Why does 69° never appear on Apple’s Weather app.
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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.
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@wendinoakland @FeloniousPunk @henriksundstrom @kibcol1049 thats when a Yorkshire man would say - you better take your big coat, it's a bit fresh out
@woollypigs @FeloniousPunk @henriksundstrom @kibcol1049 might wear a scarf weather
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@Fasgadh Fahrenheit is a centigrade scale for weather in temperate zones.
@Virginicus
But what about the rest of the Universe. Outwith numbers around 60 it's incomprehensible and needs an awkward conversion. Negative numbers are really annoying. Other than the blessed -40.If it just stayed in US weather forecasts in Summer it would be fine, but things like melting points of metals (other than Hg) etc it is a bloody nuisance
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@Fasgadh @kibcol1049 it's what over 300 million people grew up with
@FaithinBones @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 Me too. But I managed to grow out of it, along with many other people in this part of the world.
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@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.
As the musician in the thread, I found that reference amusing. Using note letters instead of frequencies are multiple giant rabbit holes especially when alternate tuning methods are taken into account.
Also, as a sound designer, often I am using ratios and frequencies. The letters just happen to be which keys my fingers press.
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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 @FaithinBones @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 I do like having my car tools in MM than inch or foot. I also like measuring physical distances by using whatever is on hand. Like part of my fence is 8 sons long. I also like to weigh things by using "fat fucks(they're Italian.)"
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As the musician in the thread, I found that reference amusing. Using note letters instead of frequencies are multiple giant rabbit holes especially when alternate tuning methods are taken into account.
Also, as a sound designer, often I am using ratios and frequencies. The letters just happen to be which keys my fingers press.
@peteorrall @lankohr @FaithinBones @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 I was laughing at myself. The musical monks had some odd ideas. I've been learning some music theory recently and I abandoned 'the letters' because I found Musical Set Theory made more sense to me :-).
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@lankohr @peteorrall @FaithinBones @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 It was a deliberately bad example, for LOLs. I have far from 'perfect pitch', so all musical notes are relative to me.
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@Fasgadh @kibcol1049 it's what over 300 million people grew up with
@FaithinBones @Fasgadh @kibcol1049 I grew up with Guineas (21/-), and 16 Ounces to a Pound but 14 Pounds to a Stone and 112 to a Hundredweight, so that's clearly never been a sensible excuse for staying Wrong.
[Corrected from 114 to 112. What an idiot! So 8 Stones per Hundredweight, like 8 pints per Gallon or 4 Quarts. For consistency.]
