Why does 69° never appear on Apple’s Weather app.
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@Fasgadh @kibcol1049 it's what over 300 million people grew up with
@FaithinBones @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 arbitrarily
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@kibcol1049 still wrestling between Celsius & Fahrenheit. Otherwise, nautical time & metrics have become default.
@wendinoakland @kibcol1049 So IT CAN BE DONE!
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@Fasgadh @kibcol1049 it's what over 300 million people grew up with
@FaithinBones @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 The US "tried" to move to the metric system decades ago. But only a few things stuck. Instead of returning fully to the imperial system, we are stuck somewhere in the middle.
I was taught both and use both regularly but prefer the metric system.
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@FaithinBones @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 The US "tried" to move to the metric system decades ago. But only a few things stuck. Instead of returning fully to the imperial system, we are stuck somewhere in the middle.
I was taught both and use both regularly but prefer the metric system.
@peteorrall @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 I was taught both too.
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@kibcol1049 Why do we have any number in °F?
Except -40
@Fasgadh Fahrenheit is a centigrade scale for weather in temperate zones.
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@peteorrall @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 I was taught both too.
@FaithinBones @peteorrall @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 I don't know why I learned Fahrenheit. To me it seems absolutely absurd that a measurement unit by a european guy is only used in america.
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@FaithinBones @peteorrall @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 I don't know why I learned Fahrenheit. To me it seems absolutely absurd that a measurement unit by a european guy is only used in america.
@lankohr @peteorrall @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 once we went through the Revolution, America pretty much ignored changes coming from Europe. That's why American English and British English evolved differently. Same with other advancements. We have odd idiosyncrasies here but we accept most of them
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Why does 69° never appear on Apple’s Weather app. It calculated temperatures in whole Celsius numbers first, then converted them to Fahrenheit for display.
That meant 20°C showed up as 68°F, while 21°C became 69.8°F and rounded to 70°F. So 69 never had a clean landing spot. Same deal for 65 and 71, but let’s be honest, nobody was launching investigations over those.@kibcol1049 because 69 is an evil sex position
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@lankohr @peteorrall @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 and metric is used for most of those purposes in the US.
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@lankohr @peteorrall @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 and metric is used for most of those purposes in the US.
️@FaithinBones @peteorrall @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 Really, interesting. Thought they use "their own". So what are we argument about?
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@FaithinBones @peteorrall @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 Really, interesting. Thought they use "their own". So what are we argument about?
@lankohr @peteorrall @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 we're not
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@lankohr @FaithinBones @peteorrall @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 You don't think it's useful to have a unit tied to the freezing and boiling points of a common liquid? If you don't like that, there's Kelvin.
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@lankohr @FaithinBones @peteorrall @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 You don't think it's useful to have a unit tied to the freezing and boiling points of a common liquid? If you don't like that, there's Kelvin.
@woo @FaithinBones @peteorrall @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 But that are just other numbers for the same thing.
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@wendinoakland @kibcol1049 So IT CAN BE DONE!
@FeloniousPunk I went metric for cooking ages ago - the rest is just I suppose “gravy”
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@FeloniousPunk I went metric for cooking ages ago - the rest is just I suppose “gravy”
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Wouldn't Kelvin be a better idea?
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@wendinoakland @FeloniousPunk @kibcol1049
Wouldn't Kelvin be a better idea?
(just spitballing)@henriksundstrom @FeloniousPunk @kibcol1049 lol, absolute zero is kinda extreme.
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@henriksundstrom @FeloniousPunk @kibcol1049 lol, absolute zero is kinda extreme.
@wendinoakland @henriksundstrom @kibcol1049 I dunno, that’s pretty cool.
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@wendinoakland @henriksundstrom @kibcol1049 I dunno, that’s pretty cool.
@FeloniousPunk @henriksundstrom @kibcol1049 I adored my early science education and remember zero degrees Kelvin as an almost unachievable point of coldness… (looks online) omg, -273* Celsius! That is less than zero.
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@FeloniousPunk @henriksundstrom @kibcol1049 I adored my early science education and remember zero degrees Kelvin as an almost unachievable point of coldness… (looks online) omg, -273* Celsius! That is less than zero.
@wendinoakland @FeloniousPunk @henriksundstrom @kibcol1049 thats when a Yorkshire man would say - you better take your big coat, it's a bit fresh out
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@woo @FaithinBones @peteorrall @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 But that are just other numbers for the same thing.
@lankohr @FaithinBones @peteorrall @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 But the numbers are 273.15 and 373.15 and I just had to look that up. We could identify musical notes by their frequencies in Hz. but we choose the (slightly) more convenient letters A - G for 7/12ths of them.
