TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
the 'Flying Santa' Is Still Dropping Gifts From a Plane
As distinct from the non-flying Santa who gets around by sleigh.
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TIL the USA had a radar station in Moscow
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@Watson said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
the 'Flying Santa' Is Still Dropping Gifts From a Plane
As distinct from the non-flying Santa who gets around by sleigh.
I guess it's similar to Virgin Mary. Sometimes we pray to The Most Holy Lady Mary Always Virgin, sometimes it's Saint Mary Lady of Sorrows, sometimes it's Saint Mary Queen of Heaven, sometimes it's Saint Mary of Perpetual Help - and that's just for starters. It's all the same Mary, but apparently it's really important which one you're praying to in particular at any given moment.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I guess it's similar to Virgin Mary.
They are both red?
Sometimes we pray to The Most Holy Lady Mary Always Virgin, sometimes it's Saint Mary Lady of Sorrows, sometimes it's Saint Mary Queen of Heaven, sometimes it's Saint Mary of Perpetual Help - and that's just for starters. It's all the same Mary, but apparently it's really important which one you're praying to in particular at any given moment.
Oh... That Mary.
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I guess it's similar to Virgin Mary.
They are both red?
Sometimes we pray to The Most Holy Lady Mary Always Virgin, sometimes it's Saint Mary Lady of Sorrows, sometimes it's Saint Mary Queen of Heaven, sometimes it's Saint Mary of Perpetual Help - and that's just for starters. It's all the same Mary, but apparently it's really important which one you're praying to in particular at any given moment.
Oh... That Mary.
He's saying that there's Something About Mary...
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL the USA had a radar station in Moscow
Maine....
where you can go from Poland to Mexico by road in about an hour, passign through Norway and Paris on the way.
we also have the awesomely named Moose-look-me-gun-tick Lake.
Okay, fair that's not how it's spelled, but if you say the actual name fast and squint your ears just right
Mooselookmeguntic
does sound likemoose look, me gun tick (I.E. The gun misfired.... and now there's a rather annoyed moose looking at me...... FLEEE!)
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TIL you can force-fuck video metadata to screw with the estimated video end-time.
(Note this only works once, replaying it the length is correct)
Edit: In case you're on mobile or otherwise can't see the progress:
It stays 2-seconds apart from the end until the actual end.
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@Vixen said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
we also have the awesomely named Moose-look-me-gun-tick Lake.
Okay, fair that's not how it's spelled, but if you say the actual name fast and squint your ears just right
Mooselookmeguntic
does sound likemoose look, me gun tick (I.E. The gun misfired.... and now there's a rather annoyed moose looking at me...... FLEEE!)
In Pennsylvania there's a river named "Schuylkill". When I was living there, it was months and months before I realized that this was the same thing as the "Scoogle River" I always heard people mentioning on the radio.
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From el wiki:
The name "Mooselookmeguntic" is an Abnaki word for "moose feeding place"; although a humorous legend states that a Native American was hunting moose in the area, and spotted one. The native had forgotten to load his rifle but took the shot anyway. Thinking his rifle was damaged, he began yelling to his companion .[2]
Variant names listed by the USGS include "Mooselocmaguntic Lake" and "Mooselookmeguntick Lake".
Mooselookmeguntic Lake is tied for the longest place name in the United States. It has seventeen letters, along with Kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania.[3][4]
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@hungrier There's also a place just north of that lake (in Cupsuptic Lake) called Pleasant Island, that's actually a peninsula.
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@hungrier There's also a place just north of that lake (in Cupsuptic Lake) called Pleasant Island, that's actually a peninsula.
The one who named must have hated boats with a passion, so the land bridge was a pleasant surprise.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It stays 2-seconds apart from the end until the actual end.
Not in my browser. In my browser they stay in sync.
If I rewind the length stays put until the progress bar reaches the "end" again.
Then they resume being in sync again.Must be a buffering thing.
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@hungrier There's also a place just north of that lake (in Cupsuptic Lake) called Pleasant Island, that's actually a peninsula.
The one who named must have hated boats with a passion, so the land bridge was a pleasant surprise.
It may have only a very low, marshy connection to the other land surrounding the lake and was named when water levels were high. As in, it is was a part-time island.
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@mott555 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The only one I remember not being selected (there were quite a few, but this one stood out) was a 90-year-old Korean War vet who misunderstood every question asked of him, and kept telling stories of the glory days of choking out North Koreans with his bare hands.
Are you sure he misunderstood the questions, though?
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TIL flowers have ultraviolet color patterns.
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@Gąska You're obviously not a bee.
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@Zecc Right?!?!
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska You're obviously not a bee.
I wonder what gave it away.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska You're obviously not a bee.
I wonder what gave it away.
Which one is you?
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@MrL take a guęśś.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@MrL take a guęśś.
The one on the back, with head out of view. You cropped the photo to keep anonymity, obviously.
