TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@fbmac said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
no direct link tough
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@Greybeard I could Google the correct spelling but that would be work
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TIL the origin of the "Five times ____ (and one ____)" meme in fanfiction. It wasn't a very good fic. But there you have it.
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
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.
Southwest flies 737s exclusively, but there are different versions of them that vary from 85 to 215 passengers.
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https://www.amazon.com/PABS-Pets-System-Ultimate-Chastity/dp/B01HO8FD70
This... this is a real thing.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
This... this is a real thing.
Pfft! My girl will fight them off. Though she doesn't mind a little oral.
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@anonymous234 And of course, further on the same page:
Thanks, Amazon.
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@remi Well, those are the most related items. Amazon's just doing its job there.
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TIL one of my top posts is an image link in the funny stuff thread which 404s.
(I also learned where to find your top posts in NodeBB.)
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@asdf My highest-rated post is https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/966439
https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/803531 also did surprisingly well, though. Well enough to make the top 10 (the other 9 were all in the Funny thread, which isn't too surprising...).
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@Zecc Man, that thread makes me sad. So many people who don't visit this forum anymore…
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TIL
Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.
is what aNullReferenceException
looks like in German.
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@RaceProUK said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.
That's a very complicated way of expressing that the reference was null. The literal translation would be "the object reference was not assigned an object instance".
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TIL people really like when I'm frustrated; my top two posts are:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/21123/yami-bitches-about-other-qa-professionals
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15660/embroidery-machine-software
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@RaceProUK said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL
Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.
is what aNullReferenceException
looks like in German.The... object pointer? was not... attached? to an instance of the object?
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@Yamikuronue said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/21123/yami-bitches-about-other-qa-professionals
3 more likes than my top post (the anti-Ubuntu rant). Teach me, master!
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TIL there's a 10 minute waiting period between email confirmation notices.
: Hmm, I should make accept the invite to mafia-players.
: Email not confirmed!
: Clicks notification
: Email confirmation sent.
: Weird, I don't seem to --- dammit, his email is set to something weird
: updates email
: How do I send another confirmation? clicks around for a bit, gives up
: starts a new thread Ben, how do I confirm my email? clicks submit
: Email not confirmed!
: clicks notification
: Please wait ten minutes between confirmation email requests.
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
attached
*beep*
I'd say "set" or "assigned" in this case.
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@asdf I was going for something that seemed like a synonym for "fastened". The meaning's basically the same.
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@RaceProUK said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL
Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.
is what aNullReferenceException
looks like in German.The... object pointer? was not... attached? to an instance of the object?
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@anonymous234 huh, it looks like the German translation of the error message is actually more grammatically correct than the English error message...
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@anotherusername That supports the idea that German is a better language to write logical statements with.
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@anonymous234 no, it supports the idea that the people who write English error messages often leave out words like "the" and "was" because they're lazy, and the people writing German translations for software are concerned about the translation being grammatically correct. Both of which are sensible approaches, even if they are conflicting.
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@anotherusername
Or that error messages are written by programmers but translated by people by people who where actually trained to use the language correctly
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@Luhmann That's what I said.
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Luhmann That's what I said.
Are you a she?
ETA: this was a rethorical question for humorous effect. I don't actually care.
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TIL it's possible to buy bacon in a box, to be shipped to you, for the low low price of $225 per kilo, and that presumably there are people stupid enough to buy it
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@coldandtired that's about right for the fully cooked stuff. it's pricy, but if you don't have a real kitchen, you can still enjoy bacon. Or if you're lazy af.
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@Yamikuronue At $225/kilo, you better just go to the restaurant. It will be freshly cooked and you don't need to cleanup after.
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@Yamikuronue said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
if you don't have a real kitchen
I've cooked bacon on a sandwich toaster before. Anything that gets hot and can either take a pan or isn't going to get the bacon dirty or stuck will work
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@Jaloopa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Anything that gets hot and can either take a pan or isn't going to get the bacon dirty or stuck will work
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@coldandtired said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL it's possible to buy bacon in a box, to be shipped to you, for the low low price of $225 per kilo, and that presumably there are people stupid enough to buy it
$1.60 a slice? I'm relatively sure that I can get the same thing at the grocery store with their private label for much, much cheaper.
Oscar Mayer is a premium brand and it's generally horribly overpriced. In some cases, it's noticeably better than similar products (their hotdogs, for one) but I can't see their bacon being that much better... it's bacon.
Also, that's not even their cheapest product... the same size package (2.52 oz) of regular (not thick cut) bacon is 4 boxes for $32.18 if you include shipping. So, $3.19/oz.
Just looking through some of the cooked bacon listings...
