Today I learned

As Randall Munroe of xkcd says, for each thing “everyone knows” by the time they’re adults, there are 10,000 people in the United States learning about it for the first time.

  • Weltschmerz describes the feeling of world-weariness.
    en.wikipedia.org

    Weltschmerz is a literary concept describing the feeling experienced by an individual who believes that reality can never satisfy the expectations of the mind, resulting in "a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute awareness of evil and suffering".

  • PostgreSQL has native upsert support.
    hakibenita.com

    Features you already have but may not know about!

  • Benford’s law observes the distribution of the first digits of numbers in real data sets follow a logarithmic scale.
    en.wikipedia.org

    Benford's law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets of numerical data, the leading digit is likely to be small. In sets that obey the law, the number 1 appears as the leading significant digit about 30% of the time, while 9 appears as the leading significant digit less than 5% of the time. If the digits were distributed uniformly, they would each occur about 11.1% of the time. Benford's law also makes predictions about the distribution of second digits, third digits, digit combinations, and so on.

  • Twine is a non-linear engine used in prototyping Firewatch.
    twinery.org

  • A clichéd prase template like “X is the new Y” is called a snowclone.
    en.wikipedia.org

    A snowclone is a cliché and phrasal template that can be used and recognized in multiple variants. The term was coined as a neologism in 2004, derived from journalistic clichés that referred to the number of Inuit words for snow.

  • Passementerie is ornamental edging like tassels, braids, and cords.
    en.wikipedia.org

    Passementerie or passementarie is the art of making elaborate trimmings or edgings of applied braid, gold or silver cord, embroidery, colored silk, or beads for clothing or furnishings.

  • Responsively is a modified web browser that allows you to view multiple browser viewports of different sizes simultaneously.
    responsively.app

    A dev-tool that aids faster and precise responsive web development.

  • Typing meet.new into your browser drops you directly into a new ad-hoc Google Meet.
    meet.google.com

    Real-time meetings by Google. Using your browser, share your video, desktop, and presentations with teammates and customers.

  • This “notable people” map shows birthplaces from the most notable people for each region around the world.
    tjukanovt.github.io

  • The Gricean maxims describe specific hidden rules of conversation, called the cooperative principle.
    en.wikipedia.org

    In social science generally and linguistics specifically, the cooperative principle describes how people achieve effective conversational communication in common social situations—that is, how listeners and speakers act cooperatively and mutually accept one another to be understood in a particular way.

  • The Gidget (Gender Inclusive Design, Game, and Educational Technology) Lab is a research group devoted to educational technologies to increase participation in STEM.
    gidgetlab.com

  • Occlusion Grotesque is an experimental typeface that is carved into the bark of a tree. Its digital version is updated annually.
    bjoernkarmann.dk

    Portfolio

  • There’s a period of approximately 6 million years where cats were missing from North America.
    en.wikipedia.org

    The cat gap is a period in the fossil record of approximately 25 million to 18.5 million years ago in which there are few fossils of cats or cat-like species found in North America. The cause of the "cat gap" is disputed, but it may have been caused by changes in the climate, changes in the habitat and environmental ecosystem, the increasingly hypercarnivorous trend of the cats, volcanic activity, evolutionary changes in dental morphology of the Canidae species present in North America, or a periodicity of extinctions called van der Hammen cycles.

  • The Check-in Generator picks a random question to kick start a check-in — reflective, creative, or practical.
    checkin.daresay.io

    Start your meetings off on the right foot with Hej.today a check-in generator created by Daresay

  • The Decider app asks you a few questions to help you decide how to decide as a group.
    thedecider.app

    The Decider – Team Decision Making and Decision Making Models, by NOBL Collective

  • There’s a whole lovely song about banana bread.
    www.youtube.com

    From the new album AWAY WE GO! out now! My Daddy wrote the tune to encourage my niece Lisa to turn old bananas into banana bread. I found the song half finis…

  • You can change the volume of notification sounds on macOS.
    support.apple.com

    On your Mac, change the alert sounds and other sound effects using Sound settings.

  • In JavaScript, there’s an object which will allow cancelling one or many web requests when desired.
    developer.mozilla.org

    The AbortController interface represents a controller object that allows you to abort one or more Web requests as and when desired.

