TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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:perception-check-failed:
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@Zecc we can argue whether an intentional bad translation for teh lulz counts as a proper calque or not, but I still think it's funny.
Bonus fact: Polish word "kalka" is a calque of the word "calque" and means carbon paper.
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@Gąska What I'm failing to get is the difference between a calque and a word-for-word-literal-translation-which-for-some-reason-is-not-a-calque.
Edit: is it the level of adoption?
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska What I'm failing to get is the difference between a calque and a word-for-word-literal-translation-which-for-some-reason-is-not-a-calque.
Word-for-word literal translations are alien to the language and stick out badly. Calques aren't. Language...isn't it weird? The mere fact that something is accepted as part of the language makes it so.
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Also, calque is French, so it's the proper term to use to set yourself apart from the "word-for-word-translation" peasants
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska What I'm failing to get is the difference between a calque and a word-for-word-literal-translation-which-for-some-reason-is-not-a-calque.
Intent, mostly. And the way it's used. Calques are generally phrases that are aspiring to be regular parts of the language, to be used for communication. While literal translations of memes are done exclusively for the cringe factor. You can also say that one is natural jargon while the other is a deliberate literary device. Either way, the distinction is pretty obvious, unless you insist on reading the definitions very literally (heh).
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Either way, the distinction is pretty obvious, unless you insist on reading the definitions very literally (heh).
Could be. It's almost 6 in the morning and I've been sleepy-browsing since 2 AM.
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I don't see how you can get the two confused. This is a literal word-for-word translation:
This is a calc:
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FFS, it only took me how many years to see this?!
You can ring the short bus now...
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Talking with my wife, who's a caretaker for adults with disabilities, about her work. She mentioned that they've got 3 doctors on staff. Dr Whosis handles psychiatric stuff, Dr. Whatsis deals with prescription medications, and Dr. Suchaone is for feet.
: Feet? Like... *pointing to my foot, to make sure there's no misunderstanding*
: Yeah. There are a whole lot of clients with foot problems, for whatever reason!Huh. TIL.
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@Mason_Wheeler I believe it is because elderly people sit down more frequently and get lower blood circulation in their feet (gravity obviously makes the blood flow downward and the valves in the leg veins might be degraded which means blood isn't pushed back up as efficiently).
The result is that they might get ulcers or wounds with infections at higher rates because the lower blood flow tends to slow healing.
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
elderly people sit down more frequently
Status: Seriously pondering on re-enabling the hourly "Hey doofus you haven't moved for a whole hour, quick, you can meet your 250 steps/hr quota in the next five minutes if you hurry!" badgering notification...
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@Tsaukpaetra I’ve had that one for a long time and it did work back when I was at, well, work. Always used it too walk to the bathroom or the kitchen or whatever. Now that I’m at home and sitting at my own desk all day, I barely notice it anymore. :(
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@pie_flavor said in 😻 The Emergency Cute Things Thread:
Sleepy venomous quack puppy
TIL platypuses are venomous.
Also, apparently this dude who looks like a cartoon character who lost his glasses.
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@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL platypuses are venomous.
They're australian natives. What did you expect?
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@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL platypuses are venomous.
They are also stomachless nippleless mammals who use electrolocation to locate their prey and only have teeth when they are babies.
But sure, they are venomous too.
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL platypuses are venomous.
They are also stomachless nippleless mammals who use electrolocation to locate their prey and only have teeth when they are babies.
But sure, they are venomous too.Lets not forget that they lay eggs.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@hungrier one of my favorite video game gimmicks comes from MGS1 where one boss could read your mind and foresee your every move (and also shit talk you about other games on your memory card), and to beat him you've had to move the controller to player 2 slot.
You didn't have to, but the fight was ridiculous if you hadn't read that technique somewhere. Ask me how I know
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@Jaloopa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@hungrier one of my favorite video game gimmicks comes from MGS1 where one boss could read your mind and foresee your every move (and also shit talk you about other games on your memory card), and to beat him you've had to move the controller to player 2 slot.
You didn't have to, but the fight was ridiculous if you hadn't read that technique somewhere. Ask me how I know
I vaguely remember there being obtuse hints about using the second controller ingame. I remember psycho mantis being frustrating until I figured it out.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
They are also stomachless
[citation needed]
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=platypus+stomach
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@Zecc Sorry, attempting to read that link is just too much effort.
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@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@pie_flavor said in 😻 The Emergency Cute Things Thread:
Sleepy venomous quack puppy
TIL platypuses are venomous.
Related:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/535580879385395213/736992738184265768/unknown.png
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mammal that sweats milk
But you repeat yourself.
And I really don’t get this endless obsession with monotrematous oviparity. Like, wow, an animal laying eggs, that right there is absolutely unheard of. Never happens.
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@kazitor
Perry would like a word with you.
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@Tsaukpaetra Given all available evidence, I'd say the left one is far, far more likely to exist.
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TIL Michael Moore produced not just Fahrenheit 9/11 but also Fahrenheit 11/9.
Fortunately it doesn't seem like any of the international releases switched around the numbers in the titles, but imagine the confusion even so.
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TIL President Kennedy had a sister with severe mental problems. As was the fashion back then, her father arranged for treatment in the form of a lobotomy, which the doctor managed to screw up, leaving her in bad shape (even worse than normal for a lobotomy patient) for the rest of her life. The family hid this information from the public for a long time so as not to damage John's political career.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
Someone doesn't know how to google.
Manning had noticed that early products had been set to 9:42 in their photos, but that changed to 9:41. Brimming with curiosity, he asked Forstall what was going on.
"We design the keynotes so that the big reveal of the product happens around 40 minutes into the presentation," he said. "When the big image of the product appears on screen, we want the time shown to be close to the actual time on the audience's watches. But we know we won't hit 40 minutes exactly."
So what's the one exception to the 9:41 rule? The Apple Watch, which is always photographed at 10:09 a.m. In this, Apple is following longstanding tradition throughout the watch world
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The Apple Watch, which is always photographed at 10:09 a.m. In this, Apple is following longstanding tradition throughout the watch world
A tradition set by watches with hands, that got carried over into digital watches/clocks.
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TIL laptop SATA HDDs and laptop SATA DVD drives have different connectors. Sigh.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL laptop SATA HDDs and laptop SATA DVD drives have different connectors. Sigh.
Yep! However sometimes you can get away with an adapter tray that will let you plug in a sata SSD.
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TIL SQL Server does not support ON DELETE CASCADE if there is more than one path from any table to any other table.
Think of the relations
- User <- Post
- User <- Comment
- Post <- Comment
A $13,748 database can't figure out how to delete a comment if I delete the user that made it.
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@anonymous234 You'd be a fool to ignore the anti-binary least-square approach
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@anonymous234 I am not really surprised. Microsoft Squeal Server does not deserve much better reputation than Oracle DB. There are a lot of nuts in this company who like it though.
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@Bulb Yeah, but consider the alternative is Oracle. If your choice is between A) paying thousands of dollars to get kicked in the nuts and B) paying millions of dollars to be disemboweled with a rusty vegetable peeler, getting kicked in the nuts starts looking rather attractive. Sure, any sane person would choose C) None of the above, but that option may not be available in the context of your job.
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about "mankinis"
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@Tsaukpaetra Cue Borat.
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@Zecc ITYM Borдt
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Why is Punycode even used here? Have we moved back to Discourse?!
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Why is Punycode even used here? Have we moved back to Discourse?!
Because I copy&pasted it from
In [2]: encode('Borдt', 'idna') Out[2]: b'xn--bort-s4d'
probably.
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