I love it when this kind of thing surfaces on HN. It’s always so enjoyable to have the fractal nature of detail in the world shown to you. Really nice to read as well.
CyberDildonics 2 hours ago [-]
I'm not sure it's a fractal nature of detail, it might just be a vague reference to an old movie.
sdwr 59 minutes ago [-]
Yeah, fractal means you see the same structure, or an equally complex structure, at the smaller scale. This is just details, there's no sustained complexity
redfloatplane 1 hours ago [-]
Did you read the article? It's entirely about a concrete artefact from that old movie, down to the kind of tweed, now made by only six people in Scotland. I'm not sure how you come to this response.
CyberDildonics 24 minutes ago [-]
Is rare tweed fractal detail or is it just an oddball fact?
redfloatplane 17 minutes ago [-]
Maybe I meant that the amount of detail is sustained no matter how close you look? Maybe I was careless with my words? This is unnecessarily pedantic. I enjoyed the article. See you another time, CyberDildonics
sudb 3 hours ago [-]
A tangential but interesting takeaway for me from this is that Harris Tweed was at some point in danger of dying out and that it was saved (?!) by now King Charles.
balamatom 4 hours ago [-]
Ah, la culture. It's the enemy's pareksalons this time!
toed 2 hours ago [-]
Par excellence ?
balamatom 36 minutes ago [-]
No; like pantaloons but smart.
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