TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Be careful. I've heard that eating too much of it makes your head spin.
it's all fun and games until you get a gimball lock...
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra At least some tire "pressure" warnings do not actually measure pressure, but measure the difference in rotational speed of the tires. (A tire that is flat or has low pressure will have a smaller effective diameter than properly inflated tires, and so will rotate faster for a given forward speed.) At least some of these need to be recalibrated after reinflating the tire by holding the button for 5 seconds while driving in a straight line at moderate speed; that's how mine works.
While interesting, I have to wonder if it was really that much more cost effective to build a gyro instead of a pressure capsule...
A pressure sensor requires not only a sensor in each wheel, but a means of transferring the sensor data from the rotating wheel to the non-rotating body of the vehicle. The rotation-speed method merely requires rotation sensors on the vehicle itself.
Not to mention, the rotation sensors are probably already there for ABS reasons.
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@Carnage I remember reading some years ago (probably when that technology became mandatory in new cars?) that there were two competing ways to do that, one slightly more accurate, the other slightly less expensive (by an order of a few cents per sensor, we're not talking hundreds here).
No points for guessing which of the two has been widely adopted by car manufacturers (at least for non-luxury cars).
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage I remember reading some years ago (probably when that technology became mandatory in new cars?) that there were two competing ways to do that, one slightly more accurate, the other slightly less expensive (by an order of a few cents per sensor, we're not talking hundreds here).
No points for guessing which of the two has been widely adopted by car manufacturers (at least for non-luxury cars).
Yeah, I wouldn't be entirely surprised to find that the luxury ones use the cheap ones too.
There's not too much accuracy needed for measuring circumference differences, you can measure it over a few hundred, or even thousand turns of the wheels, and also calibrate from a known OK inflation state.
The actual pressure monitors use batteries and wireless communication for their function, and I've seem some inane price quotes for replacements when batteries run out.
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@Carnage And those that are in the wheels also require changing them (*) when you change the wheels (duh), which means something else that can go wrong. You can't really blame the manufacturers for using the more robust (in real use) system, even if it's less accurate.
(*) or checking that the new wheels have sensors that are compatible with whatever system is used to transmit the information to the car.
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Those who have it are cortically blind, but affirm, often quite adamantly and in the face of clear evidence of their blindness, that they are capable of seeing.
Can wait to see this being thrown as an insult in the Garage.
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@Zecc I'm getting mixed messages from this article:
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@hungrier It may be too technical for you to understand
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Those who have it are cortically blind, but affirm, often quite adamantly and in the face of clear evidence of their blindness, that they are capable of seeing.
Can wait to see this being thrown as an insult in the Garage.
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TIL Victor Hugo never wrote a book called "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
The actual title of his book was "Notre Dame de Paris," and Quasimodo was a relatively minor character. The title was a bit of a pun on Hugo's part, as notre dame means "our lady," so it can be read as either "Notre Dame [Cathedral], of Paris" or "Our Lady of Paris," and a major theme of the book was how awesome the cathedral itself is, during a time when it was considered by many people an outdated relic of a bygone age that should probably just be torn down and replaced with a new, more modern cathedral. Hugo was quite unhappy with his publishers when they changed the name so drastically for the English translation.
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TIL the proverb "blood is thicker than water" - basically it means that family is the most important. At the same time, I also learned that the original version goes "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb", which basically means the exact opposite. When you google the short version, the very first result explains how it is supposed to mean the opposite of what most people think. Now I wonder whether the short version being a thing at all is just an urban legend. Or maybe the full proverb itself was created with all that backstory already in place.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL the proverb "blood is thicker than water" - basically it means that family is the most important. At the same time, I also learned that the original version goes "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb", which basically means the exact opposite. When you google the short version, the very first result explains how it is supposed to mean the opposite of what most people think. Now I wonder whether the short version being a thing at all is just an urban legend. Or maybe the full proverb itself was created with all that backstory already in place.
When you click the citation, you'll notice that at this time it does not support that explanation! The expression “water of the womb” also makes no sense at all.
The idiom “blood is thicker than water” (with minor variations like “blood is more than water”) also exists in many other languages and dates back to before significant cultural influence from English-speaking lands can be expected.
