I love scroll lock still existing on keyboards. Some operating systems still use it to control text scroll for some reason (useful when you don't have `screen` installed maybe?), but I mostly use it for toggles in video games. It shows the toggle state on a physical interface, like one of those fancy programmable macro keyboards, but on commodity hardware!
To be clear, "small quantities" are in units of parts per million. 5ppm (0.0005%) and the room smells of ammonia, 25ppm means you should be wearing a respirator, 500 ppm (0.05%) can be lethal.
Warning that 15% air-ammonia mixtures can burn is like warning that 100 kg of TNT could give you a concussion if it fell on your head. It's just not the concern at all.
Awesome in some kind of retro way, since this a thing that C "never" has had in my experience, it being older (by far) than the web and the idea that new programming languages need to be promoted/anchored to a web site.
I couldn't see which person(s) and/or organizations are behind the site though, I feel that should be made easier to find if it's on there at all, else added.
I've noticed nearly every Bluey episode has parallel stories. I think this is part of what makes it so entertaining for adults- kids are excited by the obvious message, while parents who need more to keep them stimulated enjoy watching the threads interweave. The writing is simply the best.
I tried to figure out if the translation is correct (the concept of a "studio apartment" in English is not easy to express in Swedish, and "ateljé" is certainly not it).
I even found this [1] comment on Reddit, detailing the exact same concern. Perhaps worth looking into?
I'm guessing it is pretty easy to express in Swedish once you learn how to speak about housing, though.
Don't know Swedish, but I'm fully lower-to-mid intermediate with Norwegian (I hit limits, but my workplace is Norwegian). Swedish and Norwegian are really similar. In Norwegian, they don't talk about bedrooms as much as total major rooms. So a studio apartment, the sort that contains a private bath and kitchen area, is a one-room apartment. A one bedroom is a two-room apartment.
A studio apartment in Swedish is "en etta", literally meaning a "one room". An apartment with one bedroom would then be "en tvåa", two bedrooms "en trea".
Yes. And it works (well enough) because at speed the chunk of air it forces up mixes with the air above the bike (that the rider would otherwise hit with their face) and disturbs it so the rider experiences something more a akin to riding in a pickup bed than to sticking their head out a sunroof.
Thanks, this was the sentence that was missing from the article and made me confused knowing that humans are basically made of carbon, but glass is not.
“The glass–liquid transition, or glass transition, is the gradual and reversible transition in amorphous materials (or in amorphous regions within semicrystalline materials) from a hard and relatively brittle "glassy" state into a viscous or rubbery state as the temperature is increased. An amorphous solid that exhibits a glass transition is called a glass.”
The Nature article is clearer. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-88894-5: “Glass forms when a liquid is fast cooled preventing crystallization, across a reversible process known as the glass transition.
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Here we demonstrate that material with glassy appearance found within the skull of a seemingly male human body entombed within the hot pyroclastic flow deposits of the 79 CE Vesuvius eruption formed by a unique process of vitrification of his brain at very high temperature”
The layman’s term includes such things as safety glass, which may have polymer layers.
So, confusingly, not all glass is “a glass”, and not all glasses are glass.
However, I've not been able to find much on carbon-oxgen based glass. It's possible to make glass out of CO2 gas, under high pressure. However, at standard pressure, the glass boils off into CO2.
There are definitely some unconnected dots in the story. I have a sense that what is needed is to reproduce this allegedly vitrefied organic material in the lab.
Could this actually be more like a plastic? Some thermoplastics share characteristics with the category of glass, like having amorphous structure and a gradual softening resembling glass transition temperature.
Conversely, we could say that glass, such as a common silica glass, is a kind of thermoplastic.
we have language like "[a]bove its glass transition temperature and below its melting point, the physical properties of a thermoplastic change drastically without an associated phase change."
"Besides common silica-based glasses many other inorganic and organic materials may also form glasses, including [...] nitrates, carbonates, plastics, acrylic, and many other substances."
> humans are basically made of carbon, but glass is not
A glass is something that underwent a glass transition (that looks like a liquid at the atomic scale but behaves like a solid microscopically, resulting from cooling a liquid too fast to let it crystallise). It can be made of a huge diversity of things: pure elements (like carbon or sulphur), some metallic alloys, oxides, sulphides, fluorides, polymers, etc.
That one feels quite legacy to me, every time I active it it's by accident and I don't understand why stuff is behaving weirdly.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_Lock
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