  • When looking for a larger shell, hermit crabs will wait by a too-large shell in a size-ordered line to wait for the right-sized crab and collectively swap shells.
    www.youtube.com

    These clever hermit crabs have organised themselves so they can all swap shells! Hermit crabs often live together in large groups of over 100, giving them pl…

  • The State of Hawaii has a department that’s abbreviated DAGS (Department of Accounting & General Services).
    ags.hawaii.gov

    State of Hawaii

  • SLSA is a framework intended to codify and promote secure software supply-chain practices.
    slsa.dev

    SLSA is a security framework. It is a check-list of standards and controls to prevent tampering, improve integrity, and secure packages and infrastructure in your projects, businesses or enterprises. It’s how you get from safe enough to being as resilient as possible, at any link in the chain.

  • There’s a non-breaking hyphen character to prevent word breaks in hyphenated terms like “COVID‑19” or “I‑94.”
    en.wikipedia.org

  • GitHub is iterating on issue templates with issue forms which support single-line inputs, text areas, dropdowns, and checkboxes.
    ghdocs-prod.azurewebsites.net

    You can customize the templates that are available for contributors to use when they open new issues in your repository.

  • You can open two channels at once side-by-side in Slack for Desktop.
    slack.com

    To multi-task and keep up with a few channels or direct messages (DMs) at once, open new windows in the Slack desktop app. You can have as many windows as you’d like, and drag and drop them to org…

  • The term andon refers to a system in which any individual in a process can raise an alarm when a processing or quality problem occurs. It gives individuals the ability and empowerment to stop and call for assistance.
    en.wikipedia.org

    In manufacturing, andon is a system which notifies managerial, maintenance, and other workers of a quality or process problem. The alert can be activated manually by a worker using a pullcord or button or may be activated automatically by the production equipment itself. The system may include a means to pause production so the issue can be corrected. Some modern alert systems incorporate audio alarms, text, or other displays; stack lights are among the most commonly used.

  • Some fungi form networks between plants to transfer water, carbon, and other nutrients and minerals to each other.
    en.wikipedia.org

    A mycorrhizal network is an underground network found in forests and other plant communities, created by the hyphae of mycorrhizal fungi joining with plant roots. This network connects individual plants together. Mycorrhizal relationships are most commonly mutualistic, with both partners benefiting, but can be commensal or parasitic, and a single partnership may change between any of the three types of symbiosis at different times.

  • Marchetti’s constant posits that people adapt their lives so that their average travel time to work is approximately 30 minutes.
    en.wikipedia.org

    Marchetti's constant is the average time spent by a person for commuting each day. Its value is approximately one hour, or half an hour for a one-way trip. It is named after Italian physicist Cesare Marchetti, though Marchetti himself attributed the "one hour" finding to transportation analyst and engineer Yacov Zahavi.

  • There’s a website which “generates all sorts of weird fishes.”
    github.com

    procedurally generated fish drawings. Contribute to LingDong-/fishdraw development by creating an account on GitHub.

  • The state of Wyoming has two escalators.
    www.npr.org

    There is a reported paucity of moving staircases in the Cowboy State. And that shortcoming has been posited as a argument for Wyoming to have fewer than its allotted pair of Senators. Audie Cornish and Melissa Block turn to the self-proclaimed escalator editor of the Casper Star-Tribune, Jeremy Fugleberg.

  • Wikimedia’s Grafana instance (which shows statistics on their running services) is public.
    grafana.wikimedia.org

  • The term “Deaf Gain” (as apposed to “Hearing Loss”) refers to the myriad of ways which both deaf people and society at large benefit from the existence of deaf people and sign language.
    www.psychologytoday.com

    Shifting our perceptions of deaf people from hearing loss to deaf gain.

  • Postres can natively convert SQL results to JSON objects.
    crunchydata.com

    PostgreSQL has built-in JSON generators that can be used to create structured JSON output right in the database, upping performance and radically simplifying web tiers.

