[OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat May 7 06:10:37 PDT 2016


On 5/7/16 3:54 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 07:29:28 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> Oh, of course, you are in the USA and are still using weird
>> temperature scales, unlike the rest of the world. ;-)
>
> I really don't understand the appeal of the Celsius scale. Zero degrees
> Celsius is like "put on a light sweater". That's not what zero should
> mean! Zero degrees Fahrenheit, on the other hand, means your nose
> freezes shut instantly upon exposure. Now *that* is worthy of the number
> zero.
>
> (Zero Kelvin is a hardcore zero, but it is just too rare in everyday
> life to be interesting.)

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