MalcolmDwyer

> The young folks that I've talked to...

Meanwhile the older folks are still freaked out from when they watched "The Tripods" in the 80's and can't abide big mechanical monsters looming nearby.

Dude... delete that. That’s an important spoiler for a show that just came out a week ago. Yeah, he's in White Lotus S3. That’s all you needed to say.

It's also not "CSS only".

It's everything! It's waterproof! -- No it isn't. -- It's water resistant! -- No it isn't. -- It's... water absorbent! Absorb water today with Simpson's Individual Flood Preventers!

The Great Lakes span across hundreds of miles, but the deepest point is less than a quarter mile, and most of it is much shallower than that. I.e., it's a super thin film over that big surface area.

This looks great. I can't wait to dive in. Thank you very much for sharing.

Formatting nitpick for the site: when viewed on mobile, the text width is set to screen width minus 1 margin, but the page is fixed at text width plus both margins, so the scrolling has a lot of sloppy side-to-side play and it's irritating to get the content lined up in the middle.

Order of magnitude usually refers to a 10x difference. Two orders of magnitude would be 100x difference.

(Sometimes the phrase is casually used to just mean "a lot", but here I think they mean 10x).

When I saw the title, I thought this was going to be a security issue... like that they figured out how to identify someone's location based on unique power fluctuations from sun/clouds somehow leaking into a detectable signal in someone's online communications.

This is a story about urban public transit, not inter-city rail. The size of the country or spread between cities is not really relevant.

(And the low density of post-war American city sprawl is a consequence of our car-based urban planning, not the cause of it.)

It would be interesting to relax the color requirements such that you could encode a program into what looks like image noise. Sort of like steganography, but instead of hidden data, it's a hidden executable program.

But watch out for 100vh on mobile. It doesn't account for the sometimes there, sometimes not there address bar.

To solve that, there's svh (small), lvh (large), and dvh (dynamic).

If you want to make a div stretch to the height of the window, so that something can appear exactly at the bottom before scrolling,

{ height: 100vh; height: 100svh; }

works best... the first line is there as a fallback for the few browsers that don't yet support svh... and if svh is supported it will replace the first line.

"A $200,000 plant..."

Those 1954 dollars comes out to about $2.3 million today. That seems really low for a factory. Could you set up manufacturing for anything for $2 million today? (Besides Etsy shops...)

Well please let's not just rebuild all our roads to accommodate the fastest and stupidest drivers. (See above about pedestrian and cyclist safety).

I guess that's just always happening anyway. Except in a few cities doing proper bike lanes, roads are always getting widened, intersections expanded.