Notices tagged with til, page 14
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#TIL that smooth peanut butter is a great way to polish and condition hard rubber and black plastic on your car.
Tuesday, 15-Mar-16 19:35:13 UTC from web -
#TIL めっちゃ means "Hella"
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@espionage724 thanks to your post, !til about #pihole! #Adblocking network-wide!
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!til of Knightscope, the Potato Knishes child of a Dalek with HAL9000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightscope !privacy !surveillance
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#TIL that Thomas Jefferson was the first person to use the word 'mammoth' in an adjectival form pertaining to largeness or grandieur.
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!til docker network disconnect -f overlaynetwork container
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!TIL about json_pp https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/JSON-PP/bin/json_pp !cli
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!TIL that there is such thing as a "Microsoft RMS" https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd277361.aspx #irony
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!til there is an area in the Universe known as ZONE OF AVOIDANCE. Sounds terrifying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Avoidance
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!TIL about the Memory Hole Standard to protect e-mail headers with #GnuPG https://modernpgp.org/memoryhole/
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!TIL that your #riseup email address can also be used as an !XMPP chat address https://help.riseup.net/en/chat handy-dandy!
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Huh. !TIL "How to Use Notepad to Create a Log File": https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/260563#mt1
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!TIL: 8' == waving cat :-D
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!til before there is since the 1980s an international treaty that say countries can't drop nuclear waste in oceans far from their country. Before that Belgium dropped their nuclear waste in a trench found in the Bay of Biscaly.
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!TIL: #LibreOffice 4.3.3.x (in Debian Jessie) cannot read #odt files (text and a simple, embedded jpg) created by LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 (in Debian Wheezy). WTF? AbiWord (in Debian Jessie) can and spared me lots of trouble.
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!TIL after 6 years of using Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM) I still have a lot to learn. Or maybe if I used a fancy black box AFM that does all the signal optimization for me I might feel there is nothing new to learn. ...
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!til about the Tacuinum Sanitatis, a medieval book on health with some surprisingly modern advice and gorgeous illustrations in the existing manuscripts.
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!til web beacon = pixel tag = tracking pixel = clear gif = web bug = tracking bug = page tag and that it is also used on emails that use HTML support. seems no current standard way of using them. source wikipedia entry web beacon
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#TIL that one of the largest herds of animals of the world is the Taymyr migratory herd of Eurasian reindeer, throughout Siberia. Recorded number in 2000 reached around 1.000.000
Tuesday, 16-Feb-16 00:07:01 UTC from web -
@dragnucs #TIL: in #860 #Björn "iron side", son of Ragnar, led a large Viking raid into the Mediterranean and fought his way through #Gibraltar but found the #Saracen navy of #AlAndalus waiting for him and defeating him. He lost 40 ships but managed to flee back to Scandinavia with his remaining fleet and lived out his life as a rich man. #1150yearsago
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!TIL Spanish has good phonetic rules so Espeak (text to speech) is easier to understand. $ espeak -ves "Hola mundo ". I have set it to say good morning on Monday with $ crontab -e
00 8 * * 1 espeak -ves " Hoy es Lunes son las ocho! Que lo pases bien en el colegio. "
I don't know if it will do entonation of ¿? and ¡!. -
#TIL that "clockwork orange" is/was a Cockney turn of phrase meaning expressly odd. Or re-learned it as it did seem familiar.
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!til about that, thank you ;-)
