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IUPAC really need to be stopped. Four elements named after one Swedish village was already too many :/ :/ :/ this one doesn't even sound like a real element :/ :/ :/

A4 is the nicest note in MIDI

trying to sell an upright piano to a scotsman, but when i tell him the price he says it's grand

“inline pictures (which might be big)”

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0188.html

thirty years ago, they were discussing a new HTML tag: <img>

📹 “The process of making fake food. A 71-year-old craftsman who has been making fake food for 53 years.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9E77WZGCpQ

god save me, i'm going to become a miasma truther. here is a guy writing in 1765 about it:

By miasma is meant extremely subtle bodies that are believed to be the propagators of contagious diseases; people rather naturally thought that these small pieces of prodigiously attenuated material escaped from bodies infected by the disease and communicated it to non-infected people, penetrating their bodies after being spread through the air or more directly, passing immediately from the affected bodies to the non-infected; it is only by their effects that we have been able suspect their existence; a single man infected by the plague spread this disastrous illness through many countries.

(https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/did2222.0000.369?view=text;rgn=main)

nothing said here is incompatible with the germ theory of disease! the belief is that the air, and perhaps other things, could be contaminated by tiny particles that spread disease, which is… correct!

now, obviously they never were able to identify what these particles were, where they came from, or how they worked, given the technological limitations of the time prevented their detection. consequently, there are a lot of ideas associated with miasmas that were wrong. but the core idea was absolutely right. pre-industrial humanity was far smarter than we give it credit for.

(btw i encourage reading the rest of the part i quoted, it's quite interesting.)

the audio cd is a beautiful standard because it is something truly rare in the field of technology: it is complete. it set out to solve the problem of distributing audio, and it solved it so completely that it will never be obsolete, because it delivers quality far surpassing what the human ear can make out. for the last four decades, audio has simply been a solved problem, thanks to the cd.

i have been informed that despite iso charging money for the c standard, the people working on it don't get paid

this explains a lot 🙃

type of girl whose favourite genre of music is MIDI synthesiser demos

a short video of me unboxing some brand new computer hardware!!! :3

(despite the potato camera quality i can assure you i recorded this today, 2023-07-31)