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Thank you for sharing this - it reminds of the film adaption of "The Peasants" novel which uses a painted animation technique made up of thousands and thousands of paintings. Quite literally, nearly "Every Frame [is] a Painting".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peasants_(2023_film)#Produ...

X-ray, in some languages (like Polish) the abbreviation comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgen_(unit)

Ah, memories flood back of LAN or dial-up sessions with friends on custom maps like de_747 [1]

1: https://gamebanana.com/mods/82979 I still contend it is one of the most atmospheric custom maps ever made - how else do you get to role play as Gary Oldman or Harrison Ford!

There was a great BBC docudrama in 2003 called Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. [1]

First episode is about the SS Great Eastern, an iron ship that was the largest ship built at the time of her launch, designed by Brunel. [2]

I’d highly recommended the series which features episodes on the construction of the Panama Canal, Transcontinental railway and Hoover Dam.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Industr...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern

> Almost everything always has much more thought given to it than it might first appear.

A credo to live by in work and in general - one of the most terrifying phrases in the English language is "it's just...".

Engineering Explained made a good breakdown and analysis video on the physics of the truck:

"Does The Tesla Semi Make Any Sense?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv44W7xa4IU

The risk with this is everytime your earnings go up, your expenditure follows suit. If your motivation to earn more is because you spend too much - that underlying reason isn't going away once you get that big pay rise unless you really look at how and what on you are spending your income on.

One of the most relavatory phrases that really got me thinking (and changing) is "live under your means".

Filling up on fuel in litres and then using miles per (Imperial) gallon to measure fuel efficiency is wonderfully convoluted.

Renting out public housing

Not only totally unprofessional, it is also bad Project Managing as a typo is a common mistake. So rather than making childish comments, I'd be asking how we could improve the debugging process!

> Homeopathy isn't widely available on the NHS. In 2017, NHS England recommended that GPs and other prescribers should stop providing it. [0]

Luckily this is no longer the case (in general)!

[0] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Homeopathy/

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."

A rather famous example in the UK, is of Gerald Ratner, a company chairman attacking his own product. [1]

[1] - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1573380/Doing-a-Ratne...

http://xkcd.com/1167/ via https://twitter.com/crell/status/296506190190489600

I have a Samsung Series 9 15" from 2011 - well built, stylish, decent specs and still serving me well!

https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&q=samsung+serie...

Probably something you might want to check if you have the following tagline: "A modern user interface that is beautiful on every screen and performs perfectly on every platform is not an option, it’s a necessity."

File size is a moot point with regards to long selectors - they are just a bad idea. [1][2] I am a fan of BEM to keep things sane. [3]

[1] http://csswizardry.com/2012/05/keep-your-css-selectors-short... [2] https://benfrain.com/css-performance-revisited-selectors-blo... [3] http://getbem.com/

The section about using qanats for cooling and ice storage by the Persians around 400 BCE [1] is fascinating.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhchal

My grandfather recalled once how his Latin teacher told him the most important job in society is that of the garbage collector - how can it function properly if everywhere is piled high with waste?