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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.

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 …

I don't have a qa key though

The style of writing makes this read like a sledgehammer. It is strangely refreshing.

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…

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-…