TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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I'm sorry, did you refer to BelgiumRocks?
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I dunno, just the first thing that came to mind with "b■■■■■r■■" that wasn't, y'know.
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I'm sorry, did you refer to BelgiumRocks?
No, I definitely did not. The number of
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s accurately reflects the number of missing letters, and that does not match BelgiumRocks.
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not sure if whooshing ;) I knew just fine to whom you were referring, I just chose to do something creatively with it... guess I'm having a sense of humour issue after work today.
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I think there's some "creative" intentional whooshing going on all around.
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How can it be wooshing if it's intentional?
Or, why is taking the joke and running with it the same as not getting the joke?
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How can it be wooshing if it's intentional?
It can be whooshing, but it's reverse whooshing (?gnihsoohw) as it is the reporter of the whoosh that is really missing what the joke is all about.
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why is taking the joke and running with it the same as not getting the joke?
I dunno, but certain
peopleanimals here have gotten s for doing that...It can be whooshing, but it's reverse whooshing (?gnihsoohw) as it is the reporter of the whoosh that is really missing what the joke is all about.
... and they haven't. :(
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It's hardly my fault that some mods are too lazy TO DO THEIR JOB!
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Is that some kind of porn site for seriously deprived?
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What? This? I don't know if anybody has a wank while browsing the forum.
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TIL about a cloud backup service called iDrive. I don't usually give free advertising to companies, but
- No silly restrictions on the number of computers you can back up or what you can do with your space, since they don't offer "unlimited" storage so they don't have to find artificial ways to restrict you. You can use your space to not just backup, but also as a "Google Drive" to sync, store and share files (you do have to use their desktop/web client though)
- You can ship your data to them in a hard drive for free, once per year, they even pay for the shipping (only in 7 countries though)
- Local client seems good, not as advanced as CrashPlan but has all the basic features
- For <1TB of data, it's literally the cheapest service of this kind I could find (including Backblaze, CrashPlan, and Carbonite)
- And on top of that, 50% discount for students! Less than half the cost of anything else!
and yet they're almost virtually unknown?
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TIL that plant physiology is similar to human physiology, complete with examples:
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For <1TB of data
Peanuts.
Sometimes it's nice to store more than a day's worth of data…
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We're talking about personal backups here. I guess you might enjoy filming 4k video in your spare time?
(and either way, their 10TB plans still seem cheaper than other providers)
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We're talking about personal backups here. I guess you might enjoy filming 4k video in your spare time?
I'm on the lookout for anything which can store quite a bit of data (raw output from imaging mass spectrometers and things like that) for multiple years without costing multiple limbs. I've already got a reasonable solution up to 180TB for day-to-day working data — a 6TB disk is really cheap now! — but I want something for longer term use so I won't be shitting a brick every time a disk carks it.
And no, it's not personal data. My personal data is replicated by
git push
… ;)
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Tape?
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Tape?
We might do that. Or I might get really irritated with whichever idiot removed the proper funding for all this from the budget while keeping the long-term data retention promises. (We've got about 20–25% of the money to do this properly. Maybe we can get the cash from elsewhere though. I need to write up the costs and consequences so the people in charge can see what sort of shit they're in…)
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TIL mangoes are native to South Asia. I previously thought they were Caribbean.
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You've mispelt Mongolians.
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This may be old news for some or even most of you, but TIL GitHub supports emoji in commit messages.
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GitHub for Windows/GitHub Desktop include a random emoji in the automatically-generated commit adding the [b].gitattributes[/b]/[b].gitignore[/b] files when you create a repository. As someone who generally avoids using emoticons/emoji, this annoys me (though not enough to edit the commit message or switch programs).
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TIL about Quaker guns.
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TIL that Monty Python's Flying Circus had an official computer game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV7r-p3W0nA
Doesn't look particularly fun or funny though.
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Better or worse than this?
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TIL that Monty Python's Flying Circus had an official computer game.
Their "Complete Waste Of Time" was more enjoyable
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Doesn't look particularly fun or funny though.
Not fun? Your score starts at 999999 and counts down! You play a fish character and if you get hit with enough fish food, you lose!
Okay, yeah, it doesn't look very exciting.
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Actually it was a lot of fun and they nailed so many things from the show.
- Spanish Inquisition (complete with pillows with the stuffing bunched up) - check
- Dead parrots assailing you - check
- Spam, spam, spam, spam, egg, sausage and spam - check
- DP Gumby being his usual self, and in need of a brain surgeon - check
- How to recognise different types of tree from a long way away - check
- Arguments - check
- Many different varieties of cheese - check
- A screen randomly telling you it was game over, then an apology a la Holy Grail, then back to the game - check
- Hazardous keep-left signs - check
- Farty noises - check
- Terry Gilliam art interludes everywhere - check
- Even the disk label was incongruous - 'Monty Pittons Circing Flyus' if memory serves.
Oh and the score doesn't just count down from 9,999,999, after a while the scoreboard turns upside down.
I sometimes wonder if it was one of those 'had to be there' things. I thought it was hilarious but then again I played it when it first came out.
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TIL the origin of the word "pussy" (the wuss kind)...
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I knew that word, but didn't realise that "pussy" was derived from it.
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TIL that Words with Friends accepts "titty", which
apparentlysupposedly is a Scottish colloquialism for "sister".I think I told this story before, but it used to accept "quim".
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"titty", which apparentlysupposedly is a Scottish colloquialism for "sister"
That would bring a different meaning to going to a "titty bar".
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TIL that Words with Friends accepts "titty", which apparentlysupposedly is a Scottish colloquialism for "sister".
It's also a diminutive name (as anyone who's read Swallows and Amazons will know) and is short for Letitia if I remember right.
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Friend of mine has a sister named Yonita — Yoni for short.
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Swallows and Amazons
I read that! Didn't remember about Titty though. To be fair, I read a lot of quaint British books about quaint british kids with quaint british names growing up.
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TIL the search engine Duck Duck Go is named after the children's game Duck Duck Goose.
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TIL that, yes, you can buy all kinds of food of dubious origin on Alibaba.com.
Actually doing so seems like a Bad Idea™.
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TIL that, yes, you can buy all kinds of food of dubious origin on Alibaba.com.
Actually doing so seems like a Bad Idea™.
They have salmiakki there. OMG.
Filed under: Well, not genuine Salmiakki, just Dutch ripoffs
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Pretty sure I wouldn't ever consider purchasing either of those, online, from China.
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TIL if you shine a laser pointer through a Canadian dollar bill, it projects the value of the bill
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if you shine a laser pointer through a Canadian dollar bill, it projects the value of the bill
Unless it's a 1W blue "laser pointer" — well, it might, but not for long.
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TIL if you shine a laser pointer through a Canadian dollar bill, it projects the value of the bill
Damn, those Canadians really go out of their way to make their money be worth something.
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TIL of how scientists track the movements of their favourite pet rock across the desert: