Rooms with high ceilings are hard to heat because all the heat is at the top, too high for you to feel.
The Guinness Book of Records stopped accepting records for "longest time gone without sleep" in 1989 because it was so dangerous. They also dropped alcoholic-related records (ironic) because they aren't healthy.
On-street parking is banned in Japan. That's why their streets look so good compared to the stroads elsewhere. You can still park temporarily on the side of the street for loading/unloading, obviously.
Ctrl + Shift + F in firefox developer tools lets you find the string across all script files.
Since ,, -, and . are consecutive characters on the ASCII table, [,-.] is the only expression where it doesn't matter what - is doing. (But yes in this case it is looking for characters within a range, which includes exactly those three characters.)
Both Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's trusts are set to expire (spend all the money and close down) with 10 ~ 20 years of their deaths to make sure the trusts don't end up paying themselves with salaries, forever, instead of helping people.
ITSF (International Table Soccer Federation) rules say the ball cannot fly over an opponent's rod, i.e. Shirley's projectile shot was illegal on their books. It is a legal move everywhere else.
Orthodox Jews can't use electronics on Sabbath day because ignoring a fire counts as work, and creating an electrical circuit counts as igniting a fire.
Landlords can "soft-evict" people on their land by imposing stupid rules that make people so sick of living there, they leave voluntarily. Then the landlords won't need to pay them to leave.
Pressing y on github gives you a permalink to a line.
Due to the way their licenses are certified, lawyers typically have no mobility outside of their province/state for the rest of their lives.
Sometimes companies call it a "brown bag" meeting when it's a lunch-and-learn: the kinds of meetings where you are expected to eat, rather than to take any notes or remember anything.
Cave-diving is especially dangerous because there is no sense of orientation down there. You might be convinced you are swimming up, but actually going further down.
Poorly-designed USB 3.0 appliances emit radio frequencies that interfere with 2.4 GHz devices, like Wi-Fi, bluetooth, and wireless peripherals. A recommendation has been to switch to 5 GHz Wi-Fi, but that can't fix your keyboard dongle.
It's called "inner source" if you are only allowed to do "open source" but within your own company. Big companies like it because teams don't wait for another team to work on something they need.
Sun microsystems came from SUN, or Stanford University Network.
Laminate flooring cannot be mopped (with a wet mop).
An "oblast" is roughly equal to an area, province, or region.
A "break glass solution" might be one where a non-ideal, hack-like solution is made available for emergencies.
"Solve distractions, not discoverability": don't keep telling the user what other features there are. Let people be immersed in what they love, and they will explore the rest.
To "escape" a string means to ensure something is a part of the string, rather than a character that ends the definition of the string.
Rye is made with, well, 51%+ rye. Bourbon is made from corn.
The main argument for dependency pinning, as opposed to allowing auto-revision upgrades, is reproducible builds.
"The scream test is a test where, to determine the cause, use, or ownership of a server, daemon, or even file, you remove access to it and see who or what screams."
Seven people told separate keys to the ICANN root key: Dan Kaminsky from the United States, Paul Kane from the U.K., Bevil Wooding from Trinidad and Tobego, Jiankang Yao of China, Moussa Guebre from Burkina Faso, Norm Ritchie of Canada, and Ondrej Sury of the Czech Republic.
Stored procedures can be said to be "sprocs".
CTOs can work with a bunch of other staff immediately with them, too. They don't always need to belong to a subdivision.
Click "Replay" in Jenkins to re-run a build with a Jenkinsfile that you can modify any way you like.
HTTP PATCH (non-idempotent) doesn't require you to specify the patch operation, e.g. { "op": "add", "path": "/count", "value": 1 }. It can be { "count": 1 } too, as long as the server can make sense of it.
When Shopify asks you to tell them your "life story", they meant specific to your career, i.e. what's already on your resume. They don't want your life story; they want your work history.
There's a console.table() to show tables.
"If no one in your household suffers from allergies or unexplained symptoms or illnesses and if, after a visual inspection of the inside of the ducts, you see no indication that your air ducts are contaminated with large deposits of dust or mold (no musty odor or visible mold growth), having your air ducts cleaned is probably unnecessary." - EPA
A toe nail is one that is driven from the roof to the wall. Toenailing is driving a nail at an angle. Neither term has anything to do with toes.
You need to sit 2 metres from your 24-inch TV for "safe watching" (their words, not mine). But if that TV were a computer monitor of the same size and pixel density, then that distance is suddenly halved.
When referring to a transition from one scene to another, the word is "segue", not "segway".
Companies like Amazon use "unregretted attrition rate" (URA) to make sure a certain percentage of employees are fired or laid off every year. Even if your employees are stars.
In Kanban, you don't size anything.
A line of credit can be used as a no-fee chequing account in a pinch. It still does not give you cheques, however.
In no country do women drink more than men.
"While pawns can move forward, they cannot capture pieces moving directly forward. The reason for this is because if they look their opponent in the eye while they kill them, they will see only their own face: that of a worker. The truth will dawn on them, that their enemy is their comrade and their king is their enemy." - a meme
"Terraform is used to deploy a Kubernetes cluster which runs stacks of interconnected containers and settings specified in Helm charts." - /u/NamityName
Cutting police budget to fund social services only works if you have no neighbouring cities. If your city alone cut the police budget, you become a soft underbelly of a target.
When your teacher asked for your parent's signature, they are just asking for someone who can write properly (i.e. not a child) to give a signature. You can ask any adult to sign it, actually.
Working from home increases productivity for 20% of the workforce, and lowers it for 40%.
Before you buy a major appliance, check if any of your local repair shops deal with them. If they don't, chances are the manufacturer is a dick, doesn't want you to repair it down the road, and repair shops are unable to get parts.
3D printers produce fumes (unless you stick to PLA, apparently), but an enclosure will keep the fumes inside.
Machine-generated faces don't tend to have round pupils.
A large number of phones are designed by the Clevos of the mobile world, like Wingtech. 89% of Lenovo's phones are designed by someone else. Half of OPPO's phones are outsourced.
The JPEG files today are mostly JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format) files, a format that builds on JPEG.
BuildKit is a Dockerfile builder toolkit. Buildkite is a CI tool.
Recruiters can totally look you up on Linkedin and ask your mutual connections what they think about you. No reference request needed. They can also not give you any updates for a week because they are waiting on a candidate they like more. These are all things they won't tell you, no matter how good your relationship is with them, so just be professional, let them do their job, and thank them with a hollow gesture when they tell you it's all over.
A spike is a test that helps explore the simplest way to solve a problem. Then again, sometimes people call something a spike even though it is just the investigation part of the story.
RabbitMQ is a queue. Kafka is a log. This underlying difference allows RabbitMQ to have message priority (as in, a priority queue), while Kafka allows message retention (as in, a log), broadcasting, and replay.
GFCIs detect current leakage by comparing the magnetic field strength between line in and line out. In an AC situation, in and out should always be equal. A two-outlet GFCI receptacle only has one pair of wires getting electricity into it (line hot + line neutral). The other pair of wires (load hot + load neutral) are for other pairs of non-GFCI receptacles somewhere some the load wires, so multiple outlets are protected by one GFCI.
One "cal" is just 0.01 inches. 50 cal is 0.5 inches. 200 cal is 2 inches. Except where "50 cal" is actually a term for 51 cal, and "243 cal" is 0.243 inches. Because 'Murica.
If you save only a portion of the password in your password manager, e.g. the %7p3YTJ*n*y^tFzp part of %7p3YTJ*n*y^tFzp---Google, this is called peppering, instead of salting. The pepper is the part of the password that not even your password manager knows. However, if you employ such a strategy, there is no longer convenience associated with a password manager auto-filling for you.
"Jonathan" (jo-nathan) means "YHWH has given"... "Nathan" just means "gave".
"Systems reliant on perfection are those most vulnerable to disruption." - Sam Denby
Clever people buy south-facing driveways. Sun melts snow.
The drop bear is not a real animal. It is an Australian inside joke, like the house hippo.
Enum is a code smell when you aren't enumerating over all of them. They should not be used as "if this then that" symbols. They should not be used in switch statements that don't handle all cases. But they are definitely a better chocice in these situations than, say, constants that would have done the same work.
Water usually doesn't freeze on its way to your home because those pipes are usually dug below the frost line. The "usually" part of this means we occasionally get burst pipes during very cold winters.
"Microsoft intentionally made programs install to C:\Program Files on Windows 95+ to force programmers to deal with spaces in filenames" is passed around a lot, and at this point we don't really know if it is true.
A nude becomes artful if the woman in it carries an urn, sits on a plinth, or better, both at the same time. Paraphrasing Terry Pratchett.
Proof-of-stake ("if you have 3% of coins, you can mine 3% of new coins") makes hacking a blockchain disadvantageous for the people already with the largest stakes.
Mods can see deleted messages on Discord.
On salt-based vs salt-free water softeners: "While salt free systems are good at scale prevention that is pretty much all they are good for. Salt Free Systems pretty much do nothing for you when it comes to softer skin and hair or getting rid of soap scum or hard water toilet rings. They also don't do a whole lot towards getting rid of those unsightly water spots on your glass show wall doors or your dishes. (...)"
Softwood makes up 80% of all lumber production.
GitLab is Y Combinator's first ever open-source company to go public.
Dark mode saves only 8.5% of power when the screen's brightness is at 50%. The savings is higher when the screen is at 100% brightness.
Phillips electric toothbrush heads come with RFID chips that scream at you if you use knockoff ones. "We are heading to a fully immersive subscription environment. If you want a particular lifestyle, there's a subscription for that."
Onix is roughly the density of styrofoam, and Steelix is possible only if it is made with foil and vacuum inside.
The "same" product can be cheaper at Walmart because they specifically ask some manufacturers to make them in cheaper ways, even though they might look the same. Some plumbers recommend Moen ("or equivalent", but didn't mention what is equivalent).
You don't want a (filament) 3D printer. You want a resin printer. Resin printers use light to cure whatever it is printing, resulting in prints that are much higher in resolution.
Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, calls himself a dictator, despite having been democratically elected after creating his own party, Nuevas Ideas.
To get "drilled" in baseball means the batter is hit by the pitcher. Sometimes they do it on purpose. If you get drilled on the head, it's called getting beaned.
Stain your deck when it is dried after washing. It might take a few days of dry weather. Don't stain your deck on a hot day. The stain will dry too quickly, and not be able to absorb into the wood.
The average youtuber needs 3873 videos and 1 million subscribers to make "youtubing" a sustainable business model; to "succeed" in youtube.
It is impossible to build a silent mechanical keyboard. People have spent hundreds of dollars and failed, and despite all that work, resulted in a poor typing experience.
Electric skateboards have remote controls that tell them to stop. It's not magic.
To "give someone/something a wide berth" means to give that someone or something a lot of distance in between. A berth is a ship's parking spot.
There are gas and electric clothes dryers. Gas dryers are cheaper to operate and gentler on clothes, but, you know, it uses gas. Gas isn't good for the environment.
RabbitMQ memory usage can double when the Erlang garbage collector kicks in, so any erlang application, including RabbitMQ, should never use more than 50% of available memory.
Houses need gutters so the concentrated water can fuck up just one place, instead of fucking up the foundation all around the house.
Gateron low profile key switches are far inferior to even Kailh key switches.
Lots of people seem to enjoy zwave products for home automation.
The semiconductor industry uses a lot of ultra pure water for manufacturing. This means droughts can (along with other factors) bring about chip shortages.
Chewing gum doesn't go bad (before chewing) due to its low moisture content.
The X in "IPX8" means the thing was never certified for dust ingress.
An IPA's chill haze is actually protein.
Lawn mower blades need to be sharpened. Apparently you can get something that attaches to a power tool, or you can just use a bench grinder.
XMLHttpRequest is called XMLHttpRequest because IE did it first. W3C recommends camel-casingt acronyms now, i.e. XmlHttpRequest, and so does Microsoft (but only for acronyms more than two characters long, so IO is still IO for whatever reason).
All five great lakes are connected. Ships go through them for trade. That's why the US-Canada border is like that.
Stamford University does exist. It is in Bangladesh though. The other Stanford University, whose full name is Leland Stanford Junior University, was named after Leland Stanford Junior, the son of Leland Stanford. Junior died from Typhoid fever before he reached 16.
You can lose a chess game in two moves by moving your pawns out of the way for the opponent's queen.
Lots of things make noises that distract viewers from the plot. Silent props are invented to solve the issue.
LPDDR doesn't come in DIMM form, so (for battery reasons) laptop manufacturers have been soldering them onto the motherboard. If you want a super repairable laptop, Framework makes one.
There are different kinds of ceiling textures, including skip trowel, knockdown, orange peel, and swirl. Popcorn ceilings are made with little balls of polystyrene stuck inside paint, which improves acoustic properties of a room (at the cost of looking hella ugly).
"1 mm of rain" is identical to "1 litre per square metre".
Granite, the rock, can---somehow---stain. It also scratches and cracks easily.
Mongolia, for some reason, produces a lot of waste per capita, in line with the richest countries like US, Canada, and Germany.
Don Norman wrote the book, The Design of Everyday Things, only because he went to England and was so frustrated with the water taps and doors there. An ideal door would have (e.g.) a flat nothing for you to pull on on one side, or a push bar with no handle for pulling. Unfortunately since every surface can be pushed on, there is no pull-only design.
Lots of carpet stains can be removed by directly applying dish soap to it (and then dabbing it away).
A house in the northern hemisphere that faces ("facing" is where most of your windows are) south is ideal, for the reasoning that the sun never really shines into the house during the summer because of the angle of the sun, and the sun does shine into the house during the winter due to the angle, warming it up. If you have sun-lit windows all around the house, or walls that absorb heat, this advantage is less obvious.
At $130 of savings per year on average, Nest thermostats typically pay themselves off in two years.
Steamers can remove wrinkles from pretty much anything without risk of scorching. With that said, it does not allow for creasing, and you can definitely oversteam (loosening the seams).
CFL bulbs cannot be used in enclosed light fixtures. LEDs aren't particularly good at doing that, either.
CFL bulbs that come up slowly are doing so by design: warming up to it hurts the electrodes less.
An older population causes labour shortage, which can cause inflation because everyone who earns money can demand more.
The same hardware model can be made with different, inferior parts after the first month, when reviewers typically review them. When in doubt, buy from vertically-integrated manufacturers, like Samsung.
To compute how well your vision compared to others, get your two numbers (e.g. 20-20) and divide them. 20/20 = 1 (the same as everyone else); 20/10 = 2 (twice as good as everyone else).
"Cutting against the grain" is just telling you to cut the muscle fibres with your knife.
While the conventional Schrader valve (used on car and bike tires) dominates the market, some bicycle tires come with the Presta valve, which are narrower to allow for a stronger bike wheel, with some very serious caveats.
Cedar is a soft wood that readily absorbs protectants. It also contains tannins, which help preserve the wood. Cedar might look a bit darker? But more importantly, cedar smells good.
A deck can be infinitely close to the ground and still be called a deck if the underlying ground is uneven. Patio material is poured over ground, making the distance zero.
Circuit breakers only protect the wiring inside your walls from melting. Outside the walls, if you draw 10A with a cable that can only handle 5A from the wall (which can handle say 15A), you still get a house fire.
SPF 15 means 1/15 of the sun will reach the skin. There is no sunscreen that claims to block 100% of light.
"The ($649) Dyson is a cool-looking fan, but the traditional ($15) walmart fan is a better cooling fan" - Mark Spurrell
Pixar was a hardware company. Steve Jobs bought it as a hardware company. It was almost by fluke that the company used their own graphics computers---which didn't sell well---to pivot into an animation company.
The X-Client-Data header that Google Chrome sends with every request, can be used to uniquely identify you, but also cannot be disabled by the user.
Japanese choose not to have children once every 60 years: 丙午, or 1966. The next time this happens is 2026, and the time after that, 2086.
Google doesn't sell your data. Doing so would give advertisers one less reason to buy ads from Google. So yes, Google knows everything about you, but also yes, it has at least one incentive to keep it secure.
Thermo-electric coolers (TECs) are not good enough at drawing heat from a CPU, so they are not popular, though if your CPU is sufficently low in wattage, companies do sell coolers for them.
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Holdings plc, headquartered at 8 Canada Square, is a British corporation.
Speaking of funky banks. Mitsubishi is the world's #5 bank.
Land in Japan has real value. The house built on the land does not. Apparently the build quality after WWII is so bad that it makes no sense to maintain them, and to keep up with modern standards like earthquake resilience.
In the American version of the alphabet song, V rhymes with Z. In the British version of the alphabet song, T does not rhyme with Z.
"Linked" houses share a foundation. They do not appear linked above ground. Any linkage above ground results in a townhouse setup.
Europe and Japan have inter-generational mortgages. They can go for 60 to 100 years. This is how they promote home "ownership", while being basically rent.
"Elizabeth" ultimately came from Hebrew Elisheva, which meant "My God is an oath". Variants include Eli, Elise, Eliza, Elsa, Isabel/la, Lisa, Liz, Lizzy, Beth, and Betsy.
L'appel du vide is the strange thoughts that come to your mind, like wanting to jump when you are at the edge of a cliff, even though you were perfectly happy with being alive a moment ago.
A few bad apples spoil the bunch.
A "skinny bitch" is vodka, soda water, and lime juice.
In a = c++, a is assigned the value of c before it is incremented. You can remember this as "C++ will be C".
Hump day is Wednesday.
To avoid getting ingrown toenails, cut them when they are dry (supposedly wet nails rip instead of cut, which is worse, but I don't know enough to say whether it is true.)
There is a piece called 4'33", which is the length of time of silence in the piece. No one plays anything.
You can kick the ball in volleyball.
Prefixing nonstandard headers with an X- was deprecated in 2012 because those headers eventually become standard, but the X- is never removed.
A negative cache caches even failures. It is used when computation is very expensive, where failures would otherwise lead to indefinite, expensive retries.
The Snapdragon 801 chipset was used in both the OnePlus One and the Ingenuity helicopter in Mars. Or the OG Pixel I guess. This made the helicopter many orders of magnitude higher in processing power than that on the rover that carried it.
"A roll" is really footage from the primary camera, and "B roll" is really footage from the secondary camera. B roll is allowed to be more creative, or in some ways, worse.
Terraform modules are defined by the module keyword. You then "use" a module with source = "..." to reference some other module.
What is the Japanese food ebimayo? Don't overthink it. It is literally ebi (shrimp) + mayo (mayonnaise).
GraphQL is strongly-typed. This means a few things: you need to define those types; you typically need to statically define those types; there is no Any type; it is a lot of repetitive work if you have already defined similar interfaces.
Gold foil keeps spacecraft warm, or cool, depending on where the sun is.
Generating an archive file (zip, tar.gz, tar.xz, 7z, whatever else) by reversing the file names first happens to sort files by file type, which occasionally allows the archive to be compressed more efficiently. "Note that sorting by type has some drawbacks." (...) NTFS volumes on hard drives will extract/compress the archive slower due to the sorted-by-name nature of the filesystem. To enable the former behaviour anyway, use -mqs.
A livelock is like a deadlock, except the two threads are constantly locking and unlocking two or more alternate resources, achieving nothing. An example would be two people moving out of the way to let the other pass, just to be blocked again. In contrast, a deadlock is just a car breaking down on a one-lane highway.
Impact drivers can be used as a drill. So maybe we can think of impact drivers as better drills.
There is no way a server can tell a client has aborted an HTTP request until the server tries to send the client something.
HTTP headers: no-cache means the resource is explicitly cacheable, and the browser will definitely cache it, but should always ask the server if the resource is up to date. If you want "no caching" no cache, use no-store instead.
Statistically, motorcycles are 35x more dangerous than cars, while cars are themselves 7x more dangerous than buses.
The US calls the trade deal "USMCA". Canada calls it "CUSMA". Mexico calls it "Tratado entre México, Estados Unidos y Canadá". In every country, their own name comes first. They signed the deal in Argentina.
Alimony is given to the spouse, whether or not the recipient has children. That's child support. Neither has a set length or amount. Lawyers use a special calculator to make stuff up.
Unit testing is a kind of functional testing.
In Italy, vermicelli is thicker than spaghetti. Vermicellini, or thin vermicelli, is also thinner than the American vermicelli.
"To troubleshoot gunicorn timeouts, you look at load balancer logs and RDS logs." - Some guy
"If you force users to trade convenience for security, they will find a way to obtain convenience at the expense of security." - Passed around legend at this point
Deism is rejecting religious texts as a basis of the existence of a god, but rather through reason and observation of the natural world, i.e. "I believe there's a god but that book is bullshit". Thomas Jefferson believes in one of these.
"踩坑" means trying and failing, and repeating the process until you succeed.
Use silicone caulking where waterproofing is needed, and acrylic caulking everywhere else. Silicone is hard to work with, so use it only where waterproofing is necessary. Acrylic caulking won't just dissolve away either... it takes quite some time once dried.
In a microservice architecture, a service can cache results from another service, and other services can read from that (e.g. asking the payment service for the user's information, rather than going directly to the users service)... as long as we understand that the result is read-only and non-authoritative. You cannot update the user from the payment system, and you cannot trust what the payment system tells you.
The American "top sirloin" is positioned under "sirloin", while what the Brits call "sirloin" is more the back ribs than loin, and preferring to call American sirloin parts the "rump".
Every odd number has an 'e' in it. Except 1, 2, 8, 30, and 50... these odd numbers don't have an 'e' in it. At least not on tumblr.com, they don't.
An eromenos is a the sub in a dom-sub relationship between two gay men.
Samsung owns AKG, Bang & Olufsen, Becker, dbx, Harman Kardon, and JBL.
Some KN95 masks have neck and head straps, but most have just ear loops. The ones with neck and straps form a tight enough seal to be medical grade. That is the major difference between N95 and KN95 other than shape and certification.
A Christmas tree can be any tree, as long as it is decorated. It doesn't even need to be a real tree.
Low-effort directors like Michael Bay often tilt the camera in odd angles to make you feel nauseated.
According to someone from GitHub, "swag" stands for "stuff we all get".
For gaming mice, lighter is better.
Taking photos of your home, or around your home, implies that you live there, which gives away your address.
Koreans make hard beer by mixing beer and soju. So (燒) + Maek (麥). Any ratio. Basically it's just to bump up the inebriety.
Bolsters are cylindrical body pillows. Bamboo wives are hollow bolsters made with bamboo. The hot air travels everywhere and out of the person hugging it.
A "two by four" is a wooden plank that is two inches by four inches in cross section. It has no specification on length.
L10n is localisation. I18n is internationalisation. I10n is illumination or immunisation, depending on the context.
The Iraqi currency is called the Iraqi Swiss dinar. It has nothing to do with Switzerland.
An unwed woman beyond the usual age for marrage can occasionally be called a "spinster".
Impact sprinklers do their work by letting water hit a thing that moves the nozzle left and right. At the end of travel in one direction, a switch in the back of the sprinkler gets flipped, causing the water to move the sprinkler in the other direction.
Only 1% of the world's indium, used mostly in LCD panels, is recycled.
When they say "black tie", they mean black bow ties. Cufflinks and pocket squares are also a requirement sometimes.
The ideal hot drink temperature is 57.8 degrees... if you take that research seriously.
From the router's perspective, RX means uploading because it is technically receiving data from you, the client, and TX means downloading because it is technically transferring data to you.
Zero-day originally referred to exploits found during the 0th day of the software's release. Now the scope is broader than that; it applies to bugs that the vendor knows about for 0 days, but could have been shipped a long time ago, as well as bugs that the vendor knew about for a long time (with the first day being day 0), but never fixed.
Baffled tanks are near impossible to clean, so they aren't used to carry milk.
In an internal survey, half of Facebook's employees reported thinking they had a positive impact on the world. Doing the same survey externally might show a greater difference.
Olive oil is bright opaque green when freshly squeezed. The colour goes away days after bottling.
Australian light switches have "on" in the down position.
The 2.4GHz spectrum is 100MHz wide. The 5GHz spectrum is 1GHz wide, allowing for much more non-overlapping channels.
Because music note frequencies go up by the square root of 2 every octave, and there are 12 notes every octave (including "black keys"), every note goes up by (the 12th root of 2)%, or around 6%.
John and Jonathan do not share a word root. The most we can say they share is the "J-", which was YHWH (i.e. God) in Hebrew.
QWERTY layout is (somewhat coincidentally) good for smartphone typing because it spaces commonly-used keys far apart from each other.
Keyboard keys are staggered only because typewriters had tiny bars going in between the keys, and it wouldn't have worked if the keys were ortholinear. We don't have these bars on computer keyboards today, obviously.
Since 4K is exactly 4x as many pixels as 1080p, 1080p is also known as 1K, and 4K is also known as 4320p. Maths.
40MHz should only be used on 5GHz networks, not 2.4GHz. Too many overlapping channels introducing interference.
HEIF uses HEVC (patented) for encoding by default.
The king of Thailand lives in Germany, not Thailand. His son studies in Germany, too.
Online-only banks can't just print you a bank draft. If you need it urgently, you will find brick and mortar banks very useful.
Room temperature is 20 degrees Celsius, colder than the average room.
If a game of Monopoly does not end slowly enough, you can extend its play time by paying money to the free parking spot instead of the bank, and anyone who lands on free parking gets all the money accumulated there.
Real lawn scythes (they are not called scythers), if used for lawns instead of heads or Halloween, have a second perpendicular handle that helps you cut grass without bending your back.
One con of using a framework is: if someone on your team hasn't learned it, they need to learn it in addition to your code. Then again, understanding the rest of your code may take less time.
Normal ammunition is good for at least a decade. Sometimes they last multiple decades without going bad.
"Green" threads are threads that are scheduled by the runtime itself, instead of the OS. "Green" was java terminology. There's nothing green about the rest of them.
Underground houses sound nice in theory (total privacy and all that), but pests, mould, flooding, and maintenance costs are the main reasons you should never get one.
Apartments and houses with plants all over the surface sound nice too, except the part where you need to take care of the plants or they attract insects.
Lee is a common English surname, meaning "meadow". "Leah" and "Leigh" might mean the same thing.
Because GPT-2 generates sentences that aren't necessarily random, the bits that it uses to generate sentences can also be used to hide messages (steganography).
A kind of DVD-compatible disc oxidised to make itself unplayable after a number of hours. It went nowhere.
The "test" and "reset" buttons next to power sockets are ground-fault circuit interrupters (GFCIs). ~~They are fitted if within a certain distance from a water source~~ (haha never mind Canada doesn't do that). They detect current that doesn't return, which indicates current leaking through (the body). When a current leakage occurs, a solenoid + plunger inside kicks the button and kills the circuit, which you can reset with, well, "reset".
Tea is the most consumed drink in the world (after water). This means people like putting plants in water. Caffeine is around 3% of tea's dry weight... which is about the same as ground coffee, actually.
Minimalism is a privilege. Frugality is a necessity.
Anyone can create stories in agile/scrum. Therefore, your product manager will not be writing them.
There is a minimum length for ethernet cables or (according to Reddit folklore) they won't "work".
Lunisolar calendars have the same "years" as solar calendars, which lunar calendars don't.
"Fly fishing" involves fishing with flies as bait. Fly fishermen also claim that they do so more often by rivers than by the lake.
The iFixit adhesive remover is just acetone, AA0051 (+ fragrance, colour).
Leftover dessicant packets can also be placed in toolboxes to prevent rust.
Guys at Google wrote a handy guide on how to do code reviews respectfully. In short: Assume competence, Provide rationale or context, Consider how comments may be interpreted. (more tips in link)
"DLCeil" is the max allocated bandwidth when no one is downloading. Therefore, "DLRate" should be thought of as the fair share when everyone else is downloading, too.
Lua sucks because the standard library is tiny.
For four years (2000 ~ 2004), ISO 8601 briefly allowed two-digit years like YY-MM-DD, but backtracked on it after.
The NATO watch strap is the kind of strap that allows your skin to never touch the metal back of the watch.
Beer is a KIND of malt drink. Other malt drinks include Horlicks (with milk), Ovaltine (with milk), and malt whiskey (with hangover).
Fix an exercise bike belt using this bloke's steps.
Only a handful of companies in the silicon valley actually care about silicon wafer fabrication ("chip making"). AMD, nVidia, Qualcomm, and Apple all outsource that sort of thing to Taiwan's TSMC.
The music for 警訊, 硬漢子, came from a Jackie Chan movie called 警察故事.
People buy new phones for the warranty. Power users don't need to do that.
A simple wall can reduce your Wifi speed despite showing the "same" signal strength.
"MLC" can be any number of levels greater than 1. They make 4-bit MLC SSDs now. Given the quality of 3-bit TLC SSDs, it is hard to estimate how bad this 4-bit MLC can be.
NEVER shoot a gun while the barrel is in the water. The pressure will blow the barrel and/or your face.
Try not to scrape information that appears to be licensed to a website for a fee. You may end up bankrupting them.
Game controller joysticks are made with potentiometers.
Salesforce bought Heroku. No idea why.
Shiatsu massage balls are the same as dryer balls.
Some people said swimming while tied to the pool with a cord is a common practice, great way to build strength and endurance among competitive swimmers.
On Google pushing URL-less browsers and AMP to make the company the web itself: "I'm not a Richard Stallman type, but I think it's come to the point where if you have even the slightest pretense of being a "free web" person, using Chrome or a Chromium-based browser has become unconscionable." - dmitryminkovsky, 2020
A wire service like "AP" and "Reuters" gathers news, and then sells them to other newspaper companies to reprint them. Apparently having a middle man works for them. "To achieve such wide acceptability, the agencies avoid overt partiality. Demonstrably correct information is their stock in trade. ... They avoid making judgments and steer clear of doubt and ambiguity." - Jonathan
Bill Gates wants to "find a balance" between privacy and security, i.e. no more government-grade encryption for civilians.
Indonesia is the most populous country that does not have a ballistic missile submarine.
The opposite of murphy's law is: any service built with no serious consideration on how it might be abused, will be abused as such. Paraphrasing this comment on hacker news.
An empty fridge can return to 0° C in just 3.5 hours.
Dryers ~~fuck with~~reduce the elasticity of underwear elastic bands, so they should be air dried if at all feasible.
Suicide is the leading cause of death in young people... but seniors kill themselves far more often than young people do. And the most popular method? Pesticide poisoning.
One person in the world dies from suicide every 40 seconds. That's actually not a lot, considering it is 30x that of terrorism, and 2x more than homocide.
George Soros donates over 80% of his fuck money to his own charity network.
Unlike going from ethernet to WiFi, wireless charging is less convenient than wired charging. It also suffers from a ~50% power loss more than cabled, which itself suffers from power loss. "If all of a sudden, the 3 billion[-plus] smartphones that are in use, if all of them take 50% more power to charge, that adds up to a big amount. So it's a society-wide issue, not a personal issue." - guy talking about the environmental impact of wireless charging if it is widely used
Password max length of 128 ensures attackers don't serve you megabytes of passwords to waste your computing cycles. A 128-character password can be cracked in... no time, in the right conditions.
Less than two days after MarcelVos publishes a video about (open) Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 guests being stuck in a left-turning maze, publishers pushed a fix, saying: "This is just to mess up MarcelVos."
It's one thing to fork this repo, it's another to copy all the files and claim them as your own. Don't be this guy from Atlanta.
Google processes 63 000 searches per second. But if we suppose Google underestimated the number by 10 times (because that was in 2019 and it's 2020 now), then it takes only a 1.6-microsecond downtime to fail a search.
Subtitles transcribe only what people say, but assume you can hear stuff, just not understand. (Closed) captions transcribe everything in the audio, including "[music playing in the background]".
Google Dorks helps you find misconfigured websites that have vulnerabilities so open, that even Google indexes them.
The CAP Theorem (consistency, availability, partition tolerance) theorem says that it is impossible for a distributed data store to do all three of those things.
A "three months rule" for engagement rings is bullshit. It used to be one month in the 1930s, and two months in 1980s. Even without Da Beers telling you what to do, think about what it means: it just tells other people when you got married (when you were young and broke vs old and rich). It doesn't reflect at all how much someone loves the wearer.
A full stop at the end of a url is completely valid, but that fact also makes them useless if someone ends a sentence with a url.
According to a hacker news post, team velocity varies wildly among FAANG companies.
The official slack blog says that threaded conversations are meant for "conversations that may not be relevant to everyone". Therefore, if you are talking to someone directly, it is senseless to use threads.
Some consider a sandwich still a sandwich even as the two halves are split: open sandwich.
Some consider a sandwich still a sandwich when it has no bread at all: breadless subs.
A UUID encoded as base64 instead of hexadecimal like cdaed56d-8712-414d-b346-01905d0026fe is still za7VbYcSQU2zRgGQXQAm/g==, i.e. not as short as you think.
DDR-5 added on-die ECC only because the random error rate is so high, they had to.
SHA-2 is an algorithm. SHA-256 is an implementation of SHA-2, with an output size of 256 bits.
When your architecture is such that the user logs in from one server and does stuff with another server, you cannot use session auth, so (some kind of) token auth is your best bet.
Plaster is more soundproof, but less thermally insulating. Plaster is also more expensive, and harder to repair, so you rarely see it used anymore.
The majority of meteors light up for less than a second, it appears.
Wood (like 2x4) containing the core of the tree tends to warp much more easily.
"K-12" stands for "from kindergarten to the 12th grade".
"Soaring" quite often refers specifically to gliding (i.e. not flapping wings) while maintaining altitude.
Urns break. Ashes are usually wrapped in a plastic bag inside the urn.
DRM can be used to fingerprint users. Reddit does it.
"Millenials" are also called Gen Y. The ones born between 2010 and 2025 are called "Gen Alphas".
All of the top ten most powerful woman are from USA or the EU. Also, there are no powerful poor people.
Hadoop stores data in a compressed, schemaless format. In hadoop, the database doesn't decide how to run your queries... the Java code does. The code finds optimal servers to serve each request. On one hand, storing tons of copies of data is a waste of space. On the other hand, reads (especially considering hadoop offers only eventual consistency) are really fast.
A columnar database has a slight read advantage if you know exactly the subset of columns you need to read. Theory is columnar databases don't need to read the entire row into memory, which may not be true for modern databases in practice.
Comments in a .po file can have effects. They are called "special system comments", or in other languages, annotations.
Usually, when people die, they stay on the same planet. So they are always with you.
According to the book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications", Twitter fans out (creates for each follower) tweets, so anyone who follows you doesn't need to do a join to see your tweets... except for people with lots of followers, because a tweet from one of these people would mean having to write the same tweet millions of times.
It is not simply true that a database should not be used as a messaged queue. Redis (database used as queues) and Kafka (queue system with DB-like guarantees) are such data systems that blur the lines.
A videos says Amazon want to be a monopsony, not a monopoly: a situation where there is only one buyer. It wants to be the only buyer [of goods] in town, making them the only one to sell goods...? This is much less "evil" under the public eye.
Jeff Hammerbacher was quoted saying "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." His LinkedIn says he went to Harvard.
An HttpOnly cookie is only sent to the server; it is not accessible through code.
Ask about the expected scale of your feature. If you don't ask, you need to assume you design for the main product scale, which can be a billion concurrent users (Google search).
Twits (which I assume is the term for people who use Twitter... that, or Twats) combat the length limit by replying to themselves, effectively starting a thread.
CPAN is Perl's version of NPM. Since the language is stuck in the 2010s, and even the site itself is stuck in 2017, there is no need to learn it.
An timeline full of horizontal bars is called a gantt chart, invented by Henry Gantt.
The Japanese name for a prostitute's working area is called a teahouse (茶屋).
Perl---and TIMTOWTDI--epitomises the big picture. It is important to get something to work, any way you can, not because you have a passion for programming the best shit, but because you have other more important shit to do. You just want to get shit done and go home. See the big picture.
"Vishing"... Voice phishing... is calling into a call centre and social engineering them.
When you were young and naive (i.e. a few minutes ago) you thought they hand-shaped every piece of nigiri sushi. There's a tool for everything man.
Almost all bitter drinks are supposed to be served with ice so the dilution improves the taste with each sip. Also, negroni is either the most overrated or underrated cocktail, depending on which list you look at, and how you decide to mix the stuff.
In JSON Schema, number is only integers and floating point, not "infinity" or "NaN". Reason: JSON cannot contain Infinity or NaN anyway.
The only difference between a black russian and a white russian is the cream.
None of the baby gates you see on sale have horizontal slats because babies climb on them like ladders.
In "policy-process-procedure", processes are the big things, and procedures are steps inside a process.
A mock mojito is just mojito with rum replaced by nothing.
In a regex, \d is a number, and \D is "not a number".
A "Project" on JIRA can have many "boards".
The negroni cocktail is served strictly before a meal.
There is no benefit shooting 23.976fps vs 24fps. 23.976 happened when the NTSC colour system wanted colour TV to be played at 29.97fps rather than 30fps for black and white.
On line breaks (for anything in a terminal), Linus said "Excessive line breaks are BAD" ... and he does "not care about somebody with a 80x25 terminal window getting line wrapping". ... "80-column terminals in 2020 isn't reasonable any more as far as (he was) concerned". Yet, here was the same guy arguing for wrapping at 72 columns in git / github commit messages, so maybe 80-column lines in C is annoying to read when 8-space indentation is used. See also: other people arguing for 80, 100, 120-column lines.
Tegestology is collecting drink coasters.
Tree spiking. When you hate tree loggers so much, you plant metal rods inside a tree when they are young, so they fuck with logging companies decades into the future.
Mercenaries are soldiers who fight for money (rather than honour or political interests).
A stay-at-home mom works 24/7 and needs her work shared with her spouse, who... presumably doesn't do anything at home then, in order for this argument to be made.
A defector says North Koreans are actually very happy and laugh a lot. When you have too much, you think too much. In the same video: for some reason they can't afford rice ($3 per kg), but can illegally access outside information via CDs and USB drives, so they can afford computers. They even have phones! But if you call South Korea, you die. They defect now not because they don't can't survive, but because there is no freedom, and they have dreams that they cannot fulfil.
The President of Singapore is directly elected by the people, since 1991... but the 2017 presidental election had only one candidate, and she won uncontested. The Prime Minister of Singapore is appointed by the president rather than through election, and although acts as effective head of the Executive branch, does not control the Judiciary and Legislative branches.
Oh... Catharine has two As...
In Jetbrains products, hitting enter always presses the default button, even if you have another button highlighted.
The dates 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, and 12/12 always fall on the same weekday. Doomsday rule. No date has the same weekday across different years (for that you'll need 364 days per year and no leap years).
An AC adapter is a "wall wart" only if it obstructs another power socket.
You [should] never kill anyone who surrenders because you are at war with the state, not the person. Surrendering dissociates the person with the state.
Uniqlo is "unique clothing warehouse".
Virtually all (84%) of US single-parent families have children with the mother.
India is called Bhārat in Hindi.
"Silt" is finer sand. Clay is finer silt. They might also be made from different minerals, but who's counting.
Starchy foods are just as good at clogging a drain as grease.
Washing HEPA filters breaks the fibres inside and makes them worse than if they had simply not been washed.
When you double click to select English in Chrome, it ought to select a word. But for Japanese, the best Chrome can do is looking all the boundaries up in a huge list of characters, which is an ICU (International Components for Unicode) standard.
MMA stands for mixed martial arts.
Roofs need to be ventilated. Otherwise the attic will rot.
Emoji is 絵文字 (Japanese) rather than just Emo字.
Yahoo is (as of 2020) completely operated by Verizon, while the original Yahoo still exists as "Altaba", but only manages Yahoo's existing investments before it was sold.
If you want a formula to reference a cell no matter how much you shift cells around it (e.g. your A1 becomes B2 after you copy/paste), use INDIRECT("A1") to make sure it references A1 no matter where A1 is moved to.
The vast majority of autists on /r/wallstreetbets do not "YOLO on SPY puts" with their life savings, but the true lunatics do make the front page.
In Japan, you should not eat and walk. Even if it's a hotdog.
The economy of Cuba is communist, provides everything you need, but pays you ~30 USD a month no matter what job you do. Issue: tour guides get tips equivalent to someone's monthly salary. Issue: highly-skilled Cubans really want to leave the country.
Children can't read the clock. They don't know what the time is. If you really want them to know what the time is, buy them a light that changes colour whenever it's a certain time.
Quarantine: you are prevented from leaving. Self-isolation: you prevent yourself from leaving. Social distancing: you can leave, but you stay away from people (me irl).
Bear spray, used to deter bears, is much weaker than pepper spray, which is meant to incapacitate. They also have different spray patterns (wide vs narrow).
Cowboy programming is when you (the coder) make all the decision, like schedule, technology, and coding style, on their own. Characteristics include delivering incomplete code that no one else understands, and delivering broken products that don't meet the client's specs.
The 1929 depression lasted a whole decade. Dow Jones kept doing down for almost 3 years.
