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I'm an american and if you told me it was 27C outside I wouldn't know whether that was hot or cold until I reflected for a moment and compared that number to cp
by dmm 9y ago
I'm an american and if you told me it was 27C outside I wouldn't know whether that was hot or cold until I reflected for a moment and compared that number to cpu core temps.
Ignorance on my part, certainly, and not excusable but perhaps typical.
- ancarda 9y agoOut of interest, why don't you capitalize "American"? Edit: I'm genuinely curious and not asking to annoy anyone; I might be misunderstanding grammar rules or rules of HN. I ask because I'm not sure this was a mistake; all over the web I see people who write with good grammar, but never capitalize "American". Is it considered rude to capitalize "American"?
- gambiting 9y agoI don't know about OP, but in some languages(Polish for example) you capitalize proper nouns(so you would capitalize America) but not adjectives(so American or Polish or German would never be capitalized) - so it could be just a cross-language mistake.
- YCode 9y agoHN frowns on meta discussion. For what it's worth, it should be capitalized but I suspect Americans don't formally discuss themselves in the third person enough to have that grammar rule down.
- gambiting 9y agoI don't even mind the fact that he used one or the other, it's just that mixing units in a scientific article doesn't seem very....professional for me. Especially since increase by 12 degrees Celsius != increase by 12 degrees Fahrenheit. So in that paragraph where he talks about 11-12 degrees increase being lethal, you don't have all information necessary.
- dexterdog 9y agoI never remember the formula, but I know that 0 is freezing and 20 is room temp so I fudge it from there and know that 27 is warm, but not really hot.