewhere around the 70-80 mark most likely.

            You’re assuming humans have no preference for it being hot or cold. That’s the only way 50% would make more sense. But most people prefer it warm

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      And -5 farenheit is… just a bit colder than fuck? I understand what temperatures I start feeling cold perfectly well in Celsius, I know roughly when I’ll need a jacket, when I’ll need a hat and scarf… Farenheit tells me nothing because I don’t know about it. Sure, 0 is very cold, but where is “cold enough to wear a jacket”? It’s most likely never going to reach 0°F where I live, and it won’t reach 100°F outside of very rare summer days… Beyond those extremes it’s not useful to me because I don’t know it.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, 0 is very cold, but where is “cold enough to wear a jacket”?

        This is going to vary depending on everyone. I start wearing a jacket at around 60. My wife starts at like 75. So neither system is going to be able to tell you that information

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          1 year ago

          Not nearly as hard as you are working to represent F in chat about personal preference

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            I WILL die on this hill. But preference is just what you do with the information, not the usefulness of the scale. 0-100 is the scale. Whether you wear jackets at 50-60 or 60-70 doesn’t mean that the scale isn’t objectively better.

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        1 year ago

        102%, aka hot as fuck. The whole point is that it describes human environmental temperature. If you’re dealing with melting metals, that’s a scientific application and C would be the better choice