TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@Rhywden said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
In Germany the word "chaser"
Impossible. Too short.
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@Gąska Google tells me it should be Alkoholfreiezutatenzumauffüllendescocktails, but that can't be right; it's still too short.
Filed under: Making fake German compound words by running all the words together
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TIL, thanks to the emoji thread:
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The question is, which one was first, and which one was a stupid joke that got out of control?
Obviously, the UK
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@TimeBandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The question is, which one was first, and which one was a stupid joke that got out of control?
Obviously, the UK
You joke, but that seems to actually be the case. Chasers were originally alcoholic drinks that had the purpose of washing away the aftertaste of coffee and tobacco (rightly too: American coffee is revolting).
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TIL Microsoft actually has really good privacy documentation for Windows 10, including:
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{o,o} |)__) -“-“-
Honestly...
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@Applied-Mediocrity Germany or England need to open one called Yarly now then.
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I finally know what gamergate is!
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TIL about "unbaby shower".
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
That's a pretty nifty idea. :- It should be brought back.
That'd be the dogs bollocks.
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@Carnage The article indicates that it's used in legal documents :— the modern version is telling opposing counsel to "eat a bowl of dicks"
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Applied-Mediocrity Germany or England need to open one called Yarly now then.
I'd book a flight from Orly through Yarly to Norway and then bathe in Reddit upvotes.
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TIL about https://www.ideaswatch.com/
It's a public database of startup/product ideas.
I had that same idea once as well, but I couldn't publish it anywhere.
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TIL IPv6 sucks.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL IPv6 sucks.
...... wow... reading that i had to do a doubletake to make sure i hadn't accidentally violated my restraining order and wandered into the garage..... those are some angry people.........
/me sidles away as fast as possible while still appearing nonchalant
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@Vixen was this your first time at Hacker News?
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Vixen was this your first time at Hacker News?
y-ess......?
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@Vixen said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
those are some angry people...
Either I have some sort of aggressive filtering set up, or those mostly didn't sound too angry.
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@dkf indeed.
Never see garage level languaje on HN.
They activelly hide, delete or shadowban agresive posts.
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@Vixen said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
those are some angry people.........
You must've read a different thread than I did...
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra UK vs. US.
I love how they're exact opposites. The question is, which one was first, and which one was a stupid joke that got out of control?
I have suspected that the majority of words began as joking usages.
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@jinpa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra UK vs. US.
I love how they're exact opposites. The question is, which one was first, and which one was a stupid joke that got out of control?
I have suspected that the majority of words began as joking usages.
E.g., "burgle".
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@Watson TIL
Burglary, which means "forcible entry into a building especially at night with the intent to commit a crime (as theft)," and "burglar" ("one who commits burglary") have been with us since the 16th century. "Burgle" and its synonym "burglarize" didn't break into the language until the 19th century, however, arriving almost simultaneously around 1870. "Burgle" is a back-formation (that is, a word formed by removing a suffix or prefix) from "burglar." "Burglarize" comes from "burglar" as well, with the addition of the familiar "-ize" ending. Both verbs were once disparaged by grammarians ("burgle" was considered to be "facetious" and "burglarize" was labeled "colloquial"), but they are now generally accepted. "Burglarize" is slightly more common in American English, whereas "burgle" seems to be preferred in British English.
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@hungrier The one time I served on a jury, the court spent a lot of time pedanticizing on the definition of burglary because (at least in that jurisdiction) burglary required an intent to perform another crime after the action of trespassing, and the defendant supposedly had no intent of committing another crime besides trespassing.
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@mott555 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
the court spent a lot of time pedanticizing on the definition of
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@mott555 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
the court spent a lot of time pedanticizing on the definition of
That sounds almost like fun.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@mott555 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
the court spent a lot of time pedanticizing on the definition of
That sounds almost like fun.
Probably not so much if you're a literally captive audience.
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@Rhywden Well only the defendant(s) would be literally literally captive, the rest of the audience can physically leave if they want (they probably should not and doing so might have bad consequences, but they're not "captive").
