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There’s a trick with our loan servicing XML imports. If you pre-encode the property address into a [Comment] tag inside the [CIF] section, the system auto-fills it in three different screens, even though none of them actually pull from that tag offcially. I don’t know why it works, just that it does. Doesn’t really save me more than about thirty seconds but when you’re boarding dozens of loans per week, it can add up.
There is only one model structure that can be put on the category of small categories for which the weak equivalences coincide with honest equivalences of categories. It’s called the Joyal-Tierney model structure. You can define the suspension of an object in any model category as the homotopy pushout to two terminals, then define an abstract notion of a sphere in any model category by setting the 0-sphere as the coproduct of two terminals and the (n+1)-sphere as the suspension of the n-sphere.
A small category is a CW-complex if and only if it is a groupoid.
The great opera singer Enrico Caruso was the 18th of 21 children, only 3 of whom survived infancy.
Johann Sebastian Bach wrote an opera about coffee addiction.
The Russian composer Tchaikovsky was afraid his head would come off while conducting, so he would hold his chin with one hand while doing so.
The girlfriend of composer Erik Satie wore a corsage made of carrots, and she was a painter and liked to feed the paintings she made. Satie once threw her out the window but she survived.
Fucking hell, even Satie ??
Wsl uses the 9p protocol from plan 9 to interact with windows and vice versa
I use 9p for some qemu VMs and had no idea it was a protocol from plan 9.
That is really interesting actually. wsl1 or 2?
It is possible to get access to nitrogen in antimatter chemistry before entering the nether.
spoiler
Sulfur can be gotten through colors.
Gears with a casting table, thermal pipes, and the alchemistry liquefier.
And finally, the pulverizer can make niter out of sandstone
Modded Minecraft?
the internet is bad.
My ICQ number…
Uhoh
Reign of Kings, a medieval online PvE survival game had a bug where the 360 rotation camera could be used in 3rd person mode to look inside of walls of other players. You could even access their chests if they built them against the wall (which they all did).
This meant that you could loot everyone’s bases without even breaking in. The game went through several major updates with this bug still in place. My brother and I used it extensively.
One day there is a major update and the release notes mention about how they have now finally fixed the “glitch where players items disappear from chests when placed near walls”.
Real G’s move in silence like lasagna.
I remember some roblox games I used to play let you zoom out, look into a secret room and take loot as well.
There is (or at least used to be) a debug command to write-protect a hard drive. No idea what it’s for or why such a thing exists, but you flip a certain bit from 0 to 1 and drive no write. I won $100 once at work with this knowledge. We had a training course about how much better the new version of windows at the time was and how much harder it was to break - so hard they’d pay $100 (in early 2000s money) to anyone who could unrecoverably break their demo windows install during the 10 minute presentation. The instructor (who worked for Microsoft) said he’d been doing this for 6 months and they’d never had to pay out that prize before, much less 30 seconds in.
Sounds like something registry editor related.
No, this was via debug, a command that’s been included in MS-DOS since like version 2.0 (before there even was a Windows, much less full-OS windows like Win95/NT/etc rather than 3.0/3.1 that were just fancy launchers that sat on top of DOS.) It can let you view and alter the contents of memory at a particular address, etc. We also used it to wipe hard drives by forcibly writing 0s to every block on the drive.
You could do stuff like that with the older DOS versions of Norton Utilities. I used to do fun stuff like set my friend’s files as the drive label. He thought I was basically a wizard.
Hermeticism is the origin of most conspiracy theories if you dig deep enough. Truly the OG brainworm
That’s, like, meta-esoteric knowledge.
Can you explain? Sounds interesting
Hermeticism is a gnostic esoteric system and like all gnostic forms, it implies that there’s an “unknown” reality that can be disveiled through revelation. You have a perceived reality that is fake and a “real” reality that is hidden from you. This already sets the ground for conspiratorial thinking.
The second element is that hermeticists in the 18th century were relatively rich and powerful men who met in secret societies, which was something everybody did, but they also had the money to build monuments and hide their symbols in plain sight. This created the trope of a secret congregation of powerful men into esoteric shit who plot to take over society.
A lot of conspiracy theories reference Hermeticism blindly. One example is Flat Earthism, they use a lot of Hermetic concepts of the firmament to describe why the world is flat. Hermeticism is fundamentally the progenitor of modern astrology, alchemy, ‘witchcraft’ and so on.