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TIL there's a town in Poland with a name that roughly translates to "Sacred Forebridge".
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TIL after Nintendo released Super Mario Bros. 3 in America, a small team of young students hacked together a working port/clone for the PC. (This was no small feat in 1990, when PC graphics hardware really wasn't built to accomodate the needs of side-scrolling games!) They approached Nintendo of America, asking about a possible publishing deal, but got turned down as the company didn't want to decouple their flagship cash cow from their proprietary hardware.
Thus ended that project. But along the way, some of these young coding students, including John Carmack and John Romero, discovered they enjoyed building games, and ended up founding a new company called Id Software to build and publish them.
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@Mason_Wheeler I'm pretty sure that the basic tech demo got republished/revised as Commander Keen. A game I spent way too much time on as a kid.
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@Benjamin-Hall I will neither confirm nor deny that I spent too much time on that game when I was at college.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I'm pretty sure that the basic tech demo got republished/revised as Commander Keen
No, but that's where the side-scrolling tech they developed for it first got used AFAIK.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Benjamin-Hall said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I'm pretty sure that the basic tech demo got republished/revised as Commander Keen
No, but that's where the side-scrolling tech they developed for it first got used AFAIK.
That's kinda what I meant. They took the port's tech and changed the assets (plus a few other things) and made Cmdr. Keen.
I got to the point where I could beat it from a fresh save in under 40 minutes. Which was pretty good since I was like 10.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
but got turned down as the company didn't want to decouple their flagship cash cow from their proprietary hardware
And they held true to their beliefs, even to this day!
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@Mason_Wheeler and they looked like this:
Carmack is the genius on the left, with Romero in the middle. Kinda cute in a nerdy way.
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@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
with Romero in the middle
Reminds me of Marco Rubio.
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@boomzilla that’s what you get for posting on mobile where you don’t see the preview of the picture you just posted.
Romero is second from right (right one of the two in front), sorry for the confusion.
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@topspin oh, you mean Adam Sandler?
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@boomzilla I was more thinking "Elon Musk had long hair once?"
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@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Romero is second from right (right one of the two in front), sorry for the confusion.
Yeah, recognised him (rather, the mullet) from the final boss DOOM II sprite:
Who's Kenny Everett on the far right of that picture?
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Rolfing (/ˈrɔːlfɪŋ, ˈrɒl-/)[1] is a form of alternative medicine originally developed by Ida Rolf (1896–1979) as Structural Integration.[2][3] It is typically delivered as a series of ten hands-on physical manipulation sessions sometimes called "the recipe". It is based on Rolf's ideas about how the human body's "energy field" can benefit when aligned with the Earth's gravitational field.[4][5] Practitioners combine superficial and deep manual therapy with movement prompts.[6] The process is sometimes painful.[7] It is not known whether Rolfing is safe.[8][9]
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@boomzilla I thought that was a slang for regurgitate.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Benjamin-Hall I will neither confirm nor deny that I spent too much time on that game when I was at college.
Heh. For me, Commander Keen was when I was in high school. In college I spent way too much time on X-COM and Starcraft.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla I thought that was a slang for regurgitate.
Ralph
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@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla I thought that was a slang for regurgitate.
No, it's a Muppet dog pianist.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Rolfing (/ˈrɔːlfɪŋ, ˈrɒl-/)[1] is a form of alternative medicine originally developed by Ida Rolf (1896–1979) as Structural Integration.[2][3] It is typically delivered as a series of ten hands-on physical manipulation sessions sometimes called "the recipe". It is based on Rolf's ideas about how the human body's "energy field" can benefit when aligned with the Earth's gravitational field.[4][5] Practitioners combine superficial and deep manual therapy with movement prompts.[6] The process is sometimes painful.[7] It is not known whether Rolfing is safe.[8][9]
Word salad thread is .
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla I thought that was a slang for regurgitate.
Ralph
No, that's Anthony. You've got the wrong person.
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@Zecc What? Who?
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@Tsaukpaetra Are you on first?
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra Are you on first?
No, I'm on shortstop.
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@Tsaukpaetra Crud, I don't remember that part of the routine without looking it up.
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TIL that you can get a better-than-50% chance of plugging a USB correctly by looking at the metal sleeve around the male plug. There is one side that has a seam, and in most female plugs, that seam goes on the bottom.
It doesn't work all the time but it's better than trying a random orientation (3 times, of course, because the first one was actually the right one etc.), and it's easy to visually spot on the male plug, much more than trying to look at the plastic filling inside the plug and trying to see how to match it with the female one. Although now that I know that there is a preferred orientation, it looks like the plastic thing also goes on the bottom. But sometimes the plastic thing isn't so clearly visible and I find that the seam on the metal sleeve is usually more visible. Plus I find easier to remember something like "hide the seam" (i.e. put it at the bottom) than "the plastic goes to the bottom" (with no easy mnemonic to remember it). Anyway.
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@remi Usually it's "plug it so the USB logo is visible on top" as well.