Pakistan has received at least 13 bailouts from the IMF.
Disable gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled in Firefox to not download CSS fonts. Note: this also breaks font-awesome.
"Cross-selling" is when you sell another product to an existing customer.
Dungeons specifically houses prisoners. They are not generic basements.
Vibration from drives ruin other drives in RAID arrays, unless you have vibration resistant drives, which are very... expensive.
Bangles are rigid bracelets.
"Tendies" are meat near or on chicken breasts.
In order to opt out of SSID tracking by Google, Microsoft, and Apple, your WiFi's SSID needs to have all three of the companies' opt-out identifiers, or Bob's WiFi FuckYou_Microsoft_optout_AndYouGoogle_nomap_AndUpYoursTooApple_noapp.
A horizontal 16:9 video on a vertical 9:16 screen occupies less than 1/3 of the screen (32%).
Enabling toolkit.tabbox.switchByScrolling in firefox scrolls tabs with your mouse wheel, which was a hallmark Chrome feature.
"Yowza" expresses excitement. "Wowza" is a company name, just like "Woot" is.
It is by complete coincidence that February is four weeks long. Its length is not dictated by how long a week is.
Gaming (and, to an extent, office) chairs aren't comfortable. They just ensure you have proper posture to stay seated for a long time, which makes you comfortable I guess.
Kailh mechanical keyboard switches are heavier to press than Cherry MX ones, but are more or less than same.
Redis can be slower than your database if you use it to SCAN through its cache KEYS. Because it's an idiot and (presumably) stores keys in like an array instead of a hash table. If you use redis that way, caching something will be slower than not caching at all.
Casu marzu, or rotten fly maggot cheese from Sardinia, is/was illegal to sell. "The acid from the maggots' digestive system breaks down the cheese's fats, making the texture of the cheese very soft." While maggots are traditionally eaten with the cheese, some prefer not to eat it anymore.
A good knife doesn't need to be sharpened so often. You may hear codes like M390 and S90V on some forums.
Studs are non-loadbearing vertical supports. They just hold the wall up. People use a stud finder to find a place you can screw in heavy things.
A "Barleycorn" is 1/3 of an inch, or the length of (cue joke).
If you send out an email that includes an <img> with an external source, you can easily break it later.
Signal was created by the same guy who created WhatsApp. Brian sold WhatsApp to Facebook, then started "#DeleteFacebook", in that order.
Home gym equipment can be a polarising purchase. Many people say they either made full use of it, or made no use of it.
"Quid pro quo" ("this for that" I think?) in a political context means
A Vanguard aka advance guard is the front of a military formation. Anyway, Hoan Ton-That made this facial recognition AI/database that allows you to upload a picture and get information about the people inside it, and, prior to that, made two phishing sites.
"Tufting" is pinning the fabric on one side with the base, usually forming an array of dots. It was used to make warm mittens. It doesn't do anything on like a cushion or on a couch.
A con of truly anonymous communication is that any communication you receive is not accountable. A "@realofficialbbcnewsaccount" can post anything on Twitter and have thousands of followers without losing their real-life job, where traditional journalists would definitely be disciplined or fired if they reported anything wrong.
A grifter uses confidence to engage in small-scale swindling (monetary fraud).
"Hotel" came first. "Motel" came after.
ISO 8601 can be used to denote durations, with a string starting with P. P3Y6M4DT12H30M5S is a period of 3 years, 6 months, ... where each component can be left out if it is 0. Note that there are two Ms, which is fine, because there is a T in between day and time durations, so "a month" is P1M, and "a minute" is PT1M.
The ISO 8601 duration format allows you to specify more than 24 hours in the H component because "a day", i.e. P1D, is not the same as "24 hours", i.e. PT24H, during daylight savings.
Stropping keeps blades sharp by maintaining an edge that is not too blunt already.
Stack Overflow uses jQuery 1.12.4. Using new technologies doesn't make your site better.
A "pandemonium" is an wild uproar or a chaotic situation. A pandamonium is a play on words appeparing in TV shows, card games, and newspapers.
The worse-off a neighbourhood is, the higher rent you can charge relative to the worth of the property.
You can ask a million monkeys a question about a complicated topic. They will still get the answer wrong. Similarly, voting works only if the public has the ability to decide what's good. See: Brexit, or Agile story point estimation.
Chicken balls are suspiciously useful for purposing chicken meat scraps of any shape and colour.
People have historically been arrested for celebrating "straight pride". "Hoisting the straight [pride] flag was likened to putting up a swastika by local Margaret Clark. The flag drew further protests." So there are things that only minorities can do.
While Ricola (The name Richterich & Compagnie Laufen never took off) adds a lot of Swiss herbs into their candies, it is only the menthol in them that is the active ingredient.
Cum laude only means "with praise", which you can get by being slightly above average (top 30%). You want people who claim to have received magna cum laude ("with great praise", top 10~~15% of the class), or summa cum laude ("with highest praise", top 1~~5% of the class).
The M in itms:// stands for Music.
Every version of Chrome claims to be Mozilla, Apple, KHTML, Gecko, Chrome, and Safari simultaneously.
Flash memory is... apparently (video) supposed to run at 40 degrees Celsius, and at 20 degrees, its write endurance is halved, according to JEDEC Solid State Technology Association.
Excluding lunch hours, OECD finds the average worker on the planet working 1763 hours every year, which is about... 6.2 hours per day.
Those who value the longevity of their phones should get a plastic screen protector. Everyone should get a case. Few should get extended warranty.
Flat Earth Society explains "other planets are round" by saying the Earth is not a planet, we are the center of the universe, everything revolves around us, "but photos" with "we don't use photos as evidence", and "we literally went to space" with "it's a conspiracy that we went to space, and all the countries are lying to you simultaneously".
There is a job title called the coin washer. You wash coins. You make them shiny.
For some reason, Opera (bought by a Chinese company and went public shortly after that) decided that browsers don't make money, and they should focus their attention on their predatory loan apps instead.
A staff engineer is more senior (12 years) than senior engineer (9 years). A "senior staff engineer" also exists, but not sure how many years.
Julia can be a general purpose language, just not marketed as such (and library creators aren't eager to make it happen, either).
If you are tired of living however you want, quit something. According to an app called Quitzilla, you can quit smoking, drinking, taking drugs, porn, video games, TV, shopping, the internet, fast food, coffee, procrastination, swearing, lying, gambling, and Your addiction.
Cheddar blames millennials not going out for the demise of ski resorts.
Tetrapaks are made with 4 layers of polyethylene (polyethene), one layer of aluminium, and paper.
The lastname Steinmoeller translates directly to "stone miller".
Pedants say GPS and cell towers use tralateration (you are measuring signal strength, which translates to distances), not triangulation, which measures angles.
Locksmiths get paid a strangely high amount per hour.
Rice milk has a water footprint 28x that of soy milk.
Evaporated milk has 60% of its water removed. Since milk is 88% water, evaporated milk is essentially half the weight of normal milk.
Instead of throwing an appliance away, which the Zeitgeist seems to be perfectly happy with, you are supposed to fix it.
On writing zeroes to your SSD (instead of TRIM) to gain performance: "although performance may have been regained ... The default state of an empty page is all ones, not zeroes, and how could a piece of software possibly erase NAND flash?. The real reason was that ... the invalid pages were then candidates for garbage collection, which gave a much greater pool of blocks to call upon on writes, and hence a better performance. A sort of RETRIM before that was invented." People claim this practice does not work, even if the disk is encrypted.
Many commercial locks have interchangeable cores, for obvious reasons: changing tenants.
Banking software is so clunky to use because the software and industry both have traditionally been built around, and for use by, branches.
Don't put your Save button right next to your Discard button. This should be common sense.
4 litres of milk give you just slightly more protein than 500g of steak.
Normal farmers don't sell produce that are the same size and shape. You can also ask if you can visit. If they are resellers, you can't visit.
At Facebook, you are required to write down the impact you and your peers have made over the past six months, every six months. At Amazon, you are required to criticise your coworkers to make sure they always have something to say at your performance review.
"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?" - Brian Kernighan. How do you learn to write readable code? Like learning to write readable English, you have to read a lot.
It is popular to quit alcohol in January, called Dry January, and then relapse right after that.
A 屌絲, is, uh, somewhat similar to 撸瑟, pronounced lu4 se4, or just "loser".
Both Terraform and Vagrant are Hashicorp products.
Donated clothing is burned or dumped to landfills.
There is no correlation between the credit scores you see, and the credit score lenders use, called Beacon score (Canada's FICO equivalent).
Blue light lenses do NOT protect you against retinal detachment from using your devices too much. Only your change of habit can. Rest for 20 seconds every 20 minutes of screen use, eat broccoli, and take omega-3.
"Real tennis", aka jeu de paume, literally "palm game", did not start with racquets, but they were later introduced. Lawn tennis was then introduced.
Ankle bracelet batteries need to be recharged.
Luxottica produces 25% of the world's eyewear. LensCrafters is directly owned by Luxottica. They also own Sears Optical, Sunglass Hut, Oakley, Glasses.com, and a dozen more I have never heard of so I'll not list here.
Some people stay warm while homeless by taking the bus perpetually.
Qantas, for some reason pronounced with a U (i.e. Quantas), stood for Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services.
Planet fitness is known for being purple.
Music of a given genre is often shaped by how advanced the audio equipment was at the time. Some music just didn't sound good when recorded [with crappy equipment]. Today, no such limitation exists.
Use a rubber band to keep your door unlocked to make moving easier.
Contaminated / laminated paper can't be recycled. They don't even recycle PVC. If you want to save the planet, don't use in the first place, and rinse your damned cans.
A "this is a work of fiction" disclaimer in movies prevents the movie maker from being sued by whomever they are trying to portray, however much "based on a true story"... should others decide to sue.
"Minge" can either be the vagene, OR the pubic hair on it.
The DENNIS system is how Dennis seduces his women and earns their undying love.
Someone said controlling AMOLED screens with DC dimming eliminates flickering at the expense of colour accuracy at low brightness.
There is such a thing as insurance marketplaces, where insurance buyers and sellers (along with brokers and other what-have-you positions) come together and trade underwritings. Lloyd's of London is one example.
Crestfallenly, although German-like, actually means "in the state of low spirit".
Mayo Clinic was named after William Worrall Mayo, not mayonnaise (Meg ruins the already-bad joke by repeating it).
The original Spanish title of the movie El laberinto del fauno, lit. 'The Labyrinth of the Faun' refers to the fauns (half human half goats) of Roman mythology, while the English, German and French titles refer to Greek faun-like deity Pan, even though the director said the faun in there is not Pan.
"Drunk shrimp" aka 醉虾 is most often eaten raw.
Don't buy smart appliances. Even if the companies act in good faith, which they don't, bugs can still happen, and all of a sudden, someone else is looking right into your house.
Raising the IQ of both countries/states came from comedian Will Rogers.
Since its inception in 2012, Tinder has had enough time to both get people married and divorced.
Wax an article of clothing by rubbing beeswax into it, wrapping it inside an old pillow case (tie it up), and placing it inside the dryer until all the wax melts into the clothing, which may take an hour. Cotton and leather clothes can be waxed. Synthetic is not (and unnecessary). Others not sure.
"Angel food" is sponge cake.
Netflix rents out DVDs to subscribers with slow internet.
You can submit pretty much anything to SSRN as long as it looks like a research paper.
Chinese buffet jellos are so thick because (according to rumours on reddit) they add cornstarch to them.
If you cannot pay your mortgage, you need to tell your lender. If you do not communicate with your lender, they will foreclose your home in something like two months. You will also be in a status called "rolling late", i.e. the next payment you make is always for the previous month, so even if you make 12 payments next year, you end up with 12 lates. This is terrible for your credit. Make two payments at once to cancel out this effect.
A brushless vacuum can be better than brushed ones if you have a lot of hair, which can get tangled in the brush itself.
A retainer is an agreement to pay a professional [lawyer] in advance for a set amount of time of their work. By somehow burning through the other party's retainer, they run out of time to continue using the lawyer, and then [often] lose by being unrepresented.
In a typical mahjong game, you can 上 from anywhere if you are about to 食糊 (eat paste).
"Open concept" homes quite often require a couch for separation of space anyway.
An American beer is 355mL, or 12 US fluid oz. A Canadian beer is 341mL, or 11 imperial fluid oz.
5 minute crafts, one of the dumbest video channels on the planet, happens to be Russian and the owners are pro-Russian, but there is no evidence that the video contents (i.e. the stuff you watch) are propaganda.
Edible arrangements are fruit baskets [for which their pieces might have been dipped in chocolate].
"You are my sunshine" is a breakup song. In the song, the woman dumped the singer for another man ("But now you've left me and you love another, and you have shattered all my dreams"). See also: other upbeat songs with depressing lyrics.
300 was allowed to be such a historically inaccurate movie because it was a story told from a Greek soldier's point of view.
Star Wars (the main series) was directed by many many people, not just George Lucas or J.J. Abrams. In numeric order, the directors were: (George Lucas, George Lucas, George Lucas), (George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Richard Marquand), (J.J. Abrams, Rian Johnson, J.J. Abrams). Notice how George Lucas didn't film all original trilogies, and J.J. Abrams had to do a movie after Rian Johnson tried to be too artistic and screwed the middle one up. Also, if see "Episode IV a New Hope" in your movie, it's a remake. They clearly didn't know it was episode IV when they made episode IV.
Untappd for general reviews, RateBeer for European beer, and Beeradvocate for everything you can't find on RateBeer.
According to "Freedom House", Botswana is more free than Hong Kong.
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Left click in pycharm / Jetbrains products creates a new cursor where you clicked.
"Posting" stands for "power on self test". When PC builders say they are "getting it to post", they're trying to make their computers boot [to BIOS or eqv].
Gluttony is wanting a lot [of food], while glut is a lot of something left. An example of a glut is the 1980s oil glut, where there's a lot of oil left around.
Hello Panda, 1979, came before Koala's March (aka 熊仔餅), 1984.
70% of Portuguese marriages end in divorce. Reddit blames the economy and not living with your spouse before marriage (which leads to discovering terrible secrets about your supposed life partner until it's too late).
If one orders le cheese, one receives a cheeseburger.
At least two people who work for Shopify have their own sites and sell their own products there.
Gordon Ramsay says it's easy to find a great restaurant: just check that a place is busy on a Monday night. He also bastes beef patties with butter.
How-to Geek officially recommends delivering your packages (like books, dildos, kitchen tools, what have you) to work to prevent them from getting stolen when delivered at home.
"lru_cache should have a maxsize to prevent from memory exhaustion attacks" - Django
Line trapping can be used to make someone else's phone not hang up when they, well, hang up. This means when the victim makes a call again, they are still talking to the scammer, and not who they believe were calling. So wait a few minutes before you call someone.
Pepsi becomes Pecsi in Argentina because they kept pronouncing it wrong, and Pepsi just rolled with it.
Randstad (the hiring firm) owns Monster (the hiring site).
A 陪都 is a "temporary capital" for a country if their official capital is lost to another country.
McMug and McDull (the sillier one) may be distant cousins.
If you have a simple, easy to pronounce, white-sounding name, you are more likely to get hired, more likely to be a C-something-O, and less likely to be a criminal (cause or effect). People who use their middle name initials are more likely to be respected simply by association with sophistication. Your best bet, then, is: Aaron A Aaronson.
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
Tarantino is known for unexpected, dramatised violence.
The brain is the only organ that knows it is an organ. See also: other seemingly mindblowing shower thoughts.
In ISO 8601, the T between date and time is absolutely necessary unless the parties agree to omit it. It cannot be replaced with a space.
"YAML tends to be more user-friendly [than JSON]" - k8s docs
The secret sauce of big tech is the tooling. It goes both ways. You can both come out successful in that you've interacted with these tools, or come out useless because you have no idea how to work without these tools.
"Fuck you, I'm the government, fuck all y'all living here, I'm buying your land to build highways, deal with it" is called eminent domain, compulsory purchase, resumption, or expropriation.
A "dag", originally a sheep's shitstain (in the form of dried solids), is now an affectionate insult for an unfashionable person.
An ethical company that vows not to be bought by evil corps can eventually be bought by a company who made no such commitments, which then later gets bought by the evil corps. Ethical company cannot reject the acquisition because they don't have a say as a subsidiary.
McDonald's sells beer in 15 countries, among which, only South Korea is outside Europe.
A falsehood list claimed that people might have zero names. This refers to the edge case where babies can be born, not be assigned a name, and live like that forever, alone, in a forest, signing up for your app. In practice, there is no culture in the world where a person would live to use your application, and not have at least one name. Even unidentified people have names, and the falling man won't be using your app any time soon.
Allspice is called allspice because it smells like cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Cuban cuisine uses allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and redundancy.
A single template string with a dangling "the" inside can make it real hard to translate to languages that have multiple forms of "the", like la, le, and les.
"A drink" (13.6mL of pure ethanol) is clearly 3.6mL more than "a drink" in the UK. This "a drink" is equivalent to 341mL of beer, 43mL of hard liquor, or 142mL of wine.
Potemkin villages are places that are made to look nice for touring foreign officials to see how great your country is, but in reality is not.
An airwatt is a bullshit unit of measurement that both Hoover and Dyson decided to use to rate their vacuum cleaners' power, for which W (the real power) and L/min (the volume of air it sucks every minute) already were a thing. For all intents and purposes, an air watt is about 3~4 watts.
Dry your gloves by putting them on top of your baseboard heater. That's how all the cool kids did it. (Thanks Nancy)
A crostini is (for all intents and purposes) a tiny slice of baguette, sometimes with toppings.
If you can restore a G suite account within 20 days but somehow can't after 21, then it seems they do delete everything after a month.
Net promoter score is how loyal your customer is, or how likely your customers will recommend your products to a friend. Internet service NPS is typically below average, sometimes even negative (more people rate you 0 to 6 than 9 or 10).
The plural form of money is really "monies".
Tarof ("tarofing"): Persians must offer / yield to everyone else but at the same time refuse those offers. The deadlock is called "tarof".
A hockey grinder's job is to do more checking than scoring (aka take physical abuse). Tahir "Tie" Domi, a grinder fan favourite, is of Albanian descent but the name is Persian.
On Elon Musk's angular truck, or how designs are sometimes less important than features: "when you are building something for practical use (as most trucks are) then when it comes to design ideas form follows function. If you can't meet the functional purposes of your product, it doesn't matter how innovative your design is because you have a failed product on arrival.".
Restaurants take cash so they don't need to write it down as taxable.
Each housing start is a new unit of housing started building during a period of time.
If every giant box of diapers contains 192 diapers, and every baby uses 9600 diapers in their first 3 years, then you're buying 50 boxes.
Priscilla, from Latin prisca -> priscus -> prior, ultimately means "ancient".
Adding a dry towel in the dryer shortens drying time?
Francis is masculine. Frances is feminine. "France" came from the Franks; no one knows what "Franks" means anymore, but maybe it meant "free".
SARL and GmbH both mean "limited liability company".
Rohit says he heard that: every developer change (i.e. 'feature') at Google can be merged only if an architect approves the design to operate at 1% Google scale, or (not his words) 200 million simultaneous device connections.
Flags are not languages: when a user needs to select a language, the language names should be presented in their respective languages. And no flags. Like what flag should you put for Portuguese... Brazil (by population), or Spain (where it came from)?
"Rightsizing" is the politically correct term for "we're culling our employees".
Don't just add bleach to the washing machine. Dilute it first (the intermediate concentration is up to you).
Add provolone and/or cheddar to a pizza, and you suddenly have something way better than a pizza. (Thanks Virginia)
"Thanks five" is a professional way to reply to a stage manager telling you there are five minutes until the curtain opens.
Some bathroom fan covers are held together by metal clip tension, so you can just pull one down without any tools.
Shortening is any edible fat that is solid at room temperature.
G Suite costs money now. Actually, it has always costed money since 2013.
Nominal GDP is the amount of money you count. Real GDP (aka GDP) is the nominal GDP divided by a deflator, which is basically a factor to take inflation into account (for example, if inflation happened between 2018 and 2019, but you keep producing the exact same stuff, the nominal GDP would increase, but the real GDP wouldn't change.)
By Real GDP, China is the largest country, and Turkish output is higher than Canadian output.
How to wash your face, in order of operation: use a cleanser (not the kind for removing makeup), then use a moisturiser to compensate for the oils you just removed, and then sunscreen if you decide to go out.
On a house scale, an inch-thick HVAC air filter might only last one month, and if you want to change it less frequently, you might need to get thicker filters. (Site does not appear to be sponsored by the HVAC and HVAC accessories industry)
Ruby is a much more popular name for girls than Diamond, Sapphire, or Topaz.
People tend not to sell houses in November and December because of Christmas parties. Rental prices are also the cheapest from December to March across North American cities, because---you guessed it---snow.
Leather is actually in huge surplus from people eating beef and the availability of vegan leather alternatives.
A lifer is a person on life sentence.
Shingles need to be replaced every 15-20 years (except rubber and metal ones) to remove mould and water damage.
DevOps is YAML. Everyone writes a lot of it. Everyone hates it.
Ever since Campbell ruined their entire soup line with cheaper ingredients, even Walmart brand soups might be a better bet. Someone also claimed that their low-sodium soups are actually calcium chloride soups instead, so watch out of those I guess.
Aaron Swartz cofounded Reddit?? Anyway, he scraped US research articles off MIT's site, got arrested for leaking what he believed should be freely available, and hanged himself.
Tupperware parties: if you make your neighbours buy tupperware, you get free tupperware. This happened all around the world.
Marriage between Hadza couples are a simple approval from their parents after they previously had sex. Since there is no ceremony or official declaration of monogamy, a fight may break out if a woman had laid with several males simultaneously.
Pregnant women cannot clean litterboxes.
The AC (sometimes called HVAC) is also responsible for draining moisture out of the home.
A star next to an elevator floor button's number might mean there is a fire exit that goes outside.
1-ply toilet paper is often easier on the plumbing.
If you are afraid of the government, IMEI/IMSI leakage alone can be used to locate you.
Insurance companies often cannot insure too many units in the same building or neighbourhood, because if that building/neighbourhood suffers an event (such as fire/flood), it would be too much for a single company to pay out.
Best practices don't stay best forever. Nor are they the best for every case. Learn from best practices, but do not limit yourself to them.
Use a short rope to suffocate. Use a medium rope to break your neck. Use a long rope to decapitate.
"Deep web" is just stuff that search engines didn't index. "Dark web" is the secret shit everyone talks about... and it includes Tor. If that's the case, the deep web really isn't that deep.
The scrollbar exists for a reason. On mobile, some users have trouble telling how far down they are when reading an article. Others noted that scrollbars were once used to scroll somewhere as well (by dragging it) but this functionality has since disappeared.
A commencement (n.) can also be a north american graduation ceremony.
Lean ground beef often comes from dairy cows, different from the steak you see beside it.
"Heirloom quality" is not a formal definition of quality; it just means something so expensive you'll want to pass it on, regardless of actual quality.
賢者タイム, ken-JA + TAI-mu aka "time", describes the clarity of thought achieved post-orgasm. They also call it 射精終了のこと, or "the moment after you ejaculate".
Googie architecture was a popular "futurist", space-age kind of architecture from the 1930s to the 1960s. "Googie" was the wife of the original owner, Mortimer C. Burton's wife, Lillian K. Burton's nick name.
Bruce / Caitlyn Jenner was once Kim Kardashian's daddy. They both live in Hidden Hills, CA.
The left side of a yukata (aka 浴衣) is worn over the right side, unless you are dead, in which case the right side goes over the left. Originally a bathrobe, it is now worn everywhere during the summer.
If you want to send an empty message in IM, just go to emptycharacter.com and copy whatever's there, which is U+200E, left-to-right mark.
Of the 14 main characters in Endgame, only 3 heroes wear capes consistently.
CNN rates food cultures: Italian, Chinese, French, Spanish, Japanese, Indian, Greek, Thai, Mexican, American. Vietnamese did not make the cut.
The voice of MTR has been Cheri Chan since 1992. Dr Chan works at HKU.
Getting sherlocked happens when a big company re-implements a feature or tool that was your core product. An example would be when Apple reimplemented Watson (as Sherlock), or when they made Widgets and put Konfabulator out of business.
100% clothes can be recycled. Even 1% spandex in 99% cotton cannot.
Dr Strange had a Tibetan monk in it before they realised they could not air it in China.
Costco is NOT a co-op; it trades on NASDAQ as COST. They just have better employee agreements (and therefore benefits) than other companies.
Oracle bought NetSuite.
It is hard to find a country that offers true, universal free healthcare for everyone. It is either not completely free or not universal. USA is number one when it comes to offering healthcare that is neither free nor universal.
"It's not worth living in a world where China controls my country's art", South Park. "Don't do it then, no one's forcing you to perform your art in China", a Chinese woman.
A dude/dudette named 苍井翔太 is known for being able to voice women characters with varying breast sizes.
A "people mover" specifically refers to small, automatic driverless trains, frequently found in airport terminals and theme parks.
Terraform has a fmt that helps you format everything, without you doing it.
"I think therefore I am" (Cogito ergo sum) (note it isn't "cognito" with an N) is actually "I doubt therefore I think therefore I am" (dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum). René Descartes was debunking philosophical axioms in the 1600s ("a statement that is so evident or well-established, that it is accepted without controversy or question"), where people believe something exists it can be seen or heard. But he also doubted if anything exists... other than himself, because if he can doubt, then he must exist.
The vast majority of surface devices come with a moving part.
Izakaya, 居酒屋, literally means a pub. They can also have buffets in these pubs, though.
15% of the population hold their phones with two thumbs, like a gameboy. The rest, slightly more people do the one-handed thumb hold than the two-handed "I'll use my index finger" hold.
"When girls say they are mad at you because of your attitude, they actually just don't have a real reason to be mad at you." - Woman
Albania inexplicably allows Hong Kong people to use their HKID to travel there, visa-free, for 90 days.
You need to trowel your tiles the right way (hard veritcal strokes in a single direction). Do not swirl. The TCNA-recommended ANSI method leaves no air in between the mortar and the tile, making the tile much, much more resistant to damage if mortar coverage exceeds 85% (indoor tile) or 95% (outdoor tile).
"Conceited" means being too proud of themselves.
"Adios" is spanish.
Honeymoons don't need to be right after your wedding, but it usually makes the most sense.
The lowest unemployment rate in any country, ever, was achieved by Thailand in 2014, at 0.56%.
"Please always remember, telecom, and transportation, are not technology businesses, they are real estate businesses. Telecom's real estate are exclusive operation licenses, the most important of which being wireless spectrum, and the second most important of which being the places where they can exclusively tear up the earth to lay cable."
I hear sonicare toothbrushes without "oral b" on them are the lamborghinis of toothbrushes.
You can sharpen a knife with the bottom of a ceramic mug.
A tithe is 1/10 of something, but the word is quite often used to represent the church'es 10% "tax".
Electronic video stabilisation doesn't work in low-light environments because the camera tries to bump up the shutter time to as long as possible, which means each frame is a blurry mess. Force it to 1/60 or higher and you will be fine.
Vizio boss says: smart TVs are cheaper than dumb TVs because they can sell your data.
When drinking tea with a spoon, the spoon faces down when you stir, and the spoon stays on the plate, not on the table. Press the tea bag with the spoon instead of dragging the bag up and down. Alternatively, if you weren't given a spoon (for example... you were served off a teapot), then you also lift the plate with the other hand when you drink.
Toxicity (System of a Down) talks about the Armenian community in LA.
There is always a market for small, inexpensive houses. So the prices go up. So they stop being inexpensive houses.
On the day after mid-autumn festival, you 追月.
Real estate is property of the land, and everything on it, like buildings and immovable natural resources.
"EST" is always UTC-5, but "America/Toronto" is either EST or EDT, depending on the time of year.
喳咋 [jaa1 jaa4] is a loanword from Portuguese.
Pointillism (painting with little dots of paint?) was a mocking term. Now it doesn't mock anything.
People go to pregnancy photoshoots?
In 7 Wonders the board game, if you have the "free building from the discard pile" power, trade in an expensive card (esp. one you normally can't) for 3 coins, and then build it for free when you take it out of the pile.
Excel for Windows started dates from 1900. Excel for Mac started dates from 1904. So now when you open a spreadsheet, any date can be four years off.
D-bus (desktop bus) is an RPC protocol.
You can't clone your credit card's NFC RFID. The payment machine needs send it a challenge. Your phone doesn't know the response.
You use libraries. Frameworks tell you how to use it. Upside of frameworks: structure and order. Downside of frameworks: you likely can't swap out a framework. You may upgrade a framework, but you usually can't swap one out for another. See: AngularJS.
Prophet Joseph Smith said (verily unto them) Mormons can't drink alcohol, "hot drinks" like coffee and tea, but herbal tea is ok, and caffeine is also ok.
Music at 192kbps is about 2GB per day.
9 out of 10 of the largest pharma companies spend more on marketing than R&D.
Bohemia is a place (now in Czech Republic), but Bohemianism is an unrelated lifestyle of being musical, artistic, spiritual, and with few permanent ties.
The movie The Terminal was based on a real man, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who had to live in a Parisian airport for 18 years because of his statelessness.
During a trade war (in this case, US vs China), the net exporter facing stiff tariffs (in this case, China) can lower its currency exhcange rate as a countermeasure. Lowered exchange rates make goods cheaper to buyers overall.
To sharpen a knife, kit doesn't matter, angle doesn't matter (that much), don't "thin" your knife, and you don't need to flatten your whetstone if you use one. Just hone the knife once every few meals, and sharpen your knife with any sharpener---not necessarily whetstones---as long as you are willing to try.
The Brubacher Edge Sharpness Scale (BESS) numerically assesses how sharp your knife is. It is related to pressure (i.e. area of the edge). To test it, you cut a strand of filament on top of a scale. The amount of force (but in grams) you can exert on the filament before it breaks (i.e. the BESS) is larger for dull knives, and smaller for sharp knives.
Bookkeepers work under accountants, and, in general, the finance department. Senior bookkeepers can also work on payroll. Accountants plan out what bookkeepers will record, as well as manage the process used to monitor business activities. So, in a way, bookkeepers are accountants that didn't do CPA.
Closets are fixed, full-height clothing containers. Wardrobes are portable, full-height clothing containers. Dressers are half-height clothing containers.
When it comes to sealing letters, the type of wax you use makes a difference. Red seals mean formal business (the usual kind), black wax is for death and other types of mourning, green is for casual stuff, pink is for congratulations, white is for wedding invitations, and blue means romance and passion. Sealing wax is not wax. It is shellac.
Turns out you can never ask others how to be a good wife/mother/daughter in law. It's not possible to get a straight answer, even if you were a woman. Everyone says you are holding yourself hostage ("道德绑架", moral coercion). No one will tell you how to be a good anything. You just have to guess. Anyway, the answer to being a good husband (because for some reason that's okay to share) is: "有钱，足以养活老婆一家的，让他们全在家歇着，你一个人养活他们，家务全包，孩子自己带，还不说一句怨言。女人都想要这样的。"
About a quarter of Okinawa is used to host US army bases.
Home gyms appeal to those who a) have a home, and b) don't have time to go to the gym. Dads.
On "token auth" vs "JWT token auth", it just seems to be that JWT tokens have automatic expiry dates (because their abilities are self-contained). This causes JWT auths to end up having session-like characteristics.
JWTs are typically also quite large due to the same fact that their information is self-contained.
If a HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) header is sent to your client, it will refuse to re-connect to your server with insecure (i.e. HTTP) connections for however many seconds you specify. HSTS will only apply to the subdomain that applied it, as well as the domains that are subdomain to it, but not its parents.
Sending a X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block header magically stops a page from loading if the client finds the same contents on the page.
JWT has its own RFC, 7519. Each JWT is a three-part URL-safe string, in the form (header).(payload).(signature). You send this thing in the Authorization header, like: Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGci...<snip>...yu5CSpyHI. The point of JWT is that it is stateless, so if your thing uses sessions, don't use JWT.
JWT is mostly for the server to verify that the user is who they say they are. Anyone can make a request to the server. But if the server generates a public key for a specific user, then only that particular user, who received the public key, can authenticate again as that user.
Wikipedia seems to imply that Hong Kong's water is bought from China; a video on Weibo seems to imply that the water is provided for free (because he mentioned that the construction is 100% paid for by China and suggests the water is also a gift). Water's price doubled between 2007 and 2016, so while free construction is a nice gesture, the water is definitely not free.
Did you know that Lee Kuan Yew, old style boi, spoke better English than most Singaporeans today? Or even his son?
An uxoricide is when you kill your wife. Uxor is wife in Latin. Killing your husband is matricide. Killing your maternal uncle is Avunculicide. There is no specific word for killing one's paternal uncle, one's aunt, coworkers, or mother in law.
People who went to space report a sense of duty to protect the Earth because of how it is when you get an overview of the place.
If the user is not logged in, it's not that you can't spoof anything, but rather it might still happen if your website trusts an anonymous session to change the state of the system.
If you have an XSS vulnerability, all CSRF mitigation techniques are useless: the malicious script can just read the CSRF token off the page.
The first x86-based 64-bit architecture was made by AMD in 2003.
Li Ka Shing, amid Hong Kong 2019 protests, posted a poem, 黄台之瓜何堪再摘, or "the melon of Huangtai cannot bear the picking again". Other da vinci-esque interpretations indicate he wanted China to let Hong Kong rule itself. "The [background of the poem] is the [queen] killed her sons one after another. Who [else] on earth once claimed herself [to be] a loving mother?"
Unsanitised window navigation calls (like ?next=foo) can be exploited to make the user run arbitrary JavaScript. If the code says window.location.href = foo, and foo is javascript: alert(), you just dun goof'd. That foo can be something much worse.
According to "lost all hope", whose author tried to end himself and lived to tell everyone to think twice, tighter emission controls today means it is no longer practical to kill yourself with a running car in the garage today. By lethality, shotgun to the head kills 99% of the time, overdosing on illegal drugs kills only half of the time but is the most painless, while jumping from a tall place is the only "no tools required" method that still has a 90%+ kill rate (if you count a train as a tool).
Lena Söderberg, subject of a standard test image, wants her name pronounced as if it had two Ns.
Every notable mobile operating system copied WebOS's card view.
The average (American) commuter is spending nearly ten days per year commuting. This does not imply GDP can increase by 3% if no one commuted.
If "Tangam Systems" was named Tangam because that's the founder's grandmother's name, then it is structurally no different from "Bob Gaming", "John's No Frills", or "Grandmasoft".
Medium is good because the import tool is good, and it helps other people discover your posts. See also: reasons why you should not publish on medium: pay to post. Pay to read. Mostly, paywall. Information should be free, bla bla bla.
Russia is the world's second largest crude oil exporter by volume (in 2019, $129 billion worth, 11.4%). (Only) half of the world's top 10 oil countries are in the middle east.
The longest-serving public servant in Hong Kong is Mr Matthew Cheung, now (1972~~2019~~) the Chief Secretary for Administration, which is the most senior you can become without being appointed by mainland China.
VLC's "compressor", actually dynamic range compression, works by reducing the max volume and min volume of some audio, reducing its dynamic range. Since "louder music sounds better", the availability of dynamic range compressors led to loudness war, where everyone uses automatic dynamic range compression without clipping.
Bankruptcy is not a get-out-of-jail-free card. There are consequences. First of all, all your assets except stuff like clothes and tools must be sold to clear your existing debts. Second, if you earn more than what you should for 9~36 months after bankruptcy, that income goes to pay the debt. Third, this stays on your credit file for 14 years.
The Trots. An obscure term for diarrhea. The runs also works, but it is more well-known. Even more obscure: "News of a slightly inconvenient nature... they have arrived."
You can cook hard boiled eggs in an instant pot?
For the most part, Trent Reznor is the only permanent member in Nine Inch Nails. (Atticus Ross joined in 2016.) He is a singer, producer, and instrumentalist; he writes and plays his own songs.
If you lost your cat [and it isn't dead yet], put the litterbox outside to let it smell its way home [whenever it feels like it].
"Growing pains" are not pains that are growing; growing pains are pains you get when you were a child; when you were growing. Biologically-speaking, the pains have nothing to do with growing.
There's (apparently you learned this before) a memory wall, or the disparity between CPU speed (very fast), and the memory outside the CPU (not so fast).
If your house is infested by bedbugs, it may be worthwhile to surround your new bed with boric acid for a month or two (which is cheap to try) before you look for an exterminator.
The gold standard is where the value of a currency is based on a fixed amount of gold. It is not recommended, because during times of recessions and depressions, people will tend to hold onto gold instead of currency. Since they're not spending it into the economy, it somewhat prolongs recessions/depressions.
To sharpen a knife, you will need wetstones of: 800 and 3000 grits. You can also get 6000/8000 grits for a better edge, and leather for polishing.
In 7 Wonders the board game, you will never require, for any card or wonder, more than one high-level resource (silk, glass, paper) of each type, other than the one that is possibly given to you at the start of the civilisation.
Meditation is focusing on your breathing
Crocheting is knitting with one hook (instead of two "needles").
The authenticity of birth certificates is important because they potentially a) allow you to be a citizen, and b) increase your retirement income, if the government starts paying you at a certain age.
Sometimes bars have different "help phrases" (like asking for Angela) for different genders in the bathroom, so the other gender doesn't know what it is.
七夕 appears to be yet another Asian valentines day. It happens on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.
Twins can be born days apart. In Ireland, one twin was prematurely born, but the other was not, leading to a 87-day birthdate difference.
A flint cone is a stone (flint) structure at the bottom of a corner of building, that discourages patrons (mostly men) from urinating there.
Paying for a $720 phone as $30 * 24 months saves you around $30 in inflation. Getting a new subsidised phone every 2 years is better than not getting one at the end of your contract (because you're just losing out on your subsidy) but having no contract is the best option if available.
The government wants to know your spotify data because there is a correlation between the economic climate (actually, your sentiment of it), and the kinds of songs you listen to. During an economic downturn, people enjoy songs with anger, digust, fear, sadness, and anticipation. Inversely, if you know people enjoy happy and dancing songs, then the stock markets go up.
The plastic sleeves you put in between the wall and the screw are called anchors. You need it only if the wall is brick or concrete (or hard stuff). You don't need it if you have drywall or wood.
"Double dutch" is either Dutch (incomprehensible) on top of Dutch (extra incomprehensible), jumping two ropes at the same time, or using both condom and pills. The Dutch do a lot of doubles.
When it comes to choosing companies, developers in all walks of life prefer professional growth over anything else by a large margin. Then you offer salary and work/life balance.
A print shop charges $15 in materials per typical card game.
A dehumidifier needs to be big. A small one can't hold all the water it sucks out.
Women don't like to be complimented by strangers?
WeChat's photo censorship: first an upload is synchronously hashed and matched with MD5 of other uploads. Then it is queued for asynchronous analysis to generate more hashes for future detection.
Cities install benches, bike racks, and trees, instead of ballards, to prevent truck terrorism, plowing over people.
The optimal way to use escalators is to stand. Standers a) even out load on both sides of the escalator, and b) increases capacity, because walkers take up 3x more space than standers.
The Greek question mark is a semicolon.
Iran and Germany have one thing in common: they both dial 110 to get to the police.
Comforters are washable duvets with patterns. You can put a comforter inside a duvet cover (if the size is right).
Airports have not dropped their "2 hour early for domestic flights" thing because they turned the airport into a mall, where making you stay in the clearance area is simply pure capital. The food court is almost robbery, while duty-free shops are designed to make you spend your leftover foreign currency.
If someone is born in an aircraft or spacecraft, the child inherits the nationality of its parents. If that is not possible, the child inherits the nationality of the country in which the vessel is registered.
The one (and only one) advantage that MongoDB has over Postgres is it has a built-in sharding mechanism. It is easy to do because MongoDB doesn't have a real schema to enforce. At least they have ACID after v4.
To configure your prometheus admin, modify a prometheus.yml, and edit which instances (instance names, actually) the admin should poll stats from. These instances must each have a prometheus exporter of some sort, that exposes related stats from the server.
Lobsters are so expensive because it is less than 20% actual meat by weight, says guy.
Design is how it works, not how it looks (paraphrasing Steve Jobs)
"On-ear" headphones don't have a hole at the middle of the pad. Over-ear headphones surround your ears completely (assuming your ears are the right size).
Holes in Swiss cheese are called eyes. Swiss cheese with no eyes are "blind".
How to get ETL ("extract, transform, load") wrong: basically any way you want. Your solution needs to be able to handle the load that will come to you in a year's time.
Luke's uncle was a moisture farmer. They farm for water in the open desert.
In American Beauty, Kevin Spacey gets shot from the back of the head, gets his blood spraying everywhere in front of him, somehow with his face still completely intact. It was a re-shot ending. Paramount didn't like the original ending that involved innocent people going on trial for a murder they did not commit.
