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> Everyone who cares about precision or thermodynamics? So like 3 people... My point is talking about Kelvin is meaningless to the vast majority of people on
by philliphaydon 4y ago
> Everyone who cares about precision or thermodynamics?
So like 3 people...
My point is talking about Kelvin is meaningless to the vast majority of people on HN, including myself. Everyone (Except the US) knows Celsius, and it's easy to gague how cold something is looking at it in Celsius. In Kelvin its just 'ok that's a number...'
- layer8 4y agoYou’re underestimating the HN crowd. I’d expect everyone halfway scientifically literate to have an understanding of the Kelvin scale. It’s also quite an intuitive scale, physically, especially if you’re coming from Celsius.
- revertmean 4y agoI think you're wrong. I suspect most people on HN have an above average interest in physics and would therefore have a reasonable understanding of the Kelvin temperature scale.
- Denvercoder9 4y ago> So like 3 people... Just about everything human-built around you had someone consider the thermodynamics of it during the design.
- mrep 4y agoI learned kelvin in high school chemistry and I'm not sure why you wouldn't use kelvin when talking about liquids that far negative in celsius/fahrenheit and that close to absolute zero.
- philliphaydon 4y agoSure, I learned kelvin 20 years ago in chem too but in the last 20 years the only time I see it mentioned is literally on HN. Or GamersNexus.