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0 is cold as fuck, 100 is hot as fuck. Perfect human scale. Stay jelly

beAbU 2y ago
-40 - cold as fuck, 40 - hot as fuck. 0 - shit freezes, better drive carefully. I don't understand why this is always breought out when farenheit is criticized, as if the 0F-100F thing is the "killer app" for temperature scales.
- artursapek 2y ago
  In what country do people encounter -40 degrees
  - zeagle 2y ago
    Parts of Canada for sure. When it’s below -35C my garage stored vehicle’s cold engine light turns after a bit on while driving!
  - timschmidt 2y ago
    We had a -40F windchill day here in Michigan a few years ago.
    - labster 2y ago
      -40°C feels pretty much the same as -40°F
      - werdnapk 2y ago
        Because it is the same.
      - deleted 2y ago
        [deleted]
  - nukem222 2y ago
    Russia, canada, sweden, norway, finland, us... probably missing a few. Edit: mongolia too, I think. curiously, nothing in the southern hemisphere?
    - olddustytrail 2y ago
      Antarctica
- cosmic_cheese 2y ago
  As an American I’m biased, but Fahrenheit matching the 1-100 scale used in so many other things just feels nice. Maps cleanly to 0-1.0 in a float/decimal type in programming which is neat too. Feels less arbitrary even if it actually isn’t. I prefer metric otherwise but for temperature Fahrenheit just “clicks” in ways that Celsius doesn’t.
  - taberiand 2y ago
    Fahrenheit doesn't match the 1-100 scale, though - Celsius does. 0 water freezes, 100 water boils.
    - artursapek 2y ago
      [flagged]
    - hollerith 2y ago
      Herr Fahrenheit measured the temperature many times over a period of one year in some town in Germany. He defined 0 degrees as the coldest measurement, 100 the hottest measurement.
      - taberiand 2y ago
        Ok but Celsius works wherever you are (adjusting for pressure)
      - 0rzech 2y ago
        > some town in Germany The Polish city of Gdańsk, of the then Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was also born there at the time. [1] > He defined 0 degrees as the coldest measurement, 100 the hottest measurement. Nope. It was neither about the temperatures in Gdańsk, nor about the temperature of his wife, btw. ;) [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gabriel_Fahrenheit [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
- briHass 2y ago
  Anytime your scale has to go into negative numbers to represent common scenarios, it's not human friendly. If you're not tying your scale to human-specific temps, why not just use Kelvin? At least that won't go negative.
cyberax 2y ago
20F is also cold as fuck. 90F is also hot as fuck.

-40 - cold as fuck, 40 - hot as fuck. 0 - shit freezes, better drive carefully. I don't understand why this is always breought out when farenheit is criticized, as if the 0F-100F thing is the "killer app" for temperature scales.

artursapek 2y ago
In what country do people encounter -40 degrees
- zeagle 2y ago
  Parts of Canada for sure. When it’s below -35C my garage stored vehicle’s cold engine light turns after a bit on while driving!
- timschmidt 2y ago
  We had a -40F windchill day here in Michigan a few years ago.
  - labster 2y ago
    -40°C feels pretty much the same as -40°F
    - werdnapk 2y ago
      Because it is the same.
    - deleted 2y ago
      [deleted]
- nukem222 2y ago
  Russia, canada, sweden, norway, finland, us... probably missing a few. Edit: mongolia too, I think. curiously, nothing in the southern hemisphere?
  - olddustytrail 2y ago
    Antarctica
cosmic_cheese 2y ago
As an American I’m biased, but Fahrenheit matching the 1-100 scale used in so many other things just feels nice. Maps cleanly to 0-1.0 in a float/decimal type in programming which is neat too. Feels less arbitrary even if it actually isn’t. I prefer metric otherwise but for temperature Fahrenheit just “clicks” in ways that Celsius doesn’t.
- taberiand 2y ago
  Fahrenheit doesn't match the 1-100 scale, though - Celsius does. 0 water freezes, 100 water boils.
  - artursapek 2y ago
    [flagged]
  - hollerith 2y ago
    Herr Fahrenheit measured the temperature many times over a period of one year in some town in Germany. He defined 0 degrees as the coldest measurement, 100 the hottest measurement.
    - taberiand 2y ago
      Ok but Celsius works wherever you are (adjusting for pressure)
    - 0rzech 2y ago
      > some town in Germany The Polish city of Gdańsk, of the then Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was also born there at the time. [1] > He defined 0 degrees as the coldest measurement, 100 the hottest measurement. Nope. It was neither about the temperatures in Gdańsk, nor about the temperature of his wife, btw. ;) [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gabriel_Fahrenheit [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
briHass 2y ago
Anytime your scale has to go into negative numbers to represent common scenarios, it's not human friendly. If you're not tying your scale to human-specific temps, why not just use Kelvin? At least that won't go negative.

cyberax 2y ago

20F is also cold as fuck. 90F is also hot as fuck.