TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@CarrieVS said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL* what my interphalangeal joint looks like.
*Technically YIL but I didn't feel like posting yesterday.
I learned that whenever @Gąska felt like showing off his medical terms.
What can I do? English language lacks words for the most common and mundane things in biology. If there was an alternative word for phalanges that wouldn't make me sound like a know-it-all medieval scholar, I'd absolutely use them. I mean, even a stupid lung infection sounds like some fantasy kingdom.
One of the best things that socialism gave to Poland is a simple, Polish word for every part of human body and every medical condition in existence - a byproduct of Communist Party's frantic war against every trace of western culture in scientific language. If USSR lasted ten more years, our computer terminology would probably be as bizzarre as French.
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BTW - I still can't stop laughing at "télécharger".
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
BTW - I still can't stop laughing at "télécharger".
Wireless charging, I guess?
Doesn't sound that bad (compare to TV), except for the fact that "tele" in this case means 1cm.
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@topspin it means download.
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@Gąska Well, shit.
Filed under: excuse my French
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@Gąska for maximum effect you should have replied with an iFunny watermarked reaction.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
BTW - I still can't stop laughing at "télécharger".
To make you ROFL, here's another one
"téléverser"It means... Upload
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TIL ELF files include their own hash table to look up symbol names.
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@Gąska In fact it is still perfectly serviceable form desktop, and much better looking than the default.
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@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska In fact it is still perfectly serviceable form desktop
"Serviceable." That's about the lowest bar for software quality imaginable, just above "yes it is completely broken but at least it produces some result doesn't it? What do you want man just leave me alone".
and much better looking than the default.
I know it's subjective, but no, it isn't.
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TIL that Python doesn't even attempt to follow the principles of semantic versioning. Change from 3.X to 3.X+1 and you have no idea what will break on you.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Python doesn't even attempt to follow the principles of semantic versioning. Change from 3.X to 3.X+1 and you have no idea what will break on you.
They have their own versioning scheme...
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TIL that cacodemons have buttholes on the backs of their heads.
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
They have their own versioning scheme...
Yes, but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about how there's a landmine of incompatibility between 3.6 and 3.7…
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@mott555 TIL that Doom monsters are called cacodemons. When I hear cacodemon I think
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@mott555 that's not a butthole...
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@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@mott555 TIL that Doom monsters are called cacodemons.
This is cacodemon
Others have different names (although cacodemon means just 'evil spirit' or 'demon', so you probably could call that all of them).
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@MrL said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
This is cacodemon
This is how I read that:
Firefox supports WebP now.
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@Zecc
at least it's properly pixalated
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
When it rings, it makes quite a cacophony. :refused_rimshot:
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Chromium, from χρῶμα (chroma) meaning "colour", is so named because many of its compounds are allegedly intensely coloured.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@mott555 that's not a butthole...
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@kazitor Vanadium is another fun one for colour. Its salts can adopt a huge range of different hues depending on oxidation state…
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@kazitor Vanadium is another fun one for colour. Its salts can adopt a huge range of different hues depending on oxidation state…
As is lead. Makes nice brilliant colors too. Pity about the toxicity...
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@Watson said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@mott555 that's not a butthole...
I've been waiting...
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Python doesn't even attempt to follow the principles of semantic versioning. Change from 3.X to 3.X+1 and you have no idea what will break on you.
See! Great for glue coding
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@Tsaukpaetra
In the shad-oo-ows for my time
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Python doesn't even attempt to follow the principles of semantic versioning. Change from 3.X to 3.X+1 and you have no idea what will break on you.
I'm pretty sure it attempts to not break things between releases, it just doesn't try as hard as other projects.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Pity about the toxicity...
That's the story of almost all heavy metals. Of the rest, it's their low solubility that stops them from being a problem.
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@kazitor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Chromium, from χρῶμα (chroma) meaning "colour", is so named because many of its compounds are allegedly intensely coloured.
Allegedly? That's an easily demonstrated fact. Many are used as pigments:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyridinium_chlorochromate: yellow-orange
I can't remember exactly what metal chromate/dichromate we encountered in a chemistry class long, long ago, but it was a very, very dark purple — black, except in very dilute solution. It was a very sensitive test for the presence of metal, because it formed such a strongly colored reaction product with chromate or dichromate. I recall using it for quantitative measurement with a spectrophotometer.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@kazitor Vanadium is another fun one for colour. Its salts can adopt a huge range of different hues depending on oxidation state…
As is lead. Makes nice brilliant colors too. Pity about the toxicity...
Many of the nice brilliant colors are lead chromates.
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TIL that Synaesthesia Auditiva, an album released by Lúcio in Overwatch as part of his character backstory, was actually released by Blizzard as a real music album.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@kazitor Vanadium is another fun one for colour. Its salts can adopt a huge range of different hues depending on oxidation state…
That's the fun part about a redox-flow accumulator based on Vanadium - you can tell whether it's charged or not based on the colour :)
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TIL Windows registry contains hidden messages from OS developers.
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@Gąska I'd imagine if you look hard enough you'd find hiring managers' email addresses in there. I find it on enough websites' JS consoles.
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@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska I'd imagine if you look hard enough you'd find hiring managers' email addresses in there. I find it on enough websites' JS consoles.
Not at Microsoft. They would never agree on which hiring manager to put in there (and thus determining his bonus) unless it's all of them and the order is truly random.
No, instead you get the above: warning signs and maybe clandestine rants.
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@JBert No, I mean by random programs. Microsoft's not nearly hipster enough to do that.
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...about prolapse.
Don't sit on the toilet for hours, folks!
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A pterosaur genus was named after a Pokémon named after a pterosaur genus. Although some think those two genera are not distinctly different.
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The Cute Things Threads is
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@Zecc I felt dirty a few minutes ago for thinking a pterosaur was cute, then discovering it was a pterodactylus.
But now you've encouraged me to post another one to the cute things thread.
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@kazitor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
A pterosaur genus was named after a Pokémon named after a pterosaur genus. Although some think those two genera are not distinctly different.
I love my shiny Aerodactyl.
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YIL about wooden cannons. Yes, they did burst upon firing very frequently.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL Windows registry contains hidden messages from OS developers.
TIL this registry key was added by my favorite blogger, Raymond Chen.
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TIL:
On 7 March 2019, the 97th anniversary of Ladyzhenskaya's birth, the search engine Google released a Google Doodle commemorating her.[5][6] The accompanying comment read, "Today’s Doodle celebrates Olga Ladyzhenskaya, a Russian mathematician who triumphed over personal tragedy and obstacles to become one of the most influential thinkers of her generation."[5]
I don't think I'd ever heard of her before, but I've tried to avoid partial differential equations since I graduated uni, which was before the end of the Cold War, so accomplishments of Soviet scientists weren't exactly emphasized (and her field was not particularly relevant to mine).