Casey LissYou 🇬🇧 folks can be mad about how we pronounce “hover”, but at least we don’t absolutely butcher “router”.
Seriously, how in the hell did you get “rooter” from “router”‽
Dr. Drang@caseyliss And yet you put periods and commas outside quotation marks. Next you’ll be putting an “s” on the end of “math.”
James Thomson@drdrang @caseyliss Casey was telling me only this week that he was broadly in favour of metric units.
@jamesthomson @caseyliss That’s the saddest thing I’ve 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.
Michael Gemar@michaelgemar @jamesthomson Come talk to me when you don’t have to have half degrees on your thermostats
Also:
Andrew Wade@caseyliss @michaelgemar @jamesthomson Casey is right. I work in the building industry. Most thermostats that show C in hotels don’t 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 people’s actual comfort.
I despise imperial slugs per pound foot or whatever, but Fahrenheit works better for people’s actual comfort.
@andrewwade THANK YOU
@caseyliss to be clear, I don’t 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 “if your thermostat is showing decimals, your units are dumb”
That might have been you?
I remember someone once saying “if your thermostat is showing decimals, your units are dumb”
That might have been you?
@andrewwade It was. And I stand by it.
Simon@caseyliss @andrewwade I’ve set mine to 21 and 5/16ths in honour of our American friends ;)