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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The words you are looking for are that Fahrenheit is more precise. But it's not as there are an infinity of numbers between any two integers.

My thermometer at work which I use for health and safety stuff reports temperature to two decimal places. Had we wanted more precision we could have gone with twenty decimal places. In too big or too small metric units we use multipliers - metres are too small for long distances so we use kilometres (thousands of metres), metres are too big for construction so we use millimetres (thousandths of metres)

Where Celcius degrees are too big, people (scientists, since whole degrees or a single decimal is enough for everyone else) use milikelvins

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

We have proteins in our diets that our body could use intact, however our digestion breaks those down and we absorb the amino acids and rebuild the needed proteins.

No protein survives digestion. It's really quite surprising that some prions do survive and fuck us up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You can keep secrets from the future. Future decryption won't help government see what you did in the now, the logs don't store the encrypted payload, only the end points and the user/ip

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

The high end of 0 to 100 is nice for boiling, when I'm making beer at the boiling stage the number on the scale goes from somewhere below 25 to 100 and so the end point is obvious

We boil water quite a lot, though we often aren't tracking the temperature

Most of the time the temperature scale that's best is the one you know. I don't know of any case where Fahrenheit is objectively best (like Celcius is when water is involved) but I think the best argument for Celcius is it is used in science, so American scientists start a step behind all the others by having to learn a new system. Given neither have any great advantage I reckon it's worth America changing to make things better for American scientists

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Celcius degrees are quite a bit larger than Fahrenheit degrees. 0 to 100C is much larger than 0 to 100F so I don't get what you mean by Celcius covering about half of Fahrenheit. In any case neither scale runs out of numbers high or low

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

With the sucking venom out of a bite memes they always warned that you needed good mouth health as the venom getting into your blood through a cut or sore would be dangerous, suggesting that venom could be safely ingested

Our digestive system is pretty good at talking apart proteins

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (5 children)

100F is just about half

Your scale in water terms starts at 32. 100 is nowhere near halfway between 32 and 212

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

You can make the temperature dial of an oven have matching degrees of rotation and degrees Celcius.

Turn the dial to point straight down to bake at 180°

Turn it 3/4 of the way to cook a pizza at 270°

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Highest I have driven on is 130km/h, but it has no speed enforcement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

an ammonium chloride brine

At what molar concentration? Was it just as much NH4Cl as he could dissolve at ambient temperature and pressure?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

We live on a water planet. The weather we care about is water.

If you look at the overnight low you probably want to know if frost was likely. Guess what Celcius temperature frost happens at.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

The records are -80°F and 134°F

That's quite an error in a "whole human experience in zero to one hundred" system

 

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