• Psythik@lemmy.world
      354·
      2 天前

      Now that you pointed it out, this annoys me more than people who put the currency sign after the amount.

      • macniel@feddit.org
        49·
        2 天前

        Welcome to Europa were we do exactly that, as the placement of the currency symbol is a locale thing not a universal.

          • macniel@feddit.org
            9·
            1 天前

            but you say “its 15 US Dollar”, and not “its US Dollar 15”? Same with any other unit (which a currency is) “x m, y seconds, z newton”

        • Psythik@lemmy.world
          1531·
          2 天前

          Yeah I know, it drives me crazy.

          It’s also annoying when Europeans swap the comma and decimal on currency amounts too, especially given that you don’t do that when writing sentences. Few things more infuriating than seeing an amount written out like 2.999,95€! Where are your manners!?

              • atro_city@fedia.io
                11·
                2 天前

                I see, that’s understandable. We all have pet-peeves. Mine is the date format in the US that has spread month-day-year. Most of Europe is day-month-year and it’s very confusing when people start adopting US formats because they watch so much stuff from the US.

                • Psythik@lemmy.world
                  231·
                  2 天前

                  IMO any date standard other than ISO 8601 is wrong too. Year-Month-Date makes the most sense from a chronological standpoint. Also makes sorting files by date easier.

              • Zombie@feddit.uk
                91·
                2 天前

                The set of communication protocols to enable internetworking on the Internet arose from research and development commissioned in the 1970s by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense in collaboration with universities and researchers across the United States, United Kingdom and France.[4][5][6]

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

                The Web was invented by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

                Bloody ignorant loud mouth Americans claiming credit for group projects, as usual.

          • Demdaru@lemmy.world
            112·
            2 天前

            Where I live we…just use comma. So 2999,95. No reason to add useless separators in the middle, and if we do for clarity sake, we use space (2 999,95).

            This is gonna irk you further, isn’t it…? xD

            • blackbeans@lemmy.zip
              4·
              2 天前

              Wish everyone just followed the ISO norm. It dictates that you can either use a period or a comma as decimal separator. And for the thousands separator, just use a space.

            • Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de
              5·
              2 天前

              We use, if needed, apostrophes or upticks. 2’999,95. No danger of messing up between . and , that way.

              Also let’s just wait until that person learns that not every country separates into blocks of 3 and how many options of mixing and matching there are in use.

          • macniel@feddit.org
            7·
            2 天前

            manners? Where is your freedom, as you took that notation (0,000.00) from your british overlords.

            • Psythik@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 天前

              Well like I said to the other person, it’s not a “I think the US is superior” thing; very much the opposite. I simply have autism. (ADHD too but that’s not relevant here.)

              • macniel@feddit.org
                6·
                2 天前

                Where are your manners!?

                That’s alright, but “Where are your manners!?” comes off a bit hostile. But in any case, have a nice day.

                • Psythik@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  2 天前

                  Don’t worry I’m just being cheeky. I inserted that bit to keep the comment lighthearted.

              • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
                2·
                2 天前

                One of my favorite things about Lemmy is how many of us are in the autism/ADHD neurotribe, or at least have an understanding about it. We can read your response and be like, “Oh, okay. Yeah, I get where you’re coming from” and roll along, without the need for senseless hostility.

                Just another day, another misinterpretation - we’ve all been there. Carry on.

          • expr@programming.dev
            4·
            2 天前

            “It’s so infuriating when people communicate in ways I’m not used to!”

            Doesn’t sound great.

            According to ISO 80000-1, the decimal separator can either be a period or a comma, and no preference is given to either. Many American software systems support both (including the software I work on). It’s really quite normal and mundane.

          • esa@discuss.tchncs.de
            2·
            2 天前

            People who deviate from the rule that units go after the number drive me batty.

            Like what, is the US equivalent of X €/kWh written $ X / kWh or something??? Absolutely disgusting

          • Axolotl@feddit.it
            1·
            2 天前

            Wait until ypu discover that were i live we use those:

            • 2.000.000,34
            • 2’000’000,34
            • 2 000 000,34

            And that what you use depends on who your teacher was XD

      • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
        16·
        2 天前

        To me putting it first feels funny. Euro 100, instead of 100 euros. While writing it you need to remember to put the symbol before writing the amount. Funny thing

        • forkDestroyer@infosec.pubEnglish
          5·
          2 天前

          I’ll give you my 2¢ on this: I like the dollar sign before the number. When I say “3 dollars” I see it as “$3” not “3$” and I don’t see it as “dollars 3” unless I’m telling a riddle.

          Just like with American date structure: I’ll say July 26, 2026 and will see it as 07/26/2026.

          (But when I put a date in files I go for YYYY/MM/DD format)

          (Whoever created these systems had a funny sense of synergy lol)

      • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
        13·
        2 天前

        I dont know why that annoys me. It does annoy me but it shouldn’t because at least it has a logic to it.

        £2 Is spoken “two pounds” not “pound two”

    • HamsterRage@lemmy.ca
      52·
      2 天前

      Technically, I think that C° is used to express differences or ranges of temperatures. For instance the difference between 15 °C and 20 °C is 5 C°. Or you could say something like, “5 C° more is all it takes for me to start wearing shorts”.

      • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 天前

        I’m pretty sure you’ve made this up. °C is the unit regardless

        How would you “say” this, “Five Celcius degrees more…”?

