Notices tagged with til, page 21
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!til a tungsten filament on 0.5 mm diameter with 2 Ampere lights up in a whole array of wavelengths including the 600-700nm one. Really f** up my atomic force microscopy measurement.
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!TIL about the Readers' Bill of Rights http://readersbillofrights.info/ #freedom #DRM #ebooks
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!TIL the idea 4 Santa Claus's flying sleigh mayb came from reindeer & shamans eating magic mushies in the Arctic Circle http://qttr.at/196o
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!TIL that 'Huntigowk Day' is an old Scottish name for April Fools' Day.
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!TIL about #Pydio ( https://pydio.com ) and I also learn it supposedly can federate with !owncloud
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!til the number pi in 7 decimals. https://loadaverage.org/attachment/2976600
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!til that #Blender can do #video editing too, and not just rendering animations. This is great!
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!TIL that you can call a timer from DuckDuckGo. Wanted quick 2m timer for my !tea and searched for an online timer; DDG provided one at the top of the results.
You can also specify a time and have it inputted into the results timer too (so "5m timer" will provide a timer starting at 5m).
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!TIL one angle to the Fermi Paradox is that aliens might b super absorbed in virtual worlds and don't care much about the real one
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!til how to paste screenshots straight into !emacs #orgmode buffers - useful if you use org as a notebook and need to quickly add graphs or captures http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#orgheadline126
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!til Easter bunny was a religious representation because it was thought to be hermafodite.
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!TIL about Garry #Kasparov's anti-fascist and freedom-oriented activism. Who knew that the #chess master had this humanitarian side as well?
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!TIL !vim "You can use the :edit command without specifying a file name to reload the current file." http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/149210
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!TIL about `linux32` (`setarch`) http://linux.die.net/man/8/linux32
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!til that I can use #Tor (Orbot actually) to bypass corporate firewalls that block ports for services such as IM. Awesome!
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@espionage724 thanks to your post, !til about #pihole! #Adblocking network-wide!
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!til of Knightscope, the bastard child of a Dalek with HAL9000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightscope !privacy !surveillance
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@extropic thanks to this post, !til about the #gopher protocol! It seems like a smart solution towards removing bloat of the web
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!til docker network disconnect -f overlaynetwork container
to disconnect a already-removed container from overlay network endpoint in docker swarm
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!til that the fraction 1/(3^4) results in a 0.0123456789... repeating decimal! Some neat #math