TIL: Python’s splitlines does a lot more than just newlines
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Speed dating a solution to the slow dating lives of farmers
When the dating app radius won’t reach the edge of your property, and you’re harvesting grain from sun-up til sundown, how do you find a partner? ⌘ Read more

TIL that there is a dedicated page for sudo. 😅

TIL: The logo of sudo is a sandwich. 🫠 https://www.sudo.ws/

love-hate and otel: using it while avoiding complexity
I quite appreciated his workflow for keeping OTel’s complexity at arm’s length. Also, he’s got a generic tool that can parse logs and turn them into otel spans that combines well will canonical logs and “wide events”: https://github.com/jonjohnsonjr/logspan

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TIL that RFC means Request For Comments

TIL my high school publishes its own research journal. https://www.pingry.org/our-community/students/pingry-community-research-pcr-journal

TIL: gwern has met Jürgen Habermas in person: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DXcezGmnBcAYL2Y2u/yes-a-blog?commentId=nhpQK5787tMoaYDWp

TIL there’s a Director’s Cut of Miley Cyrus’s Wrecking Ball video and it’s much better than the original.

TIL: Antarctica has its own unofficial flag. You could see Graham Bartram’s design in emoji: 🇦🇶

TIL that there’s no flag emoji, there are “regional indicator symbols”, which are basically letters that are combined into two-letter codes for countries.

In reply to: NASA ebook Archive

TIL that NASA has an archive of ebooks. ⌘ Read more

TIL that changing a .bashrc alias to a bash function requires you to restart the terminal as calling source ~/.bashrc does not change the alias to the function call.

if you thought emails were great at getting stuff lost, wait til you check out this thing called twtxt

#til https://www.edelweiss.plus book catalog platform

TIL: the guy who invented the toilet wasn’t named ‘crapper’, but he WAS named ‘cummings’.

TIL that there’s an organization for promoting McLuhan’s work whose initialism is TMI.

TIL that Tron was written by Alan Kay’s wife. That adds so many new dimensions to that movie, and makes ‘I fight for the users’ even more appropriate as a slogan.

Dr. Edward Morbius ⭕: “TIL: You can run a crude-and-simple Internet Arc…” - mastodon.cloud https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/101391501109425841

TIL that Jaron Lanier is to blame for Second Life’s shitty/dysfunctional internal Linden economy

TIL that the technology for viewing US census data summaries is called DADS: https://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/data_access_and_dissemination_system_dads.htm

TIL: doing google image search for ‘japanese ’ is useless for finding reference images for contemporary japanese architecture. ‘anime ’ works much better.

TIL git checkout - works like cd - and checks out the last branch you were on.

TIL http://t.co/FvhyPpEQWK is like the olde timey myspace. My eyes hurt from all the glitter.