TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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TIL this is a thing.
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@boner That brings back memories of screwing around with Geometer's Sketchpad in high school
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
That brings back memories of screwing around with Geometer's Sketchpad in high school
You have strange fetishes
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boner That brings back memories of screwing around with Geometer's Sketchpad in high school
I FORGOT about that program. Geometer's Sketchpad was amazing.
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@boner Fourier transforms are art!
And the parametric functions that generate it:
from: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=second+Albert+Einstein+curve+equation
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@steve_the_cynic said in Ellellator go up. Ellellator go down. Ellellator go up. Ellellator go down...:
(I have also seen and even used a "spiral" escalator. That is, one that's curved left/right. Having seen it, I immediately found a reason to use it, best described as "I want to".)
Huh.
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@jbert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@steve_the_cynic said in Ellellator go up. Ellellator go down. Ellellator go up. Ellellator go down...:
(I have also seen and even used a "spiral" escalator. That is, one that's curved left/right. Having seen it, I immediately found a reason to use it, best described as "I want to".)
Huh.
The one I rode was in an office building, connecting the two levels of a split-level atrium over about a quarter of a turn. And yeah, for the "wow" factor would be a good description of why it was installed.
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TIL Edge supports the JPEG XR format and Safari supports the JPEG 2000 format.
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TIL the Apple "Photos" application for MacBook (not sure about iOS, but probably works about the same) does NOT have the function to just store photos locally. They are always stored on iCloud.
Already used your free 5GB of space? Ooh, you'll have to purchase more if you want to keep them in one place! Or you could export them to plain old files, but then you won't have the fancy gallery view.
Does more, costs less
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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.
I have GCC set on
-Wall -Wextra -Werror
for my DFHack plugin builds. I should probably find a way to do the same thing for the MSVC version, but last time I tried it gave like a billion useless warnings when I went to/W4
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@ben_lubar said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I have GCC set on -Wall -Wextra -Werror for my DFHack plugin builds.
And yet it still won't say a damn thing about unreachable code .
Since this is the TIL thread, here's a relevant fact: did you know Oracle has its own proprietary C/C++/Fortran compilers too?
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
And yet it still won't say a damn thing about unreachable code .
It started complaining about a missing
break;
when I updated to Ubuntu 18.04.
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@bb36e They've got a bunch of fancy manmade islands in and around Dubai
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@bb36e I wonder if they take PayPal.
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TIL there is empirical evidence that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names, and there is a name for it.
And
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@sockpuppet7 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Well then, TIL:
Some aptronyms are ironic rather than descriptive, being called inaptronyms by Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post. A notable example is the former Archbishop of Manila, Jaime Sin who in 1976 was made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI, thus becoming known as "Cardinal Sin".
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@zecc My dad used to go to a dentist named Paine.
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...In 1961, he broke with African National Congress colleagues who preached non-violence, creating a terrorist wing.
He later pleaded guilty in court to acts of public violence, and behind bars sanctioned more, including the 1983 Church St car bomb that killed 19 people.
Mandela even suggested cutting off the noses of blacks deemed collaborators. His then wife Winnie advocated "necklacing" instead - a burning tyre around the neck.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@ben_lubar said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I have GCC set on -Wall -Wextra -Werror for my DFHack plugin builds.
And yet it still won't say a damn thing about unreachable code .
Try building with clang instead, even if not for release. That has working enable-able warnings about unreachable code, though you might not want to mix with
-Werror
since the code might be unreachable for perfectly respectable reasons; asserts generate unreachable code when they're provably not going to fire, but you don't want to remove them anyway.
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"Binaryen" is pronounced in the same manner as "Targaryen": bi-NAIR-ee-in. Or something like that? Anyhow, however Targaryen is correctly pronounced, they should rhyme. Aside from pronunciation, the Targaryen house words, "Fire and Blood", have also inspired Binaryen's: "Code and Bugs."
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Follow the link, it's a long thread of tweets about this place:
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@boomzilla
The Belgian armies demining devision is still based near the WOI frontline and has stockpiles of old ammunition ... the amounts of chemical shells is staggering.
