TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@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...
I believe there may be an overestimation of successes because at least around here, a lot of traffic lights are red when there is no traffic and switch to green when a vehicle approaches. People that flash their lights on those intersections will be convinced them flashing got them through it.
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@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...
I believe there may be an overestimation of successes because at least around here, a lot of traffic lights are red when there is no traffic and switch to green when a vehicle approaches. People that flash their lights on those intersections will be convinced them flashing got them through it.
And I think they’re IR not visible light.
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More information on how it works:
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@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/
Bonus: the original voice actor made a joke recording: https://soundcloud.com/user-138243492/lenny-says-hi-reddit-for-2017
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TIL the source of that sample out of that Skrillex song
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@hungrier top comment:
Shes obviously a pokemon named Ohmygosh.
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL the source of that sample out of that Skrillex song
That is one happy camper.
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TIL the original meaning of emotional labor actually made perfect sense. It used to mean the situation where employers require employees to show certain emotions as part of their job - e.g. mandatory smiling when dealing with customers.
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TIL about the Pando aspen grove.
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TIL about the expression "nom de clavier", which in French literally means "name of keyboard" and was created as an analogy to the expression "nom de plume", which in French literally means "name of feather" and was itself created as an analogy to the expression "nom de guerre", which in French literally means "name of war" and refers to military pseudonyms.
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@Tsaukpaetra Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites is the one everyone* has heard, but there are a couple others that use the same sample
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites
It's nice, a little boring.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
that Skrillex song
Not familiar, which one?
I didn't even know Skrillex had songs.
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@Zecc He has, in fact, made a couple that are not dubstep. One of them, Rock N' Roll, was the one that originally got me into electronic music, and I hate dubstep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIyE3EDCigE
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@pie_flavor I don't consider that "not dubstep". Also, while I do like some parts of that, I think some others are mostly just annoying.
Music's a very subjective thing, so...
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@Zecc I mean, genres are pretty clear-cut. This is electro house, not counting the dubstep 'solo' at 2:22.
aside: what the fuck is up with the composer? why can't I resize it to 'less than half of my entire fucking screen'?
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@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
genres are pretty clear-cut
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@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
aside: what the fuck is up with the composer? why can't I resize it to 'less than half of my entire fucking screen'?
@pie_flavor It's been like that for a while. Since @ben_lubar has last updated NodeBB.
I think some people have identified the offending CSS already, but I've been too to fix my own custom CSS.
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@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
aside: what the fuck is up with the composer? why can't I resize it to 'less than half of my entire fucking screen'?
It's supposedly 40% except the definition of 40% seems wildly variable but is mostly >40%.
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
aside: what the fuck is up with the composer? why can't I resize it to 'less than half of my entire fucking screen'?
@pie_flavor It's been like that for a while. Since @ben_lubar has last updated NodeBB.
I think some people have identified the offending CSS already, but I've been too to fix my own custom CSS.It's more fixed in more needful pre-release versions.
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@loopback0 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
aside: what the fuck is up with the composer? why can't I resize it to 'less than half of my entire fucking screen'?
It's supposedly 40% except the definition of 40% seems wildly variable but is mostly >40%.
It's possibly fixed in a future version.
edit:
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I think some people have identified the offending CSS already, but I've been too to fix my own custom CSS.
It's caused by some config in a JS file that sets the minimum size, so I don't think there's a CSS solution for it.
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I think some others are mostly just annoying.
I thought that was the whole point of Skrillex
songspieces.
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
aside: what the fuck is up with the composer? why can't I resize it to 'less than half of my entire fucking screen'?
@pie_flavor It's been like that for a while. Since @ben_lubar has last updated NodeBB.
I think some people have identified the offending CSS already, but I've been too to fix my own custom CSS.It's allegedly been fixed in a new release of the composer:
Not sure about deployments, etc, here in the Sole Dictator era of the forum.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Not sure about deployments, etc, here in the Sole Dictator era of the forum.
We could adopt a fix forward mentality like I experience in my last job.
It's broken again.
maybe we should revert?
we'll just keep deploying until its less broken.
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@DogsB tell it to the dictator.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@DogsB tell it to the dictator.
I prefer my dictators omniscient.
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@DogsB said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@DogsB tell it to the dictator.
I prefer my dictators omniscient.
DeservePrefer's got nothing to do with it.
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@DogsB That's how I handle Windows Updates (not that I have much choice).
Something broken? It usually gets fixed in the next release. Unfortunately other things will break at about the same rate.
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@anonymous234 embrace the suck.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 embrace the suck.
90% of everything sucking is not enough! Everything shall suck!
Suck FTW!
Make Everything Suck Again!
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@loopback0 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@pie_flavor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
aside: what the fuck is up with the composer? why can't I resize it to 'less than half of my entire fucking screen'?
It's supposedly 40% except the definition of 40% seems wildly variable but is mostly >40%.
Your bonzi buddy bar doesn't reduce the window height presented by the viewport, so it doesn't count toward the 40%.
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@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 embrace the suck.
90% of everything sucking is not enough! Everything shall suck!
Suck FTW!
Make Everything Suck Again!
