It’s impolite to use only Fahrenheits on an international forum. Most readers won’t be able to make heads or tails of “103 degrees”, so a person posting on an international forum should definitely bother checking what that’s in Celcius. It’s much less work for the person writing the text to check that than thousand individual readers checking the same thing on Google.
If it’s somehow “okay” to ignore the 95 % of the world that has no idea of Fahrenheit, then it is similarly okay to be as if Fahrenheit didn’t exist.
I simply let the impolite person taste his own medicine. And no, I still don’t know if “103 degrees” equals 30°C, 45°C or 55°C. But the description “very uncomfortably hot” is absolutely enough to get what the person was talking about. So, some temperature that is unusual where the person writing the comment lives.
It’s a post blasting the US. I think it would be safe to assume responses to the contrary would be people in the US. Also, common sense and minimal thought would be enough to figure out the units given the number.
Maybe as an engineer I should require everyone to only give me temps in Kelvin…
When people give a temp in C, I convert it to F like anyone capable of reading/writing should be able to do. I’ve lived in Europe but I haven’t internalized the conversion very well. I would think someone might be able to convert it the other way as well. It is okay to just say, “I don’t like the US and I want to be an asshole.” You know, if that’s the case. None of us have any idea, your motives are completely obscured from our discernment.
Nah, I don’t have anything like that against US.
But out in the rest of the world it just makes sense to use standard units. Live the way you live in the US, but when you come elsewhere, including the parts of Internet not meant for US inhabitants only, do in Rome as Romans do.
The US doesn’t only make up only 5% of Lemmy though. I can’t find data, but it feels like 40% or more. I don’t complain when German people post in German. No need to complain when people from the US post using Fahrenheit.
Just remember a few points on the scale and kinda eyeball it from there. 98.6(37C) is human core temp, 68(20C) is a pleasant day, 32(0C) is just hitting the freezing point of water. Interestingly the scales converge at -40.
I disagree with the person you are responding too (I don’t think it’s impolite to use F), but to be fair C to F is “double and add 32” (technically 9/5+32), which is very easy to compute, while the reverse is -32 and then /2, which is generally harder (I think most people find subtractions harder).
Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Heh.
It’s impolite to use only Fahrenheits on an international forum. Most readers won’t be able to make heads or tails of “103 degrees”, so a person posting on an international forum should definitely bother checking what that’s in Celcius. It’s much less work for the person writing the text to check that than thousand individual readers checking the same thing on Google.
If it’s somehow “okay” to ignore the 95 % of the world that has no idea of Fahrenheit, then it is similarly okay to be as if Fahrenheit didn’t exist.
I simply let the impolite person taste his own medicine. And no, I still don’t know if “103 degrees” equals 30°C, 45°C or 55°C. But the description “very uncomfortably hot” is absolutely enough to get what the person was talking about. So, some temperature that is unusual where the person writing the comment lives.
krussfarn@lemm.ee 6 days ago
It’s a post blasting the US. I think it would be safe to assume responses to the contrary would be people in the US. Also, common sense and minimal thought would be enough to figure out the units given the number.
Maybe as an engineer I should require everyone to only give me temps in Kelvin…
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 days ago
When people give a temp in C, I convert it to F like anyone capable of reading/writing should be able to do. I’ve lived in Europe but I haven’t internalized the conversion very well. I would think someone might be able to convert it the other way as well. It is okay to just say, “I don’t like the US and I want to be an asshole.” You know, if that’s the case. None of us have any idea, your motives are completely obscured from our discernment.
Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
Nah, I don’t have anything like that against US. But out in the rest of the world it just makes sense to use standard units. Live the way you live in the US, but when you come elsewhere, including the parts of Internet not meant for US inhabitants only, do in Rome as Romans do.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 days ago
The US doesn’t only make up only 5% of Lemmy though. I can’t find data, but it feels like 40% or more. I don’t complain when German people post in German. No need to complain when people from the US post using Fahrenheit.
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Just remember a few points on the scale and kinda eyeball it from there. 98.6(37C) is human core temp, 68(20C) is a pleasant day, 32(0C) is just hitting the freezing point of water. Interestingly the scales converge at -40.
sudneo@lemm.ee 6 days ago
I disagree with the person you are responding too (I don’t think it’s impolite to use F), but to be fair C to F is “double and add 32” (technically 9/5+32), which is very easy to compute, while the reverse is -32 and then /2, which is generally harder (I think most people find subtractions harder).
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 days ago
I know the formula but rather than calculate 9/5 or 5/9 I just do a quick search, for example “-20f to c” and have the answer in three seconds.