TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@mott555 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@sockpuppet7 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL some grain works like quicksand, and it's not rare for people to die buried in grain silos.
Grain silos can also explode spectacularly, usually due to inadequate ventilation and the contents compost and become extremely hot.
Grain dust (as well as sawdust) also make really good fuel-air explosives in the proper combinations.
Some friends and I once blew up an old broken microwave with a large quantity of Tannerite (binary explosive that's usually activated by shooting it). Half an hour later, someone came up the drive and told us they thought they heard a grain bin explode, but they didn't see any smoke anywhere. They were driving to all the farms in the area and making sure everyone was okay, and got a good laugh when we explained what they heard.
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#OnlyInUSA
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@mott555 I believe in NL it is illegal to start large fires or explosions without telling the fire department first, though I'm unsure whether that is primarily for the official safety reasons or the more obvious reason they'd love to watch.
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@PleegWat said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@mott555 I believe in NL it is illegal to start large fires or explosions without telling the fire department first, though I'm unsure whether that is primarily for the official safety reasons or the more obvious reason they'd love to watch.
I'm OK with either reason.
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TIL the language TempleOS is written in has support for embedding images directly in the code. Eat your heart out, @blakeyrat.
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@pie_flavor I prefer when the code is embedded in the images.
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@boomzilla
4.4k mini-gun days and $20 billion worth of ammo? Seems like something any Texan county could handle pretty easily
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@boomzilla Only 3,300 Joules per shot? Those are rookie numbers. They need to call up all the deer/elk hunters with magnum rifles.
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@mott555
Can a hunter put 6000 RPM down range?
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@izzion said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@mott555
Can a hunter put 6000 RPM down range?Sure, if you put all my ammo in a box and threw the box.
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@mott555
Somehow I suspect that's going to drop you below the 3,300 J/shot metric, rookie
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@boomzilla $20 billion seemed surprisingly low...
I tried to calculate how much it would take to stop it with electric fans. Google says US average electricity cost is $0.12/kWh = $33.3 / GJ. So 125 TJ of electricity is just $4,162,500!
Now the biggest fan I could find that has a price is the ShopFan at ~750W (1hp) for $3329 (& FREE Shipping). Meaning to disperse all that electricity in 24 hours we would need almost 2 million of them, at a cost of $6.7 billion.
That obviously doesn't include the many energy losses in the system or the cost to get the fans close enough (no idea how you'd do that).
But still, the damages by hurricanes Katrina and Harvey were calculated at $125.0 billion each... so it might actually be worth the cost
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@anonymous234
Apparently they figured out you were planning to use it for hurricane dispersal and raise the price... it's $3,729 when I click the link now
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@anonymous234 Start attaching those ShopFans to the rear axles of Ferraris and such and you could get a bit more horsepower out of them.
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@izzion My bad, I was looking at a different model.
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Who's going to calculate the energy output of a fart and work out how many flatulent people it would take to do it?
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@Jaloopa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Who's going to calculate the energy output of a fart and work out how many flatulent people it would take to do it?
But if everyone farts in the wrong direction, you get a new Sy-Fy B movie called something like Flatuscane or Fartnado.
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You know, I've been thinking about it all wrong. We have a way to extract large quantities of energy from wind. It's wind turbines.
Dissipate 125 TJ in 24h =1447 MW of energy.
The cost of wind turbines is $1M per MW = $1.447 billion to build the thing. But then we get $4M back in electricity (in addition to the standard turbine returns).
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@anonymous234 You have to take extra construction costs into account. Wind turbines aren't generally built to generate electric in hurricane force winds, and in extreme cases can fall over
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Blend of white (“Caucasian”) + booty (“buttocks”)
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TIL that "cromulent" isn't a real world. I've been using it for ages, and nobody has ever pointed it out to me.
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@Gąska It's a perfectly cromulent word.
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@Gąska it's always good to embiggen your vocabulary
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TIL that Google actually has a "built-in helper feature" for this query.
