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Alexandre Vaillancourt

1:04 AM

Haha

@genaray this looks like your casting the class and not the object...

Hmmm you might want to give a complete exmple :p

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user4704

4:11 PM

Oh boy, another snow day

Jesse Dorsey

4:30 PM

It's snowing a ton and super slick but as far as Michigan goes still only in the "This is irritating" phase.

Chris

is it so cold out there too? i heard in some american places u had up to minus 40°C

sounds like really crazy cold

Jesse Dorsey

I think last week, maybe two weeks ago it was -40.

Made worse by an explosion at one of the local gas companies, so they asked everyone to turn their heat down, because we faced outages.

Chris

wow, i would die, do you even leave your house at these temperatures?

@JesseDorsey gosh, poor you

Jesse Dorsey

Well, the actual temperature was like -20? Windchill took it the rest of the way, and yep, went to work.

Chris

scratching the car window must be a pain then. sometimes it's even hard to scratch at -5°C

Jesse Dorsey

4:34 PM

That week wasn't ice, it was just wind and snow flurries was luckily all powdery so easy.

Yesterday my car was covered in an almost complete sheet of ice, that was extra fun.

Chris

lol yea i feel u

Jesse Dorsey

The best part was right after the -40 feel days we got a 50 degree day, we live in interesting times

Chris

-40C and +50F?

you guys (america) should really accept the metric system :)

and with america i mean "united states", sry ^^

Jesse Dorsey

-40C to 10C | -40F to 50F

In the span of a day or so

Chris

oh i c, yea that's crazy

Jesse Dorsey

4:39 PM

-40C to 50C would mean it's time to move lol

Chris

right, i'd prefer -40c instead of 50c tbh ^^

user4704

We're not getting temperatures that cold here (near Seattle); it's 35F now and will be 40 today.

user4704

But over the week we got more snow than we have since 2014; something like eight inches in places.

Chris

that's like our temperature here

user4704

It's not an area equipped for more than an inch of snow once a year, so only the major highways are clear. Everything off a major road is a two inch thick sheet of ice still, despite the rain yesterday and relatively warmer temperatures.

Chris

4:43 PM

i'm from germany, and when we have a really strong winter, with really cold days, like the coldest it gets is like -4f / -20C

Jesse Dorsey

Spending some time thinking about it - as a human I think I quite like Fahrenheit as a temperature measure - it does a much better job of telling whether or not you'll be comfortable to a reasonable level of precision without decimal places.

Chris

i don't agree

Jesse Dorsey

@Josh I'd honestly prefer a more Seattle like setup where it rains all the time but then there isn't a ton of snow.

Chris

0C == water freezes

Jesse Dorsey

The range between the human body temperature and the temperature that water freezes at seems to not really capture how wide that is

Nor the general ambient temperatures that you can experience in most climates (outside of some ecological event)

Chris

4:47 PM

@JesseDorsey can you explain it a bit more detailed, or gimme an example please? i am not so familiar with farenheit, and i think i just don't get your point

Jesse Dorsey

Fahrenheit gives a wider range for expressing say air temperature - which is what most people are on average concerned with.

Overall Celcius is likely better especially for anything that has to deal with water (or cooking, and general measure)

I just mean as a subjective indicator of comfort

Chris

and we also usually don't use decimal with temperature. like 5.1 or 5 or 6 C is not rly a difference

ok got you

Jesse Dorsey

Most people are pretty sensitive to minor changes in temperature as well - like around some of the people I work with 72F is considered minimal ok working temperature I generally like being around 65-68F

I guess on the low end it's about the same, but on the high end a 4+ degree change would have to be expressed with higher precision?

Chris

68 - 72F is a difference of 4 in F and 2.22222222222222 in C, so i guess it's really not that more useful

Jesse Dorsey

ofc this could also just be because I was raised here and I have to do translations to C instead of thinking of like my body temperature and other things as it.

I mean that particular example has to be an extreme edge case

Chris

4:55 PM

what do you think about imperial unit of length? there we can agree that metric system makes much more sense and is way less confusing? xD

Jesse Dorsey

Oh yeah no totally

Chris

and please don't think i wanna bash US or something

Jesse Dorsey

Nah the imperial system is almost entirely arbitrary

Chris

feet inches and all these things