I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Fahrenheit is better than Celsius.
“But Fahrenheit is arbitrary, Celsius is based on water’s freezing and boiling temp!” Yeah sure, at one specific pressure. Besides, how often do you need to know what temperature water boils at?
Fahrenheit is a human centered scale, made for use by humans. It’s basically “what percent hot is it outside?” You basically never have to go above 100 or below 0, and if you do it’s dangerous to be outside.
Also, Fahrenheit is more precise, each degree of Fahrenheit is about 2 degrees of Celsius, and idk about y’all but I can easily tell the difference between my AC being set to 75F vs 76F.
Smaller problem but I also think the meter is too big. There’s a reason yards are only used as a measurement for football fields and nothing else. That’s a nitpick though, the temperature one I will die on that hill.
Nah, it’s just what you’re used to because it’s what you were taught at school. There’s nothing weird about saying it’s 25 outside or setting your oven to 180, or knowing that if it’s dropping below 0 that rain might turn to snow. I can’t for the life of me figure out what’s going on with ounces that measure volume or the ounces that measure weight, but then again it’s not what I was taught in school so it seems weird and awkward to me.
I think it depends on whether its an American ounce or a British ounce, oh and then there's also different ounces when measuring gold and silver too if I recall correctly. Troy ounces I think? It's a shame that Napoleon lost at Trafalgar and wasn't able to liberate the Anglo world from this weird set of measurements.
Ok, but have you considered that a change in degrees Celsius fits perfectly to a change in degrees Kelvin and that greatly simplifies enthalpy calculations.
Also, Fahrenheit is more precise, each degree of Fahrenheit is about 2 degrees of Celsius, and idk about y’all but I can easily tell the difference between my AC being set to 75F vs 76F.
That's probably why mine goes in increments of 0.5°C, I've also seen systems with supposed 0.25° precision.
I’ve lived with both systems for extensive periods of time (grew up with C, now living with F) and I can say the user experience difference is minimal — except for winter with temperatures below freezing, it feels very weird not being able to easily tell how much below freezing/how cold it is with F.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Fahrenheit is better than Celsius.
“But Fahrenheit is arbitrary, Celsius is based on water’s freezing and boiling temp!” Yeah sure, at one specific pressure. Besides, how often do you need to know what temperature water boils at?
Fahrenheit is a human centered scale, made for use by humans. It’s basically “what percent hot is it outside?” You basically never have to go above 100 or below 0, and if you do it’s dangerous to be outside.
Also, Fahrenheit is more precise, each degree of Fahrenheit is about 2 degrees of Celsius, and idk about y’all but I can easily tell the difference between my AC being set to 75F vs 76F.
Smaller problem but I also think the meter is too big. There’s a reason yards are only used as a measurement for football fields and nothing else. That’s a nitpick though, the temperature one I will die on that hill.
Nah, it’s just what you’re used to because it’s what you were taught at school. There’s nothing weird about saying it’s 25 outside or setting your oven to 180, or knowing that if it’s dropping below 0 that rain might turn to snow. I can’t for the life of me figure out what’s going on with ounces that measure volume or the ounces that measure weight, but then again it’s not what I was taught in school so it seems weird and awkward to me.
oh nobody understands ounces here either.
Yeah ounces are fucking indefensible, both the weight and the volume. I don’t even know much an oz weighs tbh
I think it depends on whether its an American ounce or a British ounce, oh and then there's also different ounces when measuring gold and silver too if I recall correctly. Troy ounces I think? It's a shame that Napoleon lost at Trafalgar and wasn't able to liberate the Anglo world from this weird set of measurements.
Ok, but have you considered that a change in degrees Celsius fits perfectly to a change in degrees Kelvin and that greatly simplifies enthalpy calculations.
rankine exists :troll:
American spotted, opinion discarded
That's probably why mine goes in increments of 0.5°C, I've also seen systems with supposed 0.25° precision.
I’ve lived with both systems for extensive periods of time (grew up with C, now living with F) and I can say the user experience difference is minimal — except for winter with temperatures below freezing, it feels very weird not being able to easily tell how much below freezing/how cold it is with F.
ask people in Nevada, Arizona, Florida, and Alaska about this
people have heat strokes when it's 85 out, and they can freeze to death in the 10s
Fukken PREACH!