Notices tagged with til

rozzin Today I Learned...

!TIL that zucchini is an immature `marrow': https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrow_(vegetable) …

rozzin Today I Learned...

Fright of my life: ran "git commit -a -m ..." and got a ream of bizarrely-detailed C-level memo…

rozzin Today I Learned... , rozzin

!TIL that there are toasters that #toast without desiccating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6lGaYh71g4
#toaster

rozzin Today I Learned...

!TIL that Diane Torr died--not long after she gave this great #TED #talk on #gender #performanc…

rozzin Today I Learned...

!TIL about Tonya Harding... https://music.sufjan.com/album/tonya-harding

rozzin Today I Learned... , steve

Interestingly, websearches find many kinds of Einstein socks, but no Oppenheimer socks, Feynman…

rozzin Today I Learned... , yoyo

!TIL that today is #US National !YoYo Day! http://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/holidays-other/national-yo-yo-day.htm

rozzin Today I Learned... , rozzin

Wow: !TIL that #keybase was founded on a fundamental misunderstanding about how the #PGP / #Gnu…

rozzin xmpp , Today I Learned... , gnusocial

!TIL how to make #ejabberd automatically give !xmpp logins for users in a !gnusocial DB: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/14906

rozzin Today I Learned...

!TIL that if I put my #VW's #UI into metric mode, it tells me how much fuel is burnt idling!

bobjonkmanformer Today I Learned...

!TIL "Yoda Conditionals": if (5 == x) then... Because it's like saying "if blue is the sky" or "if tall…

bobjonkmanformer Today I Learned...

!TIL "Yoda Conditionals": if (5 == x) then... Because it's like saying "if blue is the sky" or "if tall…

rozzin Today I Learned... , Robotics

!TIL about the Jaquet-Droz !automata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaquet-Droz_automata

rozzin Today I Learned... , apf

!TIL about Port Control Protcol, which I guess serves a problemspace similar to !APF's? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Control_Protocol

rozzin Today I Learned...

Finally found a logo that fits the !TIL group—a frame from @NinaPaley's "Transmission": http://blog.ninapaley.com/2013/11/28/transmission/

lnxw48 xmpp

#TIL: Peter St Andre (a/k/a "stpeter"), a leader in the !XMPP world, was until recently, also asso…

rozzin Today I Learned... , jd

!TIL about the #flame-licker #engine type from @jd. cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_engine

rozzin Today I Learned... , rozzin

!TIL that I also share a #birthday with the Nazi Party ☹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_24

rozzin Today I Learned...

!TIL that I share a #birthday with Steve Jobs.

atarifrosch Today I Learned...

!TIL: Chromium-Browser in Debian Wheezy has reached end of life. – https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3148