TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
-
TIL that 'emoji' is the standard Japanese word for 'pictograph' (in the sense of a small glyph or icon, or combination of two or more such, meant to convey meaning without referent to textual symbols) and has nothing to do with the English neologism 'emoticon'. I would feel a quite silly, except a) this is apparently a common enough confusion that both Wikipedia and the Unicode Standard (v. 9.0) have to explicitly explain that fact, and b) I never put my foot in my mouth about it in public (until now, that is ).
On second thought, I think I will feel silly anyway. 'Cos that's just how I roll (which, with the shape I am in , is a lot easier than walking )
EDIT: TIL also that there is no emoji in this set for a ball. sigh
-
TIL that California gives a six-month grace period for attaching license plates to new cars.
And that Steve Jobs abused this loophole and would get a new (identical and license-free) car just before this period ran out.
-
@Zecc Cops probably had just memorized that any fancy Mercedes without a plate was Steve's car.
-
@groo said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Zecc Cops probably had just memorized that any fancy Mercedes without a plate was Steve's car.
indubitably, but unless my knowledge of criminal law is amiss, that would not be sufficient evidence for a warrant as they could not prove beyond reasonable doubt that it was Jobs's car.
-
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
indubitably, but unless my knowledge of criminal law is amiss, that would not be sufficient evidence for a warrant as they could not prove beyond reasonable doubt that it was Jobs's car.
The easiest way to deal with that is to stop cars without number-plates every time to look at the ownership documentation (which ought to include the VIN allowing a cross-check with the actual vehicle), and to impound the vehicle if it is not readily available.
-
@accalia
Given the type of car there is however a reasonable assumption of it being owned by an asshat
-
@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
And that Steve Jobs abused this loophole and would get a new (identical and license-free) car just before this period ran out.
To be fair, Jobs was well known for abusing his loophole.
-
@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The easiest way to deal with that is to stop cars without number-plates every time to look at the ownership documentation (which ought to include the VIN allowing a cross-check with the actual vehicle), and to impound the vehicle if it is not readily available.
yes, there is that.
bit of an unpopular approach to that though, particularly if thanks to that loophole they're closing it is in fact legal for the car to be plateless if you have owned it for less than six months.
-
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
bit of an unpopular approach to that though, particularly if thanks to that loophole they're closing it is in fact legal for the car to be plateless if you have owned it for less than six months.
Oh yes, but since you're not showing a plate (or a temporary plate) they've got to check, and that means stopping the vehicle while they do it. IOW, of course it is a dick move, but as a law enforcement officer one occasionally has to be a bit of a dick in order to discourage people from making a mockery of the law. Also, it's not obvious that the vehicle they saw yesterday and the vehicle they say today are the same (especially when it is moving) as it isn't bearing plates. Not sure? Stop and check with other identifying marks (which are hard to read when the car's moving) and apologise when everything is found to be lawful.
Asshats deserve inconvenience.
-
@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Asshats deserve inconvenience.
not going to disagree.
course an unpopular police force does mean the police chief is unlikely to get reelected in localities that have that as an elected position*
politics, it corrupts everything.
* remind me some time to tell the story of how i got a farmer's cow elected as police chief.... in the not coincidentally the last election for police chief that was held.
-
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
course an unpopular police force does mean the police chief is unlikely to get reelected
That's why you actually try to save that sort of thing for the people that the community views as being scofflaws.
-
@dkf ewwww
ligature fail
-
@flabdablet WOMM.
-
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
- remind me some time to tell the story of how i got a farmer's cow elected as police chief.... in the not coincidentally the last election for police chief that was held.
Please do.
-
@antiquarian said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Please do.
it was actually pretty fun. i made some signs for a write in to the ballot for "Jesse Ventura" and listed the address of the farm.... and the signs made some rediculous yet popular promises, so he actually got about 70% of the vote. and then the fit hit the shan when the news found out that "Jesse Ventura" was the farmer's stud bull.
oh the popcorn that caused..... :-D
of course he was invalidated and the incumbent kept the job as the next highest voted candidate, but it was still fun.
i should see if i have the old campaign signs i used.... they were pretty funny.
