#TIL днес много образователен ден го заформихме!

#TIL Germany charges a 25‑cent deposit on every single‑use drink bottle and can, and returns 98% of them, the highest deposit‑return rate worldwide.

#ink #world #geography

#TIL where exactly the term "abugida" for an alphabet with modified consonant signs to show the following vowel comes from. Besides the South #Semitic letter order shown on the left here, the #Ge'ez script can also be presented as on the right:
ʾä bu gi da he wə zo
bä gu di ha we zə yo
...

TIL: Die Ehefrau von Taylor Lautner (irgendwas mit Twilight) heißt... Taylor Lautner.

#TIL #TaylorLautner #OneTayorLautnerTwoTaylorLautners

#TIL In 2024, Elizabeth Holmes’s boyfriend founded a blood-testing startup making claims eerily similar to Theranos’s. Holmes now advises him from prison, underscoring ongoing scrutiny of the same type of high-stakes medical tech.

#sam #history #startup #space

Tromsø — TIL har valgt å flytte sportssjefen til Tromsø etter at Kræmer-Andressen forlot. #Tromsø #TIL #News

#til Tubi.tv streaming content is blocked in Iceland. 🤷🏻‍♂️

At least, that's my conclusion.

#iceland #tubi #tubitv

#TIL: Wood wide web ಠ︿ಠ

#TIL if you add "box" to your GitHub repo URL, it will create a @codesandbox.io for it! For example, if the repo is GitHub.com/foo/bar, GitHubbox.com/foo/bar will redirect to codesandbox with the code on the main branch

Hey, double thanks. #TIL Ted Rall is on this site!

#TIL wyvern

Etymology:

Alteration of Middle English wyver (“viper”),
from Old Northern French wivre,
from Vulgar Latin *vivra, *vibra,
from Latin vīpera (“viper; snake, serpent”).
Doublet of weever and viper. Related to viviparous.

- Wiktionary, the free dictionary […]

#TIL `pnpm install --fix-lockfile`, which was apparently the solution I needed.

And really begs the question of "What does `pnpm install` do the lockfile if not fix it? Is it `--break-lockfile` by default?"

Nouvelle insulte débloquée
Tête de Membracide bison !
#til

#TIL Salad Fingers speaks softly because its creator, David Firth, recorded the series quietly to avoid waking his parents.

#creators #saladfingers #quietly

Pour le ventre (rouge à pois noirs) c'est plutôt cyclisme et Tour de Suisse #TIL

#TIL In 4th-century BC Athens, wealthy courtesan Phryne was tried for impiety. She stood before the jury despite pressure to reveal her body, and her lawyer Hypereides argued her beauty couldn’t offend the gods. The jury acquitted her.

#4th #athens #mpi #century

#TIL (sose késő) Ki lehet kapcsolni a Finder play gombjait a videó ikonokon. Ugye semmi értelme 64x64-ben megnézni a videót, viszont legalább nem lehet tőle kijelölni az ikont rányomással:

defaults write com.apple.finder QLInlinePreviewMinimumSupportedSize -int 514
killall Finder

#TIL lexis, noun

▪ The set of all words and phrases in a language; any unified subset of words from a particular language.

▪ Words, collocations, and common phrases in a language; vocabulary and word combinations.

▪ The vocabulary used by a writer.

🤔 so, then: an LLM is …

a lexis slot […]