Explore ANSI Paper Size standards with clear dimensions and uses for Letter, Legal, Tabloid, and Arch formats in office and engineering work
#Size
A Series Paper Sizes explained from A0 to A10 with ISO standards, dimensions in cm and inches, plus practical uses for printing and documents.
Authoritative guide to printer paper sizes covering ISO and ANSI standards, dimensions, and real printing impacts for home and office use.
ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss
https://pdfa.org/want-to-make-your-pdfs-20-smaller-for-free/
#HackerNews #ISO #PDF #Brotli #Compression #PDF #Optimization #Document #Size #Reduction #Quality #Preservation
What size should our conferences be? Here, according to John Sculley, is Steve Jobs' POV on the maximum size of the Macintosh design team.
#hospitality #meetings #size #SmallVersusLarge #events #conferences #eventprofs
At MGM Resorts, 80% of group business is 100 rooms or fewer at peak, and 62% is 50 rooms or fewer. Most meetings are small meetings!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2014/09/most-meetings-are-small-meetings
#hospitality #meetings #size #SmallVersusLarge #events #conferences #eventprofs #assnchat
During the last 40 years, I've consulted for over a thousand clients. Here are some of the pros & cons of consulting for large organizations.
A quotation (not) from Mark Twain
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
(Misattributed)
More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/22923/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #aggressiveness #aggression #conflict #courage #dedication #fight #gumption #size #tenacity #willpower #dog
Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
https://akr.am/blog/posts/why-is-the-gmail-app-700-mb
#HackerNews #GmailApp #Size #GmailStorage #TechNews #MobileApps
https://www.fogolf.com/1122243/global-golf-cart-market-size-forecast-2025-2033/ Global Golf Cart Market Size & Forecast 2025–2033 #20252033 #cart #Forecast #global #Golf #GolfCourses #market #Size
A quotation from Mme de Sévigné
Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.
[La fortune est toujours pour les gros bataillons]
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné (1626-1696) French aristocrat, woman of letters [Madame de Sévigné, Mme de Sévigné]
Letter (1673-12-22) to Mme. de Grignan [ed. Hoyt and Ward (1896), No. 202]
More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/sevigne-mme/80969/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #sevigne #fate #force #fortune #God #military #odds #size #success
“It is hard to be brave,” said Piglet, sniffing slightly, “when you’re only a Very Small Animal.”
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 7 “Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest” (1926)
More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/80809/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #winniethepooh #piglet #braveness #courage #pluck #size #smallness #weakness
Peak Glacier Extinction In The Mid-Twenty-First Century
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02513-9 <-- shared paper
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“📉 KEY FINDINGS
• At +4 °C, only ~18,000 glaciers remain worldwide by 2100
• At +1.5 °C, ~100,000 glaciers survive
• [They] identif[ed] “Peak Glacier Extinction”:
– ~2041 at +1.5 °C (~2,000 glaciers lost per year)
– ~2055 at +4 °C (~4,000 glaciers lost per year)
🏔️ THE ALPS
• At +2.7 °C, only ~110 glaciers remain by 2100.
• At +4 °C, this drops to just ~20.
Can you imagine the Alps with almost no glaciers left?...”
#model #modeling #global #glacier #loss #glacial #cryosphere #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #GloGEM #OGGM #PyGEM #extinction #climate #climatechange #globalwarming #water #hydrology #freshwater #surfacewater #count #metrics #volume #thickness #size #sealevelrise #tourism #culture #usecase #waterresources #Alps #TheAlps #worldwide #melted #melting
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