TODAY I LEARNED (TIL) - thread

[Anorion]

Tom Stoppard the playwright likened the nucleus to the altar at the centre of St Paul's Cathedral, with the electrons like moths orbiting by the dome. So yes, there's so much empty space that if you squeezed it all out, squeezed out all the empty space in the atoms in the human race, they would fit in the volume of a sugar cube.

-Marcus Chown

 

[kaz]

TIL writing comments between *--------* will make it appear bold on Youtube

 

[amjath]

TIL writing comments between *--------* will make it appear bold

where in tdf?

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reddit?

 

[kaz]

where in tdf?

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reddit?

ooops forgot to say the main thing
In Youtube comments

 

[sam_738844]

TIL that Anand Lal Shimpi from Anandtech has officially retired from Editor in Chief.

AnandTech | The Road Ahead

Great Work Anand, always liked your articles. The site has been torpid since awhile now, time for Ryan smith to boost it back to its former glory ( and get rid of the obvious bias towards...anyway.. please )

Append :

This just in ! Apple Hires Longtime Technology Journalist Anand Lal Shimpi - Mac Rumors

 

[amjath]

^ so site name will be changed?

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wonder what role he will get in Apple

 

[ariftwister]

TIL that bunking college on first day of the weekdays is half as much as fun as bunking on last day of the weekdays,

 

[Anorion]

TIL my college has net. no restrictions.

Our photoshop Sir saw two of us updating Warframe and said even he will join us for Counter Strike!

 

[kaz]

TIL to get into safe mode in Windows 8.1 when laptop didn't boot...
No F8, why you do this Mycrowsoft, I cry

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TIL learned Lens for iPhone

 

[harshilsharma63]

TIL to get into safe mode in Windows 8.1 when laptop didn't boot...
No F8, why you do this Mycrowsoft, I cry

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TIL learned Lens for iPhone

The legacy boot menu is just a single command away-

Run command prompt as admin and execute this command.

[B]bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy[/B]

 

[amjath]

^ yeah we need to enable manually, they want us to use advanced options using disk for troubleshooting everytime

 

[kaz]

[MENTION=140941]harshilsharma63[/MENTION] Thanks

 

[Flash]

TIL: That A Man Renovating His Home In 1963 He Discovered A Tunnel... To A Massive Underground City.

 

[kaz]

TIL to make my 4-5 years old MMX Data Card work in Windows 8.1
I thought it was dead

 

[Anorion]

TIL that monitors do not use DPI to display pictures, only the resolution. DPI is important only for print
Say No to 72 dpi
The 72 PPI Web And Screen Resolution Myth

 

[dashing.sujay]

[MENTION=56202]Anorion[/MENTION] - DPI is basically used to make icons and text bigger or smaller, not the overall display.

 

[Vyom]

TIL that monitors do not use DPI to display pictures, only the resolution. DPI is important only for print
Say No to 72 dpi
The 72 PPI Web And Screen Resolution Myth

The article seemed more like a rant than anything, but also quite myth-busting and educational. TFS.

 

[Anorion]

TIL Amuricans are wearing untreated, natural, no blow-dried hair grown on Indian women
The Big Business of Stealing Fake Hair -- The Cut

Indique, a company that has provided hair to Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Jennifer Lawrence, has factories in India where company employees obtain the coveted hair from Indian temples.

 

[kaz]

TIL that ARP of Premium Trains is only 15day
also learned that when you keep scrolling down the facebook news feeds, at the end it would show- There are no more posts to show right now.

 

[Flash]

TIL

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