  • There’s an official Spanish version of the Star-Spangled Banner.
    www.youtube.com

    Performed by: Jeidimar Rijoswww.hispanicstar.org - ABOUT THE ANTHEMIn 1945, the State Department under President Franklin D. Roosevelt commissioned an offici…

  • Blind users can edit text on Android devices using TalkBack (if it cooperates).
    www.youtube.com

    How to edit Text using TalkBack. With some practice, and some calming breaths, it can be done rather easily!Video showing how to edit text using VoiceOver:h…

  • You can press Control to temporarily pause VoiceOver readout.
    support.apple.com

    When VoiceOver on your Mac is speaking, there are several ways to pause or mute it.

  • Permission marketing works like this: if you stop showing up, people complain, they ask where you went.
    seths.blog

    Permission marketing is the privilege (not the right) of delivering anticipated, personal and relevant messages to people who actually want to get them. It recognizes the new power of the best cons…

  • The phrase “long time no see” may have originated as a phrase mocking Chinese immigrants’ usage of English (it is a direct translation of the common greeting 好久不见).
    www.quora.com

    Answer (1 of 14): The earliest examples of “long time no see (you)” I can find date to 1900–1910, and are used for English spoken by American Indians or Chinese people, along with other broken English like “you go home mucha quick”, “heap hungry”, and “number one shoulders, all same your fadder”.…

  • The medical model of disability views disability as a defect in a human, whereas the social model of disability views disability as an inability of society to accomodate a person’s differences.
    odpc.ucsf.edu

  • Of 1121 federally-managed .gov domains, 28% of them simply redirect to another domain.
    ben.balter.com

    Analysis of what technologies power federal .gov websites - 2021 edition.

  • Dice have dots on them because they predate Arabic numerals.
    en.wikipedia.org

    Dice are small, throwable objects with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions. They are used for generating random values, commonly as part of tabletop games, including dice games, board games, role-playing games, and games of chance.

  • There is a braille keyboard on iPhone.
    twitter.com

    I thought I would share how I, as someone who is visually impaired use my iPhone.☺️ pic.twitter.com/wPI9smOIq0

  • A numeronym is a number-based word, like k9 (representing “canine”) or a11y (representing “accessibility”).
    en.wikipedia.org

    A numeronym is a word, usually an abbreviation, composed partially or wholly of numerals. The term can be used to describe several different number-based constructs, but it most commonly refers to a contraction in which all letters between the first and last of a word are replaced with the number of omitted letters . According to Anne H. Soukhanov, editor of the Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary, it originally referred to phonewords – words spelled by the letters of keys of a telephone pad.

  • Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are the third most common ingredient in human breast milk, and is indigestible by babies (it feeds gut bacteria).
    en.wikipedia.org

    Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), also known as human milk glycans, are short polymers of simple sugars that can be found in high concentrations in human breast milk. Human milk oligosaccharides promote the development of the immune system, can reduce the risk of pathogen infections and improve brain development and cognition. The HMO profile of human breast milk shapes the gut microbiota of the infant by selectively stimulating bifidobacteria and other bacteria.

  • In Slack, you can add multiple emoji reactions by holding Shift.
    twitter.com

    You can add multiple reactions by holding "shift" down while making your selections in the emoji picker if that's how you're adding reactions!

  • Bob Ross, Inc. is located in Herndon, VA.
    www.washingtonpost.com

    It had been a hard month for the country, and we needed Bob Ross now, I told the company when I called and begged them to let us visit their new headquarters.

  • The IRS cannot accept a single check (including a cashier’s check) for amounts of $100 million or more.
    www.forbes.com

    Owe $100 million or more to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)? Better write that check now.

  • GitHub shows public keys registered to a user if you append .keys to their profile URL.
    github.com

  • There are 11 characters for different kinds of spaces, including the word space (the one you get with the space bar), zero-width space, and em space.
    web.archive.org

    My premium Nuxt.js project

  • You can figure out if a phone number is a mobile, landline, or VoIP number using AWS Pinpoint.
    docs.aws.amazon.com

    Amazon Pinpoint includes a phone number validation service that you can use to determine if a phone number is valid, and to obtain additional information about the phone number itself. For example, when you use the phone number validation service, it returns the following information:

  • ULID (Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier) is similar to a UUID, but sorts alphabetically according to time.
    github.com

    The canonical spec for ulid. Contribute to ulid/spec development by creating an account on GitHub.

  • The General Services Administration used to manage hemp plantations in South America.
    www.gsa.gov

    A brief overview of the evolution of GSA.

