lime!

they are also working on a follow-up, uv. not really a fan of writing tooling in another language but it works really well.

honestly i expected the fifth panel to be full of things like “GIL”, “2to3”, “virtualenv” “pip vs conda vs poetry vs…”, “mypy”, etc

that’s always been nintendo’s MO though. with the exception of the N64 and GameCube, their consoles have all been very modest spec-wise. but the games they put out are made specifically for that hardware, so it’s usually fine.

and actually, the switch is underclocked in its stock configuration. if you have adequate cooling for it you can basically double its clock speed with a softmod, which at least for totk removed basically all stuttering for me!

i mean it is eight years old.

You see my problem here right? Like it’s funny as a shitpost, but celsius users are grabbing a ratchet, realizing they don’t know how to use them, accidentally clobbering themselves over the head with it, and then being really confused and mad when people think that this is a pretty silly thing to do.

…yeah.

this all started because of the claim that Fahrenheit is better for “human” temperatures. when saying “that’s just because you’re used to it” apparently wasn’t valid, it spiralled on into this massive discussion where i’ve tried to show with what i feel is quite a lot of anecdata that indeed, you only feel that Fahrenheit is better for human temperatures because you’re used to it. meanwhile, the rest of the world can’t understand these numbers at all because they are not used to them, and use Celsius for human temperatures every day.

of course it doesn’t matter. at least, not in a vacuum. but when interacting with the rest of the world, it does.

it starts at +273.15K because that is the lower of the two reference points used in its creation. the Kelvin scale was created later and builds on the Celsius scale. of course lower temps are sorted first, that’s not what matters. it’s why we call these scales “degrees”, after all.

why it matters is because the scale i use every day constantly gets “verified” by passing the zero marker and showing that things outside freeze. that makes it a good reference point that builds its own intuition.

that’s what this is all about, after all: how useful a scale is for everyday use. a scale that is relevant to my needs and that has important events happen on easy-to-remember points of the scale requires very little teaching.

i am referring the the post i responded to.

the parent post was literally about Fahrenheit vs Celsius.

no, Celsius starts at +273.15 K, because that’s where an element we are all dependent on to live and in contact with every day undergoes an important phase transition.

What happens at 0°F?

i don’t think any manufacturer publishes the voltage their devices run at, could be anywhere from 3.3 to 5V. so i don’t know how an end-user is supposed to compare battery sizes between devices.

see, that’s what i’m saying. having a scale that starts at “it really doesn’t matter” makes it hard to use for everyday things.

why would i stop? there’s only one place in the world that uses another scale, and it’s dangerous for me to even travel there.

considering america is the only place that uses it, i can’t really find any other factor to use.

the point of a temperature scale is to quantify temperature as to ease its communication. if one player is using a different scale that’s just complicating things.

also, if its an “intuitive” scale, surely it should take human bias into account?

if I knew that you are a european and you told me a movie was 5/10, i would assume it was average. if i knew you were American, i would assume it was dogshit.

Americans have a weird relationship with numbers.

also, as mentioned in another post: if 0 is too cold and 100 is too hot, surely 50 would be a pleasant temperature?

temperature, wind speed and direction, and humidity are given separately. regular news report style forecasts don’t give humidity at all.

-18 is such an arbitrary place for “special precautions”. at 0, I know to start driving more carefully since the roads ice up. at -15, i know to wear long johns. at +15, i know to start using a thinner jacket. at -30, i know to use a thick hat and wax on my cheeks to prevent the blood vessels from rupturing. at +30, I know to use a large hat and sun cream on my cheeks to prevent them from burning.

what Fahrenheit used for his endpoints was 1) the melting point of a brine mixture that he didn’t write down the ratio of, and 2) his wife’s armpit.

those “bulb” things is something i only ever hear of from americans. it’s never used here.

and I fail to see how two numbers are somehow differently intuitive. they are just numbers. also, 36.5 is too low. it’s pretty much 37.0 now, because average body temp has interestingly enough shifted since he took those measurements.

the numbers may be, but if you asked me to tell you what they feel like i would have to convert them to celsius first. where i live temperatures are generally between -30 and +30, and i could tell you in an instant what I would wear for a given temperature in that range. 50F though? no clue. since it’s right between 0 and 100 i guess it would be just right, temperature wise, so t-shirt and long pants?

only if you grow up with fahrenheit.