I like that every bar has a different scaling.
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Now this is the kind of shitposting I can get behind.
I love the mental gymnastics which have gone into the making of this infographic. Gold!
Thanks! I hate it.
But in all honesty, this is almost like being inside a Canadian's brain. I have to translate back and forth at work all the time, and even cooking involves converting things back and forth. I have no idea how many drams to a gallon, so I'll convert ounces to mL, then scale as necessary, and then convert back to US customary because the measuring cups and spoons are labelled in American.
If the date format is not YYYY-MM-DD it can fuck right off.
Everything is right about it:
- Lexographic sort
- Unambiguous months and days
- Acceptable on any document of record (lab, legal, medical, personal)
- Readable by nearly any culture (even us Americans)
ISO 8601. Unironically the only ISO number I also remember.
I also remember as PHP programming language still won't do it with this function: DateTimeInterface::ISO8601 DATE_ISO8601 https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetimeinterface.php#datetime.constants.iso8601
You need the DateTimeInterface::ISO8601_EXPANDED which can actually accept non compliant strings too.
PHP - wherever you see an intuitive solution it's wrong or has important caveats.
for storing dates it's awesome, for displaying dates it's time to teach your programmer how to format shit for humans.
I actually like fahrenheit for weather. 0 is really fucking cold, 100 is really fucking hot.
Both are confusing. Let's use colours instead:
Red = hot, wear shorts and a t shirt
Blue = cold, grab a jacket
Pretty intuitive without any prior knowledge.
Plus Fahrenheit gives you more increments of degrees within a given range.
Ever heard of decimals?
Don't Americans normally say "4th of July"?
"The 4th of May be with you"
I actually agree that the metric system has nice round numbers, but this graphic is a hilarious rebuttal to the first one that just draws pictures to make their preferred system look like it fits into the pretty pictures.
Two can play at that game, lol.
Eh.. The graph shows
"Inches in 8.33 feet", and those 3's will go on forever like 8.333333333333..
Its clearly meant to be a shitpost.
"Base 12" is nice because it is easy to divide into halves, quarters, thirds as whole numbers. The rest is a bit of a mess though, I guess.
Base12 Units would be much more useful if we used Base12 numbers
Fuck yeah. Because 100 being the temperature of a random woman measured during her menstrual cycle totally makes sense.
Ey! It was the blood temperature of a horse before that, okay?! So it's not as if there were no improvements made at all! /s
I'm happy with metric generally speaking - except for Celsius when talking about ambient temperature. I will die on that hill. Freezing/boiling point of water is a ridiculous point of reference for temperature as experienced by humans.
Fahrenheit: 0 = really cold; 100 = really hot
Celsius: -17.778 = really cold; 38.333 = really hot
Not to mention that the Celsius grading is too big requiring use of tenths when discussing weather and setting a thermostat...
What? I have never ever had a discussion in my life about tenths of celsius when discussing weather or thermostat. Nobody does that. The units are small enough to be used in majors.
Freezing is excellent point of reference when you think about what effects it has on our lives. When water freezes, roads get frozen. When water freezes, pipes might blow up. When temperature reaches 0 Fahrenheit, nothing happens. Everything is same as 1 fahrenheit, or -1 fahrenheit. Nothing has changed, it is completely arbitrary.