In Greek mythology, Hermione was queen Helen's daughter. In Greek, Ἑρμιόνη [hermi.ónɛː] sounds like HAIR-me-on-nee, rather than her-MY-oh-nee.
The ISS has at least 40 HEPA filters. And yes, the ISS still has a lot of bacteria floating around.
Each gallon of water shipped to the ISS costs about $250000 USD (by weight).
Kosovo, Western Sahara, and Taiwan are not in the UN.
A clipper can also be a narrow boat with sails. A schooner is also a boat with sails.
Unless you save what terraform plan outputs with -out ..., it won't guarantee what you saw is what it does when you run terraform apply (because the remote state might have changed).
GoldWave is a Canadian company.
When you use git flow, the tags are always put on the master branch. You always (unless you decide to go rogue) release something on master.
Molson-Coors is tanking on TSX because people smoke weed now.
Windows 95's polling mechanism was designed such that moving the mouse made everything go faster.
User in-yer-face, or how to fuck over everyone who visits your website.
Mr. Dick Pick... inventor of the Pick operating system. He died at 56, of stroke complications.
The French Press is Italian. The French call it cafetière à piston.
After foo, bar, baz, and quux, it is apparently quux.
The Google Earth web app is built with NaCl, the technology they deprecated shortly after development.
The ruling queen of Denmark is Margrethe II. She and Elizabeth II currently make up the only two reigning queens in the world.
A baseball steal is when some player already on a base starting running before the batter hits the ball. At any time during the play, the coach may instruct a player to steal, usually with some strange gesture combination.
Brining helps break down the muscle fibres in tough cuts.
You can import a text file to Anki, a flashcards program, if that text file is what's effectively a semicolon-separated value.
"The gloves are off": it gon' be brutal now. Aka you gon' get rekt.
Austerity is a word for the government wanting to cut back spending.
Cruise ship tips are $15 per passenger per day.
A digital nomad is a person who relies on other people's Wi-Fi (mostly coffee shops), going from place to place.
If your household makes about 500 kUSD/year, you are the top 1%.
Bottle episodes are designed to save money. They must be confined to a small number of locations (most commonly just one) and only a handful of core actors.
White roses at the 9/11 memorial signify those people's birthdays.
Pulled pork is American.
At 100000 employees and 66 of what they call "products", Google has on average (not that it works that way) 1500 employees working on each product. Each product has 8 levels of product management.
"Down over down over, up over up over": solving the 6x6x6 cube centers. Put the pieces on the upper left. Down CW Down CCW. Up CW Up CCW.
Selling 3 million of something per year is actually just 250k per month.
Compared to other charities, Doctors Without Borders only has a B+ reporting grade; methodology here.
5G has an effective range of at most 300 metres.
URLs with "wcs" and "servlet" at the same time are IBM WebSphere Commerce links.
The Bin Laden family spell their own name Bin Ladin. They also have plenty of family members who live, study, and work in the US. One guy, Yeslam, even became Swiss.
Ham radio operators call their dead pals "silent keys" (because they can no longer be heard).
According to Deviant Ollam, the physical pen tester in "I'll let myself in": get security hinges or "jamb pins" to make sure a door can't be unlocked by simply taking the hinges off. Don't get IR REX sensors that unlock your door simply by a change in temperature or smoke. Have in your keychain, some keys (all legal): FEO-K1, C415A, CH751, 1284X, 16120, and 222343. Won't hurt to have a paper clip, as well.
To use the RabbitMQ management interface, you must first enable it with (sudo) rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management.
It was CGI that introduced the idea of invoking a script, and making it generate a response, instead of giving that file to the user. The downside was the script is always restarted for every request. WSGI involves running a permanent server instead, that handles these requests.
Eating "lye fish" on "silver silverware" ruins the silver. Ware.
Smack the bottom of a milk dispenser to get the bag in.
Sitting on one's own hands means preventing oneself from acting on something.
There are five positions in a basketball team: the point guard (the "leader"), shooting guard (defender, who also happens to be responsible for three-pointers), small forward (dude on the size), power forward (blocking), and center (the most important person?).
The correct way to exclude files from a PyCharm search box is something like !*test*.py.
W3 recommends turing tests other than reCAPTCHA, which annoys Firefox users more than Chrome users in the name of market share.
On why phones are getting a 48MP camera sensor with binning, instead of a 12MP one with 4x larger pixels: recovering more information from noise, and faster HDR. "If one of the four pixels on a Quad Bayer sensor captures noise ... that's only 25% of the information lost ..." "Alternatively, the sensor can be split up into two logical sensors -- one that captures a short exposure and one a long exposure (... HDR ...)"
A "travesty" is actually a misrepresentation. Saying "it is a misrepresentation" implies that the something is a misrepresentation of something.
Raped poutine, basically mashed potato balls with pork filling, is a specific Acadian dish, not what Tim Horton's passes off as poutine.
The "Linus Tech Tips" opening is called Laszlo - Supernova.
IP ratings apply to fresh water only. In other words, your everyday smartphone has zero resistance against corrosive seawater.
On web frameworks, and "choosing the right framework": Once upon a time, we were focused on the important things - problem-solving, domain data, and business logic. But now we're almost entirely focused on abstraction, generics, and boilerplate while the important objective-related stuff that pays the bills just gets whatever scraps of time are leftover (if any).
"Code rot resistance" is having your code specify the environment in which it wants to run, where the environment is what rots your code, and having the code specify what it does. Examples include: dependency locks like package-lock.json and Gemfile, and binding only to the ports that it declares to need.
No matter how convoluted it is, any UI that requires a button with a mandatory user action ought to have the button text start with an imperative verb.
To handle (Gmail) emails you never plan to read, search for older_than:3m in:unread and mark them all as read / archive them.
A martinet (sounds like martinette) is a person who follows rules strictly, even if the rules are stupid.
Each piece of McNugget contains 40~45 calories.
Arnold doesn't lift for himself. He lifts for the sport. He needed to promote the sport.
It is not true that the embassy is a building outside the host country; an embassy is the people inside the building, called a chancery, who cannot be persecuted for crimes committed in the host country. If the embassy commits a crime, what the host country can instead is kick them out.
The top flood risk is sewer backup rather than natural flooding.
The Spirit and Opportunity rovers were twins. They landed on opposite sides of the planet. Spirit lasted 2208 sols, while Opportunity lasted 5352 sols. Interestingly, Spirit was MER-A (first) but MER-2 (second), whereas Opportunity was MER-B (second), yet also MER-1 (first).
Dexter's ratings went from an average of 8.5 (season 1 to 7) to the final episode of 4.7. Game of Thrones' ratings went from an average of 9.1 (season 1 to 7) to the final episode of 4.5. (Same list: shows you should watch. Community, Friends, Parks and Rec, The Office, 30 Rock, Veep, Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey, Friday Night Lights, Six Feet Under, The Americans, The Shield)
You want keyboards with more key "rollovers", the number of keys it can register at once. To test, Hold Q and W, and then see if the keyboard can type E and F when you press them.
Cabals are people who promote their secret ideologies ("conspiracies").
In agile, you cannot send other people to meetings for you.
A kegerator is a keg refrigerator.
You may not use the Google Maps SDK to make a turn-by-turn navigation service, or anything that resembles Google Maps features. You also may not use the HERE Maps SDK (section 5 as of this moment) to make apps for routing or navigation. Uber and Lyft can do it because they paid Google a lot of money.
It turns out "Arbys", while it is true that came from "RB", the RB stands for "Raffel Brothers" rather than "roast beef". (The founders were the Forrest and Leroy Raffel)
The project manager turns the product manager's vision of the product (which may be one or more projects) into bite-sized tasks that belongs to their project. Products may be internal or external.
GraphQL. A thing between a database and an API. The major selling point is the client defines the structure of the data that the server returns, so it always gets what it wants. The major disadvantage is, well, if the client can make calls like that, then the server can't cache these results efficiently.
On using assertions on production: "(A good) approach is to leave the assertions in the code when you ship, and to automatically file a bug report on behalf of the end user and perhaps to try to re-start the application every time an assertion fails. At that same startup I mentioned above I had a boss who insisted that we not do this. I pointed out to him that an assertion failure meant that something in the program was very wrong and that it was likely that the program would produce the wrong result. ... He said it was more important that the company avoid the appearance of having done something wrong than that we stop before producing an incorrect result. I left the company." Takeaway: write assertions when assertions will do, and unit tests when assertions will not.
Build your software with three kinds of user interfaces. One, with the fewest buttons, to end users. Another one, with all buttons, for you (the developer). Finally, the one for operations and administrators that aren't you: NSA, the Russian government, whatever, to make sure they can do their jobs.
"If you want to reduce your test mass, the number one thing you should do is look at the tests that have never failed in a year (and the code hasn't been touched in the same year) and consider throwing them away. They are producing no information for you — or at least very little information. The value of the information they produce may not be worth the expense of maintaining and running the tests. This is the first set of tests to throw away — whether they are unit tests, integration tests, or system tests."
Betty Crocker is not a real person. Betty Crocker was the General Mills marketing department.
The 及第 in 及第粥 came from 雜底 rather than 進士及第. 進士 meant you're among the top 3 classes (一、二、三甲) in the central government entrance exam, 及第 meant you were selected, and 進士及第 meant you were one of the three people among 一甲 who was selected. As an aside, 進士出身 means you were in 二甲, 同進士出身 means you were in 三甲, and the name of the congee has almost nothing to do with the examination system.
TVs prioritise size over refresh rate. TVs might also come with local dimming so they have "more contrast".
The decorator pattern is not the same as how decorators are implemented in python. The decorator pattern is essentially a way to add functionality to just one instance of a class, without affecting the class itself.
The largest submarine is 175m, which is far longer (and wider) than the Boeing 747-400, at 71m.
Submarines can't use GPS... submarines use sonar. But sonar tells enemies their location. So they just guess with inertia. Submarines also can't get internet... so they use VLF radio instead, where they can receive limited information at 700 words per minute.
Half of all large ships are registered in panama, because taxation is so low. An international ship follows the laws of its country, as long as it is outside any other country's territorial waters (12 miles from the coast).
A philosophical razor is called that because it "shaves off" unlikely explanations for something. Occam's razor says simpler solutions are more likely to be correct than complex ones, Hanlon's razor says someone doing bad things to you is probably being stupid instead of being mean, and Newton's flaming laser sword says that, if an argument cannot be settled by experiment or observation, then it is not worthy arguing about.
"Perfect is the enemy of better"
The most highly functioning agile teams aren't just at the same location or on the same floor: they share the same table.
Precision is grouping. Accuracy is whether the average is correct.
Gaming consoles exist because there are only so many gaming consoles. Developers can optimise their games to hell to have them run on devices with much lower spec.
Smaller city blocks are more "walkable" than large ones, even if the two walks have the same distance. Having things to look at makes you feel engaged. Video says the generic block is often best at 75m x 110m.
The moon is only 0.5 degrees in your vision, and a "supermoon" is at most 7% more than that.
Since it takes fuel to carry fuel, each plane has a sweet spot where it uses the least fuel per unit distance. In that video, they quoted 2000 miles for some plane.
Load testing measures stability under reasonable load (to determine the quality of service over various loads). Stress testing measures stability under unreasonable load (to determine when it fails and how it fails).
Retcon is what happens when a later book explains stuff from earlier books to make continuity work.
Since SMS delivery is best-effort, it has a 5% probability of losing your messages. You can request a receipt on many phones now though, and presumably the phone will try again if the message is lost.
Do use HTTP status codes to represent the problem (i.e. don't send 200 BOOKING FAILED). Don't use HTTP status codes to represent specific business logic errors. Some responses are meant to come with a body explaining why.
"Autoboxing" is the compiler understanding a primitive value (e.g. int a = 1) can also be interpreted as the wrapper that wraps it, i.e. Integer b = a.
microSD cards are deliberately designed to be different than SIM cards to prevent users from getting confused. Huawei's NanoMemory is deliberately designed to be the same as SIM cards.
"Turkish coffee", no matter what it is, tastes like even more concentrated espresso.
On "Any use of (non-docstring) comments is a code smell" and "Superfluous comment as (it) is clear from reading the code": 'Categorically defining a method or process as a "code smell" is a "zealotry smell". The term is becoming the new "considered harmful".' "If (you) feel your code is too complex to understand without comments, your code is probably just bad. Rewrite it until it doesn't need comments any more. If, at the end of that effort, you still feel comments are necessary, then by all means, add comments. Carefully."
"Aikido is the vegans of martial arts": you strive to defend yourself without even hurting the attacker.
"In general, if an object is immutable, it doesn't make sense to have multiple copies of it." - Raymond
The Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes so much because, get this, everything on a plane has multiple redundancies: engines, pilots, electrical systems... but there is only one angle-of-attack sensor used to counter that "big engine" design flaw.
A 5/8" wrench can mean two things: one the exterior diameter of the nut, and the other, the interior of the nut.
Every time you fuck up planning a terraform script (terraform plan), the serial number goes up by 1.
Chansey and Blissey are the only two pokemon capable of naturally laying eggs in battle. (Mew can learn by TM, but that's also because it can learn anything.)
GameCube discs are not DVDs. They are miniDVD-like discs. Nintendo chose it to prevent piracy of their games. We all know how well that works.
IPAs are traditionally clear. The unfiltered/unfiltred thing is new development.
A prodigy may refer specifically to a child who is as good as an adult in doing something, such as composing music.
Press ' in firefox to search for links only. Use Ctrl+G to cycle through. There is no cycling backwards.
Wireless charging reduces mechanical wear and tear of the USB / lightning port. Apart from that, all other pros ("lazy", "can charge many devices at once", "can't hack me") are minor.
"Barrel-aged" beer may just be aged using wooden chips of old barrels. The same guy also said: "(second fermentation inside the bottle...) was beer first and then later champagne, but the champagne guys have better PR."
In Skyrim, you can get 100 sneak during a tutorial by running into a wall for a day.
The krabby patty's ingredients are actually in the show. It's gibberish.
The Gell-Mann amnesia effect affects experts who read any sort of publication. Having an expertise in one field and knowing whatever a publisher publishes shit in their own field, they often assume the rest of the publications is good instead of bad.
"I think we've all got something to bring to this discussion, and from now on I think the thing you should bring is silence."
Naan is very hard to make: "requiring the baker's undivided attention for each piece of naan, naan is not suitable for mass production, even in modern tandoor-style ovens."
HTTP started with version 0.9, stayed in 1.1 for almost 18 years, and quickly went from 2.0 to 3.0 in 3 years.
No one guarantees AirBnb to be free of bed bugs.
"韮叶" is a kind of noodle thickness.
Babybel ("tiny cheese in red wax") is processed cheese.
Fortune cookies are Japan-inspired products that the Chinese thought were American.
Article 1: WhatsApp tracks your metadata. Article 2: for spam.
Cross check is pushing someone over with the middle of the stick. (i.e. no crosses are formed)
Fettuccine means ribbon. Lasagna means cooking pot. Linguine means little tongues. Penne means quill. Spaghetti means cord. Vermicelli means little worms.
Coding with the intention to pass something like PEP 8 is like not seeing the gorilla when you count basketball passes. Formatting is not everything. Just because a rule exists, it doesn't mean it makes sense to obey it.: "Programmers who insist on (doing pretty much anything minor) risk not seeing the forest for the trees."
The fabulous Rubyist Sandi Metz has a famous talk called All The Little Things, where she posits that "duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction", and thus to "prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction". She said that here as well, with more context.
"RE:" means regards, not reply.
Honeycrisp apples are good, but really not that much different from Royal Gala. Ambrosia is a sweeter, less acidic apple that at least tastes different from ordinary.
HTTP has 30+ registered method names, most of which being WebDAV exclusives. When I say "WebDAV exclusive", it means the REPORT method is an extension of WebDAV RFC2518, and therefore an extension of HTTP 1.1 RFC2616, but not actually part of HTTP 1.1.
Mr Rohit says: "there's a reason etl jobs are run on dwh", with the "dwh" being a place where you keep cleaned data that you want to analyse.
Coding Horror ("the best kind of comments are the ones you don't need"), Clean Code (page 54, "The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code. Note that I used the word failure. I meant it. Comments are always failures."), The Pragmatic Programmer (page 249, "The code already shows how it is done, so commenting on this is redundant—and is a violation of the DRY principle."), all believe in not needing comments only when absolutely necessary to explain why you wrote something some way, and when you have no better way to write a piece of code.
An expression that is assigned is called a statement (i.e. a complete line). Some expressions can be used as statements. In short, expressions can be reduced to some kind of value.
AI effect: if we understand it, then it's not real AI.
"A function should have a docstring, unless it meets all of the following criteria: not externally visible, very short, obvious." - Leaked CIA coding standard
To keep the house cool during summer, keep the windows closed during the day, whether or not you have air conditioning.
卧槽 is just 我操.
You can't fix phone screens with windshield repair kits
Turning software into hardware is worthwhile only if the hardware either helps you speed up a costly function, or if it helps you parallelise the function by simply throwing more resources at it.
A "unit" is a file or module containing a set of related functions, not a single function. You don't need a new test case for every function unless you work at JPL. You can assert multiple times in a test. Don't go crazy. But most importantly, untested Code Is Broken by Definition.
2017 was a really good year for aviation with only 12 known fatalities.
Firefox OS failed not because it didn't solve a problem, but because it didn't solve its users' problem. It failed because the people who would buy Firefox OS are all geeks, and the rest of the population cares about price, not how open the web is.
Interest in Hudson, Jenkins' predecessor, collapsed because Oracle wanted to trademark "Hudson". Other reasons to hate Oracle: Buying Java with the sole purpose to sue Google for money, burning MySQL so people move to Oracle DB, only allowing fortune 500 companies to contribute to OpenOffice, closing source for Solaris so OpenSolaris can no longer be built.
You are supposed to test just the function in a unit test, mocking everything except that function. Assuming your language has no concept of interfaces, if you have a function call inside a function, and your unit test does not mock out anything, then you're doing something wrong.
The Russian Skoptsy people practiced the removal of all sexual organs. It is unclear how the people reproduced.
Ordering food before drinks at a drive thru is faster than if you order drinks first.
In an effort to include girls in boy scouts, the boy scout rule of software engineering has been renamed the scout rule. Same article: "campsite rule", because Boy Scouts of America won't like brand infringement.
"1927-12-31 23:54:08" happened twice in Shanghai, when the Kuomintang government changed the reference from 北平 to 南京, in the sense that 民國 17 年（1928 年），國民政府統一中國，原中央觀象台的業務由南京政府中央研究院的天文研究所和氣象研究所分別接收。天文研究所編寫的曆書基本上沿襲中央觀象台的做法，仍將全國劃分為 5 個標準時區，只是在有關交氣、合朔、太陽出沒時刻等處，不再使用北平的地方平時，而改以南京所在的標準時區的區時即東經 120° 標準時替代。.
Boeing 777 is the world's largest twinjet.
sRGB uses a non-linear "tone response curve" to make a better use of the human visual perception. Rest of the article: extremely in-depth explanation of colour spaces.
Busywork is basically work done that has no value. A different term is make-work job, a job that costs more to support than the value it provides, like... certain government jobs I guess.
"Xinjiang time" (UTC+06:00), used by ethnic Uyghurs, is two hours behind Beijing time, used by Han people who also live in Xinjiang.
Tanzania made almost a million tonnes of sesame seeds in 2016.
Taxidermists rarely agree to taxidermy a pet because they don't have mannequins ("stuffing") of the right size and shape to make it look right for every pet.
According to some wiki thing, French traditions are much more influential to other cultures than other traditions, 50% more (according to some metric) than the English.
One does not simply fly into Mordor [with an eagle] because eagles are higher races in middle earth, very powerful, and the ring attracts powerful creatures.
A metric carat is exactly 200mg. Before 1907, a carat ranges from 187 to 216mg, depending on which country you ask.
The FSF once unironically pointed out that dating is a free software issue, citing "Many restaurants run reservations entirely through Web sites, using software and JavaScript that is proprietary".
Japan has a special term called 成田離婚, describing newlyweds who fly out of the country through 成田国际机场 for their honeymoons, but realise how crappy their spouses are during the honeymoon, divorcing right after they return.
The background noise in VOIP calls is deliberately added, nothing to do with the noise from traditional phone calls.
ETOPS certification is a number of minutes under which an aircraft can continue flying (to a diversion/emergency airport) when one of the two engines (specifically for twin-engine aircraft) fails. Before ETOPS existed, planes must have three or four engines to cross the Atlantic, making many flight paths economically infeasible.
Good mayo is supposed to have a high calorie count.
When buying tea, full leaf is obviously the best choice. Tiny chunks they collect afterwards are sold in tea bags, but it doesn't mean it's bad, it just means the flavour comes out quicker because the surface area is greater, and the flavour is not as nuanced.
Both the White House and the Buckingham Palace have a room with "China" in its name (China room / China luncheon room).
Gerrit's "what I need to review" URL filters: /q/status:open+is:mergeable+is:reviewer+label:Verified%252B1+label:Code-Review%252B1+label:Tested%252B1+-label:Code-Review-1+-label:Code-Review%252B2+-label:Code-Review-1+-owner:self+-reviewedby:self
Launching multiple brands lets a business target completely different audiences. In that example, Oppo made the Oneplus brand because one sells expensive phones to idiots offline, while the other sells less expensive phones to a different group of idiots online.
VPN scams include stealing your data, showing you ads, stealing your bandwidth, offering "pro" packages that do nothing, logging when it says "no logging", literally doing nothing, and sometimes even routing through government servers.
Only racers near the back get blue shells. The blue shell is a homing missile that aims for the racer in the first place. It is therefore an equaliser (for casual players) that makes sure everyone is relatively close together. Its blast radius is designed to hit many players near the first racer. If you can't avoid the blue shell, the best thing you can do is to brake and hope the blast radius also hits the racer in second place.
Companies want to turn their brands into household names, but not so much that it turns into the product category itself. See: Nintendo calling their products "videogame consoles" to make sure "Nintendo" is not what they're making, and Velcro calling their things "hook and loops" so "Velcro" remains the name for the real deal.
The 500 rule of astrophotography (i.e. taking photos of stars): if you keep your shutter open for too long, stars will start to trail and look bad. Use 500 Divided By the Focal Length of Your Lens (in mm) = The Longest Exposure (in Seconds) Before Stars Start to "Trail". If you have a 24mm lens, then 500/24 says you can only open your shutter for 20 seconds. Note: focal length is not the focal point/distance, which can be infinity.
Remove creases on leather by (alright) ironing it over an old T-shirt.
The world's longest fossilised shit is over 3 feet (1 metre) long. The "passer of this remarkable object is unknown".
According to the anime, shellder changes shape when the snowpoke wants to evolve.
SSDs with quad level cells now exist. They are even more rubbish than before, with 15 different voltages to read in a single cell. "Most QLC SSDs are being rated for about 0.1 drive writes per day for five years, about a third of the write volume of low-cost TLC SSDs."
Alcantara is a microfibre material manufactured by a company called Alcantara.
No one ever said proposals need to be a surprise. The moment you start asking for ring sizes, she would have already known something's up.
One-way plane tickets more expensive than return tickets: flight companies want to price their trips as competitive as possible (assuming competition exists). So they make price brackets to lower some ticket prices, and raise some others to make up for the lower fares. They raise prices business travellers, who can pay more, to offset the cheaper tickets sold to holiday goers, who pay for their own tickets and are more budget-conscious. They use "price discrimination", aka pricing rules, to make sure "business-like" trips are charged more. Business trips don't have a "minimum stay" period, because business people travel for just a few days and return. When they do that, they also introduce a problematic case where they can't calculate how long your stay is when you book one-way... so it's just half the price of a business-like return trip, rather than the price of a holiday-like trip.
When someone asks you "how much do we need to scale?", you need an answer based on two things you need to know: the number of additional users, and % extra load per user.
The g in gRPC stands for gRPC, because that's how google names things.
ISO 8601 week dates are prefixed with a W, so 2018-W52 is the last week of the year. Note: these are ISO year and week numbers.
ISO 8601 dates can come without the day: 2019-01. This works because the ordinal date (year plus day number) must be three-digit padded, e.g. 2019-001, and week numbers must be prefixed with a W, e.g. 2019-W01.
The Argentinian and Chilean governments sent pregnant women there to give birth in hopes that it'd would strengthen their claims to a piece of Antarctica.
If a person is born on February 29, countries arbitrarily assign the person's legal birthday to either February 28 or March 1, depending on the law of that country.
Hold salt in your palm to sprinkle.
You can boil potatoes, it's faster.
Recipe delivery packages like HelloFresh and Blue Apron have a gross amount of packaging waste, even excluding the box and the ice packs: recipe paper, insulation, boxes in boxes, thicker bags for vegetables, a separate bag for two olives...
You're supposed to use a stack for checking whether a bunch of brackets match up with each other correctly. Alternatively, if you are skilled, prove that a count('[') == count(']') check is sufficient if the string starts with [ and ends with ].
Summing up modern web development: JS being required by default means it is overused, and used for the wrong things. "Yes, it's technically amazing to ... have your JS build a content page, but it's utterly over-engineered and impractical for most occasions (where HTML should be served as HTML)." Requiring JS to serve a page means the robustness goes missing, since users can disable JS. Also: developers make pages like everyone has unlimited fast Internet.
Reusable "cling film" can be made with beeswax.
HEPA filters filter away stuff larger than 0.1 microns. Carbon filters filter out stuff that is smaller.
Disneyland really only requires one day. Disneyworld needs like a week.
Horses won't run into lines of soldiers with bayonets.
A "pantry" is a subset of closets specifically designed to store food and/or dishes.
Sea waves that cross each other in a waffle pattern are extremely dangerous.
Date formatting using yyyy vs YYYY: "yyyy specifies the calendar year whereas YYYY specifies the year (of "Week of Year"), used in the ISO year-week calendar." Unless paired with the ISO week number, using YYYY is almost certainly improper.
Years before 1583 are not part of the ISO 8601 standard.
辣眼睛 means "things you shouldn't have seen".
Microsoft gave up on EdgeHTML because Google kept screwing with them: "one of the reasons we decided to end EdgeHTML was because Google kept making changes to its sites that broke other browsers, and we couldn't keep up. For example, they recently added a hidden empty div over YouTube videos that causes our hardware acceleration fast-path to bail"
"To sire" is to become the father to a child.
The real load of a system is how many users are actually using it simultaneously, not how many users you have.
The official RFC 2616 PUT response is either an HTTP 200 or 204, with no body. (Check with RFC 7xxx though, which superceded 2616.)
VirtualBox is non-free. Oracle sues companies that "show traffic to the extensions download site from their IP blocks".
You'd ideally write to a slave database, confirm it works on the slave, before writing the same thing to the master. That way, if the master dies, you don't lose any writes.
Silvopasture, raising livestock in a place with trees, reduces CO2 overhead by 30%.
Most compression algorithms are asymmetric, i.e. decompression typically takes less time than compression. Monkey's Audio is not one such algorithm.
Commoditization is when a product becomes a commodity. When people have no brand loyalty towards a product, that product is a commodity. Apple and Samsung are mentioned in the article as manufacturers who desperately try to avoid smartphone commoditization.
Japanese air raid sirens are just a fan that blows into multiple whistles along the side.
A mocaccino is a mocha. The two are the same thing.
"Reification" is making something real. In CS, reification turns something you can't express, into something you can express, sometimes known as "making something a first-class citizen".
Shingled hard drives records data partly over the adjacent tracks, which increases storage capacity but introduces write latency as well.
The J in the phonetic alphabet is Juliett instead of Juliet, to prevent the French pronunciation from being different.
The six needless injuries are car crashes, falls, fires, suffocation, poisoning, and drowning.
It is absolutely legal to name your child ABCDE. According to the mother, that name is pronounced "Ab-si-dee".
There may be some merit to using emojis in git commit messages if they have standardised semantic meanings.
The Wu-Tang Clams were actually named after 武当拳.
In a store that is known to sell expensive stuff, people are more likely to pay more for the products inside.
Installing a website "as an app" requires icons in the manifest file.
Nine currencies currently exist with a value higher than that of USD.
An odd vector of attack is through Amazon purchases. By buying something from a Chinese seller, you will have given them a) your name, b) your address, and c) what you like to buy, which is more valuable than the discount they give you. (Paraphrased from bredren's comment)
Lexus made a real hoverboard. It contains cooled superconductors that allow the board to hover above a track. (That means it's not useful)
Only one out of seven chapters of the Kamasutra was about sex. The rest is about living a leisurely life.
Cottage industries are businesses that are carried out at home.
Terraform scripts cannot be imported based on the state alone (which would only update the tfstate file if you run terraform import ...). You need to write your own scripts.
If you think Samoa swapping between UTC-11:00 and UTC+13:00 timezones isn't annoying enough, they also have daylight savings, to a UTC+14:00, during summer in the southern hemisphere.
The difference between i5 and i7 processors, in the case of Kaby Lake R mobile processors, is that the i5 can turbo boost only one core, whereas the i7 can turbo all four cores at once.
The more advanced controllers in SSDs, as well as the number of chips inside each SSD, are what makes SSDs faster than SD/eMMC memory.
Plasma lighters were invented to prevent traditional lighter flames from going out in strong winds.
Going "off the grid" could be illegal for residents in Florida ("Officials cited the International Property Maintenance Code, which mandates that homes be connected to an electricity grid and a running water source"), and isn't particularly feasible for Canadians.
Your run-of-the-mill 3D printing filaments cost around $30 per kilo, or 3 cents per gram.
Yake is the process of a fish cooking itself (by swimming after getting caught) from the inside, also known as "burnt tuna".
The tail of a tuna, which has a lot of muscles, is often scraped off the tail to make tuna tartare, or "spicy tuna" sushi.
There are non-toxic farmed fugu, but only the large, wild, toxic ones are good to eat, says Japanese chef Rikizo Okamoto. Fugu by itself tastes "unspectacular; rather bland".
Angel (An-hell/An-yell) is a boy name in Spanish.
If a bolt is the exact same size as its nut, then the bolt will never go into the nut. Fit clearances allow an intentionally smaller component to go into another, while "interference fit" heats up one of the parts, expanding it, allowing two otherwise perfectly-sized parts to fit.
All notable persons with the name "Ciprian" are Romanian.
Amazon owns Twitch.
"Galloway said that Bezos was always going to pick one of the coastal cities where he has a second/third home [for the new Amazon HQ]. By doing this 'contest' Amazon was able to get cities to compete with each other to provide tax incentives to Amazon and was also able to get valuable private information on the cities that Amazon can use in their business strategy. Galloway told cities not to participate."
Turns out Windows 10 updates are named after (two digit year)(two digit month). Windows 10 "1809" came out (or was supposed to come out) September 2018.
Duress: threatening someone to make them do something.
The green channel on an OLED screen uses the least amount of energy at full brightness.
Some UX research out there says african-american on caucasian-american is easier to read than caucasian-american on african-american.
"USB 3.0", "USB 3.1 Gen 1", and "USB 3.2 Gen 1" are actually the same thing. In the same article: any USB cable that claims to support USB 3 will support any version of USB 3.
Did you think USB would learn from this mistake? Yes? Think again! They did create a USB 4 (instead of "USB 3.3 Gen 4x3x2")... but it comes in four flavours: USB4 Gen 2x1, USB4 Gen 3x1, USB4 Gen 2x2, and USB4 Gen 3x2. Let's hope no one needs to know what they mean.
There is an inverse correlation between how much you spend on your wedding, and how likely you are to end up in divorce.
American IPAs are more bitter than English IPAs.
When travelling with a friend or partner, there is no obligation to do everything together.
"Dumpster" is a trademark.
A company's product deteriorates as the company becomes more successful because innovators in the company can't argue with the marketing department.
There are "dry counties" for counties that prohibit alcohol, and then there's moist counties, which sell alcohol with some restrictions.
Leaving the washer door open when not in use allows moisture to escape, which prevents mould.
"Does anyone see any reason why these two should not be married?" is reserved for legal issues like "this man is secretly married with another woman", not for jokes, or "I object because he's awful for her".
The video game industry is larger than the music and video industries combined.
You can easily tell how often people (in your country) have sex by looking at Amazon's delivery suggestions. A 30-pack condom that is delivered "every 3 months (Most common)" implies people have sex once every three days.
"My old roommate worked on a tall ship and their technique was to use a whole dish sponge for dishes, then cut one corner off and use it for surfaces, two corners for walls, three for floors, and finally once you cut all four corners off you'd use it for cleaning the heads." - /u/meridiacreative
A-series paper can be halved and still be A-series sheets of paper because the paper has an aspect ratio of 1:sqrt(2) or 1:1.414. When cut, 0.707:1 is also 1:1.414. B-series paper has the exact same property with aspect ratio, but B0 is 1000mm x 1414mm rather than A0's 841mm x 1189mm.
Intel Speed Boost is the processor overclocking itself.
Windows 10 also has zram/zswap.
The Power Rangers logo says "Mighty Morphin", not "Mighty Morphine".
Loveseats are two-passenger couches.
Finnish people don't smalltalk. "Speech is silver, silence is golden."
"Subsist" is basically a mashup of "sustain" and "persist".
There are two common kinds of M.2 drives (M.2 being the shape and size): SATA (with two slits) and NVMe (with one slit).
India produces 75% of the world's spices.
Downvoting is pretty much the only feature worth going for on Hacker News.
Royalty avoid shellfish to not get food poisoning.
The Man Cook emoji is a sequence of the 👨 Man and 🍳 Cooking emojis. You can also add a skin colour modifier to make it a brown man cooking emoji.
Nightcaps consist of one drink or fewer.
Lederhosen (LAY-der-ho-sen) are the shorts or breeches, not the socks.
Bullshit asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
Hacker News was "Startup News" at first, but even Paul Graham thought it was too boring, so he renamed the site to Hacker News to broaden the focus.
The Utah teapot is a 3D rendering benchmark, and an inside joke in some animated movies. Naturally then, it has shown up in Toy Story.
A Dutch rudder is having someone jerk you off by moving your own forearm.
Ladies don't share underwear. They share everything else.
Walking while farting is also called crop dusting.
Interpol is a real organisation facilitating international police cooperation, and Taiwan is not in it.
"Stories" appeal to people who understand that their social media content will eventually come back to haunt them.
The Matrix screensaver was originally a sushi recipe.
A "tint" can only be a pure colour plus the colour caucasian-american, while "shade" can only be a pure colour with the colour african-american. If it is both then use "tone" instead.
Domain fronting hides the true domain of an API service. For example, Signal looks like it is connecting to AWS in Saudi Arabia.
Bloomberg claims that tons of datacenter servers are compromised at the hardware level by Chinese nation-level hardware hacks that disguise as signal couplers, but are actually "injecting its own code or altering the order of the instructions the CPU was meant to follow". Bloomberg said it found this very hack at Bloomberg, while Apple and Amazon deny this story.
Three or more stations operating (say a radio) over a common frequency, it's called a net because the resulting graph looks like a net. Such an operation has a supervisor sometimes.
A drey is a squirrel nest.
"Wright", "Zimmermann", and "Schreiner" are all surnames for "carpenter".
Amazon does things at scale. It is only interested in things that can be done cheaper or better if there are a thousand times more users than there are currently.
The Queen in chess was known as the (prime) minister.
Thailand scores 4 out of the world's top 10 most delicious foods.
Facebook's Nigerian offer to free Internet access is actually just Facebook plus a limited list of sites, which disobeys net neutrality.
Cell towers work in disasters because they have backup batteries. They only last for a few hours, but they do have backups.
Rodeo clowns are also known as rodeo protection athletes.
"Like they say: People use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamp post - for support, not enlightenment"
The name Coralie means, well, "Coral".
Active noise cancelling does a poor job at cancelling voice, instead being better at removing engine or airplane noises.
To drink something from a bottle faster, insert a straw and drink from the bottle as normal. This is known as a "strawpedo".
"Anyways here's Wonderwall" came from a Julia Banks on 2013-12-10. The actual hate for Wonderwall covers existed long before that.
"Chesticles" may refer to breasts.
The international phonetic alphabet for R is NOT Roger. (It's Romeo)
Sod is sheets of new grass. "Sod off" can therefore be interpreted as "get the fuck off my lawn".
Empty your vacuum cleaner outside...
A club sandwich is also called a clubhouse sandwich.
Angkor Wat translates to 吴哥窟.
Kitkat filling is just recycled kitkats.
A left-handed bowler should stand to the left of the lane, as well as looking down that line, to ensure the ball lands near the middle.
A condom failure rate of 3% is an annual statistic that, using these condoms, 3 out of 100 people (the women?) get pregnant, despite having used the condoms correctly.
The "ham" in ham radio was a pejorative term to describe how "ham-fisted" the amateur operators were. They still are ham-fisted today, but they used to, too.
一手股票 is a board lot.
Stripe has to option to not send you your own money unless you tell it to, through the API.
Most adult friendships flake into nothing if the people fail to meet up.
10 out of 10 dentists recommend toothpaste. Ads say "9 out of 10" just because it is more believable.
If you like kinky bondage sex, write down a contract with your partner for if/when the neighbours call the cops on you.
Fancy patterned rims found on women's underwear are called lace edges.
Max Park is the world's speed cubing champion (or second place). He is autistic.
ACG is short for Anime, Comics, and Games.
RRS Boaty McBoatface was unfortunately renamed to RRS Sir David Attenborough. Boaty McBoatface was itself a homage to an adopted owl, "Hooty McOwlface".
A paperback romance novel in 1972 called The Flame and the Flower popularised the [historical] romance genre. It sold nine times as many copies as originally planned.
No household power cable is sold with two male ends, because once you plug in one end, you get shocked by the other end.
Houses have a flat "nub" at the top, rather than a flat top or a sharp top, because of laziness, says video. Homes that are pretentious like that are called McMansions.
Summer/Winter solstices are almost always on the 20th, 21st, 22nd, or 23rd of June or December, mostly depending on how "leap" the year is.
Bisque are soups made with crustaceans.
USA has laws governing how many parking spots are required for a particular establishment, pushing buildings farther apart, and making walk-friendly cities not really feasible.
The order of respect goes as follows: 天地君亲师, i.e. heaven, earth, husband, relatives, teacher.
It is definitely Cliff's Notes, not Cliff notes.
The act of moving your seat closer to your table is also called tucking in.
For large ships, the anchor itself isn't doing much of the anchoring; the chain is. Each link in the chain is hundreds of freedom pounds. Other fun facts about anchors.
UB40 the band was named after the Unemployment Benefit Form 40 in the UK.
Sherbets can contain milk ingredients. Sorbets cannot.
A lock pick gun works by bumping all slots at the same time, unlocking the lock, before they spring back to a locked state.
The time machine in Back to the Future was originally a fridge, but "Zemeckis was concerned that children would accidentally lock themselves in refrigerators, and felt it was more useful if the time machine were mobile."
In a workplace, givers are both the best and worst performers, depending on what kind of takers they work with.
Half-life 3 will never be released because the possible disappointment will ruin sales of the current Half-life series.
Anti-theft ink tags can be defeated by a simple freezer.
LEEROY JENKINS was from a World of Warcraft incident.
The canary warning system was originally used by miners to detect toxic gases.
Adjustable wrenches are reportedly designed to work only one way: clockwise (i.e. downwards in a typical picture). Doing it counterclockwise puts more stress on the mechanism.
Lots of (cable) connectors are hermaphroditic/genderless. The most common example is the knuckle that connects train cars, and the SAE 12V power cable, which have both male and female parts on each end. Since genderless cables cannot have a penis on both ends, a common design is a circular surface with twist-to-lock claws.
In a postiive-sum world, the better off everyone else is, the better your life is.
Salt and pepper should be passed together, even when only one is requested. Other table etiquette in this graphic: the "I'm finished" fork position should be on the right hand side facing 11 o'clock, and the "I'm not finished" position is the crossed one, which you were previously taught to be the "I'm finished" position. Verify these claims yourself.
You can just buy face recognition from the internet. Amazon Rekognition, Google Cloud Vision, IBM Watson Visual Recognition, Microsoft Face API. Same article finds Microsoft's solution cheap but useless.
"Move your hips [when walking in high heels]." - A woman named Virginia
The policy that land is to be leased to developers by the government to Hong Kong [at astronomical prices], means that the government has no incentive to develop the land that is currently underdeveloped.
"Passing the Turing test" is when a robot behaves the same way as a human. The robot itself does not do or write the test.
"I have zero trust in Proton after learning, that the free ProtonVPN service is provided by a data mining company from Eastern Europe." "The company that 'officially' operates ProtonVPN is ProtonVPN AG, a Switzerland based company. However, the business is in reality operated by PROTONVPN LT, UAB a Lithuania based company ... ultimately run by Tesonet ... operating a data mining operation out of Lithuania." "These are huge claims" - Youtuber
"Better half" means one's spouse.
