Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,
Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost
Carrots are good for your eyes. I learned it from the movie Shoot’em Up where Clive Owen plays an assassin and he eats carrots because it’s good for his eyes.
I’ve heard this is not true, but it was a lie by the UK government to cover up the invention of radar and the cracking of the enigma code.
Bananas are 4011 when buying them.
What
most grocery stores have a number system so that a cashier can punch in a number to ring up a certain product. this is especially useful for fruit and vegetables, as often times it doesn’t have packaging and doesn’t have a barcode. the vast majority of groceries use 4011 as the number for bananas.
I’d imagine it’s because the number 4011 is already used in production and logistics of bananas, so the grocery stores just stick to the barcode/number that bananas already have on their box when they get delivered. that’s just a guess though.
Like this, except it’s operated by the cashier?
kinda. the device in your image only does the job of weighing product, and applying a price per weight to the measurement and printing a barcode label based on that. the 4011 will probably only be used by cashiers, who usually have a number pad to enter those numbers into the point of sale system, instead of a button for each possible number. the device in your image is probably designed like that because it’s for customers and easier to operate. there is probably a chart somewhere out of frame that translates those numbers into products.
Pretry much. Not on a chart, but on the price label of the product you’d be buying. I don’t think any store here does weighing at the cashier.
I see, interesting. thanks for that insight.
4011 is the PLU code for bananas. This is the number the cashier types in to weigh and sell them to you. Bananas are usually one of the cheapest items per pound in a grocery store, so I’ve “heard rumors” from a “friend” that if you type this number into a self checkout machine, whatever you weigh is charged as bananas instead of saffron or black truffles or whatever.
There are approximately π x 10^7 seconds in a year. It differs by less than 0.4%).
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Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
If you try to use the god mode code from Doom in Heretic, it kills you and tells you not to cheat.
IDDQD
Forever remember it
I think the 2nd Descent game worked in a similar fashion. Entering a cheat code from the first Descent game would reduce you to 1% shields and health.
White green, green, white blue, orange, white orange, blue, white brown, brown.
Are you making a crossover cable or installing it for the government? Those are the only places that I know of that A is used regularly. Nearly everywhere else uses B in my experience.
Really? I wasn’t sure which one I “should” use so I looked at a cable that I had laying around (probably came with a cable modem or something?) and was able to see the wire colors through the connector and it was A. So that’s what I’ve been using when making patch cables or wiring my house.
I guess my question is what’s your experience with where B is used? Mostly I’m just curious, it probably doesn’t really matter for me since I only do networking work in my house.
It shouldn’t actually matter. It’s strictly by convention that the US (and probably North America; unclear about beyond) almost exclusively uses B. The big risk is that people will assume it’s B, and the other end is B, which can cause issues when they e.g. replace a receptacle and make all of your connections crossover. But even that shouldn’t matter much these days.
There’s also some very limited issues switching from A to B on the same line (A in wall, B in patch cable), but this is very rare. If you saw A, it was probably either a crossover, or you live in a place that uses A.
I guess it doesn’t really matter as long as you stick to one for both ends of the cable
So I learned all this almost 2 decades ago so the details may be off…
There’s crossover cables, which are a-b and used if you want to connect one computer to another-the tx and rx are flipped from one side to the other, so two “client” devices (like 2 computers) don’t speak and listen on the same line
There’s rollover cables, which are flipped on one side, that were used to connect to the console port of a router
Aside from that, nothing about the configuration really matters except being standard. The reason they’re not just in stripe-color color order is to separate the tx and rx to minimize interference
I’m pretty sure all of this became moot after hundred gigabit Ethernet became a common thing anyways - they multiplex electrical signals across each of the wires, so they have to negotiate the method or fall back to a simpler protocol from the start. I’m not sure how robust it is to randomly shuffling the order on each side individually (I wouldn’t try it on hardware I wasn’t willing to risk)
So really, all that matters is that it matches. And since we’ve been doing it a certain way for so long, doing it differently is a bad idea. A vs b makes no difference, but you could make green the split pair and it’d be identical. You could use the same arbitrary order on each side and you’d probably not notice much difference, although you might get a lot more errors from minute interference
And FWIW, I think b is the more common standard across the world… But any advantage or disadvantage probably died back when we stopped using those trunk lines with dozens of pairs split out on a punch down block that goes to a bunch of different homes
Are you making the assumption I am from North America?
Every place I have worked in Australia and Europe uses green first.
California Cows Don’t Dance the Fandango
Steps for laser printing:
Cleaning, Charging, Drawing, Developing, Transferring, Fusing
I’ve known this for over 20 years and never used it. Thanks catchy mnemonics!
T568-A guy I see
I’m a B guy myself.
I managed to memorize it for a test in networking class. The teacher was surprised someone actually managed to get it right.
-All of the planets in the solar system can fit between the earth and the moon -Stoplights detect your presence with an electromagnetic field using wires and not pressure -There is a receiver above stoplights that EMS vehicles can trigger to change the light red for everyone -We left astronaut poop on the moon -The numbers on a toaster are not always in minutes -Most common mold is not dangerous when ingested or inhaled unless you are allergic -Celeste Tea was founded and made by a cult, maybe still is -Christian Science had laws passed in the majority of states in the 80s that prevented prosecution of child abuse due to religious practices -The statistical value of a human life in the US is 10 million at dollars -Jellyfish reproduce and are birthed as polyps on the ocean floor -The chiral version of the sugar molecule would taste identical to sugar but is indigestible, we have no practical ways to produce it though afaik -Only one president has failed to release his tax documents -There are multiple US presidents who were likely gay
I’ll stop there, and yes these facts do rotate through my head for no real reason, they’re just fun!
Bicycle wheels with quick release axles have 9.525mm diameter, rounded up to 10mm. This is because the sizing is not actually metric, but 3/8 inch so imperial.
This is why it’s most commonly called 9mm qr (quick release) /facepalm
To be fair, 0.5mm is a good clearance foe that application
Male bedbugs have a knife-like penis. To have sex, they stab the females in the thorax with it because the females don’t have genitalia. The semen is then injected directly into the female’s main body cavity for insemination
I don’t like you
Okay?
This goes by the pleasant sounding scientific name of “traumatic insemination”.
Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.
Aibohphobia is the (unofficial) fear of palindromes
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
That is just as cruel as forcing speech impaired people to pronounce the word speech-language pathologist.
Dolphines are whales. People keep doubting me, whenever I bring that up :D
Aren’t dolphins, whales and orcas all part of the cetacean group?
Why do people keep doubting you?! They are the exact same but a little bit smaller. Nobody bats an eye when we say that lions and tigers are cats… people are dumb.
Tegucigalpa is the capital of Honduras. No idea where I learned that
Scots have 421 words for “snow”
Name three.
Snow
Shite snow
Fookin snow
Fookin
Nobody in Scotland has ever unironically said “fookin”.
Snow, sleet, slush. Those aren’t really Scots words though, I think they were mixing it up with the (also not really true) factoid that Inuits have hundreds of words for snow.
Did we aye
Away an shite
in Earthbound, there’s an exploit where you can have technically infinite PP if you put a Magic Truffle to the last slot of your inventory and buy a good amount of Ketchup Packets.
When you use the Magic Truffle in a battle, only just a Ketchup Packet will be consumed but not the truffle - you still gain 90 PP.
Karl Marx got drunk one night and, after being kicked out of a bar in London where he got drunk, went around London and almost got arrested sabotaging the lamp posts with rocks with his colleagues who were also drunk.
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They’re them at the glowing bit until it’s dark.
Throwing rocks at the glass part that emits light, taking out the bulb.
