Weekly DC Stats - 04JUL2021

[crashtech]

I've used Celsius for a long time on PC stuff, but nothing else, as I have been inculcated into the Fahrenheit system just like other Americans.

In my daily work, though, I use millimeters to measure with, partly because that's the way many of the specs are provided, but mostly because adding fractions of various denominators all day is absolutely ridiculous!

 

[cellarnoise]

I don't mind the metric system being in the old U.S.. More conservative area.

I don't like as an old mechanic having to have two sets of tools for nuts and bolts, but whatever. Makes my fading eyes work harder and I swear a little more, which I find is good for myself?

For puters, and most temperature readings I still like F vs. C. I find the whole number fing F system to be easier for my feeble mind to understand and have to translate (though I don't like to understand more than one mouth language - I do a little better with puter languages) than a xx.x C system. The system loosely based on human blood temp (from 1900?) is maybe more meaningful for idiots with blood like myself Maybe average human blood temp will change with planetary change?

I do think I would eventually like to be a vampire. Though that is getting off topic !

 

[StefanR5R]

Scientists in the States and worldwide use Celsius to measure temperatures

…when they don't use Kelvin. :-)

I do think I would eventually like to be a vampire.

Hmm, the general literature seems to omit some of the crucial aspects of the vampiristic lifestyle: Do vampires have an especially strong immune system, given the infection risk which comes with their diet? And if so, might auto-immune diseases hit vampires especially hard?

 

[biodoc]

…when they don't use Kelvin. :-)

I should have said biologists. It would be entertaining to set the temp scale on a friends computer to Kelvin though to see the reaction.

 

[Assimilator1]

We're much more confused about C and F here in the UK lol (for everyday things), people roughly my age ish (I'm 51) and younger mostly use C, older people tend to use F, but it's not a hard and fast rule!
By default, all cars that I've seen (as a mechanic) and that use digital displays (so 20 ish yrs?) show in C.

@cellarnoise
We're in the same trade! Which cars do you work on? I've been with Suzuki now 7+ yrs, did a mixture of cars before working at indie garages.
Oh, and I still have a mix of imperial and metric spanners too, but the imperial ones are so rarely used now that they just gather dust lol (e.g Ford fully switch to metric in the mid to late 80s), originally got imperial spanners (they're not called wrenches! lol ) for agriculture work I started off on.

 

[AshlayW]

In the UK here too, I'm nr Guildford, Surrey, where abouts are you?

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

 

[Fardringle]

Thanks for the stats and the milestones notices, Stefan! All of my computers have been off for about 8 days so my stats will be "yucky" for this week, but I'll do my best to make up for it!

And especially thanks for checking the numbers on NanoHub! It doesn't have work very often, but I make it a high priority when work is available, in hopes of getting it to at least 1M some day. Credits are TERRIBLE for the amount of CPU work done, but it's my private obsession so I happily grab whatever I can get.

 

[Assimilator1]

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

Ah, not too far then! (<1hr's drive IIRC) In 86/87 and 88/89 I went to Ryecotewood college in Thame to study Agricultural engineering (it shut early/mid 2000s in disgrace , some of the older buildings were kept and converted to houses).