TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@RaceProUK said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 I'd reject it on the basis that it looks like a fucking mess
Yeah, but y'all rejected the EU, so nobody cares about your opinion.
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@HardwareGeek
At least EU flag doesn't represent all member states so no flag changing is required#PositiveSideOfBrexit
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@Luhmann Yet that doesn't stop news channels showing the EU flag with a star fallen off.
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@RaceProUK said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
How the UK Wife Carrying winners pulled off their win
By running faster than the others?
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@RaceProUK
That's because you Brits are confused about the number of stars on the flag and/or the number of member states
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@Maciejasjmj said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
By running faster than the others?
By having a non-fat wife?
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@Luhmann said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Maciejasjmj said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
By running faster than the others?
By having a non-fat wife?
I wonder if competitive Wife Carrying runners pick their wives according to their suitability for the race, or do they control their weight and such.
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@Maciejasjmj said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
their suitability for the race
racist! you can have black skinny bitches too!
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@Luhmann said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
you can have black skinny bitches too!
Just go to Ethiopia?
Filed under: one ticket to hell, please
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@Maciejasjmj said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
one ticket to hell, please
That will be one soul, please and no I don't have change.
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@Maciejasjmj said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
hell
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TIL that it's not "Windows Phone 10", it's "Windows 10 Mobile". In other words, they changed the name back again.
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@anonymous234 Does that mean it runs Metro apps now?
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@flabdablet said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 Does that mean it runs Metro apps now?
If an OS runs an app, but no one runs the OS, does it really run the app?
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RIL that, while both Slack and DIscord's Windows clients are basically wrappers for Chromium, only Discord blocks the back/forward mouse buttons.
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TIL "Fehler beim Aufbau einer Datenbankverbindung" is German for "Error establishing a database connection"
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL this was proposed as EU flag but people didn't like it because "OMG BARCODE = EVIL CAPITALISM".
Paging @aliceif
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@flabdablet Kind of.
AFAIK, it's the same platform and so any app can compile to it just as easily, but they try to keep them just separate enough that people don't just mindlessly compile things that are designed for a wider display for it.
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@Magus Meh. It looks boring.
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TIL that airplane seats have panels that fold out from the headrest so that the passenger can have support for the sides of their head. They also raise and lower a little bit to accommodate passengers of differing heights.
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@djls45 Not on any plane I've flown on, they don't. Then again, I've only flown on two types (an Airbus A3xx (forget which one exactly) and a Dash-8).
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@RaceProUK The seats are also chosen by the airline, not the manufacturer, so not standard across all planes of any type.
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@CarrieVS Probably less common on budget airlines and more common on planes used for long-haul flights?
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@PleegWat I wouldn't know but I'd be surprised if not.
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@CarrieVS said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@RaceProUK The seats are also chosen by the airline, not the manufacturer, so not standard across all planes of any type.
@PleegWat said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@CarrieVS Probably less common on budget airlines and more common on planes used for long-haul flights?
Ah. These were on United and Southwest aircraft. The United plane was a larger model (Boeing 737 or 747), and the Southwest plane was a bit smaller, but not small (probably a 727 or such).
My mom was actually the one to notice it some time ago, and she's seen them on every flight she's had since then (domestic flights on United, Southwest, or Delta, mainly).
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@djls45 The last time I flew was 2015 with FlyBe (the first time was 2001, and I can't remember the airline).
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@djls45 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
airplane seats have panels that fold out from the headrest so that the passenger can have support for the sides of their head
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@aliceif On the bright side, as a flag, it would be waving around making weird patterns! But yeah, vertical lines aren't terribly great.
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@djls45 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
These were on United and Southwest aircraft.
I'm not even close to being a frequent flyer, but I've flown Southwest more than any other airline, and I've never seen that.
The United plane was a larger model (Boeing 737 or 747), and the Southwest plane was a bit smaller, but not small (probably a 727 or such).
Bigger numbers != bigger planes. 747 is jumbo jet, long range, trans- or inter-continental. 737 is regional (e.g., SEA-SFO) and is about the smallest jet flown by US airlines (not counting business or charter flights, or short-hop turbo-prop planes by airlines like Horizon). 727 is bigger than 737, but ancient; I don't think I've seen one flown by a US passenger airline in years, although one still sees them occasionally in freight service.
Edit: Southwest uses a lot of 737s. I'm not sure if they even have anything else in their current fleet. The Southwest flight was almost certainly a 737 of one -number or another.
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TIL the new Beauty & The Beast movie is being banned in (at least) Russia, Malasia and one cinema in Alabama because "OMG gay background character".
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@HardwareGeek Isn't it kind of like
747 > 777 > 767 ~ 787 > 737 or something like that?
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@Zecc New rule: add a gay background character to every movie so Russia can't enjoy them.
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@RaceProUK IME, it's common on long-haul, rare on short-haul, and distinctly variable on medium-haul.
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@anonymous234 Or just put the Pride flag in the corner, a bit like what they do with TV channel logos.
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@HardwareGeek Why all boings are 7*7? They put those 7 to look like they have more models?
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@fbmac said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@HardwareGeek Why all boings are 7*7? They put those 7 to look like they have more models?
Seven is a Lucky number, so they help to fly. One for each wing. Easy.
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@fbmac said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@HardwareGeek Why all boings are 7*7? They put those 7 to look like they have more models?
Okay, for an actual answer: http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2004/february/i_history.html
Tl;dr: the marketing department did it.
Since both of these offspring of the Dash 80 would be jet transports, the model number system called for a number in the 700s to identify the two new planes. The marketing department decided that "Model 700" did not have a good ring to it for the company's first commercial jet. So they decided to skip ahead to Model 707 because that reiteration seemed a bit catchier. Following that pattern, the other offspring of the Dash 80, the Air Force tanker, was given the model number 717. Since it was an Air Force plane, it was also given a military designation of KC-135.
After 717 was assigned to the KC-135, the marketing department made the decision that all remaining model numbers that began and or ended in 7 would be reserved exclusively for commercial jets.
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TIL the TIL thread is broken for some people.
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@PleegWat WHAT DOES YOUR POST SAY I CANNOT LOAD THE PAGE
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TIL that @PleegWat likes to flaunt his TIL-privilege
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@aliceif said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@HardwareGeek Isn't it kind of like
747 > 777 > 767 ~ 787 > 737 or something like that?
Something like that, but I haven't paid close attention to the relative sizes of the more recent models (despite living very near one of their assembly plants for a few years).
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TIL I am probably a man because I put man effort into friendships rather than woman effort.
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Can men and women ever be just friends?
Yes.
Next!
While women view their best friends as something in between sisters and soul mates, men see theirs purely in terms of convenience.
Based on that alone, I'm more woman than man.
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I know women who have "man-friendships" and men who have "Women-friendships". Why do we need to gender everything ()-.-
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@Yamikuronue Some outliers don't make statistics less useful or interesting.
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@fbmac I don't see any statistics in the article, just bald assertions that women are one way and men are another.
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@Yamikuronue a study was mentioned, no direct link tough