>a 6ft wave is under 2 m and we would not call a wave 182.88 cm
This is subjective but we call it 1.8m and I don't really see a problem "seeing" it visually. 1.8 is just a bit above my eye level.
>Fahrenheit is also more precise
You could use a C2 scale where C2 = Celsius*2.
>it’s best to use a temperature gauge that’s suited to the air
I believe neither Celsius nor Fahrenheit alone can tell you how "hot" the weather is. So the advantage argued is not very valid:
Air temperature does not give a full picture of "hotness", we have to also include humidity ( that's why weather reports usually have a "feels-like temperature" next to air temp ). This is where we use the Wet Bulb temperature [1] to describe the sense of hotness in our surrounding. Wet Bulb Temperature can tell you the rate at which your body can cool itself.
The Wet Bulb temperature still needs a unit of measurement.
> Even heat-adapted people cannot carry out normal outdoor activities past a wet-bulb temperature of 32 °C (90 °F), equivalent to a heat index of 55 °C (130 °F)
So the F wet bulb temperature seems to make even better use of 2 digit readings than "plain" F. With 2 digits, C only uses 32% of the possible 2-digit readings.
> The wet-bulb temperature (WBT) is the temperature read by a thermometer covered in water-soaked cloth (wet-bulb thermometer) over which air is passed
It seems to be a direct measurement, not derived from anything. You might be able to derive WBT given the dew point and dry bulb temperature, but it would still need units like C or F.
Perhaps you were thinking of a different measurement?
I believe that's a shortcut to measure WBT directly. By it's nature, WBT are affected by other variables such as humidity and atm pressure, etc... , so it's a derived unit: Twb = F(T, H, P...).
As a derived function, you tweak its scale as much as you like, you can take T = C*2 and that solved your problem.
But surely deriving the WBT couldn't change the unit of measurement?
A measurement that has no unit is relative humidity. It is just a percentage. There is no way to measure relative humidity directly and get any other type of unit besides a percentage. Instruments that measure relative humidity directly measure in percentages.
edit: ah, you can use C2 = Celsius*2 whether you're talking about regular temperature or WBT. C2 is the 'derived' unit. Not WBT.
Yes you can use C2, but why not just use F which still has better precision than C2[1]? For low values of C2, you may confuse it with plain C...
>what's truly distinctive about Western classical music (as opposed to other music traditions) is it being a written art form first and foremost
I find this hard to believe, music score can be copied down the generation with some degree of lost-in-translation, they might not be the full materialization of the composer's idea, some copier may write down their own idea on the sheets.
I would agree that music score is the only means of accessing composer's works for Western classical music, and thereby became the "standard". But this would also likely be true for other culture's music, and therefore it's not unique.
I'm very happy that this seems to applied to the majority of coffee equipment manufacturer ( or at least for manual brewing equipment ) . Even big brand like Hario will happily sell you a set of replacement burr at a reasonable price if yours ever get damaged. I hope the coffee community keep it this way for eternity.
Anecdotally, I've seen many COVID patients experience re-infection after months on a COVID survival support groups on Facebook. ( assuming that people would not have any incentives to spread fake news on these kind of group ).
This is quite contradictory to the study. I'll guess we will have to wait for the peer-review process.
Britain came out of WW2 deeply fcuk'd. We'd lost the Empire, owed the US a crapton in loans, and then were economically smothered under a nationalisation programme that wiped out UK manufacturing competitiveness. At least we got the NHS (no small thing) and a passable social security system out of it. The economy we have today is the one Maggie re-engineered in the 1980s. Even the Blair government had the good sense to not dare touch it.
People underestimate just how bad Britain was financially after WW2. The one thing that hit home for me was Britain still had a good ration system in place until the early 1950’s (obviously fewer and few items as time went by).
> Britain came out of WW2 deeply fcuk'd. We'd lost the Empire, owed the US a crapton in loans, and then were economically smothered under a nationalisation programme that wiped out UK manufacturing competitiveness.
.. and on all those metrics China came out much worse (the civil war, no marshall plan, proxy war with the US, communism), as well as not having the massive advantage of having been an industrial power long before the war.
Absolutely nothing wrong with that (I grew up hanging clothes on a line and using gas stoves, for example), but suggesting these kind of regressions as a drop-in solution to our modern lives is misguided.
This is subjective but we call it 1.8m and I don't really see a problem "seeing" it visually. 1.8 is just a bit above my eye level.
>Fahrenheit is also more precise
You could use a C2 scale where C2 = Celsius*2.
>it’s best to use a temperature gauge that’s suited to the air
I believe neither Celsius nor Fahrenheit alone can tell you how "hot" the weather is. So the advantage argued is not very valid: Air temperature does not give a full picture of "hotness", we have to also include humidity ( that's why weather reports usually have a "feels-like temperature" next to air temp ). This is where we use the Wet Bulb temperature [1] to describe the sense of hotness in our surrounding. Wet Bulb Temperature can tell you the rate at which your body can cool itself.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature