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That’s the first thing I wanted!",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"36585500","Pannoniae","Lifehack: you can't select 400 degrees on the clock itself, but https:\u002F\u002Fdegreeswhat.com\u002F?400 works perfectly ;)",[95,102,109],{"value":96,"source":69,"evidence":97},"Compass bearings are mirrored and only show half the compass.",[98],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"36584944","sails","I like it. The link https:\u002F\u002Fdegreeswhat.com\u002F?100 too quickly tracks the mouse and you lose the pointer to the specific degrees Unfortunately your compass bearings seems a bit…",{"value":103,"source":69,"evidence":104},"Kelvin info claim doesn't match displayed output.",[105],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"36582995","someweirdperson","A small inconsistency: The \"i\"nfo button claims it is also converting Kelvin, but those don't seem to be displayed. Kelvin is not degrees, probably the info text is wrong. Could…",{"value":110,"source":69,"evidence":111},"Hard to hit exact values like -40 with the dial.",[112],{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"36584723","j1elo","Funnily enough, the scale on the linked page doesn't allow me to set -40°. It jumps between -39.9 and -40.1 So seems like -40.0 is really where the singularity lies. Either that,…",[117,128,139],{"value":118,"source":69,"evidence":119},"Add radians or other angle units.",[120,124],{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"36583591","fake-name","How is this literally a compass visualization and yet it has no mention of radians?",{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"36583236","bee_rider","Next convert it to radians.",{"value":129,"source":69,"evidence":130},"Add mouse wheel fine-tuning and snapping to tick marks.",[131,135],{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"36583455","g0ran","Suggestions. Add support for fine-tuning with mouse wheel. Keep fun facts separate, based on degrees or compass view.",{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"36583272","albert_e","idea: add a checkbox to make the red line \"snap\" to the tick marks \u002F major scales. (user can press Alt key to re-enable fine control momentarily)",{"value":140,"source":69,"evidence":141},"Use device magnetic heading for the compass.",[142],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},[144],{"value":145,"source":69,"evidence":146},"Why are temperature degrees named with angular degrees?",[147,151],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"36583441","afgrant","I don’t get why you would conflate temperature degrees with angular degrees. They have nothing to do with each other.",{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"36585494","deelly","As a non-native reader, I`m not sure that I understand. Could you explain why 100 Kelvin, but 100 degrees Celsius and 100 degrees Fahrenheit? 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