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2026-07-13 01:37 UTC
@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io @cptbutton@dice.camp @cherizilla@retro.pizza Yeah I saw someone else make that point too, that about 12 micrometers is typical IR wavelength for the peak emission at human body temperature. I hadn't thought about that. But it's still kinda nonsensical to use a micron as a unit of temperature or heat energy, since it's not a linear scale.
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@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io 2026-07-13 01:43
@diazona@techhub.social @cptbutton@dice.camp @cherizilla@retro.pizza the specific line was "The registers [sic] heat changes in the 8 to 12 micron range" which is not an inaccurate description of how an IR sensor works. If I were going to quarrel with it, the thing I would be nitpicking is "heat changes" because the rest of it sounds fine to me.