TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Self-doxxing my previous location a bit... but I know these guys exist.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla Google is not very helpful, but I don't regret the search.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla Google is not very helpful, but I don't regret the search.
**me eyes the bold keywords in that result...**
It looks like you're searching for anal. Would you like help?
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@brie said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla Google is not very helpful, but I don't regret the search.
**me eyes the bold keywords in that result...**
Yeah, I hate the synonyms thing too. Although ASS=>anal isn't particularly bad.
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@Gąska I guess in the context of "hunter" it's not.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
This is basically hilarious.
Hmm...we used to have one in our backyard and there are lots of them around here. Never noticed the smell, though.
So your was strong enough even your tree couldn't get it up? Nice.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Yeah, I hate the synonyms thing too. Although ASS=>anal isn't particularly bad.
Only if you subscribe to a particular niche of bestiality.
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"Is there a Little/Lesser Britain?
Yes. It is called Brittany and it is in northwest France."
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To save you the trouble: "Old" Zealand is in the Netherlands.
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@jinpa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
"Is there a Little/Lesser Britain?
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@brie said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
(remember back in the day, when you could only have one window using hardware acceleration at a time and/or overlapping them fucked everything up and to get a screenshot you had to use something that supported actually taking a snapshot of the video frame because the Print Scrn button would only capture a solid dark purplish colored window?)
TIL why I couldn't screenshot movies back then
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TIL about this, and it really changes YouTube for the better. Even if you're not the kind of person to have Morgz in your suggestions.
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@anonymous234 I might need to find something like this for Firefox. I just went from some youtube thing in the other thread that I didn't actually watch to 15 minutes of badly dividing attention between stuff and the goddamn crab-steering Knudson tractors <-- TIL.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Morgz
TIL
Huh, I guess this is all I care to know.
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
This is what the internet has given us.
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@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Huh, I guess this is all I care to know.
Why is the top definition on The UD always bogus lately?
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@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Huh, I guess this is all I care to know.
Why is the top definition on The UD always bogus lately?
Bots.
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@Tsaukpaetra Ok, but why would anybody do that? The entries don't seem to advertise anything or push any particular agenda, they are just obviously incorrect and slightly incoherent.
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@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra Ok, but why would anybody do that? The entries don't seem to advertise anything or push any particular agenda, they are just obviously incorrect and slightly incoherent.
A good definition of latest-gem AI output. Give it time...
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@Tsaukpaetra But is somebody just testing AI by trolling UD? Well, that does not sound too implausible.
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@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra But is somebody just testing AI by trolling UD? Well, that does not sound too implausible.
It definitely is not implausible that someone may be trying to back-fill entries on the site and coming up with new ones automagically.
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@boomzilla Timely.
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I really dislike how desktop users are frequently seen as second class citizens on the web, especially if they don't maximize their browser window.
For example, I'm sitting in front of a 24 inch 1080p monitor. I have an Amazon window open, and taking up half the screen. It didn't switch to a responsive layout optimized for that width.
I then switched to a different tab/site (same window, so same width). It was in the mobile site, and I was staring at the stupid top menu for the site instead of what I wanted.
Can it really be so hard to make a layout that works well for "small" windows? I mean, Jesus, 960px wide isn't even that small. What's the point of a big monitor if you can't put two windows next to each other?
Heck, and then I go back and remember what it was like in 2007, when I had just bought a 24 inch iMac and I could easily put two terminals and a narrow browser window on the screen and it looked fine.
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@Captain said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I really dislike how desktop users are frequently seen as second class citizens on the web, especially if they don't maximize their browser window.
For example, I'm sitting in front of a 24 inch 1080p monitor. I have an Amazon window open, and taking up half the screen. It didn't switch to a responsive layout optimized for that width.
I then switched to a different tab/site (same window, so same width). It was in the mobile site, and I was staring at the stupid top menu for the site instead of what I wanted.
Can it really be so hard to make a layout that works well for "small" windows? I mean, Jesus, 960px wide isn't even that small. What's the point of a big monitor if you can't put two windows next to each other?
Heck, and then I go back and remember what it was like in 2007, when I had just bought a 24 inch iMac and I could easily put two terminals and a narrow browser window on the screen and it looked fine.
Mobile
firstonly has fucked up every good UI idea that ever existed.
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@Captain said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I really dislike how desktop users are frequently seen as second class citizens on the web, especially if they don't maximize their browser window.
For example, I'm sitting in front of a 24 inch 1080p monitor. I have an Amazon window open, and taking up half the screen. It didn't switch to a responsive layout optimized for that width.
I then switched to a different tab/site (same window, so same width). It was in the mobile site, and I was staring at the stupid top menu for the site instead of what I wanted.
Can it really be so hard to make a layout that works well for "small" windows? I mean, Jesus, 960px wide isn't even that small. What's the point of a big monitor if you can't put two windows next to each other?
Heck, and then I go back and remember what it was like in 2007, when I had just bought a 24 inch iMac and I could easily put two terminals and a narrow browser window on the screen and it looked fine.
Minor rant thread is
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TIL about animal blinkenlights:
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL about animal blinkenlights:
And a simulator for the same!