Magikarp is based on the myth that if a carp swims all the way upstream and up a waterfall it will turn into a dragon.
The phrase is "turn on a dime", meaning "to turn with a small turning radius", because the dime was the smallest US coin in circulation.
No skill in pokemon sharply raises two stats at the same time.
The Color Run, the run in which you get bombed by coloured cornstarch, is run by a for-profit company.
A sawhorse, completely unrelated to the seahorse, is a beam with four legs.
There are enough character variants in unicode to warrant font emulation.
Hacker News decides that LRU caches by category is the best way to organise items in your home.
Playing hard to get doesn't work, no matter who you are.
Because of a missing open container law, it is legal to drink and drive in Mississippi as long as you stay under the BAC limit.
A group of crickets are referred to as an orchestra.
'I worked with a guy that would always say "don't take one of mine" when I said "I'm going to go take a shit"' - /u/jmcgee408
There is basically no difference between "snugging" and "snuggling", but they come from "snug" and "snuggle", respectively.
A folded corner of a page has a formal term called dog ears.
57% of Central African Republic's GDP comes from industrial diamonds. "Despite its significant mineral deposits and other resources, ... as well as significant quantities of arable land, the Central African Republic is among the ten poorest countries in the world. ... It is also estimated to be the unhealthiest country as well as the worst country in which to be young."
Fortnite for Android aims and shoots for you.
The 1832 edition of the American Frugal Housewife recommended earwax as a remedy for cracked lips.
A reefer is also a marijuana.
"Jowhar are the strongest swords used for beheadings. It is not affected by the number of people beheaded with it. It is made of strong iron, not the kind that breaks or anything." - Abdallah Bin Sa'id Al-Bishi, executioner
"Rocky Mountain oysters" are deep fried bull balls.
Dude says it is taboo for young Indian men to shave their heads.
To be struck out means to attempt multiple times, and then fail.
Paper was a valuable resource in Waterworld next to dirt, but a plothole exists where people smoke cigarettes throughout the movie, which are a combination of (essentially) dirt and rolled paper.
The standard MTR train travels at 80km/h, whereas the airport express train travels at 135km/h.
The French for park 'n' ride is parc-o-bus.
Multiple sources say to unshrink jeans, you sit in a tub of water for 15 minutes, and then walk around with the pair of jeans for an hour.
A "quintessence" is an essence that is more concentrated than just essence. See also: "quint-essential".
Jeggings are leggings that only look like jeans, with none of it made with jeans.
"Scarborough" came from Skarðaborg, with no one to contest this claim.
The SS7 protocol controls how calls are set up and released, as well as billing. Somehow, apart from the SMS vulnerabilities that are already discussed in this file, protocol vulnerabilities also allow the device's movements to be tracked at a 70% success rate, without the device ever knowing what's up.
The "tacking stitches" sewn onto a blazer's split is meant to keep it from getting wrinkled while in transport.
Age of consent laws are often enforced only if there is a significant gap between the age of the two (or more) parties, so a 18yo having sex with a 17yo is hardly ever an issue.
ISIS chose orange suits for their prisoners, might have done so as a throwback to Abu Ghraib in 2003/2004, where Americans tortured Iraqi prisoners in similarly humiliating ways.
A casket is generally rectangular (four-sided). A coffin is one of those angled versions that tapers downwards towards the body's feet (six-sided).
Braiding involves three strands of something, and moving the outermost strand into the middle. Repeat until there is no remaining length. No idea what to do once you have no length left.
Eigengrau is the shade of black that people report seeing in the absence of any light. It is #16161d. The amount of light supposedly comes from the "thermal isomerization of rhodopsin", or photoreceptors that misfire at about 100 times per second.
Cruise ships earn money by forcing you to buy expensive essentials on board, e.g. food, drinks, and gambling in International waters.
In India, people wear caucasian-american to funerals.
Windows and Linux don't use Rings 1 and 2 because the OS'es paging mechanism only have one bit (U/S Bit, "User/Supervisor Bit") to emulate protection rings, and one bit can only have two states.
Raichu was supposed to evolve further into Gorochu, but was removed because "it's too OP" (paraphrasing game developer).
Cat owners get into more car accidents because of Toxoplasmosis.
Someone "walks over your grave" if you feel a sudden, unnatural shudder or unease.
Let's Encrypt certificates expire every 3 months.
"Patronising" is patronising only if there is some form of insincere kindness involved.
Things like Yubikeys are rarely time-based. The thing contains a key pair, with only the public key readable via USB. The server will get a copy of the public key when you add your thing. When you try to log in, you need the private key to sign a random number that the server gives you, and the signed message that you return must have the same signature as your public key, which the server knows.
A widow is a woman whose husband died. A widower is a man whose wife died.
Vladimir means "great power". Actually, "power great". Using the same logic, Boromir ought to mean "Great bro".
Vladimir can also mean "ruler of peace", OR "ruler of world".
Throwing in the towel, from boxing, means to quit, give up, or stop trying.
Secret gists are still publicly readable if the links are leaked.
(Some) supercomputers are sold to governments for code breaking.
Princess Zelda was based on Zelda Fitzgerald, a socialite in the 1900s. Like many socialites, she became crazy, got locked up in a hospital (for reasons?), and died when the hospital burned down.
With no relation to each other, both Java and JavaScript came out in 1995. Java was made by a James, while JavaScript by a Brendan.
The likelihood of a marriage lasting is not linearly correlated to the number of sexual partners you had before. Women who had three sexual partners are paradoxically less likely to get a divorce, compared to the women who had two.
Living on 4 USD a day is totally doable, with the caveat that you can only eat women's portion sizes.
"Ska" is a Jamaican music genre that got blended into punk (as "third wave ska") in the 1980s.
Microsoft doesn't want you to use Windows 10 LTSB, the one without ads and spyware. It requires an Enterprise licence.
"Retail businesses could do a better job keeping isles free. Also it would be super helpful if hotels wouldn't keep putting trash cans in front of the exterior elevator buttons on each floor. Wheelchairs can't access those buttons when that happens." - Guy on a wheelchair
Pedagogy (PE-da-ge-jee) is the study of teaching (usually kids). Andragogy is the study of teaching adults.
The SMS SS7 ("Signaling system 7") can be hacked of course, and there is nothing you can do about it.
While posing with the dead fell out of favour, some people still do it to remember the dead they knew and loved.
Although the name Strauss can be found in reference books frequently with "ß", Johann Strauss II himself wrote his name with a long "s" and a round "s" (Strauſs).
Hot Fuzz is called Hot Fuzz because Fuzz is a nickname for the police.
Goldilocks and the Three bears: woman breaks into bears' house, eats porridge, breaks chair, falls asleep. Wat?
The official name for bookworm is apparently "bibliophile".
"The number of Americans killed by guns runs at about ten 9-11 attacks per year. More Americans are killed by gunshot wounds each year than in the entire Iraq war." - Thunderf00t
Brioche buns have so much egg and butter in it, that it is often considered Viennoiserie pastry. (That word just means "things from Vienna".)
tl;dr --- "Every successful social startup should bend, but not completely violate, one or more social taboos, e.g. one of the 7 deadly sins."
"[PCI and] PCIe usually implies DMA, so now you'll be able to plug in to an SD card slot and read/write all the memory on the system, dumping passwords, cookies, etc, and rewriting memory to bypass logins or inject running code."
Googling "keyword -keyword" gives you results for everything like that keyword, except pages containing the exact keyword.
42% of Bhutan's exports comes from (hydro)electricity to India.
Only "Corning" and "Gorilla" in Corning® Gorilla® Glass are registered trademarks.
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here" is also a Shakespeare quote. Peter Abernathy said nothing original.
We can quite generally say that the west side of South America speaks Spanish, while the east side (i.e. Brazil) speaks Portuguese. The most obvious exceptions are Guyana (English), Guiana (French), and Suriname (Dutch), all along the northeast.
Tourism New Zealand says that a true flat caucasian-american is a coffee with foam served in a 175mL cup, instead of 225mL cup like for lattes. Also the foam looks a bit different.
A "twenty-sixer" is just 10mL short of 750mL [of hard liquor], and a "two-four" specifically refers to 24 bottles of beer, not cans, nor any other kind of alcohol.
Companies that implement end-to-end encryption properly are unable to read your messages. Companies that implement "from you to them" end-to-end, and then "from them to your buddy" end-to-end, literally does not implement end-to-end.
"Shiba Inu" turns out to be just 柴犬. Dogecoin is 廢柴幣. (no)
Staryu has a band on its left "leg" that holds its gem to its body.
Soundbars are the Apple products of the audio industry. They integrate multiple speakers that cannot be moved. If your room is not the right size (for its projection), you are holding it wrong.
Flash turned out to be named FutureSplash. Macromedia renamed it.
"Intel named a CPU lineup (Core i3,i5,i7), ... despite the fact that they don't make any processors in any of those lines with an odd number of cores" - Linus Sebastian
Officially speaking, a bastard is a child born to unmarried parents. Laws differ on whether a child is legitimate if a single pregnant mother then marries another person (yes in UK), or if the natural-born status doesn't matter at all (France).
An envoy is a messenger. A convoy is a bunch of ships travelling together.
The 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky was written in 1880. 1812 was just the year the Russians defended against Napoleon.
An abstract data type (ADT) is abstract because it is not connected to any hardware implementation. A real data type, on the other hand, would be.
Japan makes whiskey, and it was said to be really, really good. Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a top bottle.
Hooliganism may have come from the Houlihans, a made-up Irish character.
Google's "ROFL" emoji did not have tears in its eyes until the Oreo version.
There used to exist special singles bars in the 60s, where only singles go and mingle. The article seems to suggest that the "singles bar" concept went away because of AIDS, or that there aren't as many return customers if a bar is labelled as such.
A "pot coaster" is called a trivet.
Lots of you don't spend your rewards points, it's real money lmao
Cultures invent different names for different colours, splitting the spectrum in however many ways.
In order for a project rebuild to be successful, you must need: a) a clear idea what the new project needs to do, b) a way to run that project alongside the old one, c) features that get implemented faster in the new project than in the old one (that's the point of a new project, man), d) people who know what the old project does, and e) to implement roughly the same set of features that the old project had. If you don't implement everything, then there is a negative value add, and that won't end well for you.
In association football, overtime is called extra time.
John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli the Dwarf in whichever Lord of the Rings movies, is taller than all the hobbits, that king guy, and the wizard.
Nursing has the opposite problem as in engineering fields. "I did nursing for 4 years. I regret every single second of it. Your coworkers, basically all women, will expect you to do all the heavy lifting just because you're a man. (...) The one time I said 'no, you get paid more than me anyway' I got a nice trip to see my supervisor, who of course is also a woman, and berated me for not 'manning up'. Don't nurse if your a man. It's a hellscape of estrogen and gender conforming stereotypes. (...) the expectations on you are MUCH higher than your female coworkers."
Make plastic collar inserts with old gift cards (as long as they are white).
Tech enthusiasts are the worst over the long term: they want the lowest price, the pickiest of requirements, and there are so few of them that you can't make the product at scale. To cater to these people, the company must make the best product at the lowest cost. Alternatively, those companies can simply not cater to enthusiasts. Which is why it is common to see, that the moment you get into anything, the same company starts making shit.
Paprika is ground-up bell peppers.
People hate Star Wars I because a) Jar Jar Binks, b) people not looking at CG characters where they are, and c) Jedi can't swim, enter a giant air bubble, and immediately get dry hair and clothes.
Brazil exports lots of granite to the US. Having granite countertops was a status symbol back when only the Italians exported granite.
There are not many strong rules on naming roads, but all that's required for a street to be called a street is to have buildings on both sides.
Wetting your fingers lets you tell the direction of the wind??
The Japanese monarchy is the longest continuous-running monarchy in the world.
Gherkins are pickles.
Set up a bastion host (a security-hardened host) that you need to connect to, in order to get to your other web services, then---at least in theory---you can save your time hardening all your other hosts, because they aren't exposed to the internets.
Stack (buffer) overflow works by exploiting how function calls work. Since function calls are implemented using stacks, and both flow control and memory allocation take place in the same stack, you can allocate some amount of memory in the stack, and then use more than that amount of memory, to overrun the return address of that function call. Once you corrupt that return address---the address the program normally jumps "back" to---you can execute arbitrary payloads pointed there.
Haircut "layers" are cutting (hair that's laid on top) shorter than the stuff underneath.
Samoa skipped a day from 2011-12-29 to 2011-12-31, by jumping a day forward to make business easier with its westerly island neighbours. See also: timezones.
RAID 6 uses Reed-Solomon error correction for error correction (obviously), using matrix propoerties, like: a) an identity matrix multiplied by anything else is that thing, b) any four rows in the encoding matrix are invertable if you combine them, and c) multiplying the surviving rows of data by their matching inverse matrix will simply give you the data back.
Looking at some "salient aspects" of your task at hand, known as the quiet eye, improves the outcome of whatever you are trying to concentrate on doing.
Women, on average, expect anything said to have a probable event to have a higher probability than men do.
To "reprimand" someone is to formally disapprove someone.
Marshmallows are rare in Brazil.
Apartment buildings are owned by one entity. Condominiums/Condiminia are owned by different people.
Ars Technica is owned by Advance Publications, the same company that owns Reddit, along with a thousand more subsidiaries.
Add 40mL of water to your 40% vodka to make it "Russian standard", the brand that makes a big deal about 38% being the ideal strength.
People who shoot pictures in Adobe RGB (an option on some cameras) often don't see a problem because many websites automatically convert those images back to the safer sRGB when you upload them. They then view these sRGB photos in their web browsers, on a monitor that probably displays sRGB.
Likewise, people who set their displays to DCI-P3 mode, but view sRGB images on them, are just looking at inaccurate images that happen to "pop" more.
Server-side includes can be a security issue if [you somehow allow a file with  to be uploaded. For the record, exercise 11 requires prior knowledge of Elton John.
嘉義市 chose the Hong Kong Bauhinia as the city flower, because, eh... why not. The city is twinned with eight cities, none of which being Hong Kong.
Stingray detector apps are said to never work, researchers claim.
"57 Varieties" is just a marketing lucky number. Even back when they came up with 57, Heinz was already selling 60 products.
One of your bois Sean was at SAP and Amazon for a whole year combined.
Some places call Bethlehem, "Bayt Lahm". Bethlehem means "house of bread" in Hebrew, and "house of meat" in Arabic. As of 2007, only 25000 people live there.
女湯 is where women simmer themselves.
To contain dirt (or to perheps give foreigners a hint), where the Japanese expect you to take off your shoes, there is often a change in elevation. At your typical entryway called 玄関, the elevation is lower than the rest of the floor.
Asian men can be at most a 8.5 out of 10, say people on Okay Cupid.
"Wikipedia articles near you" is built into the website. There is no need to reinvent it.
The Rogers Centre has a pronounciation just like "SKY-dome".
To remove a mechanical keyboard's keycaps, wiggle the keycap with your remover. Don't pull! Don't yank!
Mercy killing is not permitted by the Geneva conventions. It states, "wounded and sick shall be collected and cared for", which includes the people who are not going to make it.
In 1944, Shanghaiese people called it Hong Kong foot, while Hong Kong people called it Singapore foot, while Singaporeans called it Manila foot. Today, Hong Kong people call it Hong Kong foot, and Singaporeans call it Singapore foot.
A pepperoni pizza in Italy is a bell pepper pizza.
Ramen is a prison currency.
"Love handles" are just waist fat.
The toilet paper patent shows it being in the "over" configuration.
「學斗」本寫 ... 應為「鶴藪」，又叫「鶴藪白菜」，... 是粉嶺鶴藪地區的特產。...
Wyatt came from the old name Wigheard.
The blockchain is the "ledger" consensus network. Whatever stuff ("block") you throw at it, and whichever consensus the system arrives at > 51%, becomes the new stuff ("block"), forming a chain.
You don't hear the dark joke "are muslim babies born with burkas on" because they don't wear one until puberty.
Those tiny bean things sometimes included in sandwiches are either broccoli or alfalfa sprouts.
Buzzcuts were originally given to prevent head lice.
An ounce of weed is a large volume. Clack suggests thinking in the form of dried spices.
A "bump stock"... uses a gun's recoil to pull the trigger (with the distance between the action and the stock), making it effectively automatic.
Directors for Girls finally found HBO's tolerance for (basically pornography on TV) when they refused to air Adam Driver's ejaculation in fear of losing their licence.
A water ingress protection rating of 8 is not necessarily better than a 6 in real life (me irl). 6 provides resistance against powerful water jets, but 8 is an immersion test whose maximum pressure may be lower than the jet's. Some things have IP66 and IP68 separately certified.
Thor's lastname is really Odinson, and his hammer does not break Captain America's shield thingy. This was used in the Age of Ultron for a scattered thunderbolt.
OPEC is a "textbook example of a cartel that cooperates to reduce market competition, but ... protected by ... international law".
"Kilogramme" is an accepted spelling that no one used, not even in your English school.
George Polya's book How to Solve It once said, "If you are having difficulty understanding a problem, try drawing a picture." He meant drawing a picture of the problem, not unrelated things like trees.
There was an American aircraft carrier called the Shangri-la. Shangri-la is Tibetan for "Shang Mountain Pass". There is also a rubbish town in China called the Shangri-La, whose airport has the IATA code of DIG.
It is Sir Mick Jagger. Sir Jagger has eight children with five women.
Humpty Dumpty is an egg.
A lollipop man is a man who holds up a circular stop sign for pedestrians to pass, sometimes called a crossing guard.
A ronin (浪人) is a samurai without lord or master, or a man who is not employed.
Buying a burner phone is not as simple as walking into the store and buying one. "Sure, I could walk into Walmart and pay cash for a burner phone (...) Who would know? Well, lots of people would. First, how did I get to Walmart? Did I take an Uber car? Did I take a taxi? These records can all be subpoenaed. I could drive my own car, but (...) automatic license plate recognition technology (ALPR) (...) records can be subpoenaed. Even if I walked to Walmart, once I entered the store my face would be visible on several security cameras within the store itself, and that video can be subpoenaed." (This might have been part of a book on privacy.)
Chekhov's gun: in a screenplay, every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed. If you see something, it means something. "One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep." Unless you are Westworld, in which case, screw Chekhov, confuse everyone.
For systems that have external GPUs, take the GPUs out of the slot when in transport to reduce mechanical stress. Or lay the system in whichever way that minimises this stress.
Web servers only have to deal with URIs, which can only contain ASCII characters (RFC 3986), but someone from Microsoft says (RFC 3987) they want to have something called an IRI, which can contain unicode characters as well.
3.5mm jacks come in two major flavours: OMTP (phones sold in China), and CTIA (phones made by everyone else). It is unclear how it works if a phone is sold in China and made by everyone else.
Conway's Game of Life is a zero-player game. You can't play it. You can only watch. People like this "game" because they like to watch things "evolve".
Anker was originally a battery packaging company, i.e. one that buys batteries, and then repackages them to become laptop batteries or battery packs.
Skylake CPUs have PAUSE instructions that are 140 cycles long instead of the usual 10 cycles long. This is, however, not a bug, and programs that implement spinlocks should probably think about what they are doing, and then adjust the desired pause time as necessary.
Lots of databases, like BigTable and PostgreSQL, use the "definitely not in the set" property of Bloom filters to quickly check if something is definitely not in a row or column, before actually resorting to the disk.
Norway is the first non-anglophone country in the list of countries that search for the word "nigger" the most on Google.
For some reason, almost all top universities speak English.
Paralympic curling doesn't sweep, and instead of gliding forward with your curling stone, there's a dude in his wheelchair holding your wheelchair in place and you thrust the stone forward with a stick (so basically pool, since that stick is officially called the cue).
IDNA-encoded strings always start with xn--. The rest of the string is punycode-encoded.
OWASP is a registered not-for-profit charitable organisation. This explains the crappy wiki being their actual home page.
Those tied-up strings coming out of the ceiling in public washrooms are fall alarms, that should really be near the ground.
IBM Model M keyboards are still membrane keyboards. They just use a "buckling spring" mechanism to give you a precise feedback when that spring hits the membrane. Later, IBM sold the keyboard business to Lexmark, after which the Model M keyboards became straight-out rubber domes.
Harry S Truman's "S" stood for nothing. The S was a common practice to honour two or more ancestors whose names start with S.
If you aren't the top 10% in a dating app, then you probably aren't getting likes, says article. On a bell curve, that might translate to anyone on or below an 8.
Nike did create self-lacing shoes. This video claims the application helps people who have spinal injuries and can't tie shoes, but these are running shoes.
The languages you should know are quite simply right here: JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP (surprise), C#, and C++. Here is the article.
LINQ came out in 2007.
That Lim Teng Zui's actor is actually half Indian with the last name Singh.
Rachel means, uh, a female sheep (also known as an ewe). Rachels buy Macbooks and iPhones and skinny lattes.
Google Sheets can be a valid JSON server.
Mapping companies put fake streets and features into their maps to catch copyright violations.
Traditional teh tarik is made with sweetened condensed milk.
Whether taxes work before or after discounts can depend on what type of discount it is.
Spain invented the idea of adding one part coke to one part wine, and then calling it Kalimotxo (calimocho). See the list of IBA official cocktails for what to actually order.
You might have invented the word "newspapoid" to describe tabloid-quality newspapers. There are currently absolutely no search results.
"Andre Geim ... was ... the first to win, as an individual, both a Nobel Prize ... and an Ig Nobel Prize."
Positive rights are your rights to do/get something, and negative rights are your rights to not have something done to you. Since "right to life" (positive) is the same as "right to not be killed" (negative), some people don't think this distinction matters.
Modern chili is closer to feijoada (beans, beef) than chili con carne (chili, beef).
Katniss ever died in the books, at least not according to this, perhaps because the author's first name is not George.
In VB6, a Function Foo returns a value by assigning the value to the function, i.e. Foo = "Bar". They fixed crazy by introducing the Return statement in VB.NET.
Wikipedia says WinSxS was introduced in Windows 98 SE.
"Mind how you go" is apparently a form of greeting for when someone else leaves an informal gathering.
Github users "1" to "5" are a waste of user names.
Roughly one in four suicides come with a note.
This Brazilian dude, who played Xerxes in 300, also plays Hector in Westworld.
There are a lot of people under the employment category "unremarkable man over 40".
You and Linus Sebastian and the tech chap were in London at the same time. They were there for some phone release thing.
Search for JIRA issues with your name commented with comment ~ 'dickhead'.
Battlefield 1 came after Battlefield 4.
"Flat white" is a latte with less milk.
Sudan speaks Arabic. South Sudan speaks English and Arabic.
The buzzphrase "thinking from first principles" means extracting fundamental truths from some kind of information or idea, then reason it from there, instead of comparing the information/idea with yet another source of derived information/idea.
The Tate says "the curve and the straight line (are the) two basic elements of Islamic design."
Young Atlantic cod or haddock prepared in strips for cooking is called scrod.
African jerky is called biltong, "rump strip".
On the Rosetta Stone are the same thing written three times, once in hieroglyphics, Demotic, and ancient Greek, with one in successively smaller font than the previous, possibly because they realised they were running out of space.
Half of the pacific garbage patch is fishing gear like nets.
Samsonite luggages are popular theft targets because they are good.
You can normally drink alcohol on the (national rail) train, but not on the tube. Exceptions apply.
You aren't supposed to inhale tobacco smoke through a pipe. You just taste it with your mouth.
Many Japanese maps were consulted on a floor which allowed for multiple viewpoints.
If you try to buy a bong and you ask for a bong, they won't sell it to you. You need to ask for a "water pipe".
Jewish women get their own marriage certificates.
Compared to brie, camembert has even more rind.
Churrasco (shu-ʁas-co) is grilled meat. Like steak, except well done.
Anthony Blunt was an epic art historian before being outed as a soviet spy.
You may have noticed that UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time (CUT).
The "quad" bit of a quad DAC aims to improve signal-to-noise ratio of its analogue output, so what comes out sounds more like what should be coming out, rather than, say, music plus electronic interference.
A euchrist is just a communion.
Libation is when you offer a liquid to a god. The Egyptians had huge milk bowls for that.
Espresso is a pressure-derived coffee that can contain a blend of beans. Filter coffee is a gravity-derived coffee that can only contain one kind of bean. Diluted to the same volume, filter coffee is better than americano.
Gastropubs are just pubs with better food and drinks.
A dumbwaiter serves food from any floor to any other floor.
Philosophical vegans might want to consider eating oysters. They are so low in the food chain that some consider it okay.
A cortado is an espresso with milk.
Cubism, the art form, does not involve drawing cubes; instead the figures are drawn in angular, heavily-shaded ways.
Cottage cheese was (in the olden days) eaten as-is, called curds and whey.
9 ball pool has fewer balls than 8 ball pool.
A Frame is a link layer (roughly layer 2) unit of data, containing a packet. A packet is a network layer (roughly layer 3) unit of data, containing a datagram. A datagram is a transport layer (roughly layer 4) unit of data, containing who knows what you want to do in the session layer.
The actual quote was "Your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. An elegant weapon... for a more civilized age."
It appears to be Vive la France, not Viva la France.
Coffins that hang from a cliff, and people who do such things, can be found in China, Indonesia, and Philippines.
The Unicode Consortium has an interesting list of Full Members. They are: tech company, tech company, tech company, tech company, tech company, tech company, Ministry of Awqwaf and Religious Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman, tech company, tech company, tech company, and tech company.
Neither African-American nor Caucasian T-shirts are good at reflecting UV, but at least the African-American ones are able to absorb some of it.
To make a near-death piece of soap stick to a new piece, you need to firmly press the two against each other while they are wet.
If your phone is turned on, companies probably know where it is, and obviously emergency services know that, too.
If you don't know what your hair/skin/eye colours are, there's a tool for that if you give it your DNA data.
privacy.firstparty.isolate in Firefox isolates your cookies' scope to the current domain, which makes it impossible for marketing companies to track you across the internet by simply dropping cookies. It does however make legitimate sites forget you every so often.
DisplayPort exists because it has higher bandwidth than HDMI (<2.0) for higher max resolution and framerate. Both can carry audio. Thundebolt's display mode is actually closer to mini displayport than it is to HDMI.
A "rail" drink is an unbranded common spirit (whiskey, vodka, rum, gin), with an optional mix (e.g. coke, soda, tonic). It is called that because the rail contains whatever is close to the bartender.
In 1912 an Anna Jarvis trademarked "Mother's Day", in that spelling, to marginalise the people among us who have two mothers. Or dads. Later she said she regretted creating Mother's Day: "Jarvis couldn't stand the idea of people spending so much money on extravagant flower arrangements, sappy greeting cards and overly priced chocolates."
"Pump It" by The Black Eyed Peas was just the song Misirlou from Pulp Fiction, less the lyrics.
Swedish parents must share 480 days of 80%-paid parental leave, with both taking at least 90.
OSI layer 2 defines transmission of frames across two directly connected nodes, using MAC addresses (for example), which also happens to include Wi-Fi.
TCP/IP are actually different levels of OSI (4 and 3, respectively). ARP then performs f(IP) -> MAC, which is another layer down.
There are far more things to worry about your kids using a phone than there were a few years ago. New ones include sexting (since phones now have cameras), phishing, addiction, and content filters (since phones now go on the internet).
Coffee is frequently used by drug smugglers to overwhelm the smell of the drugs themselves.
The only reference to "book" on yellow pages is faceBOOK.
Did you know that devices like Siri listen for ultrasound instructions?
You have github's ~~fourth~~sixth most starred repository with the "women" tag.
If it is impossible to justify refactoring time without a proper business case, then make sure you don't write code that needs to be refactored, or at least can be refactored without having the rest of the code know you did. Otherwise, approach in small pieces. And don't think about rewriting something from scratch.
The Dolly Zoom can only be achieved by the camera also moving back and forth. People (also) tend to look better in telephoto because their faces aren't stretched by the wider lens.
There is no reason to pre-order anything that cannot run out, including online games, and especially online games with DLCs.
Parmesan cheese is imitation parmigiano-reggiano cheese. Even the Italians rhyme parmesan with partisan (if either word gets to them). That makes pronouncing it as "Parma-john" even more pretentious than it was once thought to be.
"Spicy bois" originally only referred to fire ants.
32-bit Windows, with PAE, definitely supported more than 4GB of RAM. Windows Server 2003 Enterprise went up to 64GB (which is 32-bit PAE's maximum). It was only the licensing and driver compatibility that capped XP at 4, and Windows 7 Starter at 2.
In 2016 after winning his 13th gold medal in an individual event, Phelps overtook the record from Leonidas of Rhodes as the most decorated Olympian of any era.
Both the imperial horsepower (745.7W) and metric horsepower (735.5W) can be approximated to 750W when buying a car.
Mechnical turks' "suggested minimum wage" is $0.10 a minute, which is about half of actual minimum wage.
"If interest rates go up people get more money for saving it. They then don't spend it. This makes companies sad as less people buy their stuff,so they lower prices to invite them over. This lowers inflation."
Ideally, if a music player shuffles, the list should be shuffled, instead of choosing a random song to play. This has a benefit of the user being able to re-order songs after shuffling.
The G in G-string does not stand for groin, but the term "G-string" has meant the loincloth for a while now.
"Doing porridge" traditionally means staying in prison, but they have better food now.
As "pm" stands for post meridiem ("after midday"), "12pm" actually expands to "12 hours after midday", which is not what it means, and neither does "12am", which means "12 hours before midday". There is a section on wikipedia about it.
"haha yes" originated from a poorly edited hedgehog.
Ctrl+0 in Excel hides the column. Ctrl+9 hides the row. Alt+Enter replaces the last selected cell with a sum of the other cells. None of those work in Google Sheets.
The camel's nose is the same as the slippery slope. Both involve a chain of conditionals that end up doing worse than the starting argument.
People from 1999 have long predicted the loss of personal privacy from mobile devices.
A stone (weight) is exactly 14 pounds.
One of the prayers in French: Béni sois-tu, Seigneur notre Dieu, qui règne sur l'univers, qui fait sortir le pain de la terre.
Groups of forex traders sell different currencies in large quantities so as to disguise the sale while the price remains constant.
JWs believe in one god. Mormons believe in a three-part god.
Tim Horton was a Hockey player. He died crashing his car.
There are many "Game sevens" before the Stanley Cup playoffs. Even if the Leafs won this "Game Seven" (first round 2018), what are they going to do, win the Cup? They haven't done that since 1967.
There is an entire website ("Succeed Socially") devoted to helping Asperger's patients (like you) to make friends, instead of posting deep fried memes on the Internet.
Aaron Swartz didn't create RSS, but he did work a lot on it.
Douglas Adams, the dude who wrote that book about dolphins wrapped in towels, also appeared in Monty Python as a surgeon.
Mortgage brokers give you better deals.
Consider it impossible to get all subdomains for a domain name, unless you own it.
Locks that take master keys have two sets of pins. Having two levels of pins allows the key to turn at either level.
Tier 1 datacenters are the worst kind of datacenters, with no redundancy in capacity, networking, and power components. Digital Ocean is one of the vendors using only Tier 1 servers.
"Your fingerprint is your username" is a broad summary of why it actually sucks as a password: you show them to everyone, you leave them everywhere, you can't change your fingerprints, and since fingerprint scanners are designed to take prints that are "close enough", the authorities don't even need your finger; they just need one that looks close enough.
"Zero-hour contracts" allow companies to hire people with no guarantee of hours, and therefore pay.
For pot luck, just bring ribs or pizza. There are foolproof kits for both.
21% of internet users are Chinese, but only 2% of the internet's sites are in Chinese. Conversely, 7% of the internet is Russian, but only 3% of users are.
The special term for you jumping, someone else throwing you the basketball, and you dunk it in, is called the Alley-oop. "Derived from allez hop", the cry of a [French] circus acrobat about to leap.
Those doors whose deadbolts automatically disengage when you turn the handle from the inside are part of a new fire safety standard.
Jalapeño isn't known for being hot. It is known for being fat. (me too thanks)
GOVT NZ's 404 page doesn't show NZ. There is an entire subreddit about the same joke.
Fettuccine Alfredo is pasta with butter and Parmegiano-Reggiano cheese emulsified together. No cream is involved. No cream can be involved.
Escape fires are a strategy to escape a wildfire by lighting your current location on fire. If the wind is blowing, you will not be able to escape a fire coming towards you. However, should you also start a fire (2) at your location, you will deprive fire 1 of resources by letting fire 2 consume it first.
"Edgy" means "trying so hard to be cool it's cringeworthy".
Baseboard heating is really inefficient compared to gas.
Anthony Daniels (as C-3PO) is the only actor to "be credited to appear in all eight Star Wars episodic films, as well as Rogue One" (R2-D2 is not an actor).
To knoll is to arrange things at 90 degree angles to each other, i.e. being tidy.
Wikipedia editors speculate that there are only going to be 4 double Mersenne primes ever, the first one being 7.
Despite being in decline for the last 5 years, Facebook is still the dominant Internet community.
Magnum opus is Latin for "great work", or "masterpiece".
People with autism die much younger (16 years younger on average). They consider suicide more often than the general population.
Sewing needles have rounded tips, so it doesn't damage the fibre. Leather needles have sharp tips instead.
Lenses with larger apertures (e.g. f/1.5) have more issues with chromatic aberration than lenses [of the same quality] with smaller apertures.
Black crush refers to the ability to see different shades of black on a screen.
People in the middle ages didn't throw poop out of doors.
Lynching is justice punishment by mob. It does not specify the method.
"Devil's lettuce" refers to marijuana, not kale.
It doesn't matter what colour you are; if you are a woman, you get lighter sentences.
The Polsby-Popper Test quantifies how messed up gerrymandering is. First you draw the smallest circle that contains an area. Then you calculate the percentage coverage of the circle by that area. The more messed up gerrymandering is, the lower this coverage.
Where's Wally becomes Where's Waldo in North America.
Hacker news looks shockingly like the first Reddit layout.
Suppose encryption can be ELI5'd as mixing colours. By raising a shared secret by the powers of each other's private keys (colours), no one's private key (colour) is plainly exposed while transmitted. This (when explained properly) is called Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange, and has nothing to do with messages being transmitted.
Tainted Love, a song from 1964, was made popular by Soft Cell's cover in 1981.
The sound from 9/11 videos are from PASS alarms activated on 343 fallen firefighters.
The other end of a file is for installing replaceable handles.
Carrie Fisher had a dog named Gary. Gary Fisher.
The four flat pins on the sides of some DVI cables carry analogue signals. They are optional when digital signals are used (which is usually).
Dryer sheets and fabric softeners reduce static by addng wax to laundry. Do not use dryer sheets and fabric softeners with towels, which makes them dry less well.
Clapperboards are meant to help synchronise picture and sound in later editing.
The S in C. S. Lewis is Staples. Clive Staples.
When asked to choose a random number between 1 and 10, people pick 7. Start picking 1 instead.
The period in braille is made of three dots.
In 麥兜, the principal is also the restaurant owner.
Weed is legal (state-level) across the entire west coast of America.
Puerto Rico has a higher population than 21 states.
The original scroll lock, if engaged, would modify the arrow keys such that it scrolls the contents of a text window rather than the cursor. On linux, it is said that the terminal freezes if you press it. However it is no longer the case all the time, making that key useless.
Muphry's Law: if you try to correct someone's writing in writing, you will make a mistake in your own writing.
In 2017, three gay men managed to be married to each other at the same time, legally, in Colombia.
Aéropostale the clothing company has the same pronunciation as the former French airmail service with the same name, which is /a e ʁɔ pɔs ˈtal/.
The temperature inside the world's deepest hole (Kola Superdeep Borehole, Russia) was 180 °C when they had to stop drilling at 12km.
Concession tickets are reduced-price tickets. Unlike "seniors" and "student" tickets, these don't need to specify why.
Big companies can sue you not expecting to win, but to burden you with so much legal fees that you just give up and do whatever they want.
Baker's Dozen originated from a law that heavily fined bakers who sell a dozen underweight rolls of bread. Adding one ensures the bakers aren't shorting their customers (at least in theory).
"ASIC-resistant" just means "needs lots of RAM".
"Merci" is/was the 85th most common word in French.
The earth spins like a top and its axis tilts back to its original position every 26000 years.
Putting triple parentheses around a Jewish name is considered antisemitism. Sometimes Jews do that to their own names.
a) Don't write tests for other people's libraries. b) Don't generalise something until you see it repeated the third time. c) APIs should be simple for common things, and possible for complex things. d) Unit tests test a unit of behaviour, not a unit of code. e) Parameter counts in a dependency-injected function highlights how crappy that piece of code is. f) Don't half-ass external APIs. Plan a lot. g) If your test doesn't fail when you add a bug, you're missing a test.
"Heads will roll" is followed by "on the floor", i.e. the guillotine situation.
Better Business Bureau doesn't list itself on Better Business Bureau.
Completely cashless countries are probably impossible, because strippers and cocaine, among other things.
Entree can either mean "first part of the meal" (UK) or "largest part of the meal" (US). The UK definition matches what the word means.
The reciprocating saw (electric saw?) is also called a Sawzall.
You need to book a ticket 76 days in advance to [have the highest probability to] get the cheapest ones.
Moana is pronounced Moh-ANNA for both the movie character, and the Italian porn star with the same name, who, at 1.78m, died of liver cancer completely unrelated to her height.
Both Louis and Louise translate to famous warrior or "famous in battle".
In 2017, own-daughter rapist Josef Fritzl changed his name to Josef Mayrhoff. He knew he screwed up when other people knew about it.
No results on Google for "broke up mid-thrust"! I now claim this phrase. Edit: I also claim "broke up at the middle of sex".
Distressed jeans are Torn-up jeans that you buy for full price.
Almost all cities with the lowest temperature differences in the US are in California or Florida, with California not being a hurricane danger zone.
The Fertile Crescent / Cradle of Civilization aka Egypt/Israel/Syria etc. stopped being fertile because they started irrigating with salt water.
Westerners chose to translate the Chinese term "mechnical turk for searching" to "human flesh search engine", because it sounds cooler.
Laminated glass is glass on both sides with plastic inside, rather than plastic on either or both sides with glass in between. So maybe it should be called glass reenforced plastic instead? Make sure you let me know in the comment section down below! Drop a like and don't forget to subscribe!
2 out of 3 American homes have pets.
Loopers are called loopers because they eventually kill their older selves, closing the loop. It remains unclear why loopers need to kill their own selves rather than letting loopers kill each others' older selves, or, why they even sent loopers back in time with the silver/gold in the first place.
Mancunian means "from Manchester".
The Decimal data structure appears to be stored as (sign)(coefficient) * 10^(exponent). Compared to doubles, Decimal trades off the maximum number size for greater accuracy (1e30 vs 1e300).
The Donald donates 40 times less money per unit income than its country's citizens. He says he neither drinks nor uses a computer.
If you take pictures, you're just asking to be robbed.
The Yanomami Tribe in the Amazon rainforest are sometimes said (i.e. with no citation whatsoever) to greet each other by farting.
North Korea has free education, free healthcare, and no taxes!
The Novikov self-consistency principle states... that if some form of time travel causes a paradox, then it never happens.
Beer brewed in accordance to the Bavarian Purity Law cannot contain wheat (wheat is to be kept cheap for bakers to make bread). So the Hacker-Pschorr Weisse is bullshit.
Objects in Tatooine should have two shadows (from having two suns), but had just one due to director oversight.
The Coastline Paradox observes that the length of a coastline increases as the resolution of your measurement increases. You get a longer coastline every time you measure with a shorter "ruler". The true length of coastlines cannot be determined because a) you are talking about measuring molecules, and b) coastlines change.
The "full size SIM card" is known as 1FF, i.e. the card that your SIM card comes with.
Some/many bike rental companies don't penalise people for leaving their bikes at stupid places. This is a big problem creating waste.
Sea level at a given location is influenced by mountains (massive mountains have enough gravity to attract water), so the sea level there is adjusted according to the gravitational pull of the mountain, but as if the mountain were not there.
Heating honey changes the flavour. Forever.
Singapore is second in the world for losing money gambling per capita.
Rochester NY had a subway system. A rare example of decommissioning an entire subway system.
Up to the 1650s, people already had a fairly good idea how far the sun is (2% error).
A vice is a bad habit or a clamp.
English and Spanish pronounce gigabyte with hard Gs, while Italian and Portuguese have soft first G, followed by a hard second G. It was Jiggabyte throughout the 60s and 80s, around when Back to the Future was filmed. The soft G is also closer to the Greek prefix giga- (γίγας), where the word came from. By the end of the 90s, a poll found that 90% of Britons preferred the hard G. In other words, the world enjoys being wrong.
If a smartphone screen costs $150 on eBay, seriously check if it's cheaper to repair by the manufacturer.
The "Rocher" in Ferrero rocher means "boulder".
