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  • criticon@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzBurning Up
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    7 days ago

    0F is not ocean freezing, is the freezing temp of a brine mix that he chose arbitrarily (some think that he chose that temp because it was close to the coldest his town had ever been and he used it to calibrate the scales of his thermometers)

    FYI, the ocean freezes at around 28F


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    8 days ago

    The 0 in Fahrenheit was based on nothing and the 100F was supposed to be human temperature but it is off by some degrees

    The water is not an arbitrary temperature, the weather is water dependant, at 0C the water will freeze and you get snow/ice instead of rain




  • These are the ones I listen to the most, I think all of them are weekly

    • secretly incredibly fascinating. They talk about a simple topic and expand it with a lot of trivia and the hosts are very funny.
    • 99% invisible. Mostly about architecture that you don’t notice but they give a lot of cool info (lately some episodes get off topic or I simply don’t like them but they have a huge archive that I listen to)
    • my brother my brother and me: just stupid comedy from 3 brothers giving “advice”
    • dear Hank and John: the brothers Green giving science-ish advice










  • Also, the number of asylum seekers arriving at the borders are making the path to residency and citizenship slower for the people already in the US. Processes that usually took a week are now on hold for 4 months or more because a lot of resources are used for the asylum seekers (yes, government should hire more people)




  • Installed Mint last week after a ~10 year hiatus from using Linux (other than Debian on RPi)

    I was surprised at how everything just works, even my network HP all-in-one worked after a simple “search for printer” and it also added it as a scanner without any input from me. In windows I had to install HPsmart software, login every few days for some reason and then some days it just refuses to work altogether

    I also connected it to my home theater and I was able to set up 5.1 sound without any additional installations. In windows it took me several hours to fix this and sometimes the link between the laptop and the HT would be cut for some reason in the middle of a movie and I had to restart everything