TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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LNIL just how much my previous employer was subsidizing my health insurance.
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TIL that, apparently, I can have my Bluetooth headset connected to both my laptop and my phone at the same time, using two different audio profiles, too.
Apparently it was just the stock Bluetooth manager that came stock with Mint was crap. Huh.
I should go learn more about Bluetooth. Maybe there's more cool stuff I didn't know about lurking somewhere.
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This is the TIL thread. You want the TMI thread.
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TIL: == :cut green beans:
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Except when it says it means Peter or Up.
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TIL Mississippi is a state, not just a river.
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Same applies to Missouri, too!
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Same applies to Missouri, too!
TIL Missouri is a river.
Filed under: US geography not my strong point
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Don't forget Colorado!
Ohio, Delaware, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan (although the river and state are nowhere near each other; the Michigan River is in Colorado; however, there is a Mitchigan River in Michigan), Minnesota, Wisconsin
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Sure, take all the fun out of it.
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Ohio, Delaware, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan (although the river and state are nowhere near each other; the Michigan River is in Colorado; however, there is a Mitchigan River in Michigan), Minnesota, Wisconsin
Is it just my memory going, or were quite a few of those states and rivers both named for some tribe?
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Is it just my memory going, or were quite a few of those states and rivers both named for some tribe?
Yes, some of them were.
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TIL in Spanish "desktop PC" is written "PC de sobremesa".
In Portuguese "PC de sobremesa" means "PC for dessert".
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Half the small towns in my old area had rivers named after them. With the exception of the creatively-named 102 River.
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TIL the default install of Visual Studio 2008 with C++ doesn't include the x64 compiler. No wonder my automated builds have been failing.
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TIL: When running three monitors in Surround mode and applying an Nvidia driver update.... just fxxing disable it or perform a clean install. otherwise nvidia will goof up and get stuck in a wierd state wehere most of the UI insists you only have one monitor, including the part where you can tell it to disable surround.
oops. at least it was easy to fix (reinstall the driver, with a clean installation.)
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Yeah, it's still the weakest part of the NVIDIA experience I find
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And the strongest part is that it's not CCC?
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More that NVIDIA drivers actually, y'know, work.
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That's not computer-related, though.
This, however, is:
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A full outer join can be useful when you have a couple of complex subqueries grouping up to the same object level, and you want to show those objects along with the results of both subqueries where found.
A right join is, as has already been pointed out, equivalent to a left join with the order reversed. I've used it a couple of times where it makes the flow more consistent, but in any given year I would not be likely to use one.
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TIL that the Netherlands once had a rabbit as king
@Luhmann said:
@PleegWat said:
Ik ben konijn van holland.
That's a historical quote from Napoleon's brother.
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TIL what entity that is
two for one?
‍
(my preferred entity) is "Zero Width Joiner" it's a space character of zero width that is not a separator character. useful for making it so i can say belgium and making sure that the browser won't suddenly line break in the middle giving the game away
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Apart from the fact that ‍ forces ligatures ...
Use ‌ instead when writing normal text on forums. Please.
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Apart from the fact that ‍ forces ligatures ...
.... right. non english languages have those regularly...
i always forget about that
hmmm....Official vs Official
.... poo:
no difference i can see.
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It can difficult to spot with the font that Discourse likes to use, as that's not ligature-heavy in the first place.
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Not sure it's actually using ligatures - I can individually select the letters?
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Testing: official
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no difference i can see.
Probably because, as the use of genuine ligatures in English is all but dead, it's not being processed like that
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I can individually select the letters?
unicode is hard yo.
i constructed that by using
f‍f‍i
not the proper ffi ligature.Example:
ffi - normal
ffi - ZWJ
ffi - U+FB03Zoom.... Enhance:
it's really hard to see but ZWJ didn't make the ligature even though there's one defined for ffi
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The ligature is recognizably a different glyph - difference is even larger for me.
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It's easy to see with a little deft mousing:
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Likes were in the wrong order there for your avatars
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Cool, didn't know about this, thanks
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Zoom.... Enhance:
*cough* browser zoom *cough*
While I'm at it, let's try
f U+200D f U+200D i
: ffi
Meh, no ligature.
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TIL that my bank's ATMs will let me put in my Sam's Club card and type in a PIN, but won't let me withdraw cash or check my balance.
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Look, unsolicited "help" is the worst thing.
TIL blakey is a woman presenting as a man-child.
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TIL this thread doesn't come up on a discosearch for TIL.
AFDAIL a Dr. Moriarty — which is also a professor btw — rightfully raised the question of whether it is a good idea to use the skull and bones as a symbol for marking poisonous substances, since kids may more easily associate the symbol with pirates (and pirates are cool!); and so he proposed an alternative symbol, Mr. Yuk:
Said symbol has gained some acceptance in the US as a replacement of old Jolly Rogers, even though it is trademarked and service marked by the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.
As far as I'm concerned, I appreciate the idea but when it comes to dangerous materials if you have kids who haven't yet learned not to put random stuff into their mouths you shouldn't leave them* lying around unattended.
*You may ask whether I meant the kids or the dangerous substances. The answer is "yes".
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TIL this thread doesn't come up on a discosearch for TIL.
That would be because the title is not TIL but TIL
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since kids may more easily associate the symbol with pirates (and pirates are cool!)
Why is this being a thing suddenly a problem? Are kids stupider these days than when I was growing up?