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

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 13:30:28 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
> The zero is a point when water became an ice, so anything below 
> zero means snow and anything above means rain :)

Except it doesn't quite work that way.... you can get snow when 
it is a above freezing if the humidity is low enough. In 
Fahrenheit, anything in the thirties is borderline, and twenties 
is snow territory.

In Celsius, the snow line is more like 3 degrees than zero.

Besides, zero is just as arbitrary as thirty-two (which, btw, is 
a power of two*) and easy to remember if you use it anyway! I 
know a lot of people who don't know that water boiling point is 
around 212 F at standard pressure (interestingly, and not 
entirely coincidentally, 180 degrees away from freezing) - but if 
they don't know it and never found a need to, doesn't that 
indicate that it isn't important information to know?


* I really think that's the main difference between American 
units and the others - base two vs base ten. Base two is superior 
in basically every way, but base ten is more newbie friendly for 
doing irrelevant conversions.