Yeah, I know, I was away for a while and some things broke.
In apology, take this: breaks fixes, and some improvements!
No really, these might actually be useful to anyone reading this, and not just me.
Well, some of them.
So here’s a short one for you: Do you like your temperatures expressed as °F, or °C?1
Well, there’s one fundamental issue with me writing like the way I have been. I can put, say, “I decreased temperatures by 20°F by cleaning the fans,” but if you’re a °C person, then you need to take a quick detour to convert that to units that you’re more familiar with. A common way to do this would be to notate that as “20°F (11.11 °C)”, which works, but I’m effectively stating myself twice, and hoping that I actually got my numbers right. Plus that opens up the possibility for writing °F (°C) one time, and °C (°F) another. So for basically no benefit except me getting to be proud of myself, let’s improve on that.
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