TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL about the Nintendo Switch's button remap functionality. TLDR: it lets you remap buttons to other buttons. It's a pretty cool feature but it could be improved in a couple ways:
- Make it settable and auto-loading per game. In my case, I want to use the (unused) Y button for select in the NES app, because having to move my thumb from the directional buttons, over the left analog stick, to the - button, is not a good time. But I only want that in the NES app, not everywhere. I can manually dig into the settings whenever I launch the NES and set it from there, but that also is not my idea of a good time.
- Add a quick change option somewhere. It already lets you reset it to normal quickly enough: it pops up a message saying "Hey buddy, your shit's remapped. Want to reset it?" when you turn it back on from sleep mode, but to activate a remapping profile you have to go into the settings, scroll to the bottom, navigate a couple submenus, and sacrifice a live chicken. Why not have it as an option in the quick-settings menu, or let you do it from the Switch icon in the corner of the home screen that indicates if it's normal or reset?
How do you do that? And from the limitations you've described, I guess it's not possible to just quickly disable the stupid L button in Mario to do roulette (it is literally labeled to use X for that) because that's where I'm holding the controller?
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@topspin It's in the main settings, Controllers and Sensors -> Change button mapping. You can disable the L button entirely, but same as my Y for select swap, it's global so you'll want to reset it whenever you play any other game.
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@JBert Love the comments on that question:
- Spaceballs, the question!
- Spaceballs, the upvote!
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There’s a monotypic genus of marsupial called Crash.
The sole species?
Crash bandicoot, oldest known bandicoot.
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TIL about the Most Mysterious Song On The Internet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MMBImhlu74
Here's a Youtube playlist that goes in depth into the whole thing, but on the off chance you don't want to watch over an hour of video, I'll try to summarize the story:
Some time between 1982-1984, some guy in Germany taped a song off the radio. He didn't know, or didn't write down the artist or title. Years later, in 2007, his sister posted the song to various forums trying to identify it, but nobody could figure it out. Then in 2019, someone else got interested in it based on one of those posts, and starts trying to figure out the mystery. He spams it all over reddit, and eventually makes his own subreddit for it. Justin Whang (the guy whose Youtube playlist I linked above) makes a video about it which grows the community, and they get to work tracking down leads, including contacting the radio station, some of the DJs who may have played it, some bands that may have had something to do with it, etc, and they're still working on figuring it out.
Anyway it's a good song and kind of interesting story, and maybe there's a chance some of our @area_deu users might know something
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The word is a variant of "controller". The "cont-" or "count-" part in that word was associated with "compt-", a variant of the verb "count". The term, though criticized by people such as Henry Watson Fowler, is probably retained in part because in official titles it was deemed useful to have the title dissociated from the word and concept "control".
A variant explanation is that comptroller evolved in the 15th century through a blend of the French compte ("an account") and the Middle English countreroller (someone who checks a copy of a scroll, from the French contreroule "counter-roll, scroll copy"), thus creating a title for a compteroller who specializes in checking financial ledgers. This etymology explains why the name is often pronounced identically to "controller" despite the distinct spelling. However, comptroller is sometimes pronounced phonetically by those unaware of the word's origins or who wish specifically to avoid confusion with "controller."
I've seen the word many times before, but I've never bothered checking precisely what it means or where it comes from.
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I've seen the word many times before, but I've never bothered checking precisely what it means or where it comes from.
I've always thought it looked stupid so I never checked.
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@topspin
it's just a way of bean counters to measure their bean-counting-peen
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TIL Teller's (from Penn & Teller) full legal name is Teller.
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@boomzilla The three monkeys are well-known (I thought, anyway) but the history is new to me
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@hungrier #MeToo
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Three Wise Monkeys of Tōshōgū Shrine
What?
Oh, you mean "The Three IT Project Managers"?
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Oh, you mean "The Three IT Project Managers"?
No, he said wise monkeys.
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Oh, you mean "The Three IT Project Managers"?
Hear no good, see no good, and speak no good?
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Exactly.
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TIL Ewan McGregor's brother Colin is a former RAF pilot whose call-sign was Obi-Two.
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TIL Rust supports destructuring in function signatures, a la JS/Typescript.
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@Zecc It's just a bit confusing as the destructuring in
let
and function signatures is limited compared tomatch
andif let
. It is obvious—function signatures andlet
can only destructure based on type, but not value—but confusing nevertheless.
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TIL that the August civic holiday is called "John Galt Day" in Guelph. It's named after the city founder, Scottish novelist John Galt (1779-1839), not the character from Atlas Shrugged.
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Funny, but also a bit grim. Chickens don't naturally peck each other's eyes ; they only do so when subjected to long-term stressful living conditions.
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TIL about beefalo, and I have to say I love the name.