Don't put a swimming pool at the top of a high-rise building. Water will spill out when the building naturally sways in strong winds.
Time machines in the movie Primer are anchored around when they are started. If you start the machine at time A, you can only exit at either time A, or time B (whenever you entered it, plus however long you stay in there for, which is literally no time travelling). The failsafe machine has been on since the beginning, so the main characters could travel back to the beginning, and gas/fight their former selves, to assume their previous lives.
Keep Calm and Carry On posters are supposed to be reserved for serious air raids.
"A sign of weakness is trembling of the upper lip, hence (one who has a stiff upper lip displays fortitude in the face of adversity, or exercises great self-restraint in the expression of emotion.)
The signature on the back of a credit card is meant to be used by merchants to verify your signature against the card's signature when you use the magnetic reader.
VGA cables have no imposed bandwidth limits and can display however high resolution supported by the cable. Usually stops at 2048x1536.
The motto of 麥兜's primary school is 作育英才.
The kettle is not black. The pot is seeing itself in the kettle's reflection, which is black.
Play doh is salty.
Paris is full of round road junctions that have stuff at the middle, like the Arc de Triomphe, Esplanade Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Fontaine de Shamaï Haber, and the Bastille. These junctions I suspect are just called Places.
. in [.] literally matches only ., without needing to escape.
The Armstrong limit is when the air pressure is so low that water boils at body temperature, which is 6.3 kPa.
The Mars equivalent of "day" is sol... Mars' orbit is slightly elliptic so its seasons are different in length.
"Moribund" means "approaching death".
There is no difference between vegetarian chicken, vegetarian duck, and vegetarian goose.
Gender equality should fight for "equality of rights" ("everyone should be able to be a nurse no matter the gender"), not "quality of outcomes" ("there should be the same number of male, female, and tumblrkin nurses in each and every hospital").
You can get bed bugs from movie theater seats.
Silicon wafers are made by spinning molten silicon into a long sausage, and then sliced and smoothed into wafers.
99.99999% uptime lets you go down 3 seconds every year. A grand luxury in the Erlang world!
The Colonel hated what KFC has become. The current iteration of 11 herbs and spices is just salt.
Over half of the world's curling stones are made from microgranite quarried from a tiny island called Ailsa Craig in Scotland.
Either 60k USD, 75k USD, or 95k USD is the best amount of money to earn for happiness, says Purdue. You earn only three fiddy.
The Goal Zero Yeti 3000 battery bank lets you play Pokemon Go for two weeks straight (2A _ 5V _ 24h/day = 240Wh/day; 3075Wh / 240Wh/day = 12.8 days)
95% of suicide-by-cop victims are male. Not surprising, considering the normal proportion is between 1.8x to 4x more males than female committing ordinary suicide.
Neckbeards become neckbeards because they reject their childhood idea that men are "mindless, uncultured brutes", so they become the intellectual kind. Well, Fedoras happen to be worn by intellectuals in traditional media. And Japanese warriors keep talking about "the strength within" so they are attracted to that too. Unfortunately /u/sothatsathingnow never got to the part where they actually grow out the neckbeards.
The Houston street of New York is pronounced HOUSE-ton, named after a man, Billy Houstoun.
Those stupid calls from Estonia you have been getting are a scam, tricking you to call back, which costs you money: "[they] are simila r to ones you would receive for calling a 1-900 number, can cost hundreds of dollars per minute."
The Occident may refer to the Western world.
Jean Valjean's sister, "Jeanne Valjean", for whom and whose child he stole his bread, was mentioned on Google only 372 times (probably 373 now).
Call C# "C pound" or "C hashtag" to fuck with people.
The need to check Slack 24/7 in order to keep up to date with conversations, unless you pay, is why it's so successful, said this guy.
French Catholics call their priests Monseigneur(s) ("my lord"). It can also be used for royalty. Everyone else gets monsieur, which is also "my lord".
Bicornes, descended from tricornes, can face both forward and sideways, an awesome headgear if your head is thin (which it's not).
Caveat emptor means "may he beware", for the buyer to check before buying something.
Barq's also retail "creme" and "red creme" sodas.
The classic Big Red feminist is called Chanty Binx.
Amazon owns more weird brands than just AmazonBasics
The Falcon Heavy rocket, at first launch, is already the world's highest capacity rocket [in operation], at 63.8 Mg to the low Earth orbit.
None of the Amazon tablets have GPS built-in, because... well, it doesn't help them sell e-books.
Between the transition from double-spacing (monospace days) to single-spacing (modern human beings), the use of an "en quad", a 1.5-space character took place at around the 1940s.
10 countries (mostly oil countries) do not collect income taxes.
Static (or compile-time) linking, at the cost of disk space, allows executables to be more portable by eliminating the need for a dynamic linker, which is part of the OS instead of the program.
The point of a Digital Ocean "floating IP" is so the IP can instantly re-point to a different droplet. Droplets with a floating IP assigned will simply have two IPs.
乾貝 has its own loanword conpoy rather than just "dried scallop".
"Master a skill in your 20s", paraphrasing /r/SleepyConscience.
"Running the gauntlet" involves a guilty person walking in between two rows of soldiers, who attack him as he crosses.
Elon Musk did not waste time on anything that is impossible: "The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
JIRA's "Impediment" flag, or just "Flag", was a leftover part from GreenHopper.
Finland is responsible for the World Sauna Championships, which caused one death at 110°C, Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships, sponsored by Nokia obviously, and the Wife Carrying World Championship, which... seems normal in comparison.
"I think I'm starting to understand the older people in my life. ... Imagine a tool you've used for 30 years, it's not even an extension of your hand any longer, it's a pure extension of your will. I wouldn't want to replace it either." - /r/Steavee
Kafka told his friend to have his works "to be burned unread" after he dies. His friend responded be publishing everything, citing Kafka might have had psycological issues that made him say such things.
There is an encyclopedia page dedicated to Rihanna's forehead.
Intel GPU firmware have been proprietary since skylake.
Elon Musk once said along the lines of: if you work 100-hour weeks and others work 40-hour weeks, then your chances of (he used the word "success", but it's probably more like "getting something done") is higher, if not 2.5x higher, than your competitors. You know that's 14-hour work days, right? You know people burn out, right? He said 120-hour work weeks (i.e. working 5 days straight every week) is bonkers though.
The most average person is a 28-year old Han Chinese man.
For $15~100, you can buy mystery boxes on eBay, containing more than their value worth of trash.
There is no conceptual difference between using your power line for ethernet, and using your phone line for your DSL. The signals are just overlapped with vastly different frequencies (Hz vs MHz). Also, if you live in an apartment building, congrats! Everyone shares your local network!
Compact camera sales dropped 90% from 2010 to 2016.
Goodhart's Law basically says that if any trend [in the stock market] becomes a target, then it is less likely to occur in the future. An example is the "if the stock market surges in January, it surges throughout the rest of the year" pattern, which will probably fail now because someone jinxed it.
The first person to say "Octothorpe taters" was @1337 on 2018-02-02.
1 Infinite Loop is a stupid 0
Volvo is Latin for "I roll". Its logo is the symbol of iron, which is also used for Mars or the Male sex. This means women cannot drive Volvo cars.
None of the cheesecloth grades have the same number of threads per unit area horizontally and vertically.
Bitcoin, the decentralised currency, is ruined by centralised exchanges: "Historically we thought this thing was decentralised, there was no way to control it but what you have here is centralised exchanges. This is the same as a bank. This is something that holds the bitcoin or the digital currency on your behalf."
Argon2 has an advantage over PBKDF2 where Argon2 can specify a memory requirement, which (for example, if someone stole your DB of salted hashes) rapidly exhausts the attacker's free memory, making cracking slower for the attacker.
The E in EBay is Echo. AuctionWeb (the name then) was owned by Echo Bay Technology Group, some dude's consulting firm, and he couldn't register echobay.com, so he went with ebay.com instead.
"Going to the rainbow bridge" sometimes means getting euthanised by the vet.
To thread a needle, try rubbing the thread between the palm and the eye of the needle. It does not work on all threads.
The heart is typically left inside Egyptian mummies, with everything else removed, including the brain.
The Japanese word for rice ball doesn't have the word 飯 in it (but it is implied).
The Alolan Sandshrew/Sandslash/Sandwich have a unique type combination of Ice/Steel instead of the usual Ground.
Police departments schedule younger police to work the night shift, when crime happens the most. Fatter staff (the ones you see photographed) work during the day.
Humanoid robots can be called Androids. Female-like robots can be called Gynoids.
The last IE6 release came out in 2008 (2008-05-05). IE6 is called Microsoft Internet Explorer and IE7 is called Windows Internet Explorer.
All Islam-regulated methods of destroying copies of the Quran involves making the words illegible.
Airlines tell you to put your seat upright during landing, possibly only so that they don't need to fix the seats for their next shift.
Once lost, black luggage bags are basically lost forever. Don't use ribbons as a form of differentiation---they can jam the bag belt. Use colourful duct tape instead.
If you change your phone number, ANYONE now with your old phone number will be able to read ALL your unmigrated WhatsApp messages. Source: You managed to read someone's stale messages by ordering a travel SIM.
If the mouse wheel sometimes scrolls upwards when you scroll down, all you need to do is air-blast the sensor. No need to buy a new mouse for just this issue.
Azerbaijan is part of the Caucasus region, somewhat related to the Causasian race. The Aryan type also has little to no relation to the Aryan race.
"You don't need to clean washrooms if you don't have any" - Hong Kong shopping malls, probably
2500 Wikipedia edits concerned whether or not the "Anus" page should include a picture of it.
"北水" is money coming from China.
Tate's Cairn has a completely unrelated name, 大老山.
"You must use this precious silver" refers to silverware given by the church dude.
Steve Jobs has a daughter called Eve.
"人算不如天算" = "Man count what about sky count" 💯
胡楓 Bowie Wu chose that name because "楓樹一年四季都是紅色". Bad news for you buddy...
You can get to Sai Kung through a Northern mountain pass from Ma On Shan.
Set your clock to your destination timezone right after boarding the plane so you have plenty of time to prepare.
The pizzas displayed on shelves are often half-baked. When you order a slice, that slice goes into the oven and finish baking.
SIL level 4 requires that you write yoda statements.
Bump keys have every slot cut to the lowest position and the shoulder cut enough to allow it to be pushed in just a bit farther than a normal key.
Uncle Sam was rumoured to be a meatpacker from New York.
Shotgun microphones work better than parabolic microphones in capturing lower frequencies from a long distance.
The phillips screwdriver is sharp, and is unintentionally designed to cam out (turn too much and pop itself out). The pozidriv screwdriver is flat, and is designed to not cam out. Unfortunately using the wrong screwdriver for the two types of screws, even if they are both crosses, will damage them.
NewsBlur is written in Django 1.5.x.
Young hens are also called pullets.
"Petering out" means gradually stopping, such as a conversation slowing dying out.
One Earth's rotation is 86164s long. But our concept of a 86400-second day is still relevant because those are counted with respect to the sun. The effect of this is seeing the sun at the expected times, but everything else appears at different times of the day.
"Thot" (pronounced "thaat") means "that hoe over there".
Neanderthals sound like high-pitched clowns, BBC asserts.
Pomergranates came from Iran. Here is a Persian opening one.
Ninjas don't traditionally wear black. Ninjas wore black only in the theatres, to blend in with the black backdrop.
Ticketmaster owns many of the venues from which they extort money from ticket sales.
The chocolate-in-a-bun thing the French do is called pain au chocolat, or, if you are an infidel, chocolatine.
A "two-way" sometimes means expelling diarrhea and vomiting simultaneously.
Look for regulated travel plans from tico.ca.
So the bathrobe is worn either over your pyjamas (an Indian term), or over nothing, for either going from the bathroom to the bedroom, or if you want to entertain your guests without showing your pyjamas. It fell out of favour because it's bloody useless.
The Spaniards have their own short-grain variety of rice, called the bomba. They use it in paella, "pan of burned rice".
Gamers apparently have a habit of shaking heads to each other.
A valkyrie is a female Norse myth figure that chooses who lives and who dies in a battle.
First primer, then foundation, then concealer, then colour correction.
Never buy an oven with a ground level oven door.
Meltdown is the one from out-of-order execution allowing userspace processes to read kernel memory. Spectre is the one from predictive branching allowing strange code to access memory that is otherwise protected.
If you buy physical things from the Google store, they can simply not ship them. If you decide to get a chargeback from your credit card company, they will ban your account (and therefore your life).
In 2010, US lotteries had a 37% yield ($63 given out for every $100 of tickets sold).
The Eiffel Tower expands and contracts by less than 17cm per year.
Black cats are considered lucky in Japan and some parts of Brian.
The moon is narrower (3400km) than what you would consider the belt of the US (~4200km).
Rocco Siffredi, porn actor of 1300+ films, is married with two children.
Toasts cut into long sticks are called soldiers.
The 21st century began on 2001-01-01; the 2000s began on 2000-01-01. The millenium also started on 2001-01-01, not 2000-01-01.
Three-pronged electronics are better than two-pronged electronics, says this video.
Apparently a dude called Lnafziger really doesn't like it when his passengers clap when he lands the aircraft safely, when he's just doing his job. So don't clap when your captain is Lnafziger. Otherwise, no one in the cockpit can hear you clap, so... no need to clap.
In the first episode ever, if Rick could go to a dimension where bone-healing serum is available in every corner drug store, why didn't he also go to a dimension where megaseeds are available in every corner drug store?
Korean chopsticks are made of metal just because they have a lot of metal...? But if they have a lot of metal, why try to save metal by making metal chopsticks short and flat...?
If you are neither african-american, caucasian-american, nor hispanic-american, then chances are you aren't in prison. Percentage wise, that's 1.1% for blacks, 0.19% for whites, and 0.48% for hispanics.
The world's worst beer by bitterness is the Carbon Smith FUCKS UP YOUR SHIT IPA, at 2600 IBUs, presumably brewed to make hipsters shut the FUCK up (speculation).
"No ragrets" came from a movie, so it's not funny anymore. (We're the Millers, with wrinkly Rachel in it)
TLSvx.y is SSLv3.x. The POODLE attack that downgraded TLS 1.x to SSLv3 was mitigated only by disabling SSLv3, so if TLS 1.0 were to be compromised, shit would go flying.
When it comes to bodybuilding, TheJosh says that a week is 8 days long, and a week starts and ends on a Sunday.
"The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin
HDMI cables with the HDMI logo are 10 cents cheaper to licence than if the logo were omitted.
On 2012-11-07, you won what was remembered as a chocolate bar.
Dolly refers to camera movement along the Z axis (towards/away from the cameraman). Going from side to side is called Truck left/right.
The best-selling video game is Tetris. Not surprising. The second best-selling video game is Minecraft. Very surprising.
110V water kettles boil slower than 220V water kettles, scientists say.
The skull in the Pirate Bay's logo is the same logo from Home Taping Is Killing Music.
Minute was called the "prime minute", and Second was called the "second minute". So that's where the symbols in 0:50' 23" come from.
At least one person uses an orange lightsaber.
Ed448-Goldilocks is more secure than Ed25519. "Nobody uses it despite it being very interesting from a mathematical and performance point of view because it's much slower than Curve25519, there aren't many good implementations, and Curve25519's security bounds are already good enough."
The geometric mean is just the nth root of the product of n different numbers. It is like the usual mean, except you use the product instead of the sum.
PCBs are made with fiberglass.
"No VPN provider is going to risk jail to protect a $20 a month subscriber." - Attributed to someone who goes by Grugq.
Those little green sticks at Starbucks are coffee stoppers, to stop coffee from spilling out of their puny unclosable lids.
A real rolex almost never has a clear back. The movement is never visible to the user.
The CME is the world's largest exchange? (Apparently so.)
The plumbus, the Rick and Morty thingy with undeterministic function, is now a sex toy.
My erect penis is as long and as thick as the Great Wall of China.
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You don't have to sell things at the pawn shop. Pawning is borrowing money with an item as a collateral. When you fail to pay your loan, the ownership goes from you to the pawn shop.
'A bit of "useless trivia" I read in a behavioral science book that if you place any type of religious reminder that is manifested as a person of some sort in an area, it will reduce crime. So a Virgin Mary statue or image, or one of Jesus would have the same effect.' - Becca_Chavis
Suicide-by-water corpses wearing shoes with air cushions can dislocate the feet and bring them back to the surface. "They're not severed, they're disarticulated," Inkster explains. As the body decomposes the feet are separated ...
The OBD II adapter passcode is 1234.
expectedFailures are tests that pass, whether or not it fails. But not skipped.
A house's crawl space is often lined with plastic to prevent mould from growing. Mould should not be allowed to grow in the crawl space because when the heat is on, air flows out of the house from the ceiling, sucking air from the cooler bottom, which is the crawl space. You don't want mould to get in the house like that.
Sales people call developers "the grim reaper" because [they are] killing all their dumbass ideas.
Assault is the threat. Battery is the actual harm.
A casualty is a soldier rendered unable to fight. Casualties include the sick, injured, killed, and captured.
Every residence needs one bathroom per person in case of mass food poisoning.
If you mix wood with plastic, then you can 3D print wood.
Birth control pills in German is just Antibabypillen.
"Spicy Boi is the politically correct term for fireant."
"Virgin" means the olive oil it was extracted mechanically. Spain alone consumes half of the world's olive oil. What you buy is almost certainly (80%) adulterated with rapeseed or canola oil, and the "made in Spain" label doesn't matter either, because any blend with a single drop made in Spain can be labelled "made in Spain".
If you plan to buy a house, bedbug removal services cost tens of thousands. Two out of three cases require three of these treatments.
Only 1 in 3 Texans owns guns. Alaska has 61.7% gun ownership.
Steve Buscemi is a firefighter, and is a genuinely nice person. Like Keanu Reeves.
Prison doctor appointments may have a two-year waitlist. You are going to die.
APKMirror is managed by the same people who manage Android Police. (Not one over another but both as subsidiaries)
Naturally fermented beer can go up to 33%.
Many mining (gold included) companies on the TSX have negative betas.
"Tennessee" has three consecutively repeated letters.
"breathe. sunflower. rainbow. 450." was uttered by Eleven's mother to indicate: (breathe.) (sunflower on the hospital nightstand.) (rainbow symbol where the children's room was in the lab.) (450 something of the electroshocking.)
Waiting in multiple lines is faster than waiting in one big line and then being allocated to whichever cashier is free, but for some reason people are less satisfied with it (according to Mythbusters, anyway).
Pocahontas was known as Amonute.
QQ is called QQ because it was then called "Open ICQ", and ICQ (well, AOL) sued them.
"Lean" software development doesn't actually ask for two-week sprints. Scrum does that.
Gas is cheaper at night.
A "roach" is a marijuana joint. A "roach clip" helps you grab onto the joint so it doesn't burn your finger, and can sometimes look like a key so the police doesn't find it.
Pennsylvania ("Penn's Forest") is named after William Penn, so it must have two Ns. Silva is latin for woods.
Flappy bird creator pulled the app off the stores because he "cannot take this anymore".
Intel CPUs made since 2008 have a management engine running as a supervisor of your actual operating system, which has ring -3 equivalent of access and bugs and backdoors for the NSA: " Intel has confirmed the ME contains a switch to enable government authorities such as the NSA to make the ME go into High-Assurance Platform (HAP) mode after boot."
TetraNormal says that "Alcohol divides everybody by 2 and then adds 5," so you, obviously a 10, are still a 10.
Draw a line between Sabalo and Mayarí. Northern Cuba is mostly caucasian-american. Southern Cuba is mostly african-american.
On Minimaxing/maximining: "Rule of thumb: If you know your opponent is playing a mixed strategy and will continue to play it, you should use a strategy that maximizes your expected payoff (i.e. maximin)."
Gerontology is the study of ageing. Biological, psychological, social, environmental impacts of ageing.
Hong Kong is the world's largest city-state (non-sovereign). Washington DC is also a non-sovereign city-state. Monaco is a sovereign city-state.
Singapore refines petroleum oils. 23% of its exports are refined oils and products.
One occupation that the computer surely replaced was the computer.
Trillions are dollars are traded in "forexes" everyday.
西遊記 is literally Journey to the West. The author really did go to the west. He did not meet human monkeys and pigs.
Raw denim wearers don't wash their jeans for the first time until they absolutely need to (sometimes not after years) because it encourages the dye to come loose at all the right places. To quote Cleardesign, this is called "sicker fadez".
The Japanese find dozens of ships in the sea with everyone dead in it every year.
Charging people real money (for services offered by a startup) is "not common practice at the time.". "Free users just cost money", says hacker news.
False positives resulting from word filters that block too much stuff is called the Scunthorpe Problem.
Legos are worse now because they have had thinner walls since 2012.
~~There was a boy who masturbated 56 times straight, had his penis fall off, and died from a heart attack presumably because there's no point to continue living if your penis fell off.~~Fake news. Another boy in Brazil died after masturbating 42 times. The lesson for you is: space it out. Don't rip your dick off.
The fork model means that the master process creates separate child processes, with one thread each, to handle each web request. Pre-fork means the processes are created before requests come in. The worker model creates separate child processes with multiple threads each. The prefork model is considered more thread-safe, at the cost of being less memory-efficient than the worker model.
Creature comforts are comforts enjoyed by creatures, i.e. primal comfort. Examples include taking long baths, napping, and death (haha yes).
802.11b channels 1 and 14 (somewhat intuitively) overlap with the least number of other channels. For 802.11g, only channels 1 and 14 are still the best choice. This could be why routers ever-so-unhelpfully select channel 1 for everyone, congesting the channel.
The full name for 河粉 is 沙河粉, which in turn came from 广州沙河.
So many people pour bacon fat down the drain that cities are forced to spend millions clearing out gigagram "farbergs" from the sewers.
The perfect steak is 3.8cm thick.
The new shortcut for shutting down Windows 10 is Win+x, u, u.
A "Yo" dice roll is a 6 followed by a 5. An "Australian Yo" is a 2 followed by a 1 instead.
Pokemon Sun and Moon (Alola) contain an ecology that closely reflects issues found in Hawaii. Yungoos/Mongoose were introduced to Alola/Hawaii to control the Rattata/Rat population; unfortunately one is active during the day and the other during the night, so the mongoose end up eating birds' and turtles' eggs instead, hunting them to extinction.
The 3-in-1 spoon/fork/knife exists. It's called a splayd. It's rubbish at everything. Less popular utensils like the knife/fork "knork" and the spoon/knife "spife" also exist, solely to make the splayd look good in comparison.
Edsger Dijkstra reportedly lived modestly, "to the point of being spartan." His and his wife's house in Nuenen was simple, small and unassuming. He did not own a TV, a VCR or a mobile telephone, and did not go to the movies. He looked a bit like Bryan Cranston. He died of cancer.
Manholes are round also because they are much easier to cut with a huge circular drill, right? (Pictured: drilling hole around manhole cover)
The Amazon Echo Dot has 7 microphones. The Google Home Mini has 2.
"But I'll argue that Accessibility is actually more important than Security because dialing Accessibility to zero means you have no product at all, whereas dialing Security to zero can still get you a reasonably successful product such as the Playstation Network." - Steve "BIG disconnect in what "hardening" means for (security people, developers, and users), and in particular, the number one rule of kernel development is that 'we don't break users'. Because without users, your program is pointless, and all the development work you've done over decades is pointless. .. and security is pointless too, in the end." - Linus
PM Jean Chrétien was known for personally choking a protester. Since he was born in Shawinigan QC and he loved calling himself the "little guy from Shawinigan", they called it the Shawinigan Handshake.
It is the Japanese who liked rubbing dirt into smooth balls, calling it Dorodango.
You don't need to sleep 12 hours apart to work night shift. If you are to work from 9pm to 5am, then you can sleep from 6am to 2pm, only 6 hours different from your normal cycle.
Flash pasteurization doesn't boil anything. The liquid is heated to 71.5 °C (160 °F) to 74 °C (165 °F) for about 15 to 30 seconds. UHT (ultra-heat-treating), however, does boil your liquid at 140 °C (284 °F) for four seconds.
There are no alternate pages for 五香肉丁.
Chicken tenders are the little strips of meat that are tenuously attached to the underside of each breast.
"Fekete" means "black" as much as "schwarz" means "black". Because they both mean black.
"Fine words butter no parsnips"... "Nothing is achieved by empty words or flattery.".
Jason Segel's mother cried when she saw her son's penis.
The PhotoShop logo changed from serif to sans-serif in v3 (1994), inexplicably back to serif in v5.5 (1999), and back to sans-serif in PhotoShop CS (2003).
Like a passport, every time you want to renew something called a "pal", you need to have a few buddies to be references for you.
Yaml sucks. Every implementation gives you a different thing.
The amount of loan you can get is inverse proportional to the amount you can already borrow, i.e. if you already have a credit card with a $10000 limit, then the bank is $10000 less likely to give you a line of credit. They may ask you to close your cards before they grant you a loan.
In colder regions it is better to construct during the winter so the fragile permafrost is not damaged during the summer.
Because of the way RAID 5 is constructed ("one drive worth of space is redundant"), the fewer drives you have, the safer the data is.
Pagpag food is Tagalog (Filipino) for garbage food salvaged from dumpsters.
The loading spinner is also called the Throbber.
A nit is one candela per square meter (cd/m2). An ANSI Lumen is "the amount of light that is reflected off of a one square meter area that is one meter from a one candela light source," equivalent to whatever nits divided by 3.426 (for projectors only?)
Everything is soldered onto the Dell Inspiron 7000 series. They are worth nothing no matter how good the specs are.
Privation pretty much means deprivation. Of food and stuff.
"A fragrance should be discovered not announced." - OfferChakon
The statue of liberty was copper.
Special agents wear sunglasses to (apart from the sun, but also) shield their eyes from liquids thrown at them.
"Geniuses quote themselves." - Brian Lai, 2000s
C++ is the most popular "hard compiled" language on GitHub, and three times the number of people would rather write TypeScript than Objective-💩.
The tie clip goes between the third and fourth button of the shirt, and should never be longer than 3/4 of the tie's width.
Mr.T (Tureaud) was a wrestler.
Two fast elevators/lifts go a long way when searching for an apartment. Also, don't rent the apartment next to the garbage/rubbish chute. Even if it doesn't smell, you'll hear things tumbling down it every other minute.
Washing jeans only when they smell is apparently the actual best way to treat them.
You can go around signing people's PGP public keys, and upload your signing of the key to the keyserver anonymously. This is because no one forces you to do it, and people tend to trust whichever key is more signed than others.
To understand why the automotive equivalent of Sears is still going up, you have to know why people shop there. To know why people shop there, you have to know where else they can get new tires these days. Not a lot of places really. Dealerships rip you off, Tire shops are questionable sometimes, eBay takes a long time, stuff like that. You also want to know why people even buy those things. The answer is: winter.
Want an Android phone on which you can't install apps? NichePhone S to the rescue!
Proper daylight savings clocks go from the last instant of 1:59:59 to 1:00:00. Clocks that go from 1:59:59 to 2:00:00 to 1:00:01 are improper.
Nikkei stands for The Nihon Keizai Shinbun (日本経済新聞), a newspaper.
Chinese USB chargers can be so cheap because they omit safety standards like the UL 840.
The American ounce (28.349523125g) is also the International Avoirdupois Ounce.
Haddock has a meaty texture, and leaves a disgusting fishy aftertaste.
Beating your earnings estimates will still cause your stock price to drop if the data shows your market value is lower than the current price.
The fastest red card in football went to a man named Lee Todd, who said "FUCK me that was loud" to a referee.
A young (underage) man had nudes of himself and was charged for being gay and a child sex offender. Kids, don't touch yourself. That's gay, pedophilic, having sex with a minor, and perhaps incest. You die for that sort of thing. Jesus was right. Don't touch yourself. Big brother (he's over 18) is always watching.
"Stacked" was used to describe men's pecs and abs, "stacking" one over another. Then the same "stacked" was modified to describe women with large breasts as well. The problem here is that breasts don't stack unless you have multiple pairs of them.
出世 ("exit life") means literally the opposite of it: entering life.
"Of course [I'd hire a programmer who doesn't code in his spare time], same as I'd hire a carpenter that doesn't spend his evenings building houses or an accountant that doesn't do accounts for recreation." - dimnakorr
OJ Simpson killed two people, then got into a high speed police chase in a white Ford Bronco. Ford stopped making the Bronco for ~20 years for unrelated reasons.
Gesture typing for "github" also gives you "virgin".
Doctors need malpractice insurance.
Dave the minion has two eyes. Stuart the minion has one. There are also Kevin (tall), Bob (short), Tim (???) and Jerry (bald?)
In The Shining, that kid Danny is actually called Danny in real life. His dad, Jack (a dull boy), is actually called Jack in real life. whenever Jack is in the writing room, there's probably a bear rug, and whenever he sees a ghost, it is usually through a mirror. The wife Wendy unfortunately isn't called Wendy in real life, but Stephen King said he didn't write her as that useless in his original book.
Apart from making Markdown, John Gruber the Daring Fireball man is apparently famous for some other things. Like Daring Fireball.
The bee movie was produced and voiced by Jerry Seinfeld.
It is illegal to display a noose in a threatening manner in Virginia, New York, and Connecticut.
The capital one mastercard that "doubles as your costco membership card" is literally just that. You use it to go through the door. You still need to pay the membership fee.
If your daycare costs more than (or even a little less than) your hourly wage, stay home.
Nous baiserons vos femmes et vous serez cocus - Le tombeau des aristocrates, 1791; "We will fuck your wives and you will become cuckolds." Baiser also means to kiss.
The throw-a-hoop-around-a-bottle carnival game is a scam.
Prepackaged meals are also called TV dinners, which used to be a trademark.
A soup strainer is a bad long moustache, straining the soup.
"Nazi" came from "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei", nat-shon-AL-so-seul-list-uh-cher-DOY-cher-ar-BAI-te-pa-tai. Multiple global economic crashes were responsible for his uprising.
18:9 displays are 6.4% smaller than 16:9 displays at the same diagonal length.
Angostura bitters labels are too big for the bottles because they accidentally did it that one time, and then kept doing it.
If you hit/run over someone else's dog, driving away counts as "damaging someone's property and fleeing the scene".
Baker, Boulanger, and Panettiere are all the same last name for people who used to bake.
Wage slavery is an analogy that if a person's livelihood depends on wages or a salary, then the person is a slave to the wage or salary, and therefore the company/corporation. "The salaried [are] only free-ranged slave[s] that [are] nothing but just a tool to create wealth for [the rich]."
UMTS is based on GSM, but HSDPA is based on WCDMA. The "band 4" that wind mobile always talks about is UMTS band 4, 1700/2100MHz. Somehow, "Supported UMTS protocols" includes HSPA+, which is WCDMA. Not confusing enough? They will be using band 66 for LTE (GSM), except East Ontario, which will use the same AWS band 4 (WCDMA) for LTE (GSM??). Both LTE band 4 and band 66 use 1700/2100MHz. Band 66 includes the entirety of band 4 in terms of frequency: band 4 goes from blocks A to F, while band 66 includes blocks from A to J. After all that, what's the ultimate the bummer? You might need special code on the phone to support band 66.
Meditation appears to mean sitting somewhere, closing your eyes, and focus your attention on your breathing without controlling it.
Austin Evans had his house burn down once. It was not his heater.
Cigarette filters are made of fiberglass.
Zack says the name "BlackBerry" was coined by marketing company Lexicon Branding, due to the resemblance of the keyboard's buttons to that of the drupelets that compose the blackberry fruit.
To determine the week day of any date: (Sunday=0 ~ Saturday=6) + (Map your months to 6 or 5,2 or 1,2,5,0,3,5,1,4,6,2,4) + (Some really, really weird rules regarding years).
Fibonacci numbers are named after Leonardo of Pisa, who was then Filius Bonacci, "Son of Bonacci". (A fib number) / (the fib number before it) converges to 1.618..,. the golden ratio.
Drones are rubbish because they stay in the air for like 15 minutes.
Main issue with Google gadgets is that they are useless. Clips, a camera with a clip that sucks when clipped to a shirt. Translation earphones that require your phone to be whipped out anyway. Home, a thing that tells you what it can do, but never tells you what you can do. All of these gadgets require bluetooth connection to a phone.
Microwaved eggs can explode after they leave the bloody microwave, get peeled, and then bitten into.
Damn Daniel Craig did play a Stormtrooper in The Force Awakens.
If you don't like watching half an hour worth of ads before your movie, then either a) pirate it, or b) reverse engineer the start time by looking at the movie's end time, less the movie duration.
Corn husks (the skins) were once used as shipping padding.
CDMA is owned by Qualcomm. It is a piece of turd because phones can lock you to a carrier ("whitelisting") without even a SIM. GSM is a global (in particular, legally required in EU) standard.
One CPU branching misprediction costs 5ns.
If you keep sending emails to addresses that don't exist, that web server flags you down as spam.
If you don't set up some default mailboxes (like webmaster@, abuse@) required by RFC 2142, then RFC-Clueless will add you to their blacklist, and you will no longer send/receive mail.
The Frito Company merged with H.W. Lay & Co. in 1961. They kept making Lays chips all while being owned by PepsiCo. Fun Fact: Lays chips are PepsiCo's third largest brand, after Pepsi and Mountain Dew.
Foam rings around the [beer] glass are a sign that the glass was cleaned properly.
To "curve someone" is to reject someone.
On Uber/Lyft decreasing public transit use: "While ridesharing supports pooling, it also wastes "deadhead" passengerless miles between fares. As a result, ridesharing actually increases total vehicle miles traveled."
The Scotland Yard is (basically) the Scottish police HQ.
"If a team brings Jeff (the Amazon man) an idea that he disagrees with, he can continue to disagree, but immediately commit to supporting the team. The project gets green-lit and the team is moving forward. If they had to actually convince Jeff of the idea, it would have taken much much longer."
Weighted blankets are for autistic kids.
Condo fees are a static payment that limits the compounding potential of such an investment.
Bob Ross died in 1995. He was a (clinical) master sergeant at one point.
Dick Cheney was President for a few hours when Bush got his colonoscopy done.
Angelina Jolie voiced the tiger in Kung Fu Panda, and the panda's dad made drugs in Breaking Bad for five seasons.
DXOMark scores are not out of 100. The overall score is also not the average of all subscores, but rather a[n arbitrarily weighted] average of the subscores.
The dead skin and stuff you may accumulate between your toes, they call it "toe jam".
If you get two tens at blackjack, don't split them into two separate bets.
Planes are very dry places. Drink 250mL of water every single hour.
To be fair, "49,95€" sounds like "forty-nine, ninety-five euro" when you say it out loud. "$49.95" would be "dollar forty-nine point nine five", which is less similar to "forty-nine ninety-five". The Euro is one of the currencies that have the symbol either before or after, while the Cape Verdean escudo places its symbol in the decimal separator position (i.e., 20$00).
If you find soda cans in an airport, congrats! You can make weapons with them!
No such thing as corinthian leather. Just a term made up by Chrysler advertising.
Robusta beans have twice as much caffeine per unit weight than arabica beans.
If you don't die during a term life insurance policy, then you lose all the money you put into it. The money then goes to the people who do die.
Coin collectors collect atoms. They don't want you to restore a coin. They just want the exact atoms to remain.
Among Ottawa and Hamilton, Toronto has the fewest monumental road design fuckups per capita.
"All rights reserved" is by default. You don't need to mention it.
Normal smartphones give you a "cardboard VR vision" of 8:9 at best. Therefore, no matter how good VR goggles are, they are essentially useless at this point.
Wikipedia doesn't need your donations. They want your donations because their team is growing exponentially in size, for no real good reason to hire. Jimmy also wanted a private jet (possibly unrelated).
If you hire a co-op student and get "up to $3000" of your "up to 30%" back, then you would be paying such a student $2250 per month to get that amount of tax credit back.
Multi-level marketing firm Herbalife has the balls to be on NYSE.
A bit less than half of the world has WhatsApp installed.
In The Matrix, Neo wears a pair of Panasonic headphones. The second movie makes no sense because programs don't "hack programs when they risk deletion" or "go back to the mainframe". This is Visual Basic GUI level nonsense.
The Twitter bird is called Larry, named after Larry Bird from Boston Celtics.
North Korea and USA have the same number of submarines. The USA fleet is nuclear, and the North Korean ones are non-nuclear. At 72 for each country, they have the world's most submarines.
(Normal) North Koreans can't buy jeans. Owning a bible is grounds for execution. But they do have the Moranbong band, which is nice.
Grand slams involve every single base loaded with baserunners, and then scoring all four runs. It is rare enough that they wiki page has a list of grand slams.
.otf fonts can either be opentype or truetype. "TrueType fonts are drawn using Quadratic Outlines (???), which is a very formal way of drawing letters. OpenType fonts use Postscript Outlines which is a much easier way for designers to draw fonts." - taco taco
Trump appeared in Home Alone 2. He requests to be in any film using Trump's properties as a scene.
The arm of a vinyl player should exert 1.5~3g of tracking force (on Earth? as Newtons?). Anything higher is bad for the record.
"Home ec" aka home economics aka "how to live at home" is taught in American schools. Chinese schools may call them 勞動課.
Chiclets are a brand of gum. There is no such thing as a chicklet keyboard.
300k appendices are removed from Americans each year. There is no statistical evidence that doing anything other than eating lots of meat will increase your chances of getting appendicitis.
The Exeggutor has no arms. Its Alolan form has a totally unrelated fruit on its tail.
There is only one "gimp boy" in the world: Jason Coakley.
"See see no touch" unfortunately has only 1500 results on Google.
Slack is the fastest company to receive a billion dollar valuation. Its chat room thing uses <div contenteditable="true"> as the message container.
Five-year survival rate can be absolute or relative. Absolute, if you just look at the percentage of patients that survive after five years. Relative, if you compare those people with the absolute survival rate of similar but uninfected population. If you get something cool like sickle cell anemia, your relative survival rate might be higher than 100%.
"Static typing vs dynamic typing" isn't a useful topic to argue about because each language has its optimal point of productivity for the percentage of code that is statically typed. The Python sweet spot is much lower than the Java sweet spot, startups may have different requirements than NASA, and it matters also how many lines of code you have.
Waffle shirts have a waffle-like texture. These are not waffle shirts.
The week came about because the week is a quarter of a lunar cycle.
"Hello Kitty is not a cat. She's a cartoon character," said creator of Hello Kitty.
Double-stuffed Oreos are only 1.86x stuffed. How dare they.
Cap'n Crunch is a commander-class officer. Luckily, since the commanding officer of any vessel is always called the captain, calling it Captain Crunch is still correct.
Toad from Nintendo has three strands of hair. That mushroom top is not its head. Also, in the same video, cereals in photoshoots are often placed in white glue or wildroot hair tonic instead of real milk.
According to Mozilla, i18n differs from l10n in that i18n enables l10n. L10n is the adaptation of the software to a local market ("locale"), while i18n is the groundwork, like using unicode and separating content from code, that eventually enables l10n. So, in a way, i18n is the prepping, while l10n is actually doing it.
"Petit a petit" translates to "little by little" rather than "small by small".
Single quotes don't work in COUNTIFS conditions. Well, in general, strings in Excel should/must be written in double quotes.
The juicero "bag squeezer" is useless, but very well made.
Wyoming is the least populous state. Its capital has around 50000 people.
You wasted around three years of your life on Battle City, some tank game.
At least one man in the universe has the face of a porn star tattooed on his leg.
Not entirely sure what "colour space" means, but it would seem that it doesn't really matter which one you pick, as long as the display is showing your content in the same colour space that you originally used to capture/create the content. If you do that, then "the display is accurate".
South Korea is .kr. North Korea is .kp.
During the Cold War, the Russians spotted fake passports made by USA by the staples. "(Staples in) fake Soviet passports were made of good US, non-corrosive, stainless steel. Genuine Russian passports had staples made of metal that began to rust as soon as the passports were issued."
A man named Ben replaces Christian Bale in Batman vs Superman.
Both Superman and Batman came from DC comics, but the people inside it believe in a higher power other than the two. And Batman vs Superman is poorly received because Christian Bale wasn't in it.
The Nintendo Switch uses a plastic screen on purpose: so kids can't crack it. The whole exterior is plastic; the device is designed for abuse. Which smartphones aren't. This is why these console things still have an enormous market.
Banks are removing coin counters so you will do everything you can do avoid getting coins. In such a move, banks save virtual money by no longer dealing with cash.
"Don't tattoo your eyeball, you might lose your eye" - A woman described as "retarded"
News agencies like the New York Times have anonymous drops on Tor so people can submit news ("leak") anonymously.
An ISO 8601 date without the year has the format --MM-DD. Standard also allows a year followed by the day number as YYYY-DDD. Therefore, it is not possible to have an ISO date displayed with just the year and month.
Do not buy a (pair of) VR goggle(s). Their size do not justify the gimmicks that they provide.
