• arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    4 hours ago

    I think it’s sort of useful for weather, since in most places you’re not gonna see temperatures under 0F or above 100F much if at all, so the scaling seems a bit easier. Other than that though, yeah, it’s pretty terrible.

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      2 hours ago

      Where I live temperature in celsius is symmetric about 0. -40 to +40. I think that scaling is easier than -40 to +100.

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        1 hour ago

        Yeah, obviously isn’t the case everywhere, but I think such extreme temperature ranges are kind of rare (excluding random one-off days that are super cold or hot for whatever reason).

        For places that get super cold (like below 0F a lot), generally Celsius probably makes more sense in terms of scaling.