TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@JBert We use those here actually, but we only learned recently that they enabled them for service fabric silently midDecember.
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It may or may not be a TIL for you, dear Reader, that one of if not the earliest Equid was described and named Eohippus, the dawn horse. Undeniably an appropriate and beautiful name.
Then it was discovered to be identical to a species in the genus Hyracotherium, hyrax-like beast, so named because some idiot found one of the damned things and thought it was a Pachydermatid. Since H. angustidens was described earlier than E. validus, the former name took precedence and in one of the great tragedies of taxononmy, the dawn horse was no more. This always made me sad.
Or so we thought!
TIL Hyracotherium was recently discovered to be a paraphyletic group and the type species isn't even really a horse, though the rest of the genus' members are, and so have been reassigned to a variety of other genera. Since angustidens had already been described in the genus Eohippus, it's been returned to it (though with the specific epithet it enjoyed during it's sojourn in H.).
It is once again true that the earliest member of the horse family is called the Dawn Horse, instead of being named for a mistake (and blandly and unimaginatively even had the discoverer's impression been correct), and I'm thrilled about it.
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TIL a domain I used to own when I ran a website for a group of church bellringers now resolves to a Chinese porn site.
Oh well. Not my problem :D
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@RaceProUK Oh cum all ye faithful...
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@RaceProUK said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL a domain I used to own when I ran a website for a group of church bellringers now resolves to a Chinese porn site.
Oh well. Not my problem :D
My real First Name + Last Name is the same but off by one of the name of a porn star. I had a business related website and sometimes the referrer was a porn site.
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@ScholRLEA joyful and triumphant indeed
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TIL people still browse the web using IE6 on Windows XP with SP2.
And that's not even why I set up ELMAH logging in the first place.
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<aliceif> and I just learnt that pokemon bestiality is canon in-universe <aliceif> and was at least considered to be perfectly acceptable at some point in pokemon universe history
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@aliceif said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
<aliceif> and I just learnt that pokemon bestiality is canon in-universe
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I googled a bit... oh lord, the most comprehensive post on this seems to be in a zoophilia subreddit. So I'll just quote it
First, in the fourth generation, there are a series of three pieces of "Sinnoh Folklore" you can read by going to a library in the game. The third piece of Folklore seems boring. In english, it says that humans and Pokemon used to eat at the same table. This is, however, a mistranslation. In Japanese, it says something quite different:
There once were Pokémon that married people.
There once were people who married Pokémon.
This was a normal thing because long ago people and Pokémon were the same.Hmm, I honestly interpret it as "humans and Pokémon were literally the same", i.e. humans just evolved from Pokemons.
Second argument:
.http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/en-us/pokemon/salandit/Salandit females not only release toxic gases, they can also emit pheromones that attract males of all species, including Pokémon and humans. Inhaling these pheromones may cause opponents to be controlled by Salandit’s will.
Oh dear.
Third argument: this pic apparently from the anime (can't find any confirmation)
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/104/881/6a2.pngOh dear! That's... pretty explicit
And frankly, given that humans are known to fuck animals IRL, I find it hard to imagine it wouldn't happen in a world where "animals" look like this
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Hmm, I honestly interpret it as "humans and Pokémon were literally the same", i.e. humans just evolved from Pokemons.
That would be my interpretation too.
@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Oh dear.
That sounds like mind control more than sexual attraction.
@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Oh dear! That's... pretty explicit
That's Japan for you ;)
@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
And frankly, given that humans are known to fuck animals IRL, I find it hard to imagine it wouldn't happen in a world where "animals" look like this
But was she designed to be sexy, like, oh, I dunno, this:
I'm not kidding: Rouge is deliberately sexy (for those who are into that sort of thing). Sega even lists 'seduction' as one of her talents.
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TIL you can bet on lottery results.
Seems a bit redundant.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I honestly interpret it as "humans and Pokémon were literally the same",
There's a fan theory that I quite like that says that humans are a type of pokemon themselves, evolving from a baby form to a "ten-year-old" child form to one of many adult forms: Pokemaniac, Scientist, Gambler, et cetera.
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@Yamikuronue is that the explanation for the limited number of different Human sprites?
