[HN Gopher] Torus-Earth (2014) ___________________________________________________________________ Torus-Earth (2014) Author : 10000truths Score : 29 points Date : 2022-07-14 04:33 UTC (18 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.aleph.se) (TXT) w3m dump (www.aleph.se) | labster wrote: | You know, it's for kids! | pdonis wrote: | Why do people insist on specifying a tiny font size that I can't | read? (Or for that matter, specifying a font size at all, instead | of just leaving it to the default, which I, the reader, can | adjust appropriately for my preferences and eye capabilities?) | skyyler wrote: | Can you not re-adjust the font after it's specified? I'm | confused. I was able to Ctrl+Plus it | [deleted] | pvg wrote: | _Please don 't complain about tangential annoyances--things | like article or website formats, name collisions, or back- | button breakage. They're too common to be interesting._ | | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html | a1369209993 wrote: | Why do people insist on using a web browser that prioritises | websites' specifications over their own? | Tagbert wrote: | That page has almost no formatting. It is nearly all raw html. | You can certainly zoom the page in your browser or apply | client-side styling to change the font. | | While there are sites that make it difficult to read due to | aggressive styling, this is most definitely not one of them. | dang wrote: | Related: | | _Torus Earth (2014)_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15578594 - Oct 2017 (17 | comments) | | _Torus-Earth_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7182822 - | Feb 2014 (62 comments) | hinkley wrote: | Stand-up Maths on youtube recently asserted that, at least to | topologists, a torus is a hollow rather than a solid donut. Is | that something particular to topological domains or is the title | on this incorrect? | melissalobos wrote: | You can say exactly the same thing for a sphere. Really a | sphere is just the skin, but in practice people will use | phrases like "within the sphere" etc.. So it really doesn't | matter, when it does people refer to the "boundary" of it or | will just write some equations. | deepsun wrote: | Couldn't get from the article -- is angular velocity is the same | for each point on the torus? If not (essentially liquid | regardless of composition), a ton of rotational energy would | convert to heat pretty fast | robot9000 wrote: ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-14 23:00 UTC)