TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@Zecc said:
TIL this thread doesn't come up on a discosearch for TIL.
That would be because the title is not TIL but TIL
TIL.
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Are kids stupider these days than when I was growing up?
People have more time on their hands. Kids old enough to interpret a danger warning label are old enough to know better in the first place. I predict this won't make a bit of difference. I've never heard that it was an actual problem that kids were encouraged by any sort of warning label.
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The principle's all very well - I think I've associated skull and crossbones with death/danger as well as with pirates as long as I can remember, but I guess it couldn't hurt.
But that doesn't say 'dangerous' to me (if I was too young to make sense of the writing). More like 'this tastes disgusting, I dare you to eat it just to see'. I think you need a face that looks more dead.
A better idea would be to teach kids the skull and blades pirate flag instead. It's much cooler.
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Said symbol has gained some acceptance in the US as a replacement of old Jolly Rogers
It shouldn't be a replacement — the skull symbol is part of an ISO specification IIRC, and might have legislation requiring its display (particularly in other parts of the world) — but it's entirely reasonable to have a symbol indicating extreme disgust displayed additionally and more prominently.
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The principle's all very well - I think I've associated skull and crossbones with death/danger as well as with pirates as long as I can remember, but I guess it couldn't hurt.
TRWTF is that pirates and death / danger are considered different things.
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AFDAIL a Dr. Moriarty — which is also a professor btw — rightfully raised the question of whether it is a good idea to use the skull and bones as a symbol for marking poisonous substances, since kids may more easily associate the symbol with pirates (and pirates are cool!); and so he proposed an alternative symbol, Mr. Yuk:
I remember seeing those about 30 years ago. Probably because they were introduced before 1982. (This bit should be of interest to those who think this is a new new thing, such as @boomzilla and @PJH).
even though it is trademarked and service marked by the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.
That's because Dr. Moriarty worked for Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh when he designed the stickers.
use the skull and bones as a symbol for marking poisonous substances, since kids may more easily associate the symbol with pirates
There was also the added issue in Pittsburgh that there was a local baseball team called the Pittsburgh Pirates that used the skull and crossbones.
They aren't used a whole lot anymore, partially because of the copyright issue you mentioned, and also because of two studies from the early 1980s that showed they aren't particularly effective for younger children.
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I remember seeing those about 30 years ago. Probably because they were introduced before 1982. (This bit should be of interest to those who think this is a new new thing, such as @boomzilla and @PJH).
It looks familiar. Actually, it reminds me of those "rate your pain" posters you see in ERs. Not that I've noticed stuff like bones and crossbones markers on stuff.
...and also because of two studies from the early 1980s that showed they aren't particularly effective for younger children.
Once again science tell us the obvious.
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AFDAIL a Dr. Moriarty — which is also a professor btw — rightfully raised the question of whether it is a good idea to use the skull and bones as a symbol for marking poisonous substances, since kids may more easily associate the symbol with pirates (and pirates are cool!); and so he proposed an alternative symbol, Mr. Yuk:
Man, I preferred when he was throwing detectives off the cliffs.
A better pain scale
Obligatory:
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Is there a reason I get a green frowny face?
Obvious reply: because you are doing it wrong!
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Didn't @wood tell us about that during the early DiscoDays?
EDIT: Source: https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/half-credit/593/187?u=aliceif
Source²: https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/genuinely-useful-bug-reports/296/352?u=aliceif
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Well, TIL how to use
tf destroy
after doing something particularly stupid to my repo.Protip: when you're writing code which builds a connection string, it doesn't matter how convenient it is, you do not put a template in the comment at the top for reference. Especially when said template is a live string which contains login info for the DB admin.
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@FrostCat said:
I don't know how to capture it with Snipping Tool, but if you mouse over
Open Snipping tool, hover over whatever window it is, ctrlN for new snip. The hover text will be kept when you move your mouse for snip selection
Today I learned how to use the snipping tool even betters than i do nows
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TIL my country's name in Korean.
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My country's name in Japanese depends.
There's the official arbitrarily assigned one, much like how we call them Japan, and there's the one where they call us what we call ourselves. Except they usually use the second for us these days, and we only use the first for them, unless we're Neal Stephenson.
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Last night I learned about:
Bat bombs were an experimental World War II weapon developed by the United States. The bomb consisted of a bomb-shaped casing with over a thousand compartments, each containing a hibernating Mexican Free-tailed Bat with a small timed incendiary bomb attached. Dropped from a bomber at dawn, the casings would deploy a parachute in mid-flight and open to release the bats which would then roost in eaves and attics in a 20-40 mile radius. The incendiaries would start fires in inaccessible places in the largely wood and paper construction of the Japanese cities that were the weapon's intended target.
