• Hmmm... (unregistered)

    Why is it "her" temperature conversion?

  • pudin9 (unregistered)

    Regarding the last one, Amazon had plans for shipping before ordering, not sure what happened with that: https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-32082

  • Moogle (unregistered)

    "Her" temperature conversion? Cover up there, my friend. Your sexism's showing.

    More than that ... since when do we even put up obviously-amateur code on this site? The first (and second, and third, and ...) HTML/JS of everyone sucked, and we were all pretty darn proud of it. Amateurs/hobbyists who write code for corporates is an obvious target (more for the corporate-shaming than anything else), but shaming amateurs/hobbyists for this kind of stuff? Sorry to break it to you, but that's just despicably low.

  • Prime Mover (unregistered) in reply to Moogle

    Once it's posted on the web it's up there, whether it's a student project or not.

    TRWTF is the professor who grades his students according to what they publish live.

    Now, a question for the advanced student: would it have been sexist if Samji had submitted it with the gender-assumed pronoun "his"?

  • I'm not a robot (unregistered) in reply to Moogle
    "Her" temperature conversion? Cover up there, my friend. Your sexism's showing.
    Somehow I get the feeling you'd be perfectly happy if the article had assumed it was "his", or for that matter if it had used "her" to praise a person of unknown gender. It's only "sexist" when it's good+male or bad+female, never vice versa.
  • Wharrgarbl (unregistered) in reply to Prime Mover

    Of course it wouldn't be sexist, it would be stating the obvious because IT is full of straight males who are all incompetent and no females are allowed.

  • Addison (unregistered)

    https://www.cvt24.com/convert/fahrenheit2-190.html is one of the top results returned by duckduckgo for the query:

    [190f in c]

    The code may be amateurish (and indeed non-deterministic - you don't always get the right result) but any naive engineer with weak google-fu is at risk in including its result in their calculations.

  • Simon T (unregistered)

    I love their Seconds to Minutes converter, with an interesting rounding issue https://www.cvt24.com/converter/minutes.html

  • Prime Mover (unregistered) in reply to Moogle

    Moogle, it turns out that you are justified in your indignance. At the bottom of the cvt24 page is a colophon that indicates it was written by a "prince Ejike", whom I have googled up. Every single hit for "Prince Ejike" leads to a person who presents as 100% male.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Prime Mover

    Now, a question for the advanced student: would it have been sexist if Samji had submitted it with the gender-assumed pronoun "his"?

    The obvious answer to that is that there are two possessive determinants(1) "his":

    • Possessive by a person of male sex
    • Possessive by a person of unknown or unspecified sex

    The second is somewhat falling into dis-use, mostly because of ignorance.

    And in any event, I'd have been inclined to say "The temperature conversion" or "Its temperature conversion", referring to "the site".

    Or even "his" on the grounds that the tagline at the very bottom of the page is "prince Ejike", and Ejike shows up mostly as a Nigerian men's name.

    (1) "his" can also be a possessive pronoun: "Whose book was it?" "It was his." However, in the context, "His temperature conversion", "his" functions as a determinant (other determinants are words like "this" or "that").

  • (nodebb)

    Dell managed to send me a laptop before it was manufactured:

    I had ordered a laptop from their site. A few weeks later, I find a notice from UPS in my mailbox about a missed delivery. I call Dell support the next day to schedule another delivery. (Another WTF: why not let UPS handle their deliveries themselves?) I give them my details, and they claim the laptop wasn't built yet. I asked to support person to check again, but they couldn't find anything.

    Two days later, the laptop arrived.

  • (nodebb)

    I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the "her" that everyone is discussing was meant to refer to the submitter, Samji. Her temperature conversion in that context would be intended by the copyeditor to mean "the temperature conversion wtf that Samji found".

  • (nodebb)

    Temperature conversions are a great task for great developers. I reported one in the side bar: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/26141/temperature-conversion?page=1

  • (nodebb) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    ...there are two possessive determinants "his":

    Possessive by a person of male sex Possessive by a person of unknown or unspecified sex

    The second is somewhat falling into dis-use, mostly because of ignorance.

    I would argue that the reason has more to do with awareness and sensitivity than ignorance.

