TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@PleegWat said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@izzion Nonsense. My typing is perfetc.
@accalia would be proud.
It is Pride Month.
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@Gąska Look who's back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Who's_Back#/media/File:Er_ist_wieder_da_(book_cover).jpg
E: great embed.
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@topspin that's why I always copy images, not links. That, and as courtesy to @obeselymorbid in case link goes dead.
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"Sidereal astrology" is actually a real thing that makes some attempt to base the boundaries in reality, but still neglects that CONSTELLATIONS ARE NOT ALL THIRTY DEGREES WIDE AND OPHIUCHUS EXISTS
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TIL Macedonia is now called North Macedonia.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL
MacedoniaFYRM is now called North Macedonia.
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@homoBalkanus that depends on what country you were born in. In Poland, it was Macedonia.
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@Gąska it's Macedonia to everyone except the Greeks. Although to be fair, Macedonians aren't entirely blameless in this
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@homoBalkanus said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TILFYROM is now called North Macedonia.MacedoniaFYRM
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@anonymous234 @Tsaukpaetra 10:54 and 10:16. Are these worth watching despite that?
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 @Tsaukpaetra 10:54 and 10:16. Are these worth watching despite that?
Depends on if you enjoy a slow description of stuff. Watch it at 2x speed, and I think a significant portion of the second is just a recording of the audio quality.
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@Tsaukpaetra I don't have audiophile-approved speakers so I'll watch just the first then.
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@Tsaukpaetra so basically, vinyl record but on tape? Neat. I wonder how it compares in quality and storage density.
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TIL My oven has a "Sabbath Mode"...
I am amused.
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@Tsaukpaetra that's a lot of work for Sabbath.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra that's a lot of work for Sabbath.
I'm under the impression that the intent is more for the non-determinism of the controls, rather than the amount of effort put into not-exactly-controlling it.
Edit: Nevermind, I'm not stupid enough to express my thoughts correctly apparently.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Nevermind, I'm not stupid enough to express my thoughts correctly apparently.
Fuck. I understood you perfectly. Does that mean I'm going insane?
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Nevermind, I'm not stupid enough to express my thoughts correctly apparently.
Fuck. I understood you perfectly. Does that mean I'm going insane?
No, means you're on the same side/level of sane as I am, which I hope is not insane.
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@Gąska What you're supposed to do is set it up before the Sabbath begins. It then handles itself, and since you didn't actually push any buttons (make any fires, to use the Torah term), you didn't break the Sabbath. Total casuistry, in the finest rabbinic tradition. It's amazing how clever people can be in working around inconvenient rules.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It's amazing how clever people can be in working around inconvenient rules.
And still not clever enough to reform them.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
(make any fires, to use the Torah term)
Does respiration count as work?
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It's amazing how clever people can be in working around inconvenient rules.
And still not clever enough to reform them.
Oh, once God says things, he never says anything contrary. It will never change, ever, and anyone that suggests otherwise should be stoned.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It's amazing how clever people can be in working around inconvenient rules.
And still not clever enough to reform them.
"But we have always worked around it this way!"
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@kazitor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
(make any fires, to use the Torah term)
Does respiration count as work?
No, but only for the first 1000 cubic meters.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It's amazing how clever people can be in working around inconvenient rules.
And still not clever enough to reform them.
Oh, once God says things, he never says anything contrary. It will never change, ever, and anyone that suggests otherwise should be stoned.
Funny thing - God didn't actually set a limit on distance. He just said not to leave the town you're in.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It's amazing how clever people can be in working around inconvenient rules.
And still not clever enough to reform them.
Oh, once God says things, he never says anything contrary. It will never change, ever, and anyone that suggests otherwise should be stoned.
Funny thing - God didn't actually set a limit on distance. He just said not to leave the town you're in.
Which naturally leads to declaration of the whole world is you town, right?
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@Tsaukpaetra from a topological perspective, no closed boundary on the surface of Earth demarcates a definitive "interior" and "exterior" region.
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@Tsaukpaetra no, actually - it leads to a declaration that the limit on the town size that God did actually introduce in Numbers 35:5 shall be taken as the limit how much you can travel on Sabbath.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
the limit on the town size that God did actually introduce in Numbers 35:5
That's an distance beyond the city walls, however large they are, that is pasture land for the Levites, not a limit on the size of the town. At least, that's how I read that passage. Although with verse 4, it's rather confusing, as it seems to give two different values for the same measurement. I think it's saying that the first 1000 cubits (about 1500 feet, 460 meters) outside the city wall belonged to the Levites and the next 1000 cubits belonged to the other inhabitants of the city. I'm not sure.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska What you're supposed to do is set it up before the Sabbath begins. It then handles itself, and since you didn't actually push any buttons (make any fires, to use the Torah term), you didn't break the Sabbath. Total casuistry, in the finest rabbinic tradition. It's amazing how clever people can be in working around inconvenient rules.
