Updates tagged with til on Quadronyx (QDNX) uBlog!
rozzin: !TIL that zucchini is an immature `marrow': https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrow_(vegetable) http://status.hackerposse.com/notice/150849
rozzin's status on Sunday, 29-Nov-20 15:45:36 UTC
!TIL that zucchini is an immature `marrow': https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrow_(vegetable) …
rozzin: Fright of my life: ran "git commit -a -m ..." and got a ream of bizarrely-detailed C-level memo http://status.hackerposse.com/notice/134798
rozzin's status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 11:37:38 UTC
Fright of my life: ran "git commit -a -m ..." and got a ream of bizarrely-detailed C-level memo…
rozzin: !TIL that there are toasters that #toast without desiccating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6lGaYh71g4 #toaster
rozzin's status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-19 02:28:43 UTC
!TIL that there are toasters that #toast without desiccating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6lGaYh71g4 #toaster
rozzin: !TIL that Diane Torr died--not long after she gave this great #TED #talk on #gender #performanc http://status.hackerposse.com/notice/133547
rozzin's status on Sunday, 02-Jun-19 22:40:35 UTC
!TIL that Diane Torr died--not long after she gave this great #TED #talk on #gender #performanc…
rozzin: !TIL about Tonya Harding... https://music.sufjan.com/album/tonya-harding
rozzin's status on Monday, 20-May-19 14:28:08 UTC
!TIL about Tonya Harding... https://music.sufjan.com/album/tonya-harding
rozzin: Interestingly, websearches find many kinds of Einstein socks, but no Oppenheimer socks, Feynman http://status.hackerposse.com/notice/131963
rozzin's status on Friday, 30-Nov-18 05:04:03 UTC
Interestingly, websearches find many kinds of Einstein socks, but no Oppenheimer socks, Feynman…
rozzin: !TIL that today is #US National !YoYo Day! http://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/holidays-other/national-yo-yo-day.htm
rozzin's status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-17 03:58:04 UTC
!TIL that today is #US National !YoYo Day! http://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/holidays-other/national-yo-yo-day.htm
rozzin: Wow: !TIL that #keybase was founded on a fundamental misunderstanding about how the #PGP / #Gnu http://status.hackerposse.com/notice/122919
rozzin's status on Sunday, 21-May-17 19:16:27 UTC
Wow: !TIL that #keybase was founded on a fundamental misunderstanding about how the #PGP / #Gnu…
rozzin: !TIL how to make #ejabberd automatically give !xmpp logins for users in a !gnusocial DB: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/14906
rozzin's status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-17 18:09:37 UTC
!TIL how to make #ejabberd automatically give !xmpp logins for users in a !gnusocial DB: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/14906
rozzin: !TIL that if I put my #VW's #UI into metric mode, it tells me how much fuel is burnt idling!
rozzin's status on Friday, 24-Feb-17 21:01:32 UTC
!TIL that if I put my #VW's #UI into metric mode, it tells me how much fuel is burnt idling!
rozzin: RT @bobjonkman !TIL "Yoda Conditionals": if (5 == x) then... Because it's like saying "if blue is the sky" or "if tall is the man" https:/
rozzin's status on Monday, 07-Nov-16 07:18:53 UTC
RT @bobjonkman !TIL "Yoda Conditionals": if (5 == x) then... Because it's like saying "if blue is the sky" or "if tall is the man" https:/…
bobjonkmanformer: !TIL "Yoda Conditionals": if (5 == x) then... Because it's like saying "if blue is the sky" or "if tall http://sn.jonkman.ca/notice/1123013
bobjonkmanformer's status on Thursday, 03-Nov-16 02:11:59 UTC
!TIL "Yoda Conditionals": if (5 == x) then... Because it's like saying "if blue is the sky" or "if tall…
rozzin: !TIL about the Jaquet-Droz !automata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaquet-Droz_automata
rozzin's status on Tuesday, 11-Oct-16 21:39:47 UTC
!TIL about the Jaquet-Droz !automata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaquet-Droz_automata
rozzin: !TIL about Port Control Protcol, which I guess serves a problemspace similar to !APF's? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Control_Protocol
rozzin's status on Monday, 10-Oct-16 15:18:19 UTC
!TIL about Port Control Protcol, which I guess serves a problemspace similar to !APF's? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Control_Protocol
rozzin: Finally found a logo that fits the !TIL group—a frame from @NinaPaley's "Transmission": http://blog.ninapaley.com/2013/11/28/transmission/
rozzin's status on Wednesday, 13-Apr-16 15:39:07 UTC
Finally found a logo that fits the !TIL group—a frame from @NinaPaley's "Transmission": http://blog.ninapaley.com/2013/11/28/transmission/
lnxw48: #TIL: Peter St Andre (a/k/a "stpeter"), a leader in the !XMPP world, was until recently, also asso https://fresh.federati.net/notice/411899
lnxw48's status on Sunday, 20-Mar-16 15:36:36 UTC
#TIL: Peter St Andre (a/k/a "stpeter"), a leader in the !XMPP world, was until recently, also asso…
rozzin: !TIL about the #flame-licker #engine type from @jd. cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_engine
rozzin's status on Sunday, 01-Mar-15 03:53:29 UTC
!TIL about the #flame-licker #engine type from @jd. cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_engine
rozzin: !TIL that I also share a #birthday with the Nazi Party ☹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_24
rozzin's status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-15 13:20:06 UTC
!TIL that I also share a #birthday with the Nazi Party ☹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_24
rozzin: !TIL that I share a #birthday with Steve Jobs.
