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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #200 on: 08 Sep 2014, 23:20 »

Today I learned that "putting out" has an entirely different meaning to civilians.
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #201 on: 09 Sep 2014, 03:31 »

Wait, what meaning does it have to you?
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #202 on: 09 Sep 2014, 05:22 »

3 meanings to this civvie.

put out: to turn off  (Put out that light!)

put out: provide sexual favor

put out: shows motivation and effort
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #203 on: 09 Sep 2014, 12:34 »

The second two are more closely related than you'd probably like to think...
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #204 on: 09 Sep 2014, 13:01 »

3 meanings to this civvie.

put out: to turn off  (Put out that light!)

put out: provide sexual favor

put out: shows motivation and effort

Also as an adjective (phrase?): annoyed
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #205 on: 09 Sep 2014, 15:04 »

Technically a participle.
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« Reply #206 on: 10 Sep 2014, 00:27 »

Or that.
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« Reply #207 on: 10 Oct 2014, 16:13 »

For so long I've wondered what makes soap operas look so distinctive on tv. And now I know:


While I'm at it, I'll look up why they are actually called soap operas, when they have seemingly nothing to do with either soap or operas.
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« Reply #208 on: 10 Oct 2014, 18:05 »

Back in the 1930's, when they were radio serials, their main sponsors were laundry soap companies (like Procter & Gamble). They were called "operas" because of all the intrigue and intricate storylines - and to give them an air of "sophistication".

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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #209 on: 12 Oct 2014, 16:38 »

Today I learned the etymology of "hog fuel", an apparently nonsensical name for shredded bark and other wood scraps used for covering trails.

Lumber mills historically burned such things as waste materials, and the furnaces were called "hogs", perhaps because of their appetite. Thus the scraps became "hog fuel".

It's different from beauty bark in having a high amount of sawdust, handy for moisture control.
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #210 on: 12 Oct 2014, 22:43 »

Yep.  I've shoveled 'hog fuel' as a teenager.  Functional steam powered lumber mills are rare, but leave a smaller carbon footprint.

but then, I've also shoveled other hog related products...  :(
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #211 on: 28 Oct 2014, 12:32 »

I learned that the Russian monarchy stopped calling themselves Tsar during the reign of Peter I and was changed to Emperor.  So any "Tsar" after his reign was actually not a Tsar but Emperor. Many Western European monarchs declined to recognize the switch in title. To them the word emperor connoted superiority over kings. Several rulers feared that Peter would claim authority over them, just as the Holy Roman Emperor had in the past.  This cultural biased may explain why many documentaries in English refer to the emperors after Peter I as Tsar.  Or lack of caring about the subject's own cultural perception.

So the last Russian Romanov monarch wasn't Tsar Nicholas II but Emperor Nicholas II.

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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #212 on: 31 Oct 2014, 18:40 »

I learned about Euclidean zoning.

The differences between European and American cities are becoming clearer and clearer.
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #213 on: 01 Nov 2014, 08:25 »

I may be just a teensy bit boring, but that blog is actually really interesting.
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« Reply #214 on: 01 Nov 2014, 10:12 »

I thought that was the opposite of boring.
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #215 on: 05 Nov 2014, 10:31 »

As somebody who spends half his life listening to music and the other half watching romcoms with his family, it strikes me that I hadn't noticed until today that the beat to Outkast's "Ms. Jackson" is a remix of the Bridal Chorus.
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #216 on: 10 Nov 2014, 18:00 »

I was originally going to toss this in gunsmithing, but it's kinda mindblowing from a mechanical perspective. So I'm putting it here.


This is the safety switch of a K98 Mauser, which we are about to discuss.
From left to right the positions are "Safety off" "Safety on, bolt unlocked" and "Safety on, bolt locked"

There are 22 mechanical steps in the act of turning off your K98 Mauser's safety. You just flip a switch, a single movement on your part, but here's what's happening mechanically.

K98 Mauser Cycle of Operations
Weapon Condition 3 (Empty chamber, ammunition in magazine)
Step 1: Safety Off
1. Safety switch moves CCW to "Off" position
2. Cocking piece moves rearward
3. Firing pin spring compresses
4. Firing pin move rearward
5. Cocking piece stops on safety switch
6. Firing pin spring stops on cocking piece
7. Firing pin stops on cocking piece
8. Cocking piece moves forward
9. Firing pin spring decompresses
10. Firing pin moves forward
11. Cocking piece stops on safety switch
12. Firing pin stops on cocking piece
13. Firing pin spring stops on cocking piece
14. Safety switch stops on  bolt sleeve
15. Cocking piece moves rearward
16. Cocking piece stops on safety switch
17. Cocking piece moves forward
18. Firing pin moves forward
19. Firing pin spring compresses
20. Cocking piece stops on sear
21. Firing pin stops on cocking piece
22. Firing pin spring stops on cocking piece

Safety is off.
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #217 on: 10 Nov 2014, 21:12 »

compared to setting the safety for a British STEN gun.

