Notices tagged with til
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!TIL: Color temperature filter from the G'MIC filter package for GIMP. White balance / color temperature correction for JPGs, exactly what I needed :-)
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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: Schnurgerade Kratzer in gescannten Negativen bekommt man mit dem GIMP-Filter „destripe“ ziemlich gut weg.
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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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!TIL Early in life, each #dolphin creates its own unique vocal whistle that gives it an individual identity. Because each whistle is unique, dolphins are able to call to each other by mimicking the whistle of a dolphin they want to communicate with. It's the equivalent of calling each other by name. - https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-23410137 #ethology #biology
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!TIL Flying home via Germany (Berlin) was cheaper than a one-way train - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHM94Wg92T0
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Hmm "Data Transfer Project" https://datatransferproject.dev/ ???? !TIL
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Ha! I knew since long that it is possible, but never found out how. Now !TIL: Getting previously typed complete command lines back from .bash_history by typing the first few characters and then using cursor up/down. This is the solution I found (and already tested; it works): https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5366/command-line-completion-from-command-history/20830#20830
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!TIL that #Swedish blood banks texts donors to notify them whenever their blood helps save a life. - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/sweden-blood-donors-text-message_n_7657156.html #Sweden
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!TIL some of the biggest flying birds ever to exist may have lived alongside humans in the Americas, and may have even influenced Native myths. - https://quitter.es/url/1865497
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!TIL that a Spanish government worker was absent from work for six years but continued receiving a salary of $41,500 annually and his bosses only found out when he was eligible for a long service award. He retired in the end. - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/man-skipped-work-for-6-years_us_56c1d32ae4b0b40245c72512
Spanish government in a nutshell
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