From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid
On 2026-01-08, John Levine wrote:
> According to rbowman :
>>Except for -40 I don't have any feeling for C degrees. If it's 32 C should
>
> It's extremely straightforward:
>
> 0 is freezing
> 10 is cool, put on a jacket
> 20 is room temperature, no jacket needed
> 30 is hot, sun hat useful
> 40 is desert hot, stay out of the sun
>
> In the other direction, 10 below is cold, 20 below is very cold, but opinions
> vary. Around here at -20 C schools wouldn't let kids play outside, but in
> Minnesota it's good sledding weather.
It's the same as with Fahrenheit, or any other system really, you get
used to the values if you have to use the system.
I can't handle Fahrenheit quickly myself yet, but I guess if I had grown
up or lived for long enough in a place where that was abundantly in use,
I'd have at least a notion of where the temps would be, if not muscle
memory for a quick conversion (which IIRC might not be hard, it's just
that I haven't memorized it).
(As far as you don't do stupid stuff like writing a TV police/crime show
episode where part of the plot is finding out which place *in the entire
world* had a given temperature - 50-something degrees, so in Fahrenheit
ranges - seen on a TV screen during a murder that ended up recorded on
video, without even once noticing that either it's a very specific
channel catering to expats of some countries or it would have to be
located in that very small set of countries... [1]
But that happened on the same show that gave us the "GUI Interface in
Visual Basic", anyway... [2])
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706045/
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/CSINYS07E02
[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212027/
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/CSINYS04E20
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