• Dabundis@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Farenheit is set up such that temperatures between 0 and 100 convey the subjective feel. 0F is really cold, 100F is really hot. Obviously cold and hot feel is subjective, but what could be more human than subjectivity?

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      23 hours ago

      One quibble - it fully ignores humidity, as does C. The subjective feel of a climate doesn’t depend only on temperature. 50% humidity at 10C is very different from 50% at 40C.

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        6 hours ago

        And celsius fully ignores the effect pressure has on the boiling/melting point of water. Turns out temperature units only measure temperature

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        22 hours ago

        The arguments for Fahrenheit get stranger and stranger. First vibe designing measurement systems and now it’s got more resolution

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          5 hours ago

          If you take issue with defining units based on vibes i have terrible news about the second, the meter, and the kilogram. Basically any unit is arbitrary until it becomes a standard

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        23 hours ago

        That is a weird argument. TBH there are only like six ACTUAL temperatures: fucking hot, hot, warm, cool, cold, fuckin’ cold. Everything else is paperwork and doesn’t really inform your day to day. The difference between say 30 and 29C is maybe undoing a button on your shirt.