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Well, tough. This is how art works: a consensus emerges among practitioners that some things are better than other things, even though nobody can articulate in words just what make…

I trained as an architectural historian, and let me tell you, architectural quality can't be put into words. Architects and arch. historians have intuitive opinions. There is no sc…

Christopher Alexander thinks he is the messiah of building. The buildings he has built are not good, though, and not all of the other architects in the world are as stupid as you m…

It is produced by mdBook https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/

I have posted a related resource on the entire history of printed images. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37562880

They are famous. I am in my mid-40s and the term was discussed when I was growing up—despite the technology having been obsolete for 100 years. https://www.theguardian.com/technolo…

Site, with hours of video, that accompanies the exhibition on the history of printing techniques mounted by Richard Benson at the end of his career.

This actually happened a long time ago. Back in 2007, in fact.

I don't know where you got the idea that there is a first guess that comes from a table. The table lookup just brings x into a suitable range, given A. Shades of "Pray, Mr. Babbage…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_iteration

There are a couple of nice minimal spreadsheets in js: http://web.archive.org/web/20130606222859/http://thomasstree... Inspired by that, an even smaller one: https://jsfiddle.net/o…

If you search for "perpetual motion machine" you can find a ton of cheap knockoffs of this device. You can get a badly made wooden knockoff for $50 or quite a bit less?

One interesting thing is that category theory provides a way to precisely describe a Most General Unifier. It is a example of a coequalizer. This isn't a really basic and accessibl…

The term intaglio does not just cover engraving. It also includes etching, which is quite different.