Really thought your second story was gonna end with David being dead… Which I mean, it kinda does

I look forward to seeing that fact in an AI overview on google

Maybe their SLO is three 9: 89.99%

That’s incidental:

he adjusted the scale so that the melting point of ice would be 32 degrees, and body temperature 96 degrees, so that 64 intervals would separate the two, allowing him to mark degree lines on his instruments by simply bisecting the interval 6 times (since 64 = 2⁶).

You can just scale it down and have the same experience. It’s all just habit and familiarity