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happybadger@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Orcocracy@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fahrenheit is what Americans feel, Celsius is what everyone else feels, and Kelvin is just Celsius +273.

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fahrenheit is what everyone feels. It’s a scale of 0 to 100 of how hot it is outside. Excluding extreme outliers, it covers the range of temperatures the average human might experience. In Celsius that’s like -20 to 40. I personally use Celsius anyway, because I don’t consider it much of an inconvenience, but Fahrenheit is certainly the more human-centric scale.

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    • where_am_i@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is no way describes how I feel. I almost never experience below -5C, e.g. like 20F, but from there down it doesn’t really matter if it’s 10F or -10F. You need special clothing and then you’re fine.

      While my pain point is at 95F, most people I know consider “hot outside” being around 80F, and “unbearably hot outside” at around 88F. So, how is this intuitive?

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        this is pretty well aligned with how it works here in the US as well. The idea is literally, anything below 0 f is “fucking cold” and anything above 100f is “fucking hot”

        sure, 80f is pretty damn warm, that’s how numbers work, they have a range. It’s not like there’s a distinct point where “hotness” begins and “coldness” ends

        90f is generally pretty hot, but it’s mostly tolerable, you drink water, you’ll be fine, once you get into the 100f range, you start to run into accidental heat exhaustion heat stroke problems if you aren’t really on top of it.

        below 0f, your nose hairs are basically guaranteed to be frozen, and any facial hair you have is probably going to get frozen over time as well.

        It’s a heuristic, you’re not supposed to treat it as an ultimatum.

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      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I almost never experience below -5C

        Okay. Fahrenheit did. 0°F was supposedly based on the lowest air temperature he measured in his hometown.

        This isn’t about pain points and special clothing, it’s about measuring the typical range of climate.

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kelvin is just Celsius +274.15

    Ftfy

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    • gressen@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      273.15 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin

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      • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oops you’re right. I just converted 1°C to kelvin and brain farted

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fahrenheit is what that one German town’s lowest air temperature measured back in 1708.

  If fahrenheit was what humans felt, then 50° would be room temperature.

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  • hakase@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This isn’t the case, because humans can handle significantly larger deviations from “comfortable” on the cold side than the hot side, so again Fahrenheit gets it pretty much right.

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