Notices tagged with til
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!TIL that zucchini is an immature `marrow': https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrow_(vegetable)
Had to look that up to make sense out of a track on Andrew Liles' album, `Ouarda': https://www.andrewliles.com/discography/andrew-liles-ouarda-the-subtle-art-of-phyllorhodomancy/
https://status.hackerposse.com/url/22914
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Fright of my life: ran "git commit -a -m ..." and got a ream of bizarrely-detailed C-level memory-debugging diagnostics for unexpectedly-copious "add" and "del" operations; panicked for a moment until I realized I'd #typo'd "git" as "dig".
!TIL what dig's "-m" option of does ☺
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!TIL that there are toasters that #toast without desiccating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6lGaYh71g4
#toaster
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!TIL #Twitter works with JS disabled http://sn.chromic.org/attachment/387045
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!TIL that Diane Torr died--not long after she gave this great #TED #talk on #gender #performance and #perception (and reception): https://youtube.com/watch?v=paBsyBY_-dA
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!TIL cat /proc/cmdline
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!TIL Power MOSFETs trade off between conduction losses and switching frequency. High Rds(on) devices have lower turn on and off times, while lower Rds(on) devices are sluggish.
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Interestingly, websearches find many kinds of Einstein socks, but no Oppenheimer socks, Feynman socks.... And !TIL that #Einstein was the one that never wore #socks. #irony
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!til apt-get --allow-releaseinfo-change update
to accept repo info changed https://guany.in/attachment/630673
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!TIL: John Francis, an American environmentalist, decided to stop speaking for a day to learn to listen better to his opponents. He turned it into a 17-year vow of silence. During those 17 years, he went to school and even earned a PhD. - https://quitter.es/url/2037440
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!TIL about
patchelf "a small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executables." https://nixos.org/patchelf.html
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!TIL
maybe https://github.com/p-e-w/maybe !cli
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!TIL about the whistling language called Sylbo. Native to the Canary Islands, Sylbo is thousands of years old and developed as a means for inhabitants of La Gomera to communicate across deep ravines and narrow valleys. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0CIRCjoICA
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!TIL that Steve Jobs named his company "Apple" partially because he wanted it to appear in the phone book before #Atari, his former workplace. - https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-archive-name-apple-2011-12 #apple
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!TIL that in the 1950's, donut shops were some of the first food businesses commonly open late at night. They became hot spots for police working the night shift since it gave them a place to grab a snack, fill out paper work, or even just take a break. This is why donuts became associated with cops. - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-doughnut-loving-cops-became-stereotype-180956730/
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!TIL about
pkgfile #archlinux https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pkgfile "pkgfile is a tool for searching files from packages in the official repositories."
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!til !emacs has a process manager in the spirit of dired. https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/displaying-interacting-processes-proced
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!TIL there's a post about a guy who turned his preferences for #Reddit into Spanish and asked there for help receiving more than 2000 comments *in Spanish* ???
HELP reddit turned spanish and i cannot undo it! - https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cq1q2/help_reddit_turned_spanish_and_i_cannot_undo_it/
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!TIL dry counties (counties where the sale of alcohol is banned) have a drunk driving fatality rate ~3.6 times higher than wet counties. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county#Traveling_to_purchase_alcohol
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!TIL that when washing clothes with modern detergent (!), cold water is just as effective as warm water, while using 75% less energy - https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-are-you-still-washing-your-clothes-in-warm-water-1706931003
But it's recommended to use warm water (>42°C) to kill bacteria from bed clothes and underwear!
#science #lifeprotip
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