rozzin's status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-15 13:09:26 UTC
!TIL that I share a #birthday with Steve Jobs.
rozzin: RT @atarifrosch !TIL: Chromium-Browser in Debian Wheezy has reached end of life. – https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3148
rozzin's status on Monday, 23-Feb-15 05:27:46 UTC
RT @atarifrosch !TIL: Chromium-Browser in Debian Wheezy has reached end of life. – https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3148
atarifrosch: !TIL: Chromium-Browser in Debian Wheezy has reached end of life. – https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3148
atarifrosch's status on Monday, 23-Feb-15 00:09:31 UTC
!TIL: Chromium-Browser in Debian Wheezy has reached end of life. – https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3148
rozzin: !TIL how to make #hollandaise sauce. Now I just need to learn #restraint....
rozzin's status on Monday, 02-Feb-15 22:16:03 UTC
!TIL how to make #hollandaise sauce. Now I just need to learn #restraint....
rozzin: !TIL about #Lomography and Vladimir #Putin's role in the history of #photography: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20434270
rozzin's status on Thursday, 16-Oct-14 03:15:48 UTC
!TIL about #Lomography and Vladimir #Putin's role in the history of #photography: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20434270
rozzin: !TIL about Grand Prismatic Spring—the #rainbow #color'd #hotspring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prismatic_Spring
rozzin's status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-14 03:22:02 UTC
!TIL about Grand Prismatic Spring—the #rainbow #color'd #hotspring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prismatic_Spring
rozzin: !TIL about #Amish tractors: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/6209 http://www.welcome-to-lancast http://status.hackerposse.com/notice/66505
rozzin's status on Tuesday, 16-Sep-14 18:01:48 UTC
!TIL about #Amish tractors: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/6209 http://www.welcome-to-lancast…
rozzin: !TIL that Russian dressing was invented in #Nashua, !NH: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_dressing
rozzin's status on Monday, 15-Sep-14 01:46:21 UTC
!TIL that Russian dressing was invented in #Nashua, !NH: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_dressing
rozzin: !TIL some #dollar-bill !origami: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/6180 http://www.origami-resource-center.com/dollar-bill.html
rozzin's status on Friday, 05-Sep-14 20:59:24 UTC
!TIL some #dollar-bill !origami: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/6180 http://www.origami-resource-center.com/dollar-bill.html
rozzin: !TIL #accidentally there's a town in South Dakota where it's always "tea time": http://www.wolfr http://status.hackerposse.com/notice/66353
rozzin's status on Thursday, 04-Sep-14 19:52:57 UTC
!TIL #accidentally there's a town in South Dakota where it's always "tea time": http://www.wolfr…
inscius: @mcnalu #TIL ? btw, there are about 50 peopel with name "Orm" today http://qttr.at/dbd "orm" also the common word for "snake" :-)
inscius's status on Thursday, 31-Jul-14 08:07:28 UTC
@mcnalu #TIL ? btw, there are about 50 peopel with name "Orm" today http://qttr.at/dbd "orm" also the common word for "snake" :-)
rozzin: !TIL: the #phonics of "l" is _always_ dark in _most_ of North #America? http://status.hackerposse.com/url/6038
rozzin's status on Thursday, 24-Jul-14 22:23:28 UTC
!TIL: the #phonics of "l" is _always_ dark in _most_ of North #America? http://status.hackerposse.com/url/6038
rozzin: !TIL that "M-x butterfly" is _actually a thing_ in #Emacs, since version 23.1 or thereabout.
rozzin's status on Friday, 18-Jul-14 05:12:35 UTC
!TIL that "M-x butterfly" is _actually a thing_ in #Emacs, since version 23.1 or thereabout.
