There are a couple I have in mind. Like many techies, I am a huge fan of RSS for content distribution and XMPP for federated communication.

The really niche one I like is S-expressions as a data format and configuration in place of json, yaml, toml, etc.

I am a big fan of Plaintext formats, although I wish markdown had a few more features like tables.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•4 months ago

    All temperature scales are arbitrary, but since our environment is full of water, one tied to the phase changes of water around the atmospheric pressure the vast majority of people experience just makes more sense.

    But when it comes to weather, the boiling point of water is not a meaningful point of reference.

    I suppose I’m biased since I grew up in an area where 0-100°F was roughly the actual temperature range over the course of a year. It was newsworthy when we dropped below zero or rose above 100. It was a scale everybody understood intuitively because it aligned with our lived experience.

    • @[email protected]
      1•3 months ago

      But when it comes to weather, the boiling point of water is not a meaningful point of reference.

      Well, the freezing point of water is very relevant for weather. If I see that the forecast is -1 degC when it was positive before, I know I will have to watch out for ice on roads.

      And the boiling point as the other reference point makes complete sense.

    • @[email protected]English
      0•4 months ago

      Ours is around 10°C to 40°C, or 15°C to 30°C depending upon your tolerances, so I guess that’s it.