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Damn, ed. I was just thinking that simulating this would be a fun software project
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@Zerosquare The clever bit is that the synchronization doesn't need very much information per firefly, or complex senses or a large state machine. It's all much simpler than that. Large scale phenomena can indeed come about through a collection of very simple pieces behaving simply; that's a lesson we see over and over in biology.
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Yeah. I was thinking of basing the simulation on some kind of crude PLL model, using the average of immediate neighbors' phases. Turns out the "real" solution is even simpler (even if it probably takes longer to converge, but I guess fireflies have little concept of time anyways...).
It could be interesting to use the same strategy for networking microcontrollers without requiring a precise clock reference. Does someone have a datasheet for fireflies? I wonder what their frequency accuracy and phase noise are like
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I wonder what their frequency accuracy and phase noise are like
As long as you're willing to accept just precision and not accuracy, they'll be pretty great as you'll end up with something that's very close to the average of the frequency of the individual units.
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Yeah. I was thinking of basing the simulation on some kind of crude PLL model, using the average of immediate neighbors' phases. Turns out the "real" solution is even simpler (even if it probably takes longer to converge, but I guess fireflies have little concept of time anyways...).
It could be interesting to use the same strategy for networking microcontrollers without requiring a precise clock reference. Does someone have a datasheet for fireflies? I wonder what their frequency accuracy and phase noise are like
I wonder what the network's propagation delay would do to it. Speed of light is pretty quick by comparison.
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@brie Network propagation is usually nearly speed of light. The thing is that light is quick for frequencies on order of Hz, but when you get to GHz, it starts to look pretty slow.
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@Captain said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I really dislike how desktop users are frequently seen as second class citizens on the web, especially if they don't maximize their browser window.
For example, I'm sitting in front of a 24 inch 1080p monitor. I have an Amazon window open, and taking up half the screen. It didn't switch to a responsive layout optimized for that width.
I then switched to a different tab/site (same window, so same width). It was in the mobile site, and I was staring at the stupid top menu for the site instead of what I wanted.
Can it really be so hard to make a layout that works well for "small" windows? I mean, Jesus, 960px wide isn't even that small. What's the point of a big monitor if you can't put two windows next to each other?
Heck, and then I go back and remember what it was like in 2007, when I had just bought a 24 inch iMac and I could easily put two terminals and a narrow browser window on the screen and it looked fine.
This seemed to happen at about the same time I upgraded from a 22" 1080p monitor to a 40" 4K monitor. I thought I'd have 4x the screen space, but the change in UI paradigms meant I only had about 70% of what I used to have. I'm worse off despite having better hardware because today's UI designers care more about trendiness than creating usable designs.
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@brie said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I wonder what the network's propagation delay would do to it.
Not that much. In the firefly model, the signal propagation time is effectively fairly slow because of the limited receptive range, yet the synchronization still happens. Much more important is that all the fireflies are moving randomly and independently.
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TIL about McSpaghetti.
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TIL Greek is the only European language where the word for 1,000,000 isn't some variation of "million".
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@Gąska The English word myriad (a large number, countless) comes from the old Greek word μύριοι, 10000. A million (εκατομμύριο) is εκατό (100) myriads.
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska The English word myriad (a large number, countless) comes from the old Greek word μύριοι, 10000. A million (εκατομμύριο) is εκατό (100) myriads.
Myriameter was actually proposed as a distance, meaning 10 000 meters.
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Myriameter was actually proposed as a distance, meaning 10 000 meters.
I've heard that referred to as a Swedish mile. It even sort of makes sense when you're up in the north (which, for the north americans here, is a bit like being up in northern Canada for sheer quantity of nothing but trees, marshes, moose and biting insects).
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
trees, marshes, moose and biting insects
Don't forget biting møøse!
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Myriameter was actually proposed as a distance, meaning 10 000 meters.
I've heard that referred to as a Swedish mile. It even sort of makes sense when you're up in the north (which, for the north americans here, is a bit like being up in northern Canada for sheer quantity of nothing but trees, marshes, moose and biting insects).
We still have our mile. We actually had it before it was turned into 10 000 meters; the country mile or uppsala mile, which was 18000 cubits, or 36000 feet which is something like 10 700 meters.
Since towns are multiples of tens of kilometers apart, it's a fairly good way to measure distance here.
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TIL some intersections in USA use light sensors to detect emergency vehicles and switch on red light for perpendicular to make the emergency vehicles pass safely (well, more safely).
Edit: TIL about foldable stop signs present on some US intersections for quick deployment when the traffic lights go out.
Ah, hell, I'll just link the video.
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And Boo in Super Mario was inspired by the wife of one of the developers being mad at him working long hours.
Goddamn, I'm suddenly finding so many interesting videos.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL some intersections in USA use light sensors to detect emergency vehicles and switch on red light for perpendicular to make the emergency vehicles pass safely (well, more safely).
These exist in Sweden too, apparently, and some people flash their high beams to activate it while approaching those intersections.
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@apapadimoulis said in Effective trolling of B2B prospectors/spammers?:
(...) some day, maybe, I could just build a more advanced Lennybot:
Huh, TIL about its origins:
https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/comments/5lcfwq/lennys_history_why_he_isnt_creative_commons/
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
some people flash their high beams to activate it while approaching those intersections.
I wonder how effective that would be. I know I've tried it but without success, so I have to believe there's some sort of PLL logic to weed out random human-flashes from the patterned ones generated by approved lights...