  • SPIFFE (Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone) is a universal identity control plane for distributed systems, designed to authenticate services to each other.
    spiffe.io

  • There’s a book written in 1420 with a blank spot in it because a cat peed on the page.
    web.archive.org

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  • You can develop film using instant coffee.
    brentryanjohnson.com

    I was skeptical at first, but developing black and white film with instant coffee, washing soda, and vitamin C actually works.

  • Can’t Help Falling in Love as recorded by Elvis Presley was originally written as “Only fools rush in / But I can’t help falling in love with him”.
    en.wikipedia.org

    "Can't Help Falling in Love" is a song recorded by American singer Elvis Presley for the album Blue Hawaii (1961). It was written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss and published by Gladys Music, Inc. The melody is based on "Plaisir d'amour", a popular French love song composed in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini. The song was initially written from the perspective of a woman as "Can't Help Falling in Love with Him", which explains the first and third line ending on "in" and "sin" rather than words rhyming with "you".

  • Lewin’s theory of change proposes that individuals are influenced by restraining forces (obstacles that counter driving forces aimed at keeping the status quo) and driving forces (positive forces for change that push in the direction that causes change to happen) — and three steps to adjust the equilibrium point.
    ojin.nursingworld.org

    The complexity of healthcare calls for interprofessional collaboration to improve and sustain the best outcomes for safe and high quality patient care. Historically, rehabilitation nursing has been an area that relies heavily on interprofessional relationships. Professionals from various disciplines often subscribe to different change management theories for continuous quality improvement. Through a case review, authors describe how a large, Midwestern, rehabilitation hospital used the crosswalk methodology to facilitate interprofessional collaboration and develop an intervention model for implementing and sustaining bedside shift reporting. The authors provide project background and offer a brief overview of the two common frameworks used in this project, Lewin’s Three-Step Model for Change and the Lean Systems Approach. The description of the bedside shift report project methods demonstrates that multiple disciplines are able to utilize a common framework for leading and sustaining change to support outcomes of high quality and safe care, and capitalize on the opportunities of multiple views and discipline-specific approaches. The conclusion discusses outcomes, future initiatives, and implications for nursing practice.

  • More than you ever want to know about how Emoji are implemented and rendered.
    tonsky.me

    Detailed look into all the machinery involved in rendering Emoji

  • Collective capitalism is a type of captialism, and one such example is interlocking share ownership, in which companies own shares in other companies. This results in a spirit of cooperation between the involved companies, since each has an interest in the other’s performance.
    en.wikipedia.org

    Collective capitalism was a theory that was advanced by American economist G. Means in the 1960s. It was intended to overcome the failings of traditional capitalism, using the Great Depression in the 1930s as an example. It rejects the principles advanced by Adam Smith, who created the notion of the "invisible hand" of 'self-correcting' market forces. The theory expresses the capitalist socialization of production, but only in a distorted manner. Japan's collective capitalism relies on cooperation, but ignores the fact that the means of production are private. It cannot be considered socialist because the means of production belongs to corporations.

  • Regexper is a tool which generates syntax diagrams to aid in understanding and writing regular expressions.
    regexper.com

    Regular expression visualizer using railroad diagrams

  • There’s a U.S. Government API for dad jokes from fatherhood.gov.
    web.archive.org

  • YAML has extremely fine-grained control over how multiline strings are processed.
    yaml-multiline.info

    Find the right syntax for your YAML multiline strings.

  • FAIR is an acronym that refers to data which is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
    en.wikipedia.org

    FAIR data are data which meet principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR). The acronym and principles were defined in a March 2016 paper in the journal Scientific Data by a consortium of scientists and organizations.

  • A capitonym is a word that changes its meaning (and sometimes pronunciation) when it is capitalized.
    en.wikipedia.org

    A capitonym is a word that changes its meaning when it is capitalized; the capitalization usually applies due to one form being a proper noun or eponym. It is a portmanteau of the word capital with the suffix -onym. A capitonym is a form of homograph and – when the two forms are pronounced differently – is also a form of heteronym. In situations where both words should be capitalized, there will be nothing to distinguish between them except the context in which they are used.