Although even that depends on the jurisdictions/courts, a defendant is not always under arrest while in front of the court, so maybe even not that.
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@remi I believe showing respect for the court does help in making the penny fall your way. Though I've usually heard it in the context of actually showing up.
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@remi This defendant was not under arrest. If he hadn't shown up, the prosecutor would have won by default. And I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't shown up as a selected juror. I'm pretty sure that's a big deal, like a contempt of court charge and a few days in jail. So I suppose the defendant was more free than me.
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@mott555 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
And I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't shown up as a selected juror.
well...... if you didnt' want to be a juror you could have answered "Yes" when one or the other lawyers asked you "Do you have any beliefs or convictions that would prevent you from rendering your verdict based soley on the facts of the case and the laws of this land" (or other phrasing to that effect)
then you wouldn't have been selected. ;-)
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@Vixen But I knew one of the witnesses, and that didn't keep me from being selected...
Also, there was another guy who was jobless and was supposed to fly to one of the coasts for a job interview, and they selected him and he had to cancel his flights and interview...
And another guy who was basically puking his guts up from the flu, and they picked him, too...
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.
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TIL that my function generators are rather interesting devices.
I've got a bunch of function generators at school so my pupils can do experiments which require sine/square/triangle voltages at various frequencies. For this you connect those generators to an external power supply at 12V AC. The device can then, for example, supply sine voltages over a range of 100 to 1,000 Hz from 0 to 3 Volts.
Today we did one such experiment and one group called me over because they were not able to reach 3 Volts - 1.5 V was the maximum they got. They were also only able to get about 500 Hz out of the device, with amplitude and frequency knobs at their maximum setting.
Turned out that, pupils being pupils, they simply plugged stuff in somewhere which remotely looked like it was correct and thus only supplied 6 V AC. Which effectively halved everything.
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@mott555 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't shown up as a selected juror. I'm pretty sure that's a big deal, like a contempt of court charge and a few days in jail.
Well technically you still were not "literally captive".
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@Rhywden said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
For this you connect those generators to an external power supply at 12V AC.
only supplied 6 V AC
I don't think I have ever seen that sort of equipment that was powered by anything other than the mains. Even if it had a wall-wart or power brick sort of external supply, I'd expect it to be kept with the generator and given to the students with the generator, so they couldn't connect it to the wrong supply, unless maybe they were using two pieces of equipment with different external supplies, and they swapped them. But I would expect them to have incompatible plugs.
pupils being pupils
Nevermind; they'll find a way of doing it wrong, no matter how difficult you make it.
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TIL you can put Word into Zen Mode by making it too small....
If it's just the slightest bit larger, it cums back:
Too bad I can't get it to do this when large except fullscreen...
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@Tsaukpaetra You can double-click on
the tab areaany of the tabs of the ribbon to collapse it. It's not completely anything-free like the 3px too small version, but it's closer to less stuff on screen
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Old news, but TIL:
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TIL the bread becoming Jesus's body during Eucharist is a 13th century invention.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL the bread becoming Jesus's body during Eucharist is a 13th century invention.
It only becomes Jesus’ flesh if you’re Catholic. If you’re Protestant it’s merely symbolical.
Funny how they can just decide these things and God obeys.
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@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Funny how they can just decide these things and God obeys.
Nonono, God decides to change humans' decisions about God's decisions in the first place.
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Funny how they can just decide these things and God obeys.
Nonono, God decides to change humans' decisions about God's decisions in the first place.
You know what? I think I'll only understand that statement properly if it is expressed as a graph on a whiteboard...
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@dkf It's simply really.
- God decides something
- Humans' decision on what God has decided changes as a consequence
- ???
- Prophet.
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Prophet.
what you did there..... it has been observed by this one.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
You know what? I think I'll only understand that statement properly if it is expressed as a graph on a whiteboard...
Just use this simple analogy: consider God as a monoid, and the Eucharist as the category of endofunctors...
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