During World War II, Project Pigeon [...] was American behaviorist B.F. Skinner's attempt to develop a pigeon-guided missile.
The control system involved an array of up to three lenses at the front of the missile [...] projecting an image of the target to a screen inside, while one to three pigeons trained (by operant conditioning) to recognize the target pecked at it. As long as the pecks remained in the center of the screen, the missile would fly straight, but pecks off-center would cause the screen to tilt, which would then, via a connection to the missile's flight controls, cause the missile to change course and slowly change the flight path towards its designated target.
The explosive rat, also known as a rat bomb, was a weapon developed by the British Special Operations Executive in World War II for use against Germany. Rat carcasses were filled with plastic explosives, and were to be distributed near German boiler rooms, where it was expected they would be disposed of by burning, with the subsequent explosion having a chance of causing a boiler explosion.
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The first shipment of carcasses was intercepted by the Germans, and the SOE plan was dropped. The Germans exhibited the rats at top military schools and conducted searches for further exploding rats. The SOE concluded: "The trouble caused to them was a much greater success to us than if the rats had actually been used."
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I'd heard of bat bombs and pigeon-guided missile before, but the explosive rats are new to me.
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I heard about the first two on a documentary last night and got to the rats through Wikipedia.
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Ok, there's one explosive rat that I already knew about.
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TIL the over-under cable wrapping method. I'd heard about it but never bothered learning how to do it.
Found a video where some guy blathered for about 5 minutes before spending 3 seconds explaining it.
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Over-under is great. It's so much easier to untangle my earphones cable since I've started using it some 1½ years ago.
The flipside is that the coil also easily unwraps on its own. I still haven't found a good way to tie it.
Hmm, the quick turn knot looks interesting.
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The flipside is that the coil also easily unwraps on its own. I still haven't found a good way to tie it.
Well, the only thing I've used it so far for is network cable, and that I just used a couple of twist ties.
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TIL there's actually a use for "Suggested Topics": on mobile, using it to get to another unread thread is faster than going back to the topics page.
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TIL there's actually a use for "Suggested Topics": on mobile, using it to get to another unread thread is faster than going back to the topics page.
Part of the reason for:
$ SUBJECT="%suggest%" sql_tdwtf changes \# List changes in the history log from user_histories uh join users u on u.id=acting_user_id where subject ilike '%suggest%' order by uh.updated_at asc subject | updated_at | username | previous_value | new_value
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suggested_topics | 2014-05-22 11:29:20.006156 | PJH | 5 | 10
(1 row)Elapsed: 0.02s
Backup taken: 2015-07-21 03:50:15.9250
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TIL about input type "Image"
The input element represents either an image from which a user can select a coordinate and submit the form, or alternatively a button from which the user can submit the form. The element is a button, specifically a submit button.
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###Porn producer answers "what is something the viewers REALLY don't know?"
Interesting post on reddit.
TIL:fluffers don't exist
I also realized I knew what "fluffer" meant.
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TIL about the serious business of teledildonics
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Teletype, from memory.
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TIL about the serious business of teledildonics
from the comments:
At first I laughed at the headline, thinking that Ars cleverly coined the word “Teledildonics” on the fly as a joke. Then I googled it and found out it's a real term and is also known as "cyberdildonics".
Suddenly that whole welcoming of our robot overlords joke doesn't seem so funny anymore. It's taken more of a scary and darker overtone really...
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Happened to me all the time when I worked for [Company Name Deleted] last year.. It seems I wasn't allowed to give myself a rating of -100 on a scale of 0 to 10.
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Know what's even better? Ted Nelson coined that term in 1967. And actually described an example of a real, working device for distance eroticism (the Wox Box - basically a subwoofer in a box underneath a rubber seat that could be controlled over a teletype IIRC) in the original 1974 edition of Computer Lib/Dream Machines. I think that qualifies as prior art WRT that lawsuit.
If not, then the USB-control mod for the Sybian certainly would.
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Til that Dota 2 has 4 heroes based on fundamental physical forces.
http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/f/f7/Enigma_icon.png
Gravityhttp://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/8/8d/Io_icon.png
Electromagnetismhttp://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/b/b9/Keeper_of_the_Light_icon.png
Weak nuclear forcehttp://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/f/fe/Chaos_Knight_icon.png
Strong nuclear force
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Weak nuclear force
That sounds mesonable.
Strong nuclear force
Quarky!
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TIL about the Stella Awards.