Even more amazing when those inconvenient rules were not imposed by God, but by human extrapolation of those rules. God defined the sabbath to be a day of 1) rest and 2) focus on God. Rabbis added restrictions such that keeping them became burdensome rather than restful, violating the spirit of the sabbath. Then people invented workarounds that kept the letter but violated the spirit of the restrictions.
The original intent of the provision was to insure a quiet, leisurely Sabbath and to keep it from becoming a harried and busy day (Exod 16:29). It was also designed to keep the Israelitish worshiper in the area of the center of his worship. The motive was noble but, unfortunately, it resulted in a barren legalism. As a consequence, there were casuistic schemes to circumvent it. It did, however, permit a legitimate exception. If one were caught at a distance on a journey, he might travel to the nearest shelter for safety. But there were deliberate schemes to by-pass the rule. One such scheme was to select a tree or a stone at a distance, place some food there, and declare: “Let this be my residence.”
From https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/encyclopedia-of-the-bible/Sabbath-Days-JourneyIt is forbidden to even ride in a car on sabbath, at least in the strictest orthodox interpretations, because sitting in a moving car is "work"; instead, you must walk to your (not too distant) destination because walking 900 meters isn't work. Carrying anything, even your house key, between a public and private area, or for more than about 2 meters within a public area, is forbidden, so create virtual "walls" around a large part of a city, so you can carry as much as you want as far as you want within that area. Pushing an elevator button is "work"; instead, you must inconveniently stop at every floor while the doors automatically open and close. And TIL you must pre-program your oven. (And don't even start on the kosher dietary separation of dairy and meat.)
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TIL:
Norway banned the film [Monty Python's Life of Brian] for one year for blasphemy, then gave it an '18' rating and included a warning from the censors at the beginning. It has been marketed in Sweden as "The film that is so funny that it was banned in Norway!"
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TIL that there are people who are far more fanatical about coffee than I could ever (be bothered to) be.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that there are people who are far more fanatical about coffee than I could ever (be bother to) be.
Paging @TimeBandit
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@Applied-Mediocrity I mean, how complicated does the GUI for an espresso machine have to actually be? Apparently, seriously so.
(BTW, those machines genuinely do make a very good espresso, much better than the usual ones you get; I'm just… still keener on filter coffee, which is a totally different process with a different flavour profile.)
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Real-time temperature, pressure and water flow rate displayed on-screen.
Ou-kay.
HDMI output and chromecast
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
HDMI output and chromecast
No VR headset support? What is this, the middle ages?
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@anonymous234 You might as well be making your corto macchiato by candlelight.
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TIL this is actually a thing
To save you a click: an elevator that goes up, then sideways, then down.
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
virtual "walls"
There are several of these in Jewish areas in NYC.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
No VR headset support?
Knowing the developer who makes the runtime library that that coffee machine is using (which is why I know about the coffee machine
) that's probably going to come in a few weeks. Or sooner, if someone buys him a VR headset to hack with.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL this is actually a thing
To save you a click: an elevator that goes up, then sideways, then down.
I read the title as "People mower", and was very disappointed when reading your description.
(inb4: the Bad ideas thread is
)
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Sometimes I think that it must have sucked to have only what passed for entertainment in the past. But it looks like they had some good stuff, too.
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@boomzilla The article does have a strong opening:
On September 15, 1896, two locomotives crashed head on 14 miles north of Waco, Texas. The locomotives’ boilers exploded on impact, sending debris flying through the air for hundreds of yards, killing at least two spectators and maiming countless others. One man even lost an eye to a flying bolt.
Well worth reading.
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@kazitor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra from a topological perspective, no closed boundary on the surface of Earth demarcates a definitive "interior" and "exterior" region.
Wouldn't the interface between the surface of the sea and the surface of the ground form such a closed boundary around each landmass?
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla The article does have a strong opening:
On September 15, 1896, two locomotives crashed head on 14 miles north of Waco, Texas. The locomotives’ boilers exploded on impact, sending debris flying through the air for hundreds of yards, killing at least two spectators and maiming countless others. One man even lost an eye to a flying bolt.
Well worth reading.
Indeed. Had I not read it, I would have missed this:
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Specifically, I found this interesting, regarding the moon Nix and the way it rotates:
Nix can flip its entire pole. It could actually be possible to spend a day on Nix in which the sun rises in the east and sets in the north. It is almost random-looking in the way it rotates.
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@mott555 this description fits Nix build system pretty well too. Also most other build systems, I guess.