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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I like that Fahrenheit has a narrower range for degrees. 1C is 1.8 degrees F. So, F allows you to have more precision without the use of decimals. Like, 71F feels noticeably different to me than 64F, but that is only a 3.8 degree difference in C.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

3 degrees celcius is easily noticeable too so that's a bit of a moot point. If anything, 1 degree celcius is much harder to discern and therefore having an even more granular scale is unnecessary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But that also doesn't matter because the granularity is meaningless if you don't make decisions for differences between 71F and 70F

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Not at those exact temperatures, but one degree matters in in grilling meat, making mash for beer, making candy, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Where in the chicken I jam the thermometer makes several degrees difference. If you truly require that level of granularity whilst grilling, I'd wager reading a decimal figure isn't the end of the world. Us normies can continue to bring chicken to 74 and call it a day

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sure, but you should be using Celsius for those things. That's the main argument here.

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

Which was what I was going at. I sort of assumed 'chicken at 74' was enough of a pointer :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I think you got mixed up here. My comment was made 2 months ago as a response to this one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You win best username. I’m assuming you’re a Linux nerd as well. <3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

You best filesystem check yourself before you filesystem wreck yourself