My favorites from stellaawards.com:
The family of Robert Hornbeck. Hornbeck volunteered for the Army and served a stint in Iraq. After getting home, he got drunk, wandered into a hotel's service area (passing "DANGER" warning signs), crawled into an air conditioning unit, and was severely cut when the machinery activated. Unable to care for himself due to his drunkenness, he bled to death. A tragedy, to be sure, but one solely caused by a supposedly responsible adult with military training. Despite his irresponsible behavior -- and his perhaps criminal trespassing -- Hornbeck's family sued the hotel for $10 million, as if it's reasonably foreseeable that some drunk fool would ignore warning signs and climb into its heavy duty machinery to sleep off his bender.
Even though Heckard is 3 inches shorter, 25 pounds lighter, and 8 years older than former basketball star Michael Jordan, the Portland, Oregon, man says he looks a lot like Jordan, and is often confused for him -- and thus he deserves $52 million "for defamation and permanent injury" -- plus $364 million in "punitive damage for emotional pain and suffering", plus the SAME amount from Nike co-founder Phil Knight, for a grand total of $832 million.
Christopher Roller of Burnsville, Minn. Roller is mystified by professional magicians, so he sued David Blaine and David Copperfield to demand they reveal their secrets to him -- or else pay him 10 percent of their lifelong earnings, which he figures amounts to $50 million for Copperfield and $2 million for Blaine. The basis for his suit: Roller claims that the magicians defy the laws of physics, and thus must be using "godly powers" -- and since Roller is god (according to him), they're "somehow" stealing that power from him.
Perkins was hit by lightning in the parking lot Paramount's Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio. A classic "act of God", right? No, says Perkins' lawyer. "That would be a lot of people's knee-jerk reaction in these types of situations." The lawyer has filed suit against the amusement park asking unspecified damages, arguing the park should have "warned" people not to be outside during a thunderstorm.
The City of Madera, Calif. Madera police officer Marcy Noriega had the suspect from a minor disturbance handcuffed in the back of her patrol car. When the suspect started to kick at the car's windows, Officer Noriega decided to subdue him with her Taser. Incredibly, instead of pulling her stun gun from her belt, she pulled her service sidearm and shot the man in the chest, killing him instantly. The city, however, says the killing is not the officer's fault; it argues that "any reasonable police officer" could "mistakenly draw and fire a handgun instead of the Taser device" and has filed suit against Taser, arguing the company should pay for any award from the wrongful death lawsuit the man's family has filed.
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"mistakenly draw and fire a handgun instead of the Taser device"
is up with some cops in the USA?
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My favorites from stellaawards.com:
I take it from all the ones you mentioned, merely filing is sufficient criteria to be featured, rather than actually winning like Liebeck did.
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Yes. Some are said do have been dismissed, others were unspecified but one would assume.
In one case, a judge who raised a frivolous suit was fired.
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WTF is up with some cops in the USA?
if you figure it out let me know, until then i'll be hiding under this pile of hundreds of bullet proof vests that the local precinct wasn't using.
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10 percent of their lifelong earnings, which he figures amounts to $50 million for Copperfield
wat
I'm in the wrong game.
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@Zecc said:
"mistakenly draw and fire a handgun instead of the Taser device"
is up with some cops in the USA?
This wasn't the only case where this supposedly happened, either; the notorious 2009 New Year's Eve shooting at the Fruitvale BART station (memorialized in the documentary Fruitvale Station) occurred when an officer tried (or so he later claimed) to subdue a 'resisting offender' with his Taser and pulled his service pistol instead. Supposedly. When the several videos shot of the event showed a) the 'resisting offender' was already handcuffed and had stopped struggling, and b) he wasn't involved in the disturbance they'd been called for in the first place, the public reaction was rather harsh, to say the least. Of course, the fact that the 'riot' that followed a few days later was actually perpetrated by angry Oakland police officers who hadn't been allowed to shut down the demonstrations only added fuel to the fire.
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TIL that the Windows 10 installer will try to roll back the installation if it is interrupted by, say, a power drop-out. Like the one we just had ten minutes ago.
I hope to learn whether that feature is going to work or not RSN.
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Did it work?
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Yes, it did; I'm pretty impressed, actually. It went back to 7 with no problems, and I was able to restart the installation and gets it completed with no hitches.
Mind you, this was on my father's old system, which had been re-imaged a short while before his death, and has only been used for some light web browsing since then; there are very few programs and files on it. I still need to get the installation for my own desktop system, which is both heavily used and dual-boots Gentoo Linux. We'll see how that goes, but so far it seems promising.