TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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TIL Spotify radio is now paywalled as a premium feature on mobile. This would be a great time for Amazon to add (or make easier to find) some kind of music discovery feature
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@heterodox I've used that app for the entirety of my Netflix usage. I keep it on a second monitor normally, though. The only weird thing I've seen is that it mutes during UAC dialogs.
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@brisingraerowing Oh, we all know how that happened.
Client: "We use an Excel workbook to control our nuclear submarine's engines, but the boss likes to play Farmville on the same computer and he keeps accidentally changing numbers in the cells. Could you add an option to hide the window so it sort of runs in the background?"
Microsoft: "....well....I guess we could do something like that..."
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TIL Windows 10 does this:
How and why to use random hardware addresses
nice fake preview huh?Does this mean Microsoft has officially disavowed the idea of network addresses being tied to the hardware?
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This week I learned that Android has a "WTF" log level. They claim it stands for what a terrible failure.
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@sockpuppet7 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
This week I learned that Android has a "WTF" log level. They claim it stands for what a terrible failure.
I'm amused that there's a 7 years old thread about this but you posted here.
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@boomzilla Dammit fbmac!
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
there's a 7 years old thread
Or is it a couple of years?
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@boomzilla need to wait 3 more years
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@sockpuppet7 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla need to wait 3 more years
Hm? In 3 years it'd be 10... I thought the age of consent in Brazil was 14.
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@anotherusername (deleted)
Edit: no, I read the wikipedia and stand corrected, 14 is completely legal. The close age exceptions are for 12 year olds, with someone up to five years older.
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TIL North Korea has the world's biggest stadium.
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@anonymous234 in case someone nukes it, they won't get all of it
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Apps written with .NET Standard 2.0 run anywhere that .NET Standard 2.0 is supported.
Whoa. TIL!
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TIL how to clean debris from a power line.
https://gfycat.com/TiredFixedGardensnake
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Apps written with .NET
StandardCore 2.0 run anywhere that .NET Standard 2.0 is supportedFTFY? The original sentence makes no sense.
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@stillwater Nope. I really should have included the context though.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL how to clean debris from a power line.
https://gfycat.com/TiredFixedGardensnakeI wonder how the flames affect the power lines. I wonder how big the fine would be if the police found out who did that.
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@gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I wonder how the flames affect the power lines.
I love how nobody brought that up. That's the first thing that pops up in your head when you see fire on a power line!
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@gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I wonder how the flames affect the power lines. I wonder how big the fine would be if the police found out who did that.
If it is the power company doing it (which it might be; using a drone with a flamethrower saves a lot of fuss and bother and danger to staff), the police will be completely disinterested.
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@gąska The power lines are generally not isolated, meaning they are just metal cables, so there's no effect at all (unless the fire was really hot).
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I wonder how the flames affect the power lines. I wonder how big the fine would be if the police found out who did that.
If it is the power company doing it (which it might be; using a drone with a flamethrower saves a lot of fuss and bother and danger to staff), the police will be completely disinterested.
If it's the power company. Too bad the uploader (who goes by name "PM_ME_STEAM_K3YS") didn't provide any context.
@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@gąska The power lines are generally not isolated, meaning they are just metal cables, so there's no effect at all (unless the fire was really hot).
I'd imagine burning it with a flamethrower would make it very damn hot.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
a drone with a flamethrower saves a lot of fuss and bother
^That's my favourite unexpected phrase of the week so far.
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@gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I'd imagine burning it with a flamethrower would make it very damn hot.
Hot enough to melt steel?
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@anotherusername AFAIK power lines aren't made of regular steel. And AFAIK it doesn't have to melt to degrade conductivity and other properties important for power lines. But then, I never actually tried to use a flamethrower on a power line.
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@gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anotherusername AFAIK power lines aren't made of regular steel. And AFAIK it doesn't have to melt to degrade conductivity and other properties important for power lines. But then, I never actually tried to use a flamethrower on a power line.
And most of those flamethrowers really don't transfer that much energy. Burning alcohol is plenty hot enough to burn fabrics while not even heat up the steel significantly (due to thermal conductivity and thermal mass). It's the same principle how you can cover your hand in burning alcohol and not get hurt (as long as you do it right).
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Power lines are usually made of aluminum, though they have a steel core for tensile strength. And as orange as that flame is, I highly doubt it's hot enough to do any damage, especially since the wire's also going to function as a heat sink. If you wanted to melt the wire, you'd need to add oxygen to improve the burn, and those flames are generally bluish-white (like from an oxyfuel torch).
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@benjamin-hall TIL.
