Notices tagged with til, page 4
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!TIL cat /proc/cmdline
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!TIL Power MOSFETs trade off between conduction losses and switching frequency. High Rds(on) devices have lower turn on and off times, while lower Rds(on) devices are sluggish.
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!TIL: An Fensterrahmen sind unten links und rechts jeweils ein längliches „Loch“, durch das Wasser, das die Scheibe runterfließt, nach außen geleitet wird. War bei meinem Küchenfenster auf einer Seite verstopft, deshalb war bei mir Wasser reingelaufen. Dichtung ist OK.
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!TIL: pwgen (generates random passwords of given length)
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!TIL: WTF – https://wtfutil.com/
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!TIL: Why Does Cold Weather Drain Your Phone Battery? – https://www.livescience.com/61334-batteries-die-cold-weather.html
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!TIL: Soroptimist International – https://www.soroptimistinternational.org/ – international NGO for women's rights and gender equality.
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Interestingly, websearches find many kinds of Einstein socks, but no Oppenheimer socks, Feynman socks.... And !TIL that #Einstein was the one that never wore #socks. #irony
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!til apt-get --allow-releaseinfo-change update
to accept repo info changed https://guany.in/attachment/630673
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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/