@drahardja@sfba.social#TodayILearned that the question of what would happen if you placed a sprinkler underwater and *sucked* water through it has been unsolved for 140 years. Finally, someone has experimentally demonstrated what actually happens.
“How Physicists FINALLY Solved the Feynman Sprinkler Problem”
@juandesant@astrodon.socialSince when does macOS have edge-snap? I just found it by chance…
I’ve tried it with QuickLook and Finder windows, even without zooming, and works the same…
#TIL #TodayILearned #macOS
@JorgeStolfi@mas.to#TodayILearned that there are many massive rivers, thousands of km long, snaking over the very bottom of the oceans!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtmIBabc7yc
They are v…
@JorgeStolfi@mas.to#TodayILearned that there are many massive rivers, thousands of km long, snaking over the very bottom of the oceans!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtmIBabc7yc
They are v…
@drahardja@sfba.social#TodayILearned that there is a genre of squishy slip-on shoes made in China that are collectively called “stepping on shit feeling” (踩屎感)shoes.
#products #shoes
@drahardja@sfba.social#TodayILearned that there is a genre of squishy slip-on shoes made in China that are collectively called “stepping on shit feeling” (踩屎感)shoes.
#products #shoes
@drahardja@sfba.social#TodayILearned that there are actually *two* kinds of Chartreuse—green and yellow. So the color “chartreuse” can really be either.
@adamhotep@infosec.exchange#TodayILearned that the color Magenta is derived from the 1859 #TIL
@drahardja@sfba.social#TodayILearned that the scam known as “trickle-down economics” was formerly known as the “horse-and-sparrow theory”:
“If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows.” (quote attributed to John Kenneth Galbraith)
In other words, “let the poors eat shit”.
@JorgeStolfi@mas.to#TodayILearned that Elon Musk has reinvented the concept of "property": https://gizmodo.com/tesla-elon-musk-cybertruck-owners-face-resell-pena…
@drahardja@sfba.social#TodayILearned about yet another awful gift from Ronald Reagan: a legalized kickback scheme in the medical insurance industry perpetrated by Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) companies. By obfuscating the real price of drugs behind rebates (i.e. kickbacks), PBMs incentivize the rapid #enshittification
@drahardja@sfba.social#TodayILearned about yet another awful gift from Ronald Reagan: a legalized kickback scheme in the medical insurance industry perpetrated by Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) companies. By obfuscating the real price of drugs behind rebates (i.e. kickbacks), PBMs incentivize the rapid #enshittification
@drahardja@sfba.social#TodayILearned that the #Cantonese phrase for “getting scapegoated” is 食死貓 (sik6 sei2 maau1), literally “eating a dead cat”.
When someone has to eat a dead cat, it means they have to take the blame for a problem.
🙀
