TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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TIL thumb pianos are a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jybfYyzIUbo
Also topics must be 4+ characters.
That is all.
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TIL when my new PT says "You'll be sore tomorrow" she's not fucking kidding.
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TIL Google Hangouts are not entirely terrible and can even be used for an interview.
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TIL that my new headphones have a [female dog in heat]ing awesome active noise cancellation feature.
also it is a recipe for an instant headache to wear them with only one ear in when noise cancellation is active.
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TIL that @accalia doesn't appear to like the word 'bitch'
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TIL that noise cancellation only in one ear can induce headaches.
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TIL that @accalia doesn't appear to like the word 'bitch'
actually i have no problem with the word bitch, when it's not being used to excess.
i do, however, enjoy creatively self censoring.
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TIL that noise cancellation only in one ear can induce headaches.
probably due to a difference in average SPL between left and right ears. and probably only to someone who is already sensitive to atmospheric pressure changes......
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Try turning your headphones up to 500dB
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The human brain does not like to hear things in one ear but not the other.
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Try turning your headphones up to 500dB
hmm.... i'd have to be in something rather denser than air to get SPL that high. maximum SPL at 100kilopascals is ~194dB.... that being said these headphones do look like they could make that a thing.
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The human brain does not like to hear things in one ear but not the other.
I don't have issues with noise cancellation turned off. i habitually only use one ear at work so i can hear the office around me. i only go both ears in when i go heads down to solve problem
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You could immerse your head in liquid mercury. Might need some stronger drivers in your headphones though.
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sound pressure level.
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You could immerse your head in liquid mercury. Might need some stronger drivers in your headphones though.
that might work.... i'd have to do the math but i think that might also be achievable in regular water...
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that might work.... i'd have to do the math but i think that might also be achievable in regular water...
And water has the benefit of being slightly less poisonous too
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And water has the benefit of being slightly less poisonous too
at 500dB i don't think poison would be the worst of my worries.
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YIL Chrome exists on Linux.
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TIL you can put your mouse over the tab bar and use the mouse wheel to cycle through them.
edit: But not in Windows, apparently.
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TIL I'll probably just post my TILs in the status thread.
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mouse wheel
not in Windows
Linux mouse wheel support is miles ahead of Windows.
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Linux mouse wheel support is miles ahead of Windows.
Except if you want to adjust the sensitivity (eg. number of scrolled lines per step), which is pretty much impossible.
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YIL that I underestimated my performance in my review and my boss gave me better scores than I gave myself :D
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Mine disagreed on "fucking awesome" being a valid rating.
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TIL just how much our high-resilience high-availability network storage costs. Ouch!
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Except if you want to adjust the sensitivity (eg. number of scrolled lines per step), which is pretty much impossible.
TCL:
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probably due to a difference in average SPL between left and right ears. and probably only to someone who is already sensitive to atmospheric pressure changes......
I would think it's from the noise-cancellation itself, since one ear would be getting an out-of-phase version of whatever noise is around you while the other ear got the regular noise, but that's a complete buttumption.
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could be that too. either way i'll just turn it off when i have only one ear covered
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actually i have no problem with the word bitch, when it's not being used to excess.
Sooooo.....you're not a fan of 'Breaking Bad'?
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Sooooo.....you're not a fan of 'Breaking Bad'?
-shrug- dunno. never seen it. been on basic cable for the past 12 years so no HBO to watch it on. and i dropped my netflix because i just wasn't watching it enough to justify spending $10/month on it (i was watching about 1 movie every other month and i can buy the DVD or BR for that money)
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Fucking KDE, of course.
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TIL Google Hangouts are not entirely terrible and can even be used for an interview.
As long as they require a Google+ profile, yes, they are entirely terrible.
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oh..... well then i don't think i'll be making an effort to watch that show.....
if you like it that's fine of course.
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That's called an "explosion", usually.
That'd be one hell of an explosion; the loudest ever single event on Earth was the detonation of Tunguska, which peaked between 300-315dB.
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oh..... well then i don't think i'll be making an effort to watch that show.....
if you like it that's fine of course.
It's a very good show, and it isn't as focused on dog breeding as that video may suggest.
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That'd be one hell of an explosion; the loudest ever single event on Earth was the detonation of Tunguska, which peaked between 300-315dB.
Well, I didn't say it would be a small explosion, now, did I? ;)
500 dB would probably amount to "Asteroid at Oh-My-God particle velocity".
Which then leads straight to the philosophical question: Does such an asteroid make a sound when everything else is a cloud of rapidly cooling plasma?
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1040EZ, 1040A, 1040. The A is a longer form of the EZ. You can use it if you've got (say) kids, so can't use the EZ any longer, but don't need to itemize or do other things that would force you to use the full version.
Hu-uh.... TIL.
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the loudest ever single event on Earth was the detonation of Tunguska
I think the Chicxulub event was louder. Finding exact recordings of it are harder though, especially as even if we had a time machine, getting the instruments to survive long enough for us to measure how loud it was would be troublesome.
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Then there was the collision that left us the moon.
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.... actually once you get into the realm of shockwaves (above about 196dB for earth atmosphere at 100kpa) it's rather gone beyond the realm of sound... so.... yeah. there's that.
it's like getting something above 1.41679 x 10^32 kelvin. at that point blackbody radiation coming off that will be so high frequency that it literally cannot get any higher without breaking what we know of physics. we don't know what would happen if you kept adding energy to such a system.... all our models break down at that point... but it would be hotter than hot.
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it's like getting something above 1.41679 x 1032 kelvin
FTFY. (Or you were using XOR, which would give a result that would be shaming to our understanding of Physics…)
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FTFY. (Or you were using XOR, which would give a result that would be shaming to our understanding of Physics…)
hmm.. nice pedantry. i'll flag you for your pedantry if you flag me for mine.
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.... actually once you get into the realm of shockwaves (above about 196dB for earth atmosphere at 100kpa) it's rather gone beyond the realm of sound... so.... yeah. there's that.
it's like getting something above 1.41679 x 10^32 kelvin. at that point blackbody radiation coming off that will be so high frequency that it literally cannot get any higher without breaking what we know of physics. we don't know what would happen if you kept adding energy to such a system.... all our models break down at that point... but it would be hotter than hot.
Nice pedantry, but needs some dickweedishness for a flag. ;)
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Nice pedantry, but needs some dickweedishness for a flag.
i'm never getting that badge? that's literally as dickweedish i can be (well to anyone who isn't BR)