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Firefox reader view on PC shows the exact same text as is in the article

Too bad it seems to not do health monitoring, my main use case of a watch now is sleep tracking with as long battery life as possible

the same for me, however I can imagine that creating a good sleep analysing software based on the hypothethical HRM and accelerometer is mission impossible. I find the best software is Garmin at the moment of writing, or at least suits me well, and it blocks me from buying any opensource watch, unless I want to have two watches on my hands

Very neat!

Some bugs I noticed:

Searching for Zurich allows you to go to the article for the canton of Zurich, not the city. Clicking the link "Zürich (city)" inside of this article, opens this same article again about the canton, rather than opening the actual article for the city

When viewing an article, the search for articles (leftmost search box) doesn't seem to work at all for me (in Firefox). When being on the main page, it does work

There's a small clickable 'home' button on the right, but muscle memory from how other websites work makes me expect that clicking the big title "Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th Edition" on the top left also goes to home


Excellent points. There are indeed two Zurich articles. One way to get to the city is to search for Zurich and open the second one, which goes to the city directly. The xref in Zurich (canton) is indeed a disambiguation bug (identically named articles); thanks for catching that.

I haven't tested the article search box on the article viewer in Firefox. I'll look into that as well.

Making the title linkable is a great idea and it will be implemented shortly. Thanks for catching all of this.


What's the effect of this in a populated area in a certain radius? Compared to nuclear power plants...

Radiologically? Pretty much nothing. The regular industrial safety concerns will matter more.

The plant will have some tritium, and the material in reactor walls will get activated by the neutron flux. Some of the activated materials can disperse in case of a catastrophic explosion (e.g. a couple of large airplanes being flown the reactor building).

But the material of the walls is not volatile, so it'll stay on the site. And tritium is very volatile, so it'll quickly disperse to safe levels. You'll be able to detect them with sensitive equipment, but it won't be dangerous.


> What's the effect of this in a populated area in a certain radius?

I'd imagine this is, like with fission plants, deeply dependent on the specific design.


The fact that Century-bandwidth has a dash but decade bandwidth has not is weird, I didn't make the connection due to that (one sounded like a brand name, the other not)


The term "century-bandwidth" is always used in the article as a pre-noun adjective. The term "decade bandwidth" is not used that way. It's the difference between "a well-known author" and "an author who is well known".


Now please do it on a Cray-1 from 1976!


> A freaking notepad app takes almost 50mb in memory when equivalent NOTEPAD done in pure Win32 C takes 1.8mb of memory.

1.8MB? I don't know how much it took on our 386 computer with 4MB RAM and windows 3.11, but hopefully not that much


Given that I assume NOTEPAD.EXE is still basically a window containing an optional status bar and a multiline edit control with a custom WNDPROC for managing features like word wrap, I'm actually curious why it opens with such a large private working set, even on Windows 11.

Possibly space for data allocated by one of the 50+ DLLs it loads directly or indirectly to support features like Unicode text input and rendering.

Actually, it gets much worse. By default, recent Windows 11 versions use a completely new version of Notepad with support for things like tabs, styled text, and AI (!).

Even with all the new features disabled, this one has a 32 MB private working set before opening a single file.

Amusingly, GNU Emacs, a.k.a. Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping at a time when entry-level UNIX workstations actually shipped with as little as 4 MB RAM, opens on the same machine with a smaller (25 MB) private working set than the new Notepad.

To be fair to at least one team at Microsoft, the EDIT.EXE text-mode editor recently added to Windows 11, with a user interface that somehow manages to be more consistent with basic Windows UI conventions than many modern Windows GUI apps despite not being a GUI app at all, opens with a private working set size of only 520 kB.


Even a minimal Hello World program (1.5KB executable) takes 340K of active private working set, and 552K of commit size. Windows just don't allow programs to use any less memory than that. You're bound by what the system libraries allocate (either statically or dynamically).

Once you create a window, even if you haven't drawn that window, your minimum is now around 500KB.


But can you even express this function with the elementary operator symbols, exp, log, power and trig functions? It seems to me like no, you can't express "largest real solution" with those (and what's the intended result for complex inputs?)

At least eml can express the quintic itself, just like the above mentioned operators can


Author and EML are using different definitions of elementary functions, EML's definition being the school textbooks' one (polynomials, sin, exp, log, arcsin, arctan, closed under multiplication, division and composition). The author's definition I've never met before, it apparently includes some multi-valued functions, which are quite unusual.


Wikipedia says:

> More generally, in modern mathematics, elementary functions comprise the set of functions previously enumerated, all algebraic functions (not often encountered by beginners), and all functions obtained by roots of a polynomial whose coefficients are elementary. [...] This list of elementary functions was originally set forth by Joseph Liouville in 1833.

which seems to be what the blog post references.


Why not fix this at the browser level? E.g. long or double click on back button = go to previous non-javascript-affected page (I mean by that: last page navigated to in the classical sense, ignoring dynamic histories altered by js and dynamic content)


That wouldn't work because this technique messes with your history. Long press on the button will just show you a list of the previous pages you visited, and all of them will have the same link to the one you're in, with just one at the bottom of the actual URL you came from. But that's so much friction UX-wise.


Double clicking is not a fix because it doubles latency, and more than doubles latency if you don't want to issue page loads that are immediately aborted. Long clicking is such a bizarre anti-feature that I never considered it might exist until I read about it in this HN discussion. Putting touchscreen-specific workarounds for lack of mouse buttons and modifier keys in a traditional GUI app is insanity.


Interesting!

One thing I wonder now: NAND is symmetric while this isn't, could something similar be found where function(x, y) = function(y, x)?


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