#explorable-explanations with very nice #typography about the #pricing of data centers in space
How Andrew McCalip did his space data centers #explorable-explanations using pretty much just the usual web APIs. It looks a lot like jQuery code except that now all of jQuery’s functionality is in HTML5.
GPD MicroPC #hardware
#HTML #CSS line-height was defined in a stupid way so that it does the wrong thing if you say something like “1.7em”: it uses the em size of the element that matches the style rule, not the actual font size being used to set the text. So unitless numbers like “1.7” do the right thing (0.7em of leading). Ugh.
#video of Riley Kolbow’s #worksbydesign chess pawn #mechanisms that transform into each piece, such as a queen. #3D-printing in stainless or plastic.
#news from September on #export-controls: #China thinks it can replace #NVIDIA’s chips with its own, so it’s banning NVIDIA imports for #AI.
Mica mining article from 01892, zooming between Mill, the single-tax proposal, ontology, epistemology, Buddhism, “the recent tariff of thirty-five per cent” on East Indian mica, Jason and the Argonauts, etc.
The most common structural steel #materials are A36 steel, with the usual E = 200GPa for steels, a yield stress of 250MPa (or 220MPa for thick plates), and UTS of 400–550MPa. It’s up to 0.26% carbon, making it a mild steel, not a heat-treatable carbon steel.
“It’s an “open secret” in the #FOSS community that in March 2017 my brother murdered our mother.” #Mastodon
Does Debian have a Pleroma instance (like #Mastodon, but not)? Or is this an unofficial Debian-adjacent project?
"The Light of Asia" #Buddhism #ebook originally published in 01892, one of the first English-language books on Buddhism. #religion
PG’s copy of #The-Light-of-Asia #Buddhism #ebook. #religion
gas pipe sizing chart for delivering gas for #energy. Seems like flow rate is proportional to the pipe diameter to a power of about 2.5.
"Gargoyle" is an IF that supports all the major interactive fiction formats and does all its own #typography.