"take yer booger hook offn the bang switch!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sten
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #218 on: 11 Nov 2014, 06:25 »

If I had one handy I could go through the mechanical steps for THAT simple action too.

Probably something along the lines of (assuming the individual was firing)
Trigger rotates CCW
Sear Rotates CCW
Sear spring decompresses
Bolt Carrier Assembly moves forward
Bolt Carrier Assembly stops on sear
Sear stops on receiver tube
Sear spring stops on sear
Trigger stops on sear

Then of course the mechanical actions in the human hand for the act of moving your finger...
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #219 on: 12 Nov 2014, 13:41 »

Have you ever wondered how computers truly handle decimals? If you have, you probably stumbled upon some info on floating point decimals and IEEE754, but I had to wrangle with it for some guys I TA. Turns out that floating point sum is a really slow and painful process, that can take up a massive amount of software cycles. That little task is something that makes me respect hardware engineers even more.

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On the actual process of the sum, there are 4 main steps:

Step 1: Equalizing orders of magnitude. The Float single precision format represents a number that's like (1.)<23 bit binary> * 2^<8 bit binary>-127. So the sum will always have the exponent part of the greater number. The fraction of the smaller number is then moved right n bits, where n is the difference between the greater and lesser exponents.
Note that if the difference between exponents is greater or equal to 24, then the value of the sum is defaulted to max(a, b).

Step 2: Sum the fractions. Keep in mind that if one of the values is negative, you need to sum the 2's complement of that fraction with the other one.

Step 3: Normalize the fraction. To do this, you sequentially move the fraction left or right until the 24th bit (or position 23) is the first 1 in the fraction, and for each bit moved right you add 1 to the exponent, and for each bit moved left you substract 1 from the exponent.

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Step 4: Put everything back together and check for inconsistencies. Keep in mind that, even if it hasn't been specified explicitly here, you should handled un-biased exponents. Exponent bias is inserted to keep exponents as positive and consistently increasing, so the exponent should be considered an unsigned byte and its real value is the one in the unsigned byte minus 127 (in the case of single precision)
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #220 on: 12 Nov 2014, 13:56 »

The reason numbers are represented in this form is because statistically, the most common operation performed on a number is a comparison with another.

So in a best case scenario one of the two numbers compared is negative, so the machine only has to check the first bit of the number. Next up are the exponents - if the bits do not match up, you know as soon as you hit the bit that is not equal to the bit on the other number. Best case scenario? You just had to check two more bits in both numbers. All without having to rearrange the floating point decimal to a real number.

I think floating point decimals are amazing.

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« Reply #221 on: 12 Nov 2014, 14:00 »

Indeed. And it's also great for RadixSort, specially if you use the "Most Significant Bit" variation of it - with the exponent at the beginning, most of the time you'll have almost all numbers sorted in no time.
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #222 on: 13 Nov 2014, 11:52 »

I learned that gruntled is totally a real word, and it meant exactly what I was using it to mean. I always had used it as a joke. It made me feel very gruntled.
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #223 on: 13 Nov 2014, 18:15 »

Shame that chalant isn't...OR IS IT?
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #224 on: 13 Nov 2014, 20:21 »

Today I learned the word "Fetial".
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« Reply #225 on: 13 Nov 2014, 23:27 »

Today I learned that I've been pronouncing the word "facade" wrong all this time and now I feel dumb. Today I learned that ignorance truly is bliss.
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #226 on: 14 Nov 2014, 04:33 »

Were you pronouncing it "fuck-aid"? :parrot:
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« Reply #227 on: 14 Nov 2014, 12:50 »

Were you pronouncing it "fuck-aid"? :parrot:

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« Reply #228 on: 14 Nov 2014, 14:18 »

Might have helped if you spelled it façade.
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« Reply #229 on: 14 Nov 2014, 15:27 »

Easier to type "ç" on some systems than others, and most (myself included) don't know the key commands for the ones they don't use regularly.
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« Reply #230 on: 14 Nov 2014, 17:29 »

Just like resume, I never bother using the correct accents, etc, so I guess it never occured to me
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« Reply #231 on: 14 Nov 2014, 22:02 »

Accents are considerably easier on my phone than on a keyboard. So yeah, I rarely bother with the accents on resume (although I always forget whether it goes on the first e, the second e, or both...although I'm pretty sure I've seen all three examples).
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« Reply #232 on: 14 Nov 2014, 22:07 »

Probably depends on layout and OS.  It's simple enough on Mac or Linux to do them (option/compose keys plus modifiers).  I haven't used Windows enough recently to see if it's any easier than it was in the days of having to hold alt and type in an ASCII code.  Probably has, and I'd be happy to be corrected just in case I ever needed to know.
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« Reply #233 on: 15 Nov 2014, 02:27 »