Last, the normal, short, version being true is definitely more common.
So I am pretty sure the long version is a back-formation. It might have been used seriously as a twist on the usual proverb to describe a case where the friendship was actually honoured over family, but it won't be the original.
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@Bulb I tracked down the revision in which it first appeared in Wikipedia. Interestingly, it's camouflaged as a technical edit removing an empty references section.
The author isn't a registered user, but this IP has interesting history. Besides this one random unsourced piece of info, the only other contribution to Wikipedia was 4 years earlier: in an article about some teacher-slash-handegg-referee, they named his all time favorite pupil.
Looks like Grey's Anatomy has become another victim of not bothering to double-check weird trivia from Wikipedia articles.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
a major theme of the book was how awesome the cathedral itself is, during a time when it was considered by many people an outdated relic of a bygone age that should probably just be torn down
At least in this respect the novel was a success.
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@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The expression “water of the womb” also makes no sense at all.
It think it makes perfect sense. It's common to refer to a pregnant woman "breaking water" (or "loosing water", and this is the term used in French as well, but maybe not in all languages?) when loosing the amniotic liquid, so "water of the womb" clearly refers to the mother-child bond (and by extension, family).
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It's common to refer to a pregnant woman "breaking water"
It is. But I've never heard it being given any further meaning beyond simply the sign of start of the delivery.
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@Bulb Well using "womb" as a synonym of family is common, so I guess when trying to find a parallel with blood it's not that much of a stretch to use "water."
But I agree that it doesn't really sound like a real proverb that would have happened by itself (i.e. it sounds more like a retro-creation).
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Interestingly, it's camouflaged as a technical edit removing an empty references section.
I like how the current version of the page makes that all sound like it is a dubious claim. Someone did a backformation and is trying to smuggle it in, but it now has sufficient citable usage that it can't be just deleted. But the religious minded trying to claim a phrase means something else like this is not exactly new (even if not common).
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@error_bot xkcd citogenesis
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@Mason_Wheeler said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The actual title of his book was "Notre Dame de Paris," and Quasimodo was a relatively minor character.
I read this in the last month or so. He was definitely a main character.
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TIL that gcc is becoming sentient!
some_file.cpp:1234:56: error: ‘class Foo’ has no member named ‘setData’; did you mean ‘userData’?
Not only it's able to spot a typo (earlier it suggested (correctly)
something
when I had typoedsomethig
), but it can suggest a name that's somewhat different and not just a typo.:obama_face:
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that gcc is becoming sentient!
some_file.cpp:1234:56: error: ‘class Foo’ has no member named ‘setData’; did you mean ‘userData’?
Not only it's able to spot a typo (earlier it suggested (correctly)
something
when I had typoedsomethig
), but it can suggest a name that's somewhat different and not just a typo.:obama_face:
Seems like some semantic distance calculation shenanigans. Something similar has been done by IDEs for a while now so I guess it's about time compilers joined in.
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@Carnage Eclipse seems to do this over-aggressively. E.g. I'll start typing
log.info
and it will auto-suggest everything but the actual method I want.Fake edit: Here's an old example I've posted before
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage Eclipse seems to do this over-aggressively. E.g. I'll start typing
log.info
and it will auto-suggest everything but the actual method I want.Fake edit: Here's an old example I've posted before
Intellij is pretty good at predicting the method you want to call.
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@Carnage they also have the uflfccw-> useFirstLetterFromCamelCasedWords shortcut which is suuuuper nice
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@sloosecannon Eclipse has that as well
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@sloosecannon Eclipse has that as well
I feel like that's gotta be a recent addition? Last time I used eclipse I don't remember that being a thing...
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@sloosecannon It's been there for years, even before Visual Studio had it.
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@sloosecannon It's been there for years, even before Visual Studio had it.
To be fair the last time I used eclipse was also before VS had it, so....
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage Eclipse seems to do this over-aggressively. E.g. I'll start typing
log.info
and it will auto-suggest everything but the actual method I want.Fake edit: Here's an old example I've posted before
Eclipse is running on NodeBB?
