Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦#TIL herl, noun
The fibrous shaft or barb of a feather (especially that of the ostrich or peacock) used to make artificial flies for angling.
An artificial fly made with this barb.
#TIL ret, verb:
from Proto-Germanic *rautijaną (“to make mellow or soft”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewd- (“to tear; rend; rip”). Related to rot.
(transitive) To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.
Matzebob#TIL
Bioshock on the Switch does not auto save with Vita Chambers, Switch crashed just when I was about to leave Fort Frolic. I spent 45 min. on the main objective and probably another 45 min on looting the entire place :/
Bioshock on the Switch does not auto save with Vita Chambers, Switch crashed just when I was about to leave Fort Frolic. I spent 45 min. on the main objective and probably another 45 min on looting the entire place :/
Abie#TIL "Since 2016 in Scotland, and 2021 in Wales, 16 and 17-year-olds have been able to vote in local government, Senedd and Scottish Parliament elections.
In England, the minimum voting age for local and mayoral elections is 18."
Via the Beeb
Outvi V#TIL for #logrotate:
warning: logrotate in debug mode does nothing except printing debug messages! Consider using verbose mode (-v) instead if this is not what you want.
warning: logrotate in debug mode does nothing except printing debug messages! Consider using verbose mode (-v) instead if this is not what you want.
Jazone
michael#TIL that Thierry Hermes, founder of the luxury leather company, came from #Krefeld. Not much #familyHistory on Gedbas beyond his parents, but may be worth digging elsewhere:
https://gedbas.de/person/show/1424460753
https://gedbas.de/person/show/1424460753
Zebadiah CarterRE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116531516608957079
Well #TIL, and that's WILD. Thanks Ben!
David RuffnerI learned today from a coworker that in python you can use slice indexing to insert a list into another list. For example:
```
a = [0,1,2,3]
b = [8,9]
a[1:1] = b
print(a)
# [0, 8, 9, 1, 2, 3]
```
It works but seems strange to me. It makes sense that the index 1 position of the `a` list gets filled in with the first entry from the `b` list, but then this previously index 1 value is remembered and gets appended to the end of the `b` list. It's not obvious to me.
I intend to look into the implementation to see how it works under the hood.
Strange New Words (Adam)TIL that annual AI spending in the US is exceeding US annual spending for World War II when adjusted for inflation.
US AI spending in 2025: $1.5 trillion
US cost of World War II over 4 years (Dec 1941 - Aug 1945), adjusted for inflation: $4.1 trillion
The Apollo program, by contrast, was a steal at a mere $300 billion, adjusted.