TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@hungrier Hey look, it's a LackRack with a LAMP server.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL it costs up to $2000 to have a SINGLE ambulance ride in USA. And the insurance normally doesn't cover any of that. What the fuck.
Varies by jurisdiction. It's a county service here that's funded by taxes.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL it costs up to $2000 to have a SINGLE ambulance ride in USA. And the insurance normally doesn't cover any of that. What the fuck.
Varies by jurisdiction. It's a county service here that's funded by taxes.
Why do you hate freedom?
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TIL Cook County, IL has banned possession of nuclear weapons. Not USA. Not Illinois. Specifically the Cook County.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL Cook County, IL has banned possession of nuclear weapons. Not USA. Not Illinois. Specifically the Cook County.
Seems to be illegal to acquire them without a license for nuclear material though.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL Cook County, IL has banned possession of nuclear weapons. Not USA. Not Illinois. Specifically the Cook County.
That'll help keep the gang warfare in South Chicago down to reasonable levels.
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… where the word ‘sigil’ used to describe those
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didn't make it into Rust 1.0, so I ran out of sigils.
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@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I ran out of sigils.
There's always Raku if you run into that problem…
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Raku
That's one language I didn't bother to remember anything about. I mean, I followed the development for some time back 15 or so years ago, but it was looking gradually more and more absurd to me (and was still vaporware), so I stopped and forgot (almost) everything about it since.
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@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
so I stopped and forgot (almost) everything about it since
Good plan.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I ran out of sigils.
There's always Raku if you run into that problem…
Nope thread is .
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I ran out of sigils.
There's always Raku if you run into that problem…
Nope thread is .
It's actually called Raku thread, but yes.
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TIL Intel is actually getting into the GPU game, for real this time.
And with Nvidia buying ARM, that means Intel, AMD and Nvidia will all be making CPUs and GPUs.
Meanwhile Apple invested a large amount of money into their own ARM-based hardware as well, and that whole Nvidia thing might be a problem. Makes me wonder if they should buy ARM instead?
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Meanwhile Apple invested a large amount of money into their own ARM-based hardware as well, and that whole Nvidia thing might be a problem. Makes me wonder if they should buy ARM instead?
The critical thing with ARM is the nature and cost of the licensing going forwards, both for existing products and new ones.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Makes me wonder if [Apple] should buy ARM instead?
It's too late, no?
Though... googles some numbers... NVidia market capitalisation is $320 bn and Apple is reported to have a cash stash of $200 bn. So if they really wanted to, they could probably fairly easily gather enough cash to gobble NVidia just to get ARM...
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Thanks @hungrier, I just wanted to post in this thread again.
TIL about Polish ping pong.
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@Gąska Glad I could help...?
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I set my background to an alternate frame of the "making of" video which I like better.
This was before a Windows update which reset all my settings including erasing the image altogether
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Might as well link to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewmXizBqjl0
YouTube playback is currently broken for me. I guess it's Google's payback from having turned off all ad customizations?
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
YouTube playback is currently broken for me. I guess it's Google's payback from having turned off all ad customizations?
Broken for me too, but seems to be only that video.
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@Zecc Playback's broken for me on Firefox and Chrome desktop. It played fine on Chrome mobile through the Android Youtube app, but had no ads before the video for my inability to block to matter.
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@Jaloopa said in $2,666,594.03 severance?:
@boner Reminded me of this one
Man edits contract on a credit card agreement to say 0% interest, unlimited credit and the issuer owes him £60k every time they break the new rules.
In this case the court ruled partially in his favour since they signed the contract, but he's suing for the severance deal he put in there
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@Zecc the article is from 2013 and ends with:
The court will review Mr Argakov's case next month.
Damn, what happened? Did he get the million rubles or the years in prison?
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I killed the and can report that the bank's president said that "[t]he conflict wasn't constructive, so [they] decided to end it like gentlemen, by withdrawing [their] mutual claims."
It's not public what "ending it like gentlemen" actually means, excepted that it includes a debit card with 30% cashback.
