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Torus-Earth (2014)
- pdonis 4y agoWhy do people insist on specifying a tiny font size that I can't read? (Or for that matter, specifying a font size at all, instead of just leaving it to the default, which I, the reader, can adjust appropriately for my preferences and eye capabilities?)
- skyyler 4y agoCan you not re-adjust the font after it's specified? I'm confused. I was able to Ctrl+Plus it
- pdonis 4y agoOf course I can zoom. I had to zoom to 150% to make the page readable. But I shouldn't have to. This kind of content has no reason to force any particular font size.
- dredmorbius 4y agoMany browsers don't zoom, or zoom in useless ways --- full page rather than fonts, as an example. Firefox/Android hides zoom under three clicks: Kebab -> Settings -> Accessiblity -> Font Size It applies the same zoom to all websites, and does not remember per-website zoom settings. I'm increasingly going to my newest favourite browser (at least on Android & e-ink), EinkBro, which has font zoom directly on the toolbar, immediately available. It's easier to access / change credit card settings than font size on Firefox / Android. I've used the browser family since Netscape days. I'm wondering who the hell is running the show there.
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- pvg 4y agoPlease don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Tagbert 4y agoThat page has almost no formatting. It is nearly all raw html. You can certainly zoom the page in your browser or apply client-side styling to change the font. While there are sites that make it difficult to read due to aggressive styling, this is most definitely not one of them.
- pdonis 4y agoThe stylesheet forces small font sizes for the body text. I don't see why I should have to spend my time doing client-side styling to override the braindead choices of a site designer.
- a1369209993 4y agoWhy do people insist on using a web browser that prioritises websites' specifications over their own?
- pdonis 4y agoIf your browser ignores CSS stylesheets, it's going to have a hard time getting much traction. I suppose I could spend time crafting site-specific stylesheets for all the sites that insist, for no good reason, on having CSS that makes them unreadable, and then tell my browser to use my custom stylesheet to override the one the site specified. But why would a site designer force me to do this? For content that shouldn't care about things like font sizes anyway?
- dredmorbius 4y agoIncreased use of Reader Mode makes me think that the tide may well be changing. Web design isn't the solution. Web design is the problem.
- labster 4y agoYou know, it’s for kids!
- cwillu 4y agoYou let me down. You let Mrs Eisenhower down. You let the American people down… by sticking that “it's” in there.
- dang 4y agoRelated: Torus Earth (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15578594 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15578594 - Oct 2017 (17 comments) Torus-Earth - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7182822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7182822 - Feb 2014 (62 comments)
- hinkley 4y agoStand-up Maths on youtube recently asserted that, at least to topologists, a torus is a hollow rather than a solid donut. Is that something particular to topological domains or is the title on this incorrect?
- melissalobos 4y agoYou can say exactly the same thing for a sphere. Really a sphere is just the skin, but in practice people will use phrases like "within the sphere" etc.. So it really doesn't matter, when it does people refer to the "boundary" of it or will just write some equations.
- contravariant 4y agoTopologically the hollow torus is more interesting, the solid one is effectively a slightly thicker circle.
- deepsun 4y agoCouldn't get from the article -- is angular velocity is the same for each point on the torus? If not (essentially liquid regardless of composition), a ton of rotational energy would convert to heat pretty fast
- andrewflnr 4y agoThey're talking about a stable arrangement, so presumably not one prone to converting rotational energy to heat.
- robot9000 4y ago
- messe 4y ago> while strongest slightly hubward from the "poles". This can be a fairly major difference. Spotted the discworld fan.
- frontrowseat 4y agoIs discworld worth reading? I've heard mixed reviews on it
- andreareina 4y agoI like it. The humor is a bit peculiar. If you like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy you'll probably like Discworld.
- cmroanirgo 4y agoSome are real head scratchers too. My favorite, from the first book: "Reflected sound of underground spirits" -> echo gnomes -> economics. An easier one: "Inn sewer ants" -> insurance
- dTal 4y agoYes, absolutely. But don't make the mistake of reading it in order - the first couple of books are not representative of what people love about it, as Pratchett hadn't really settled into his style at that point. Early Discworld was a straightforward piss-take of fantasy tropes, but it became wonderful when it expanded into more general social satire. Where to start, then? It's not a series so much as a diaspora of stories set in a shared universe with occasional shared characters. Certain collections of books form little mini-series within themselves. There's a solid overview here: https://www.discworldemporium.com/content/6-discworld-reading-order https://www.discworldemporium.com/content/6-discworld-readin...
- gs17 4y agoI'm still surprised "widdershins" is a real word for counter-clockwise.
- JetAlone 4y agoWhat might be the practicality of an aquatic flotilla city for the purposes of following the sunlight more to manipulate placement to experience longer days? For given different volumes maybe it could be practical at a reachable speed... If the donut were extremely thin, for example it's not too far to get to or stay in the sunny side....
- wdfx 4y agoSo is there a stable torus planet dimension where the hole contains captured atmosphere through which you could fly using a conventional (non spacecraft) aeroplane?