Comment on Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat

remer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I agree clarification never hurts, but the entire world except for ~4% of highly entitled population will read that right.

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  • IamAnonymous@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s no need for that attitude though.

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fair, my bad! Sorry if it was offensive.

      I just got a little sick of all the Fahrenheit domination around here. This, in turn, is often left without clarification, despite the system being way less popular.

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      • Zip2@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Metric ton of folks or colonial? Please clarify.

        I agree though, that’s why I like posting conversions from time to time on other posts that are US defaults.

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      • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Being from Russia, I’m fine with people using the units they are more confident with or used to.

        (Not specifying units may be a bit confusing, but then people here don’t say\write “it’s 20 degrees Celsius” either.)

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  • cheddar@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Given that a lot of English language media are either located in the US or target the US market, I’d expect the value to be expressed in Fahrenheit unless stated otherwise.

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Original article is about Asia, and Lemmy is an international platform, so neither applies here

      I don’t mind some actually regional things presented in whatever system they use in there - although I’d much prefer if we’d all go metric already. C’mon!

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      • cheddar@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The original article is not about Asia, it’s about a technical innovation. Regardless, although we’re on an international platform, it’s easy to see that many topics are US-centered, and many sources too - regardless of the subject.

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• Zip2@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re right. Everything should be in degrees kelvin by default. Problem solved.

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  • Throw_away_migrator@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I will not stand for this! Rankine will be the standard! It will confuse and infuriate everyone equally. Truly the fairest of outcomes.

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    • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Reamur FTW!

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kelvin and Celsius are the same scale with a different zero point anyway.

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  • remer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I totally agree

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• ZealousSealion@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why would it be anything else?

  It’s clearly too low a number to be °K. And since the only two valid units of measurement for temperature are Kelvin and Celsius, it must be °C.

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  • remer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A differential temperature of 12C is equal to a differential temperature of 12K…… You don’t take the offset into count for differential temperatures.

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