  • Normalization of deviance is the process by which improper or incorrect behavior becomes gradually standardized through inaction or a lack of consequence for variance.
    en.wikipedia.org

    Normalization of deviance, according to American sociologist Diane Vaughan, is the process in which deviance from correct or proper behavior or rule becomes culturally normalized.

  • The business fable of the chicken and the pig references when some parties are strongly committed and some are lightly invested.
    en.wikipedia.org

    The business fable of The Chicken and the Pig is about commitment to a project or cause. When producing a dish made of eggs with ham or bacon, the pig provides the ham or bacon which requires his or her sacrifice and the chicken provides the eggs which are not difficult to produce. Thus the pig is really committed to that dish, while the chicken is only involved, yet both are needed to produce the dish.

  • When IP addresses end with a slash and a number, they are in CIDR notation which is a way of specifying a range of IPs. The suffix determines the last significant bit, so higher numbers are more specific — CIDR notation for a single IP address in IPv4 ends in /32, in IPv6 it’s /128.
    en.wikipedia.org

    Classless Inter-Domain Routing is a method for allocating IP addresses and for IP routing. The Internet Engineering Task Force introduced CIDR in 1993 to replace the previous classful network addressing architecture on the Internet. Its goal was to slow the growth of routing tables on routers across the Internet, and to help slow the rapid exhaustion of IPv4 addresses.

  • There is a cross-platform standard for buildpacks — the Cloud Native Buildpacks project was initiated by Pivotal and Heroku and aims to unify the buildpack ecosystems and incorporates learnings from maintaining production-grade buildpacks for years.
    buildpacks.io

    Cloud Native Buildpacks transform your application source code into images that can run on any cloud.

  • Similar to how “example.com” is provided as an example domain, RFC5737 is about IPv4 addresses used for examples, which are any address in networks 192.0.2.0/24 (TEST-NET-1), 198.51.100.0/24 (TEST-NET-2) and 203.0.113.0/24 (TEST-NET-3), like 192.0.2.10, 198.51.100.3 or 203.0.113.254 which don’t exist on the Internet.
    stackoverflow.com

    We use the example.com often for domain name reference. I wonder if any IP address used as an example IP address to mention in references like tutorial or notes?. I knew the loop back interface 127…

  • USPS sells Global First Class Forever stamps ($1.20) in addition to their national counterpart ($0.55).
    www.usps.com

    First-Class Mail International is a fast, low-cost way to ship lightweight packages and letters internationally. USPS sends mail to over 180 countries, including Canada and Australia. See delivery times and how much postage or how many Global Forever stamps you need for a letter or postcard.

  • A Certificate Authority Authorization (CAA) DNS record indicates which authorities can issue security certificates for the domain.
    en.wikipedia.org

    DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) is an Internet security policy mechanism that allows domain name holders to indicate to certificate authorities whether they are authorized to issue digital certificates for a particular domain name. It does this by means of a "CAA" Domain Name System (DNS) resource record.

  • There are three types of fun — type 1 (fun while it’s happening), type 2 (fun in retrospect), and type 3 (not fun despite feeling like it would be fun).
    kellycordes.com

    I first heard about the Fun Scale from my friend Peter Haeussler back in 2001, as we bushwhacked through thick Alaskan Devil’s Club en route to cold beers on his sailboat. I’d just come out of the …

  • Airplane black boxes are orange in color.
    en.wikipedia.org

    A flight recorder is an electronic recording device placed in an aircraft for the purpose of facilitating the investigation of aviation accidents and incidents. The device may often be referred to colloquially as a "black box", an outdated name which has become a misnomer—they are now required to be painted bright orange, to aid in their recovery after accidents.

  • Despite having an “American” association, apples are from Central Asia.
    en.wikipedia.org

    An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree. Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus Malus. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, Malus sieversii, is still found. Apples have been grown for thousands of years in Asia and Europe and were introduced to North America by European colonists. Apples have religious and mythological significance in many cultures, including Norse, Greek, and European Christian tradition.

