East Asian languages count in ten-thousands, not thousands. So why do we still group digits by three? A proposal: 1,234,567,890 → 12_3456_7890.

https://myriad-project.org/

Interdepartmental Training and Technology Centre for High-Voltage Pulse Engineering, Polytechnic Institute Kharkiv, Ukraine

The high-voltage hall has remained almost unchanged for a century. A Soviet-era mural depicts a hand grasping a lightning bolt.

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Happy time_t 1777777777 to all who celebrate.

# date +'%F %r %Z = %s' 2026-05-02 08:09:37 PM PDT = 1777777777
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1,234,567,890を日本語で読むと「十二億三千四百五十六万七千八百九十」。なのにカンマは千の位。万進法の表記を提案します：12_3456_7890。

https://myriad-project.org/ja/

Happy #Unix time 1777777777! 🥳

1,234,567,890用中文读是「十二亿三千四百五十六万七千八百九十」，但逗号却打在千位上。我们提议用万进制表记：12_3456_7890。

https://myriad-project.org/zh-Hans/

1,234,567,890用中文讀是「十二億三千四百五十六萬七千八百九十」，但逗號卻打在千位上。我們提議用萬進制表記：12_3456_7890。

https://myriad-project.org/zh-Hant/

1,234,567,890—韓國語(한국어)로는 「十二億(십이억) 三千四百五十六萬(삼천사백오십육만) 七千八百九十(칠천팔백구십)」인데, 쉼標(표)는 왜 千(천) 單位(단위)에 있을까요? 萬進法(만진법) 表記(표기)를 提案(제안)합니다: 12_3456_7890.

https://myriad-project.org/ko/

@mlemweb @cwebber that's a really fun dress.

Happy May Everyone!

Since it's the first Saturday of the month, we've got a Hack & Craft today from 8-10 ET (technically tomorrow from 0:00 - 2:00 UTC). I hope you'll join us: https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/

I'll be working on a challenge that @cwebber recently gave me: how long would it take me to make a complete publicly appropriate outfit in an emergency? (I.E. airline lost my luggage and I have to go out and buy/find a sewing machine and start from scratch.)