-
@accalia
No more bullshit! Vote Jesse Ventura!
-
@Luhmann said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@accalia
No more bullshit! Vote Jesse Ventura!IIRC that was one of the the signs.
-
@Luhmann said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@accalia
No more bullshitmanure-a! Vote Jesse Ventura!
-
@Luhmann said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
No more bullshit! Vote Jesse Ventura!
I'd have thought that “more bullshit” would be one of the most easily kept campaign promises.
-
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
rediculous yet popular
Just like that spelling of ridiculous
-
@Jaloopa It's redonkulus.
-
@flabdablet redonkeykong :barrel:
-
-
@TimeBandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
the fit hit the shan
was that intentional ?
yes. it amuses me.
-
@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Asshats deserve inconvenience.
I initially read "Asshats deserve incontinence", and agreed with you...
-
-
@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Luhmann said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
No more bullshit! Vote Jesse Ventura!
I'd have thought that “more bullshit” would be one of the most easily kept campaign promises.
Well, another demonstration of the importance of punctuation:
No more bullshit!
vs
No, more bullshit!
-
TIL that the term 'bear' for a hairy gay man (usually with a broad chest and often with a slight beer belly) came from a humor piece published in The Advocate in 1979. Or so the magazine's publishers now claim, though I am guessing that term really arose first and that the article was riffing on what they assumed was a new piece of slang, but whatever.
Also, The Advocate was way more catty back in the day, apparently.
-
TIL that Microsoft has finally got around to inventing sudo
-
@flabdablet The config file doesn't look quite as weird as the sudo config, which has some really odd things in it. OTOH, MS still seem to be in love with GUIDs in
humansysadmin-accessible contexts.
-
@dkf I think most of what's wrong with sudo's config format is that the manual was written by a robot from outer space. Actual useful sudo config can be quite succinct and yet easily readable:
root@vmhost2:~# cd /etc/sudoers.d/ root@vmhost2:/etc/sudoers.d# ls 10-firewall 30-nut 50-lvm 60-mount README 20-libvirt 40-rebase 60-dmdeps 60-rsync root@vmhost2:/etc/sudoers.d# cat 10-firewall # Members of the vmadmin group may control the firewall # without supplying a password Cmnd_Alias FIREWALL = \ /bin/cp * /etc/iptables/rules.v4, \ /etc/init.d/iptables-persistent * %vmadmin ALL=NOPASSWD: FIREWALL root@vmhost2:/etc/sudoers.d#
And not a GUID in sight.
The JEA stuff looks really enterprisey. Like so much of Windows, it appears to have been designed according to the YGGIETYAGNI principle.
-
@flabdablet said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Not a GUID in sight.
That's a good thing indeed.
-
@flabdablet said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
manual was written by a robot from outer space
aren't they all ... aren't they all ...
-
@flabdablet said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@dkf ewwww
ligature failOr did you mean a different sort of ligature to deal with the miscreants?
-
@flabdablet said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
easily readable
if you already know how to read it. Looks like gibberish to me
-
@Jaloopa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
if you already know how to read it. Looks like gibberish to me
Here is a conversion for you in MS land:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FeatureControl\Sudoers\Classes\CLSID\{20D08FE1-3AEA-1769-A2D2-08402B30389D}] "Authorization"=hex(2):25,00,75,00,73,00,65,00,72,00,6e,00,61,00,6d,00,65,00,\ 25,00,20,00,61,00,74,00,20,00,25,00,63,00,6f,00,6d,00,70,00,75,00,74,00,65,\ 00,72,00,6e,00,61,00,6d,00,65,00,25,00,00,00
Better ?