  • Since Lyndon Johnson, the President of the United States has used a Shure SM57 microphone for addresses (most often in a pair).
    www.wamc.org

    When Joe Biden steps up to the presidential podium in the coming weeks, the speeches he’ll deliver will have one thing in common with his most recent…

  • Green visors that accountants wore around the 1900s were to reduce eyestrain due to early incandescent lights (and were worn by more than just accountants).
    en.wikipedia.org

    Green eyeshades or dealer's visors are a type of visor that were worn most often from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century by accountants, telegraphers, copy editors, and others engaged in vision-intensive, detail-oriented occupations to lessen eye strain due to early incandescent lights and candles, which tended to be harsh. Because they were often worn by people involved in accounting, auditing, economics, and budgeting, they became associated with these activities.

  • The interval specified when configuring a Route53 Health Check is not the interval you’ll receive health check requests — instead, it’s about 15 times higher (the interval is per AWS data center).
    docs.aws.amazon.com

    When you create or update health checks, you specify the applicable values. Note that you can’t change some values after you create a health check.

  • ONNX is an open format built to represent machine learning models.
    onnx.ai

  • There is an extended markdown syntax for footnotes, supported by some parsers.
    www.markdownguide.org

    Advanced features that build on the basic Markdown syntax.

  • Korean fried chicken developed as a byproduct of the Korean War, where Black Americans intoduced Koreans to soul food.
    en.wikipedia.org

    Korean fried chicken, usually called chikin in Korea, refers to a variety of fried chicken dishes created in South Korea, including the basic huraideu-chicken and spicy yangnyeom chicken. In South Korea, fried chicken is consumed as a meal, an appetizer, anju, or as an after-meal snack.

  • Python has a Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) which prevents multiple lines of Python code from executing concurrently across threads.
    wiki.python.org

  • If an S3 bucket has periods in its name, it can’t use accelerated transfers.
    docs.aws.amazon.com

    Get faster data transfers to and from Amazon S3 with Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration.

  • The mix-blend-mode CSS property sets how an element’s content should blend with the content of the element’s parent and the element’s background.
    developer.mozilla.org

    The mix-blend-mode CSS property sets how an element’s content should blend with the content of the element’s parent and the element’s background.

  • Universal Scene Description (USD) is an open source project which is an efficient, scalable system for authoring, reading, and streaming time-sampled scene description for interchange between graphics applications, maintained by Pixar.
    openusd.org

  • Email was invented in 1971.
    en.wikipedia.org

    Electronic mail is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices. It was conceived in the late–20th century as the digital version of, or counterpart to, mail. Email is a ubiquitous and very widely used communication medium; in current use, an email address is often treated as a basic and necessary part of many processes in business, commerce, government, education, entertainment, and other spheres of daily life in most countries.

  • Sea urchins will voluntarily put on hats if available.
    www.reef2reef.com

    Hello everyone, I just want to share my little a little discovery with you guys. After seen my sea urchins carrying snail shells, rocks on their back I decide to read more about it. Studies reviewed the possible reasons would be to protect themselves against predators and/or full-spectrum light…

  • If JavaScript’s equals operator is used to check secret values, attackers can use the response latency to determine the length of the password and how far into the string the characters are incorrect.
    snyk.io

    A little over 3 years ago, a few friends and I started a group called pasten to participate in the Chaos Computer Club’s Capture The Flag (CTF) competition. It is a jeopardy style CTF, where the participating teams need to solve security related challenges in various categories such as exploitation, reverse engineering, web, forensic & crypto.

  • Arcing current from an AM radio broadcast tower is an effective amplifier for the broadcast signal.
    www.youtube.com

  • A piebald animal is one that has a pattern of unpigmented spots (white) on a pigmented background of hair, feathers or scales.
    en.wikipedia.org

    A piebald or pied animal is one that has a pattern of unpigmented spots (white) on a pigmented background of hair, feathers or scales. Thus a piebald black and white dog is a black dog with white spots. The animal's skin under the white background is not pigmented.

  • Alexithymia is the inability to identify and describe emotions in yourself or others. People with alexithymia may need to rely on others to help them diagnose and address depression.
    en.wikipedia.org

    Alexithymia, also called emotional blindness, is a neuropsychological phenomenon characterized by significant challenges in recognizing, expressing, and describing one's own emotions. It is associated with difficulties in attachment and interpersonal relations. While there is no scientific consensus on its classification as a personality trait, medical symptom, or mental disorder, alexithymia is highly prevalent among individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ranging from 50% to 85% of prevalence.