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@CarrieVS said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I'm thrilled about it
I was completely lost a third of a way in because you went into taxonomy and Latin, and that makes my head spin and completely lose its place as soon as you go below family level, because it's just not my thang.
There was, however, SCIENCE! involved. So, I'm thrilled, too! I just have no fucking idea what about...
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@Onyx the simple version is, there's a very early horse ancestor, probably the first that can be said to belong to the horse family. It was originally given a Latin name (of its genus) that meant "dawn horse" which is beautiful and appropriate.
Then because of certain scientific conventions and other circumstances it was renamed to something that meant "hyrax-like beast" which is not only inaccurate but also a pretty rubbish name even if it had been appropriate. This made me sad.
Recently, it's been discovered that this species shouldn't be in the "hyrax-like beast" genus at all, so it's called "dawn horse" again. And that makes me happy.
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TIL I've been using capital and capitol (slightly) wrong for years.
I learned as a kid that when we took a trip to Sacramento, it was to visit the capitol. I also learned about capital letters, capital investments, and capital ideas. So I thought I understood the difference. But I was wrong. When we visited the capitol, we bussed to Sacramento because it was the capital of California -- just like DC is the capital of the United States, and the city in which The Capitol is located. I had been assuming that it's "capitol city" the same way it's "capitol building", but it's not.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
And frankly, given that humans are known to fuck animals IRL, I find it hard to imagine it wouldn't happen in a world where "animals" look like this
http://pokebot.everyboty.net/pix/1310.jpg
Filed under: NOOT NOOT
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TIL: You can make all sorts of shapes using only CSS. I'm not sure whether that goes in the Bad Ideas or the Good Ideas thread...
Reference: https://css-tricks.com/examples/ShapesOfCSS/
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Yesterday I learnt that floors in Sonic The Hedgehog 2 are not very solid:
https://u.nya.is/fyjzzp.mp4
(Recorded on an emulator, but I have hardware verification)
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@aliceif It took you this long to figure out that's what they meant by "Robotnik's hidden traps"?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL: You can make all sorts of shapes using only CSS. I'm not sure whether that goes in the Bad Ideas or the Good Ideas thread...
Reference: https://css-tricks.com/examples/ShapesOfCSS/
There are a shitton more of them at this page:
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@bugmenot said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@aliceif It took you this long to figure out that's what they meant by "Robotnik's hidden traps"?
I didn't play any Sonic games in the nineties.
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I just learned about this product
https://toughcords.com/products/magcord
Looks useful... if only I hadn't stocked up on MicroUSB cables recently.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Looks about like what I'd expect for a $10 lifetime warranty.
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@PleegWat said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Looks about like what I'd expect for a $10 lifetime warranty.
It snapped clean off already!
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Ninety fucking seventy-six!!!! Why TF didn't I know about these earlier!!!!!
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@Karla meh. As long as the handles aren't ergonomically shaped to gouge into the left hand, righty scissors work just fine.
If you're cutting enough sheets of paper at once that it matters which side the blades are joined on, you're anyway.
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@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
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Ninet
yeen fucking seventy-six!!!! Why TF didn't I know about these earlier!!!!!FTFY
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Karla meh. As long as the handles aren't ergonomically shaped to gouge into the left hand, righty scissors work just fine.
If you're cutting enough sheets of paper at once that it matters which side the blades are joined on, you're anyway.
This doesn't actually solve anything if they are ergonomically shaped. Ergonomic ones are chiral and can't be transformed into the other-hander's version with any set of 3D rotations and translations.
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Karla meh. As long as the handles aren't ergonomically shaped to gouge into the left hand, righty scissors work just fine.
If you're cutting enough sheets of paper at once that it matters which side the blades are joined on, you're anyway.
I cannot cut with left handed scissors because they were not available to me at home. When I got to school and tried them...they were useless because I learned how to cut right handed.
Because of that I cannot cut a straight line. And I am thinking simple shit...wrapping paper.
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I think Ned sells these ...
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@Dreikin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Ergonomic ones are chiral and can't be transformed into the other-hander's version with any set of 3D rotations and translations.
