Comment on Burning Up

• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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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      • where_am_i@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Exactly. He did. I don’t. So, don’t push on me some guy’s hometown lowest temperature as a 0.

        (Also he did a bit more than just measure the low of his hometown, but it sorta correlates to his location)

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• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kelvin is just Celsius +274.15

  Ftfy

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  • gressen@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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