TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@TimeBandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I'd eat that again.
only because it was free
It was not free, but also not more that I would have paid either way (was one of those deals where you add up the bill and everyone pays equal amounts).
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It's like white rice. You're not supposed to eat it without seasoning.
This. It has very little flavor of its own, but it absorbs the flavor of whatever sauce or seasonings you cook it in.
I agree the texture is rather strange, though.
It depends on how it's cooked. There are also different kinds of tofu with different textures. I don't think I've ever cooked with it myself, so I don't actually know what techniques produce a particular texture, but I've had it many times in Chinese restaurants and in store-bought entrees. I rather like the texture where the tofu is cut into fairly large chunks and cooked in a way (braised?) that produces a relatively chewy exterior with a soft interior.
At a work cafeteria almost 30 years ago, they had a menu item called, IIRC, "braised bean curd with brown sauce". Not a name to inspire enthusiasm, but really good. I think it was my first experience with tofu, and it made a good first impression.
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HOLY CRAP! I hadn't realized.
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TIL the original Windows 3.10 for Workgroups shipped with a network card in the box. Except it wasn't Ethernet network card.
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@JBert this is a Welbike. It bikes wel.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL the original Windows 3.10 for Workgroups shipped with a network card in the box. Except it wasn't Ethernet network card.
Yeah, networking back then was nasal demon levels of fun.
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL the original Windows 3.10 for Workgroups shipped with a network card in the box. Except it wasn't Ethernet network card.
Yeah, networking back then was nasal demon levels of fun.
I remember Trumpet Winsock, which we used with Win 3.1. I also remember the equivalent with Coloured Book networking, which was way worse. In both cases, you were strongly dependent on exactly where in memory the things were happy to load into. It wasn't really before Win95 that you could consistently expect that hardware drivers would work in anything other than Real Mode…
Stuff from that period is also one of the main real reasons that function and data pointers are held to be non-interchangeable. There were memory models in common use where data pointers were
far
(effectively 20 bits, embedded within 32 bits) and function pointers werenear
(16 bits), and there's no way that 20 fits into 16…
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Yeah, networking back then was nasal demon levels of fun.
Like coax-based Ethernet, where a malfunctioning machine or cabling faults could crash the network.
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Yeah, networking back then was nasal demon levels of fun.
Like coax-based Ethernet, where a malfunctioning machine or cabling faults could crash the network.
Yeah, lots of fun! And the lack of terminators in lan parties.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Stuff from that period is also one of the main real reasons that function and data pointers are held to be non-interchangeable. There were memory models in common use where data pointers were
far
(effectively 20 bits, embedded within 32 bits) and function pointers werenear
(16 bits), and there's no way that 20 fits into 16…Yeah, x86 real mode is the craziest addressing mode in general use. Well, except for the x86 protected mode, except nobody uses the crazier features of that (i.e. nobody ever uses different start addresses for the segments).
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Yeah, networking back then was nasal demon levels of fun.
Like coax-based Ethernet, where a malfunctioning machine or cabling faults could crash the network.
I had a coax LAN in my house. My father had to explain to me that I was not allowed to fidget with the connections anywhere in the cable.
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Like coax-based Ethernet, where a malfunctioning machine or cabling faults could crash the network.
Some neighbours had coax-over-the-air ethernet. I remember we replaced it with twisted-pair-over-the-air just about twenty years ago. We had a loooong coil of a CAT5 TP wire and when it came to going over the street we zip-tied it to some steel cable for support, dropped it from one roof and pulled it up on the other side of the street. The link was almost the maximum 100 m, and about 20 m was hanging in the air across a street (the rest was lying on the flat roofs). We then bought a wi-fi internet link and shared it over that—and home-built optical links—for a few years until ADSL became fast and cheap enough.
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@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Some neighbours had coax-over-the-air
I know what you mean, but I still find it funny.
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Some neighbours had coax-over-the-air
I know what you mean, but I still find it funny.
I didn't know what he meant until I read further.
(To let @Bulb in on the joke - over-the-air, in every usage I've heard, is effectively equivalent to "wireless")
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@sloosecannon said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
over-the-air, in every usage I've heard, is effectively equivalent to "wireless"
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@TimeBandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Like coax-based Ethernet
Or Token Ring
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Okular, the KDE default pdf reader also reads markdown files. I clicked on a README.md and it Just Worked.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
it Just Worked.
there where no tables or other 'fancy' markup tricks involved I guess?
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@Luhmann I can see some links, headers, some bold / italics, an unordered list and some code.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvMOil5BLQY
The sad part: the composer died last month.
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@Zerosquare oh no, where will we obtain ambient music for listening to ambient music by now?
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People could still enter/exit the building thanks to an entryway which was connected to a special curved sidewalk.
Bell had planned to demolish it but that would've interrupted phone service for a big chunk of Indiana, which they didn’t want to do.
