[santiagobasulto]

I live very close to the one in Italy (close to Turin). It's SO impressive. The early cathedral was built around the year ~800AD. And it was not "built" in the sense that they placed bricks one over the other. Instead, what they did was "cut" the stone of the mountain to shape it as a cathedral.

The steps of the stairs are just cut and shaped stone, the walls are just stone. It can be summer and 90degrees in Turin, and inside the cathedral is 30 degrees and so chill.

If you ever find yourself close, go visit it, it's a very humbling experience.

[sokoloff]

> It can be summer and 90degrees in Turin, and inside the cathedral is 30 degrees and so chill.

Which temperature scale are you using here?

[throw_pm23]

I suppose Celsius and 90 is a poetic exaggeration for 35+, while 30 being realistic for inside a stone-building mid-summer in Italy.

Alternatively, Fahrenheit, and 90 is realistic for outdoors mid-summer in Italy and 30 is a poetic exaggeration for ~80 inside a stone-building. If meant literally, the holy water would freeze inside the cathedral. Besides, nobody uses Fahrenheit in Europe, but poetic exaggeration is common.

[tjoff]

I've never heard of anyone proclaim 30 deg c as being "so chill". Also much hotter than what I would expect a cathedral to be.

But then again, I am sensitive to heat.

[enedil]

Probably not Kelvin.

[pbmonster]

Shitty life-hacks: you can ballpark converting from Celsius to Fahrenheit by multiplying by 2!

[throw_pm23]

This life-hack is significantly improved if you change it to:

C->F: multiply by 2, then add 30

F->C: subtract 30, then divide by 2.

[abofh]

At room temperatures, the +32 is significant, at cooking temperatures, who's oven is even accurate to 16/32 degrees? It depends on if knowing the "right" answer is more important than knowing an answer that will get you to what you want e.g., tasty muffins rather than charcoal briquettes :)

[thruway516]

Ill say. If I follow GPs life-hack for 30C I get 60F, which is significantly different from 86F. Some life-hack.

[combray]

30*2 + 30 = 90, which is pretty close to 86.

Going the other way

86-30 / 2 = 28 which is close to 30.

[thruway516]

I was referring to the comment above that one.

[dEnigma]

That's why they called it a "shitty" life hack.

[elviejo]

This is the correct life hack. is approximate enough to give you an idea. and easy enough to do mentally