TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@remi yeah, but for that to make sense, they'd almost have to show the temperature of the other water for comparison, and at that point you basically just end up with a heatmap like the other one I posted. Draw some arrows on it and you're done.
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TIL C11 actually defines its own "native" threading library separate from the POSIX one. But no one seems to implement it.
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TIL that Windows (10 and maybe 8) can capture and immediately save screenshots by pressing + Print Screen - the screenshots turn up in your Pictures folder (Mac OS X meanwhile had something similar for quite a while).
It must be a conspiracy to get rid of MSPaint!
EDIT: Inserted Win-key Font-Awesome
EDIT-EDIT: Added that this is for Win 10, maybe on 8.
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@jbert Too bad + Alt + Print Screen doesn't immediately save a screenshot of the active program.
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@jbert I think they should have made it so that PrtScr opened the "Snipping tool" with a screenshot already taken, since it's the official screenshot tool and has a proper interface.
Or better yet, stay true to the name and actually print the screenshot
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@anonymous234 Something I discovered last week, while using my work laptop in laptop mode (rather than docked, closed with dual monitors and external keyboard and mouse), is that
- It has a PrtSc key where a normal keyboard would have a right or context menu key, and
- That key has a secondary function, such that Fn + PrtSc launches the Snipping Tool
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@jbert I think they should have made it so that PrtScr opened the "Snipping tool" with a screenshot already taken, since it's the official screenshot tool and has a proper interface.
How about no.
PrtScrn captures a screenshot without interrupting whatever you're doing. That's useful sometimes.
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@jbert I think they should have made it so that PrtScr opened the "Snipping tool" with a screenshot already taken, since it's the official screenshot tool and has a proper interface.
How about no.
PrtScrn captures a screenshot without interrupting whatever you're doing. That's useful sometimes.
No one said it would open with focus.
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@zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@jbert I think they should have made it so that PrtScr opened the "Snipping tool" with a screenshot already taken, since it's the official screenshot tool and has a proper interface.
How about no.
PrtScrn captures a screenshot without interrupting whatever you're doing. That's useful sometimes.
No one said it would open with focus.
Even then, I'm not sure if I'd trust it to not interrupt what you're doing in all cases. But even if that actually worked, it'd be pretty pointless. I'd rather have it just save the screenshot automatically to a PNG, like the new key combo does. (Unfortunately it doesn't work in Windows 7...)
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@anotherusername Consistency vs efficiency. Sometimes you have to trade one for the other.
Or shift+PrtScr could continue to automatically capture and save and we could have both.
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@jbert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Windows (10 and maybe 8) can capture and immediately save screenshots by pressing + Print Screen - the screenshots turn up in your Pictures folder (Mac OS X meanwhile had something similar for quite a while).
It must be a conspiracy to get rid of MSPaint!
EDIT: Inserted Win-key Font-Awesome
EDIT-EDIT: Added that this is for Win 10, maybe on 8.TIL that this is actually findable and not everyone just installs ShareX immediately.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
actually print the screenshot
only if it is automatically scanned back in and pasted in an excel file
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I think they should have made it so that PrtScr opened the "Snipping tool" with a screenshot already taken
That's what KDE does.
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@luhmann said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
actually print the screenshot
only if it is automatically scanned back in and pasted in an excel file
E_WOODEN_TABLE_EXPECTED
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TIL there's an even more high-end version of Windows 10 Pro
https://blogs.windows.com/business/2017/08/10/microsoft-announces-windows-10-pro-workstations/
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From Middle English, from Old English ātorcoppe (“spider”), corresponding to atter (“poison, venom”) + cop (“head”). The latter is still to be found in the English word cobweb. Cognate to Dutch etterkop (“peevish or ill-natured person”).
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL there's an even more high-end version of Windows Windows 10 Pro
https://blogs.windows.com/business/2017/08/10/microsoft-announces-windows-10-pro-workstations/Users will now be able to run Windows 10 Pro for Workstations on devices with high performance configurations
Our architectural changes in the Windows kernel take full advantage of high-end processors families, such as Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron, that package a high number of cores in single or multi-processor configurations.
And maybe like Ryzen and i9?
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that I can compare tuples in SQL.
Yep! It's one of those things that you don't need too often but is really handy sometimes.
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@anotherusername yeah, I remember using a couple of lighters to calibrate a wiimote connected to my pc
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@scarlet_manuka said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boner said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
First came across this via The Hobbit.
for me it was
s/The Hobbit/A Deepness in the Sky/
which if you haven't read yet you should.
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TIL my wife is a genius. (I kid, I kid...)
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@bb36e said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Sounds like something a dystopian government would use to help identify escaped prisoners.
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@bb36e said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Imagine, just, like, going around with cat eyes. Or nebulae. Or turquoise sclera.
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@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@bb36e said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
turquoise sclera.THE SPICE MUST FLOW.
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@pie_flavor said in How I broke my computer at 12 years old:
When I was feeling bored I used to connect to an IRC network, paste the EICAR string into a very populous channel, and watch everyone using Norton AV time out.