George Orwell believes tea from China is inferior to tea from India.
For any UI popup confirming if "Are you sure you want to foo bar?", you can remove the "Are you sure you want to" and still have a popup that makes sense.
Tan is more commonly 陳 rather than 譚 in Singapore.
Corked wine tastes better than bottled wine because people enjoy the sound it makes when opened.
Even professors can be homeless too, if you study English/Literature, an oversupplied field...
HP employs the industry's oldest IT workers on average. None of the listed companies had an average tech worker age higher than 40. This means: kill yourself when you reach 40 years old.
壽眉 came from Fujian.
Tiny brownouts are called voltage sags. Brownouts need to last at least a minute.
Couscous is just wheat. Tiny balls of wheat.
Apart from "[prices] got really high", through the roof also means "to become very angry".
Comtemporary Rap sounds like speech impediment when censored. One man agrees.
AM570 considers people who earn between 60,000 and 70,000 units of currency a year to be the people at the middle.
Ingvar Kamprad, billionaire IKEA man and inventor of flat-pack furniture, steals salt from restaurants.
The triangle in a play button is not at the middle. It is at the center of mass more or less.
"So extra" is now found to mean "excessive, dramatic behaviour".
UC Browser has 15% of the browser market share in Asia???
To turn text to path in Inkscape, there is Path > Object to Path, not Object > Object to Path.
The cock that made the Sriracha sauce the cock sauce was from the year the inventor was born.
Vanity stores are businesses that a person (in this case, a husband lets his wife) keeps, regardless of business potential, in order for that person to be called a business owner.
In fantasy sports, you are the manager. You build your team. Hence the fantasy. Because you aren't a manager. You're a loser on GitHub.
Blackberry didn't buy desktops. Employees are required to take their laptops home for business continuity, aka keep working even if it snows and stuff.
AirBnB originally started helped people add their listings by offering professional photographers to take photos of their homes. "We suggest founders do things that don't scale ... Many startup advisors persuade startups to scale way too early, (... which takes time/effort/money... a waste if done prematurely ...). Rather, we tell startups to get their first customer by any means necessary, (... often manually ...). At this stage, founders are still trying to figure out what needs to be built and the best way to do that is talk directly to customers." - Y Combinator
Removing dark spots is called opening. Removing white spots is called closing.
Flying at night vs during the day has a difference in incidence rate that is significant (i.e. "can be seen") but insignificant (i.e. "doesn't matter").
Each one of "The boys" refers to a testicle, not a spermatozoon.
Many people agree that, unless you are the CEO, managers at any level should put the team first, then the company next.
The same guy who invented the theremin (that would be Léon Theremin) invented The Thing, a passive listening device.
Business class laptops come with all sorts of ports that will not be found in comsumer ports. They also come with removable component upgrade doors, while it is questionable whether consumers would upgrade anything, even if they know they could.
None of the big four accounting firms (Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG) are single firms. They are networks of firms that share accounting standards. So, technically, being hired by one of those means almost nothing. The big four hire one million accountants globally.
AMD's top mobile CPU of 2017 uses lithography twice as large as Intel's (28nm vs 14nm).
Wahl is choice. Sonntag is Sunday. Wahlsonntag becocmes "election day", and need not be on a Sunday.
Minimalists prefer calling "empty", "spacious".
If you look up "most popular surgeries", then you will get the answers a) plastic, b) cataract, c) caesarean section, d) joint replacement, e) circumcision, f) bone repair, g) heart surgery, h) stent procedure aka 通波仔, i) uterus removal, j) gallbladder removal, and k) heart bypass.
Coffee beans crack twice: once at 205°C (light roast), and once more at 225°C (medium-dark).
Light coffee roasts might have a "toasted grain taste". Darker roast beans have oil (a sheen) on the surface.
If you post a random security question answer, anyone can call the support number as you, and when challenged, answer with "Oh I just mash the keyboard for those". You don't want a random security answer.
Bill Nye looks incredibly old. This is a picture of him in his late thirties.
"Trey" the name just means "third born". And Chris might not have made it up that Three can be pronounced Tray when on a playing card.
百年好合 means "good together for 100 years", not "good match that can be found once every 100 years".
Eskimo ("a person who laces a snowshoe") includes both Yupik (Siberia and Alaska) and Iñupiat (Alaska, Greenland, Canada). Calling an Inuit an Eskimo is like calling a tortoise a turtle; yet, people in Canada and Greenland don't like the idea of that.
"Steak tartare" originally came from "à la tartare", steak to be served with tartar sauce. "Tartar" was named after the Tatars, living in what's now Russia and Uzbekistan. Off to another tangent: yes, you can totally die from eating raw beef.
Nancy said she learned in her technical writing course: a) write for your audience, and b) less is more.
"Good night sweet prince" is from Hamlet.
Fun fact: The dagger symbol (†) is also called the obelisk, and the double dagger (‡) is called the diesis. The triple dagger does not have a funny name yet.
"Catfishing", faking an identity online to get relationships, was from a 2010 film Catfish, that talked about the firmness of caught catfish increases if put in the same tank with cod. In the film, the fake identity is probably the cod.
The smoke is said to be the essence of electronics. Letting the magic smoke out will make it not work. Thus it introduced the term "smoke testing", to ensure the magic smoke stays in the box.
Sikhs wrap their hair and never cut or shave: "My Sikh shall not use the razor. For him the use of razor or shaving the chin shall be as sinful as incest." Except, it is hard to find Sikhs that doesn't shave their beards. "In last 10 years or so, i have realised that Sikhism nosedived big time. Blame it on fashion or laziness of Sikhs who find it hard to squeeze out time to tie beard and turban."
Equity dilution is enormous when multiplied by rounds. However, some of the time, this dilution is offset by the increase in valuation between rounds ("maybe you are worth more now")
The Earth is flat. All cameras are flawed. Ships and planes prove our point. No one has gone to the South Pole and lived. The Earth is propped up by a giant U-shaped magnet. The Earth has been accelerating upwards for thousands of years at 9.81m/s/s (so, now travelling at around 2 trillion m/s). At this great speed we have a tiny sun and tiny moon still above the spy, shining just the Earth (and some other spherical planets... no idea why they are spherical though). This is not a joke, and We are not kidding.
Round trip time between two instances in the same datacenter is around 1ms.
Samsung Pay can emulate a magnetic stripe using "a tiny coil that shoots out the same magnetic code that those readers normally get from your credit card", called MST.
Summer sausages are designed to last without refrigeration. They are usually cured, mostly made with scrap meats, and are wrapped in cloth/paper rather than intestines.
The Achilles' heel story involves his mother washing his entire body with magic water except for his heel. Then he got shot in the heel at war one day and died.
Vim and Emacs users are more likely to be hired than Eclipse users. (Pycharm is fine.)
Fake eyes (like glass eyes) still need eye drops for lubrication.
A dead man's switch can be used not only as fail-safes ("stop the lawn mower if the user is dead / can't hold onto the handle"), but also fail-deadly ("if the suicide bomber is shot and killed, make sure the bomb goes off anyway", or "make sure all the documents are released into the public if Edward Snowden is killed")
It is impossible to buy cheap quinoa because the import price is 10x that of wheat.
"Forthwith" means "immediately". "I shall ejaculate with utmost force forthwith" means "I nuttin".
Avoid sushi places on Monday mornings and afternoons. Food prepared at that time is usually made with leftovers from the week before.
La Croix in America suddenly becomes La Croy, much like Lingerie in American comes Lingeray.
The Georgian architectural style is marked by symmetry. Even the inside of a house may be symmetrical.
Transvestism is just crossdressing. No dicks are cut off or sewn on by transvestism.
Documentation is like a hand job. You're better at it yourself, but you want someone else to do it.
Sasquatch is literally Bigfoot.
If a colleague asks you "what's for lunch,'" reply with So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' (Matthew 6:31), best without context.
Double IPA is Imperial IPA. Triple IPA is something like that, with even more hops.
reCAPTCHA is extremely accessible for obvious reasons.
Women are more likely to be caught baking. Men are more likely caught cooking.
"What do we eat" "Que-mangeons nous" is "What eats us?"?
The "eat" gesture and the "fuck off" gesture differ only by whether the fingers point toward the mouth.
AM is in the 0.5~~1.6MHz range. FM is in the 88.1~~108.1MHz range. Short wave radio is in between the two bands.
(long, lat) maps to the x-y axis better. However, ISO-6709 "Standard representation of geographic point location by coordinates" wants (lat, long) instead, which has the first vertical coordinate at the front.
The moon is 38% of a billion metres away.
The revolving door: Governments hire industry professionals for their private sector experience. Industry, in turn, hires people out of government positions to gain personal access to government officials.
Restart apache2 with apachectl -k graceful rather than service apache2 restart. The former gracefully reloads its configuration, which has no downtime.
Warner Bros' Looney Tunes was inspired by Disney's Silly Symphony in the 1930s.
Location, location, location. Restaurants that open at the same location where a restaurant once closed will probably (90%) also close within a year.
When you leave a stealthy machine in a building to connect to the corporate network for later use, the machine is called a drop box.
The "gray" in "kiss from a rose on the gray" is the brain (grey matter).
If you want to buy a house and want to check for water leaks, check in the closet. No one paints the closet [before a sale]. Check the circuit breaker to make sure there are free slots (so you can add more appliances without major work).
Motion disrupts sleep. Sleeping with the dog or wife in the same room will not lower sleep quality; sleeping with them in the same bed will.
The mullet hairstyle is "normal everywhere except leave the back alone".
That "I want people to see the sides of my scalp" hairstyle is called the undercut. It was popular in the 1920s and 1930s as well.
For menu items with icons, the icons should be lighter than text. Otherwise, people would read the icon with the text.
Taiwanese noses are generally wider and shinier than the ones on mainland, but would still appear normal unless compared side by side.
Tesla 60kWh batteries are 75kWh batteries. They artificially lower the capacity on the batteries through software, and inflate the price on the ones actually sold as 75kWh. All 60D Teslas in Florida received a free unlock to 75kWh during hurricane Irma.
Until you know you can handle a gun, don't put in more than one cartridge. If you fail and the gun flies out of your hands, you can (and will) die from the second misfire.
51% attacks on a blockchain involve having more than 50% of the network's hashrate, the technicality of which will allow the 51% to confirm or deny blocks onto the chain, which means they can either invalidate or double spend transactions at their will. "If a cryptocurrency can be 51%-attacked easily (...) then people shouldn't bring money near it."
"Forgive them father, for they know not what they do" came from Jesus. "Forgive me father, for I know not what I do" came from Eminem.
"We have the brightest minds of today trying to figure out how to get people to click ads on the Internet, not actually inventing anything." was attributed to Elon Musk, but if you Google that phrase, it only ever showed up in /r/uwaterloo.
Initial coin offerings involve making up a new cryptocurrency, selling some of them for Bitcoin or real money, and then never delivering on anything.
The World Meteorological Organization comes up with hurricane names that loop every six years. Names are alphabetical, alternate from male to female, and start with a different sex every year. Some names are banned due to the devastation they have previously caused: Ivan, Katrina, Matthew, Sandy, ...
"Roast chicken breast with lemons," said Claybar. "It will make chicken breast juicier."
Desks are directional tables that are often only used by one person. "There is a wrong way to sit at a desk."
In medicine, an indication is a valid reason to use a certain test, medication, procedure, or surgery.
It is (in 2016) impossible to fail a Coursera course. You just get bumped to the next session and are asked to complete remaining material.
3DS replaced NDS in 2011. NDS cannot play 3DS games. There is a 2DS, which is a non-3D version of the 3DS, but can play 3DS games.
Phoenix Wright goes on to become a professional poker player because perhaps he thought his game series was full of plot holes.
How to build a (gaming) PC. Remember, desktops have cables that connect the components.
The alphabet song is the same as twinkle twinkle little star.
"Riga Gold Sprats" is produced in Latvia. This gets more obvious when Riga is Latvia's capital.
Glenn came from Gaelic "Gleann". Therefore, anyone named Glen (with one N) are savages.
Incidentally, Brian (Celtic) and Patricia (Latin) mean the same thing in different languages: noble.
Bullion ("Boolean") are the gold bars. Bouillon ("Bui-yung") are the beef cubes.
Discussing the Bosnian problem means Trump having sex with Melania, apparently.
Neil on Flat Earthers: "This is a deep failure of our educational system. I've stopped chasing after people with those belief systems, because I don't see the point; that there's something deeper going on in our society, that, somehow, enables people to believe they're making cogent arguments, and they're not."
A figurehead is a person who holds an important title or office, yet executes little actual power. The Queen is a figurehead. She rarely exercises her powers, and doesn't know if the Commonwealth would actually follow her orders.
If your lens is large enough, taking pictures of the sun does melt/burn the components.
Surtax: paying taxes? You need to pay a tax based on how much you paid. In 1968, President Johnson enacted a 10% surtax on individual and corporate income to help pay for the cost of fighting the Vietnam War.
Coasters were originally made of felt, and were put over the glasses to keep flies out. Unfortunately they spread germs. Now they go under glasses. That's what "How it's made" said, anyway.
Oprah was named "Orpah" after the biblical figure in the Book of Ruth. She and Whitney Houston are two completely different people.
You don't mine with wallets. You mine with miners.
There are no pure oil public companies (assumptions?). Energy exploration/production companies usually have both natural gas and oil reserves.
Pollock is the sux.
Trees painted in purple mark a "no trespassing" zone, within which Texans may shoot you to death.
In French, cans are called canettes. Therefore, French cans are bigger than English cans.
Taking the exponent of a number turned negative (exp(-x)) is a great way to get a number between 0 and 1. The closer x is to 0, the closer the result is to 1.
USB type C supports USB 3.0/3.1, but USB 2.0 type C cables exist. USB micro-A/B require extra backwards-compatible connectors to achieve that speed.
The metallic outside of USB cable inserts help remove static electricity upon contact.
"老泥妹" 因離家出走，只能靠與其他人進行性交易之後才有機會洗澡，經常在尖東和旺角一帶出沒。
"援交" strictly involves one underage party and one adult "helping each other out". If both parties are of age, this term does not work.
The longer your organisation has been around, and the larger the organisation is, the more likely is it for it to have useless policies. John calls it "organizational scar tissue".
Some people are so sensitive to sounds that they identify the AC current at 60Hz as B flat.
A dye is "light-fast" if it fades quickly. Turmeric is a light-fast dye. So, instead of dyeing clothes, it is used as food colouring.
You are supposed to play the "forgetful man places coffee cup on top of car" prank with a magnet, not superglue.
Noodles contain salt.
A cottage is where a cotter (peasant farmer) lived. Cottages are supposed to be horrible.
Waiters/Waitresses ("waitists") first take food out of the kitchen with a tray, then take the tray to an empty table next to yours, then unload the food from that table to your table. They bring the tray to your table only if there are no free adjacent tables.
Hyderabad is at the middle of India. It is pronounced HIderabad.
Encrypting your hard drive is useless if your backups are not encrypted the same way or stronger.
Bolivia has the world's highest number of official languages, at 38 (mostly indigenous). Singapore is fifth at four.
If you want to learn two languages based on how official they are, English and French are probably your best bet. And then Arabic.
Hanoi has the same population as Hong Kong. Shanghai is almost 7x more populous than Berlin, and almost 3x that of NYC.
Wake (n.) means the line of waves left by a boat or ship.
Out of sight, out of mind: people don't click on things if they are hidden behind a menu or a dropdown. Important things ought to be visible, and ought to be near the bottom (if designing for mobile).
High car manufacturing volume accelerates the depreciation of used vehicles. Avis lost 92% of the profits failing to sell off used fleet cars. Recession decelerates the depreciation (or even raises the value) of used vehicles, because people keep their old vehicles, knowing they cannot afford new ones. But if all things are considered, why don't you think about the electric car / ridesharing revolutions more?
Grocers are people who own/operate the grocery, not the people who buy groceries.
Women don't get beer belly as often as men because women don't drink enough to have society tell them they shouldn't be drinking "while pregnant", draws illustrator.
Amazon Glacier ("ZDNet says, that according to private e-mail") runs on low RPM hard drives with custom logic boards "where only a percentage of a rack's drives can be spun at full speed at any one time." This makes storage fairly cheap compared to other forms of online storage. Downloading the data has a "retrieval cost", which means they are probably throwing full hard drives into a cabinet eventually.
I think Nicholas Winton is a pretty cool guy. Eh saves Czechoslovakian children from Nazis and doesn't afraid of anything.
Russia and Kazakhstan share +7 for the calling code.
The emoji 🙏 is both "high five" and "praying hands". So if you tweet about "my grandma died 🙏" it can get confusing.
14 refers to the fourteen words "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children," or another fourteen words "Because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth." Much simpler, the 88 that follows is just "Heil Hitler", because H is the eighth letter.
Some (most?) ships have clear view screens instead of wipers. The outside of the two-layer window spins at high speeds, removing the rain without a wiper blade.
The ideal weight is apparently 170~180 lbs for an adult male of some standard height.
Red scotch brite is coarser than green scotch brite is coarser than blue scotch brite.
A US president once implied wanting to kill muslims with pig blood dipped bullets.
Tile's batteries are not user-replaceable. But it's just a CR-2032. So why don't they let you replace it yourself? Because it would break the waterproofing? No! Because fuck you, that's why.
"Tommy and Gina" were referenced in both Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer in 1986, and It's my life in 2000.
Weevils can be killed by either frying your rice at 60 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes, or freezing at -18 degrees for 3 days.
REIT stands for real estate investment trust. It is a way to invest in real estate without buying houses.
Bus bunching is caused by a late bus spending even more time picking up more passengers that have been waiting, making it more late. Then the next bus catches up, hence the bunch.
Small functions considered harmful: "My main problem with DRY is that it forces us into abstractions — nested and premature ones at that. Inasmuch as it's impossible to abstract perfectly, the best we can do abstract well enough insofar as we can."
The spur is the spike behind cowboy boots. It annoys the horse and makes it go forward.
Sunni Islam is the world's largest religious denomination, followed by Catholicism. According to Sunni tradition, Muhammad did not clearly designate a successor/caliph ("caliph" being the dude who leads the "caliphate", which is the Muslim world/community.)
Nejd ("the middle of Saudi Arabia") is the birthplace of wahhabism, the fundamentalist branch of beliefs.
A man named Tom recommends having integers as primary keys, and another UUID column for whenever these resources/objects are accessed externally. "Primary keys should never be exposed, even UUIDs"
You are supposed to store UUIDs as four bytes, rather than a 36-character string. Smaller, faster for sorting, creating, pretty much everything is better. ORMs already do this for you.
B&H are the initials of the original owners, Blimie and Herman. "Barnes and Hobo" is some other company, which, of course, is not a clever and original phrase.
A "misdemeanor" is a small wrongdoing that is still worth punishing.
Actuaries use numbers rather than guessing to evaluate the likelihood of future events, design creative ways to reduce the likelihood of undesirable events and decrease the impact of undesirable events that do occur. "Hedging" refers to risk reduction. Actuaries can reduce the risk of a portfolio either by manipulating its asset class, or buying "insurance" type actions that prevent too much of a loss in the event of a downturn.
Uber drivers don't give a flying floop where you sit, as long as you aren't right behind them for a one-passenger booking.
The Chaoui people of Algeria like to play a flute-like instrument called the Gasba (gasba literally means "reed" in the Berber language.)
"/r/theydidthemath" "/r/theydidthemonstermath" is not an original joke. "They did the mash, they did the monster mash" is actually a song by Bobby Pickett.
DMZs often become wildlife preserves because no one lives there.
"Need onion salt for a recipe? Ingredients: Onion powder, Salt." "Need garlic salt for a recipe? Ingredients: Garlic powder, Salt." "Need celery salt for a recipe? Ingredients: Celery seeds, Salt."
Batarang is a portmanteau of bat and boomerang, and was originally spelled baterang. Batarangs are more throwing stars than boomerangs.
Companies are bailed out if they employ a large number of people, leading some people to believe that the economy would be unable to sustain such a huge jump in unemployment if the business folded.
You will have to be fairly messed up to be exempt from Singapore national service.
Arnold actively trains to retain his accent, evident by the fact that he can imitate the American accent.
A gramophone is a phonograph. A grandmaphone is a phone with huge buttons and no screen.
The son also became the prime minister and his children probably will, too.
"Singapore" from Sanskrit सिंहपुर is literally Lion City, hence the lions. The Brits colonised it, made it drive on the left, but lost control in 1959, when Lee Kuan Yew the god won the election. Lee died in 2015.
"The best age to die is when your body says you have to die. ... Approaching death robs a bodies strength. Any movement becomes difficult. Your body is telling you it soon must shut down. You sleep all the time and reality hurts. ... Many people know death will soon take them. They say goodbye to their friends, hug their children and then close their eyes forever," says Michael Fitzjohn, member of "the terminal illness club". Before his death, he added, "Live your life in such a way that you're smiling as you fade away into eternity."
In Michigan, taking in orphaned animals that turn out not to be orphaned count as capturing.
Sex with animals in Lebanon was outlawed in 1943.
Mulan is a story.
Turns out localhost is not necessarily loopback. It never made a spec until August 2017.
Digs means residence. Appears to be s/\b(house|apartment)s?\b/digs/ig.
Sapporo is basically a worse Heineken.
It is possible to download files straight from Kodi.
"Salt was found to improve the perception of product thickness, enhance sweetness, mask metallic or chemical off-notes, and round out overall flavor while improving flavor intensity." In other words, salt makes things taste better by manipulating how receptors sense other tastes. See same paper: if you have a low sodium diet, you can substitute some NaCl with a smaller amount of MSG for roughly the same taste.
The Rothschild family, ROTE-shillt, is primarily Jewish. They earn a billion a year, give or take a billion.
People rate condoms on the Internet.
Dude says it matters to differentiate "GPU" from "graphics card", the card on which the GPU is soldered.
All natural numbers (N) are... integers (Z), which are all rational numbers (Q), which are all real numbers (R)
In the cryptocurrency world, you can just clone a bunch of coins and end up having twice the amount of money (assuming people want to trade the cloned version).
Apart from the literal meaning, "per diem" appears to mean "daily expense allowance" as well.
Zeta is the sixth Greek alphabet, but has a value of 7, because man, screw you. Classically "Zedta", it is now "Zita" in modern Greek.
A "down round" is when a company raises money at a lower valuation than a previous round. And apparently a "flight risk" is employee(s) who may leave soon.
Hasta la vista, "until the sight", just means "bye".
How to combat AYCE buffets saving money: only go to restaurants with the food you like. Poop in the morning, eat cereal for breakfast, do some exercises, then go to a lunch buffet. Start with a soup, eat slowly, and avoid soft drinks.
Compared to USB keyboards and mice, PS/2 peripherals send interrupts. This reduction of latency makes PS/2 keyboards and mice still somewhat relevant for pro gaming.
"無三不成幾" came from 西游记 "常言道，事无三不成，你进洞两遭了，再进去一遭，管情救出师父来也。", and is supposed to mean "you should try more", rather than the literal "'A few' means at least three."
Wikipedia claims that Roast beef is served at Sunday dinners ("Sunday roasts") after church.
Malta and Italy are the world's top two consumers of rabbits, more than 5kg per person-year.
For normal car owners (people who already own, pay for, and maintain a car), driving is 10x ~ 12x more economical than taking Uber. For people who don't own a car (people who would otherwise have to buy a car and pay for insurance and maintenance), that difference is only 2x.
The country with the highest sales tax goes to either Bhutan, at 50%, or Hungary, at 27%, depending on the sources you trust.
A good point depdendency injection has over imports is that injected depdendencies do not need full paths declared, so you can swap these dependencies with different implementations however you like.
Sci-Hub is the world's library of pirated scientific journals. It's great.
The Titanic broke inwards (crushed at the middle), but the movie depicted it as breaking outwards (middle separated).
Women in burqas often report vitamin D deficiency.
The Louisiana Purchase was more of a "if you don't sell it, we will just invade that land and take it anyway" kind of deal.
A bench hook provides an edge for your hands to push a piece of wood onto.
"The ironic thing is this: If you decide that you can live with downtime, and therefor with a much less complex system - your uptime will increase. Of course." - Moans Nogood (really? that's the real name?)
Jewish people don't really know who they are. They can define "Jew" not as a race, not as skin tone (there are Ethiopian Jews), not by religion (you can make that stuff up), not even by Israel (what, before or after it was recreated?)
Painting your bathroom light blue suddenly raises your house price by $5400 on average.
Two mochis stacked on top of each other become 鏡餅, some sort of Japanese new year cake.
Although fencing is not done with real rapiers, Spanish people did really stab others with them.
So many people owned "四驅車" that it became the term for model racing cars, rather than actual 4WD vehicles. AKA "Mini 4WD", they are actually powered by four wheels, but there is no diff so they might as well be RWD.
Roombas can monetise themselves by selling your floor plan to third parties.
There are three ways to punish someone with the wheel: either beaten while tied up to the wheel, beaten up and displayed on the wheel like a cross, or, simply, hitting the dude with the wheel.
More than 60000 people live in a town called Medicine Hat.
The Japanese term for "idiot-proofing" is Poka-yoke, originally called Baka-yoke, which fell out of favour because of the "baka". In the case of poka-yoke, the idiots are factory workers, rather than the users.
"Exit Music (For a Film)" is a Radiohead song. There are four Radiohead songs in the Westworld album.
Braille comes in two types: uncontracted (1:1 with alphabets), and contracted (with single-cell codes for common word patterns like 'sh' and 'the'). Virtually all printed braille is contracted.
This wiki article claims that Ashley, Beverly, Carol, Evelyn, Hillary, Joyce, Kelly, Lindsay, Shannon, Shirley, Tracy, and Vivian were all masculine names, before being popular among females.
"Klismaphilia", the love for enemas. They even have special aluminium nozzles for the job.
Drowning is a way to kill Wolverine. Healing does not work after death. This is evident in his death in Logan (oh right spoilers). He had an X for his grave, marked by his "daughter" Laura (X-23).
How low you must have gotten if you are best known for being punched in the face.
Cat litter can be made of many materials, like clay, [zeolite, diatomite and sepiolite], calcium bentonite (clumping formula), silica gel, and all sorts of other biodegradable options. There are litter boxes that scoop up the poop automatically, apparently...
Herring has a great fibrous texture.
That mentally special "air horn sound" found in many new songs are from a rap trend in the 80s.
Asking potential employers "how do you reward tenure?" during an interview is very revealing about the company.
"HODL" is a typo of HOLD. It originated here.
Putting an employee on PIP (performance improvement plan), whether or not there is a performance issue, is a great way to legally fire someone for no reason.
Ask for directions from a dog walker. Dog walkers are likely local, likely walk a lot, and likely know the roads on which they walk.
French stop signs say "ARRET\nSTOP". Quebec signs just say "ARRET".
By total length, Birmingham has more canals than Venice.
Amputees are never handcuffed to a vehicle door, because of liability issues should the vehicle be set on fire. Other wastes of time include trying to handcuff double amputees, or pregnant women that get arrested for some reason.
The original version of the Pokérap had mewtwo, but not mew.
WiFi "Guest mode" mainly disables LAN access, not Internet access. Think your printers and network shares.
The 13th Doctor Who is a woman.
STUN used to stand for Simple Traversal of UDP through NAT; now it stands for Session Traversal Utilities for NAT.
Side menus in every offical Google app are all different widths.
Pac Man was originally going to be called Puck Man, but was changed because Fuck Man.
Every odd number has a 'e' in it; excluding 'and', the first number to have an 'a' is 'one thousand'.
Bill Murray did Garfield because he signed on thinking Joel Coen wrote it. Joel Cohen (with the H) did.
The ZIP in ZIP code stands for Zone Improvement Plan.
A quad HD AMOLED screen has only 20% more pixels as a 1080p LCD display, when it should have almost 80% as many.
Because owning a home requires taking care of it, percentage home ownership in a neighbourhood directly impacts how nice a neighbourhood is, and, to a certain extent, negatively impacts the crime rate in the same neighbourhood. This implies rentals are often in high-crime areas.
Clear red signs of a house that cannot be bought: 1) bad location 2) smells (nearby landfill, mold, or ventilation issues) 3) uneven flooring 4) no natural lighting 5) oddly-shaped rooms 6) parking spaces that you can't get into.
The clip is a machanism that holds cartridges together, so they are easier to load into the magazine.
Le nom de la quiche might have come from German Kuchen, cake/tart.
Walter White is written to be slowly blinded by money and/or ambition, even himself.
Compass is either a thing that tells you the direction, or the "two sticks" thing you use to draw circles. Protractor is the plastic disc you use to measure angles.
Fresh tuna is tough and has no flavour. Age it for a few days first.
Selfie sticks are banned from Disney theme parks.
/r/dickpics is full of pictures of Richards.
The "90 degrees north" version of Polar Ice vodka is called that because it is 90 proof. Also because North pole.
640K displays ought to be enough for everybody. (A 640K display is more than 300 1080p displays tiled together on each side.)
Ham radio operators use call signs, basically a unique ID per station, to identify themselves. Canadian call signs that start with CY indicate islands.
Working out in the evening supposedly prevents you from eating too much for the rest of the day. This often responds with weight loss.
Want to refactor legacy code? Write tests. Step one is to make the code not clean, but testable. Step two is refactoring without failing those tests. Working Effectively With Legacy Code is written for languages with compilers.
Spain is not a federation, but a highly decentralized unitary state. In essence, powers are more local than federal. In practice, it means nothing to tourists.
RAID 5 is single distributed striped parity (1 disk worth of backups spread among all disks, at least 3). RAID 6 is double distributed striped parity (2 disks worth of backups spread among all disks, at least 4).
RAID 01 is just two RAID 0s with the same contents in it. RAID 10 is just two RAID 1s put side by side to make a combined volume twice the size. RAID 50 is just two RAID 5s put side by side to make a combined volume twice the size. RAID 60 is just two RAID 6s put side by side to make a combined volume twice the size. (...)
The inside of a cordless drill is full of substance.
The "ghetto" is where minorities live in groups, typically as a result of some socioeconomic pressure. It has nothing to do with how bad a place is. A ghetto can be a beautiful little India if they do it properly.
The ISO 31-0 standard defines the thin space, `` (looks like a normal space in monospace, obviously) as the digit grouping separator, i.e. '1 000 000', rather than '1,000,000'.
1.4142... is the square root of 2. You use it to estimate how much longer the Manhattan distance would be between two points.
Life sentence that can be paroled is not, strictly speaking, "life behind bars". You are looking for "life without parole" for the worst kind.
"wyciwyg": What You Cache Is What You Get
The Bic pen was made (not invented) by a Mr.Bich. He changed the pen's name from Bich to Bic after he learned about how the English would pronounce it.
Anna Gunn, the Skyler White actress, really lives in New Mexico. Her commute must have been excellent.
In season one of Breaking Bad, two people died. In season two, they reckon 176 did.
Chemo patients don't grow beards. Not sure how Walter was doing it.
There are more calories in African American coffee from being hot than from being coffee. (Simply being 60 degrees Celsius gives around 80 Calories.)
At low concentrations, both musk and skunk smell sweet. At high concentrations, musk smells like crap, and skunk smells like skunk.
"9H hardness", frequently used to quantify tempered glass screen protectors, is well under 6 on mohs hardness scale. There does not appear to be a conversion table available, because pencil hardness is a colour scale.
Hiring more people doesn't [always] make projects finish quicker. 9 people can't make a baby in a month.
A Hall sensor senses changes in magnetic field, and varies the output voltage accordingly.
If you use "wide gamut" displays, what you show on it should use 16-bit colours, or you will see some polarising effect on the image.
The anti-skip feature in many CD players used significantly more power than having it off. That's why they have a switch for it.
At 300 million emails a day, Gmail might have real issues with regular hash collisions, not numerically, but by the way entropy is gathered.
The Anker 20100 mAh battery pack is just six of these NCR18650B cells packed together. If the $42 battery pack has six of these, and two of these cost $15, You can take one of those packs apart for cheap cells.
The basement is cooler in the summer, and colder in the winter.
Excel's SUMPRODUCT(row1, row1...) multiplies two rows together and gives you a sum. Good for weighted tallies.
This converter claims that display FPS and refresh rate Hz are equivalent units (30 FPS = 30 Hz).
Modern train/subway platforms have stations that are higher than the rest of the track, so they naturally slow down when they enter the station, and naturally gain kinetic energy when they leave the station. This makes the station less hot, and need less ventilation.
Tire rubber simply becomes dust. Apparently the dust is minute in quantity, so it is not a big deal.
Anal Emma is the word for how the sun draws a figure 8 in the sky if you overlay its position every day at the same time of day.
A typeface is a family of fonts. When you mix the two up, people get real mad.
Nepotism: rich people giving jobs to each other's relatives.
3.5 ounces is around a 100g. Unfortunately, it is 3.3 yards that is roughly 1 metre, rather than 3.5.
A 1080p PenTile display has an actual resolution of 1564 x 880 (66% of pixels, 81% on each side). They get away with this because VESA uses "50% Michelson contrast" to define boundaries of a pixel, rather than rows and lines.
The source of the fire is usually well-burned, because there was a lot of oxygen at the time. All other places are poorly burned. This is how firemen ("fire people") deduce where a fire started.
Chen can sometimes map to 程.
Ken M's last name is McCarthy.
Calling Brian "B-rye" is nothing new.
Involuntary euthanasia is when a person is forced to kill itself. Non-voluntary euthanasia is when a person cannot give consent to have itself killed.
"I still do, but I used to, too." was from Mitch Hedberg. The opening was "I used to do drugs."
Now every other website bans being in an iframe to either prevent clickjacking or DDoS.
Goombas are enemy mushrooms.
Osseous/Ossified (note e/i) means "bony / turned into bone".
The whole thing about people eating spiders in their sleep was "invented as an example of the absurd things people will believe simply because they come across them on the Internet." Vibrations from a sleeping person's lungs alone would alert spiders of danger.
Suicide tourism is a thing. People travel to Zurich to legally end themselves all the time.
"Right to Hire" in the States is hiring a temporary position that might be retained as permanent later on. This is in contrast with direct hire, which is your stereotypical full-time job.
Sears was founded in 1886. Sears Holdings is actually Kmart. When Kmart bought Sears in 2005, Kmart named itself Sears Holdings, then spun off the remainder into Kmart again.
A tachometer measures rotations per minute. A tacometer measures the number of tacos per minute.
Hot weather seriously degrades aircrafts' ability to take off. air is thinner when hot.
Back in other people's days, they made "shaving cream" by rubbing the shaving brush on a piece of soap. None of you cheese-eating, soft-soiled, "shaving-cream-in-a-can" business.
Train tracks just happen to be around the same width as Roman roads, not a cause.
Gauntlet tracks are used when bigger trains need to go through the same place as smaller trains (like light rail), but there is no space for two parallel tracks, so they overlap the tracks and allow only one train in at a time.
When marijuana is legalised, the government is obligated to keep prices low, to undercut the black market. After the black market is gone, they can freely increase prices for taxation. Except Ontario. Ontario exercises the worst legalisation scheme possible.
In the early days of colonoscopies, attempts to burn off polyps in the colon ignited explosive hydrogen gas in the colon of several unlucky people, sometimes with tragic results. The colon-cleansing preparations people now take the night before a colonoscopy have solved the problem.
On one hand, raising interest rates make stocks drop because higher rates hurt companies' bottom line; on the other hand, if the rate hiked is less than the rate expected (e.g. +0.25% rather than +0.5%), then the market will still go up.
Tree removals are very expensive. So is dirt. "Dirt cheap" isn't a thing.
Donkey Kong has nothing to do with donkeys.
Nautical miles were defined as one minute of latitude. Now a nautical mile is just 1852 metres.
"À la carte" are menu items they are sold separately, rather than as part of a combo.
Hard phone cases are worse than soft cases in transferring the energy anywhere.
The far side of the moon isn't always dark. It experiences two weeks of sunlight followed by two weeks of night.
Someone claims that slot machine winnings are decided by law. Slot machines mean that you always lose at a predetermined rate. If you win, go away.
General Tso in General Tso's chicken was supposed to be Zuo Zongtang (左宗棠).
Any age over 18 can be donors.
Empire Company (EMP.A) owns Sobeys.
When attempting to change a project's configuration, Gerrit will save a draft of the config for you.
Ringo Starr's real name is Richard Starkey.
Honey nut cheerios don't contain almond anymore. The flavour is now from peaches[' pits], which are a relative of almonds.
Bruce Wayne talked to Batman once.
"Having read the Dynamo paper, and knowing Cassandra to be a close derivative, I understood that these distributed databases prioritize write availability (Amazon wanted the "add to cart" action to never fail)."
Socialites have their own tier on Tinder.
It is much easier to go all the way around the swing set if the chains were replaced by tubes.
Talking to yourself is essentially rubber duck programming.
Gunpowder tea is a form of Chinese tea in which each leaf has been rolled into a small round pellet. The shinier, the fresher. "Rolling renders the leaves less susceptible to physical damage and breakage and allows them to retain more of their flavor and aroma."
Magikarp can learn tackle at level 15, and flail at level 30. It is not entirely useless.
Any time you use the new keyword, you are (...) permanently (...) hard-coding your application to work with a particular class's implementation. That's huge. Use new when you don't expect you'll need flexibility in the future.
A, 2, and D was a numbering system used by Buzz in Home Alone.
A line producer is someone who manages the budget of a production.
WTFPL is dead. Use Do What The Fuck You Want To But It's Not My Fault Public License v1 instead.
If tuna is to be the primary ingredient in a can of tuna, then at least 51% of it must be tuna, the other being water. But if you have tuna, water, and broth, then only 34% needs to be tuna. Screw you Walmart.
To find the core value of housing in a market while in a bubble, just take the prices before the bubble, extrapolate using the inflation rate, and you'll know.
Fishwives, also known as fish fags, are women who sell, rather than marry, fish.
When Yoshito Usui (the 蠟筆小新 guy) fell off a cliff and died, the Chinese media incorrectly reported his death with the picture of this bloke (黒田征太郎). More than 100 million copies of the Crayon Shin-chan manga have been sold worldwide.
Noyes is a real name, say the Internets.
As of the article's time of writing, AMOLED can beat IPS in efficiency (with a sample size of 2) if the screen contents are less than 60% white.
"Rendering" can also mean the separation of animal fat from other tissues.
To have deaths on your hands is the same as to have blood on your hands, i.e. to be responsible for the deaths.
Samsung reports preventing OLED burn-in by "avoid keeping a static picture on ... for more than two hours at a time".
Midlife is when you are between the age of 40 and 55. Midwife is when you deal with someone else's pregnancy.
62.1 Tg of chicken eggs was produced in 2009. That is 2.32 million tonnes of cholesterol.
Through a cheap USB-C cable (say between a laptop and a phone), it is not that the phone will blow up because it asks for too much power; it is that the laptop will burn out because it could not supply the requested power. At least for that guy on The Verge.
Experts (i.e. people on the Internet) argue that QC fulfils quality requirements, whereas QA devises processes to ensure high quality. In short, QA are the managers, QC are the monkeys.
Early electric cars were limited to 32km/h because, apparently, they didn't have transistors. Suspect this has to do with holding charge.
Gerrit shares the same "Working ..." popover as Gmail. Odd, really, because Gerrit is made with GWT, but Gmail isn't. Gerrit is a fork of Rietveld, named after Gerrit Rietveld the Dutch architect, which was in turn written by Guido, to manage his subversion repositories.
Five whys, a systematic way to find the root cause of a problem, can potentially blame the wrong thing. For example, if you incorrectly assert that "the code was written because Bob did it", rather than "the code was written because management wants it", the chain of explanations can be entirely different.
The throwback weekdays rank as such: Thursday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Monday, Sunday, Wednesday.
"Extravert" means "more green".
In Japan, you can only buy fresh cartridges by returning the spent cartridges you bought on your last visit to the gun shop.
The Saturn V remains the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever (used). 15 were made, but 13 flew. None lost crew or payload. It burned "22 tons of fuel a second"; "one minute into the launch, the Saturn V was already supersonic."
The general difference between a product manager and project manager seems to be that the product manager is one more layer up, being cross-functional in more things.
Database normalisation refers to making tables and columns that make sense (to reduce redundancy). It comes in many normal forms; here is the first normal form.
Bonds have had an incredible bull run over the last 20 years due to falling interest rates. Very unlikely that continues.
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!" meant "your mother is a whore / makes many babies and your father is a drunk".
Sloe gin is not slow gin. Sloe gin is made by soaking sloes (a fruit like plums) in gin.
A police from where's the little girl video was once fired for being involved in inappropriate humour.
Religion websites see the most expensive phone users, and Adult and pornography websites see the least expensive phone users. Conclusion: if you want a cheaper phone, you should masturbate furiously.
