TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@topspin It works better in reality. The Deutsches Museum in Munich had a whole section dedicated to such weird stuff. Though the section seems to be in the part under renovation, or at least it was when I last visited it 6 months ago.
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@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I very faintly saw colors on the spinning disc (although I think I saw them better on my monitor back at work when I didn't have time to more than glimpse at the video), I didn't see any colors (other than red, obviously) for the red/black-and-white clown picture.
@Mason_Wheeler said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
If there's any doubt that it's an illusion created wholly within your brain, you can try something that the lecturer wasn't capable of doing: pause the video while the disc is spinning.
I see some colors in the paused image:
Me, too. What were the odds that two guys would wear shirts with the (nearly?) same salmony color?
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@TimeBandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra is Weird
Off topic. I'm quite certain that is not a TIL for any of us.
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The amulets—and also, frequently, wind chimes—were shaped like a fascinum, or a divine penis, to ward off disease and the evil eye.
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And, today, fascina live on in the English language, in the word “fascinate.” If you’re fascinated with something, in other words, you might just be thinking that it looks like a penis.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
And, today, fascina live on in the English language, in the word “fascinate.” If you’re fascinated with something, in other words, you might just be thinking that it looks like a penis.
This is more true than you know.
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TIL that one of two things is true. Either I lack the manual dexterity and visual acuity to successfully open a mouse micro-switch without breaking it or they've been redesigned to be tamper-resistant. RIP my formerly-good gaming mouse, which died real soon (only about a year?) because the mouse buttons were emitting lots of spurious mouse-up/mouse-down events due to the left/right button switches getting oxidized/broken.
I guess MMOs are hard on the mouse. Maybe I should learn to play via the controller? Ugh. Fortunately I have a (crappier) backup.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that one of two things is true. Either I lack the manual dexterity and visual acuity to successfully open a mouse micro-switch without breaking it or they've been redesigned to be tamper-resistant.
I've managed to open an Omron switch once and get it together again after bending the spring but it was quite the ordeal. I'm thinking that next time I'll just order a whole bag of those switches and simply solder in a fresh one, it might turn out to be faster and cheaper than fiddling with tiny parts. You do need the equipment and some expertise with (de-)soldering though...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that one of two things is true. Either I lack the manual dexterity and visual acuity to successfully open a mouse micro-switch without breaking it or they've been redesigned to be tamper-resistant. RIP my formerly-good gaming mouse, which died real soon (only about a year?) because the mouse buttons were emitting lots of spurious mouse-up/mouse-down events due to the left/right button switches getting oxidized/broken.
I guess MMOs are hard on the mouse. Maybe I should learn to play via the controller? Ugh. Fortunately I have a (crappier) backup.
One of my work mice started showing this behaviour, so I got another one, after which I learned two things:
- RAIL that the receivers are married to their devices, so my MS Sculpt keyboard/numpad/mouse receiver wouldn't work for the replacement mouse - so I would need two receivers plugged in
- MLIL that that mouse is extremely susceptible to that issue
I've tried opening up the mouse (with the blessing of our IT guy) but stopped before desoldering anything. Maybe I'll take another look at it some time
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
you might just be thinking that it looks like a penis.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I guess MMOs are hard on the mouse.
Don't have your keybinds set up?
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@Tsaukpaetra it's more that I constantly have the right button pressed to be able to move the camera. That one wore out first. And I have like 30 abilities, no way I can reach all those, even with modifier keys.
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@Benjamin-Hall World of warcraft?
I use one of these, but I've had it for years and I'm not sure if they're sold anymore. I concur on the mouse though; for me the button that wears out is the thumb button I use for jumping.
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@PleegWat nah, FFXIV. I've got 3 full bars of abilities for most classes, most of which get used in any given run. Plus targeting, camera adjustment, etc. But I'm pretty sure it's the mouse look that's killing the mice.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
But I'm pretty sure it's the mouse look that's killing the mice.
I wonder if you could supplement the mouse buttons with capacitive sensors, such that you only need to touch the surface to activate the button?
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@Tsaukpaetra Then accidental brushes of the finger against it might activate it when you didn't mean to. That could be even worse.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra Then accidental brushes of the finger against it might activate it when you didn't mean to. That could be even worse.
Yah. And regardless, I don't have the physical dexterity or savvy to do that without breaking things. I'm a theoretician, not an experimentalist. In fact, I'm much more like Pauli, who was thought to invalidate experiments just by being in the same lab. Things break when I touch them.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Pauli, who was thought to invalidate experiments just by being in the same lab
There's a joke about the exclusion principle in there.
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TIL that I've been using "clan" and "tribe" backward in my worldbuilding. Tribes are made up of multiple clans (according to social anthropologist usage), not vice versa. In fact, clans are generally the smallest of the "primitive society" groupings, just slightly larger than an extended family. There are also "bands" (FKA hordes) which are intermediate between the clan/family level and the tribe level. Huh.
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@Benjamin-Hall I thought a clan was extended family
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@hungrier as far as I can tell, it's basically extended family++. So including 2nd+ cousins, basically "these you can't marry unless you're European nobility."
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@Benjamin-Hall I'm pretty sure clans are much wider than "these you can't marry". Clan is basically what was called dynasty or house in medieval+ Europe. Starting from the founder, all his sons, all sons of those sons, all sons of those sons, and so on and so on until the end of time. Old enough clans will naturally get so wide that there will be nothing wrong with internal marriage.
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@Gąska At which point it's a tribe.
