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

Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat May 7 06:30:28 PDT 2016


Dne 7.5.2016 v 14:54 Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d napsal(a):

> 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.)


Celsius scale make much more sense to me :). The zero is a point when 
water became an ice, so anything below zero means snow and anything 
above means rain :)


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