Don't try to make a startup in a field where people can arrange their work amongst themselves. Examples: home cleaning, carpooling, recruiting
Stickler means perfectionist, with a negative connotation.
The Indian numbering system separates the first thousand with a comma, then a comma for every factor of 2.
The D in D-day is also Day. So D-day is Day-day. There is also H-hour, which is---you guessed it---Hour-hour.
PornHub and LiveJasmin are the only pornographic websites in the world's top 50 visited websites.
Curling irons can look like dildos.
Level 1 holsters have a restraining latch that holds the gun. Level 2 holsters have a button that you need to press to get the gun out. You can still yank it out though, so Level 3 holsters have yet another thing covering the top of the gun to prevent yanking.
Pickleball has nothing to do with pickles. It is a cross between badminton, tennis, and table tennis.
Tenderloin, the SF district just a few blocks away from the financial district, has a high rate of both crime and human feces sightings.
Simple English, a legit engineering term for making things unambiguous, has its own Simple English wiki page. Who knew!
Home alarm monitoring service (the thing that calls your house when someone breaks in) is useless. Thieves usually leave in 5-10 minutes. Phone calls start at 5 minutes.
Mr Rohit's advice to reading code is to try to understand it.
No one ever said the protagonists in Rick and Morty are the same Rick and Morty every episode, but the story so far has been consistent, even though the default universe is no longer C-137.
Tabling means "place on the side of the table" aka halt consideration in the US, or "lay on the table" aka begin consideration for everywhere else in the world. (Clarke)
Ted is Calgarian. His names are also "Rafael Edward", Ted being short for Edward. To run for presidency, one must either be born in America, or one parent must be American.
Ted can also be short for Edwin, Edmund, and Theodore. There are fewer than 1500 search results for "Edmund bear".
For any pipe you intend to use for delivering waste, only use smooth pipes, not ribbed ones, for reasons that may be obvious later.
People hear differences between lossless audio formats, which is obviously bogus.
A charlotte is "a large soft hat covering all of the hair and typically having a decorative frill, worn indoors by women in the 18th and early 19th centuries."
People who like doing presentations often strategically choose awkward people to do group projects, do they don't need to do the projects themselves, just doing the presentation.
The University of Northern New Jersey was a fake university, created by the United States Department of Homeland Security to investigate student visa fraud.
Natural and artificial flavours can be the same compounds.
Many cults are self-sufficient so members don't ever have to leave.
"Trust but verify" is a Russian quote.
2.5% of the US workforce are professional software developers. There are 21 million software developers in the world.
Even in toys, sacrificial gears are put in between real gears to make sure neither components get damaged if either side goes wrong.
Duct tape does not protect windows against the wind in a storm; duct tape does not protect anything during a storm. It ensures glass shrapnels do not fly everywhere.
Maple Syrup molds. Honey doesn't.
The majority of "Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses" on Google Maps are/were rated 5.0 stars by fewer than 3 users.
If vacation days cannot be carried forward over New Year, suspect you can convert all of them into pay, and then simply not getting paid for the future days you don't go to work, netting $0.
Amazon was an online book store 20 years ago. It sold nothing else. The boss looked like a book nerd.
The only Family Guy character that moves at a given time is the character that is talking (a side effect of animators being lazy/underpaid/both). After a few seasons, they also kill their own jokes by explaining them right after (a side effect of lengthening the show without adding substance).
Steve Job's biological father was a Syrian Muslim. His adoptive father was named Jobs.
The term "wet nap" might have come from Wet Nap the product, like Wite-Out the product.
Bikes with pedals attached to the front wheel are called velocipedes.
A gear-inch is the distance travelled from one revolution of your gear pedal.
The future is run by Terminators, because of this series of events happening: Man makes robot to help police find illegal parking. Robot gets beat up when working alone. Robot gets a gun to protect itself.
Coconut oil has too much saturated fatty acids (evident, because it is solid at room temperature) to be healthy. It has 2.5x more saturated fats than lard.
Stock price doesn't mean anything (as long as you can afford at least one share). Buying 100 cheap shares worth $5 each that goes up by 1% is going to be $505. Buying 1 share of $500 that goes up by 1% is also going to be $505.
The "ECB (electronic code book) mode" encrypts data block by block. It is insecure. Stop using it wherever you know it exists. CBC (cipher block chaining) mode makes you XOR the next block with the previous block's ciphertext first, making it safer.
If you buy a share of every stock out there in an exchange, you effectively track an index. If you buy a share from only the non-half-arsed stocks in an exchange, you effectively beat an index. If you go on and buy a share from only the stocks that consistently stay on or above average, which isn't hard to spot to be honest (say Apple or Adobe), then you easily beat an index. That is why index funds often outperform the indices that they track, but never by much.
Colombia the country is spelled with an O. Everything else is spelled Columbia with a U.
Those hip, "tub-looking" bathtubs are a bitch to clean, say Redditors.
Travel bidets are squirt bottles, essentially.
To identify which side of an LED is positive, it is either the longer leg, or, if it is already soldered and cut, the round side rather than the flat side.
The world's largest commercial dildo is only 1/6 the size of the world's largest non-commercial dildo.
Brushing your teeth for two minutes, twice a day, is roughly a day per year.
Israeli appliances often have this "Sabbath mode" thing that helps with living without doing work on Sundays. The understanding is that the readings on such appliances must not work, but the actual functionality must. So, lights and readings on stoves and fridges might turn off during the Sabbath, but not the actual ability to heat and cool food. Also made apparent is the Sabbath lamp, which bypasses the "doing work" criterion by simply having the light on before the Sabbath, and turning the lamp "on" or "off" with a shade that covers such a lamp, hence never actually operating the lamp itself.
🤘😝🤘 is sign language for "I love you" where Isco was playing.
Star Wars characters often have a problem with not knowing their real dads.
"First do no harm" is not in the Hippocratic Oath, but the idea is there.
For some reason, "À la une" ("at the one") translates to "headlines".
In the past, illegal immigrants could file (income) taxes and get refunds.
Kettling (police rounding up protesters and prevented from leaving) is apparently considered cruelty, too.
It is cruelty to leave dogs outside only if it is cold or raining.
Berkshire Hathaway is Buffett's holding company, originally working in textiles. According to some guy who watched a show about this company on Netflix, "He bought his original shares because of price vs book, but he bought control because the CEO tried to screw him out of $0.125 per share on a buyback. Buffett got mad at the betrayal, bought the company (partially out of spite) and then cleaned house and made it his holding company. It's notable because that is one of the few times that Buffett bought on emotion versus numbers."
Unlike Arkansas, the Arkansas City of Kansas is pronounced ar-KAN-sas, with the S, like Kansas.
Horses are often given terrible names compared to other pets.
Once you stay vegan for three years, you probably will continue to be vegan for the rest of your life. If you quit earlier than three years, this is not true.
The technologies used predominantly during the workday (are mostly enterprise software).
Buy fish oil from the states. It is much cheaper there. (Same for gelatin)
Nick Freeman, otherwise known as Mr. Loophole, defended David, Jimmy, Ian, Tiff, AND Jeremy from their respective speeding tickets.
Air-to-air missiles typically explode on proximity rather than contact.
Use the second person (you, your) to tell users what to do like in error messages, and places where the app is telling the user about the user's content. Use the first person (I, me, my) to let users tell the program what to do like on buttons and menu items. An important note is Don't start something with My, Your, or The because these items don't sort right alphabetically.
At programming meetups, just like your experience, have Wi-Fi that never work.
As a recovering ${drug} addict, I get seriously offended when a website or a piece of software still calls me a "user."
70% of Japanese people like natto, and 29.8% don't. Compared to durians, its whole deal about "powerful smell, strong flavor, and slimy texture" are a walk in the park.
"If you want someone to come to you, tell them to meet you halfway at X location whilst you are there already. They will be more likely to come to you if they think you are doing the same amount of walking you are." This also works for Craigslist pickups.
If you are extremely paranoid about letting people who mail you things know where you live (which are usually the same place), or just homeless, get a PO box.
Emma Morano, the last surviving person from the 1800s (until she died in 2017, anyway), ate two raw eggs a day.
Paper is rarely (apparently only once or twice) shown in Star Wars.
Mead can be sweet, dry, sparkling, non-sparkling, 8% ABV, to 20% ABV. It can basically be anything. Saying one has tried mead is like saying one has tried "beer".
Want something done? Go to the person. It is a lot (34 times, says article) more effective than email.
You haven't really made microservices properly if you need to change multiple microservices at once by many teams to make a feature, or if you need to deploy multiple microservices at once to make it work, or if all these microservices, for some inexplicable reason, need the same framework to work together.
Some high-IQ people join a ~~cult~~group called MENSA, annual fee being $70.
Dinner is the main (largest) meal of the day, not necessarily at night. It can even be your lunch. Supper is a meal that is consumed in the evening. So, if your largest meal happens to be in the evening, it can also be your supper.
In braille, one dot means "capitalise the first letter of the next word", and two dots means "capitalise the whole word".
The girl statue on Wall Street is advertisement for a fund.
All Reddit engineering jobs are located in San Francisco.
Some weight lifters attach chains to their weights, so as the weights are lifted, the chains add weight proportional to how high it is off the ground. "A muscle fiber is weakest when all of its contractile units are either fully extended or fully contracted and strongest at some point in between."
Sand is a finite resource...? Not because silicon dioxide is rare, but because crushing rock is costly, desert sand is round and smooth no good for construction, and a use rate of 40 billion tons per year is a lot to come up with.
The colour of gold is defined as #ffd700, but my eyes say it is closer to #ffee77.
sleep() is considered a temporal side effect.
John (Hebrew), Hans (German), Ian (Scottish), Evan (Welsh), and Ivan (Cyrillic) are all the same name.
The Cheshire Cat with that stupid grin came from Alice[ Kingsleigh]'s Adventures in Wonderland, one of the first things mentioned. That stupid ass-smile (Stephen Fry) was popularised by Alice in Wonderland, the movie. In the movie, you can fall for a whole minute and hit a roof without dying.
5cm is the difference between being warm, and having your shoulders stuck out of the sleeping bag because you were cheap.
Pokemon evolved (heh) from Capsule Monsters, featuring at least Nidorino, Gengar, and Lapras. It was drawn by Satoshi Tajiri (田尻智), who is now CEO of Game Freak.
Incidentally, 尻 (haau) is definitely buttocks.
朗 (long5) and 郎 (long4) are different words.
Nidoran is the first pokemon to feature gender differences, and the only one/two pokemon to have separate pokedex IDs for each gender.
Cheap hammers are cheap because their stems are hollow.
"I think there was a research done that suggested just making yourself seen by your boss once or twice a day just by walking past his office when the door is open will improve your chance of being promoted. People tend to trust people that they've grown accustomed to seeing, even if they know not a single thing about them." - Rondaru
Étienne is the French Steve.
Cat5 and Cat6 cables are interchangeable. Identify Cat5 (100Mbps) and Cat6 (10Gbps) cables by looking at the cable itself. If it is not printed, you are screwed.
You'll say, "well (immutable datastores are) not going to work, because we have to fix errors," Well, do it the way the banks do it: you create an update record. - Steve Jackson at i-Technologyinc
Somber means dark. Sonder (the made up word) means "realising that everyone else is also a person with their own thoughts and feelings".
Squid do not have any legs at all, but they do have eight arms and two tentacles, making for a total limb count of 10. Squidward has two arms, four legs, and no tentacles.
"Morty" stands for Mortimer.
Black Mirror is named after a turned-off screen.
Many theatres show 1984 on April 4th. "In Orwell's story, April 4 is the day that protagonist Winston Smith (Hurt) starts his rebellion against the government when he begins to keep a diary, something verboten by the ruling party."
git rerere is a hidden feature. It redoes a rebase you have done before.
Channel 4 is its own thing, not BBC Four. Both are public channels.
A group of flamingos are called a flamboyance.
Led Zeppelin intentionally misspelled "Lead" as "Led", so it cannot be pronounced as Leed Zep Lin. The name reportedly came from "sink like a lead zeppelin", one of their reviews.
The reason why solar panel car parks is an awesome idea is two fold. First, cars park in the car park when the sun is up. So they cannot be charged. Second, cars leave the car park at night, when the sun is down, making solar panels useless.
Asphalt is one of the most recycled materials ever. Over 99% is recycled from roadways and turned back into roads elsewhere.
"Get down to brass tacks" means "begin to talk about important things".
Digital Ocean gives out diffs for their terms of service. This is in contrast with CloudAssCost, who hands out secret terms with an extra payment clause, and lures users into agreeing with it.
"The PrivateBank" trades on NASDAQ as PVTB.
GPG requires you to specify a recipient when you encrypt a file with it, naturally, because only that someone will have the private key to decrypt it. So what you end up with is a command line like gpg --output in_file.txt.gpg --encrypt --recipient yourself_or_someone_else@example.com in_file.txt, which you may well alias to something more elegant. You can then decrypt with gpg in_file.txt.gpg.
Dry shampoo is essentially powdered starch.
Polo appears to be horse lacrosse. But then again, there is polocrosse, a cross (heh) between the two.
Jehovah's Witnesses is a cult because they have their own page explaining how they are not a cult. Seriously though, they discourage tertiary education, don't celebrate birthdays, and use their own (mis)translation of the bible, and somehow don't believe Jesus rose from the dead, according to CultWatch.
McDonald's was founded by Richard and Maurice McDonald. McDonald's Corporation (franchises), on the other hand, was founded by Ray Kroc, a salesman.
The term boilerplate code didn't come from boiler plates (smooth pieces of metal), but from the boiling lead used to make plates to print newspapers, used multiple times after forming.
The appearance of a barberpole (thing spins left and right, but the stripe travels up and down) is considered an illusion.
T-Scale (1:450) is the smallest scale for model trains.
Arnold's 6 rules of success basically means "Find out who you want to be and work hard, very hard".
A home appraisal is an unbiased estimate of the true (or fair market) value of what a home is worth.
According to Dr.Proton, it is very common to for patients to outlive at least one family doctor.
"Molotov Cocktail" was coined by the Finns, which came from "Molotov Bread Baskets", a nickname for Soviet cluster bombs.
To train vocals, talk with a pencil in your mouth for a few minutes.
Pavers are bricks with no holes, meant for paving. Cinder blocks are bricks with big holes.
Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than hearing voices..
Since the chain Waffle House stays open no matter what, there is a Waffle House Index that indicates how bad a natural disaster is (bad enough to bring Waffle House to its knees).
"Curb appeal" means street cred.
Drinking four litres of earl grey a day will get you muscle cramps. Bergamot, the orangey ingredient in earl grey tea, is responsible for this.
Answering "do you know why I pulled you over" honestly appears to have fewer negative consequences, if the police is actually just checking if you know you messed up.
The 13th character of a UUID4 string is always 4. All UUIDs have their 13th character set to their version. Unrelated: since the UUID1 hash is based on the MAC address and time, it predictably collides whenever two of them are generated less than ~1us of each other.
"Jedi" is both singular and plural, but to annoy Star Wars fans, you can use "Jedus" for singular, and "Jedis" for plural.
Powers said that many homeless individuals will throw away socks and other clothing when they get dirty because they simply cannot afford to wash them. That, he said, presents an impossible choice—do laundry, or go hungry.
The Japanese un-turn-off-able shutter sound can be defeated by playing the negative sound at the same time.
"Cowlick" refers to the part of the haircut where it points at you, making it look like you have no hair there.
"86ing a product is when you're all out, 86ing a customer is when they are banned from the business."
"What's your poison" specifically refers to drinks.
"Pizza dates" are a possible alternative to coffee dates. It helps establish pizza compatibility, which is a big part of relationships.
The sound of the Balrog in The Lord of the Rings (00:42) was made by dragging a breezeblock (something like a brick) along a wooden floor.
Running for 5000km around the block in 52 days, at around 100km per day, is a sport. The world record is 40 days.
"Cuckold" is a prostitute's husband. It is not a 4chan term.
Olga Korbut, Olympian gymnast, invented a flip so difficult and prone to injury that she now has a banned move named after herself (Korbut flip).
Since it is not legal to advertise alcohol on India TV, these alcohol companies bypass the law by surrogate advertising "music CDs" instead.
When they say "solar has more capacity than oil", they mean that if the sun were up 100% of the time. In reality, electricity generated from solar is ~20% capacity.
Don't get used to texting your boy/girlfriend for no reason. "Texting has killed relationships because people text all day and then when they're together they have nothing to talk about. Exist as individuals, and then come together to share your experiences. You don't need to be checking in with each other throughout the day."
Oatmeal is rolled oats. This is apparent as flat oats don't grow on trees.
"Senior developers are experts in their chosen technology stacks. They are given the hard tasks (the ones nobody knows how to solve) and often get design responsibilties. They often work independently because they have a proven track record of delivering the goods. They are expected to mentor Junior and intermediate developers. Often they are amazing troubleshooters. They have run into those same problems before and have a very good idea of where to look first. Seniors often mentor outside the workplace as well. They generally have at least ten years of experience and have almost always been on at least one death march and know exactly why some things are to be avoided. They know how to deliver a working product and meet a deadline. They know what corners can be cut and what corners should never be cut. They know at least one and often several languages at the expert level. They have seen a lot of "hot new technologies" hit the workplace and disappear, so they tend to be a bit more conservative about jumping on the bandwagon for the next exciting new development tool (but not completely resistant to change - those would be the older Intermediate developers who never make the leap to Senior). They understand their job is to deliver working software that does what the users want, not to play with fun tools. They are often pickier about where they will work because they can be and because they have seen first hand how bad some places can be. They seek out the places that have the most interesting tasks to do. Often they know more about their company's products than anyone else even if they have been there only a few months. They know they need more than programming knowledge and are good at getting knowledge about the business domain they support as well. They are often aware of issues that juniors never consider and intermediates often don't think about such as regulatory and legal issues in the business domain they support. They can and will push back a requirement because they know what the problems with it will be and can explain the same to the laymen." - HLGEM
Dalai Lama is a title. The 14th Dalai Lama is a Tibetan man born Lhamo Thondup.
Fusion on Earth is hotter than fusion in the Sun, to make up for the difference in density/pressure.
Sweet tea was not designed to taste good. It was invented mainly to show off expensive ingredients like ice, sugar, and tea. None of these things are expensive today.
"Crap shoot" means "random, not based on skill". Mostly to describe game shows, like The Price is Right.
North Korea has the world's largest army (7.6M total, 15% active).
Grits are effectively mashed corn.
Lost and founds should give you a receipt, so that when, say, a wallet is returned, the amount of cash can be verified to be the same before and after.
Linus Torvalds is married to Tove Torvalds (née Monni), a six-time Finnish national karate champion. If you Google her name, her husband shows up instead.
"Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people." - Bruce Schneier, security man
Honing a knife realigns the edge of the tip. It doesn't sharpen anything.
People who do strange things to get attention are called "exhibitionists". Shia LaBeouf is said to be one.
People who sweep chimneys used to get giant ball cancers from soot irritation. Microwaving your own balls in a cartoon also gives you giant ball cancers.
Peter says: you can do too many experiments with your customers. Before you do an experiment, you need to make sure 1) you don't already know the outcome, and 2) you are willing to change what you are doing once you get the results from the experiment.
Vanna ~~White~~Caucasian-American, Wheel of Fortune letter turner, has never worn the same dress twice (on TV).
Goal bounding identifies which directions to skip going (jump point search goes in all directions.) Problem mainly is O(n^2) runtme on precomputation, and needing precomputation.
You can make a hash function f such that f(s) = sha1(s) + sha2(s) + sha3(s), no problem. Just know it does not give the collision resistance proportional to the number of bits that it produces, which makes it a sloppy hash function.
Berkshire Hathaway trades at $254,900 a share (right now).
It takes only a 50% loss to take back 100% of your gains.
Some muslim women choose to fast during pregnancy, even though there are exceptions specifically for the pregnant and ill. "But I wasn't worried about my health or my baby's. I think Allah gives you strength and he protects your unborn child." It is not a huge deal because they get to eat at night anyway. For other Muslims intending to cheat the system by living in places with no sunlight, they "should follow the timetable of Mecca".
If someone steals a $10 potato from a store, but the store bought that potato for $1, the store lost $1.
/32 is one IPv4 address, /24 is all of 1.2.3.x, /16 all of 1.2.x.x, /8 all of 1.x.x.x. Occasionally you get /20 blocks... in which case, the number of IPv4 addresses in a subnet is usually 2 ^ (32 - your subnet mask). The mask is the number of bits from the left. If it where /20, then you get 2 ^ (32 - 20), or 4096 addresses.
Not only have we gone through the phase of youtube influencers (like that guy Pew-die-pie), we are already into "micro influencers"---people with fewer than 1000 subscribers---whose videos seem more convincing due to the smaller audience. Also lower cost.
To run Java in your (debian) browser, you need both openjdk-7-jre and icedtea-7-plugin packages.
The Korean blood cake is also called sundae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundae_(Korean_food)
Because iif is a library function, it cannot short-circuit.
[APL = A Programming Language](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
(Naming) Safari won't handle css.gz or js.gz.
An "heir presumptive" is different from an "heir apparent" in that the presumptive can be displaced by someone who is born later in higher priority (?). An example would be if the Queen's parents had another younger son.
Press shift+delete over any autosuggestion item in Chrome to delete it.
To send a message to Bob, encrypt a message using Bob's public key. Bob's private key can decrypt the message. Because only Bob has Bob's private key, only Bob will receive the message.
Specific page about tricking user into believing an internationalised domain name (IDN) is the genuine site
"Floating functions" === global functions.
To brief is to give a short verbal update on events. To debrief is to receive a short verbal update on events.
It gets warmer when it snows, not because snow makes the air warmer, but because the warm air that arrives causes the (otherwise airborne) condensation to arrive as snow.
Don't type "let me know" -- it doesn't work
Use ~~SQS~~ queues to manage spikes in demand. Can't do something right now? Chuck the request to a queue. Take things off the queue at constant rate.
- You're teeing here to pipe the 3 into a root command. Neat!
App engine admin: --admin_port=8001
RFC 2324 for coffee pot communication (not HTTP 418; that's for tea pots)
Parkinson's law of Triviality: the more trivial a task is, the more opinion you will get for doing it, so the slower it will be done.
(jenkins_url)/safeRestart restarts it.
A jenkins job can be cloned or backed up by just copying the files. A jenkins job can also be copied by right-clicking on it.
A site.pp file controls Puppet's behaviour. It's a Perl script.
Double hashing, triple hashing, or other "wacky hashing functions" are discouraged because of Kerckhoff's Principle -- the attacker will usually have both the database and the source code -- and will be able to find your function's weaknesses by supplying dummy data.
If you aren't smart enough to find out how an attacker attacked you, hire a security firm. You can't skip this.
bcrypt HAS A LENGTH LIMIT
A non-abelian group is the same as non-commutation, in that f _ g !== g _ f.
"It's over 9000!" was only over 8000 in the original Japanese manga.
Another reason to use tastypie: you can use it internally as resources as well
To make a plain text HTTP request with passwords containing stupid characters, do this: http://'user:pass'@hello.ca
Ctrl+_ gets you the line number dialog in nano/pico.
VLC's shortcuts don't need modifier keys! n and p already control the playback!
The Carcinogenic Prototype: a prototype that the higher-ups love so much that it needs to grow fast, go wrong, and affect other systems (carcinogenic thus), all while the engineers had told and forewarned of this happening.
Regex substitutions: when in doubt, try $1 first, then \1.
Google analytics allows you to measure events based on custom dimensions, which allows you to filter events by them, but you will have to tell Google that the user is in one. There can be at most 15 custom dimensions.
There are reasons not to change your mechanical clock around midnight. Gears can jump, and fixing that could be expensive.
Allie Brosh, creator of Hyperbole and a Half, suffered from depression.
The User Is Drunk: design interfaces without your glasses put on. If you can't see the screen clearly, but it can still guide you through what you want to do, it is working.
That "thumb guy" from the Fallout series is drawn measuring the size of a mushroom cloud from a nuclear bomb.
When the length of your secret is known, the length extension attack can be targeted towards your message, which is hashed together with your secret. Because we know the length of the message, we also know the length of the padding that was used and apparently that can be used to forge keys that protect the message.
Things that look like something else: Pareidolia (pa-re-idol-lia)
You once played poker with Lou (Louis J. Montulli II, The Netscape guy) in Sunnyvale. You did not win. Nor did he. Then again, you spent $20 and he went all-out.
If you're the person talking to someone in a noisy club, speak at the person's shoulder and not their ear.
Origins of rekt
The Mummies of Venzone are rapidly dehydrated (and thus preserved) by the fungus Hypha tombicina.
"For a brief period, you were the youngest person on Earth." (Human birth rate is currently at 4 ish babies per second.)
The 2nd player could control the ducks in duck hunt.
Snow peas is called mange tout in the UK, which means "eat everything" or maybe "everything can be eaten"
Busty Betty was a coin minted that was designed to be rubbed.
Nike is the goddess of victory.
Chena Hot Springs, Alaska - constructed an ice hotel... entirely out of ice and snow. It was shut down by the building inspector due to lack of smoke detectors.
"Feminine-named hurricanes (vs. masculine-named hurricanes) cause significantly more deaths, apparently because they lead to lower perceived risk and consequently less preparedness"
Hebbian theory: "learning" is done by associations done from the presynaptic cell to the postsynaptic cell; cells that fire together wire together.
XSS evasion cheatsheet
If your tailor asks "Where do you dress, sir", "Which side do you hang", or "How do you hang," it means "where's your penis hanging, left or right?" And you should reply with "I do not dress, sir", meaning "my penis is too small."
Modems can transmit more than one bit per baud
Shebangs can be anything, including rm: #!/bin/rm
"Thread safe" means that the code will never have problems with race conditions (one thing finishing before another).
Hobnobbing: interacting with the higher class; one-percenting
Content scripts are injected in the order they are declared in manifest.json, so if you want jQuery and other libraries, put it in front.
Checking if nonInteraction is on for your google analytics: turn the Google Analytics Debugger on and off again (serious), and check if any event you track contains nonInteraction = 0 (&ni=0)
Welp does not stand for "help": To be used in place of 'well', when one feels there is no more to say.
Jeremy Clarkson's mom and pop invented the Paddington Bear
Mortgage is French for "death pledge".
It is (however) legal to pay your mortgage with your retirement savings plan, at least in Canada. It is called the Home Buyers' Plan.
pigz is gzip, but with parallel processing (and slightly better compression).
A micromort is a measure of probability of death. It is (more or less) the amount associated with risk for each action a person is willing to pay to die doing that event. For example, for every 27km you walk, you get one micromort.
Bandy is an ice sport like hockey, except the puck is a ball. The Canadian Bandy headquarters is in Winnipeg, and it never wins Russia in their own game.
Every girl loves to eat and travel. Every girl loves family and friends and, sometimes "loves" good scotch or whiskey.
POST/Redirect/GET: by returning a 30x response in your POST, the user will be forced to GET a different page, which means the user will not be able to POST to the same page again.
Caps at the ends of bike handles are supposed to prevent them from making a human sausages when it hits any part of the body.
The McCollough effect: look at a coloured pattern long enough and eventually colour will appear if you look at the same, yet B/W pattern somewhere else.
Those shelves at the end of grocery store aisles have a name. They are called End Caps.
Hitler was Catholic.
On learning F# for fun and profit: >These [banned] words include: "endofunctor", "anamorphism", "existential quantification", "beta reduction", "category theory", "final coalgebra", "Kleisli arrows", "Curry--Howard correspondence" and worst of all, the five letter word beginning with "m".
To give scrapy two keyword arguments, have multiple -as.
"won't touch x with a 10-foot pole" means "won't dare interfering with x".
"SourceTree" is a git/hg GUI from Atlassian (making it legit for some reason).
A leaky abstraction is bad... it means "you need to be aware of the implementation details when using the abstraction", making the abstraction useless.
\b represents a word boundary in regex. With one, test\b will never match testicles.
Impeachment requires a cause.
Drying clothes with a few ice cubes in the dryer can remove wrinkles.
The polish notation is one way to describe order of operations unambiguously.
Running Chrome with the --no-experiments argument resets all flags.
It is possible to create burgers from mosquitoes.
"Point blank" does not mean "at close range" but "close enough to disregard veering of projectile due to gravity".
Spilling refers to the act of moving a value from a CPU register to memory (thereby decreasing runtime performance)
People can sue you if you give them bad references.
There is such a thing as a Damn Vulnerable Web App that is built solely for others' testing pleasure.
There aren't that many hacker news readers; your server health isn't guaranteed if your "thing" goes mainstream, of course.
To flash a tab, change its title.
Gremlin is "SQL for graph databases", not a tool.
The creator of the sugar stick (as opposed to the sugar packet) decided that the right way to open them is through the middle.
Not feeling well, but don't want to use the phrase "not feeling well"? Use Malaise! (ma-LAYS)
At the onset of high stress, your blood thickens. This is to encourage clotting of blood in the case of a physical attack. This is often why stress contributes to heart attacks.
Bicycles can be powered by prop shafts rather than chains.
The state anthem of the Russian Federation is literally called the "State Anthem of the Russian Federation".
type foo.txt is the Windows equivalent of cat foo.txt.
All DNS rules except mail server ones have no priority or order. The most specific pattern is used to route the request.
Ansible has an Ansible Galaxy service, which is a playbook repository for never making the same playbook someone else has already made.
A trie is a prefix tree (A -> B -> C = ABC), where the end nodes are the requested node (i.e. A -> B -> ABC = ABC).
Compact prefix trees are trees that don't branch out until there are multiple entries of the same prefix. For example, if the tree contains Foo, Bar, and Baz, then Foo would be in its own node, and Bar/Baz would share a common "Ba" node, followed by their own "r" and "z".
People are "in cahoots" means that they are conspiring on something.
Cheese-crusted pizza is patented by someone who did not ask for royalties.
A cousin, twice removed means something like a grandaunt. Each removed means one generation apart.
Mocks vs Stubs: "Stub is simple fake object. It just makes sure test runs smoothly. Mock is smarter stub. You verify Your test passes through it." In other words, mocks have expectations of what happens when it is run.
Agile is a philosophy; Scrum is an approach.
Outhouses have pits underneath...
People used (or use...) corncob to wipe their butt cracks in outhouses.
Most people hang themselves in a sitting position, using a belt and a doorknob. Doesn't matter if your feet touch the ground, as long as your buttocks dont. That way you slowly pass out before you die. No panic, hence no urge to resist.
Pressing Ctrl+Shift+Enter instead of Enter in Excel sometimes allows ArrayFormula operations to be possible, for typically erroneous operations such as IF(some_range=a_value,some_range).
A 'nightcap' is a drink you consume right before going to bed. It is rumoured to improve sleeping.
That thing people pull you with on two wheels is called the rickshaw.
Code coverage means "test coverage", how much code your tests are covering. This is also the reason why all your code has 0 code coverage.
By dipping your nose into beer head, the foam disintegrates because of your nose grease.
"Fear the man with only one gun. He probably knows how to use it."
IP over DNS: when free Wi-Fi hotspots block you until you pay
Both Mrs and Ms stand for 'mistress'; Miss used to mean prostitute, which is odd, considering Mistress currently means women having affairs.
"Skeet shooting" refers to shooting plates that someone had thrown into the air, with a shotgun.
Due to the lineup excluding Pokémon with a 0 or 1 IV in Attack, female Pokémon of species with a seven male to one female ratio can never be Shiny in Generation II.
PSKs are never shared over the network! (this means you cannot find the Wi-Fi password directly by sniffing the network.)
Pub is short for Public House.
UDP, despite having no packet delivery guarantee, is actually 98~100% reliable.
Printers embed yellow dots in the pages that you print to track your location, in the case that you are printing money.
A fake access point that captures your passwords is not called a honeypot, but a rogue AP.
sudo is required for openvpn.
Three-way merges aren't so much three way, but two way, from a branch that has since diverged into two different branches, back into one.
"Breaking the seal" contextually refers to the first act of urination during a drinking spree, after which you will need to urinate even more frequently.
BEST rolls you can buy: Charmin. BEST rolls at low cost: Great Value at Wal-Mart or Kirkland at CostCo.
Alba, or Albion, used to stand for the island of Britain.
Saudi Arabia has the fourth highest military expenditure in the world, but still just 10% of the US'.
[Kingdom of] Saudi Arabia happens to mean the kingdom of Muhammad bin Saud, well, a king from... wait for it... the house of Saud.
The USS Monitor, the ugliest warship at the time, had 47 patentable inventions that made it the best warship at the time. Then, because of how good it was, it was lost at sea just a year after it was laid down.
Ulysses is derived from Ulixes, the Latin name for Odysseus, a character in ancient Greek literature.
Coincidentally, Homer, an author, wrote a poem about Odysseus.
Homie did not come from the word Homer.
Muhammad is not depicted because Muslims are concerned with idoltry, including idoltry of their own prophets.
Non-Muslims are prohibited from entering Mecca, where Muslim pilgrims jostle for a chance to kiss the Black Stone, an Islamic relic which, according to Muslim tradition, dates back to the time of Adam and Eve (making Adam and Eve about 1500 years old).
Meteorites are meteors that reach the ground.
Some sites always ask for the user's age, to avoid liability of a young user visiting the page while an older user is logged in.
A Void is a book without the letter "e" (apart from the author's name).
Never buy Seagate drives; Stop buying WD; start buying HGST (Hitachi).
Tabarnak (QC French for "Fuck"); Baiser (FR French for "Fuck")
JSONX is a format that allows lossless XML conversion to a JSON-like string.
Hindus don't eat meat. > But, India has a sizeable Christian and Muslim population who do eat beef. There even some hindus whom you'll find eating beef on occasion. Cow slaughter is illegal in most states, so the beef is ox or water buffalo meat.
1024x768 in decimal equals 400x300 in hexadecimal.
Samaritans are currently down to 700-800 individuals, and are actively seeking women from other cultures to carry on their blood.
Samsung comprises of 17% of its nation's GDP and they are absolute rulers. Samsung employees have to live in company built high-rise buildings within a boundary. You'd think free housing is awesome right? Wrong. Since you live in a company monitored neighbourhood and go to work pretty much next door. You have to apply for permission to leave. An employee killed herself a couple years ago because she wasn't allowed to leave and hadn't seen her parents for years.
Given the high quality and low overall cost of YKK zippers, clothing companies use that brand because it is among the last things they choose to skimp out.
RF chokes are rings of (sometimes magnets, sometimes other metals) around a cable that dampens high frequency radiation, allowing the cable to carry actual signals with less noise.
The original Jurassic park scene with the T-Rex occurred while raining because it was much easier at the time to CG shiny objects than matte objects.
24 hours after recording the last episode of Father Ted, Dermot Morgan had a heart attack while hosting a dinner party at his home in south-west London. He was rushed to hospital but died soon afterwards.
Oyster farming is so low in ecological impact that even vegans can eat oysters, because they don't have pain receptors either.
"Heck" came from HEll and fuCK.
A foal is a horse under one year old.
Many modern tank barrels are no longer rifled (riffled? spiral grooves.), because they shoot different types of ordnance that would be damaged by the rifling, such as HEAT rounds.
A skeleton crew is the minimum number of people required to do something.
Random article bringing up a good argument against brace-on-new-lines: unicode comments can potentially cause an entire line to be ignored
"Dry heaving" could have just been called "throwing up nothing", but that's too straightforward -- too "German".
"Deed polls" are agreements between two persons, where only one person has an intention. (agreements with intentions from both sides are called contracts)
The Guinness Book of World Records doesn't really have anything to do with beer anymore.
The term 'dashboard' comes from horse drawn carriages where a 'board' was placed in front of the driver to protect him from dust, spray, and debris from the horses 'dashing'.
Back when pay phones cost a dime, "drop a dime" meant calling the police.
Only learn core technologies that do not go away in five years.
Projects fail far more often because the software never really works properly than because they missed a tight market window. According to some random person on the Internet, at least.
The FICO credit score is quite well documented and broken down.
Loan payments are not simply (price * interest). It follows a non-linear exponent.
Earthquake lights are piezoelectric.
Blind programmers use extremely fast TTS to "read" code.
The Mozambique drill consists of shootong twice in the chest, then one to the head, to make sure someone is dead.
Sriracha is not trademarked. Its inventor is Vietnamese.
"With aplomb" means "with confidence under demanding conditions".
Primary Japanese pupils take their shoes off at school (and wear slippers instead) to establish an "equaliser" that make them feel it is their responsibility to clean the place up.
Typically, wealthier families produce the best looking offspring. This is most likely because the prettiest women are able to choose wealthy (and, well, handsome, perhaps) husbands. Also, good nutrition and easy living let people's good-lookingness come out.
Uncontrolled civilisation goes through four repeating generations of viewmodels: idealist (expansive growth) -> reactive (when idealists suddenly gain individuality) -> civic (when individuals split up and enjoy) -> adaptive (during a crisis of some sort)
AK-74 has better recoil handling, shoots farther, and has less spread. For no reason, then, should it be produced less frequently than the AK-47.
On Walmart promoting bumping up the minimum wage: Their "benevolence" allows them to lobby for higher minimum wages and push Mom-and-Pop retailers out of business without looking hypocritical. Longer-term the lack of competition helps their bottom-line. - dt084
Gun magazines can be helical
While it makes more sense that adaptor is the inanimate object and adapter is a person who adapts, they turn out to have no difference.
To "paint oneself into a corner" is to paint the floor with no way out.
"Pussy" in "Don't be a pussy" didn't originate from pussy the cat; it originated from latin Pusillanimous for cowardly.
HJR stands for "hand jitter reduction", nothing to do with "high".
Haboobs are Arabian dust storms that come before an actual storm.
Zoodles are noodles made with shredded zucchini.
Costco pricing: {".99": "Full price", "asterisk": "Discontinued", ".79 or .49": "Mfg special offer", ".00": "Priced down, nearly out of stock", ".97": "Store manager deal"}
Soak testing is testing the system under sustained load.
Smoke testing is testing for the most basic things of the system.
"Soft Coding" is the practice of putting everything in a configuration file. It is an antipattern.
The word "manifest" originally meant a document that lists what's in a ship/vessel; now it is an (XML) document that lists what's in an EXE file or archive.
To call Rolex a non-profit company is accurate but misleading, for the company is marginally non-profit to avoid taxes. IKEA, in particular, exploits this so much that they are one of the world's worst tax avoiders.
"Breakaway head" screws are screws those heads go away after screwing in. They are used in prisons, public fixtures, and road signs.
Because PhotoShop, printers, and scanners refuse to print/edit images with the Eurion Constellation on them, there is a prank app that adds it to an image you intend to "simple copy protect".
Soy sauce and wasabi are not meant to be used in sushi, unless they have already been added by the chef. (See article for 9 other points). They are also lunch items, meant to be consumed immediately, ordered piecewise, and served with sake while half of the piece is in the mouth.
Horseshoe theory states that one extreme is just the same as the other extreme. Extreme right wings are similar to extreme left wings.
Oxygen candles produce emergency oxygen.
Imprint the student newspaper is a play on words based on gosling imprinting
The ten code list is used by public infrastructure to notify employees of emergencies without telling the public what exactly is happening. The most famous one is perhaps "10-4" (OK).
Unstable rotation: objects favour rotational axes that are either lowest or highest in angular momentum, but not the axis in between.
The extra lace holes at the top of shoes are meant to construct heel locks that reduce blisters while running.
The last entry of copy and pasted lines tend to be wrong.
Astronauts must have good airflow around them when they sleep, otherwise, they could wake up oxygen-deprived and gasping for air because a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide had formed around their heads.
Deflashing can refer to the removal of flash, excess material from plastic moulding.
Draft is a feature of many injection-moulded plastics, where the sides of the piece are angled (like sand castle buckets) that allow the piece to slip out of the tool.
"Sitrep" stands for "situation report".
"Bespoke" means "custom made".
"Inner-platform effect" refers to software becoming so flexible that its structure becomes its parent programming language/platform.
Kombucha is fermented tea. Although kombucha is claimed to have several beneficial effects on health, the claims are not supported by scientific evidence.
Scottish bank notes are in fact promissory notes, and are worth nothing like GBP in value.
Every year, important people in the Bilderberg Group meet up, lock themselves in a soundproof room, and discuss world affairs in confidence. No one knows what they talk about.
[The Indian education system] revolve around examinations, the education itself is deeply flawed. Rote memorization in almost every subject, no critical thinking whatsoever, outdated syllabuses, terrible teachers (they aren't paid well so usually "good" people don't get into teaching), and exams that are easy to "game". Rest of comment
Quakes happen everywhere, all planets with tectonic plates, and the moon...
To keep notes organised, tag their page edges with a line of ink.
"Rhadamanthine" means "stern" or "inflexible".
