TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@Gąska hooray!
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TIL that assistance monkeys are (or were unless they are others training them) a thing:
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@Zerosquare said in Programming Memes Thread:
@Gąska said in Programming Memes Thread:
ogoneks
TIL I learned the name of that weird hook thing.
@Gąska said in Programming Memes Thread:
@Zerosquare it means "tail". And it's identical to the typographic concept of a tail. It literally is the same as a tail. But for whatever reason, English linguists decided to make a loan word from a language they never loan from just to have a special name for that thing that's only ever used for two lowercase letters in one obscure language and nothing else.
You've made me go look for the cedilla's origin story:
The tail originated in Spain as the bottom half of a miniature cursive z. The word "cedilla" is the diminutive of the Old Spanish name for this letter, ceda (zeta).
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@Zecc cedzilla!
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TIL about middle click emulation in Linux (clicking both left and right is treated as a middle click). Of course I learned it on accident.
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@Gąska It's very useful when working on button-challenged notebook touchpad, because middle click is the paste-selection. And open-in-new-tab in most browsers.
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@Bulb or, you know. You can three-finger-tap.
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@Gąska Tripple-tap does not seem to be doing anything here. The two buttons together do.
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@Bulb I think you have to enable it somehow. Personally I can't imagine using a touchpad without this.
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Interesting easter egg.
(don't make me put a red circle around it)
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Bulb or, you know. You can three-finger-tap.
You also have to know that you can use three-finger gestures.
I think three- and four-finger gestures are the least discoverable parts of touch-based UIs.
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@Zecc IDGI
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@djls45 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Bulb or, you know. You can three-finger-tap.
You also have to know that you can use three-finger gestures.
Same argument for both-mouse-buttons click. And at least on non-Linuxes, three-finger-click seems to be the standard. I don't think you even can enable middle click emulation on Windows and Mac (assuming Mac even has the concept of middle click; they're already poor on right click support).
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@djls45 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Zecc IDGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMSV4OteqBE
last 40ish seconds.
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@DogsB Aaaahhhhhhhhhhh.......... I see. I didn't realize what film that clip was from.
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TIL the Bugs Bunny gag about taking a wrong turn at Albuquerque is derived from a particularly stupid intersection in downtown Albuquerque where Route 66 crossed itself, which made great many people take a wrong turn over the years.
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TIL about the military date-time group time format
Often referred to as army or military date format, the Date Time Group (DTG) is traditionally formatted as DDHHMM(Z)MONYY
An example is 630pm on January 6th, 2012 in Fayetteville NC would read 061830RJAN12
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I don't think you even can enable middle click emulation on Mac (assuming Mac even has the concept of middle click; they're already poor on right click support).
No middle click on macOS with the Apple trackpad or mouse but there are third party tools.
Right click has been pretty well supported for a long time.
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@hungrier is that format really common in Europe? My corner of the Union use the yymmdd hhmmss format.
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@Gąska wrong! It's because Albuquerque has a particularly favorable hilarious digraph ratio.
lb
,bu
,uq
, andqu
are all well-known to be inherently risible.
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@hungrier is that format really common in Europe? My corner of the Union use the yymmdd hhmmss format.
Yes.
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL about the military date-time group time format
Often referred to as army or military date format, the Date Time Group (DTG) is traditionally formatted as DDHHMM(Z)MONYY
An example is 630pm on January 6th, 2012 in Fayetteville NC would read 061830RJAN12
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TIL about Boston's Sacred Cod, and how it was at one point Cod-napped:
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
it was at one point Cod-napped:
Twice. By college students. I'm not sure why anybody would want to take it; it's in Boston, so it must be terrible. But so were the students.
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TIL
the goal of Send Me to Heaven is easily communicated. Unlike other games, the goal is to throw your phone as high as you can, then catch it.
It's available on Android, but not the App Store. Apple determined the game was "encouraging behavior that could result in damage to the user’s device," and thus did cast Send Me to Heaven out of its walled garden paradise. App creator Petr Svarovsky told WIRED that he was disappointed by the ban. The 50-year-old from Prague said he had hoped to have people shatter as many iPhones as possible.
Svarovsky first tested the game on attendees of a music festival in Oslo, and it was a hit. In fact, just the concept was enough to get some thrill-seekers trying it out: Without even bothering to download the app first, he says, people began throwing their own phones as high as they could, often failing to catch them.