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@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage Eclipse seems to do this over-aggressively. E.g. I'll start typing
log.info
and it will auto-suggest everything but the actual method I want.Fake edit: Here's an old example I've posted before
Eclipse is running on NodeBB?
You got that one backwards I'm afraid...
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage Eclipse seems to do this over-aggressively. E.g. I'll start typing
log.info
and it will auto-suggest everything but the actual method I want.Fake edit: Here's an old example I've posted before
Maybe Eclipse thinks that if you typed the entire function name you should then be able to type the
(
bracket as well, you .
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@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage Eclipse seems to do this over-aggressively. E.g. I'll start typing
log.info
and it will auto-suggest everything but the actual method I want.Fake edit: Here's an old example I've posted before
Visual Studio does this as well. The proper method is
Debug.Log
, but when I typeDebug.log
it insists onDebug.logger
and fucks it up...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Visual Studio does this as well.
I think there's people working to move all of this stuff over to a common language server system, so I guess it will end up equally fucked for everyone…
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TIL "amn't" is valid English.
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@Gąska valid, I guess, but extremely uncommon in my experience. The usual way of contracting "I am not" would be "I'm not" rather than "I amn't". Using "amn't" would almost certainly get some weird looks. Edit: Or, in the form of a question, "am I not," the only common contraction would be the grammatically incorrect "are not I" contracted to "aren't I". It's grammatically hideous, but it's the only way to ask that without being regarded as a weirdo.
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
but it's the only way to ask that without being regarded as a weirdo.
Am I not?
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@Gąska Yes, that is the correct way to ask, but it's not very common and rather formal. And formal is weird to most people, who don't even do casual correctly.
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@Gąska And jobn't is how you say you're unemployed.
Oh wait, is that just me?
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TIL there are commercial outfits which can clone a pet for an "affordable price":
Not sure this is such a good idea though, I've seen a documentary about it once:
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Everything in Australia is out to kill you.
TIL they even have dangerous architecture down there: (blog post from 2014)
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Everything in Australia is out to kill you.
TIL they even have dangerous architecture down there: (blog post from 2014)
In the immortal words of the Bard of Dundee:
[T]he stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed.
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL they even have dangerous architecture down there:
That sort of construction in an environment with that much erosion? Huge excitement, every storm…
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL they even have dangerous architecture down there:
That sort of construction in an environment with that much erosion? Huge excitement, every storm…
I'm going to make the wild assumption that the house is very well-anchored.
I'm sure it's perfectly fine for 10 years.
I'm sure it's all right for 20 years.
I'm sure most of it will still be there for 30 years.
I'm sure its value will depreciate...
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Everything in Australia is out to kill you.
TIL they even have dangerous architecture down there: (blog post from 2014)
The scaled down photo in the onebox makes it look like a gun turret.
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Bulb Well using "womb" as a synonym of family is common, so I guess when trying to find a parallel with blood it's not that much of a stretch to use "water."
But I agree that it doesn't really sound like a real proverb that would have happened by itself (i.e. it sounds more like a retro-creation).
In the Biblical Gospel of John, chapter 3, Jesus states that a person must be born of water and (re-)born of the spirit. I can see how someone only passingly familiar with the passage, and knowing that Jesus shed His blood as a sacrifice, might substitute "blood" for "spirit" in Jesus' words in order to try to make a pithy proverb with a religious reference to lend it some gravitas.
Alternately, it might be obliquely referencing one's "blood brother" as being closer than one's actual family, again, referencing an extremely common misinterpretation of a verse in the Biblical book of Proverbs: "A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity." Most people think this is saying that friendship is closer than family, but in actuality, the conjunction "and" and the preposition "for" in the second clause imply the exact opposite: "A brother is born [to help] for [times of] adversity." I.e. friends will love you all the time, and brothers will help you when you really need it.
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@PotatoEngineer said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL they even have dangerous architecture down there:
That sort of construction in an environment with that much erosion? Huge excitement, every storm…
I'm going to make the wild assumption that the house is very well-anchored.
On the page it's clearly called out as a concept that someone was interested in demonstrating, not an actual thing that anyone has been crazy enough to actually build.
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@boomzilla probably the same breed of people who needed to demonstrate that you can put a $10,000 computer in a trash can case.