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110 sats \ 6 replies \ @benthecarman 21h \ on: What else are you a "maximalist" of? AskSN

dark mode, fahrenheit, topo chico

+1 on bothDark mode and Topo Chico but what about Fahrenheit do you like more than centigrade?

It's a measure of how hot it is outside from 0-100, Celsius is how hot water is from 0-100. Fahrenheit is a more human scale

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @alt 7h

it being a more human scale isn't intrinsic. it's purely due to what you're used to using.

I grew up in a Celsius country, and Fahrenheit is totally unintuitive.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 17h

I agree on 100 being a more human scale but 32 seems arbitrary. I can’t help but wonder why did Dr. Fahrenheit pick 32 instead of 0 for freezing point of water.

I’m looking for a temp scale that uses 0 as freezing point of water but 100 Fahrenheit because that’s reasonably hot for humans.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @benthecarman 17h

Who cares about 32 being the freezing point, how often do you reference it

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 17h

All the time when I lived in the UK. I constantly had to do conversions.

0° C was cold outside and that made more sense on a human scale but 32° C was like 90° F and that doesn’t make sense on a human scale.