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@Zecc Hm, accellerometer. Somehow my first thought was the pressure sensor.
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@PleegWat The accelerometer would be pretty great for detecting the device moving in free fall (i.e., after being thrown).
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It rises ... up to 1,780 metres (5,840 ft)
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Wankbahn
A "Wankpass" permits year-round access to the cable car.
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One would think @Boner had known about Wank earlier.
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@Boner my wife wants to go to the Alps for our honeymoon. I suggested this mountain.
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL
the goal of Send Me to Heaven is easily communicated. Unlike other games, the goal is to throw your phone as high as you can, then catch it.
It's available on Android, but not the App Store. Apple determined the game was "encouraging behavior that could result in damage to the user’s device," and thus did cast Send Me to Heaven out of its walled garden paradise. App creator Petr Svarovsky told WIRED that he was disappointed by the ban. The 50-year-old from Prague said he had hoped to have people shatter as many iPhones as possible.
Svarovsky first tested the game on attendees of a music festival in Oslo, and it was a hit. In fact, just the concept was enough to get some thrill-seekers trying it out: Without even bothering to download the app first, he says, people began throwing their own phones as high as they could, often failing to catch them.
Just why?
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@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL
the goal of Send Me to Heaven is easily communicated. Unlike other games, the goal is to throw your phone as high as you can, then catch it.
It's available on Android, but not the App Store. Apple determined the game was "encouraging behavior that could result in damage to the user’s device," and thus did cast Send Me to Heaven out of its walled garden paradise. App creator Petr Svarovsky told WIRED that he was disappointed by the ban. The 50-year-old from Prague said he had hoped to have people shatter as many iPhones as possible.
Svarovsky first tested the game on attendees of a music festival in Oslo, and it was a hit. In fact, just the concept was enough to get some thrill-seekers trying it out: Without even bothering to download the app first, he says, people began throwing their own phones as high as they could, often failing to catch them.
Just why?
It's a test of populations to see if we're dumb enough to start the enslavement yet.
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No, you've got it wrong. The slaves are the ones building the phones, not the ones buying them.
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
No, you've got it wrong. The slaves are the ones building the phones, not the ones buying them.
Phase two, grasshopper.
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TIL that Atlassian has had a major outage for several days. I couldn’t imagine it happening to a nicer service.
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@Arantor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Atlassian has had a major outage for several days.
How would you distinguish that from Confluence just taking slightly longer than usual to let you log in?
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@dkf because you didn’t get to log in at all, and if you do there is a possibility you’ll have no data when you do log in?
Apparently a house-cleaning maintenance script went awry.
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@Arantor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Atlassian has had a major outage for several days. I couldn’t imagine it happening to a nicer service.
Apparently it might have one for another two weeks
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@loopback0 as Sergeant Major Williams might have said, “Oh dear, how sad, never mind.”
I’m sure it’s sucks for places that use hosted Atlassian stuff but… the cloud is someone else’s computer and maybe don’t outsource some of that stuff?
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@Arantor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
it’s sucks for places that use
hostedAtlassian stuffWell said.
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@loopback0 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Arantor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Atlassian has had a major outage for several days. I couldn’t imagine it happening to a nicer service.
Apparently it might have one for another two weeks
W-T-M-F-F does it take two eFfing weeks to restore backups‽
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@Bulb two weeks on top of the week it's already taken.
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@Bulb probably needs a JIRA ticket to get a backup restored and it takes that long just to file the ticket
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@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
W-T-M-F-F does it take two eFfing weeks to restore backups‽
This reminds me of the data recovery service that Salesforce used to offer if you'd royally screwed up the data on your instance and needed it recovering to an earlier point in time. Cost (IIRC) $10000 and had a leadtime of 6-8 weeks.
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@Arantor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I’m sure it’s sucks for places that use hosted Atlassian stuff but… the cloud is someone else’s computer and maybe don’t outsource some of that stuff?
I kinda wish that would happen to Microsoft for two weeks. You know, normally that wouldn't affect anything except Azure, you just couldn't download updates for a bit. But the way it is everybody would get locked out of all of their shit after 5 minutes.
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@Arantor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I’m sure it’s sucks for places that use hosted Atlassian stuff but… the cloud is someone else’s computer and maybe don’t outsource some of that stuff?
We host our own. Yeah, using cloud for this sort of thing has always baffled me.