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Felsius

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The symbol for degrees Felsius is an average of the Euro symbol (€) and the Greek lunate epsilon (ϵ).
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Jaryth000
2562 days ago
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-40 Felsius for the win!
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auspex
2559 days ago
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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.
zippy72
2561 days ago
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Sound good but I like quoting the temperature in Kelvin. When you tell someone their temperature is 310 degrees however...
FourSquare, qv
tedgould
2562 days ago
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Both sides-ism
Texas, USA
benzado
2562 days ago
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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
mooglemoogle
2562 days ago
Yeah I always kinda feel like F is better as a human. It’s built around humans, not around water. And since we don’t use centi, kilo, etc with temperature, we don’t get the decimal benefit typical of the metric system either.
davidar
2562 days ago
At best you could say that it's one possible superior measure, given that you could (for instance) move the whole scale up by one point and what you said would still be true.
benzado
2510 days ago
Sure, any measurement systems are possible, given infinite resources to relabel existing thermometers. But the whole argument about using a specific measurement for weather reporting is about practicality, isn't it?
davidar
2509 days ago
I'm not in the US so don't have any Fahrenheit thermometers
benzado
2509 days ago
@davidar you should probably stick with whatever is printed on your thermometers, then
davidar
2509 days ago
all of my thermometers are felsius
daanzu_alt_text_bot
2562 days ago
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The symbol for degrees Felsius is an average of the Euro symbol (€) and the Greek lunate epislon (ϵ).
Covarr
2562 days ago
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Situation: There are three competing standards.
East Helena, MT
dukeofwulf
2562 days ago
Well, Felsius makes it at least 9. Any volunteers to add the Felsius scale to Wikipedia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_of_temperature#Conversion_table_between_different_temperature_scales
joeythesaint
2562 days ago
Already covered: https://xkcd.com/927/
Covarr
2562 days ago
Indeed, joeythesaint, that's why I phrased it this way :P

The Cardinal Rule

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Jaryth000
2723 days ago
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Oh I'm sure she gives him quite the "P-Value" if you know what I mean
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Horsey Time

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Jaryth000
3230 days ago
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I get that its the poster on the wall, but it really looks like she said "LOL".
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Substitutions 2

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Within a few minutes, our roads will be full of uncontrollably-swerving cars and our skies full of Amazon delivery dogs.
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Jaryth000
3259 days ago
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Oh, I love Psychic Reading Dancing!
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wisoka
3258 days ago
Wrong pole my friend.
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jsonstein
3252 days ago
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indeed, needs a Chrome ext
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tedder
3259 days ago
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okay, who is making a chrome extension for this?
Uranus
Andi_Mohr
3259 days ago
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Samuel Clay - are you listening? ;)
Covarr
3259 days ago
Do we need to submit this comic as a formal feature request?
Brstrk
3259 days ago
Saml plz
Andi_Mohr
3256 days ago
Don't think he's listening :(
Covarr
3256 days ago
That's a shame. I know he's replied to comments on xkcd before.
samuel
3240 days ago
I do, just 19 days late. Only one I'd be OK with is the drone to dog. See: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/466474473878884845/

Wololo, WTH happened to your blog???

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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...
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Jaryth000
3857 days ago
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Looks like with Wololo's new site the RSS only updates in snippets. Not very useful to RSS readers.
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Automation

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'Automating' comes from the roots 'auto-' meaning 'self-', and 'mating', meaning 'screwing'.
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Jaryth000
3973 days ago
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Related comic: http://xkcd.com/1205/
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amijangos
3973 days ago
My thought exactly, you have a threshold of how much time to invest
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Jadepearl
3962 days ago
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True, true, true.
USA! USA! USA!
Skotte
3967 days ago
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"Automation" is in my job title.
Rochester, Earth
jmoodie
3968 days ago
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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.
danatnr
3969 days ago
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Yes.
Ohio
yashimii
3971 days ago
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oh so true
linny
3971 days ago
it's really true.
claysmith
3972 days ago
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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
devicenull
3973 days ago
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Too often true...
RTP, NC
lrwrp
3973 days ago
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So painfully true.
??, NC
Satri
3973 days ago
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Ah.. The things you own end up owning you...
Montreal, Canada
bsag
3973 days ago
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Horribly true. Been there, done that.
satadru
3973 days ago
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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
stefanetal
3973 days ago
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How the boss views most projects. And how I view his project proposals...
Northern Virginia
adamgurri
3973 days ago
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Yup
New York, NY
steingart
3973 days ago
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sigh, yes.
Princeton, NJ
JayM
3973 days ago
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Ha. :) For some folks this is definitely true!
Atlanta, GA
tomazed
3973 days ago
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Best definition of automating!
taglia
3973 days ago
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Best definition of automation I have ever seen...
Singapore
oliverzip
3973 days ago
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Explaining the productivity paradox.
Sydney, Balmain, Hornsby.
traggett
3974 days ago
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Title text: 'Automating' comes from the roots 'auto' meaning 'self-', and 'mating' meaning 'screwing'.
Hong Kong
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