TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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TIL gingerbread houses come from Hansel and Gretel:
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@Yamikuronue I'd never heard of gingerbread houses except in Hansel and Gretel.
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@PleegWat
It's a German thing
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@djls45
Oh and the Flemish usually win
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TIL that
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That resonance box thingy on my air intake actually is important, and without it the turbo will not wake up.
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Driving a ~7,000-pound vehicle towing a ~6,000-pound trailer with an engine that won't make much more than 120 horsepower sucks big time.
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Recently I've heard someone pronounce the word "trough".
/trôf/
See, I had seen it written many times before, but I hadn't really bothered checking how it's pronounced.
So my first impression was that it might be pronounced somewhat like the word "through"./THro͞o/
Or "though"
/T͟Hō/
/ "thorough".
/ˈTHərō/
Or "thought".
/THôt/
Or "tough".
/təf/
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@Polygeekery said in Uber is a company run by douches and I hope someone sues them out of existence:
@abarker I think I whooshed. Someone had once told me that "nickel" shared some etymology with 5.
TIL, they call them nickels because they are made from the element.TIL that the name for the element "nickel" is derived from
thea German word for "demon."
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@abarker said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that the name for the element "nickel" is derived from the German word for "demon."
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS SATAN
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@flabdablet said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@abarker said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that the name for the element "nickel" is derived from the German word for "demon."
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS SATAN
Is that what SSIS is referring to? Strange name.
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@abarker if i'm not wrong cobalt has a similar origin, but it comes from kobold(german goblins).
Here: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=Cobalt
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@abarker said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that the name for the element "nickel" is derived from the German word for "demon."
If it is, that's the first time I heard of it ("Nickel" being a German word for "demon").
I think that it's the name of a specific type of folklore demon, not demons in general.
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@aliceif Might be a regional thing, but Wikipedia's got citations for it.
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@aliceif said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
If it is, that's the first time I heard of it ("Nickel" being a German word for "demon").
I think that it's the name of a specific type of folklore demon, not demons in general.I heard
malloc
is the German word for nasal demons.
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@aliceif said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
If it is, that's the first time I heard of it ("Nickel" being a German word for "demon").
Isn't that what Nickelback got its name from?
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@Dreikin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@flabdablet said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@abarker said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that the name for the element "nickel" is derived from the German word for "demon."
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
ISDOES SATANIs that what SS
IDS is referring to? Strange name.STFY.
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@aliceif said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@abarker said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that the name for the element "nickel" is derived from the German word for "demon."
If it is, that's the first time I heard of it ("Nickel" being a German word for "demon").
I think that it's the name of a specific type of folklore demon, not demons in general.
From what the Online Etymology Dictionary says, the element was originally named by a Swedish mineralogist, Axel von Cronstedt in 1754. He derived the term nickel as a shortening of the the Swedish word kopparnickel, which was used to refer to the ore from which nickel is smelted. Koppernickel is supposedly a loan word to Swedish from German, where it was originally kupfernickel. Apparently miners came up with the name because the ore looked like copper but yielded none.
Both Online Etymology Dictionary and Word Reference indicate that the original translation (at least a few hundred years ago) of kupfernickel was "copper demon." They also note that the nickel portion may have been a shortening of Nickolaus. The New International Encyclopædia claims that nickel at one point referenced "the devil."
The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology gives a slightly different interpretation, saying that kupfernickel meant "copper of Nicholas or Nichol" and was given in derision, though the etymology is marked as doubtful.
My best guess? The German word has changed meaning in the past ~300 years. And you may be right about the "specific type of folklore demon" bit.
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@abarker said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
hey also note that the nickel portion may have been a shortening of Nickolaus. The New International Encyclopædia claims that nickel at one point referenced "the devil."
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TIL there is a an easier way of getting the plastic covering protector off of stick deodorant than trying to pull it off directly.
I am completely embarrassed I didn't know this already.
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@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL there is a an easier way of getting the plastic covering protector off of stick deodorant than trying to pull it off directly.
I am completely embarrassed I didn't know this already.
It could be worse. You could be French and not even know what deodorant is.
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL there is a an easier way of getting the plastic covering protector off of stick deodorant than trying to pull it off directly.
I am completely embarrassed I didn't know this already.
It could be worse. You could be French and not even know what deodorant is.
That is the silver lining.
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@Karla
Sometimes you just need to raise your knowledge skills.
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@izzion Yeah but prior to today...I didn't even know I didn't know.
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@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I didn't even know I didn't know.
I didn't either. But then I've never found it to be so difficult that the possibility of an easier way even entered my mind.
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I didn't even know I didn't know.
I didn't either. But then I've never found it to be so difficult that the possibility of an easier way even entered my mind.
Yeah, I only found out because I couldn't do it and I asked my husband to get it and he showed the easier way.
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TIL that plane from the movie actually crashed (with no survivors).
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A couple years old, but I just found out about it today.
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TIL Dog Beer
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TIL about the WorkBoy
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@anonymous234 Have we finally found something more unsuited to the times than the Virtual Boy?
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@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I didn't even know I didn't know.
I didn't either. But then I've never found it to be so difficult that the possibility of an easier way even entered my mind.
Yeah, I only found out because I couldn't do it and I asked my husband to get it and he showed the easier way.
So what's the easier way to do it already?! ... ;)
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TIL about the Dark Arts of HTML
- The inputs in a form, when given a name, can be accessed by
{FormElement}.name
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<form><input name="message"></form>
can be accessed byform.message
- The input names override built in form attributes if they exist (see https://kangax.github.io/domlint/)
- The inputs in a form, when given a name, can be accessed by
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
i see a woman dancing in the wind with a lone of birds flying past.....
actually.... it might be a rabbit.... or possibly a fox on its hind feet dancing....
these ink blots are always so hard to interpret.
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@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
actually.... it might be a rabbit.... or possibly a fox on its hind feet dancing.
I see a scared rabbit in the driving seat of a car it's not used to
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@Jaloopa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
actually.... it might be a rabbit.... or possibly a fox on its hind feet dancing.
I see a scared rabbit in the driving seat of a car it's not used to
ears are pretty damned short for a rabit if you look at it that way. are you sure that's not an ewe instead?
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@accalia it could be the damned soul of a tellytubby too
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@Jaloopa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@accalia it could be the damned soul of a tellytubby too
that poor tellytubby..... life was far too cruel to it......
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@Zecc The colors are not right.
It's Canada, it's supposed to be white.
What kind of snow is red ???
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@TimeBandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Zecc The colors are not right.
It's Canada, it's supposed to be white.
What kind of snow is red ???
the kind that has had polar bears hunting humans on it.
don't worry though. the polar bear is just fine after his hunt.
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@TimeBandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
What kind of snow is red
The stuff around one of the shallow graves @Lorne-Kates has dug?
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@Jaloopa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
rabbit in the driving seat of a car it's not used to
Is that car also a Rabbit?
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@loopback0 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Rabbit
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TIL this has a name, "semantic satiation:
Because I didn't think it worked completely because I didn't lose the meaning of word so TIAL:
Though my prefered phrase is this, "lexical fatigue" from here:
Or, "orthographic incredulity", though that is difficult for me to pronounce correctly.
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@Luhmann Yes.
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@loopback0
Yeah ... according to my sources it was a good car to be rabbiting in ...
I don't trust that source, I prefer my car to have enough room to rabbit around.
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Crappy mobile UX. I accidentally downvoted a post in this thread, probably while just trying to scroll, and didn't even realize it. I wonder how many other times I've done that.
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TIL that Docker supports Windows 2016 Server Core-based containers since September 2016.