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[bachophile]

[Horace]

Marsupial pouches are like the redneck ingenuity of evolution.

[bachophile]

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

I was waiting for them to attack each other…

[George K]

[Copper]

We have a couple of Great Blue Herons on the golf course.

If you walk close to one and startle it sitting at the edge of a pond, it will really get your attention when those wings unfold.

[Axtremus]

History of PDF:

https://www.se-radio.net/2022/10/episode-532-peter-wyatt-and-duff-johnson-on-30-years-of-pdf/

Radio interview of two PDF veteran technologists on how PDF has evolved in the last 30 years. You can download the audio for offline listening, I believe.

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

The brain pathologist, Edward Charles Spitzka, who did the autopsy on Garfield's assassin (Charles Guiteau) found that Guiteau's brain was structurally abnormal, perhaps predisposing him to insanity.

The man who examined the brain of McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was Edward Anthony Spitzka, the son of the other Spitzka.

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[Klaus]

@kluurs Is that photo real? Why would somebody make a very expensive photo of two dirty kids in 1904? At that time, taking a photo was an event for which people dressed specifically.

[kluurs]

@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

@kluurs Is that photo real? Why would somebody make a very expensive photo of two dirty kids in 1904? At that time, taking a photo was an event for which people dressed specifically.

Retraction - No, apparently not. It is shown as Al Capone and his brother on a few sites which is why I thought it legit - but up on further sleuthing it appears to be a photograph of Vivian Maier's who wasn't born till 1926. Thus, you're right, not Al Capone.

[Mik]

Vinyl record and needle at 1000x

[Horace]

Before computers, you could look at a piece of technology and gain some insight into how it worked.

[Klaus]

@Horace said in Mildly interesting:

Before computers, you could look at a piece of technology and gain some insight into how it worked.

And with computers, you can look at a piece of code and gain some insight into how it works.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

@Horace said in Mildly interesting:

Before computers, you could look at a piece of technology and gain some insight into how it worked.

And with computers, you can look at a piece of code and gain some insight into how it works.

Which is a lot less cool or interesting to anyone not doing it for a living.

[Klaus]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

@Horace said in Mildly interesting:

Before computers, you could look at a piece of technology and gain some insight into how it worked.

And with computers, you can look at a piece of code and gain some insight into how it works.

Which is a lot less cool or interesting to anyone not doing it for a living.

That's why coding should be a basic skill that everyone should have to some degree, regardless of whether he or she does it for a living.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

@Horace said in Mildly interesting:

Before computers, you could look at a piece of technology and gain some insight into how it worked.

And with computers, you can look at a piece of code and gain some insight into how it works.

Which is a lot less cool or interesting to anyone not doing it for a living.

That's why coding should be a basic skill that everyone should have to some degree, regardless of whether he or she does it for a living.

It is neither surprising nor in keeping with the spirit of this thread to learn you feel that way about what you do for a living.