TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@Zecc It's so subtle of an effect that it's almost impossible to see. I think it's the same in @loopback0's example: The outline on the latter two is just a hair darker/thicker/more prominent than on the first two.
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@hungrier On whatever set of emojis my Android phone is using, there is no outline, and zoomed as much as it will go, there's no noticeable difference in the thickness of the mouth and eyes.
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@HardwareGeek Same with my phone, the bold ones look identical to the regular
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I think it's the same in @loopback0's example: The outline on the latter two is just a hair darker/thicker/more prominent than on the first two.
Oh right, yeah, I zoomed it in 800% in GIMP and it's slightly different.
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TIL Doom's RNG was just a simple lookup table of hardcoded values.
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@Gąska
return 4;
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Pronounced "nose gay".
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The term nosegay arose in fifteenth-century Middle English as a combination of nose and gay
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There have been reports of severe cases of eye inflammation and even temporary blindness caused by the smoke of burning manchineel wood - not to mention the effects of inhaling the stuff.
:O
However, Caribbean carpenters have been using manchineel wood in furniture for centuries, after carefully cutting it and drying in the sun to neutralise the poisonous sap.
:|
"Ingesting the fruit can prove fatal when severe vomiting and diarrhoea dehydrate the body to the point of no return."
At no point do I ever want any vomiting or diarrhea returned, thanks.
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TIL that Lissajous discovered curves that now bear his name while building a device to check whether two tuning forks have the same pitch.
(well I'm not sure about whether he actually discovered those curves during this specific experiment, but what's sure is that this experiment that he designed produces Lissajous curves)
You shine a beam of light on two tuning forks placed perpendicularly one to the other and with mirrors glued on them and observe the pattern of light:
This was during various efforts to homogenise the reference frequency for music (i.e. A=440 Hz), and TIL also that he proposed to set a reference on B = 500 Hz, but this was shot down both by physicians because A would not have an integer frequency and by musicians because violins do not have a B cord. Nice example of ivory tower, I guess.
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
This was during various efforts to homogenise the reference frequency for music (i.e. A=440 Hz), and TIL also that he proposed to set a reference on B = 500 Hz, but this was shot down both by
physiciansphysicists because A would not have an integer frequency and by musicians because violins do not have a B cord. Nice example of ivory tower, I guess.FTFY.
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@Rhywden Well if he had been literally shot down I guess physicians would have become involved too, but you're right.
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@anonymous234 Press tree for free skulls? Cool!
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You wouldn't pirate a tree.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I guess poisonous fruit is the botanical equivalent of femmes fatales. Not sure why a tree would want fruit (which is designed to get animals to disperse its seeds) that poisoned the eater.
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@jinpa Some
mentrees just want to see the world burn.
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@jinpa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Not sure why a tree would want fruit (which is designed to get animals to disperse its seeds) that poisoned the eater.
It can narrow down the range of animals which eat the seeds to ones which are better fit to disperse them. It is thought that Capsicum plants produce capsaicin to favor "immune" birds while giving a burning sensation to mammals:
The seeds of Capsicum plants are dispersed predominantly by birds: in birds, the TRPV1 channel does not respond to capsaicin or related chemicals (avian vs. mammalian TRPV1 show functional diversity and selective sensitivity). This is advantageous to the plant, as chili pepper seeds consumed by birds pass through the digestive tract and can germinate later, whereas mammals have molar teeth which destroy such seeds and prevent them from germinating. Thus, natural selection may have led to increasing capsaicin production because it makes the plant less likely to be eaten by animals that do not help it disperse.
Why couldn't it be the case for this plant as well?
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@jinpa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Not sure why a tree would want fruit (which is designed to get animals to disperse its seeds) that poisoned the eater.
It can narrow down the range of animals which eat the seeds to ones which are better fit to disperse them. It is thought that Capsicum plants produce capsaicin to favor "immune" birds while giving a burning sensation to mammals:
The seeds of Capsicum plants are dispersed predominantly by birds: in birds, the TRPV1 channel does not respond to capsaicin or related chemicals (avian vs. mammalian TRPV1 show functional diversity and selective sensitivity). This is advantageous to the plant, as chili pepper seeds consumed by birds pass through the digestive tract and can germinate later, whereas mammals have molar teeth which destroy such seeds and prevent them from germinating. Thus, natural selection may have led to increasing capsaicin production because it makes the plant less likely to be eaten by animals that do not help it disperse.
Why couldn't it be the case for this plant as well?
I thought of that, but chili peppers are fairly small. These look like fairly large fruit, which would seem to be more than most birds would need.
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@jinpa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@jinpa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Not sure why a tree would want fruit (which is designed to get animals to disperse its seeds) that poisoned the eater.
It can narrow down the range of animals which eat the seeds to ones which are better fit to disperse them. It is thought that Capsicum plants produce capsaicin to favor "immune" birds while giving a burning sensation to mammals:
The seeds of Capsicum plants are dispersed predominantly by birds: in birds, the TRPV1 channel does not respond to capsaicin or related chemicals (avian vs. mammalian TRPV1 show functional diversity and selective sensitivity). This is advantageous to the plant, as chili pepper seeds consumed by birds pass through the digestive tract and can germinate later, whereas mammals have molar teeth which destroy such seeds and prevent them from germinating. Thus, natural selection may have led to increasing capsaicin production because it makes the plant less likely to be eaten by animals that do not help it disperse.
