TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@HardwareGeek but the raisins can be burned as renewable biomass fuel
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@Jaloopa But then it's considered biomass, not hydroelectric.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Apparently that's not renewable.
well no power is renewable, see all the various forms of "renewable" power we have, and most of the non renewable ones too, boil down to solar power (either directly or indirectly), and see. here's the thing. the sun is a limited resource, every second the sun loses some of its fusable hydrogen, and it will eventually run out, now at some point it will be able to start fusing helium, then litium, nitrogen, and some oxygen and carbon (maybe) but eventually it will run out of all those sources, and regardless by the time it starts burning helium we'll be dead cause the sun will be a red giant at that point and will either have gobbled us up, or grown to the point where we get burned to a crisp by its proximity.
so yeah. even renewable power isn't, no power source is renewable forever, because that would violate the laws of thermodynamics.
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@accalia while on the subject, do all of your posts start like this and just gain tyops over time due to entropic principle?
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@dkf In Canada, most of the electricity is hydro-electric.
Top performers :
- Manitoba 99.5%
- Quebec 97.2%
- Yukon 94.1%
- British Columbia 88.7%
If hydro-electric is not renewable, we should run out of electricity soon :p
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@Onyx said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Water can't flow uphill back to the lake!
You can pump it back up and make pretty efficient energy storage.
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@Onyx said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@accalia while on the subject, do all of your posts start like this and just gain tyops over time due to entropic principle?
ara?
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@TimeBandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
missing hydro-electric power
Apparently that's not renewable. For raisins.
More arguable: there's not much more potential for new sources of it in the US.
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@Jaloopa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that nginx is meant to be pronounced "engine X".
What. I always thought 'en-geenks' because I am weird, but 'engine X' is really out there.
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@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
no power source is renewable forever
EXCEPT ONE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8HOfcYWZoo
Celine Dion is immutable. CELEBRATE HER ENTIRE CATALOG!
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@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
no power is renewable, see all the various forms of "renewable" power we have, and most of the non renewable ones too, boil down to solar power (either directly or indirectly), and see. here's the thing. the sun is a limited resource, every second the sun loses some of its fusable hydrogen, and it will eventually run out
Note the "on a human timescale" part.
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Note the "on a human timescale" part.
i don't know about you my i plan for my personal human timescale it include witnessing the natural heat death of the universe. there's a restaurant there i want to go to.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@TimeBandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
missing hydro-electric power
Apparently that's not renewable. For raisins.
More arguable: there's not much more potential for new sources of it in the US.
All you need for hydro power is rain. And all you need for rain is mountains. And you might think there's not much more potential for new mountains, but the UAE is proving you wrong.
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
All you need for hydro power is rain. And all you need for rain is mountains. And you might think there's not much more potential for new mountains, but the UAE is proving you wrong.
How long do you suppose EPA approval of that would take?
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@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
i don't know about you my i plan for my personal human timescale it include witnessing the natural heat death of the universe.
That's even more @accalia'd than usual. Are you starting your Friday afternoon early?
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
i don't know about you my i plan for my personal human timescale it include witnessing the natural heat death of the universe.
That's even more @accalia'd than usual. Are you starting your Friday afternoon early?
s/my/but/
s/timescale it/timescale to/
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
More arguable: there's not much more potential for new sources of it in the US.
No problem, we'll just keep selling you more
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@dkf it's renewable but they say it's not clean because there is a large impact onto building it and dead underwater trees release methane
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@TimeBandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
More arguable: there's not much more potential for new sources of it in the US.
No problem, we'll just keep selling you more
Deliver it cheaper than we can up there and I don't see a problem.
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@fbmac said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
dead underwater trees release methane
Why on earth would you not log those out first? That's just throwing profit away!
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TIL about the story of Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing, which reads like a movie script but actually happened in real life, involving the most advanced IED ever made. How hadn't I heard about that before?
Birges was eventually arrested based on a tip. One of his sons had revealed to his then-girlfriend that his father had placed a bomb in Harvey's
DAMMIT SON! That's the kind of secret you don't share with your girlfriend.
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TIL that there's an "Open command window here" context menu option built in to Windows, hiding behind Shift - right click. Discoverable. Betja never tried, that, didja?
Well, that's nice, but it's also stupid that it's hiding. TIL also how to hack the registry so it'll always appear, without the need to hold Shift.
http://www.askvg.com/enable-open-command-window-here-option-in-context-menu-in-windows-vista/
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@anotherusername shift + right click has quite a few useful extras. There's run as different user and copy as path, both of which I've used fairly often since discovering them
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@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
i don't know about you my i plan for my personal human timescale it include witnessing the natural heat death of the universe.
