Casey LissYou š¬š§ folks can be mad about how we pronounce āhoverā, but at least we donāt absolutely butcher ārouterā.
Seriously, how in the hell did you get ārooterā from ārouterāā½
Dr. Drang@caseyliss And yet you put periods and commas outside quotation marks. Next youāll be putting an āsā on the end of āmath.ā
James Thomson@drdrang @caseyliss Casey was telling me only this week that he was broadly in favour of metric units.
@jamesthomson @caseyliss Thatās the saddest thing Iāve ever heard.
@drdrang @caseyliss I think it means we're finally getting through to him.
@jamesthomson Imperial units are moronic. Except Fahrenheit which is unimpeachably the better unit for ambient air temps.
@jamesthomson cc @drdrang who I meant to copy
@caseyliss @jamesthomson Donāt worry, I saw it. You might think otherwise if you were forced to measure stress in pascals.
@drdrang @jamesthomson No bullshit, Iām gobsmacked to hear you of all people defending imperial units. š±
@caseyliss @jamesthomson Every system of measurement is fine. The great advantage of SIāthat everything is scaled by powers of tenāis less advantageous when we all have computers in our pockets, but I have nothing against it. Except that pascals are were poorly definedāa newton per square meter?
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Joel D@drdrang @caseyliss @jamesthomson after an aborted career in home building I saw a set of prints where all dimensions were specified in mm and Iāve been insanely jealous ever since. Imperial units really are terrible for carpenters.
beasom@joeld @drdrang @caseyliss @jamesthomson Not really. 12 has more factors, so itās more easily divisible into consistent non-fractional units at that scale. In construction work itās often more necessary to be *consistent* than to be exact. Traditional Japanese carpentry units are still used even though most of everything else went metric in the Meiji Era. *Sun* (equivalent of a foot) are decimal, but grouped into units of 3 or 6 for most uses. Makes dividing by half or thirds much easier.
Jonathan Dechko@drdrang @caseyliss @jamesthomson At least we arenāt constantly doing unit conversions between Smoots and football fields.
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@wklj Lol. I saw that in the trending section and thought of that as well.
The Animal and the Machine@caseyliss @jamesthomson @drdrang
Firstly, Casey is the only successful person in making me appreciate Fahrenheit. āAligns to body temperatureā. I was starting to be converted in the summer with works aircon.
However. UK winters hover around zero degrees C. Believe me. Having no mental agility required to know if the local hill is ice slippy for death (yes exaggerated, but this is emotional), or a bit wet is QUITE THE DIFFERENCE SIR!
So yea. Celsius. šš»
Mieszko Ålusarczyk
Washington's Dream - SNL
Michael Gemar@michaelgemar @jamesthomson Come talk to me when you donāt have to have half degrees on your thermostats
Also:
Richard Smith@caseyliss Picking100 on two scales and comparing them is a weird comparison.
In reality youāre looking at -30 to +40 for Celsius as āvery coldā to āvery hotā global temperatures. With the added benefit of knowing that anything below 0 is actually freezing. Which makes a difference for whether I need to scrape my car or not.
Thereās nothing F makes better. I need to remember 32 is the freezing point? I need to argue about 42 versus 43? No benefit.
You learned F. So it seems normal.
Andrew Wade@caseyliss @michaelgemar @jamesthomson Casey is right. I work in the building industry. Most thermostats that show C in hotels donāt do what they say cos most people actually want 73F (22.7C). 22C on the dial is actually 22.7. Cos 22 is too cold and 23 is too hot. People _think_ they want 22C.
I despise imperial slugs per pound foot or whatever, but Fahrenheit works better for peopleās actual comfort.
I despise imperial slugs per pound foot or whatever, but Fahrenheit works better for peopleās actual comfort.
@andrewwade THANK YOU
@caseyliss to be clear, I donāt want you to be right. Imperial is goddamn annoying in engineering. But F is proven to be more human (humane?) than C. Sigh.
I remember someone once saying āif your thermostat is showing decimals, your units are dumbā
That might have been you?
I remember someone once saying āif your thermostat is showing decimals, your units are dumbā
That might have been you?
@andrewwade It was. And I stand by it.
Simon@caseyliss @andrewwade Iāve set mine to 21 and 5/16ths in honour of our American friends ;)
Laurent@andrewwade @caseyliss @michaelgemar @jamesthomson thatās nonsense. My flat is at 19.5C and Iām fine. Between 19.5C and 22C itās just a matter of getting used to it.
Martin McCallion@caseyliss @jamesthomson Who uses half degrees? A celsius degree difference isnāt that much. 21, 22, still nice. 3, 4, still bloody cold. In fact, outside a physic class, Iāve only ever heard fractional degrees used with Fahrenheit. āMy temperature is ninety-eight point four,ā Lou Reed sings on āAverage Guyā, just as an example.
(And my comma/quote placement there is deliberate and correct. š)
TheEJJ šØš¦@caseyliss @jamesthomson the world will never know peace until we can admit that both units of measurement get it wrong.
Fahrenheit is correct at the upper levels. 100 Fahrenheit is correct.
Freezing though? What the hell kind of number is 32 for freezing?!
0 Celsius is correct.
The perfect temperature unit would go from 0 degrees Celsius to 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Michael Wyman@TheEjj @caseyliss @jamesthomson freezing is for water. But weāre humans:
100Ā°F is fucking hot.
0Ā°F is fucking cold.
0Ā°C is like, eh, I should probably think about wearing a jacketā¦
@mwyman @caseyliss @jamesthomson but itās practical both from a comfort perspective and an environmental perspective to know when water will freeze.
Whereas knowing when it will boil is silly.
Steven Op de beeck@caseyliss @jamesthomson the Trump of measurements.
Sorry not sorry.
Scott@jamesthomson @drdrang @caseyliss Everyone knows that the metric system is objectively better. Itās just that people donāt like change. āThe metric system is the tool of the devil. My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and thatās the way I likes itā
Marina Epelman@jamesthomson @drdrang @caseyliss And to think, Americans used to lecture British people on the benefits of decimal systemsā¦
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntW9NDRHXnc&feature=youtu.be