Why couldn't it be the case for this plant as well?
I thought of that, but chili peppers are fairly small. These look like fairly large fruit, which would seem to be more than most birds would need.
It works because it works. Maybe they float around to disperse.
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It is thought that Capsicum plants produce capsaicin to favor "immune" birds while giving a burning sensation to mammals
Humans: "Pain juice? Delicious, please make more"
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@jinpa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I thought of that, but chili peppers are fairly small. These look like fairly large fruit, which would seem to be more than most birds would need.
Probably not the birds that are immune in this case, then; but @wikipedia says
the black-spined iguana (Ctenosaura similis) is known to eat the fruit and even live among the limbs of the tree.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It is thought that Capsicum plants produce capsaicin to favor "immune" birds while giving a burning sensation to mammals
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@boomzilla That seems more like something I'd expect to find growing in The Continent That Wants to Kill You.
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article @boomzilla linked in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML) said:
Nature can be quite... scary.
Only if you don't understand it.
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@Tsaukpaetra I beg to differ. There are lots of things in nature — crocodiles, cobras, avalanches, volcanoes, tornadoes, ... — that are plenty scary even if you do understand them.
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra I beg to differ. There are lots of things in nature — crocodiles, cobras, avalanches, volcanoes, tornadoes, ... — that are plenty scary even if you do understand them.
*sighs* only human...
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
violins do not have a B cord
The whole string section would've not been happy; not one of them has a B string.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra I beg to differ. There are lots of things in nature — crocodiles, cobras, avalanches, volcanoes, tornadoes, ... — that are plenty scary even if you do understand them.
*sighs* only human...
No, weren't you paying attention?
Not only humans are scary.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
violins do not have a B cord
The whole string section would've not been happy; not one of them has a B string.
But they all have G strings.
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
But
t they all have G strings.
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@HardwareGeek http://bash.org/?352172
<NHBoy> I broke my G-string while fingering a minor :(
<rycool> ...
<NHBoy> I was trying to play Knocking on Heaven's Door.
<NHBoy> Oh well, time to buy new strings.
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TIL cyberpunk is older than steampunk.
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@Gąska didn't realize that either, but it makes sense - cyberpunk is the only punky one of those in the first place, so it's rather like how all controversies are -gate now, despite that making no sense.
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@Magus You should raise a big stink about it in the fiction genre world, see what they call it
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL cyberpunk is older than steampunk.
Yeah, it's been in development for quite some time and recently they delayed it again
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Magus You should raise a big stink about it in the fiction genre world, see what they call it
Ficture-gate.
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The interesting part is
Roughly one cosmic muon passes through your fingernail every minute, which isn’t very many.
I've long thought about trying to build a glass-topped coffee table cloud chamber, using alcohol vapor and TEC chillers. It would be fun to see things like this in it. Also, I have some thoriated TIG welder electrodes, so I could drop one of those in it and probably get a nice little show.
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TIL in Russia, Harry Potter is called Гарри Поттер (note the first letter).
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL in Russia, Harry Potter is called Гарри Поттер (note the first letter).
Most (if not all) names beginning with H are like that in Russian. Nazi Swastika was said to consist of 4Г as in Гитлер, Гиммлер, Геринг, Геббелс.
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@Gąska Tarry Potter
Garry
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Garry
This.
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TIL some old movies utilized color filters on black-and-white cameras to create fancy transition effects.
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Original:
I’m all out of love
I want to arrest you
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By “arrest,” Russell explained, he meant capturing someone’s attention.Changed:
I’m all out of love
I’m so lost without you
I know you were right
While it would be reasonable to assume “I want to arrest you” is a common phrase of affection in Australia, it isn’t. “I think that was just me using a weird word,” Russell said. “But, you know, now [that] I think of it, it’s definitely very weird.”
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL in Russia, Harry Potter is called Гарри Поттер (note the first letter).
That's because Russian (unlike Ukrainian⁺) does not have any H sound.
⁺ … which lead to TIL: Ukrainian uses the same letter, Г, nominally ‘ghe’, for H (/ɦ/), and has a modified character Ґ for hard G (/ɡ/). So it would be written the same in Ukrainian, but read more like the original.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Гитлер, Гиммлер, Геринг, Геббелс
Thanks, Google Translate....
Hitler, Himmler, and antedates Gebbels
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@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
does not have any H sound
Иисус Христос would like a word with you.
In many words the final г is actually pronounced as kh or even ch (I don't know the linguini term), with hardness depending on the dialect.
Russian has plenty of soft H sounds, too. Хрен, one of the most popular light curse words, for example, is distinctly soft and is latinized as "hren", too. On the other hand, Khruschev is not. Note that in both cases the second letter is the hard R, so there's no rule there, it's just one of those funny language things.
I'm sure @HardwareGeek will be here shortly to inform us all about Greek-Cyrillic-Slavic weirdness at length.