TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@MrL said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I have it easy, I can't wear gloves (I get cold in them).
Are gloves the only piece of clothing with this, uh... chilling effect?
Yes
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@MrL Have you tried gloves that don't cut off your blood circulation?
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@MrL Have you tried gloves that don't cut off your blood circulation?
We don't have those in Poland.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@MrL winter is coming. Can't write in most gloves.
There are touch-screen compatible gloves:
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
touch-screen compatible gloves
first read that as touch-screen complicator gloves :over_thinking_it:
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@MrL winter is coming. Can't write in most gloves.
Some phones have gloves mode when they crank the sensitivity up so that the touch registers even through (not too thick) gloves. My previous one (ASUS) had it, but my current one (LG) unfortunately does not.
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TIL people can't read. I said MOST!
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I'm sorry, I don't know that Polish word
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@Gąskarat said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL people can't read. I said MOST!I DIDN'T ASK FOR HELPFTFY
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I'm sorry, I don't know that Polish word
It means 'bridge'.
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@TimeBandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Can't write in most gloves.
Warning: not safe for winters in
My experience has been that those don't have added value over not wearing gloves at all.
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@PleegWat I'm wearing some right now, sitting at home in front of my computer.
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@Zecc It may be because the only such pair I ever owned were wool; I mainly have trouble with cold if it's cold wind and that goes right through.
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@PleegWat I do fine with some hobo gloves:
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.NnO-y4Qp_yQ1qjVqtphuaQHaHa?w=193&h=193&c=7&o=5&dpr=1.5&pid=1.7
They're not quite warm enough in fingerless mode, but you can do something with fingers and then get back to mitten mode real fast.
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@PotatoEngineer said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
but you can do something with fingers and then get back to mitten mode real fast
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TL;DR: Interaction between Nagle's algorithm and delayed acknowledge creating oddly regular network latency. Recent Linux tweaked the algorithms to avoid that edge case, but older ones or different systems can still trigger it.
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@Bulb yet another person tried to use TCP without understanding how TCP implementations work.
nodelay
should've been enabled right from the start. Used to see it all the time on one gamedev forum whenever someone was working on their first online multiplayer game.
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@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It turns out that the method takes a bool, but there are actually 3 states.
Seems familiar?
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TIL the name Wendy didn't exist until J. M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, made it up specifically for that play.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL people can't read. I said MOIST!
Gotta use the words that hurt sometimes.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Yet another person tried to use TCP without understanding how TCP implementations work.
Almost everyone uses TCP without understanding how TCP implementations work. That's the point of it; you really can get away with that (as long as you don't care about performance too much or are doing bulk data transfer).
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
as long as you don't care about performance
And here's the problem - as soon as you do, you can't escape it anymore, you HAVE to learn all about different connection parameters or it's not going to work. The defaults are heavily optimized for HTTP at the expense of every other use case, especially real-time stuff.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The defaults are heavily optimized for HTTP at the expense of every other use case, especially real-time stuff.
That's what most customers are actually willing to pay for. They might say other things… but money talks its own sweet language.
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Thanks to having fallen down a YT rabbit hole, TIL that if you get in the way of the Queen's Guards doing their ceremonial marching about, you are very likely to be very unceremoniously shoved out of their way. You may get a warning to make way, but if you don't hear them or don't realize they're addressing you, they'll walk right through you without breaking stride.
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
you are very likely to be very unceremoniously shoved out of their way
That's an assault
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@HardwareGeek when I volunteered at the local hospital growing up, one of the codes they drilled us on was "code blue". Cardiac arrest. If they called that for the floor you were on, you were supposed to flatten yourself against the wall. Because nurses with a crash cart were going to be heading down the hall real fast and wouldn't stop. They might pick you back up if you were still there when they came back, but you were going to get run over if in the way. Likely an exaggeration, but yeah. Same idea.
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@TimeBandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
you are very likely to be very unceremoniously shoved out of their way
That's an assault
They are considered an extension of the Queen, and add such they are the law. You not getting out of their way is an assault on the reagent.
