TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@PotatoEngineer said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
And then I learned what an inverse Sybil attack is: when many entities pretend to be just one, like
Pythagoras@Nagesh or boomzilla.NTFY
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@PotatoEngineer said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
And then I learned what an inverse Sybil attack is: when many entities pretend to be just one, like Pythagoras or boomzilla.
Relevant:
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Florence Lawrence was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as the "first movie star", and was long thought to be the first film actor to be named publicly until evidence published in 2019 indicated that the first named film star was French actor Max Linder.
Besides her film career, Lawrence is credited with designing the first "auto signaling arm", a predecessor of the modern turn signal, along with the first mechanical brake signal. She did not patent these inventions, however, and as a result she received no credit for, nor profit from, either one.
Seems her move accomplishments have also been lost to time.
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@Carnage Based on the titles, are these mostly instructional films?
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage Based on the titles, are these mostly instructional films?
I'd check a few out to see... But...
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@Carnage From 1910/1911? That sounds like the era where nobody kept the old reels. They were like pulp comics: made to be consumed, and then never used again. Look how many there were per year!
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@PotatoEngineer said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage From 1910/1911? That sounds like the era where nobody kept the old reels. They were like pulp comics: made to be consumed, and then never used again. Look how many there were per year!
Pulp novels were great. You sir, have just made a very petty enemy. I hope your bare feet are Lego-proof.
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@DogsB said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@PotatoEngineer said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage From 1910/1911? That sounds like the era where nobody kept the old reels. They were like pulp comics: made to be consumed, and then never used again. Look how many there were per year!
Pulp novels were great. You sir, have just made a very petty enemy. I hope your bare feet are Lego-proof.
My point is that Action Comics #1 is so rare because nobody kept it around. (Semi-related: in junior high, I read my mother's copy of The Count Of Monte Cristo for a book report, which disintegrated as I read it.)
And while I'm not fond of the specific writing style of Clive Cussler, I absolutely love me a good pulp novel, and I love the movie Sahara, which is based on one of his books. (My parents' bookshelves had the Matt Helm and Travis McGee novels, and I loved them to bits.) I'm all in favor of pulp-style media, I'm just not expecting anyone to keep a copy of any particular thing for decades.
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@PotatoEngineer said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I read my mother's copy of The Count Of Monte Cristo for a book report, which disintegrated as I read it.
Wow. They had Mission Impossible tech back then?!
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@PotatoEngineer said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
You sir, have just made a very petty enemy.
Don't worry, he'll forget you're an enemy in a couple hours after drinking himself to a coma
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@PotatoEngineer said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I read my mother's copy of The Count Of Monte Cristo for a book report, which disintegrated as I read it.
Wow. They had Mission Impossible tech back then?!
Of course they did! Mission Impossible debuted in 1966.
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Can we recreate the special effects of Birdemic in the person's vision?
TIL. That must be a true horror … to watch. That thing really screened in cinemas‽
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@Bulb I doubt if it ever got any theatrical release
e: After looking up the Wiki page, TIL it actually did get screened (although without a wide release) several times, and had multiple sequels
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Bulb I doubt if it ever got any theatrical release
e: After looking up the Wiki page, TIL it actually did get screened (although without a wide release) several times, and had multiple sequels
I actually watched it. It's worse than the gif leads you to believe. There are a lot of old movies like it, when computers kinda started being capable of doing special effects on the cheap, but not really.
Some of them are fun drunk movies, akin to troma production only lower production value. Some are so bad that not even being black out drunk helps.
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But professional comedians making fun of the movie can help.
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@Carnage I tried watching it back in university, but we couldn't get through the whole thing and switched over to some other crappy movie
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I actually watched it. It's worse than the gif leads you to believe.
The gif just shows how amateurishly it is photographed. The synopsis, on the other hand, portrays it as pants-on-head-suspenders-around-dick retarded.
… also, the worst part of the gif isn't the badly animated birds, the worst part is the choice of coat hangers made of wire as a weapon.
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@Dragnslcr said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
But professional comedians making fun of the movie can help.
"solrpnls"
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https://patents.google.com/patent/USD30551S/en
Image if the embed fails
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To expound upon @Zecc's post (before does)
The early years of the American auto industry looked a lot like Silicon Valley today. Instead of countless apps and startups aiming to fix problems that probably don’t exist, the entrepreneurs of the age were making all sorts of new kinds of cars, before the industry was pared down to just a few juggernauts.
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So presumably, anything that could make horses less likely to freak out would have been welcome. And in 1899, Smith announced his vehicle, the Horsey Horseless. According to his patent, it was a “new and original design for a vehicle body, and it has for its object to provide a design of this character that shall be both useful and ornamental.”
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The Horsey Horseless didn’t catch on.(pikemphasis mine)
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