Screenshot:
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Also a bonus wheel-of-fortune mode when you move the slider to the left:
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Google actually has a "built-in helper feature" for this query.
I'm concerned UD was the first search result after that image.
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@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Google actually has a "built-in helper feature" for this query.
I'm concerned UD was the first search result after that image.
I expected as much.
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@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Google actually has a "built-in helper feature" for this query.
I'm concerned UD was the first search result after that image.
UD?
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@JBert Urban Dictionary, I assume. Where every possible combination of words is a sex position.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@JBert Urban Dictionary, I assume. Where every possible combination of words is a sex position.
Yeah, but in this case, I mean come on -- everyone knows what a "spinner" is, right?
...no? just me? ok...
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@JBert Urban Dictionary, I assume. Where every possible combination of words is a sex position.
I would have guessed Uncyclopedia Dramatica myself.
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@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Google actually has a "built-in helper feature" for this query.
I'm concerned UD was the first search result after that image.
Nope, surrounded by people trying to sell fidget spinners.
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@JBert
I'm now overwhelmed by the urge to find a browser extension that converts all loading spinners to fidget spinners.
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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 Urban Dictionary, I assume. Where every possible combination of words is a sex position.
Yeah, but in this case, I mean come on -- everyone knows what a "spinner" is, right?
...no? just me? ok...
I did not.
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@Karla Nor do I. And insofar as possible, I intend to retain my lack of knowledge. Of course, someone will take this as a challenge to educate me by posting the definition here, but I'd really rather you didn't.
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@HardwareGeek Then why bother announcing it?
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TIL my post office sells Justice League boxes and envelopes for some reason.
Because when you think Batman, you think efficient parcel delivery, of course (they missed an opportunity to go with Flash here).
Oh, and they also sell Star Wars figurines.
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TIL:
- Office 2019 is already out
- Support for Office 2019 is shorter than usual, meaning it will end exactly at the same time support for Office 2016 ends
I'm pretty sure the message here is "don't expect any non-subscription Office after 2025"
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Support for Office 2019 is shorter than usual, meaning it will end exactly at the same time support for Office 2016 ends
Eh, the "feature enhancements, standard bug fixes, etc." phase of support is the same length as usual, and will last 3 years past the end of that phase for Office 2016. All they're really shortening is the "well, if a really shitty security problem comes up, we'll fix it, buuuttt...." phase of support.
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@izzion That's the important phase of support for me. A program with significant security problems should never be launched, so it's effectively broken. A program without enhancements or bug fixes is still good as long as it does what you want, and Office barely changes anymore.
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TIL the FDA classifies honey under 'raw meat'.
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I need to make an audit for a website and I discovered a "new" meta called "SKYPE_TOOLBAR", it looks like that:
<meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE" />
That's a vendor-specific tag to stop an addon Skype installs in Internet Explorer from highlighting phone numbers it detects in web documents.
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Bonus points for being "Dark Arts of HTML".
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TIL:
stalkers whose fantasies involve having children with their targets tend to be less of a threat
(from https://medium.com/@snowdonsmith/the-fan-who-sued-taylor-swift-6c352e325f0d)
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TIL how modern lighters look
Instead of a spark or flame they create a constant arc from an internal battery rechargeable by USB. And yes, you can totally put your finger in there, but I haven't tried it.
You can probably use them to fry electronics too.
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TIL there's these spiral "cable protectors"
Well, I'm not sure they protect anything, but they make amazing elastic strings! Tie a mouse toy in one end and you have the perfect cat toy (just make sure they don't swallow it, strings are dangerous for cats).
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Google actually has a "built-in helper feature" for this query.
Screenshot:
EDIT:
Also a bonus wheel-of-fortune mode when you move the slider to the left:
Feedback given:
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status: I forgot why I ignored this thread. Oh well, un ignoring...
Edit: goddammit!