See e.g.
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I killed the and can report that the bank's president said that "[t]he conflict wasn't constructive, so [they] decided to end it like gentlemen, by withdrawing [their] mutual claims."
It's not public what "ending it like gentlemen" actually means, excepted that it includes a debit card with 30% cashback.
See e.g.
Judging by the wording of the judge's reaction, it was probably a little more than just the debit card...
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Thanks @hungrier, I just wanted to post in this thread again.
TIL about Polish ping pong.
Ah, reminds me of playing Butts Up in my youth.
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TIL the PC Master Race meme was started by a Zero Punctuation video about The Witcher.
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TIL that Chipotle has parking spaces reserved for @Karla:
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Apparently Motoball was featured in the 1986 edition.
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Chipotle has parking spaces reserved for @Karla:
I do not have the gene. I just don't like it.
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Chipotle has parking spaces reserved for @Karla:
For some reason, I always parse "it's the least we can do" as "it's the least we can do and can't be bothered to do anything more".
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@GOG "It's the least, and also the most, we can do"
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@anonymous234 "We do what we must, because we can."
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TIL you can scroll to the bottom of YouTube's start page.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL you can scroll to the bottom of YouTube's start page.
It's not the bottom, they just stop infiniscrolling.
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@Tsaukpaetra Shouldn't it then be called finiscrolling?
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TIL the reason why the tire pressure light in my car was still on even after I refilled the tires was because it needs to be reset manually. And not because, say, one of the tires is busted, or the sensor is broken, as I was suspecting.
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@Tsaukpaetra At least some tire "pressure" warnings do not actually measure pressure, but measure the difference in rotational speed of the tires. (A tire that is flat or has low pressure will have a smaller effective diameter than properly inflated tires, and so will rotate faster for a given forward speed.) At least some of these need to be recalibrated after reinflating the tire by holding the button for 5 seconds while driving in a straight line at moderate speed; that's how mine works.
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra At least some tire "pressure" warnings do not actually measure pressure, but measure the difference in rotational speed of the tires. (A tire that is flat or has low pressure will have a smaller effective diameter than properly inflated tires, and so will rotate faster for a given forward speed.) At least some of these need to be recalibrated after reinflating the tire by holding the button for 5 seconds while driving in a straight line at moderate speed; that's how mine works.
While interesting, I have to wonder if it was really that much more cost effective to build a gyro instead of a pressure capsule...
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
holding the button for 5 seconds while driving in a straight line at moderate speed
What kind of moron has written that instruction? How are you supposed to do that safely by yourself!?
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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 At least some tire "pressure" warnings do not actually measure pressure, but measure the difference in rotational speed of the tires. (A tire that is flat or has low pressure will have a smaller effective diameter than properly inflated tires, and so will rotate faster for a given forward speed.) At least some of these need to be recalibrated after reinflating the tire by holding the button for 5 seconds while driving in a straight line at moderate speed; that's how mine works.
While interesting, I have to wonder if it was really that much more cost effective to build a gyro instead of a pressure capsule...
A pressure sensor requires not only a sensor in each wheel, but a means of transferring the sensor data from the rotating wheel to the non-rotating body of the vehicle. The rotation-speed method merely requires rotation sensors on the vehicle itself.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
holding the button for 5 seconds while driving in a straight line at moderate speed
What kind of moron has written that instruction? How are you supposed to do that safely by yourself!?
The button is big and easy to find by touch. You wait to push it until you're on a straight road with no traffic.
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
with no traffic.
Did I mention I live in Chicago?
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
At least some of these need to be recalibrated after reinflating the tire by holding the button for 5 seconds while driving in a straight line at moderate speed; that's how mine works.
Huh. When I've had that version, holding the button just tells it that a recalibration is needed.
Honestly, I much prefer the ones that give an actual pressure reading that the driver can see. Makes it easier to identify which tire has the problem and how quickly I need to address it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
a gyro
Great. Now I'm hungry for Greek food.
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Be careful. I've heard that eating too much of it makes your head spin.