I see you’ve embraced the mammalian mantra. :sucklings.gif:
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@kazitor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anonymous234 embrace the suck.
90% of everything sucking is not enough! Everything shall suck!
Suck FTW!
Make Everything Suck Again!
I see you’ve embraced the mammalian mantra. :sucklings.gif:
Mmmm!
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Not sure about deployments, etc, here in the Sole Dictator era of the forum.
Uh-oh. Is this going to be like Community Server again?
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Not sure about deployments, etc, here in the Sole Dictator era of the forum.
Uh-oh. Is this going to be like Community Server again?
Yes. You should expect to have to type
<p>
and<br>
tags soon.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Yes. You should expect to have to type
<p>
and<br>
tags soon.I recently created an issue on our GitLab instance, which also uses Markdumb. I entered something like
Foo whatever. Bar this. Baz that.
It turned this into the following HTML:
<p>Foo whatever.</p><p>Bar this.\nBaz that.</p>
. No<br>
tag, meaning that "Bar" and "Baz" were rendered onto the same line.At least our version of Markdumb apparently isn't that dumb.
Filed under: TRWTF is HTML
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@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It turned this into the following HTML:
Foo whatever.
Bar this.\nBaz that.
.That's correct. Except using
\n
there is kinda pointless, so it would have been a bit nicer to use a plain old space. This way it looks like someone might not understand HTML (though in practice it is simply taking the string verbatim and wrapping it in the tag).At least our version of Markdumb apparently isn't that dumb.
Our Markdumb IS that dumb – or rather buggy. Line-breaks within paragraphs are not supposed to be significant in Markdown. If you want line-break inside paragraph, you put a trailing
\
or two trailing spaces.
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@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It turned this into the following HTML:
Foo whatever.
Bar this.\nBaz that.
.That's correct. Except using
\n
there is kinda pointless, so it would have been a bit nicer to use a plain old space. This way it looks like someone might not understand HTML (though in practice it is simply taking the string verbatim and wrapping it in the tag).No, what I meant is that it emits a literal line break there, just as it was entered, not the escape code I typed (sorry if that was confusing). Which, of course, HTML treats as any old white space and just merrily continues the line.
At least our version of Markdumb apparently isn't that dumb.
Our Markdumb IS that dumb – or rather buggy. Line-breaks within paragraphs are not supposed to be significant in Markdown. If you want line-break inside paragraph, you put a trailing
\
or two trailing spaces.Yeah, I'm going with that's not a bug, that's a feature. I don't really care that both HTML and Markdown are dumb, if I type a line break I want a line break to appear, so better convert that to a
<br>
like any sane software would. Otherwise I might as well write HTML or Latex directly.
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@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
No, what I meant is that it emits a literal line break there
That's what I understood. It is pointless, because it's just a white-space, but most likely it simply does not bother normalizing the whitespace when it does not matter anyway.
@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
if I type a line break I want a line break to appear, so better convert that to a
like any sane software wouldThen you'll have to live with being an exception.
I would totally absolutely HATE it if it did that. When I type a paragraph, in a fixed-width text editor like IDEs generally are¹, I absolutely require that any sane software reflows the paragraph to the output medium.
¹ This is why I don't care about the editor here where it wraps anyway. But Git commits are often either typed into fixed-width text editors in IDEs and displayed on terminals without proper reflow and should be limited to 72 characters per line, which means they will contain newlines that are not semantic and should be reflown.
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Authentication taking 5–6 minutes is not exactly convenient, but for some high security applications …
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TIL : that I can email books to my kindle and phone and Amazon will keep them in sync wile reading.
I've had a kindle for 5+ years.
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@Bulb holy fucking shit this paper is amazing! I mean, I only read abstract, but still.
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TIL Twitter videos are limited to 140 seconds.
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In some countries such as Spain, Finland or France, the local rules of the language specify that loanwords should be used as little as possible; for example, "hardware drivers" in Spain are called controladores de dispositivo (which is native), whereas in Latin America they're called drivers de hardware.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
In some countries such as Spain, Finland or France, the local rules of the language specify that loanwords should be used as little as possible
And in some countries, the locals ignore the official rules and use the loanwords more than the native ones.
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In France, the rules are:
- the official translation for loanwords shall be designed to be as awkward and wordy as possible. Bonus points are awarded if the translation is also factually incorrect and/or obviously ridiculous.
- common sense must be avoided. E.g., if the loanword is an initialism, the translated version must be completely different.
- the official translation shall not be released until well after the loanword or a de-facto reasonable translation is widely used by everyone. In the latter case, the official translation must be different from the de-facto one.
Examples: "CD-ROM" -> "cédérom", "WiFi" -> "accès sans fil à Internet", etc.
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@Gąska the funny one is that the loanwords are usually just to reduce how many syllables there are, e.g. 'pantalones vaqueros' ⇒ 'bluejéans', but even though Spanish has a really short word for 'network', i.e. 'red', which is capitalized 'Red' in Spain to be equivalent to 'Internet', south of the border they just say 'ínternet' for some reason.
As far as I can tell, this shit wasn't designed to make sense.