rozzin: !TIL that @palmella can actually sleep standing up, when she fell asleep while standing in the middle of the kitchen.
rozzin's status on Saturday, 28-Jun-14 23:03:01 UTC
!TIL that @palmella can actually sleep standing up, when she fell asleep while standing in the middle of the kitchen.
rozzin: !TIL what the crazy desiccated alien sphere thing I once found in my childhood was: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_giganteum
rozzin's status on Thursday, 19-Jun-14 23:51:57 UTC
!TIL what the crazy desiccated alien sphere thing I once found in my childhood was: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_giganteum
rozzin: !TIL that #US pennies from before 1982 #sound different when dropped.
rozzin's status on Sunday, 25-May-14 03:41:18 UTC
!TIL that #US pennies from before 1982 #sound different when dropped.
rozzin: !TIL the difference between the #printf forms printf("%0*d", ...) and printf("%.*d", ...).
rozzin's status on Wednesday, 14-May-14 22:42:48 UTC
!TIL the difference between the #printf forms printf("%0*d", ...) and printf("%.*d", ...).
windigo: Huh! #TIL that CSS color names were basically copied off of X11 color names. Thanks, @x11r5!
windigo's status on Monday, 28-Apr-14 19:59:43 UTC
Huh! #TIL that CSS color names were basically copied off of X11 color names. Thanks, @x11r5!
rozzin: !TIL that there is an official #Wikimedia shop: https://shop.wikimedia.org/
rozzin's status on Friday, 18-Apr-14 02:37:36 UTC
!TIL that there is an official #Wikimedia shop: https://shop.wikimedia.org/
windigo: Apparently the # command in vim searches for instances of the word under the cursor. #til
windigo's status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-14 18:25:11 UTC
Apparently the # command in vim searches for instances of the word under the cursor. #til
rozzin: !TIL the historic importance of Edweard Muybridge, thanks to a "no #RUNNING with your lollypop" http://status.hackerposse.com/notice/62995
rozzin's status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-14 13:25:25 UTC
!TIL the historic importance of Edweard Muybridge, thanks to a "no #RUNNING with your lollypop" …
rozzin: !TIL the historic importance of Edweard Muybridge, thanks to a "no #RUNNING with your lollypop" conversation with @nanohacker and @palmella.
rozzin's status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-14 13:24:42 UTC
!TIL the historic importance of Edweard Muybridge, thanks to a "no #RUNNING with your lollypop" conversation with @nanohacker and @palmella.
rozzin: RT @bobjonkman (/me goes back to check other instances for my deleted messages) Hmm… You're ri http://status.hackerposse.com/notice/62561
rozzin's status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-14 15:49:55 UTC
RT @bobjonkman (/me goes back to check other instances for my deleted messages) Hmm… You're ri…
bobjonkmanformer: (/me goes back to check other instances for my deleted messages) Hmm… You're right… Since deletions http://sn.jonkman.ca/notice/268826
bobjonkmanformer's status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-14 09:11:06 UTC
(/me goes back to check other instances for my deleted messages) Hmm… You're right… Since deletions…
rozzin: !TIL that #DDG really groks #unicode: compare https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%E2%98%84 vs. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%E2%98%84
rozzin's status on Friday, 07-Mar-14 20:00:37 UTC
!TIL that #DDG really groks #unicode: compare https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%E2%98%84 vs. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%E2%98%84
rozzin's status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-14 01:00:18 UTC
!TIL that 2*cos(pi/6) = sqrt(3)
rozzin: !TIL about $GREP_OPTIONS and "grep --exclude=...", and how easy it is to have "set it and #forget it" #backfire.
rozzin's status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-14 13:57:54 UTC
!TIL about $GREP_OPTIONS and "grep --exclude=...", and how easy it is to have "set it and #forget it" #backfire.
rozzin: !TIL that there is no "e" at the tail end of "endorphin", despite it being a #portmanteau of "endogenous morphine". #words
rozzin's status on Thursday, 13-Feb-14 14:12:49 UTC
!TIL that there is no "e" at the tail end of "endorphin", despite it being a #portmanteau of "endogenous morphine". #words
rozzin: !TIL about #Gandhi's view on the #Holocaust: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/5160
rozzin's status on Sunday, 09-Feb-14 04:56:07 UTC
!TIL about #Gandhi's view on the #Holocaust: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/5160
rozzin: !TIL that #paisley is called "Persian cucumbers" in #Russian, though my only source for this is @comraderacing....
rozzin's status on Thursday, 23-Jan-14 02:40:05 UTC
!TIL that #paisley is called "Persian cucumbers" in #Russian, though my only source for this is @comraderacing....