• (nodebb)

    All your Mays are belong to us, at least at frist...

  • (nodebb)

    Maybe it's just because I'm not a native English speaker, but I'd say a temperature cannot be warm. Air can be warm, ice can be cold, but temperature is either high or low.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Melissa U

    I'd vote for the not-native-speaker thing. It's a transformation related to metonymy, where when we want to talk about a thing X, we use a word that's really for part of X, or that X is part of, or that is somehow related to X (example: using "l'Élysée" (the building that's the French equivalent of the White House) to mean "the French president" or "the offices of the French president"). In this case, when we say that the temperature is warm, what we mean is "the temperature is sufficient that the air is warm".

  • (nodebb) in reply to Melissa U

    I presume you're referring to the "Outlook" section.

    I would say that technically (the best kind of ally), a temperature cannot be "high" or "low" since that is again a subjective measure just like "warm". It's just a number. Therefore, it can be "higher" or "lower" as compared a second temperature number.

    In addition, the "Outlook" mentions that it will be "warmer" than the previous night, which again is a perfectly valid assertion to make since it is again a comparison and not an absolute, provided you stipulate that "warmer" is a synonym for "higher" - which it is in colloquial usage.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    Thanks. Of course, in German we're doing the same. We're drinking a glass of beer, and we're doing this quite often, but of course, we're not drinking the glass, we're drinking the beer instead.

    But we never say "Die Temperatur ist heiß". That would just be wrong. But it may be different in English language, I just haven't heard this yet.

    So I've learned something new now. ;)

  • (nodebb) in reply to The Beast in Black

    Yes, I'm refering to the "Outlook" section.

    It says the low temperature will be warmer. It's low and warmer at the same time, which is possible but an absolutely stupid statement, especially from a weather site.

  • (nodebb)

    How does MayMayMayMay happen? It seems unlikely that anyone would do %s%s%s%s in a printf like statement, send it the same string four times and never even test it once. Maybe some kind of concatenation in a loop? Seems like an incredibly stupid bug to have.

  • (nodebb) in reply to mynameishidden

    It seems unlikely that anyone would [...] and never even test it once

    Hmmmm, I didn't think you were new here.

  • Álvaro González (github) in reply to mynameishidden

    How does MayMayMayMay happen?

    Using MMMM YYYY under the assumption that those are the date formatting tokens for short month name and full year.

    Addendum 2026-05-29 09:54: Not the case, but reminds me of https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/21/sqlrf/Format-Models.html#GUID-49B32A81-0904-433E-B7FE-51606672183A

  • Conradus (unregistered) in reply to Álvaro González

    Add to that 'kThursday' and I think we have somebody who really doesn't know his date format codes.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Melissa U

    If it was 10F yesterday and 20F today, it's still cold but warmer than yesterday.

  • Andreas (unregistered)

    TRWTF is Fahrenheit.

  • Actually (unregistered)

    There is a large amount of heat even at freezing temperatures, when viewed from the perspective of physics and not human comfort; there's about a 10% difference in Kelvin between winter and summer.

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