#TIL Un vélo a 4 roues, un moteur thermique et 1 à 2 tonnes d'acier.
Si j'en crois le fait qu'en 2 passages devant le carrefour au bout de ma rue, dont la voie d'en face est un sens interdit sauf pour les vélos et les bus : 1 "vélo" empruntant cette voie à chaque passage. Ce n'était pas des bus : pas assez de place dedans
#TIL that in 1929, JM Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, gifted his work's copyright to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
"Through this gift, Peter Pan’s magic made an unprecedented leap from the realm of fiction into reality and the hospital began to receive royalties every time a production of the play was on, as well as from the sale of Peter Pan books and other products."
"if fixed, undisturbed, in free air, not exposed to radiation, fire, or sun, but in the ordinary light of a well-ventilated room or outer air, the chemical mixture in a so-called storm-glass varies in character with the direction of the wind [...]"
Sometimes I look up from whatever weird subject I’m learning and marvel at the fact that I get to learn random things for work. Recently it’s been bathymetry and deep sea exploration, for a talk in Romania in two weeks where I relate them to distributed tracing for microservices-based systems. I love my job. https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/Bathymetry
#TIL about a really high quality and expensive #vegetarian meal in #Japan called Shojin Ryori. It's a vegetarian cuisine that's prepared at Buddhist temples and is mostly found in Kyoto. You will need to reserve ahead of time for these. #Vegan#Japanese
Aux USA, les entreprises utilisent le 1er amendement de la constitution pour échapper à la régulation.
L'astuce consiste à dire grosso-modo : « l'État n'a pas le droit de me forcer à dire ce que je ne veux pas dire » (ex : les émissions de gaz à effet de serre)
#TIL au passage durant la lecture de cet article : les rachats d'actions (buybacks), aujourd'hui une bonne source de moula pour les actionnaires, était illégaux aux USA jusqu'en 1982 au motif que cela s'assimilait à de la manipulation de cours.
Reste à savoir si c'est la Cour Suprême qui a fait sauté cette interdiction ou l'administration Reagan
Edit : a priori une décision de la SEC, donc des affidés de Reagan
Oh #TIL. The whole "AI" scraping bots are obviously not paying attention to nofollow, noindexand so on. So now all kind of "SEO" spam prevention stuff you do on your websites is pointless now. Cool, cool, cool.
Most people would probably star the repo or something? I do star repos, but then it's like a void that I never consult again. So I'm going to try TIL-ing the repos that catch my attention, even if I don't use them.
So this makes sense, and many of you will probably know this, but #TIL that the "print screen" button on our keyboards used to print the actual screen.
"In essence, whatever is currently on the screen when the key is pressed will be printed."
#TIL we can turn off tracking protection to see images in #ThreadReaderApp, albeit in odd sizes, affecting layout.
#Nitter avoids tracking, shows replies, connects to other posts, etc, but the popularity of this thread by @trishgreenhalgh (1m views on birdsite) is taxing its remaining servers... https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
@Beedazzled Wow! I don't know about the 'wind pollinated crop' part but by default had simply thought that bees just don't visit maize/corn. Thanks for the info. #TIL
#devRant has vanished from app stores. Now I wonder how new people will ever make it to the community of funny and loud nerds like this one. The way I discovered it is by searching #DevHumor in Google Images and clicking on the one joke I liked. Despite being website second and mobile first, devRant has found its way to my desktop bookmarks, I quickly became a user just to throw a few snarky jokes back and take part in some interesting discussions. There are lots of #TIL moments to have, too.
Few telling signs show that dR does not feel well: subscriptions stopped functioning and now app is nowhere to be found on Play Store. There are simply periods when servers refuse to accept some LTE connections, which is strange for mobile first platform. Now users will have to resort to third-party app, like #skyRant, to access the platform at finger tips.
This situation got me musing again about an app that could interact with devRant and Fediverse, optionally archiving stuff on the latter.
Today I learned the #Japanese equivalent of the #English phrase 'Food Porn' is '飯テロ' or 'Meshi Tero', where the 'tero' part is a borrow word for 'terrorism'.
The literal translation is 'Food Terrorism'. Consider that in relation to the Japanese penchant for filling their #SocialMedia streams with pictures of every single thing they eat.
"Stand near an elephant herd, and you may feel a strange vibration in your chest. That’s not your heart beating in terror because you’re, well, standing next to an elephant herd. Or at least that’s not all it is. It’s also a sign that the elephants are talking to one another. Elephants are famous for their trumpeting, of course, but they also produce rumbles pitched so low that humans can’t hear them, only feel them as a sort of physical buzzing. Exactly how elephants do this has been a mystery — and while solving that mystery is not of first-order importance in understanding and preserving this largest of land animals, it would add new insight into how a whole range of species vocalize."
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