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@Carnage Or the regent, even.
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage Or the regent, even.
Yeees, perhaps even the regent.
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
an assault on the reagent
That'd make one a catalyst for change.
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@TimeBandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
you are very likely to be very unceremoniously shoved out of their way
That's an assault
Yes, that's why they shove you.
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
an assault on the reagent
That'd make one a catalyst for change.
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Thanks to having fallen down a YT rabbit hole, TIL that if you get in the way of the Queen's Guards doing their ceremonial marching about, you are very likely to be very unceremoniously shoved out of their way. You may get a warning to make way, but if you don't hear them or don't realize they're addressing you, they'll walk right through you without breaking stride.
Isn't that how everyone walks?
New York City has entered the chat.
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TIL one electrical outlet in my bedroom is on the same circuit as the one in neighboring room. Also TIL two of the outlets in my bedroom are on separate circuits. I learned that by running space heaters in both rooms at once.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
running space heaters
Seems rather pointless. "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is." And most of it is really, really cold — except the parts that are really, really hot.
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@HardwareGeek my goal is to get as much space as possible within 300K range by creating additional hot spots. As many as needed.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
creating additional hot spots. As many as needed.
Have you given @Polygeekery a call? I've heard he's really good at this.
EDIT: wait, you said 300 K, not 300 °C.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL one electrical outlet in my bedroom is on the same circuit as the one in neighboring room.
Yeah, in one space I was in the circuits were run according to wall, so shared walls were (generally) on the same circuit. I guess it was easier to wire up that way or something?
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TIL Wood Wide Web
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@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL one electrical outlet in my bedroom is on the same circuit as the one in neighboring room.
Yeah, in one space I was in the circuits were run according to wall, so shared walls were (generally) on the same circuit. I guess it was easier to wire up that way or something?
In my former house, a light switch in the living room controlled two wall outlets in the living room — and one in the master bedroom, on the other side of the wall. Good thing that outlet was behind my dresser, and we never wanted to use it for a lamp or anything.
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL one electrical outlet in my bedroom is on the same circuit as the one in neighboring room.
Yeah, in one space I was in the circuits were run according to wall, so shared walls were (generally) on the same circuit. I guess it was easier to wire up that way or something?
In my former house, a light switch in the living room controlled two wall outlets in the living room — and one in the master bedroom, on the other side of the wall. Good thing that outlet was behind my dresser, and we never wanted to use it for a lamp or anything.
LOL, sounds like someone didn't know how to wire up a switch.
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TIL about glory holes. So hot.
I have tremendous respect for blowers. It must difficult working with something so sensitive.
I have a great appreciation for anyone who works with glass.
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Definition of glory hole
1a : a furnace for softening glass when it becomes stiff in offhand working and for fire-polishing glass
b : an opening directly into the interior of such a furnace
specifically : BOTTOMING HOLEHuh, TIL
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I have a great appreciation for anyone who works with glass.
I had a friend in college who did glassblowing. I bought a vase from him many, many years ago; I still have it (unless it got broken in a house move since the last time I unpacked fragile stuff, but I have that stuff really well packed, so it should be intact). I fuse powdered glass to metal (aka enameling), but I've never tried glassblowing.
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So ridiculous you can't make it up:
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
So ridiculous you can't make it up:
It was a new type of war in so many ways.
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@JBert An interesting idea, but the implementation stank.
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@Zecc Curious remark. I think the idea shouldn't have passed the smell test, and yet it did.
Now I wonder if they considered using whoopee cushions instead, but of course we can't know as the experiment was blown off.
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I went down a bit of a licensing/IP rabbit hole inspired by , and TIL that Uniracers for SNES was cancelled after its initial cartridge production run due to some IP issue. Apparently Pixar had created an animated short in 1987, and based on that they thought that the 3D modeled unicycles from the game were too similar to their 3D modeled unicycle. Red's Dream (the Pixar short) was never released to the general public until after Uniracers.