I wrote a short story about that. I almost entered it in a horror writing contest, but decided to write something else instead, which was probably a good decision as the story I did submit won. Well, tied for first place. I suppose it's possible the other would have won outright, but most likely not.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
EPA approval of that
the appropriate amount of time, i.e. like five decades.
it's a fucking mountain. Probably more than one.
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TIL about the Soundwagon record player.
It's an interesting trinket: instead of having a rotating vynil record, it's the record player that spins around on top of the record.
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You know how in Excel it remembers the selected range for each sheet in a workbook, so when you switch to an inactive sheet, the last range that was selected on that sheet becomes the currently selected range? So each sheet seems to have its own selection. So VBScript ought to be able to change the selection on a sheet that isn't active... right?
I was using VBScript to interact with Excel (and Outlook, but this WTF doesn't involve that), and it was working on a sheet that wasn't the active sheet, which works just fine, but I wanted to have the script end by selecting a particular cell on the sheet (and if the sheet's not active, have that cell be selected if I go to the sheet). Since every sheet appears to have its own selection, that should work, right? No...
(Actually the script worked fine when I was watching it, because the sheet was active; then it crashed and burned as soon as it ran while a different sheet was active.)
So how do you change the sheet's selection without activating it? Turns out... you can't... you have to activate it. The workaround:
Application.ScreenUpdating = False ' to prevent a bunch of screen flickering Set ActiveSheet = Application.ActiveSheet ' so we can return to it later Range.WorkSheet.Activate ' because if it's not active... Range.Select ' this line would crash and burn ActiveSheet.Activate ' return to the originally active sheet Application.ScreenUpdating = True ' V E R Y I M P O R T A N T !
edit: bonus WTF is that, if your VBScript encounters an error and stops before it gets to that
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
line, the whole Excel GUI is frozen until you quickly hack your script file to do nothing except get the handle to Excel and execute that line, and run it. And since VBScript has literally no concept of error handling other thanOn Error Resume Next
and then constantly checking the contents of theErr
global to see if one occurred, you can't easily just make sure it always resets that boolean before it exits like you could very simply with atry ... catch ... finally
in JScript.Technically the error was in my script, but the reason it errored is because of an idiotic restriction so I'm posting it.
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TIL: if you're making a python script, don't name it
random.py
. Bad things happen when you try toimport random
from it.
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TIL about Google Contributor, where you pay $7 per month to fund websites you visit instead of seeing ads.
I've been campaigning for a model exactly like this for years, how the fuck hadn't I heard of that until now?!??????!
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TIL why the 11th of every month is so little mentioned:
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@Yamikuronue said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL why the 11th of every month is so little mentioned:
I would think November 11th would be better.
I suppose the rest of the world doesn't care about 11/11.
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@Karla
11/11 is a great day ... all public holidays are great ...
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TIL that I'm related to Olivia Newton John. A cousin-of-a-cousin sort of thing, AIUI. No idea what that does for my Kevin Bacon score, but that's probably still higher than my Erdős number. :)
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@dkf I met someone whose bacon number is 1, and took a photo that their family used on their Christmas card (although their bacon number was 2 or 3 at that time).
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@anotherusername Kevin Bacon himself is number 0 or 1?
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@clippy his number is 0.
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@anotherusername if @dkf goes in the same party with his relative, and it's filmes (like in a marriage), does he get a bacon number? or it has to be a hollywood movie?
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@clippy Technically it's supposed to be a Hollywood movie. But other types of links are still worth some bragging rights, I think.
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Technically it's supposed to be a Hollywood movie.
I only count that way if you expand the definition far enough to include TV made in the UK.
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@accalia Which bank did you deposit your $0.01 in?
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@JazzyJosh First national of beatlejuice.
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+ ?
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@JazzyJosh yeah that one. some bloke by the name of Prefect told me about it.
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If False Then Console.WriteLine(1) : Console.WriteLine(2) Console.WriteLine(3)
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if (false) Console.WriteLine(1); Console.WriteLine(2); Console.WriteLine(3);
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3VB.NET is interesting.
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@aliceif I would expect that from a semicolon, but I don't know anything about the first syntax's colon.
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@Magus old BASICs used
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to put multiple statements on one line, and the first example is the expected result. When combined withIF
, all of the statements executed untilELSE
or until the end of the line.Note that it didn't have True and False constants, so I made some variables.
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@anotherusername Ah, so http://VB.NET is just broken.
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@aliceif what language is the second example supposed to be?
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@Magus said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
[http://VB.NET](127.0.0.1:80)
wat
Yeah @aliceif posted
VB.NET
and NodeBB decided that it was a URL, and the site that it links to isn't terribly relevant.I have no idea how it produced what you posted, though.
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I have no idea how it produced what you posted, though.
It was easy, I just typed
[http://VB.NET](127.0.0.1:80)