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#TIL the query component of a URI is actually completely opaque. There is no such thing as a "query parameter" defined in any spec that I can find -- the use of ampersands to delimit such "parameters" is purely conventional!
At some point (HTML4), the recommendation was to use *semicolons* instead: https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2
There is even a line of argument that says that query parameters are a misfeature and antipattern. Any "parameter" should be passed along with the request itself, not the URI
Fundstück: Es gibt einen Film über das Hochhaus Herrengasse, in dem auch einige der unzähligen prominenten Bewohner:innen zu Wort kommen (Gossip inklusive). Zu finden auf der Website des Hochhauses:
https://hochhausherrengasse.at/galerie/film
#Wien #Herrengasse #Hochhaus #HochhausHerrengasse #ErstesHochhaus #Architektur #Prominente #Schauspieler #Künstler #InnereStadt #City #Innenstadt #AnnemarieSelinko #Österreich #Theater #Miete #Wohnen #Wohnung #Zwischenkriegszeit #Gebäude #Wohnhaus #Kult #Film #Doku #TIL
Today I learned that pineapples are not native to Hawaii. Why? Colonialism.
“James Dole identified Hawaii as the ideal location for farming and trade of this cash crop fruit. The Dole Corporation ultimately displaced Hawaiian sovereignty, ruling for a time as a republic, before ultimately influencing Congress to adopt the islands as a state.”
https://academic.oup.com/whq/article-abstract/41/4/512/1880603
#TodayILearned #TIL #History #Colonialism #WhiteSupremacy #Hawaii #Pineapple #Statehood
#TIL that before we had jaywalkers, we had jay-drivers!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/why-is-it-called-jaywalking
#til en québécois, trigger warning se dit mise en garde ou .... traumavertissement
One of the reasons I still listen to @TWiT after all these years is to pick up on “nuggets.” Like this: TIL (via @pluralistic) a nonprofit called Calyx uses a provision in FCC spectrum licensing agreements to resell unlimited mobile bandwidth on the cheap, and with privacy built in. Hot damn! https://calyxinstitute.org/membership/internet #internet #tech #nonprofit #TIL #TodayILearned
#TIL: #uniq has options -f, -s and -w to only check specific parts of a line for uniqueness. -w <n> checks only the first n characters while -s <n> skips the 1st n characters and -f <n> skips the 1st n fields. This is nice to use uniq but still output a full line.
What's missing: Changing the separator for -f and the possibility to check explicitly specific chars/columns or fields, or ranges thereof in the style of e.g. cut -c3-9 or cut -d, -f2-5
Workaround: column -t
#TIL: #uniq has options -f, -s and -w to only check specific parts of a line for uniqueness. -w <n> checks only the first n characters while -s <n> skips the 1st n characters and -f <n> skips the 1st n fields. This is nice to use uniq but still output a full line.
What's missing: Changing the separator for -f and the possibility to check explicitly specific chars/columns or fields, or ranges thereof in the style of e.g. cut -c3-9 or cut -d, -f2-5
Workaround: column -t
#TIL that #OnThisDay in 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre declined the Nobel Prize in Literature award.
"A writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."
"He was the first Nobel laureate to voluntarily decline the prize, and remains one of only two laureates to do so."
Content warning Canadian Indigenous genocide
TIL: In the 1940s and 50s, the Government of Canada approved "nutrition studies" on First Nations communities, primarily kids in residential schools, to determine the bare minimum necessities of survival. (ie, how much can we starve people before they die)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations_nutrition_experiments
#TIL that one (the?) german translation of @pluralistic "enshitification" is "Verschlimmscheißerung" and I approve.
#TIL #Lionsgate hat den neuen #Film #MEGALOPOLIS mit Zitaten beworben, die zeigen sollten, dass selbst #Klassiker wie #DerPate zu ihrer Zeit bei den Kritikern schlecht gelitten waren.
Problem: Irgendjemand hat dafür die #Zitate von #ChatGPT heraussuchen lassen und die #KI hat geliefert - leider frei erfundene Texte.
#Megalopolis #Movie #MovieNews #Fra...
https://youtube.com/shorts/DzTb74uGZLY?si=FSMBrTtNKKguFTry
#TIL that having a functional A/C unit upstairs and a non functional A/C unit downstairs does *not* mean that it it will be warm-but-bearable downstairs and cool-and-nice upstairs.
It means it will be cool-and-nice upstairs and still hot as hades downstairs.
"What about convection," you ask?
Yeah, I'm wondering the same thing 😅💧🔥
#TIL that having a functional A/C unit upstairs and a non functional A/C unit downstairs does *not* mean that it it will be warm-but-bearable downstairs and cool-and-nice upstairs.
It means it will be cool-and-nice upstairs and still hot as hades downstairs.
"What about convection," you ask?
Yeah, I'm wondering the same thing 😅💧🔥