Friend of mine had a set of reversible nail scissors. Both blades and their attached handles and finger holes were symmetrical and double edged; one of them flared outward from the pivot rather than coming to a point like the other. You could flip them between left-handed and right-handed modes by rotating the narrow blade about 350° around the pivot.
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@flabdablet said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Dreikin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Ergonomic ones are chiral and can't be transformed into the other-hander's version with any set of 3D rotations and translations.
Friend of mine had a set of reversible nail scissors. Both blades and their attached handles and finger holes were symmetrical and double edged; one of them flared outward from the pivot rather than coming to a point like the other. You could flip them between left-handed and right-handed modes by rotating the narrow blade about 350° around the pivot.
Neat. Not the type of ergonomic handle I was thinking of though, I suspect.
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@flabdablet How do you cut your right hand's nails with a right-handed nail scissor?
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@PleegWat said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
How do you cut your right hand's nails with a right-handed nail scissor?
with the blade part
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@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
And I am thinking simple shit...wrapping paper.
You know about the trick where you keep the blades open and move your hand, right?
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@Yamikuronue said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
You know about the trick where you keep the blades open and move your hand, right?
Which works well if the scissors are sharp, but if they're just a bit blunt (or you move at the wrong speed), the blades catch and tear the paper, ruining your straight cut, and then you go
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@RaceProUK said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Which works well if the scissors are sharp
The better qualities of paper make it easier too. Really cheap xmas wrapping paper is almost impossible to cut without tearing…
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@Dreikin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Karla meh. As long as the handles aren't ergonomically shaped to gouge into the left hand, righty scissors work just fine.
If you're cutting enough sheets of paper at once that it matters which side the blades are joined on, you're anyway.
This doesn't actually solve anything if they are ergonomically shaped. Ergonomic ones are chiral and can't be transformed into the other-hander's version with any set of 3D rotations and translations.
I think those are the handles I was talking about. Like these...
See that nice, ergonomically shaped handle? It hurts like a bitch if you try to hold it with the hand it's not designed for.
These, on the other hand, are for all practical purposes ambidextrous. They don't hurt:
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@Luhmann said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I think Ned sells these ...
I know. It is just too late for me.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@RaceProUK said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Which works well if the scissors are sharp
The better qualities of paper make it easier too. Really cheap xmas wrapping paper is almost impossible to cut without tearing…
That's probably my problem. Cheap wrapping paper.
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
These, on the other hand, are for all practical purposes ambidextrous. They don't hurt:
They don't hurt to hold but they are still less effective at cutting with the other hand. They'll probably work nearly as well most of the time provided you never need to cut anything other than paper, if they're relatively new and good quality.
If the blades are blunt or slightly loose, it may not even be possible to cut a single sheet of paper. Even if they aren't, it's often impossible to cut things like plastic packets, or cardboard, and you'll tend to get less smooth edges even on paper.
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@Yamikuronue said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
You know about the trick where you keep the blades open and move your hand, right?
I have a better trick than that:
And it's totally ambidextrous
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@CarrieVS more difficult, but you can still apply the required pressure so that they work. It puts a bit more strain on your hand, because you're pushing the opposite direction than you naturally would to hold the blades together, but as long as you don't have a ton of stuff to cut it's not really a huge issue.
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@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Because of that I cannot cut a straight line.
YMMV, but I hear that cutting a great curve is more attractive than a straight line figure anyway...
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@PleegWat said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
How do you cut your right hand's nails with a right-handed nail scissor?
Why would you cut your nails with scissors in the first place? Buy yourself a pair of clippers, jeesh.
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@anotherusername No, I can't. I have frequently had to use scissors which will. not. cut. when held in the left hand. Even if scissors that are slightly better than that can be forced to cut by straining and hurting my hand, why should I have to do that? If they can only be used left-handed by hurting yourself, they're clearly not ambidextrous.
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@CarrieVS said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
No, I can't. I have frequently had to use scissors which will. not. cut. when held in the left hand.
Probably wouldn't have been much better in someone's right hand, then. Why are you using such shitty scissors? You're an adult now... not using shitty scissors if we don't want to is one of the perks that we get.
Or do you mean, you had to use them while you were a kid? Then yes... but still, they wouldn't have been much better for a right-handed person.