TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@mott555 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
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.
I wonder if anyone's written on Tumblr about it…
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@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:
Me and my family got to see 4014 up close. My dad and brother had been following the work and had seen it pull out of the steam shop for the first time. We went to UP's spike ceremony the day before Spike150 (as well as the event at Promontory Summit itself) and chased it a bit the first day of trip back to Cheyenne. It's a very impressive machine.
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@coderpatsy I am very envious. It's supposed to tour the UP system this summer, which means it should visit the Bay Area, or at least nearby. I haven't seen the schedule, yet, but I would expect Roseville, Sacramento, Oakland, San Jose, and south. It's possible they might head south through the Central Valley, but the purpose of the tour is publicity and letting people see it, and Oakland/San Jose are where the people are. It would be even neater if they took it up the peninsula to SF. Those tracks are less than a mile from my apartment; I cross them every day going to/from work. In any case, I will see it in person, if I have to take a full day off work and drive to Sacramento
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@HardwareGeek Yeah, looking at the schedule there's a trip planned to California around October, though specifics are still being ironed out.
I hear tell family plans to meet it out in the midwest, though I might end up staying home so sister can see it.
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@kazitor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
from a topological perspective, no closed boundary on the surface of Earth demarcates a definitive "interior" and "exterior" region.
Welcome to Outside The Asylum!
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TIL Poland has some legal acts that date all the way back to 1920 and are still in force. That's like three times the age of our country!
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1990, when the USSR and PepsiCo re-negotiated to exchange syrup for vodka and a small fleet of Soviet warships including 17 submarines, a frigate, a cruiser and a destroyer
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL Poland has some legal acts that date all the way back to 1920 and are still in force. That's like three times the age of our country!
Um, actually we have legal continuity from 1918 till today.
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@MrL yes, but I'd imagine that after a coup d'etat and rewriting entire constitution, then a foreign invasion and total occupation, then another foreign invasion and going full socialist and also rewriting entire constitution, then completely abandoning socialism and yet again rewriting entire constitution, all those initial acts would be revoked by now.
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@Gąska
What are those laws?
I'd imagine some pretty basic mundane things that don't need chaning no matter the circumstances.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I'd imagine that […] all those initial acts would be revoked by now.
Apparently not.
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@Gąska
Weaksaus ... we have laws dating back to Napoleon.
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@MrL said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska
What are those laws?Statute on purchasing real estate by foreigners (Dz.U. 1920 nr 31 poz. 178). So not entirely trivial and mundane.
Some more searching indicates that it's the oldest act of parliament still in force, possibly the oldest of all legal acts in Poland. It was amended over the years, of course, but only a total of 25 times - surprisingly little for such an old act, and most were tiny things like updating the title of the official responsible for applications. The main points are still mostly the same.
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@Luhmann said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
we have laws dating back to Napoleon
We've still got some laws dating back well into the Middle Ages.
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@dkf
But you still haven't found time to write down that constitution?
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I looked it up and one article claimed that about 46% of the civil code (BGB) are identical or nearly identical (modulo spelling changes) to 1896.
I seem to remember, but can’t find any evidence of it, that some state church contracts (concordats) even older than that are still in effect. (Even things which should have been abolished by now, such as compensation payments for taking land that used to be owned by the church forever ago. But then, I can’t find anything concrete.)
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@Luhmann said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska
Weaksaus ... we have laws dating back to Napoleon.But you weren't wiped off the map for 120 years? Didn't think so.
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@MrL
Hard to do if your country was only invented 180 years ago
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@Luhmann said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@dkf
But you still haven't found time to write down that constitution?They couldn't even agree on the formation of the committee deciding what colour of cover the book's going to have, so don't act surprised.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I'm just… still keener on filter coffee, which is a totally different process with a different flavour profile.)
I'm very fond of my Perky Copulator, I'm convinced it makes better coffee than filter...99% of the coffee I drink is instant though, it serves for getting my caffeine levels back into the 'operating' zone.
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@Cursorkeys said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I'm convinced it makes better coffee than filter
It depends on the fineness of the grind. Percolators use a coarser grind than filters, which is in turn use a coarser grind than for espresso. (Actually, there's several different grind finenesses for filter, depending on the type of filter in use; reusable nylon filters need things a bit coarser than a proper paper filter.)
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@Cursorkeys said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
99% of the coffee I drink is instant
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@TimeBandit Is it still if it's 99% of 0?
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@HardwareGeek 0 coffee is ².
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@TimeBandit Is it still if it's 99% of 0?
Do you drink tea instead?
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@dkf Yes, though not nearly as much as I used to, since my doctor said to avoid caffeine. I don't avoid it entirely, and when I do have caffeine, it's almost always in the form of tea.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@TimeBandit Is it still if it's 99% of 0?
Do you drink tea instead?
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
Filed under: Be yourself no matter what they say, Not my
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@ixvedeusi immigration thread is .