Like the other commenter said, hermeticism relies on the belief there is an “unknown” reality that can be unveiled. This was a core tenet of ancient Greek religion and explains their tendency to practice divination, in a way a lot of modern woo-woo stuff is directly lifted off of a bastardization of ancient Greek religion. Its very interesting to do a meta study of conspiracies, people are tapping into shit they have no clue about and are rethinking thoughts and ideas made 3000 years ago by a drugged out woman in a cave filled with lead. Hermeticism was also a very popular system of gnostic beliefs during the medieval era, quite a lot of Arab philosophers for example believed in a variety of gnostic religions, e.g. Sabianism which is referenced in the Quran as being ‘people of the book’, a group of people along with Christians and Jews that should not be harmed but taxed.
As Marx said, “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”
Not sure if I can call this knowledge since I don’t know if it’s true, but I think I identified a couple of women from the 8th century CE who are mentioned in some Irish annals as actually being the same person. As far as I know there’s next to no discussion of these women on the internet and there are basically no historical records of them, at least. So I guess if I’m right it’s very obscure?
The women in question are Eithne ingen Bresail Bregh and Eithne ingen Cinadhon (and possibly also the legendary Eithne mother of Tuathal Techtmar)
This is a really good one. Were they/was she a notable individual? I’m imagining humorously it’s a completely random person.
It’s about as close to a random person as you can get while still being recorded. They were royalty, but the two real ones get literally a sentence each at max
- Eithne ingen Bresail Bregh married the king of Tara and is described as “having deserved reward from God for her good works, and for her intense penance for her sins” in one source and “deserved to obtain the heavenly kingdom, having done penance” in the other
- Eithne ingen Cinadhon was the daughter of a Pictish king and is literally only recorded as having died
- The legendary Eithne is the daughter of a king of Scotland (mostly Pictish at the time) and crossed the sea to Ireland, where she gave birth to the hero Túathal Techtmar. This is the entirety of her role in the story; a couple of paragraphs in a collection that, in the translation I’m looking at, has 600 pages just for part five
Human blood is a valid substitute for eggs in baking.
Calm down Dahmer
Human (and animal) blood and eggs can also both be used in place of Styrofoam to gelify fuel for molotovs.
TIL. So many options to make a molotov nastier. Stinky rotten egg fires!
I learned this from the reverse, as eggs are a valid substitute for human blood in sacrifices.
So is semen iirc.
There’s no way. It doesn’t taste like eggs at all. Does it? I’ve never tasted raw egg before
For it to be a substitute, it doesn’t have to taste the exact same. It just has to have similar properties.
Nice
Is it, though? I get that they have a similar protein composition or whatever, but there’s no way the taste is anywhere near the same. Then again, I guess I’ve never eaten fully raw eggs before (not sure if a semi-runny sunny side up on toast counts, heh).
But you have eaten raw human blood‽
I did in a shot. It doesn’t taste like egg.
You’ve never tasted your own blood from like bloody lips and stuff?
Coagulation station
T-rex is closer temporally to humans than they were to Stegosaurus.
Also phylogenetically and morphologically.
T-Rex is more closely related to sparrows than to stegosaurus.
Indeed. Two very different clades.
Wait so t-tex and steggy never hung out? :'(
Nope. They missed each other by about 77 million years or so.
“Bizarre” is the only word from the Basque language that is regularly used in the English language
(Can’t wait to be proven wrong in 5… 4… 3…)
https://quicksilvertranslate.com/2554/basque-words-in-english/
Sorry for the delay
😂 Ok so the “regularly” in my post is doing a bit of lifting. Not too much tho (anchovy is the only other one you could possibly consider frequently used, unless you have a particularly bizarre vocabulary).
bilbo, meaning a sword made in Bilbao,
Bilbo Baggins is the hero of The Hobbit, which every true lemmy user has tattooed on their left thigh.
I have it tattooed on my middle thigh.
That’s your nose!
TIL I’m not a true Lemmy user.
You shall not pass!
That’s what most of their teachers said, I bet.
$50.00 and I’ll keep it quiet.
I found this really interesting so I looked it up! This website claims that “anchovy” also came to English from Basque, along with “bilbo” and possibly “jingo”.
There are two types of color E-ink displays:
One that uses a color filter on top of a regular black and white particle display, like in their Kaleido screens. This has a faster refresh rate like black and white displays, but the colors are muted and the screen’s “pure white” is much more gray than other displays.
One that uses four colored particles, cyan, magenta, yellow, and reflective white, like in their Gallery screens. This has a much slower refresh rate, but the colors are vivid and the screen’s “pure white” is just as good as a non-color screen.
There are also color transflective LCD screens from other companies that are sometimes marketed as “e-paper” or “paper like” that are fairly uninteresting.
And there are just straight up backlit LCD screens marketed as “e-paper” or “paper like” that are just not. XPPen just made one. I personally think this should be considered false advertising.
