Recent comments in /f/InternetIsBeautiful

flunky_the_majestic t1_j7o5kke wrote

Schools in the US often use an eTLD, "effective top level domain", which, although they have multiple levels, they are used as though they were a TLD like .com. The eTLD for schools is k12.{state}.us.

So if they use a www subdomain for their website, you can have lots of dots. I like these domains though, because they are generally unspoofable. You know for sure it's a real school domain if you see it.

Mozilla maintains the de facto authoritative list of these domains in a document called the Public Suffix List. That document has a real effect on how the Internet treats those domains.

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giulianosse t1_j7n2njt wrote

For real. It wastes too much space with useless info (% in universe, physical state) and buries or sometimes straight doesn't even include basic chemistry-related information like nuclei radius and electronic configuration.

Periodic tables were literally designed to be as straightforward as possible and this site decided to follow through the opposite.

I suppose it's only famous because it's easy as shit to type and hit enter (ptable)

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