TIL
The EICAR Anti-Virus Test File or EICAR test file is a computer file that was developed by the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR) and Computer Antivirus Research Organization (CARO), to test the response of computer antivirus (AV) programs.
The file is a text file of between 68 and 128 bytes that is a legitimate executable file called a COM file [...] When executed, the EICAR test file will print "EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!" and then will stop.
The EICAR test string[8] reads:
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL how cats walk:
http://i.imgur.com/iG5fcSn.gifvThe reason quadrupeds walk with their hind legs delayed 3/4ths-of-a-cycle from their front legs (at the bottom in the video) instead of, say 1/4th-of-a-cycle delay (top), is that this way the triangle between their contact points is wider and stays under their center of gravity for more time.
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A discussion of chocolate in the dumb things being crowdfunded topic reminded me of something I learned, not today, but a couple of weeks ago.
I traveled to Colorado for business, and while getting a souvenir for my daughter, there was a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory across the street, so I bought some fudge. At the airport the next day, my carry-on got pulled aside for extra screening.
The TSA agent was looking at the X-ray image, so he was looking for something specific and knew where it was in my bag. After rummage through my dirty laundry for a few seconds, he pulled out a small box. He looked at the words "Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory" on the box and said one word, "Fudge?" "Yeah." "On the X-ray, it looks like explosive."
Lesson: If carrying fudge on an airplane, pull it out where it can be easily examined.
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@hardwaregeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Lesson: If carrying fudge on an airplane, pull it out where it can be easily examined.
Second lesson: if carrying explosive on an airplane, put it inside a fudge box.
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@hardwaregeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Lesson: If carrying fudge on an airplane, pull it out where it can be easily examined.
Indeed; it looks like plastic explosive. Cheese is another common false positive for the same reason.
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@scarlet_manuka said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boner said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
First came across this via The Hobbit.
Cognate to Dutch etterkop (“peevish or ill-natured person”).
(obsolete except in dialects) A peevish or ill-natured person.
I see they finally marked the Dutch dialect obsolete. It was a long time coming, really; everyone was tired of having to support it long past its prime.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@hardwaregeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Lesson: If carrying fudge on an airplane, pull it out where it can be easily examined.
Second lesson: if carrying explosive on an airplane, put it inside a fudge box.
When one guy put explosives in his shoes they called him the shoe bomber. I wonder what they'll call the guy who packs them in a box of fudge
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@heterodox said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@hardwaregeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Lesson: If carrying fudge on an airplane, pull it out where it can be easily examined.
Indeed; it looks like plastic explosive. Cheese is another common false positive for the same reason.
Yeah, they manually looked through my bag because of cheese.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Second lesson: if carrying explosive on an airplane, put it inside a fudge box.
Yeah, well, he didn't just take my word for it. He swabbed the box and put the swab in the machine to check for explosive residue. You'd have to somehow make sure there is no chemical trace on the box for your plan to work.
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@heterodox said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Indeed; it looks like plastic explosive. Cheese is another common false positive for the same reason.
Toby Faire, a good cheese isn't that dissimilar to a chemical weapon.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@heterodox said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Indeed; it looks like plastic explosive. Cheese is another common false positive for the same reason.
Toby Faire, a good cheese isn't that dissimilar to a chemical weapon.
Although if you really want to go with food-based warfare, I hear the Northern countries have some particularly fine munitions. But beware: ppening a can of one of those in an enclosed environment like that may be considered a war crime.
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@dreikin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@heterodox said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Indeed; it looks like plastic explosive. Cheese is another common false positive for the same reason.
Toby Faire, a good cheese isn't that dissimilar to a chemical weapon.
Although if you really want to go with food-based warfare, I hear the Northern countries have some particularly fine munitions. But beware: ppening a can of one of those in an enclosed environment like that may be considered a war crime.
Don't forget the Korean contribution--Kimchee.
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@benjamin-hall Hah! Amateurs compared to the Swedes and the Thai.
Surströmming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDCy9x9qxMk&list=RDPDCy9x9qxMk&t=6Durian:
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@dreikin Our chemical warfare food comes from the part of Sweden where I live too! Fun fact, I've not minded the smell for years, and from this year I can even eat it and enjoy it. It has a very sharp taste, which I guess was the main difficulty to overcome. Also, the lack of exposure as in my family we only eat it once/year.
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@hardwaregeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Lesson: If carrying fudge on an airplane, pull it out where it can be easily examined.
Second lesson: if carrying explosive on an airplane, put it inside a fudge box.
When one guy put explosives in his shoes they called him the shoe bomber. I wonder what they'll call the guy who packs them in a box of fudge
Abdullah al-Asiri? Oh, wait, you said, "box."
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My in-laws are the only people I know who eat cheese & jam sandwiches.
Cheese sandwich
Jam sandwich
Cheese & jam sandwich
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@boner said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Cheese & jam sandwich
Wrong. Though it depends on the kinds of cheese and jam, of course.
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@boner said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Jam sandwich
Wrong. sweet fillings in sandwiches make no sense
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Both wrong. Please report to facility 7 for re-education.
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@jaloopa Three words: Ice cream sandwiches.