TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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TIL about the Banuqet of Chestnuts.
Filed under: Naked prostitute race in the Vatican? Sure, why not? I was going to watch Roma vs Lazio, but what the hell...
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TIL you can run 3D games at somewhat decent speed inside VMware virtual machines if you enable 3D acceleration.
So that's useful.
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TIL the word
duumvirate
.I like that word
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duumvirate
TIL I've actually been half of one.
For a brief time, my ex-wife and I jointly held a single seat1 on the board of directors of a non-profit we were involved in. Unfortunately, the rest of the board got mad at her and asked both of us to resign.
1 Director of Volunteers. Holding it jointly was a good fit for our skills. She talked to people, and I created a database. Unfortunately, she has a low tolerance for stupid people, and one whiner that didn't get a weekly phone call assuring her that, yes, we still needed her to show up at the time and place she had volunteered for; no, we hadn't changed her time-slot without telling her, was a big part of the problem.
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i love it when i use a fancy word and people learn from it! :-D
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How serendipitous!
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No one was around 65MYA, so it didn't make a sound.
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TIR that ~60% of my posts are in excluded topics and categories.
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No one was around 65MYA, so it didn't make a sound.
You're allowed to have that philosophical perspective if you wish. I will respectfully reject it as requiring a more complex nature of the world than I believe things to be.
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I was mostly joking, but in neuroscience (and phsyics, for that matter), sound is defined as perceived vibrations of air, not just vibrations of air.
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I was mostly joking, but in neuroscience (and phsyics, for that matter), sound is defined as perceived vibrations of air, not just vibrations of air.
Yes, but there were extant entities with hears that could perceive the noise as sound. Thus, to maintain your argument, you'd have to argue that it is only human ears that count, making it a metaphysical difference and not a physical one, and thus pretty much pure bullshit. Or at least according to my worldview… ;)
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TIL about pinned tabs.
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/firefox-asinine-grinning-balloon-crap/8417/52?u=keith
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/firefox-asinine-grinning-balloon-crap/8417/53?u=keith
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TIL also about pinned tabs
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/til-about-the-dark-arts-of-html/7613/364?u=loopback0
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TIL that @loopback0 and @Keith learned about pinned tabs.
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TIL that GNU Make automatically removes some “intermediate files” after building.
I also learned that it has some built-in intermediate rules which for instance allow the creation of file
a
from fileRCS/a.S,v
.
Filed under: At least there is an option (`-r`) to disable them, making the output of `make -d` a bit more readable
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TIL @JazzyJosh said:
Interesting facts related to back up alarms:
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Yeah, I always have a toplevel global target in
makefile
which callsmake -f someothermakefile -r -s $@
for that reason. It's occasionally useful to turn-s
off for debugging, though.
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TIL about quantum entanglement.
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TIL about WebP - which is NOT JPEG.
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And only supported by WebKit based browsers
Although a shim does exist
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Which basically means "everything that's not Firefox or IE" at this point.
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Yeah, well, that is the case for pretty much every not-designed-by-asshats programming language since assembly.
TIL Forth was designed by an asshat.
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Or Safari... Remember Google split from WebKit... Or was it the other way around ?
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IIRC, Apple forked WebKit from KHTML, then Google
got their grubby mitts on WebKitforked it into Blink.
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TIL Forth was designed by an asshat.
I thought about challenging the original assertion, but it occurred to me I'm not interested in arguing asshat definitions.
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Poor old Chuck Moore.
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I forgot Haskell. Haskell has all these weird ASCII-soup operators, and you can define your own. Who can read that shit? Also Lisp. No one can read it because of the macros.
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We're still talking about programming to the American Standard for Symbolic Hardware Automation and Testing?
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TIL there's an asteroid named 18610 Arthurdent. How froody.
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TIL what TIL means.
Young people and their acronyms
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hmm... lot of cars in that GIS......
... ooooh. thanks VW.....
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Didn't the VW Fox kind of die?
Or is that just the case over in Germany?
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Didn't the VW Fox kind of die?
More or less; it got replaced by the up!.Having said that, it's still being made in South America.
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hmm... lot of cars in that GIS......
The best related search brings up this:
http://www.ourfavouritebooks.com/authors/collodi/pinocchio/illus-048.png
OK, it's not a fox and a hedgehog…
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Didn't the VW Fox kind of die?
I never saw a single one. And people here love VW. Huh. Maybe it was never sold here?
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What country? Sorry, can never remember
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Updated my profile, because I'm getting bored with this question (no, you're not the first) :P
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yup, still being made here. and it's called "new fox"
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Didn't the VW Fox kind of die?Or is that just the case over in Germany?
FWIW: In US, VW Dasher, Audi Fox and Foxwagon, long gone, and I from I know, not much lamented.
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TIL that Vagrant effortlessly fires up your VM's locally or on a cloud provider. Just had one Vagrantfile which created five different VM's, set it up to work against Digital Ocean (10-odd lines; can probably do it in less), and it fired up the same five VM's there in the same way.
Nice when things work as they should. I was afraid I would need to configure each of the machines individually.
It took quite some time to get started, though, so it is nothing you want to play around with unless you have TDWDTF to keep you busy while waiting.
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@accalia said:
Unobtanium was not invented by James Cameron. it has in fact been in the scripts of dozens of Scifi movies to stand in for "the name of this fictional uber material we havent thought of a name for"
I've heard the term used a fair amount in military settings. Long before the movie.
TIL that unobtanium is way more common than i thought.
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BTW I hate people bitching about that scene in Avatar, because the dude's actually saying "unobtainium" tongue-in-cheek. He's not saying the mineral is LITERALLY called that.
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TIL that Andrew Lloyd Webber was behind the 1992 hit song "Tetris", using the pseudonym "Dr Spin"
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who cares if it really is called that or not? i watch that movie for the fight scenes, not the story.