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Except it hasn't really been that hard. Not like miles vs. kilometers. Fahrenheit is used in the US... and four other countries with a combined area about the size of Connecticut.
Sound good but I like quoting the temperature in Kelvin. When you tell someone their temperature is 310 degrees however...
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Both sides-ism
Texas, USA
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Use Celsius for everything else, but Fahrenheit is the superior measure for weather! The range 0-100°F covers everything a human can survive in (with a reasonable amount of effort).
New York, NY (40.785018,-73.97
The symbol for degrees Felsius is an average of the Euro symbol (€) and the Greek lunate epislon (ϵ).
Oh I'm sure she gives him quite the "P-Value" if you know what I mean
Canada
I get that its the poster on the wall, but it really looks like she said "LOL".
Canada
Yup, yup, yup. I created this blog 6 years ago, never changed the installed template even once. I had set my mind on the Tarski template 6 years ago, switched its background color from...
Looks like with Wololo's new site the RSS only updates in snippets. Not very useful to RSS readers.
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True, true, true.
USA! USA! USA!
"Automation" is in my job title.
Rochester, Earth
I got to be pretty decent at spotting this curve while at UMB, and then avoiding it. But there is no doubt about its existence.
oh so true
This is my weakness. I'll gladly write a script or macro to accomplish a repetitive task even though doing the task by hand would take half the time. Coincidently, this is why I use Vim, because it reduces the distance between manual and macro editing. Of course, it took me weeks to set up and learn to use Vim. That's time I'll likely never recoup.
Escondido, CA
Too often true...
RTP, NC
Ah.. The things you own end up owning you...
Montreal, Canada
Horribly true. Been there, done that.
The multi-axial solution is to delegate your yak-shave. Alternately optimize using the "has somebody automated/done this in a good enough fashion" algorithm.
New York, NY
How the boss views most projects. And how I view his project proposals...
Northern Virginia
Yup
New York, NY
Ha. :) For some folks this is definitely true!
Atlanta, GA
Best definition of automating!
Explaining the productivity paradox.
Sydney, Balmain, Hornsby.
Title text: 'Automating' comes from the roots 'auto' meaning 'self-', and 'mating' meaning 'screwing'.
Hong Kong
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