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@Rhywden is it, though? Tribes are like hundreds to thousands of people, aren't they? Considering the mortality rate of men in pre-feudal societies (especially due to wars and other conflicts), it's very unlikely for even a very old and very wide clan to achieve this number of people.
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@Gąska The mortality rate was so high because of the poor sanitary and healthcare conditions, especially with regard to infections, resulting in a lot of infant and young child deaths. Wars, duels (which were usually reserved only for nobility), and other conflicts (and even accidents) weren't all that terribly common, either (though, injuries were often less survivable), so that really wouldn't have had much of an effect on the general mortality rate. If someone survived the first 5 years of life or so, they could normally expect to live on into at least their 60s or 70s, like most people do today.
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TIL: how to cut my daughter's hair.
She wanted her hair cut to a bob. Even though hair salons are open until tomorrow at 8, I thought it safer to do it at home.
I think it is still uneven as hell, but she loves it and my husband and my 25 yo daughter were pretty impressed.
By the time she goes back to school we can get if fixed or it'll be grown out enough that you can't tell.
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@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL: how to cut my daughter's hair.
She wanted her hair cut to a bob. Even though hair salons are open until tomorrow at 8, I thought it safer to do it at home.
I think it is still uneven as hell, but she loves it and my husband and my 25 yo daughter were pretty impressed.
By the time she goes back to school we can get if fixed or it'll be grown out enough that you can't tell.
Should have used a flobee...
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@M_Adams said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL: how to cut my daughter's hair.
She wanted her hair cut to a bob. Even though hair salons are open until tomorrow at 8, I thought it safer to do it at home.
I think it is still uneven as hell, but she loves it and my husband and my 25 yo daughter were pretty impressed.
By the time she goes back to school we can get if fixed or it'll be grown out enough that you can't tell.
Should have used a flobee...
That would only be useful for taking the first big chunk off.
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Not sure if this might not be better off in the NSFW thread, but TIL
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@JBert
Now shake your onion
Like a grunion tryin' to spawn (you know i like to spawn)
https://youtu.be/PuXGHBvmdSY
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@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@M_Adams said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL: how to cut my daughter's hair.
She wanted her hair cut to a bob. Even though hair salons are open until tomorrow at 8, I thought it safer to do it at home.
I think it is still uneven as hell, but she loves it and my husband and my 25 yo daughter were pretty impressed.
By the time she goes back to school we can get if fixed or it'll be grown out enough that you can't tell.
Should have used a flobee...
That would only be useful for taking the first big chunk off.
Now I just cut mine (I've done it once before and thought it turned out ok).
By next weekend, I'll be bleaching everyone's hair and dyeing them fashion colors.
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TIL M.2 connector is specified to endure up to 60 mating cycles with maximum mating force of 20 newtons.
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TIL the collective noun for vultures depends on what the vultures are doing. None of them are specifically for when they're circling lazily over your dessicated near-corpse.
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TIL that there's a 19-stories apartment block in China where you can take the monorail from the 7th and 8th floor:
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@Watson said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL the collective noun for vultures depends on what the vultures are doing.
The collective nouns in English are bonkers. Half of them were apparently invented by mentally different and ethically challenged jesters and caught on by some collective infantility or something.
TIL there is even a site dedicated to them, https://www.collectivenounslist.com/. It lists some also for people and things. For example an “Ambush of Widows”…
@Watson said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
None of them are specifically for when they're circling lazily over your dessicated near-corpse.
Try “omen of vultures”. Maybe it will even catch on.
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@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Watson said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL the collective noun for vultures depends on what the vultures are doing.
TIL there is even a site dedicated to them, https://www.collectivenounslist.com/. It lists some also for people and things. For example an “Ambush of Widows”…
"Flink of Cows"? They're making them up themselves.
@Watson said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
None of them are specifically for when they're circling lazily over your dessicated near-corpse.
Try “omen of vultures”. Maybe it will even catch on.
"Wunch of bankers" has.
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TIL Americans consider it bad sportsmanship to score high in football.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
specified to endure up to 60 mating cycles
Can you imagine what it would be like to be able to only mate 60 times with the most gentle of forces?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
specified to endure up to 60 mating cycles
Can you imagine what it would be like to be able to only mate 60 times with the most gentle of forces?
A step up for you?
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@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
specified to endure up to 60 mating cycles
Can you imagine what it would be like to be able to only mate 60 times with the most gentle of forces?
A step up for you?
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@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
specified to endure up to 60 mating cycles
Can you imagine what it would be like to be able to only mate 60 times with the most gentle of forces?
A step up for you?
I'm just going to lay here crying in a puddle of gallons of my own cum...
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@Tsaukpaetra Remember to wash your hands afterwards.
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@Tsaukpaetra Thanks for the image.
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra Thanks for the image.
Ah, if your doggo is willing to clean up for you, it makes things easier!
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I better stop before it gets too dark....
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@loopback0 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra Remember to wash your hands
afterwardsbefore.
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TIL the cone cells in our eyes are able to perceive at least some of the ultraviolet spectrum; the reason we don't see it is because it gets blocked by the lens. Some people who have had cataract surgery, which thins the lens of the eye, report being able to see "a new shade of purple" which is actually near-spectrum UV.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL Americans consider it bad sportsmanship to score high in football.
As in "we're so much better than them we can smoke a load of weed and still wipe the floor with them"? Yeah, that's not very sporting
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@Jaloopa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL Americans consider it bad sportsmanship to score high in football.
As in "we're so much better than them we can smoke a load of weed and still wipe the floor with them"? Yeah, that's not very sporting
You guys don't even play football.