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Comic strip of a ghost and a person with the American flag pasted on the head. The ghost repeats “Boo!” in the first three panels without getting any reaction, but when it in the fourth panel says “kg, cm, km, °C” the American gets scared and screams “AHHHH!!!”.
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Aaaand … DD/MM/YYYY 🫠
YYYY-MM-DD
this guy iso8601‘s
rfc3339’s
This, FTW
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YYYY-MM-DD is easier to get sorted since most significant number is on the left.
Least important it may be. But it is the most significant. This scheme follows the conventional scheme we follow while writing numbers - the most significant digit to the left and significance reducing as we move right.
The advantage of YYYY-MM-DD becomes when you add time to it in ISO-8601 or RFC 3339 format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss. All the digits are uniformly decreasing in significance from left to right.
This becomes even more apparent if you are trying to sort by time - say, a stack of files, or datetime in a computer. Try doing this with any other scheme.
As much as I vehemently dislike US customary units, MM/DD/YYYY is the USA’s greatest notation crime.
This one wouldn’t make sense as they say dates as month day, year.
To me, dates should always be written in international format: YYYY-MM-DD$ 50
Do you call this fifty dollars, or dollar fifty?
Lots of stuff is written differently, than it is spoken. In case of the date it is weird, not to go from biggest to smallest or vice versa. I guess you are used to it now, but for me it would be the same as putting seconds before minutes or inches before feet.
Depends on context, IMO did/mm/yyyy is the most natural when writing some text, but partial ISO yyyy-mm-dd is ideal for when naming files and directories, makes lexicographical ordering follow chronological order.
Big-endian vs little-endian all over again
I personally prefer dd-mm-yyyy because cutting stuff of the end to get dd-mm or dd is better imho. Just an opinion tho, use what you like.
Tax-funded health care. Making sure crazy people can’t buy machine guns. Voting for reasonable candidates.
You forgot that only a good guy with a gun-safe filled with AR-15s can stop a bad guy with a glock
The only properly measured thing Americans bring to their schools is 9mm’s 😔
Categorically false. They also bring 5.56x40mm.
Not in California though. You can own it, but you can’t buy nor shoot 5.56 or .223 on BLM or CA owned land. They’re also in the courts (appeals) to ban Assault rifles in the state.
Fuck California.
As an American, I can confidently say I’m sick of this Imperial/SAE shit.
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Length, volume and mass specifically (and derivatives, like PSI). Temperature is ok.
As a celsius user I have absolutely no need for fahrenheit. It needs more numbers when there is no need for more precision. Half a degree C is barely even noticable.
It’s one of those things that truly and honestly just doesn’t matter. Celsius makes more sense if you think about water freezing at 0 and boiling at 100, but beyond that it really doesn’t make a big difference.
what happens at 0 F?
I mean 0 C is when the water change its state, but then what happens at 0 F?
The lower point of Fahrenheight is near the freezing point of brine (salt water) which freezes at -6 F (-21 C).
It was designed around what the coldest day at the time of its invention could get and the 100F was marked around how hot the hottest day of the year at the timr would get. Hence its choice to scale 0-100 to local weather vs celcius’ choice to use kelvin and offset it to standardize it to pure water.
Nothing in particular, it’s an arbitrary starting point. But that’s really not a good reason to knock it.
Does water actually freeze at 0 celsius? It depends on the air pressure, right? I guess 0 celsius is the freezing point of water at sea level, but air pressure’s not consistent at all. I guess maybe it’s the temperature water freezes at the average air pressure at sea level? I assume that’s the case.
The point I’m trying to make is the Celsius isn’t super rock solid either, and it really doesn’t affect anything if water freezes at 0 or 32 degrees. The best argument for celsius is that it’s standard, but that doesn’t make necessarily make it better.
If we really cared about having a rock-solid starting point, we’d use Kelvin because you literally cannot go below 0.
yeah I was looking for something like “at 0 F something happens” as in Centigrades you can be sure that at 0C and with 1atm the water will freeze, instead of something arbitrary, so you can compare calibrate instruments
Well it doesn’t really matter what you were looking for lol. I promise you Fahrenheit thermometers are calibrated same as Celsius ones.
actually water melts at 0 deg it freezes below zero.
Freezing/melting does not have hysteresis
thanks for teaching me a new word :)
We live in a world rich in water. When the overnight temperature is below zero, we have frost, for example
Yeah, same here. When the temperature dips below 32 we get frost
I use both equally well. Since both of them are base 10, no difference whatsoever. You just know the feeling of 70F or 21C.
You know what pissed me off earlier this year? We took a trip from the U.S. to Canada and my Prius didn’t even have the option to show kmph instead of mph on the dashboard. We looked through the manual, we looked online. My specific model doesn’t allow it. Why?!
Because freedom 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅
LifeProTip glue pocket calculator to steering wheel for these urgent conversions on the road
There’s like five common speed limits to memorise the conversions for. It’s not hard.
World work better with “socialism.” Because screw capitalism.
Or gun control. Or free healthcare. Or abortion. Or a free online automated tax return system.
Except in drug deals (kg), foot races (5km), and science (°C).
And school supplies (9mm)
Yeah, everyone shits on the US for this but we do science in metric, and also everyone seems to ignore that the UK is all kinds of fucked up as well-- weight in stone, etc. I’d also argue that outside science F is a better scale for talking about weather. Sure 0 makes for a better freezing point, but most temps on inhabited earth are about 0~100 F or -25~40 C. If you knew nothing about F or C and someone asked if a scale from 0 to 100 or -25 to 40 made more sense, which one do you think most people would pick?
-25 to 40 is very useful for weather. Especially in a northern country. The only reason they don’t switch is “best country in the world” delusions they’ve been fed to believe is true since birth.
My point was any numbers are useful for weather if you’re used to them, but if you proposed a new scale without any baggage attached to it 0 to 100 makes way more sense than starting at neg something and going to 40 instead of a rounder number like 50 or 100
Below 0 means dangerous. That’s something that F doesn’t do clearly.
Below 0 C? Freezing doesn’t mean dangerous (obviously it’s dangerous if you’re homeless or don’t have regular access to heat). I live somewhere now that it hovers around freezing all winter and I literally can’t wear my old thick coats from where I grew up (northern US). I have to wear a fall coat pretty much all winter or I overheat. Below 0 F is a much better indication of dangerous weather than the freezing point.
How about just slipperyness? The fact that you can’t farm and thus have no reliable food source? The fact your water souce disappears?
I’ll admit, no method of measurement is perfect as biomes changes too drastically. This doesn’t mean Fahrenheit is better though. It’s not more intuitive, it’s not better at actual measurements, and it’s not as accepted by society ('cause people way smarter than me did find Fahrenheit worse than Celcius (see any above high school science/engineering))
To explain the more intuitive, I am literally incapable of using Fahrenheit, and it means fuck all to me. Thus my intuition is incapable of using it, and thus Fahrenheit isn’t naturally understandable. Granted, Celcius isn’t either.
The actual reason the us hasn’t switched is the many billions of dollars it would cost for basically no tangible benefit. There are probably better uses of that money if we actually got to spend it on what we wanted, like social programs.
America is totally used to the KKK
Fuck, you scared me!
Y’all are just jealous because we’re not afraid of fractions
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What’s even worse is that when they use SI units they don’t even spell them right. They write meters whereas the rest of the world writes metres
Nah, in Dutch it’s meter (plural: meters) too
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spelling is hard why make it harder by spelling it “metres”
Well how would I know if they teach me it’s meters and not metres, hmm?
They are one of the founding members of the Metre Convention
Idk I get through life fine without all that. Never understood why people care so much.
