Browsers can simulate that without a proxy too: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/networ...

Chrome can also throttle the CPU power: https://www.wikihow.com/Throttle-Your-Browser-for-Testing

Did that with an old Thinkpad (X32 iirc) years ago. I use Gentoo and some packages (like gcc) could only be compiled during winter months or in a fridge.

Also sucessfully rescued some old NVidia card with baking oven around that time…

Just a little bugreport – in Firefox, the "insert image" invisible file input covers buttons to the right: https://i.vgy.me/q1sYHX.gif

Setting its width to 100% (of the parent button) fixes it. Doens't happen at all in Chrome.

I would create an issue on github, but just the "grid" component is there and this is outside of it…

Thanks for the bug report. And yes, your fix worked :). I had `inset:0` for the file input and was working on all browsers except firefox.

they don't use less wood than a straight fence though :)

they should be able to. same physics applies, right? poles dont have to be as thick or as deep to resist the same torque, and if you could somehow make the pales curvy/corrugated, they could be thinner, too.

Wooden fences tend to be only a plank thick, so there's no savings like there are with brick walls where the savings come from getting to build a single layer thick.

Raw lumber is much cheaper than sawn lumber, though. It's OK to use more, as long as the volume increase and price decrease works out favorably.

Yeah exactly… I guess there might be some waviness/height/length ratio where the extra length and the absence of posts evens out.

John Cook actually goes into the math of that here: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/11/19/crinkle-crankle-ca...

Site seems dead, archived link: https://archive.is/yl7z2

I live in a tiny village with a shit ton of space for anything, but would prefer this over a power hungry server anyway… At least until i fill part of the barn roof with solar panels.

not a player, but there was (is?) xvideo extension: https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man3/Xv.3.html

i remember it as an mplayer output option mplayer -vo xv [file]

The EU has this tool for viewing solar radiation data and estimating energy yields based on location & angle: https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/tools.html

The interface isn't great, but i find it pretty useful sometimes.

I'm afraid we killed it… I see just a gray base map and the browser is getting a "504 Gateway timeout" from the API:

    This Serverless Function has timed out.
    Your connection is working correctly.
    Vercel is working correctly.

    504: GATEWAY_TIMEOUT
    Code: FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT

Unfortunately yes. I'm working on a fix but it looks like the API I use for the generation data wasn't able to handle the influx of visitors. Not much I can do right now but I did upgrade my Vercel account to get a longer timeout at least.

Hoping it'll be resolved soon.

It's back now… I'll keep an eye on it.

Getting {"error":"Missing generation data"} now

Yeah, sorry about that! Turns out the Elexon API I use for the generation data doesn't like being on the HN front page. Lesson learnt that I should add a proxy store between their API and the map.

No trouble and thanks for the prompt to go have a look at it again, really cool site!

Thanks!

The Elexon API is down again unfortunately. Lesson learnt that I should be storing this data myself in future to avoid it taking down the entire map.

Looks like it's been up since late 2006 [1]? Wow. "Pimp Your Profile Pics for MySpace!"

It's quite refreshing to see the edits are done server-side and page reloads after a POST request in this age of web(gl/assembly/whatever).

I'm pretty sure people would be interested in some writeup of your tech choices and how they stood the test of time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20061001000000*/lunapic.com