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
beefalo
And here I thought they were useful supplies of manure, beefalo hair, beefalo horns, and getting angry and killing hostile mobs. Usually pretty good against the Moose/Goose.
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TIL the contiguous US does not have a single power grid, but three wide area synchronous grids. There's the Western Interconnection, which covers basically the Rocky Mountain states and west. There's the Eastern Interconnection, which covers most of the US east of the Rockies. And there's Texas. Yeehaw!
(The Eastern and Western Interconnects also cover the lower tier of Canadian provinces. Except Quebec, which is its own special snowflake, like Texas. Newfoundland and Labrador, and the northern tier of provinces/territories don't participate in the North American Electric Reliability Corporation at all. Neither does Hawaii, unsurprisingly, since it really isn't part of North America, nor does most of Alaska; the (relatively) densely populated areas have their own interconnection.)
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Except Quebec, which is its own special snowflake
We have our own grid, which is pretty reliable.
Also, we interconnect with the others to sell them our surplus.
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TIL Firefox automatically fixes .con domain to .com.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
.con
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL Firefox automatically fixes .con domain to .com.
TIL as well. I didn't see any fixes to .orf and .orh, but I see it fixes .met to .net.
This is happening even though I have browser.fixup.alternate.enabled disabled, but it only happens when the address is plain http://. If I type https:// first it doesn't change what I've typed (a good thing).
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TIL about chinapost-track.com, a postal tracking webapp with a nice interface, including custom titles so you don't have to remember which product is CN348756384573YU and which is 4002738428937293. Contrary to its name, it doesn't only work with China Post.
But TIL that it not only works for international parcels coming from the Far East, but also supports regular postal tracking and local couriers. So TLDR it looks like it can track anything at any time.
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
it looks like it can track anything at any time.
Hm, a suspicious person might think the Chinese government might be involved with an app like that , but this isn't , so I won't say any more than that.
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@HardwareGeek It's entirely possible, but I don't think there's much more information to be gained that they wouldn't already know from the Chinese postal carriers themselves. I guess they could find out that I also get packages that aren't from China?
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
they could find out that I also get packages that aren't from China
Don't worry, you'll be sent to a re-education camp soon
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@TimeBandit If they ship me there I could use the app to track myself
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Tofu had been a staple in China for nearly 2,000 years before Drosihn attempted to make it, but it was still largely unknown in Germany in the 1980s. At the time, both soy milk and nigari, a coagulant commonly used to make tofu, were illegal.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Tofu had been a staple in China for nearly 2,000 years before Drosihn attempted to make it, but it was still largely unknown in Germany in the 1980s. At the time, both soy milk and nigari, a coagulant commonly used to make tofu, were illegal.
One thing Krauts got right. Tofu should be illegal.
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@MrL said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Tofu should be illegal.
I'm surprised you have such a strong opinion of something that basically has zero taste.
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@MrL said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Tofu should be illegal.
I'm surprised you have such a strong opinion of something that basically has zero taste.
It has a taste, and it's not good. The texture is equally horrible. The only thing more bland is lutfisk.
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@MrL said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Tofu should be illegal.
I'm surprised you have such a strong opinion of something that basically has zero taste.
That's exactly why. I'd rather eat styrofoam than this. At least styrofoam doesn't pretend to be food.
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It's like white rice. You're not supposed to eat it without seasoning.
I agree the texture is rather strange, though.
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@Zerosquare You forgot where we are. On TD, only two opinions are possible:
TRUE
: X is the best thing in the world and anyone who disagrees is a moronFALSE
: X is an abomination that should DIAF and anyone who disagrees is a moronFILE_NOT_FOUND
: can't be bothered about X and everybody is a moron anyway.
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Zerosquare You forgot where we are. On TD, only two opinions are possible:
TRUE
: X is the best thing in the world and anyone who disagrees is a moronFALSE
: X is an abomination that should DIAF and anyone who disagrees is a moronFILE_NOT_FOUND
: can't be bothered about X and everybody is a moron anyway.
Proposed optimization:
- everyone is a moron.
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@MrL said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Tofu should be illegal.
I'm surprised you have such a strong opinion of something that basically has zero taste.
It has a taste, and it's not good. The texture is equally horrible. The only thing more bland is lutfisk.
I think I've only had it once or so, in mapu tofu at a Chinese restaurant. The dish was good, nice and spicy. I was out with a group and the vegetarians at the table had ordered it but then decided that there was some beef in there or whatever. Honestly, I don't remember much about the tofu itself but I'd eat that again.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
the vegetarians at the table had ordered it but then decided that there was some beef in there or whatever
I read/heard somewhere recently that in China it is an insult to your guests if you serve them a meal without meat in it.
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FWIW, tofu is ok in things like pad thai, although I don't think I would miss it if it wasn't there.