TIL: a former Italian porn star, Carlo Massi, quit porn to do research in applied mathematics, got his PhD, taught real analysis, became a professor, and then got sacked for being a former porn star. He sued and won against the university.
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So apparently the term "patch" in software development comes from punched paper tape.
"Small corrections to the programmed sequence could be done by patching over portions of the paper tape and re-punching the holes in that section."
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* very few land places have a land antipode #maps (Image source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipode…)
« Je vais poser une question à CanardCanardVasY… C'est bizarre comme nom, quand même… »
Donc, finalement, j'ai cherché d'où venait le nom "DuckDuckGo" au lieu de faire ma recherche (c'était quoi déjà ???).
C'est donc écrit dans l'histoire sur Wikipédia : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuck…
Et… ça vient du jeu "Duck, duck, goose" qui n'est rien d'autre que… "le facteur n'est pas passé" : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_du…
Truc rigolo appris aujourd'hui !
TIL of the "Shoe Fitting Flouroscope" or "X-Ray Shoe Fitter" which existed in shoe stores up until the 70's - Allowing customers (mostly children) to look through a viewer at a live X-Ray of their feet, to see the bones of their toes and how they lined up with the stitching of the shoe's sole.
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#TIL that one of the most commonly played street vendor “jingles” in #Mexico City was created by a father-daughter #clown team (English with Spanish).
Hoy me enteré de que una de las canciones de los vendedores ambulantes más tocadas en #CDMX fue creada por unos #payasos —un padre y su hija (inglés con español).
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Amid the noisy bustle of Mexico City, there is one iconic sound echoing on repeat in the background. A recording that blares from trucks looking to buy old household items and appliances, either to fix and resell or to sell for scrap.99% Invisible
This is a carbonized loaf of bread from Pompeii, 79 C.E. - preserved for thousands of years in the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius. The baker left his stamp, which reads: “Celer, slave of Quintus Granius Verus." Celer is known to have survived the eruption, as his name later appears on a list of "freed men." Most bread at the time was baked in community ovens, so customized stamps were used to mark individual families’ and bakeries’ loaves.
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In a move that thrilled bee enthusiasts, California judges decided that endangered invertebrates are legally protected — under the category of "fish"Mia Jankowicz (Insider)
#TIL in #KDE applications, you can use Ctrl+Alt+i to open HUD (heads-up display) menu.
The HUD menu consists of a search box that does fuzzy search in the menus.
This is particularly useful when you are looking for a functionality or something in menus but you don't want to go through the menus one by one to find it.
I wish @libreoffice and other software with massive nested menus can adopt this.
Watch the new season of MinuteBody - and get access to both CuriosityStream and Nebula - at https://curiositystream.com/minuteearthWay more kids have fuzzy v...YouTube
Part of my "mighty machines" series, this video is a VIP tour going deeply behind the scenes of the Gondelbahn (ropeway) Flaschen near Leukerbad VS, Switzerl...YouTube
