TIL that changing a .bashrc alias to a bash function requires you to restart the terminal as calling source ~/.bashrc does not change the alias to the function call.
if you thought emails were great at getting stuff lost, wait til you check out this thing called twtxt
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TIL: the guy who invented the toilet wasnât named âcrapperâ, but he WAS named âcummingsâ.
TIL that thereâs an organization for promoting McLuhanâs work whose initialism is TMI.
TIL that Tron was written by Alan Kayâs wife. That adds so many new dimensions to that movie, and makes âI fight for the usersâ even more appropriate as a slogan.
Dr. Edward Morbius â: âTIL: You can run a crude-and-simple Internet ArcâŚâ - mastodon.cloud https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/101391501109425841
TIL that Jaron Lanier is to blame for Second Lifeâs shitty/dysfunctional internal Linden economy
TIL that the technology for viewing US census data summaries is called DADS: https://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/data_access_and_dissemination_system_dads.htm
TIL: doing google image search for âjapanese â is useless for finding reference images for contemporary japanese architecture. âanime â works much better.
TIL git checkout - works like cd - and checks out the last branch you were on.
Effects on dreamtime, should it be completed, will be devastating. Only years til bitter rain scours a dying wasteland and poisons dreamers.
TIL http://t.co/FvhyPpEQWK is like the olde timey myspace. My eyes hurt from all the glitter.
Comment on Ubuntu 13.10 Default Wallpaper Revealed by John Porter
In reply to Tobias MĂźller.
Couldnât agree with you more. Iâm just gonna wait til 13.10 is released though, then switch to Ubuntu again. â Read more