Product Brand Style Weight Price https://www.amazon.com/Oscar-Mayer-Thick-Fully-Cooked/dp/B00G75WR26 Oscar Mayer Thick 2.52 oz $15.99
$6.35/ozhttps://www.amazon.com/Oscar-Fully-Cooked-Bacon-2-52oz/dp/B00A91RSMS/ Oscar Mayer Regular 10.08 oz $32.18
$3.19/ozhttps://www.amazon.com/Hormel-Black-Label-Bacon-Original/dp/B01MQQBOU6/ Hormel Regular 9.5 oz
(equiv. 4 lbs raw)$12.98
$1.37/ozhttps://www.amazon.com/Hormel-Fully-Cooked-Bacon-Slices/dp/B00IP1MIO2/ Hormel Regular 19 oz
(equiv. 8 lbs raw)$37.50
$1.97/oz
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TIL the iPhone 5 can literally spin by itself:
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@anonymous234 so, what, they figured out how to exploit the phone's vibrate feature to make it spin in a circle?
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@anotherusername Exactly.
I wonder if Apple liked it? I wonder if it works in newer iPhones?
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/me gives @anonymous234 $5000 in Monopoly money
Go find out ;)
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TIL Hieroglyphs had both semantic and phonetic symbols, just like our text mixed with emoji. And they didn't draw it like that for most of their uses, in day to day activities they used simpler to draw things like heratic and demotic.
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@groo said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL Hieroglyphs had both semantic and phonetic symbols, just like our text mixed with emoji. And they didn't draw it like that for most of their uses, in day to day activities they used simpler to draw things like heratic and demotic.
Yes, they're really weird (and wonderful). They could also be determinatives, i.e. no phonetic/semantic meaning but just a grammatical one (same as the plural 's' in e.g. English, but without necessarily be pronounced -- well, in as much as we know anything about pronunciation of hieroglyphs, which is about nothing...). Add to that weird grammatical constructs (there are for example "duals" i.e. a special form of plural for when there are only 2 things -- that exists in other languages, but it's just an example), the absence of any kind of punctuation (which isn't that different from many old languages, to be honest), the total flexibility in putting the symbols together (they are usually grouped by roughly square blocks that participate to the same word, but the way they are physically laid out in the block depends entirely on the whimsy of the scribe and artistic considerations) or even in choosing the symbols used (when using their phonetic value, several ones can have the same value and are used more or less interchangeably, or depending on very fuzzy rules), it's not really surprising that it took so long to decipher them...
Demotic is more like a derivation of hieroglyphs than simply a variant. It started as a progressive simplification of the drawings (there are known examples of almost all intermediate stages between true hieroglyphs and the latest demotic), but they also started joining some commonly used symbols together (a bit like ligatures) and other additions -- or suppressions, some symbols are implied in commonly used patterns! The grammatical rules also changed, so if you learn classical hieroglyphs, you'll be entirely incapable of reading demotic (and same the other way round, although I'm not sure any people do that!). It's apparently very hard to learn, even when knowing hieroglyphs.
But it is also important to remember that what we call hieroglyphs are actually representative of several thousands of years of writing! If you've ever seen a medieval text, you have an idea of how much a script can change in a couple of centuries, so it is actually astonishing that there weren't more changes in hieroglyphs along the line! Especially since Egypt had many different rulers from different origins in that time frame. (the fact that they were, for the bigger part, religious sacred symbols helped them stay constant, in the same way as Church liturgy still uses terms that have totally left the common language, stuff like "thou") And demotic is really a late evolution of hieroglyphs, so it's kind of like comparing modern scripts with medieval ones, rather than saying that the two were used together.
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
total flexibility in ... choosing the symbols used (when using their phonetic value, several ones can have the same value and are used more or less interchangeably, or depending on very fuzzy rules)
You read anything in English before, say, the 19th or 20th century?
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@CarrieVS But ancient English is not picking in a several hundreds characters wide alphabet...
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@remi I'm not suggesting it doesn't make it difficult to read. It's just... not strange or remarkable. Indeed I'd say it's rather less remarkable than in a language with a limited number of characters, since you're likely to have far more characters with the same value.
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@CarrieVS said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
You read anything in English before, say, the 19th or 20th century?
Fucking "th"
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@CarrieVS Fair enough. It probably looks a bit less surprising, on the surface, with a purely phonetical alphabet (english) than with a mixed-all-purposes-one (ancient egyptian), but you're right, it's not that unusual.
Tbh, I am not sure that any of the characteristics of ancient egyptian is, by itself, unique. I mean, it's of course different from other languages and scripts, but I think most, if not all, of its features are found individually in other languages.
I think what makes it special is actually not that much related to the language itself but more what's around it and how it came to us (i.e. it's close enough to Europe that it was known relatively long ago, and its civilisation left behind not only tons of examples of writing, but other spectacular monuments and treasures that motivated the first historians to try and understand it).
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@asdf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Zecc Man, that thread makes me sad. So many people who don't visit this forum anymore…
I miss Richard Nixon. After all, who doesn't like mayonnaise?
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@asdf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Zecc Man, that thread makes me sad. So many people who don't visit this forum anymore…
I miss Richard Nixon. After all, who doesn't like mayonnaise?
yeah... that was kinda cool.
Gojira was cooler, but he didn't want to get into politics.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I miss Richard Nixon.
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
with a purely phonetical alphabet (english)
Will we have another name for English+emoji alphabet? I'm adding this to the lists of things I would like to see if I had a time machine or something.
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@groo said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Will we have another name for English+emoji alphabet?
engraged