We’re taught both metric and US customary units in school. I prefer metric for most things, to the point I have a metric-only tape measure among other things.
However, I’ll die on the hill that Fahrenheit is superior for ambient air temperature. 0 degrees to 100 degrees neatly encompasses the range of average surface temperatures seen throughout the year in the contiguous US.
Metric by far for most things. But for air temperature, Fahrenheit reigns supreme. I will die in that hill with you. Celsius is not granular enough.
And for the speeds used by and distances traveled by cars I do prefer miles per hour over kilometers per hour. I lived with kph in another country and just never cared for it for long distance or higher speeds. If I had to do math problems and getting feet or inches uninvolved, then fuck all that, but as a measure of travel I do prefer them.
But I love metric for most everything else. So clean and efficient.
You know there’s this newfangled invention called a decimal point?
No shit. And yet when you look at the weather temperatures, the reports are all without a decimal. And when you set your thermostat, it is also without a decimal. So in practical daily usage, it is still not granular enough precisely because the decimal is omitted.
No shit weather forecasts are without a decimal. Why would they include a decimal? Do you think weather forecasts are that accurate? I’ll bet all weather models calculate in celsius anyway, they just convert to Fahrenheit and round it. The error bars are probably much larger than a degree celsius to begin with.
No it’s not. My thermostat and pretty much all digital thermometers I have around the house use 1 decimal.
That’s great that that’s available now. When I had a Celsius thermostat it didn’t have that level of control. Would’ve been great to keep the house more comfortable.
In regards to weather, it’s generally accurate where I’m at. And again, we’re still just talking preferences and I like the finer increments in Fahrenheit for weather. For what it’s worth if anything, I have my computer setup to tell in Celsius and my phone in Fahrenheit so I get both on a daily.
This is again not really an issue with the thermostat. Back in the day they were analog so in theory they had infinite precision. Early digital ones didn’t have that level of precision because there was no point to it. The heating system itself simply wasn’t that precise. The temperature would swing quite a bit around the set temperature. The heating would be either on or off, so it would heat to a bit above the set temp, then cool down to a bit below it, etc. It would have been the same for Celsius or Fahrenheit.
Modern central heating uses a modulating heater, so it will only heat the radiators a little when the temperature difference to the set temperature is small, resulting in a more constant and thus more comfortable temperature. It’s even better with in-floor heating where the concrete slab of the flooring acts as a huge thermal buffer. Due to this more precise thermostats make sense (but only up to a point, because who can tell the difference between 20.0ºC and 20.1ºC)
Accurate how? If they predict a temperature of 18ºC, it will be around that temperature for a short time in the middle of the day, but outside temperatures aren’t constant. It’s coldest just before dawn and hottest in the afternoon. Between those two extremes the temperature rises and falls over the day. What is the point in saying it will be 18.4ºC instead of just saying 18º? There is no need for that level of precision. Even outside the temperature change over the day, the temperature also changes significantly depending on location. If I’m in an area with lots of trees and shade the temperature will be much lower than if I’m on an asphalt street. So even as you walk around the temperature will vary a lot.
Ffs dude. It’s a preference. No need to go all autistic on me over it.
It’s a bullshit preference that makes no sense.
Also can’t help being autistic, I was born that way.
And preferences often don’t make sense. Autism or no. That’s why they are preferences and not facts.