Information Iāve recently looked up or come across.
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a standard of brightness roughly equivalent to the amount of light that would be produced by 48 wax candles per square meter of screen space
Denigrating younger generationsā higher expectations is just another way of saying youāve internalized the understanding that you should have none ā¦
When people have outsize emotional reactions to benign inquiries about their self-evident beliefs, it is often an indicator that status is doing invisible work.
Spoilers included to protect people from the experience of watching a terrible movie. (content warning: sexual violence against women)
What havenāt I looked up this year. That said, I havenāt been attentive to documenting it here. Letās try to get back on track.
Flowers for Yellow Chins, Bruised Eyes, Forsaken Nymphs, and Impending Death by Katy Kelleher at The Paris Review, via Jamie Beck.
Still lifes began to really pick up steam in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and many of these pieces included wilting or fading flowers in their compositions. Wilted flowers could represent a lot of things, depending on the species chosen, but often these overflowing vases served as reminders that, well, we all fall down. Even pretty flowers grow bruised and brown, and no matter how much wealth you accumulate in life, youāll still die alone. We all do.
But today, in an economy defined by precarity,ā¦
.forEach and .map in Javascript. The crucial bit is this: .forEach doesnāt return anything, .map returns a new array. They both let you do something to each item in an array, but only one gives back.describe and context in Rspec (via coworker)The patella is covered with a layer of smooth cartilage, which normally glides across the knee when the joint is bent.
The pain is caused by an irritation of the undersurface or patella of the kneecap as the kneecap rubs against one side of the knee joint, irritating the cartilage surface.
Oof. Just reading that makes my teeth hurt.
Britcannica.com : tennis : history, Professional and open tennis. Ah, so prior to 1968 there just werenāt tournaments where professionals and amateurs could compete openly.
Although the traditional tournament circuit was avowedly amateur, leading players were paid substantial guarantees āunder the tableā in addition to expenses. For more than four decades there was discussion of having āopenā competition between amateurs and pros to end the hypocrisy of āshamateurism,ā but proposals were always defeated by conservative elements within the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTFālater the ITF).
Arguably the biggest change to the regulatory landscape of data privacy comes with the extended jurisdiction of the GDPR, as it applies to all companies processing the personal data of data subjects residing in the Union, regardless of the companyās location.
#tech-ops channel at work because tech ops is not my purview, but Ben always provides lots of detail for historical record which turns out to be super useful for someone like me who likes to look things up. š¤Are paraffin wax candles dangerous? (apart from the fire hazard, that is)
This CNN article from 2009 is the most balanced take Iāve found so far. Balanced because it cites a South Carolina State University study and doesnāt hide or downplay that (a) thereās still some debate (as ever) and (b) it is possible to mitigate the accumulation of the unwanted chemicals.
In reading that SCSU study, the following made me curious:
Massoudiās research stems from a desire to address a possible public health concern, boost the American agricultural economy and promote sustainability.
The candles emissions study is funded by 1890 Research & Extension, a federal and state funded program that helps ensure SC State achieves its land-grant mission of improving the lives of limited resource individuals, families and communities through research, teaching and service.
- Background on the 1890 Research and Extension Program
- A little more detail about the Second Morrill Act of 1890, particularly aimed at the former Confederate states. āThis act required each state to show that race was not an admissions criterion, or else to designate a separate land-grant institution for persons of color.ā I think I can be forgiven for being deeply sketpical on this point at that point in history, however. SCSU is an HBCU, so.
what prompted me to look them up is this from What Works for Women at Work by Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey:
āSavvy is a threshold requirement for women. We have to be astute enough to tack back and forth, navigating between the Scylla of being ātoo feminineā (and so liked but not respected) and the Charybdis of being ātoo masculineā (and so respected but not liked).ā
Who in the world would ban Green Eggs and Ham!?
Oh, China did it: Banned Books Week: Green Eggs and Ham
What is happening when your ears āpopā?
A-ha! Pressure equalization, that makes sense.
favorite code: 418: I'm a teapot
Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code ā418 Iām a teapotā. The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout.
starboard, n. I know that itās the right side (facing forward) of a ship, but I was always forgetting to look up the why.
This side of the ship was so called with reference to the single side rudders used in early Germanic ships, which were typically suspended on the right side of the vessel (for comfortable use by a right-handed helmsman). From the Oxford English Dictionary.
I was telling Jason about the occasional game of 6 Degrees of CiarĆ”n Hinds that @tiffehr and I sometimes play. And he challenged me to go from Hinds toā¦Ā Carrot Top. Honestly, I wasnāt sure Iād be able to do it. But 5 minutes laterā¦Ā š
Carrot Top The Aristocrats > Chris Rock The Fresh Prince of Bel Air > Will Smith Wild, Wild West > Kenneth Branagh half the movies in his career > Emma Thompson Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows > CiarƔn Hinds
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cleaning silverā¦Ā I know that you can clean silver jewelry with tin foil, boiling water, and baking soda, but almost none of the articles & blog posts touting the technique explain why. š© Philadelphia Museum of Art to the rescue! Hands-Free Silver āPolishingā
Itās an electrochemical reaction doing the heavy lifting. The baking soda makes it easier for electrons to move between the silver & aluminum and the aluminum reduces the silver sufide (tarnish) back to silver and produces aluminum sulfide in the process. Why boiling water? Makes the whole process go faster! Nifty.
permille ā°: I donāt know how Iāve been a type nerd this long and never come across the permille, or indeed thought harder about the components of the word āper-_cent_ā :flushed: Of course it only has one 0 in the divisor! Oy.
Came across it in The Loveliest Living Fossil by Jonathan Hoefler.
Boricua: a Puerto Rican, especially one living in the United States. Listening to Code Switch last weekend, Bobbito reminded me Iāve heard this word a bunch of times (like in the middle of āJenny from the Blockā!) and always forget to look it up, but this time I remembered!
Mystery solved! (:
PZEVs run on gasoline, yet offer extremely clean emissions with zero evaporative emissions.
heteroglossia from the phrase āa heteroglossic wonderlandā (which goes straight on to the band name list).
The intro on this isnāt as good as it could be, but I think this bit in the first section gets at the meat in heteroglossia (and provides support for the relationship to code switching):
Extending his argument, Bakhtin proposes that all languages represent a distinct point of view on the world, characterized by its own meaning and values. In this view, language is āshot through with intentions and accentsā (1981: 324), and thus there are no neutral words. Even the most unremarkable statement possesses a taste, whether of a profession, a party, a generation, a place or a time. To Bakhtin, words do not exist until they are spoken, and that moment they are printed with the signature of the speaker.
Bakhtin identifies the act of speech, or of writing, as a literary-verbal performance, one that requires speakers or authors to take a position, even if only by choosing the dialect in which they will speak.
languages.yml: GitHub uses Linguist to detect languages & do the syntax highlighting, this is the list of which keywords are valid.pushInsteadOf, insteadOf in a coworkerās ~/.gitconfig: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#git-config-urlltbasegtinsteadOf
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