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   by nj65537 4y ago

   I'm reading this thread with css adjustments from the Dark Reader Firefox extension that I just learned about a few weeks ago, and damn, I am soooo happy with it.
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   by nj65537 4y ago

   Not closely related, but the topic reminds me of this gem of a question from math.SE: Why does "Turn! Turn! Turn!" equal 241217.524881? (It's because of the calculator, but not in an obvious way.) https://math.stac
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   by nj65537 7y ago

   I don't have a qa key though
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   by nj65537 8y ago

   The style of writing makes this read like a sledgehammer. It is strangely refreshing.
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   by nj65537 8y ago

   NIST has also just released its own article about the redefinition: https://www.nist.gov/si-redefinition/kilogram-kibble-balance It has quite a few details that give a sense of the engineering challenges involved. - Th
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   Redefining the Mole(nist.gov)

   52 points by nj65537 8y ago|28 comments
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   by nj65537 8y ago

   I think the story is told as a sort of cultural marker of what a Big F-ing Deal this discovery was/is. Mathematics, collectively, struggled for a long time to find a way to make 3-dimensional numbers into an algebra in a way that exte