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http://ukcar.com/history/tatra/
You could be forgiven for associating this marque with other more proletarian Czech marques like the humble SKODA's of the recent past, but you couldn't be further from the truth.
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In the late 1930's it became clear VW had used several patents of the Tatra factory. Just before the war Tatra had ten legal claims against VW for infringement of patents. Although Ferdinand Porsche was about to make a settlement with Tatra, he was stopped by Hitler who said he would "solve his problem". Shortly after he invaded Czechoslovakia and gained control over Tatra, stopping the T97's production.
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A third redenomination, producing the "fourth Zimbabwe dollar," occurred in February 2009, and dropped 12 more zeros from the currency. It was thus worth 10 trillion trillion original dollars, as the three redenominations together reduced the value of an original dollar by 103 × 1010 × 1012 = 1025. Computers could not handle the amount of zeros such that other forms of money had to be used to act as normal money (bearer’s cheques). Banks had to input a lesser amount on the deposit or withdrawal slip then would put a covering statement, such as “multiply by 1 000 000 or add 10 zeros to your amount to get the real value”. The same was true for businesses as well and all traders.
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@mott555 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Power lines are usually made of aluminum, though they have a steel core for tensile strength. And as orange as that flame is, I highly doubt it's hot enough to do any damage, especially since the wire's also going to function as a heat sink. If you wanted to melt the wire, you'd need to add oxygen to improve the burn, and those flames are generally bluish-white (like from an oxyfuel torch).
The heat sink is actually the most important part - metals are excellent heat conductors. If you have any experience with soldering electronics then you know the problems inherent with soldering something to larger pieces of metal, you simply cannot get them hot enough. Or the other way around when you literally fry nearby electronics by applying heat just a bit too long.
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@rhywden said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
If you have any experience with soldering electronics then you know the problems inherent with soldering something to larger pieces of metal, you simply cannot get them hot enough.
I recently got into PCB design as part of a side hobby thing. And I found that even with a 40-watt soldering iron, it can sometimes take a while to solder a through-hole component that connects to the PCB's ground plane.
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@bb36e I wonder why people even bothered with money and banks at that point. Literal blank pieces of paper would be worth a lot more than their dollars, and if they still weren't, they would be in a few days.
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@boner said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Also get the chainsaw model when you're at it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmraDvQVURs
(Though it's mostly backyard fun)
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I wonder how the flames affect the power lines. I wonder how big the fine would be if the police found out who did that.
If it is the power company doing it (which it might be; using a drone with a flamethrower saves a lot of fuss and bother and danger to staff), the police will be completely disinterested.
The movie below seems to be of the same drone and there's a bunch of people around with hard hats and work gear, so I would guess it's official?
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@stillwater said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I wonder how the flames affect the power lines.
I love how nobody brought that up. That's the first thing that pops up in your head when you see fire on a power line!
I was actually wondering if the flamethrower could generate enough ionized gas to create an arc between the wires, though likely the line was already powered down seeing how there was such a huge chunk of textile risking a potential connection to the ground (at least if it got wet).
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@anonymous234 I guess that answers the question "How much wood could a chopper chop if a chopper could chop wood?"
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@jbert
Let's just get to the chopper chopper and leave it at that
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@anotherusername said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I'd imagine burning it with a flamethrower would make it very damn hot.
Hot enough to melt steel?
TIL (and at the risk of @anotherusername accusing me of ing):
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@gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I wonder how the flames affect the power lines. I wonder how big the fine would be if the police found out who did that.
I was wondering more about the chances of starting a fire in the field(?) below. Though it looks like the fuel load is pretty low.
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@homobalkanus what do you think the beer got its name from? Why there's gorol and mountains on the label?
Although in Poland, we say "Tatry", so when I hear "Tatra", all I can think of is beer.
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@gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@homobalkanus what do you think the beer got its name from? Why there's gorol and mountains on the label?
Although in Poland, we say "Tatry", so when I hear "Tatra", all I can think of is beer.
I think about a truck, they were very popular around here when I was a kid.
As for the beer, it's pretty awful.
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TIL files can have multiple bodies.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364404(v=vs.85).aspx
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@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL files can have multiple bodies.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364404(v=vs.85).aspxYep. This is what IE does to mark files downloaded from the Internet as such so they get additional shell warnings. Also when I was much younger, it used to be a good way to hide porn. :P
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TIL: the 1999 game Donkey Kong 64 shipped with an Expansion Pak for the console, which doubled the amount of RAM it had, because it had a memory leak that they couldn't fix in time and would cause a crash after a while. So they went "fuck it, we'll have to give it more memory to fill". The game still crashes after 10 hours of running.