      • arctanthrope@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 天前

        I feel like that would have come up at some point during my two years of thermodynamics classes where we were constantly using ∆T. just did a search for “C°” in quotes, and for delta T; first one returned nothing, second showed a bunch of sources where the units of ∆T were °C. any idea where you might have heard this?

        • HamsterRage@lemmy.ca
          3·
          2 天前

          I’m old. Google tells me that “Celcius degrees” used to be used for differences or ranges, but modern standards just use “degrees celcius” for everything. My experience would come from thermodynamics classes in the 1980’s.

      • elDalvini@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        1 天前

        I’ve always seen Kelvin used to describe differences in temperature, since Kelvin has a real zero point and the steps are the same as Celsius. Or people just use °C because they don’t know or care that it’s technically wrong.

  • Joey@programming.dev
    4·
    1 天前

    I don’t really get the hate for fahrenheit. It’s a nice 0 to 100 scale for everyday weather temperatures. But also every 10 degrees is different enough that you don’t even need to be precise when talking about it: “We’ll probably need the AC today, it’s going to be in the 80s”.

    I’m an American that’s all for converting to metric but I would still use fahrenheit for weather since it’s just so easy and convenient.

  • MrOtingocni@lemmy.world
    41·
    1 天前

    Of course I do, it stands for Percentage of Commie.

    These poor folks don’t even know in a free country you can wear jackets and shorts any time you like.

  • renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    101·
    1 天前

    Yeah but, 10c is 50f, which is not cold for shorts. Maybe cool at best? I wear shorts year round though 😬.

    • Windex007@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 天前

      An Australian family moved to my town on some kind of exchange and yah, the one kid was still wearing a jacket at 30. Literally never wasn’t cold.

      Taught us how to play cricket, he was a cool kid.

    • Nangijala@feddit.dk
      2·
      1 天前

      as someone who has visited one of the hottest countries on Earth, yeah… 30C in countries like that, is considered chilly. There were a couple of days in a row where the temp reached 50 and kept crawling. My Scandinavian ass was not ready.

  • Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
    20·
    2 天前

    Heatwaves in London are strange. You see a few people outside in light sweaters. It’s like they don’t know what to do. It’s like they don’t own t-shirts

    • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world
      51·
      2 天前

      I always wear long sleeved shirts, because I burn very quickly and don’t want skin cancer and I really dislike applying sunscreen all the time.

      • OryxAndCake@slrpnk.net
        21·
        2 天前

        Same, but when it’s 30c+ outside there’s a huge difference between us going out wearing long sleeved linen shirts and light trousers, and the handful of people I always end up seeing (at least!) wearing puffer jackets and wooly hats.

      • rapchee@lemmy.world
        51·
        2 天前

        unfortunately it did go over 30° the last time i was there. but tbf also that’s the hottest it gets

        • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe
          2·
          2 天前

          it did go over 30° the last time i was there. but tbf also that’s the hottest it gets

          40C in London in 2022,

          https://www.londonworld.com/news/weather/heatwave-london-weather-highest-ever-temperature-recorded-uk-heathrow-airport-3773879

          37.7C last month (June 2026)

          https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/june-2026-heatwave-a-recap-of-the-temperature-records (for avoidance of confusion those are the records for June - the 40C was July 2022)

          Anything over 28C is currently classified as a heatwave, but I think they’re going to have to revisit that, or just say “all summer is a heatwave try not to die” given 32-35C has been consistently hit pretty much every summer this decade.

        • db2@lemmy.world
          42·
          10 小时前

          That’s only 86F. It’s not a heat wave in the US until it’s in the mid 90s. That’s 35 Celsius.

          That 111 you see is 43.9C.

          fixed image

          • rapchee@lemmy.world
            7·
            2 天前

            yeah it’s not bad globally, but it is pretty bad for london, the infrastructure isn’t prepared for it
            esp because it’s pretty humid as well, sweating doesn’t do much

            • db2@lemmy.world
              41·
              2 天前

              Yeah, the humidity also doesn’t compare. The US is, as with most things especially lately, way worse.

              None of this means the UK has it easy, don’t misunderstand. It means the people stuck in the US are in a crazy land of stupid things which includes the weather. But at least there aren’t Australian murder fauna I guess.

              • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
                3·
                1 天前

                62% humidity outside right now, 99° F “real feel”, 92° F “real feel shade”. 88° F actual temp.

                I think what folks from not humid places don’t realize is how hot the shade is. Shade is always better than sun, obviously, but it sort of only takes the feeling of the sun against your skin. The air is still hot. I’d compare it to a sauna sort of. Like it’s still stuffy.

                The first time my wife went to somewhere that actually has dry heat she said it was amazing. She was actually cold in the shade. Not just cool. That concept is so foreign to me.

                • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  1 天前

                  This. Higher wet bulb temps just straight up kill you. A hot day in Alabama or Louisiana is not the same as a hot day in London or Riyadh.

  • lordziv@lemmy.nz
    4·
    1 天前

    Come to New Zealand, we wear shorts (or stubbies as they are known over here) all year round!

  • douz0a0bouz@midwest.socialEnglish
    10·
    2 天前

    “When will I ever use this in real life?!?” I wonder how successful “to understand the international memes” would be in the classroom 🤔