TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It's the oil.
Oh, of course. One doesn't normally think of fruit as having oils, but citruses most definitely have some.
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@dkf most definitely. Try squeezing an orange peel above an open flame sometime...
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Today YouTube's suggested videos have taught me Kirsten Dunst has
dunstdone a cover version of Turning Japanese.
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@zecc That's a seriously weird version of it.
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@magus said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@zecc That's a seriously weird version of it.
Not by Japanese standards though.
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@zecc I don't know about that even. There are Japanese bands who sound more like the original, after all. Japan has some weird stuff, sure, but usually a different kind of weird. Now, Korea might do something more like this.
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TIL: when travelling abroad, the US government collects the president's poop, to avoid other countries' intelligence agencies from collecting it themselves and analyzing it to find out about his health.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL: when travelling abroad, the US government collects the president's poop, to avoid other countries' intelligence agencies from collecting it themselves and analyzing it to find out about his health.
That's a shitty job.
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TIL there's a guy who set up a camera to document when his cat enters or leaves the house.
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TIL that one of my friends, a professional stage magician, has been begged to perform on America's Got Talent and has been invited to Penn and Teller's Fool Us, but has turned those down, due to his priorities with his family and our church. He wants to phase out of the professional arena and work more with religious ministries.
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TIL that anise and licorice are different plants...
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that anise and licorice are different plants...
TIL licorice is a plant.
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@anonymous234 TIL there's a special setup at the Tennessee Aquarium where "Miguel 'Eelectric' Wattson" is sending a tweet every time the voltage spikes up
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Non-transitive dice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4XNL-uo520
http://grime.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/
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@dreikin Boring video. Interesting subject.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@dreikin Boring video. Interesting subject.
It's basically a marketing video, so that's a given.
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Big model processor so you can "see" what's going on as you play tetris on its memory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNa9bQRPMB8
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@r10pez10 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Sorry, I live in the USA, where access to culture is through a payment-required turnstile underneath a gigantic "FU!" sign, where the turnstile is often put out of service because, well, see the sign.
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What's to learn here is that Bruce Willis sang. Pretty well, as a matter of fact.
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@zecc And also, how to say "I'm laughing my arse off" in German (2:50, bottom left corner). At least I guess so.
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TIL they make combined USB plugs/microSD card readers
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@boner Have you learned how to coil over/under or did you only watch the video and learn it exists?
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@zecc the latter. Mind = blown.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL they make combined USB plugs/microSD card readers
I've never seen one in a USB cord but I have a few mouse-dongle-sized USB microSD card readers similar to this:
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TIL: If you inherited a file descriptor you no longer have access to, then reopening it via
/proc/self/fd/0
yields a permission error.
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This is fascinating to me.
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@heterodox said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
This is fascinating to me.
It turns out there are no studies on "dyslexic fonts" yet. But the idea is that strokes are of varying widths, slants in letters may change (left-leaning vs. right-leaning) for differentiation, and ascenders/descenders are of different lengths for letters such as b, d, and p.
There may be no studies yet, but I really like the idea. Those ideas may make things easier on the eyes for everyone, though increased spacing between letters could probably do just as much. I note that an example of "OpenDyslexic" typeface is the image for the Dyslexia article on Wikipedia, so maybe I'm the last to know of these things, but still interesting.
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@heterodox said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
This is fascinating to me.
The irregularity of it hurts my OCD. And I don't even have OCD.
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@heterodox said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It turns out there are no studies on "dyslexic fonts" yet.
When I was doing teacher training, we were told that Comic Sans was proven to be more readable for dyslexics.
But then they also said that POS in a chatroom meant Parent Over Shoulder, so I didn't really believe anything they said
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@pleegwat said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@heterodox said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
This is fascinating to me.
The irregularity of it hurts my OCD. And I don't even have OCD.
i like that both options apparently turn ON the dyslexic font.
:-p
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@accalia
I read it as before & after screenshots spliced together
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@jaloopa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@heterodox said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It turns out there are no studies on "dyslexic fonts" yet.
When I was doing teacher training, we were told that Comic Sans was proven to be more readable for dyslexics.
But then they also said that POS in a chatroom meant Parent Over Shoulder, so I didn't really believe anything they said
I'm pretty sure that any font that is damn ugly will "help" dyslexia because it fucks with your normal reading process, forcing you to slow down and pay attention better.
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@pleegwat said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The irregularity of it hurts my OCD. And I don't even have OCD.
OCD means Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. You don't have a disorder, so you just have OC.
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@jaloopa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
But then they also said that POS in a chatroom meant Parent Over Shoulder, so I didn't really believe anything they said
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@heterodox said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
This is fascinating to me.
For some reason this reminds me of the "mocking Spongebob" meme
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TIL versions of GCC after 4.4 completely removed warnings about unreachable code. You can put 3 returns in a row and it won't say a thing.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL versions of GCC after 4.4 completely removed warnings about unreachable code. You can put 3 returns in a row and it won't say a thing.
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@anonymous234
Another reason why clang is superior. Also, I really like javac's behavior (unreachable code = error).
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TIL the C library does not have min() or max() functions.
I guess because making things easier would defeat the purpose of C.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL the C library does not have min() or max() functions.
I guess because making things easier would defeat the purpose of C.
It would have to be a family of functions to avoid unnecessary conversions in hot code: mini/maxi, minf/maxf, minui/maxui, etc.
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@anonymous234 This is C. Just use a #define.
(yeah, I know, this is wrong on so many levels...)
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TIL
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@boner let me guess: it's made from trans-hookers ?
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@timebandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boner let me guess: it's made
fromin trans-hookers ?FTFY
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 This is C. Just use a #define.
(yeah, I know, this is wrong on so many levels...)
The typical MIN() and MAX() defines have the downside of evaluating one of their arguments twice.
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@pleegwat said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 This is C. Just use a #define.
(yeah, I know, this is wrong on so many levels...)
The typical MIN() and MAX() defines have
theall the possible downsideof evaluating one of their arguments twices.