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143 sats \ 7 replies \ @benthecarman 18 Apr \ on: What else are you a "maximalist" of? AskSN
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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
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Reasons Fahrenheit is better:
- 100 is too hot to be outside for more than a few minutes, and it's around the hottest you can expect it to get during a year in most regions, with few exceptions.
- 0 is too cold to be outside more than a few minutes, no matter how many layers you put on. It's also about the coldest you can reasonably expect it to get during a year.
- 80 is 80% hot, and so on.
- On your home thermostat, there's a slighter difference between a single degree higher or lower. In Celsius a single degree is almost two whole degrees in Fahrenheit, so F is much more granular.
- Normal human body temperature is 98.6. So if it's over 100, it might be something to worry about.
If I were to steel man the Celsius scale, I'd say:
- At 0 you can expect snow and ice on the roads.
- You set your refrigerator and freezer temperatures to just above and below 0, respectively.
- At 100, water boils
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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.
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Who cares about 32 being the freezing point, how often do you reference it