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im a burger and i set my phone to celcius like 4 years ago to learn it and itrs taken that long for me to get the hang of it
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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Time to take the next step and set it to kelvin.
as a scientist that uses c, f is superior to what the weather feels like.
no it's not
20°C feels like 20°C. what does 60°F feel like? only americans know. it's "superior" because you're used to it.
Yeah i guess all temp scales are the same, good point
As another scientist I do like the granularity of °F over °C for weather, but for anything else C makes more sense. It's almost certainly just having been raised using burger units, but somehow 68°F being pants weather while 72°F is shorts weather makes more sense than interpreting 20°C vs. 22.2°C for the same decision. It's probably cope though.
A very helpful conversion is 10°C = 50°F & every ±5°C from that equals ±9°F.
somehow 68°F being pants weather while 72°F is shorts weather makes more sense than interpreting 20°C vs. 22.2°C for the same decision.
why are you picking 20 vs 22.2 and not 21 vs 23 or 19 vs 22? still completely arbitrary. and shorts weather still depends on sunshine and humidity as much as pure temperature, a cloudy, wet 23 degrees is still cold, but a nice sunny 19 can be fine. i don't think anyone can actually feel the difference between 1°C, much less 1°F
i don't think anyone can actually feel the difference between 1°C, much less 1°F
On the contrary I think 1C is a perfect temperature increment for meaningful perceived difference. In some applications 0.5C is welcome, but when describing the weather, 22 vs 23 is meaningful.
i use an 8 hour clock because to a grindset sigma like me, a 24 hour "day" is actually three 8 hour days 
It's literally the default setting on phones and computers in most of the world, right?
yeah but I think americans pronounce it differently for some reason
instead of just saying 16, they say 16 hundred hours. this is despite the fact that very few days are even 25 hours long, most days averaging around 24 or so. the american people are not intellectual, to put it mildly
16:00 = 16 hundred because the us military are all crayon eaters
you hear "16 " on a radio was it 16:00 or 16:30 but the signal got cut?
It's 60s not 100s ffs
It’s culture-dependent and set when you specify English (US) on the first boot.
I want a watch face that still only has 12 hours, but it goes: 24,13,14,15...,22,23. Then I could be like, I gotta get up early. I work at 19AM tomorrow morning. a 9-5 job would start at 21AM and end at 17PM
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my head is spinning
Should just pause for 12 hours
24 hr vs 12 hr format is the most pointless debate of all time
24 hr is better but I'm forced to use 12 hr because everyone around me doesn't know 24 hr and the only people who do are military chuds.
Similar reason why I use mm/dd/yy for dates even though dd/mm/yy makes way more sense to me
I'm sorry but how do people not know? You just add numbers from 12. It's not that hard for most people, surely?
You would think, but in my experience you try to use 24 hr time and people suddenly can't comprehend numbers larger than 12, and its not worth explaining every time that 17:00 = 5pm. I just do the adjustment myself since 9/10 times they'll ask for clarification anyway
Mental arithmetic is in fact not universal. People who grew up on 24h time have the benefit of rote memorizing the relationship between 17 and 5 from childhood.
Like, the fact that 9:00 (or 21:00) points leftward / “west” with the hour-hand is something that kids just have to learn and remember. At first it is a lot of mental overhead. But I bet it was immediate for you when you read this, no?
π vs τ
(π is correct btw)
What's the area of a circle?
It is πr^2^ or, equivalently, 1/2 τr^2^
But wait since π is defined in terms of the diameter it should be 1/4 πD^2^ .
In fact look at all these quadratic forms
- distance fallen in a gravitational field: 1/2 gt^2^
- energy of motion: 1/2 mv^2^
- speed 1/2 at^2^
- area of a circle 1/2 τr^2^
Because when you step up from the linear, one dimensional circumference, and integrate, then the antiderivative should have a 1/2 factor to account for the square when differentiating back. The fact that π cancels this factor, and hides it is to its detriment!
Read https://www.tauday.com/tau-manifesto again, specifically section 3. τ is how the circumference of a unit circle should be defined since we use the radius and never the diameter. Anything else is revisionism comrade, do better.
thanks for sharing, I've never heard of this before but it does seem easier to understand intuitively.
I have never seen this before, but one of the courses I have to develop curriculum for includes high school level trigonometry, and I am pretty fucking convinced that for learners (especially with LDs in math), the τ circle constant is conceptually easier to understand. The page is absolutely correct that showing a new learner the special angles with τ is a much simpler point of entry than the special angles relative to π (Figures 8 and 10).
Thanks for sharing!
A class full of young tauists sounds sick and I fully agree that it's conceptually much easier (simply by virtue of being the trivial definition). In application however pi still reigns supreme, so if they use calculators for instance there will be a constant translation effort (remember to multiply with 2, or was it halve it??) that could be frustrating.
You have the coolest job ever though much props 
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since π is defined in terms of the diameter it should be 1/4 πD2 .
That's just Tau propaganda
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our ultra-militarized societies push everyone through intensive mandatory training in 24h clocks by virtue of presenting the tv programme in 24h format.
i count the years in relation to CHRIST.
i count the hours in relation to HIS MERIDIAN.
It's standard practice for hospitals and healthcare to document in 24hr timelines, like it's not that hard bro...