TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Today I learned, and verified by myself, that 7zip can open both raw disk images and the file system images in them.
Pretty cool huh?
I prefer TC4Shell.
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@dreikin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Today I learned, and verified by myself, that 7zip can open both raw disk images and the file system images in them.
Pretty cool huh?
I don't see it listed there, but as I recall it works on DLLs too. Usually you can just try it on any file and it will either succeed or tell you it couldn't, and it may surprise you what it succeeds on.
For example:
A lot of file formats are just .zip under the covers.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Today I learned, and verified by myself, that 7zip can open both raw disk images and the file system images in them.
You forgot to highlight HFS.
edit: and VHD and VMDK.
edit edit: and ISO.
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Today I learned, and verified by myself, that 7zip can open both raw disk images and the file system images in them.
You forgot to highlight HFS.
edit: and VHD and VMDK.
edit edit: and ISO.
ISO isn't all that interesting. WinRAR can do it too.
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
You forgot to highlight HFS.
Sorry, I only highlight important file systems.
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@anonymous234 But you highlighted GPT.
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@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
WinRAR can do it too
WinRAR isn't all that interesting. 7-Zip can do everything WinRAR does and more, and it's free on top of that.
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 But you highlighted GPT.
GPT isn't a file system
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@anotherusername I highlighted GPT and UEFI, and now I have no idea what UEFI means here because I just thought it meant GPT.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
now I have no idea what UEFI means here because I just thought it meant GPT
It's probably referring to the special partition type used to hold UEFI boot information, which can be quite large (well, for something in the boot sequence). It's a lot more complex than a normal partition table.
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@yamikuronue said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@dreikin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
GPT isn't a file system
no, that'd be GIFS
There's a file system for gifs? TIL.
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@timebandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
WinRAR can do it too
WinRAR isn't all that interesting. 7-Zip can do everything WinRAR does and more, and it's free on top of that.
What's more interesting is that there are people who pay for it.
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@yamikuronue said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@dreikin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
GPT isn't a file system
no, that'd be GIF
TFTFPA
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TIL that not only can people still make a living building automated instruments / dance organs, there are actually other people crazy enough to buy an entire set to use it as an oversized instrument and take it on tour to play EDM songs:
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TIL the Wii's sensor bar doesn't communicate with anything - it's just a light.
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@coldandtired several lights, actually. Point a digital camera at one of them while it's on -- the CCDs in digital cameras are sensitive to IR light (if they don't have really good IR filters to block it... if the back camera doesn't show anything, the front camera might not be filtered as well). Should look something like this:
In fact, they aren't even doing anything fancy like modulate the output from the IR LEDs in a meaningful way. They're just lights with enough IR output for the camera in the Wiimotes to track them. One article that I read even said that you could use a couple of lit candles instead.
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
One article that I read even said that you could use a couple of lit candles instead.
And that's why my Wii didn't really work in a caravan in a super hot summer. Hot spots everywhere
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@jaloopa I just hope you weren't playing with your Wii while driving...
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@anotherusername Difficult to drive with one of these unless you have a rather large lorry
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@anotherusername How do you think he was driving?
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
How do you think he was driving?
One-handed?
@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TRIGGERED.
Seriously, those things SUCK. Nunchuck FTW.
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TIL about the
struct.Struct
class in Python. The fact that it is supposed to be faster than just usingstruct.pack
andstruct.unpack
directly might help one of the more important bottlenecks in our code. I hope…
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@anonymous234 Those are some really strange shapes.
I'm particularly curious about those local maxima. Do they manage to get sun through gaps in mountains or something?
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@zecc Weather patterns and clouds, apparently.
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@anonymous234 Ah. I thought they meant daylight.
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@anonymous234 TIL that I live in one of the sunniest parts of Sweden.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL the US is really bright.
A lot of it is just due to the latitude.
Europe is quite a bit farther north, and thus gets less sun. The climate is moderated by the fact that much of it is within a few hours drive of an ocean, and the parts that are not tend to get quite cold.
Also, as you said, clouds.
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The climate is moderated by the fact that much of it is within a few hours drive of an ocean
Which is warmer than it should be due to all the warm water that flows up the Gulf Stream. If that stops, the British Isles will get a lot colder.
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@raceprouk said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
If that stops, the British Isles will get a lot colder.
And then they'll get annexed to Canada
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@timebandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@raceprouk said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
If that stops, the British Isles will get a lot colder.
And then they'll get annexed to Canada
Rather that than become American ;)
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@jaloopa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anotherusername Difficult to drive with one of these unless you have a rather large lorry
Oh, you silly brit. That's a mobile home. This is a caravan:
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The climate is moderated by the fact that much of it is within a few hours drive of an ocean, and the parts that are not tend to get quite cold.
The cold bits are all near the ocean.
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@raceprouk said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL font-based emoji have bold and italic forms:
🛒 🛒 🛒 🛒
At least, I'm seeing that on Windows 10.
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@anonymous234 TIL 7z doesn't support murder.
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@coldandtired said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The climate is moderated by the fact that much of it is within a few hours drive of an ocean, and the parts that are not tend to get quite cold.
The cold bits are all near the ocean.
Cold bits being the 0s.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL the US is really bright.
Yep, there's a reason we invented .
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@coldandtired said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The climate is moderated by the fact that much of it is within a few hours drive of an ocean, and the parts that are not tend to get quite cold.
The cold bits are all near the ocean.
If you're saying that based on the map: the map isn't showing temperatures, just sunlight exposure.
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@jazzyjosh said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 TIL 7z doesn't support murder.
@RaceProUK isn't contributing to the project.
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@dreikin Not the map, although the colder countries generally have less sunlight anyway.
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@anonymous234 It's a shame that the original map doesn't include more of North America; I'm curious what the pattern looks like in Canada and Mexico. :)
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@dkf We get plenty of sunlight in Canada, since snow is a pretty good reflector
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@coldandtired said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The cold bits are all near the ocean.
@dreikin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
If you're saying that based on the map: the map isn't showing temperatures, just sunlight exposure.
I was mainly referring to Russia, which I probably shouldn't have cut off the map.
@RaceProUK's correct, though, in that the oceanic effect that I mentioned is mainly in countries with more southern ocean exposure; they are benefited greatly by the Gulf Stream current, which brings warmer waters from Cuba and Florida directly up toward the European coast. The waters in the more arctic regions, naturally, tend to be quite cold.
The result of that current can pretty clearly be seen in a heat map:
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@zecc The implication was ResierFS, but I'll allow it.
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TIL that I can compare tuples in SQL.
Thanks, INTERNETPOINTZ!
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that I can compare tuples in SQL.
Thanks, INTERNETPOINTZ!
YIL PostgreSQL has a Point type, but you can't do comparisons with it by default because it doesn't have an equality operator (although you can build your own).
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
What happens with the Canary current? Is there some weird crossing of the streams (... I know...) with the Gulf stream pluging while another cold front comes up from the deep (that sounds more gibberish that anything...), or... ?
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@remi I think the current temperature is relative to the temperature of the water outside the current. Plus, all that water that passed by Cuba and Florida does lose heat as it moves further north; by the time it makes it back to approximately the same latitude near the western coast of Africa, it's considerably colder than it was when it left Florida.
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@anotherusername Mmm... so it could just be a question of basically deciding the temperature at which they decided to draw it in blue rather than red. Makes sense, although I would probably have tried to make some kind of smooth colour gradient to show that.