Not mentioned: after the war ammunition was also dumped en masse in the North Sea. Those locations are controlled but clean up is considered too expensive.
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@boomzilla The French really like their bureaucracy:
From https://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/989100401726287874
Some of the destroyed villages even still elect mayors, who are elected by the descendants of those who fled them at the start of the war, spread throughout France & the rest of the world.
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From a Strange Maps article:
Polish WW2 veterans stranded in Scotland built one of the largest terrain models in the world to honour Scotland for their hospitality:
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@jbert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
From https://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/989100401726287874
Some of the destroyed villages even still elect mayors, who are elected by the descendants of those who fled them at the start of the war, spread throughout France & the rest of the world.Technically, as the article you cite says (I know, in French...), the mayor is not a mayor but the "president of the municipal commission", and he is named by the préfet (direct state representative at the department scale, in charge of policing and other public order stuff...), not elected by anyone.
But yeah, that's a nice bureaucratic complexity, all for the sake of "not forgetting" those villages. It's kind of working, the peculiarity of a village without inhabitants makes them much better known than equally sized and equally destroyed other places! Oh well, at least they don't get to elect MPs.
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TIL Windows has a button to reinstall itself.
https://i.imgur.com/iQavEbY.png
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Vodka eyeballing is the practice of consuming vodka by pouring it into the eye sockets, where it is absorbed through the mucous membranes of the region into the bloodstream.
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@bb36e Sounds like someone trying for how to get drunk on a minimum amount of vodka.
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@bb36e Sure, but it would be even faster if you took the eye out... why do you need two anyway? I'll get a pencil.
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@pleegwat said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@bb36e Sounds like someone trying for how to get drunk on a minimum amount of vodka.
There are other ways. I'll give you a hint: tampons.
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@mrl said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@pleegwat said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@bb36e Sounds like someone trying for how to get drunk on a minimum amount of vodka.
There are other ways. I'll give you a hint: tampons.
Yup, and works for both genders. And I think I read once that snorting works too.
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@pleegwat said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@mrl said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@pleegwat said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@bb36e Sounds like someone trying for how to get drunk on a minimum amount of vodka.
There are other ways. I'll give you a hint: tampons.
Yup, and works for both genders. And I think I read once that snorting works too.
Inhaling also works good I was told (frying pan/oven).
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TIL National Chocolate Chip Day
I learned this because our cafeteria had chocolate chip cookies for lunch. I approve of this day.
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Time crystals!
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@boomzilla I had a quartz watch when I was a kid.
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TIL that Netflix has a UWP app. This app lets me download, unlike the Netflix website. Me likey.
Edit: It automatically pauses when you alt tab while in fullscreen, and there is no way to turn it off. Hell.
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@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Netflix has a UWP app. This app lets me download, unlike the Netflix website. Me likey.
Edit: It automatically pauses when you alt tab while in fullscreen, and there is no way to turn it off. Hell.I guess that makes sense but does it have the same behavior if you do it windowed?
Because if so, Fuck. That. Are they not aware there's a huge number of shows that are perfectly suitable to be "background noise", not requiring full time and attention? :P
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TIL about
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@anonymous234 Been a while since I've touched
I don't think I've ever given it a fair chance.
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@heterodox No, it doesn't, but still.
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hen tolerance develops with prolonged caffeine usage, these effects quite literally disappear. It is known as an 'insurmountable' tolerance, in which rather than a dose-response curve shifting to the right it instead gets flattened.
Taking more and more coffee will never bring back the initial rush, only quitting for a while can do that. Now you know!
However the rush is a separate thing from the other effects.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
hen tolerance develops with prolonged caffeine usage
I have to admit, I am quite tolerant towards chickens.
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TIL about mu metal--i had thought that there wasn't a practical way of shielding against low frequency magnetic fields. Should have realized better.
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TIL that it's possible to hide a workbook in Excel, and that a workbook so hidden, once saved, will still be hidden next time it's opened. The only way to figure out what the fuck happened to it is to click View > Unhide and go "oh hey, there it is".
Excel would open the workbook, it just wouldn't display it. It even asked if I wanted to save the hidden workbook before I exited...