juandesant, 26 days ago to til

Since 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 #Sonoma #EdgeSnap

16 seconds video recording of macOS Sonoma showing two overlapping windows: a Safari Window occupying around 60% of the left part of the screen, and a small notes window partially on top of it. Behind, there is a Desktop with several folders and files, and the default macOS Sonoma desktop. The cursor moves to the green button of the notes window, and (while pressing the Option key) shows a menu for making the notes window occupy 50% to the right of the Window. Then, the mouse clicks on the Safari window, and then moves to the edge. It drags the right edge to the left until the Window no longer covers it, then leaving some breathing room. Then the edge is pulled to the right, and when it arrives to the edge of the Notes window, it does not move further, while the mouse cursor does… until it suddnely moves further away to follow the mourse cursor, obscuring the Notes window. It then drags again to the left, so that the Notes window can be again seen in full, and then gives some more margin, and then tries again with the same result: the edge of the Safari window snaps to the Notes window, until the mouse drag cursor moves too much further right, and then the edge follows again the mouse cursor.

drahardja, 29 days ago to TodayILearned

#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 #lostInTranslation #steppingOnShitFeeling

https://www.leenhiboutique.us/products/stepping-on-shit-feeling-hole-shoes-ladies-2023-new-summer-wear-non-slip-thick-soled-baotou-semi-cool-slippers-womens-summer-1

parunenuitdete, 30 days ago to til French

Quobna Ottobah Cugoano était un esclave affranchi d’origine ghanéenne, figure de la lutte abolitionniste.

Son ouvrage "Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery" (1787) ferait de lui le premier auteur anti-esclavagiste noir.

Conférence de Jennifer Pitts, Collège de France, 14 mai 2024 :
"Les Lumières et l’esclavage : Cugoano, Condorcet et les débats sur l’abolition à la veille de la Révolution"

https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/conferencier-invite/les-lumieres-et-esclavage-cugoano-condorcet-et-les-debats-sur-abolition-la-veille-de-la-revolution

Richard Cosway, "Richard and Maria Cosway, and Ottobah Cugoano", 1784

#til #TodayILearned #QuobnaOttobahCugoano #Condorcet #AntiEsclavagisme #abolitionnisme #esclavage #CollegeDeFrance #JenniferPitts #Lumieres #XVIIIe #histoire

drahardja, 1 month ago to TodayILearned

#TodayILearned that there are actually two kinds of Chartreuse—green and yellow. So the color “chartreuse” can really be either.

peterbutler, 1 month ago to til

TIL that the strongest biological material on Earth is thought to be the teeth of the limpet snail

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2014.1326/

#TIL #TodayILearned #Snails #Biology #Teeth

TheJen, 1 month ago to til

Sadly, Bonzo did not succeed.

<https://noc.social/@todayilearned/112294786745959300>  
todayilearned@noc.social - TIL Ronald Reagan was nearly killed during his acting career when the chimpanzee actor in Bedtime for Bonzo started strangling him with his necktie. He had to be cut free by a crewmember.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime_for_Bonzo#Production](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime_for_Bonzo#Production)  
#til #todayilearned  
[https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1c7h2ze/til_ronald_reagan_was_nearly_killed_during_his/](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1c7h2ze/til_ronald_reagan_was_nearly_killed_during_his/)

drahardja, 2 months ago to TodayILearned

#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”.

takeonrules, 2 months ago to TodayILearned

Started a new habit as I learn Go-lang. Namely a #TodayILearned #OrgMode document.

Spending just a bit of time up front adding headlines for the topics helps in the future scan-ability.

Also, I'm incorporating lots of links and leveraging back links.

aeveltstra, 2 months ago to TodayILearned

#TodayILearned: You can't change other people's actions because they already happened. All you have left is your reaction. Approach it practically: does it help you to get depressed? No? Let it go. Does it help you to get angry or despair? No? Let it go. #mindfulness
#psychology #mentalwellness

drahardja, 2 months ago to TodayILearned

#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.

🙀

drahardja, 2 months ago to TodayILearned

#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”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM-VWNb5Trk

kingrat, 2 months ago to TodayILearned

Today I learned I can use Libby in a browser at https://libbyapp.com/

I don't like reading in my browser, but it sure is a lot easier to add books to my TBR and manage holds.

#TodayILearned #TIL #Libraries #Libby

PChoate, 2 months ago to TodayILearned

#TodayILearned #TIL Samuel L. Jackson has made around $357,161,000 from his movies. He averages around 2200 words per movie in 156 movies. That's about $1040 per word.
"Motherfker" was 1116 of those words.
Samuel L. Jackson has made roughly $1,160,640 from saying "Motherfker"

adamsdesk, 3 months ago to TodayILearned

The Words of Age by Decade

Today I learned of a group of words that describe the age of a person by decade from watching a television series. Will you join me in this discovery?

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/words-age-decade/

#TodayILearned #TIL #writing

adamsdesk, 3 months ago to til

Today I learned that the majority of road signs use either Highway Gothic or Clearview sans serif font.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Gothic
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_(typeface)

#TIL #TodayILearned