They lifted the whole building with steam-powered hydraulic lifts, then set it on enormous pine logs. It was moved via hand-operated jacks, which pushed it over the logs 3/8" at a time. Once the building rolled far enough forward, the last log would be moved to the front.
The rotation plan was conceived & executed by famous architect Kurt Vonnegut Sr (father of the famous author).
The building was demolished in 1963.
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...and if it's not true, I suppose I'll learn that next.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
...and if it's not true, I suppose I'll learn that next.
We have something similar here, it's called Fat Thursday.
But it's not because of linguistic confusion, we just like eating tons of donuts.
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@MrL said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
...and if it's not true, I suppose I'll learn that next.
We have something similar here, it's called Fat Thursday.
But it's not because of linguistic confusion, we just like eating tons of donuts.The original pre-Lenten pastry tradition dates back to when the Gallic line was still pure enough that the French still went through a yearly hibernation-and-molt, which required doubling the body mass in a fairly short time.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
...and if it's not true, I suppose I'll learn that next.
It's true.
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Why the fuck is "turnpike" a word for a toll road. How the fuck does that make any sense.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Why the fuck is "turnpike" a word for a toll road. How the fuck does that make any sense.
because of the guys with pikes who turn you back if you don't pay the toll
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Why the fuck is "turnpike" a word for a toll road. How the fuck does that make any sense.
Don’t worry, I too only recently learned of this term.
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@sloosecannon said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska Presumably because turnpikes used to have turnpikes on them
Whenever I see a car going through such turnpike, it always ends badly.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Why the fuck is "turnpike" a word for a toll road. How the fuck does that make any sense.
It's from the name for the barrier used to ensure that people actually paid, and dates to 1420.
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@dkf Word of the Day thread is .
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@HardwareGeek Nope, there was a problem and we had to move that here.
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TIL shooting lasers is an Olympic sport.
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I went down a bit of a licensing/IP rabbit hole inspired by , and TIL that Uniracers for SNES was cancelled after its initial cartridge production run due to some IP issue. Apparently Pixar had created an animated short in 1987, and based on that they thought that the 3D modeled unicycles from the game were too similar to their 3D modeled unicycle. Red's Dream (the Pixar short) was never released to the general public until after Uniracers.
I think I used to have a copy of uniracers. Shit, I could have been sitting on a valuable collectable
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Mason_Wheeler it was running on Discovery Channel at about the same time as Mythbusters, and from what I can tell, it was about as popular as Mythbusters. But then, the other day I learned there are programmers who don't know what FPGA is...
I've met a lot of programmers that don't even know what a recursive function is.
One that makes you swear when writing it and when you read it later
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@Jaloopa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I went down a bit of a licensing/IP rabbit hole inspired by , and TIL that Uniracers for SNES was cancelled after its initial cartridge production run due to some IP issue. Apparently Pixar had created an animated short in 1987, and based on that they thought that the 3D modeled unicycles from the game were too similar to their 3D modeled unicycle. Red's Dream (the Pixar short) was never released to the general public until after Uniracers.
I think I used to have a copy of uniracers. Shit, I could have been sitting on a valuable collectable
Murphy's Mom's Law states that "anything which can be thrown out will be thrown out".
So good luck.
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@JBert Finagle's Mom.
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TIL the word "avocado" comes from an Aztec word for testicle.
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@Gąska I think that's a good place to mention that TIL squeezing avocados is not the right way to know if they're ripe. You should pluck the stem that's attached to them and check for colour instead.
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska I think that's a good place to mention that TIL squeezing avocados is not the right way to know if they're ripe. You should pluck the stem that's attached to them and check for colour instead.
Here there is never a stern attached to them in stores.
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska I think that's a good place to mention that TIL squeezing avocados is not the right way to know if they're ripe. You should pluck the stem that's attached to them and check for colour instead.
Here there is never a stern attached to them in stores.
No, you only get that with a nautical avocado, grown near shore.
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@Gribnit If you're into wine, a nautical avocado goes well with a nice port.
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Here there is never a stern attached to them in stores.
At least there is no poop attached to it either. Or so I hope.
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TIL Mission Impossible's time signature is like this:
because its composer Lalo Schifrin based it on the Morse code for "M, I": dash dash, dot dot.
Pretty cool how that worked out.
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Turns out ISO is staffed by Irish separatists.
You see, the ISO 3166 standardised two-letter code for the United Kingdom¹ of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is… GB.
So of course :uk: is not how you get .
ISO’s justification for this bold political statement is basically that words like “United” and “Kingdom” are both generic name components that won’t serve as a basis for an abbreviation, so they use “Britain” which is at least something geographically related.
And presumably the USA is just so utterly bankrupt of nominal originality that there was no other choice there.
¹. I typo’d that as “Kinkdom”
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@kazitor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
¹. I typo’d that as “Kinkdom”
That's enough about Prince Andrew!