  • "he" (not a robot) (unregistered)

    A simple question by a stranger: are you serious with all those comments about his/her, or are you kidding as usual? Sorry if this question looks a bit stupid, but I really can't figure out.

  • (nodebb) in reply to jkshapiro
    I would argue that the reason has more to do with awareness and sensitivity than ignorance.

    I'm sorry, but no.

  • Funky chicken (unregistered) in reply to CodeJunkie

    I'm sorry, but yes.

  • 190f is already C (unregistered)

    Possibly it should be 190.f

  • The Shadow Knows (unregistered)

    The F to C conversion is a good example of getting something right based on the information you have - most conversions take a ratio (a = n*b) and use that for the calculation, so the ratio used is 1f = -17c. From then on it's just a matter of multiplication. Saying the result is wrong is a matter of context.

  • Anonymous') OR 1=1; DROP TABLE wtf; -- (unregistered)

    I'm more confused about why there's a pie chart in a temperature conversion app.

  • Humanity (unregistered)

    Don't rob women of their humanity. Women can fail too, so by calling someone sexist for using "her" as a neutral possessive in this instance, you are indeed reversing the progress you set out to achieve. It reminds me in a way of the myth of the noble savage.

    Anyway, pudin9 beat me to the punch on the Amazon side of things. Also, a friend of mine has a real estate agent that will scoop of houses on his behalf, knowing that he'll be interested. Never misses a deal! Plus, buyers can always get out of a real estate deal - sellers not so much.

  • Steve (unregistered) in reply to Addison

    It certainly gives the correct value for one input. That must have been there test case...

  • Neveranulll (unregistered)

    The correct usage for a person of undetermined sex is “they” and “their.” As in “Why would someone forget to pay their bill on time?”

    they 1. used to refer to two or more people or things previously mentioned or easily identified. "the two men could get life sentences if they are convicted" 2. used to refer to a person of unspecified gender. "ask someone if they could help"

  • Charles (unregistered)

    Subway are used to making sandwiches, so they make a sandwich, putting their correct message between two test messages.

  • 516052 (unregistered)

    Can we NOT have the pronoun wars of america contaminate this site as well? Firstly, we non americans are frankly sick of your stupid bickering. And secondly we come here to unwind and not to see the same SJW crap we see elsewhere.

  • alexmagnus (unregistered)

    It has nothing to do with SJWs though. The singular "they" is actually older than the singular "you"!

  • (nodebb) in reply to "he" (not a robot)

    A simple question by a stranger: are you serious with all those comments about his/her, or are you kidding as usual? Sorry if this question looks a bit stupid, but I really can't figure out.

    I mean, some trolling is pretty subtle, but I think everyone posting on this particular thread is genuine.

  • 516052 (unregistered) in reply to alexmagnus

    It's everything to do with them because before they came along people weren't fighting over which pronoun was politically correct to use in newspeak.

  • (nodebb)

    That cvt24.com site just keeps on giving.

    Click on "Temprature" on the right hand side (not at the top). Which, incidentally, is mostly but not quite in alphabetical order. Those are some funny temperature units...

    Also, if you go to the "Temprature" page from the top menu, which is the one with the actual temperature conversions, there's a disclaimer which doesn't appear to be on the other pages:

    Disclaimer: This is free tool provided for informational purposes only. Use of this tool is should be done at your own discretion and should not represent total fact on actual values. mortgage calculation using this tool is done at your own discretion.

    And now I want to know who is using temperature conversions in their mortgage calculations.

  • (nodebb)

    Oh my goodness, I just saw this. Nice way to be consistent (although, shockingly, the actual converter uses the right one):

    Celsius to kelvin Formula Formula of Celsius to kelvin , is 1 Celsius is equivalent to 273.15 kelvin. To calculate just use formula 273.15 kelvin * Celsius.The equation is simple. Alternatively it can be reverse to get kelvin to Celsius .

    kelvin to Celsius Formula

    kelvin to Celsius=Celsius + 273.15

    Addendum 2021-07-08 05:36: ugh, forgot about the paragraphing issues. Sorry.

Leave a comment on “The Past is Prologue”

Log In or post as a guest

Replying to comment #:

Log Out

« Return to Article