Some programs allow CRTL-<mark>, <letter>, but not all.
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« Reply #234 on: 15 Nov 2014, 21:16 »

Today I learned if normal NSAIDs don't help your pain, higher dose ones probably won't do too much either.
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« Reply #235 on: 16 Nov 2014, 05:45 »

Good to know.
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« Reply #236 on: 16 Nov 2014, 14:28 »

I learned that I only get the Asian glow when I drink straight hard liquor.
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« Reply #237 on: 16 Nov 2014, 15:05 »

One small glass of wine is about my non-flush limit, and sometimes not even that especially with Aussie red wines (often 14% alcohol :psyduck:), but I'm probably smaller. Of course I'm supposed to avoid all intoxicants, so I don't often drink alcohol, and any flushing is my own fault.
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« Reply #238 on: 16 Nov 2014, 15:54 »

Buddhist or not, the *natural* consequences of drinking, such as hangovers, loss of coordination, and things like thinking that painting the walls lime green is a good idea are generally* the drinker's own fault.

* Assuming they chose to drink.
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« Reply #239 on: 16 Nov 2014, 15:58 »

Buddhist or not, the *natural* consequences of drinking, such as hangovers, staggering, and thinking that painting the walls lime green is a good idea are generally* the drinker's own fault.

* Assuming they chose to drink.

It's not me that's addicted to beer, it's the beer that's addicted to me.

My drunk decisions are never that consequential, it's always "ya one more beer isn't going to hurt" and that's when I notice the 20 beers on the ground.
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« Reply #240 on: 16 Nov 2014, 16:42 »

Aye, I'm generally decent about it, myself.  My homing instinct tends to kick-in when I've had too many, and I've never had a hangover that couldn't be cured by greasy food || Clonazepam || more booze and a lot of water.  Then again, I also understand why some belief systems are against drinking, or at least, getting drunk.  I've had to pick up people from the floor of the women's toilets to get them into a taxi back to their home (I feel sorry for the boyfriends and flatmates who had to deal with any aftermath), and seen people make really questionable decisions. 

Made a few of my own, that helped fuel regret, and re-igniting a doomed relationship.  Lowered inhibitions may make a good social lubricant for the shy, but there are certainly times in life where they do not help.
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« Reply #241 on: 16 Nov 2014, 17:04 »

An ex threw up on me in bed. It wasn't very sexy, no.


How do you have easy hangovers? I get upset when people say that, mine are fucking horrible every single time. "Things I need to learn" how to stop hangovers when food and water just makes you feel sick.
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« Reply #242 on: 16 Nov 2014, 17:17 »

Well, it's partially genetic, and I always match each drink with a glass of water to avoid them in the first place.  When that fails, I go for either a proper English or Irish breakfast, sedatives, or a hair of the dog that bit me.  It also helps the next day to force down a banana, and drink water with a little bit of salt to restore the electrolytes.  And that's irrespective of whether or not I've done any of the previous things.
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« Reply #243 on: 17 Nov 2014, 00:17 »

Hair of the dog? As in, have another drink? My body has an impulsive aversion to alcohol when hung over.

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« Reply #244 on: 17 Nov 2014, 00:51 »

Hair of the dog? As in, have another drink? My body has an impulsive aversion to alcohol when hung over.

Yeah, I can't do that shit either, but mostly because my hangovers are always the feel sick to my stomach kind. And I always just regularly feel sick in the morning. I think I may be pregnant.
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« Reply #245 on: 17 Nov 2014, 03:58 »

An ex threw up on me in bed. It wasn't very sexy, no.


How do you have easy hangovers? I get upset when people say that, mine are fucking horrible every single time. "Things I need to learn" how to stop hangovers when food and water just makes you feel sick.

Drink a lot of water before bed, and indeed, during the night out. I usually cannonball some water after every few drinks.

My hangovers are few and far between, and these days I often drink straight spirits.
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« Reply #246 on: 17 Nov 2014, 13:46 »

See, I get hammered all the time, so you think I'd have a system (I was at about 2 cases a week, I'm at about 1 now). But for some reason I always forget about water and food before bed, yet no matter how blackout drunk I get I always remember to take out my contacts...
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« Reply #247 on: 17 Nov 2014, 13:57 »

Ha I'm the same. No matter how drunk I am I will clean off my makeup and apply moisturiser, but I won't remember to eat. Thanks, brain.
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #248 on: 09 Dec 2014, 16:59 »

Hey folks today I learned that it is actually better to hit my local hot dog eatery than coffee shop at noon. Who'd have thought? Plus the super rad girl I used to see there all the time was working today. Nice to see her, I kinda miss my weekly interactions with her from when I ran open mic at the aforementioned coffee place.

Anyway, this whole town apparently runs on caffeine.
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Re: Learning has occurred
« Reply #249 on: 09 Dec 2014, 17:01 »

The whole world runs on caffeine...except Mormons, I guess.
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