  • Okta is a unit of measurement for cloud cover.
    en.wikipedia.org

    In meteorology, an okta is a unit of measurement used to describe the amount of cloud cover at any given location such as a weather station. Sky conditions are estimated in terms of how many eighths of the sky are covered in cloud, ranging from 0 oktas through to 8 oktas. In addition, in the SYNOP code there is an extra cloud cover indicator '9' indicating that the sky is totally obscured, usually due to dense fog or heavy snow.

  • The gender neutral form of ombudsman is either ombudsperson or ombud.
    www.ombudsassociation.org

    What is an Organizational Ombudsman?

  • Assisted suicide is legal in Washington, DC.
    dchealth.dc.gov

  • Eugene Schieffelin introduced the common starling to North America because he wanted to introduce all the birds mentioned in the plays of William Shakespeare to North America.
    en.wikipedia.org

    Eugene Schieffelin was an American amateur ornithologist who belonged to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the New York Zoological Society. In 1877, he became chairman of the American Acclimatization Society and joined their efforts to introduce non-native species to North America for economic and cultural reasons. His 1890 release of European starlings in Central Park resulted in the first successful starling nesting in North America to be observed by naturalists.

  • Marbled crayfish can clone themselves.
    en.wikipedia.org

    The marbled crayfish or Marmorkrebs is a parthenogenetic crayfish that was discovered in the pet trade in Germany in 1995. Marbled crayfish are closely related to the "slough crayfish", Procambarus fallax, which is widely distributed across Florida. No natural populations of marbled crayfish are known. Information provided by one of the original pet traders as to where the marbled crayfish originated was deemed "totally confusing and unreliable". The informal name Marmorkrebs is German for "marbled crayfish".

  • Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska celebrates Fat Bear Week annually, to publicize and celebrate the process of bears eating as much as they can to build up crucial fat reserves in advance of winter hibernation.
    www.npr.org

    The annual competition is put on by Alaska’s Katmai National Park & Preserve to choose the fattest bear. This year, Holly beat out Lefty in the championship round, winning more than 80% of the votes.

  • LUFS (Loudness units relative to full scale) is a scale of loudness (the compression and amplification of sound resulting in a higher perceived sound).
    en.wikipedia.org

    Loudness, K-weighted, relative to full scale (LKFS) is a standard loudness measurement unit used for audio normalization in broadcast television systems and other video and music streaming services.

  • There is a proposed standard which allows websites to define security policies through .well-known/security.txt
    securitytxt.org

    A proposed standard that allows websites to define security policies.

  • Using archive_file in Terraform can generate ZIPs on-the-fly.
    registry.terraform.io

  • Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.
    nixos.org

    Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.

  • There’s a Ben and Jerry’s flavor graveyard in Waterbury, VT.
    www.atlasobscura.com

    The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

  • Wreck is a HTTP client utility library for hapi projects.
    hapi.dev

    View the APIs for the hapi modules

  • The saying “one swallow doesn’t make spring” derives from Aristotle and means that one instance of an event doesn’t necessarily indicate a trend.
    en.wiktionary.org

  • You can use some shell scripting magic to achieve self-documented Makefiles.
    marmelab.com

    Good projects are automated projects. But documenting all those Make targets in a README file doesn’t make much sense, when you can make the Makefile auto-documented.

  • USB 3.0 interferes with devices in the 2.4–2.5GHz spectrum, including Wi-Fi signals.
    superuser.com

    I have read in several product reviews that USB 3.0 ports and hubs can interfere with 2.4GHz devices, including the common Logitech wireless keyboards and pointing devices (mice, trackballs, etc.).…

  • There’s a media query to check system color schemes for dark/light preferences.
    developer.mozilla.org

    The prefers-color-scheme CSS media feature is used to detect if a user has requested light or dark color themes. A user indicates their preference through an operating system setting (e.g. light or dark mode) or a user agent setting.

  • The efficiency-thoroughness trade-off principle, which states that efficiency and thoroughness are competing concerns.
    en.wikipedia.org

    The efficiency–thoroughness trade-off principle is the principle that there is a trade-off between efficiency or effectiveness on one hand, and thoroughness on the other. In accordance with this principle, demands for productivity tend to reduce thoroughness while demands for safety reduce efficiency.