-
@TimeBandit where did you get this idea that using the registry is a common thing in Windows? Just because you're used to fucking around with unreadable formats doesn't mean everyone is
-
TIL I learned Los del Rio's Macarena and Wes' Alane was choreographed by the same person — Mia Frye — who also stars in both videoclips.
-
TIL about synonyms in SQL Server.
-
@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL about synonyms in SQL Server.
oh dear.... you are about to wander into that section of the map labeled "Here be dragons"
there's a reason so many devs and DBAs hate synonyms.
becasue when they work they are beautiful things of pure joy...... but when they break, as they are wont to do in any number of strange and wonderful ways depending on if they are between databases on on server, between different database instances, between different servers, or even between different mssql versions......
those are not fun to figure out what teh fuck just broke..... and how to fix it to stop it from happening again.... becuase it's so easy to make the damn thing start working agin when you investigate, but you don't know why it broke, you can't trigger it to break on command, and you have no idea how long it is going to be before it breaks that way again......
yeah.......
:whiskey:
-
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL about synonyms in SQL Server.
oh dear.... you are about to wander into that section of the map labeled "Here be dragons"
there's a reason so many devs and DBAs hate synonyms.
becasue when they work they are beautiful things of pure joy...... but when they break, as they are wont to do in any number of strange and wonderful ways depending on if they are between databases on on server, between different database instances, between different servers, or even between different mssql versions......
those are not fun to figure out what teh fuck just broke..... and how to fix it to stop it from happening again.... becuase it's so easy to make the damn thing start working agin when you investigate, but you don't know why it broke, you can't trigger it to break on command, and you have no idea how long it is going to be before it breaks that way again......
yeah.......
:whiskey:
The data migration guy for our new application for staging the data. I learned because was demonstrating how he was doing things.
How he used it made sense but you saying there are problems with different versions for mssql I will avoid in our obsolete app because the live db server is still 2008.
I had another nightmare of a problem because of the differing versions.
-
@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The data migration guy for our new application for staging the data
yeah. he probably knows what he's doing. that's fine.
90% of our problems with it are due to running sql05, sql08, sql08r2, sql12, and sql14 on various servers in our cluster (multiple versions per server natch) and the utter fuckwit of a VP of IT who dictated every detail of design for the department via fiat when he couldn't program his way out of a paper bag.
.... to say the architecture is messed up would not be saying efen a tenth of it.
-
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The data migration guy for our new application for staging the data
yeah. he probably knows what he's doing. that's fine.
90% of our problems with it are due to running sql05, sql08, sql08r2, sql12, and sql14 on various servers in our cluster (multiple versions per server natch) and the utter fuckwit of a VP of IT who dictated every detail of design for the department via fiat when he couldn't program his way out of a paper bag.
.... to say the architecture is messed up would not be saying efen a tenth of it.
Ok, I will only think about using them when all are environments are the same version. Which should be the case with any new development.
The meeting was funny because the DM mentions them...I make a mental note to google when I get back to my desk. My boss asked what they were. The rest of us were now imagining how we can use such a thing.
-
TIL Milo Yiannopoulos, notorious troll who got banned from Twitter for trollery, wrote this article 4 years ago basically defending his own ban.
-
@anonymous234 perhaps he meant that not as a real suggestion but more in the 1984ish, "be careful what you wish for" warning sense?
The part about "a smattering of unpopular show trials" seems to suggest it. That's what he's saying would be the result... "the best [result] we could ever hope for".
-
@anonymous234 From what I hear, the guy's an attention-whore who wanted to be banned for the publicity boost, so that doesn't surprise me.
-
It's like some of those "hacker" types:
the universe has a critical flaw, that if you put pineapple in a chesse pizza it implodes
@everybody ignores troll
blows up the universe
-
@groo said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@everybody ignores troll
Slander! I did no such thing. You can't prove it!
-
@Yamikuronue Yes, yes, we all know what sort of people you like to listen to.
-