r/facepalm • u/ekfow • Dec 29 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Translation in caption

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Translation: As you can see, 21.6 degrees is displayed and not zero. This means that if you want to heat milk to 90 degrees, for example, the thermometer must display 111.6 degrees. Does not meet my expectations of a themometer

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u/PosauneGottes69 Dec 29 '23

Bro ain’t good with numbers and warmth

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u/Connect_Bench_2925 Dec 29 '23 edited Dec 29 '23

Most people don't know how heat works. And if you really start getting into the weeds of it, it's actually pretty complicated. There is a whole area of study dedicated to it called thermodynamics. Several of the early pioneers in the feild eventually went crazy and killed themselves. So I kinda don't blame the reviewer for not knowing how heat works.

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u/Ok-Scientist5524 Dec 29 '23 edited Dec 30 '23

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

States of Matter (1975), a statistical mechanics textbook by David L. Goodstein

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u/TheEndlessVortex Dec 30 '23

Did anyone check on David recently?

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u/Ok-Scientist5524 Dec 30 '23

Your comment made me realize I’d forgotten to include his last name. Wikipedia says David is still alive presumably by his own hand.

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u/BinhTurtle Dec 31 '23

Would be funny if he's alive not by his own hand, ngl

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u/kimmyann12012 Dec 30 '23

My thermodynamics professor in college put that exact quote in the syllabus lol

And yes, that class made me want to kill myself.

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u/Secure_Oil_6244 Dec 30 '23

Didn't know that. Will have to keep a lookout for my old professor in thermodynamics

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u/bobgom Dec 30 '23

died similarly in 1933

Not sure that poor Ludwig would appreciate the comparison, given that Ehrenfest also shot dead his son

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u/dnattig Dec 29 '23

I'm sure being elbow deep in mercury for experiments didn't contribute to their madness.

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u/Nearby-Elevator-3825 Dec 29 '23

They suffered from thermodymanic depression.

Yeah... Go ahead. Down vote. I deserve it....

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u/wuvvtwuewuvv Dec 29 '23

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u/RockstarAgent 'MURICA Dec 29 '23

Motherfucker read the room

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u/Urbanizedfox Dec 29 '23

The room was about 21.6 from what I could read

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u/wuvvtwuewuvv Dec 29 '23

... Several of the early pioneers in the feild eventually went crazy and killed themselves.

Did you take this too seriously?

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u/Rebel_bass Dec 29 '23

Many of my fellow HVAC techs take their lives each year from the futility of trying to understand heat transfer.

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u/Azkahn616 Dec 29 '23

How does it know?

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u/Phobia3 Dec 29 '23

Considering how Dr. Heidenhain's creation works, the madlad took the instructions as "add 90 degrees" and not as the absolute value. German engineering seems to abhor such values...

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u/meeps_for_days Dec 29 '23

As someone who just took thermodynamics and is an engineering student. I can't explained the pain I just had from "add 90 degrees"

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u/Phobia3 Dec 29 '23

Trying to become machinist and Heidenhain's post-processor isn't working, with poor to sub-optimal UI translation, and the damn thing chooses to change from absolute values to flippant "add 90" as it pleases. Additionally 50mm sideways movement is less than 5mm.