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TIL text alignment buttons in MS Word change themselves to match text direction.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL text alignment buttons in MS Word change themselves to match text direction.
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@Tsaukpaetra also, I'm sad that somewhere between 2003 and 2019 they've removed the ability to rotate text at any angle between -π/2 and π/2.
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@Gąska Did they remove exact angle control from the settings pane of text boxes? (I have an old version so I can't check.) Everything I see online with a quick search seems to indicate that it is possible, if not always obvious.
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TIL that the first (widely known) Cassius Clay wasn't a boxer (and that the boxer was, indirectly, named after him).
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Did they remove
As a rule, it wouldn't be a new version if they didn't.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska Did they remove exact angle control from the settings pane of text boxes?
What is text box?
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@Gąska Baby don't hurt me.
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(article from May 2016. But this isn't a news thread)
During one of his famous lectures at Caltech in the 1960's, Richard Feynman remarked that due to time dilation, the Earth's core is actually younger than its crust—a difference he suggested that was likely a "day or two."
General relativity suggests that really big objects, like planets and stars, actually warp the fabric of spacetime, which results in a gravitational pull capable of slowing down time. Thus, an object closer to Earth's center would feel a stronger pull—a clock set near the core would run slower than one placed at the surface, which means that the material that makes up the core is actually younger than the material that makes up the crust.
In this new effort, the research trio ran the math to discover the actual number involved. They found that over the course of our planet's 4.5 billion year history, the pull of gravity causes the core to be approximately 2.5 years younger than the crust—ignoring geological processes, of course.
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
New calculations show Earth's core is much younger than thought
I wonder who was around and thinking so long ago.
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I had this tab passively open for a few hours:
Later, seeing it out of the corner of my eye, "was that a tab about Quetzalcoatlus[ northropi]?"
I wanted to know where the name "northropi" actually originates, so quick research:
The specific name honors John Knudsen Northrop, the founder of Northrop, who drove the development of large tailless flying wing aircraft designs resembling Quetzalcoatlus.
huh. Honestly kinda impressed/concerned I went from "Northrop" to pterosaurs with zero conscious effort…
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@kazitor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Honestly kinda impressed/concerned I went from "Northrop" to pterosaurs with zero conscious effort…
Impressed. Definitely impressed.
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@CarrieVS so you're telling me, if you glanced "Mongolia" out of the corner of your eye, you wouldn't think "Velociraptor"? Odd.
though I mistold the sequence of events – I immediately thought I'd seen something about pterosaurs, then had to narrow "northropi" down to one of Pteranodon and Quetzalcoatlus.
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@kazitor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@CarrieVS so you're telling me, if you glanced "Mongolia" out of the corner of your eye, you wouldn't think "Velociraptor"? Odd.
I'd like to think I would but in all honesty it'd be a toss-up between Velociraptor and Ghengis Khan.
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@kazitor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
so you're telling me, if you glanced "Mongolia" out of the corner of your eye, you wouldn't think "Velociraptor"? Odd.
Cue the mongoltage.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL Marx was Jewish.
TIL Harpo's birth name was Adolph, which he change to Arthur for reasons unrelated to Hitler.
(INB4 "that's not the Marx I was talking about")
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@CarrieVS said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@kazitor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@CarrieVS so you're telling me, if you glanced "Mongolia" out of the corner of your eye, you wouldn't think "Velociraptor"? Odd.
I'd like to think I would but in all honesty it'd be a toss-up between Velociraptor and Ghengis Khan.
For me, it's not a tossup, not even close. If I have any association of a particular geographic location with Velociraptor (and it's a very weak one; I had to look up the name), it's Isla Nublar. No mental connection between Velociraptor and Mongolia at all.
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TIL there's a product specifically designed to dissolve the non-orange bits of oranges.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ7TQj0xolU
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@anonymous234 Suggested video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRCIzZHpFtY
"How To get to Mars" is a clip from the IMAX documentary "Roving Mars" from 2006. This is an edited short version.
A little CLARIFICATION is needed! This is ANIMATION ment to ILLUSTRATE how NASA landed the two robots Spirit and Opportunity on Mars back in 2003/04.
Lots of space trash...
My favorite moment is at 3:21. Did not see that coming, I thought it was hilarious.
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Not pictured: uprising
After the lander stopped bouncing and rolling on the ground, it came to rest on the base of the tetrahedron or one of its sides. The sides then opened to make the base horizontal and the rover upright. The sides are connected to the base by hinges, each of which has a motor strong enough to lift the lander.
The rover contains accelerometers to detect which way is down (toward the surface of Mars) by measuring the pull of gravity. The rover computer then commanded the correct lander petal to open to place the rover upright. Once the base petal was down and the rover was upright, the other two petals were opened. »
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@Zecc Those voices and shots of people in the control room make it seem like they are directing the thing in real time. Which is impossible since it takes signals 40 minutes to get
back to Earthto Earth and back.