• (nodebb)

    locales that insist on using weird ass units are

    Or in this case, essentially only a single country insists on using these "weird ass units", the other 10 who use it exclusively are so small that they only do it because of that one significant, but "weird ass", country.

  • (nodebb)

    Which, I want to stress, this code comes from an open source project for home automation, so it's not the code that's wrong, here.

    I'm going to ignore the grammatical hash at the beginning of the sentence, and concentrate on the implied assertion that "open source project" directly implies "the code is not wrong"...

    This is completely bogus as reasoning, as if the mere act of opening the source somehow makes the code correct. Even "It's F/OSS and it has been out for at least ten years, therefore the code is not wrong" is still bogus, if it's about a boring bit that apparently just works. (Noteworthy point - the tables in these functions might be mostly incapable of breaking anything because it almost never gets to be sufficiently exact to match any of the numbers in the table...)

  • Pag (unregistered)

    Fahrenheit was originally defined using average human body temperature as 96 degrees F. You could measure this using an ass thermometer. Then the units would be better described as average-ass then weird-ass.

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