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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 60 points 11 months ago (4 children)

That's ~21 degrees in non-freedom units from someone who has to do this conversion a lot.

Also, that's pretty normal summer temperature if you are from the Southern hemisphere.

[–] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 54 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If we are being really pedantic, the freezing and boiling part of first paragraph is only true under sea level atmospheric pressure, so technically, you can't really relate these quantities with the given information in the first paragraph either.

But I don't think that's the point this exerpt is trying to make.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unless stated otherwise, you always just assume 1atm of pressure.

[–] themelm@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah but if you're boiling your pasta and you live a few thousand feet above sea level you're gonna want to give it a bit more time since water boils colder up here.

[–] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

~Who the hell times how long their pasta takes to boil? You just go until it starts making noises.~

Edit: woopsie...that's not what they said. Colder - so it takes longer for the pasta to cook. My bad.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You should re-read what they wrote because that's not what they said.

[–] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah...thanks for pointing that out. I've been fighting some nasty cold/flu/covid thing and clearly not reading straight haha.

[–] regdog@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I like beeing pedantic. Please proceeed.

[–] lurker2718@lemmings.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

A calorie is not a metric unit but the joule is, 1 calorie is approximately 4.2 joule. A gram of hydrogen does not exactly have 1 mole of particles. The historical definition for the mole was the count of atoms in 12 grams of the ¹²C carbon isotope, which is slightly different.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

The historical definition for a mole is a little underground mammal. Then you science geeks decided to just screw it all up because you couldn't be bothered to make your own word. A molar's a mole tooth, dangert!

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A pressure which, funnilly enough, is not in fact 1 bar (as one would expect) in the metric system but rather 1.013 bar.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Now that's a big middle finger.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One oz of water heated 1 degree F is 1 BTU. Boom just as easy

[–] splicerslicer@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

But this is clearly written from the perspective of someone who lives in a climate that used to be solidly below freezing all through the winter months in the northern hemisphere. Now snow seems like a distant memory from childhood.

[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 11 months ago

21°C/70°F is a normal winter temperature where I'm from in the southern hemisphere 🥲

And right now it's summer... let's put it this way, lately it's been over 40°C/104°F for so many weeks in a row that, when temperatures dipped to 33°C/91°F, it felt cold... and to think it's only going to get worse going forward @_@

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

I'm in Utah and we get up to around 106 to 107 on some days in mid-Summer. But we also go down as slow as 0 degrees sometimes in winter. I would rather live in a state where temps are in the warmer register most days of the year.