TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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TIL that these clever little self-defense keychains
may actually be an illegal weapon in your state.
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@anotherusername Also a weapon that doesn't look like a weapon is hard to threaten people with.
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@anonymous234 A suddenly bleeding face that wasn't bleeding a second ago, though, you can base a threat on that.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anotherusername Also a weapon that doesn't look like a weapon is hard to threaten people with.
When you're holding it like a weapon, it looks pretty much like a weapon.
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@anotherusername Then again, when someone's holding nearly anything as a weapon, it pretty much looks like a weapon.
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@Gribnit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anotherusername Then again, when someone's holding nearly anything as a weapon, it pretty much looks like a weapon.
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TIL "cute aggression"
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@Karla Weird, that was on QI this week.
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TIL makefiles can remake themselves/each other
"We heard you like making files, so we made make make makefiles so you can make make make makefiles before you make make make files."
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Researchers, hospitals, and programs designed to train medical professionals routinely order Liquid Ass. The stench so realistically mimics the human colon, it’s the perfect training tool to teach medical responders how to maintain focus and professional demeanor in the midst of a truly overwhelming smell.
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TIL the source for the term "shard" as used to refer to a (duplicate) server instance.
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com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState
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@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState
Have you been to my profile page or something?
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@Zecc no, why?
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@pie_flavor Since you're being , here:
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@Zecc
ENOREPRO
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??
Oh... others can't see my "Full name".
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@Zecc Oh man, so much time spent trying to come up with something funny to put there wasted.
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Oh... others can't see my "Full name".
Can be rectified in your privacy settings.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Zecc Oh man, so much time spent trying to come up with something funny to put there wasted.
Next time try not to be wasted, maybe you won't lose so much time.
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ctrl+alt+tab
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@ben_lubar Win+T then arrows
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@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState
I googled that and found that it exists. It makes me slightly sad that there was people defending this type of stupidity at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4549544
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@sockpuppet7 With giant insects bouncing from bouncy top to bouncy top. This ancestral memory is preserved in all Mario games.
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@sockpuppet7 Linked from that article; I'm just going to leave this here and walk away:
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@HardwareGeek ....TIL
Filed under: things I would have been happier not knowing...
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@Erufael Yeah, I haven't actually read TFA. I just saw the headline, copied the link, and pasted it here. I did read the onebox, but that's all.
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@HardwareGeek Meh, nothing really surprising in TFA.
Cheese = mold, mold = fungus, fungus = both asexual and sexual reproduction modes. Until now, people thought only asexual reproduction happens in cheese, turns out the sexual kind also happens (and it's not "weird" sex, as far as I can see, just... regular sex between fungus (yeah, OK, that alone might be "weird"...)).
Once you've gotten over the gross factor of cheese = mold, the rest is just basic biology. Maybe new for science, but doesn't really change the perception of cheese.
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
doesn't really change the perception of cheese.
Perception is still: delicious.
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The Fungus in Your Cheese
MY food is kept as fungus-free as I can, tyvm.
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
but doesn't really change the perception of cheese.
Yes it does. My food should not be having sex with each other in my mouth
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@mott555 You know that when you eat mushrooms, you are eating sexual parts?
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
eat mushrooms
This is rare and only happens by accident.
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The Fungus in Your Cheese
No problem, I tend to prefer bacterial cheeses anyway. Belegen; the young ones you get a lot taste just like a bite of butter and the old ones are too hard and salty.
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@PleegWat Yes, I'm not fond of mold-ripened cheese, either. Blue cheese just tastes to me like mold, not cheese.
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@HardwareGeek tiny, tiny purple dildoes.
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TIL about this pioneering plane, named after Maksim Gorki:
And its rather sad demise:
On 18 May 1935, the Maksim Gorky and three more aircraft (a Tupolev ANT-14, R-5 and I-5) took off for a demonstration flight over Moscow. ... The accompanying I-5 fighter ... had performed two loop manoeuvres around the Maksim Gorky. On the third loop, they collided. The Maksim Gorky crashed ... Forty-five people were killed in the crash, including the fighter pilot as well as both crew members and the 33 passengers on the Maksim Gorky, and an additional nine people on the ground.
Bonus fact: they built another one, which crashed for an even more bizarre reason:
A replacement aircraft, designated ANT-20bis had begun production the following year and first flew in 1938. ... On 14 December 1942, it crashed after the pilot allowed a passenger to take his seat momentarily and the passenger apparently disengaged the automatic pilot, sending the airplane into a nosedive from an altitude of 500 m (1,600 ft), killing all 36 on board.
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL about this pioneering plane, named after Maksim Gorki:
And its rather sad demise:
On 18 May 1935, the Maksim Gorky and three more aircraft (a Tupolev ANT-14, R-5 and I-5) took off for a demonstration flight over Moscow. ... The accompanying I-5 fighter ... had performed two loop manoeuvres around the Maksim Gorky. On the third loop, they collided. The Maksim Gorky crashed ... Forty-five people were killed in the crash, including the fighter pilot as well as both crew members and the 33 passengers on the Maksim Gorky, and an additional nine people on the ground.
Bonus fact: they built another one, which crashed for an even more bizarre reason:
A replacement aircraft, designated ANT-20bis had begun production the following year and first flew in 1938. ... On 14 December 1942, it crashed after the pilot allowed a passenger to take his seat momentarily and the passenger apparently disengaged the automatic pilot, sending the airplane into a nosedive from an altitude of 500 m (1,600 ft), killing all 36 on board.
aaah russian traditions:
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@ben_lubar said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
ctrl+alt+tab
I remember this and thought about Ctrl+Win+Tab. So TIL that works too.
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TIL I can control the neighboring office's AC from our own office with our own remote .
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TIL that at least some political candidates are willing to give the taxpayer free ponies:
Or if you just want to know more:
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The predecessor to the pipe organ in medieval churches:
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TIL some grain works like quicksand, and it's not rare for people to die buried in grain silos.
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@sockpuppet7 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL some grain works like quicksand, and it's not rare for people to die buried in grain silos.
Grain silos can also explode spectacularly, usually due to inadequate ventilation and the contents compost and become extremely hot.
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@mott555 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@sockpuppet7 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL some grain works like quicksand, and it's not rare for people to die buried in grain silos.
Grain silos can also explode spectacularly, usually due to inadequate ventilation and the contents compost and become extremely hot.
Grain dust (as well as sawdust) also make really good fuel-air explosives in the proper combinations.