To take a screenshot in Firefox, type Shift+F2, then screenshot --fullpage filename.png
"Anne Frank was very curious about her lady region and discussed masturbation and menstruation quite a bit in her original writings. The version of her diary thats published and read in schools today is highly edited, leaving out about 99% of her self exploration submissions." source
Confessional booths were built by the church not to give the person some privacy, but to prevent the priests from having sex with young women who came to confession.
Pescetarians eat... no meat, except for fish and seafood, which are obviously not meat (because fish don't have feelings).
It is also unwise (and not required) to answer "when did you graduate?", because that gives away your age, and therefore, your ability/experience.
You have to understand the difference between someone who speaks to you on their free time and someone who frees their time to speak to you.
90% of credit card machines' passwords since 1990 is either 166816 or Z66816.
Bogons are bogus IPs. These IPs have never been assigned to anything by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
Sun Day, Moon Day, Tyr's Day, Odin's Day, Thor's Day, Frig's Day, and Saturn's Day.
The Baskerville font makes readers believe that which is written is true, much more often than other fonts, including Helvetica.
Release cards are prison debit cards that charge a lot more (unregulated) fees. Prisoners are profit streams.
Carbines are shorter versions of rifles.
Tap codes go through walls, which morse code does not (because it is not possible to have 'long knocks')
Beauty sleep: skin breaks down slower during sleep. So it's not that sleep makes you beautiful; it makes you less ugly.
Funeral biscuits were invented by cavemen to represent "incorporating their essence into one's own" without needing to consume the body of the diseased. Victorians improved the practice by not putting the biscuits directly on top of the dead.
"Plinking" is shooting cans. "Pinking" is arousing a vulva.
Random blanks are given to soldiers to let them feel that they were not responsible for killing a single person.
Skyscanner reports that the lowest price for any transatlantic airline ticket dramatically increases if departing less than one week after; no deals otherwise.
When buying things from eBay (which is already a mistake), remember to make sure something is "genuine". Even fake items can be "brand new".
The "Women are wonderful" effect is not made up. The "Women are wonderful" effect tends to be most pronounced with women who follow traditional gender roles such as child nurturing and stay at home housewife.
Not supporting unicode in your app can cost lives
The name "Pineapple" was first applied to pine cones in 1398. Pine Cones later took over as the common name, and the fruit became known as the Pineapple due to its similar appearance.
We use 10% of the brain like we use 33% of a stoplight.
If a house is near Japanese Knotweed, it has already taken its foundation. cannot be sold.
Star-Spangled Banner was a rip of To Anacreon in Heaven.
Rebasing someone else's signed commit, understandably, removes the signature.
Hindu revere cows because they were more valuable alive than dead (for their milk and poop). It is not their understanding that cows are gods.
`` is an OGHAM SPACE MARK. It is understood by many programming languages as just a space.
Hans Rosling says that most of the world is improving as a whole, with clean drinking water, vaccination, and education rates higher than what the media portrays.
Oil prices fall when none of the oil exporting countries refuse to stop selling.
While some think it is to give farmers an extra hour of sunlight in the evenings during warmer months, Daylight Saving Time was seen as a means to help reduce electricity use in buildings.
More concisely, "A Monad is an object whose methods return monads."
The quintessential casseroles are 'dump these 4 cans of shit in a baking tin, stir it around, bake'.
Well, liquid stainless steel (spray paint) exists.
Kazakhstan has the largest and strongest performing economy in Central Asia. It is not a Russian dirt ground with no money.
There is a bunch of paperwork involved when a firearm is discharged, including the exact number of rounds expended.
SSLv3 has been obsolete for over 16 years and is so full of known problems that the IETF has decided that it must no longer be used.
Bleach might kill warts.
White noise backup trucks sound more directional than beeping trucks.
"Invariance" is just a fancy way of saying "the subclass method takes the same stuff as the base class method".
"Covariance" is just a fancy way of saying "a subclass's method can take more specific things than the base class". Covariant return type (returning subclasses of base type) is type-safe; Covariant argument type (a subclass requiring more specific arguments) is not type-safe.
"Contravariance" (contravariant argument type, in particular) is just a fancy way of saying "if parent method expects float then surely I can write a subclass method that handles SuperFloat(float), something that contains all methods from float".
Subways are powered by a third, electrical track.
Causation: not (having prostate cancer|wanting to kill yourself|getting type 2 diabetes) makes you want to fewer than two cups of coffee.
Nigeria is the world's top exporter of yams.
Law of Demeter states that a function/method can only call a) itself: other methods in its own instance/class, b) parameters: methods of any objects passed directly into the function/method, c) methods of any objects created by the function/method, and d) scope variables.
The thing you hammer to the ground to hold something down is called a stake. It's probably where the other definitions of the word "stake" comes from.
All-season tires are suitable in the winter only if said winter never drops below -5 degrees celsius.
Brussels sprouts grow on stalks.
Halloween: a contraction of All Hallows' Evening, dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed. Christians in some parts of the world abstain from meat, and visit graveyards to pray. The tradition failed to spread to North America, however, where it has become the St.Patrick's Day of celebrations. Christmas is next.
Following Halloween is All Saints' Day, which celebrates those who went to heaven.
Following All Saints' Day is All Souls' Day, which remembers the souls who died.
There is a word for soaking rice in a thing that has taste: pilaf.
YUI started the whole browser grading thing.
Don't be the only person using Tor on a monitored network at a given time
TDD prohibits writing more code than the bare minimum required for the failing unit tests to pass. With that said, it doesn't mean you need to stop working when all the tests pass; you can continue cleaning up.
Original Nylon stockings did not run. Planned obsolescence made newer generations progressively worse.
All clementines are mandarins. Always buy clementines because they are seedless, and easy to peel.
A "crop" is also where birds store their eaten food after having swallowed it, but before digesting it.
Here is a nice chart describing your relationships with what "removed" means.
It is always wise to wear black. Black instils confidence, intelligence, and attracts (at least) the opposite sex. It is also the best colour to wear to interviews, funerals, weddings, and some sort of gaming event.
"The more development I do the more I feel like increased Lines Of Code (LOC), nearly always results in increased bugs."
[Cob](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cob_(building) is poor man's building material, similar to adobe, which a company named itself for its building block properties.
The refugee issue is caused by western interests in a natural gas pipeline from Saudi to Europe.
Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia use the official title of Commonwealth rather than State.
Make intuitive design decisions when making an app. No one finds cryptic icons and hidden navigation useful.
NASA had almost achieved 100% code quality at 1/420000 E/LoC. Perfect software may be possible. Don't give up!
Why do Matthew, Mark, John, and Luke have so much in common? Supposing if a Q source was supplying such information to Matthew and Luke, then it would explain most of it.
All features have bugs until people stop complaining about them.
State modification is the root of all evil: don't ever write code that modifies state unless specified otherwise.
$x() does an XPath search in Chrome's console.
This is snooker, not pool and you do not have to pick a pocket for the black ball. In snooker it is customary to apologise for shots where you get extremely lucky, which is why the player gave an apologetic wave to his opponent.
The pattern aaaa aaa aaa aaaaa causes Windows <2000 to glitch out while assuming the format is unicode.
People take on regnal names, different from their own names, when they take reign. Monarchs in the UK usually just use their baptismal name, except Queen Victoria, who was named Alexandrina Victoria. Not all of the King Georges were called George before they were King. > Prince Albert, Duke of York, assumed the throne as King George VI instead of using the King Albert.
Unmanaged cow herds in India scavenge for food in landfill sites. They are filled with plastic.
Crab sticks are also called seafood extenders
"According to the United States Department of Agriculture National Nutrient Database, (crab sticks) contains about 76% water, 15% protein, 6.85% carbohydrate, and 0.9% fat."
Toyota is still making sewing machines. Toyoda started it in 1946, after the motor corporation.
The Nash Equilibrium: in Game Theory, if all players have nothing to gain by changing their strategies. Bitcoin achieved such an equilibrium with its miners.
Korea is named after 高麗, in turn from 高句麗, pronounced "GOlia".
North Korea, on the other hand, calls itself 朝鮮 ("JIUsan"), the dynasty after 高麗.
To create a GIF with gimp, simply export the layers (as frames) to a file with a .gif extension.
If an attacker keeps connections open using partial requests, it can take down a server with minimal (and sometimes undetectable) bandwidth.
There were three great races: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid. Caucasoids are characterised by narrow noses; Mongoloids by their eyes; Negroids by their broad and round noses ("nasal cavity").
Apparently you have a degree in science.
Because it is illegal for websites to tell you if the government is spying on you, they tell you if you are not being spied on instead.
According to the comments, firearms licence holders are subject to daily automated background checks.
There are differences between goblins and hobgoblins, but they are both made up so the differences are not important.
It takes 66 days--not 21--on average, anyway, to form a habit.
'Don't let your spit dry out close to your lips and form a grainy white coating.'.
By twisted American logic, 'one half hour' means half an hour, not (one + half) hour.
368,000 people drown every year, slightly less than falling (556,000).
Apparently that's not enough, 1.4 million people die from car accidents each year.
In Japan, crab sticks are literally ground meat ("Surimi").
Design a thing before building it. Also in the link: software design tips
Jews call meatloaf "Klops", the German word for meatball.
In USA: "The term "dog" has been used as a synonym for sausage since 1884 and accusations that sausage makers used dog meat date to at least 1845."
To combat lactose intolerance, drink milk with a meal.
The AKM is strikingly similar to the AK-47, with AK-47 having a larger sight.
Carrie Fisher had a close relationship with James Blunt, as his post-war therapist.
Always buy LCD monitors in pairs or triplets. It is unlikely to be able to get the same monitor again when you want a dual monitor setup.
猛龍過江 was the only movie directed by Bruce Lee.
Straw man, in the simplest terms, is "addressing the wrong point".
Alcohol can be used as an internal antiseptic, but because it is so short-lived, it is rubbish as one.
Target fixation, where humans can be so concentrated on meeting a goal that they ignore all risks, can endanger them while doing sports.
There exists a GeoJSON spec, which is not quite what GeoDjango uses; use GeoJSONLint to find out more.
"500cals x 7 = 3500cals = 1lb of fat" - Winona. (Note: this is 65 grams of pure fat everyday.)
"Kraft" happens to be the German noun for "strength". That said, Kraft Foods has nothing to do with it; it was just James Kraft's name. And James Kraft patented processed cheese.
"Shinny" is another word for pickup hockey.
In the order of increasing formality: Bō (坊, boy), Chan, Kun (君, male), San, Shi (氏, people you have never met), Sama (様).
You can set your TTL as low as you want; DNS servers just won't honour it. Even if they do, low TTLs increase load on the DNS.
VLC was made just to let some students justify the funding for faster networks. "We need [to build] something that uses a ton of bandwidth, let's make a video streaming app". The VLC icon was from a story about a VLC member stealing a cone while intoxicated.
Even if a function does not have side effects, it must return the same value for any given set of inputs to be considered a pure function.
Correctness means never returning an incorrect result; Robustness means never failing, even if it means having to return an incorrect result.
What not to do if you use Tor: remember to separate your tor life like your work life. Never look at the same thing with and without tor, among other things.
Bruce Lee took the wrong kind of painkiller, had his brain swell by 13%, and died young. His son, Brandon, also a martial arts actor, died when an idiot made blanks out of live rounds.
Des Voeux is actually Des Vœux, because the French.
The tip material in modern fountain pens is still conventionally called "iridium", although there is seldom any iridium in it; other metals such as tungsten have taken its place.
If priests take the canon law seriously (which they should, because they are priests), then they cannot reveal a confessional, even if it concerns illegal activities.
Born in San Francisco, and married a white woman from California, not only was Bruce Lee bilingual, he also knew some Japanese, and had neat handwriting for all languages.
Sun Yat-Sen knew English and Japanese as well. He was the number one med school student in Hong Kong. He died of liver cancer.
A milliard is exactly one thousand times bigger than what you would expect, a million. The same country that gave us the metric system also calls a thousand mille, a million million, and a billion milliard.
Mushrooms are 90%+ water by volume. Besides Vitamin B (and D, if grown in the sun), there is no significant value in consuming them.
A "noose" is the way the rope is tied when you try to hang yourself.
Elton John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight, with neither Elton nor John in his name. Elton and John came from Bluesology saxophonist Elton Dean and Long John Baldry.
Manboobs feel the same as woman boobs.
Grated cheese can apparently contain cellulose.
1 out of 4 top 10 Internet languages is right to left.
In RFC 2119, "shall" is the same as "must". "Should" is optional only if you have grounds to break the rule; "may" is optional.
The captain ought to go down with the ship, but can also do whatever they want if all others have evacuated.
Cheese: if your brie isn't oozing, it is not the real thing. Also, never bring brie to a party, because what you buy is never the real thing.
Extra large eggs are 63-70g, large 56-63g, and medium 49-56g. Their price multipliers are 1.12, 1.00, and 0.88, respectively.
Robert Landsburg died filming the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, which is in 1980, not the ancient past.
In terms of greenhouse gas grams per calorie, vegetarian and vegan diets can be more harmful to the environment because of how little energy there is in, e.g. celery.
Going to the Internet and looking at what it suggests you may like is no better than television.
IEDs are meant to strike mental suffering, not physical.
The Japanese believe that three things: a sword, a bronze mirror, and a cashew came from 瓊瓊杵尊, the Japanese Jesus.
Acai (Açaí) rhymes with Asahi.
Hanlon's_razor: if an act can happen because someone is stupid, then it is okay to just assume it was that (stupidity).
Ri Sol-ju, the wife of Kim Jong Un, looks a lot better than Kim Jong Un.
Curves of constant width are the general answer to a brain teaser: "What shape can you make a manhole cover so that it cannot fall down through the hole?", where only circular manhole covers have a stationary center.
The X Files theme song is called "Materia Primoris".
Do not remove popcorn ceiling yourself.
Salt can thicken soap (and then thin it). "The sodium ions from the salt lower the charge density of the micelle surface. This makes them more able to pack closer together and creates a thicker solution." "We call this the Salt Curve"
In South Park, they would say "you bastards" to the writers, not the character who killed Kenny.
While both Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus were responsible for secret gifting, the commercial Christmas only consists of public gifting, stashed under a tree notwithstanding.
Email titles should be no more than 78 characters in length; line-wrapping can extend the length indefinitely. Most frameworks limit the length to 255 characters anyway.
The Micro USB connector standard is rated 10 insertions for 3 years. Interestingly, the original USB was rated at 1500 insertions, but you don't ever see them breaking.
Since mercury adheres to itself stronger than usual liquids (read: high surface tension), sponges cannot absorb it.
Death throes are annoying sound made by people about to die. Death rows are a place for people to hang out before they are executed.
Winning is only half the battle.
Washroom hand dryers spread around 60~1300 times more germs than paper towels, according to a flawed study.
Alec Guinness (Ben Kenobi) died ages ago (2000). He was old enough to experience the Jedi purge and two other world wars.
There are more binary stars (orbits around another star) than unary stars.
Common sense is ordering things from a fast food restaurant only if the ingredients appear in more than one item, which makes sure they are fresh.
Moscow, in its native tongue, sounds like "MOSKva".
A perennial plant is a plant that lives for more than two years. Other terms are annuals (one year) and biennials (two years).
Ragu is meant to be made with fettuccine. That makes spaghetti and meatballs fettuccine and meatballs.
The event that killed the dinosaurs was only the third largest extinction event. The Permian mass extinction, instead, was the only mass extinction of insects, and killed off 96% of the species.
busybox is just a bunch of hardlinks to the same file. This saves space.
Surgeons use bone wax (beeswax, almond oil, salicylic acid) to mechanically stop bleeding.
Newman is from Seinfeld. He predates Gabe Newell. He stole a few eggs, and was killed in Jurassic Park.
Seinfeld directed Seinfeld, where there exists a scene in Seinfeld (in The Pilot, which isn't the pilot), where Seinfeld shoots a comedy as Seinfeld. As Seinfeld.
George Costanza later became a professional poker player. He has two biblical children, Gabriel and Noah.
To protect your feet on a long hike, wear silk socks, then wool ('darn tough') socks over them.
Your current temperature can fall outside your daily high/low simply because the three numbers all came from different providers.
The "ViewModel" in "MVVM" implies two-way binding. It can (and should) co-exist with MVC, which is then called MVCVM.
Last rites (rituals), which is not last rights... are prayers by priests to patients shortly before their death. This also applies to executions.
Wet cured ham is all-ready to eat, if you can tolerate the texture.
You are never supposed to sign things with your master pubkey.
The PGP fingerprint derives its short key (its last 32 bits) and long key (its last 64 bits). RFC 4880 outlines short ID collisions.
"Elbow grease" came from writing a lot, but as you know, the elbow never actually reaches the paper.
One guy on the Internet claims that women have longer teeth than men. (Thread: "What are lesser known biological differences between men and women?")
An A record for ipv6 is called an AAAA record.
The Ivory Coast is a country in west Africa.
Faster RAM can be used in slower slots (provided that the type is the same).
DDR4 RAM is not backwards compatible with DDR3 slots.
Charisma is essentially the ability to tell good stories.
Apparently, there are only ~280 students in Hogwarts at any time.
The Beaufort scale is how tall the waves are given a certain wind speed. If the waves are 9ft tall, then the Beaufort scale is 9ft.
Women always scream, often while doing nothing, it is a global phenomenon.
While it is well-known that Google A/B tests everything, including colour, their designers don't like it either, apparently: ""I can't operate in an environment like that. I've grown tired of debating such miniscule design decisions. There are more exciting design problems in this world to tackle."
Assassination refers specifically to the murder of a politician.
The clothespin was invented in Vermont.
Thailand hand-peels shrimps.
To... kill an unconscious person, cover their nose with one of their hands' webbing, then apply pressure to it by having them lie face down.
It is very hard to get up from lying down while holding something, empirically speaking.
In a citation-less wiki section about REST, the spec includes transfer of code from the server to the client, allowing the server to manipulate what the client does.
By mass, Americans eat the same amount of watermelons as oranges.
Vintergatan means "Winter street/road" and is the Swedish name for the Milky Way. "But you can only see it in the summer"
Re: "A perk of your gender" if im taking a shit and theres that little bit thats hard to get out - you can stick a finger up your vag and push through the (fairly thin and flexible) wall between your vagina and anus (editor note: sometimes it breaks during birth.) and get it out. - /u/drizzzzzzle
Escalator was a trademarked term, lost because of it being so popular.
The confusion status always strikes with 40-point typeless damage.
Ménage à trois ("household of three") means poly(tri)amory in French.
Ferris wheels can be flat-packed.
It is worth buying peppercorns whole: pepper loses flavour and aroma through evaporation, so airtight storage helps preserve its spiciness longer. Pepper can also lose flavour when exposed to light, which can transform piperine into nearly tasteless isochavicine.
Government-approved level P7 paper shredders produce fragments 1mm x 1mm in size.
According to the Nazi National Anthem, "Geist" means spirit.
For 90% of the tools, learn to use the tool, unless it is PHP, in which case learn to use a torch.
Tabernacle just means Hut.
HATEOAS on top of REST emulates old-school terminals by transferring not only the requested data to the client, but a list of possible actions on it, too.
It takes just ~5 minutes of downtime per year to kill a 99.999% uptime guarantee. Other common guarantees: ~52 minutes for 99.99%, ~9 hours for 99.9%, ~3 days for 99%.
There is a global unified postal service body called the Universal Postal Union. The Union creates a framework and standards so that ALL countries can exchange mail freely without forming individual contracts with every other country. - source
Oktoberfestbier is a real trademarked term for Oktoberfest beer.
Windows 10 sucks so much because Microsoft fired its QA department.
Minimum payment means nothing. Pay as much as you can over and above the minimum payment.
The Eurozone is a strict subset of the EU; it is the zone that (only) uses Euros.
"If you sink the cue ball while going for the 8 ball, you lose" - Darren, something along those lines
XviD is open source [GPL v2, apparently], and DivX isn't
NES games (among others) relied on CRT artifacts to make things look good.
If you lock yourself out of the Jenkins machine, but can configure one of its jobs for some reason, try adding a shell script step involving cat id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
>Can't do joins, no ACID on DynamoDB
Ember is more red than orange.
Use a heat gun and a credit card to scrape off glue residues.
Men walk faster than they all would like when in a group, but slower than all would like when with any positive number of women. Women all walk slowly.
The typical Nobel Prize winner has a vastly (2.8x) higher interest in activities such as arts and crafts than the average person. A scientist was counted as having an artistic or crafty hobby, "if they described themselves or were described by biographers as being a painter, photographer, actor, performer, composer, poet, dancers, craftsman, glassblower, and so on after entering college; if they took lessons in an art or craft as an adult; or if there was direct evidence of artwork, photographs, sculptures, compositions, poems, performances, and so on."
The only reliable way to show a numeric keypad from cordova is to set the input type to tel.
Teflon pans should be seasoned with oil before every use (that is, on a cold pan).
In VB (classic), Empty is undefined. Nothing is null. Null is apparently a database-compatible NULL.
To bet "dollars to doughnuts" used to mean something when a dollar could buy many donuts. Now it means nothing.
The inseam of a pair of pants goes from crotch to bottom, not crotch to top. It might also be the reported length of any pair.
Camera switching can be exploited to film scenes with body doubles when actors/actresses cannot be there at the same time. It is also extremely annoying.
The Big Lebowski's throwing-underwear-suitcase-out-of-the-car scene was shot in reverse.
Despite being part of the bowling team, The Dude is never seen bowling during the movie.
Due to perishability, only about 5% of the world's potato crop is traded internationally; its minimal presence in world financial markets contributed to its stable pricing during the 2007--2008 world food price crisis.
"Oil pulling" is rinsing the mouth with sesame oil to remove toxins and things. It doesn't work, but some people do it anyway.
Lemmings, apparently a small rodent, do not commit mass suicide. Disney people pushed them down a cliff and made them drown.
Iran now accounts for approximately 90% of the world production of saffron.
People used to wake up at night as a matter of fact. It is LifeHacker, however, so what it says might just be wildly incorrect.
Hurricanes are horizontal winds, and it is acceptable for a plane to fly into them.
Coors won four times in the 2016 brewing awards.
Assuming the masks on a plane actually provide oxygen, it is important to put yours on first because you will likely fail putting yours on after putting it on for another person.
Business insider found one thing pie charts are good at, surprisingly: comparing two different things with very different amounts.
"A trick I learned from Argentinian circus people, who make amazing BBQ, is let the grill heat up and then cut an onion in half to rub on the grate. It imparts a nice flavor and cleans the grill very well."
Dixie is/was a nickname for Southern US.
Russia is #1 in heroin. It also has a million or so HIV-positive people.
BBQ brush bristles are regularly swallowed, killing people when vital organs are punctured.
The Republic of Macedonia is still a country!
The Arabs brought spinach to the world. They also named it "spinach". Iran still produces 100Tg of it every year.
Ride sharing services do not attract families of four (because normal sedans can comfortably fit three passengers, not four).
UDP packets get dropped when "socket send/receive buffers" between two computers (e.g. routers, including the two computers) get full. You can tweak sysctl to configure the size of these buffers, so you can lose more / not lose so much.
Nigeria is HUGE in GDP in relation to its African continent-mates, being 1.5x that of Egypt. There is no reason not to visit it.
"Smoker" also refers to the ovens that smoke meats.
Communist Lenin towels are more space-efficient than cotton towels. Linen towels also last much longer, and absorb much more water.
Prostitution is illegal because their sex is paid for, and escorts are legal because only their companionship is paid for, even though it's pretty obvious that they are just friendly prostitutes, says a site on the Internet.
The "n" in 7-eleven's logo is the only letter not capitalized.
In the event of a financial crisis, there is in fact a GDP map during the last crisis (2007-2009), indicating places you should flee to ahead of time.
Fun fact: Excel (XLS) worksheet names have a maximum length of 31 characters.
"World Financial Group" is a pyramid scheme so large that even the exams those members take ("HLLQP") are provided by WFG. There are in fact dozens of those exams and licenses so you can look for those instead.
Tonne is the metric one.
The recipient of a cheque can sign the back of the cheque and give the cheque to someone else. "If John Smith writes a cheque to Jane Doe, she can endorse the cheque on the back and give it to you in payment of a debt. You can then endorse the back of the cheque and deposit it into your account. This is called counter-signing a cheque."
The best place to trade on Craigslist is in fact the bank rather than the police station. That allows you to request money to be withdrawn directly from the ATMs, avoiding fake cash as a payment.
A blunderbuss (something like a shotgun) in handgun form was called a dragon.
"Don't you worry about blank. Let me worry about blank." is the thing you should say repeatedly at work to make everyone like you. "Blank" verbatim.
"The 4G specification requires a minimum speed so LTE was launched to avoid exactly this minimum. It seems that the companies did it right by launching LTE instead of 4G as they could have lost their 4G status, while now they could drop as low as 3G speeds and still be called LTE (which is ironic on itself)."
The "ring with the fist underneath your pelvis" thing teenages do is called the "ball gazer".
In Saudi Arabia, washroom signs are typically men and women's faces rather than body silhouettes. On those signs, they also acknowledge that fact that women have faces.
On startups solving the world's problems: "The risk of [being on market] too early is sometimes bigger than the risk of being too late" "We are wary of companies trying to create a market because being too early to get to market is a killer for startups"
Fuddy Duddy is the name of a traditionalist.
A five-decimal point latlong coordinate has a resolution of 1.1 ~ 1.4 metres.
A Taser is a gun-shaped thing that sends electrodes into your skin. A stun gun is a stick that looks nothing like a gun, and shocks without sending electrodes down your butt.
Muslim prayer times are accurate to the minute. Change from Toronto to Mississauga to see a one-minute difference.
Want to quit, make sure you have an exit strategy first.
"Worker", in the UK, is a lower class of Employee, essentially contractors with indefinite contract lengths.
Allspice is a plant, Hospice is a clinic for the chronically ill, Old Spice is a brand of deodorant.
To get memory protection, you need special ECC RAM. Don't use Btrfs with non-ECC RAM either, because you know it'll try to recover, and recover incorrectly.
Also related to ECC memory, "compared to the sea level, the rate of neutron flux is 3.5 times higher at 1.5 km (...)"
To start a headless VirtualBox image, hold the shift key while clicking start.
m3u8s are m3us with UTF-8 encoding.
Monday is the ISO start of week. Outside of the wonderful world of standards, the western hemisphere tend to start their week on a Sunday, and the eastern hemisphere, Monday.
What's fun about languages and locales is that the starting weekday for fr can be Monday or Sunday, depending on whether -CA is specified. What's fun about locales... is the currency symbol € ("euro") can go either before or after the number, depending on the country transacting it. If that's not fun enough, $ ("CAD") can either go before or after the number, in the same country, depending on the region of transaction.
Erdinger non-alcoholic beer is sold as a sports drink.
Before you move, make sure the home insurance insurer covers your new address.
_Temperature arithmetic is not a trivial task. If I told you to multiple '10 degrees C' by 2, what would you get: 20 degrees C, or 293 degrees K _ 2?* (Solution is akin to timedelta, where the units are always specified.)
The utm_* tags like utm_source and utm_campaign came from "UTM", Urchin Traffic Monitor. The San Diego company later became Google Analytics.
"Just because pizza sits out for an hour or two doesn't mean you have to throw it away." TIL not this fact, but that there are people out there who need to be told this fact.
A bombshell is a sex symbol.
The hijab is only required within the mosque. Unless you are Arab. In which case, the entire country is a mosque.
The Bahamas (and Cuba) is really, really close to Miami.
Heckler & Koch are known for their backwards rounds catalog in 2004. "Accuracy, Reliability - No Compromise." Anyone on the Internet inserting bullets backwards is actually paying them a homage, not being an idiot.
That "It's got electrolytes, it's what plants crave" nonsense came from Brawndo, the sports drink made up by movie Idiocracy.
When buying furniture like couches, treat bonded leather as a no-go. Bonded leather is inferior and worthless.
http://www.google.com/blank.html and http://clients3.google.com/generate_204 are the urls hit by captive portal detection.
If you want a reason to dislike the double spacing plague, here's a sick burn: "Your typing as well as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint (double spacing) Victorian habit"
"Distributed guessing" is when a hacker tries the same credit card with different expiry dates and CVV on different sites at the same time, hitting retry limits on none of them. The valid combination [of expiry and CVV] can optimistically be found in minutes, and much harder if address is required.
It is not so hard to believe Josephus Daniels' name stands for coffee, when Jack Daniels' name stands for whiskey. Joe got the fame for banning alcohol, directly offering coffee as a substitute.
Side can refer to a gay man who do not receive anal penetration.
Battery packs are now commonly referred to as 尿袋.
It was said that Denny's, a restaurant chain once proud of never closing, decided to close after 35 years of continuous operation. Some of the stores had no locks; many more failed to find keys for them. But they do close when required by law.
Kimchi fridges are real. It is said that kimchi sours in regular refrigerators, while kimchi refrigerators are colder.
When divorced, women are more than five times more likely to win the children (85:15).
The principle of least power also extends to the choice of tools: to do two things, you will ideally want to choose a tool that does only those two things, rather than a tool that does a thousand more things. An example of that would be using a business rules engine to calculate 2 + 2. Cheng Lou also noted that daily engineering should seek to do things with existing powers, not seeking more powers.
"What's the easiest way to gain performance? Do less stuff" 😂😂😂
A large number of electronics fail because of a single capacitor failure, called "capacitor plague" if manufactured before year 2007. Regardless, before throwing electronics away, do open it up and check for capacitors that appear to be bloated, a sign that they have gone bad.
Muslims cannot cook pork, not because it is a sin, but because eating pork is a sin, and helping others sin (i.e. eat pork) is a sin.
Vermouth is almost no different from sherry. Real vermouth would have aromatics in it, but not if you buy the cheap stuff, like the brand "Martini".
Pyrex does not mean good. Check the pyrex guide before buying. The glass should not have a bluish tint. Also check the logo before you buy. The logo you want is all-caps white on red. It should also say "made in France" somewhere.
Stephen Lake, Thalmic Labs, once tried to lower company expenditure by writing a blog post about how much STEM people should earn. He failed.
There is both a president and prime minister for Russia, with the president being the higher one. Vladimir was the PM from 1999 to 2000, president from 2000 to 2008, prime minister from 2008 to 2012, and president from 2012 to forever.
"In the event (...) where passengers have to cover their heads you do not 'lock' your fingers over head but place one hand on top of the other. If something falls on your hand/head, you'll still have one good hand to use."
Usually when people realise that termites exist, it is already too late to learn from the mistake.
The american fuzzy lop (not to be confused with the rabbit by the name) is a genetic test fuzzer. A "fuzz test" is one that randomly mutates your function inputs to see if your function crashes (and it should, because the input is unexpected).
Forearm crutches have a natural advantage when it comes to transporting bags hooped onto its handles. Because so few people are prescribed forearm crutches, they tend to be more expensive.
HSPA (HSDPA and HSUPA, for download/upload) is often called 3.5G.
"Genuine leather" is rubbish. Get "Full-Grain Leather" instead.
The right fist of Lenin's dead corpse is intentionally made clenched.
The traces of cocaine left on paper money is often enough to set off customs detectors.
The bicycle seat should be level with the waist.
"Grey Goose made their bottles so skinny and tall so they would have to be placed on the top shelf." (Or you can just lie them down, you know? Like all other items in this list, this is not verified information)
Indexing UTF8 strings is an O(n) operation. Both JS and PHP chose UTF16 internally. It has disadvantages from both UTF8 & UTF32.
Licensing under GPL is probably good, but joining the GNU is probably a bad idea. Reasons mostly surround the loss of project decision making, as well as odd project toolchain requirements.
The Hammer unit is Source Engine's smallest unit of distance, 1/16th of a foot (around 2cm).
Archaic term Hondo referred to "an old John Wayne movie".
In MMA, it is a legal move to end a fighter's career by straight kicking the opponent's thigh in an attempt to hyperextend the knee.
Quincunx is the special word for the 5-dot pattern on a die.
Cops are the fattest. Probably from all the donuts.
The EU does not have umbrella financial assistance programs. If someone goes unemployed in Alabama, there is a federal fund for that. If someone goes unemployed in Greece, Greece is responsible for it. This makes the EU weaker than the US.
When you run out of money in your margin account, the broker will call you. Margin call is literal in that sense.
At some arbitrary point, large enough "scissors" become "shears."
The lower the air pressure, the stronger the storm.
Honeypot refers to a toilet seat that is just a bucket underneath. Luxury models include smell neutralising sawdust at the bottom of the bucket.
Oxygen masks on planes do provide oxygen, but only for a few minutes. (They are only designed to save passengers from rapid depressurisation.)
Trump's office blatantly lies about stuff to gauge what they can get away with.
The electoral college is a process where people vote for a person [for a party] running for some leadership role in a state/province, and then the government tallies up these numbers and pretend as if it were the popular vote, i.e. citizens directly voting for a president/prime minister.
"PRN" (Pro re nata) means "as needed". See other latin abbreviations on prescriptions: qd (quaque die, once a day), bid (bis in die, twice a day), tid (ter in die, thrice a day), qid (quater die, four times a day), qnh (every n hours), ac (before meals), pc (after meals), po (orally), pr (rectally), IM (inject muscle), IJ (inject vein), SQ (subQutaneous or something)
When painting the wall, don't rush. Saturate the roller (most important), apply to wall in a w shape, then spread in the area covered by the w.
Firemen suits often emit a beeping noise when there is no movement detected in a period of time. There was a lot of chirping at the World Trade Center site from firefighter suits.
The Dachshund dog (silent H, DAK-soond) is called Dackel in German, even though Dachshund is a German word.
"Trompe-l'œil" is the French way of saying "3D painting".
Differing from the book, Boromir dies at the end of the first film instead of the beginning of the second book.
Cheap semiauto firearms are typically blowback. More advanced firearms have gas operated mechanisms, with separate gas channels and pistons that are more suited for high power cartridges.
值太歲 = Current zodiac (I think)
沖太歲 = Current zodiac ± 6 (I think)
Ryan Reynolds has a daughter called James. He claims it's not strange: "I mean, I didn't call her Summer Squash Meadowlark, or something."
The symbol of medicine is the Rod of Asclepius, which has only a single snake around it. The [staff of] Caduceus, on the other hand, has two snakes, and is the staff of the god who escorts you to the afterlife, which is obviously inappropriate for the medical profession.
"Wallflower" also refers to shy people who don't dance at a dance. (because they stay by the wall)
Intel processors stopped having pins. Now the pins are on the motherboard.
The correct trigger finger position is the middle of the first joint.
"Tax deductible" means something reduces your taxable income, often in the form of tax credits. A non-tax deductible expense is therefore one that does not give you tax credits.
A Baptist U research found that a conspiracy gets worse if the government tries to dispute it. This stems from people's distrust of the government. To dispel the conspiracy, let a famous scholar do the job.
"Military grade" is not that great. "Aircraft grade" isn't all that great either. What you want is Toyota grade or 3M grade.
Black boxes are called flight recorders. They are always orange, never black.
"Mass murder of the political opposition is not genocide" was said to be an important distinction because genocide is dedicated to "mass murder of a particular ethnic group or nation." Therefore, the mass killings taking place during the Syrian conflict are not genocides.
The baseball referee is called the umpire. The tennis referee might also be called the umpire.
Never say "yes" over the phone. Such a recording of "yes" can be used to make purchases under your name, with "yes" being a proof of permission.
Muzzle brakes counter recoil. They do not make things any quieter. (In fact they make rounds louder for the user)
"Kidnapping" the bride and chipping in money for the ransom to get her back is a tradition in Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary, Romania, according to /u/mrs_sassypants.
Homeopathy is explicitly healing through dilution [of a pathogen that caused the illness in the first place], not just any health product. Anything that says "concentrate" in the first ingredient is not homeopathic.
Plywood is made by shaving off plys of wood from the log, like a pencil sharpener.
On rubbish haircuts: [I went to] a high end stylist and told them straight up, "I've never had a haircut I'm really happy about and I don't know what I want. I can tell you I don't like X or Y but I'm hoping you can give me some suggestions/ideas for a style that would work for me." It turned out great, they discussed what would and wouldn't work with my faceshape and hairline and showed me some options etc. Eventually I ended up with a style I really like and have been rocking it for almost a year.
Turns out if the syntax of a request payload is correct, but the request cannot be satisfied, the error code can be 422 Unprocessable Entity (RFC 2616), or 400 Bad Request (RFC 7231). Depending on how archaic you and your system are, you might consider making the distinction using 422.
XKCD 1053 gets the "10000/day" figure by averaging the US birth rate across 30 years. In reality, this should be a very, very positively skewed bell curve, with most people knowing something well ahead of their 30th birthdays.
Bus seats are dark and patterned to discourage graffiti.
Some CPUs have lids. You were stupid enough to think it was one giant chip.
Don't short penny stocks. In fact, just don't short: "there isn't a short seller on the forbes 100 for a reason."
Before you look for a job in the service industry, ask if there is an union you should join.
The SP-4 cartridge has an internal piston that pushes the bullet out of the gun, without letting out the expanding air (read: loud) behind it. This makes any gun that shoots this cartridge silent.
A company can improve its strategic posture by finding suppliers or buyers who possess the least power to influence it adversely.
It is not a recruiter's job to get you a job; it is a recruiter's job to get a company an employee, not necessarily you.
A match is typically for sports originating from Europe (football, golf, tennis); a game typically from the US (handegg, baseball, basketball). Matches can also mean a collection of games, where players win matches after having won e.g. 7 games out of 8.
Napoleon is his first name. We call him that instead of Bonaparte because "all the European Monarchs have been called by their first names for millennia."
If you stand in front of an elevator door and it opens, your dog will enter. If you enter the elevator and turn around, the dog will exit the elevator because you are facing the door.
Driveways should face East (or South I guess). It helps with snow melting.
Tor stands for The Onion Router. Its logo is an onion.
Curling was invented by, in someone's words, "those damned Scots".
A Live Drop is when two people meet up and exchange items or information. A Dead Drop is when the two people don't meet.
An Euler's disk on a concave surface can spin for a long time.
Thunderbolt 3 ports are supersets of USB C ports. The reverse is not the case.
Arm wrestling is more about the wrist than anything. The objective is to extend the length of your arm while shortening the opponent's, by manipulating the opponent's wrist. Top roll mainly involves rotating the opponent's wrist by rotating yours 90 degrees inward, while The Hook basically pulls the opponent slightly towards you (by moving your wrist), (increasing|decreasing) the (distance|leverage).
Laser tattoo removal might scar, which is more permanent than the tattoos it tries to remove.
Drug catapults really exist in Mexico.
US courts of appeals are organised into 13 "circuits", which, as far as I can tell, just areas. First Circuit is the least populous (hence least influential), and Ninth Circuit is the most populous (hence most influential).
"Straight" means cards in sequence. "Flush" means same suit. "Full house" is just a special case of "three of a kind", where the remaining two cards are the same rank.
Some parents prefer to be called "mum", while others prefer to be called "dad". Children of non-binary parents should issue trigger warnings, lest they get sued by their own parents by calling them by their first names, which is rude, or 'parent', which is not their preferred terminology.
RSPs do not have tax exemptions. RRSPs do.
Kids typically cannot recognise themselves in the mirror until 3.
A brown noser is an ass kisser (or licker, or equivalent).
In class diagrams, arrows point from subclasses to their base classes because arrows mean Generalisation in UML.
Toilet paper glows in UV light.
The R project is also known as GNU S, the GNU implementation of the S programming language.
The main issue from/in/about a P2P end-to-end messaging app is battery drain.
Darker-skinned black women can expect longer jail sentences compared to lighter-skinned black women.
To test if a mug (or any container really) is microwave-safe, put some water in it and microwave for 30 seconds. The water should be warmer than than the mug.
It is passing the buck, not passing the puck. The buck is that dealer button in poker. "The buck stops here" means the person saying that is now responsible.
The Toga dropped out of use because it was clumsy. It was replaced by the pallium by the time bishops wore them. Other people continued wearing tunics, knee-length big shirts.
Carry a few bandages on your person. They are thin and easy to keep, and someone somewhere will always need one. Sometimes you do, too.
Incubators are fully bootstrapped. Incubators can invest in incubator incubator startups that churn out new incubators. These incubators are called metaincubators. Some of these metaincubators can also incubate startups; an example of such a metaincubator is the University of Waterloo, which inculated Velocity the incubator a while back.
Monomials just don't include addition or subtraction. Their variables can be in any order.
"A minimum viable product doesn't mean half finished. It's doing small number of things to a high standard."
New Zealand tried to limit fuel use by limiting which cars can be on the road on which days. It didn't work. People just bought more cars.
The less memory there is, each address should be faster to access.
Almost all methods to heat up a home without electricity involves burning something, except the sun and insulation.
"Batt" insulation is precut fibreglass or rock wool insulation.
Whisky is from Scotland and whiskey is from Ireland. Supposedly. At least the two would like you to think that way.

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