TIL: Today I Learned

[aimeeandbeatles]

No, just out dated. I don't see a print button. The nostalgic look is bending your objectivity.

Look on the top row. There's a Print button next to "file 8."

 

[Ferocitus]

I've known about it for a while, but today I re-discovered the AlphaSmart, a battery-powered word processor from the 1990s/2000s.



I kind of want one.

It looks like it could be easily re-purposed into an attractive handbag.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

On the issue of privacy and hospital records, it seems I'm one of the people whose records were illegally accessed recently in our local hospital. Apparently I'm not supposed to worry about this, as they say my care wasn't compromised and my information (as far as they know) hasn't been shared to my detriment.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It looks like it could be easily re-purposed into an attractive handbag.

Anyways, TIL I learned of postencephalitic parkinsonism, Sometimes viral illnesses can set off degeneration in the substantia nigra, which produces Parkinsons-like symptoms.

 

[Birdjaguar]

If you punched through at the screen, the top looks like a handle and the rest like a purse. Of course, as a purse, it would only hold documents. The real question he raised though, is if you used that design and made a real handbag that looked like that, would it sell?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I guess that depends on the overlap between handbag enthusiasts and old-technology enthusiasts.

 

[Kyriakos]

90s standalone word-processors were a major scam. Worse than a computer word-processor in every way, and ridiculously costly for what they were (utter garbage).

 

[Broken_Erika]

90s standalone word-processors were a major scam. Worse than a computer word-processor in every way, and ridiculously costly for what they were (utter garbage).

Get a real word processor, a Wang 1200.

Spoiler :

 

[Synobun]

Get a real word processor, a Wang 1200.

Spoiler :

Get your wang away from me, Erika!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It was nowhere near you before you came to this thread.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Get your wang away from me, Erika!

How about a flare?

 

[Kaitzilla]

The Simpsons are genius.

2000 versus 2019

 

[Estebonrober]

About radians, primes, and dirilecht's theorem.

 

[Kaitzilla]

About radians, primes, and dirilecht's theorem.

Huh, I watched that video 5 hours ago.

 

[Ferocitus]

TIL about a recent patent for a Plasma Compression Fusion Device.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20190295733.pdf

 

[Hrothbern]

TIL that half an hour ago Eliud Kipchoge started a marathon in Vienna with as goal to finish within two hours.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I guess that depends on the overlap between handbag enthusiasts and old-technology enthusiasts.

If ThinkGeek were still in business, this would definitely be something they would sell as some sort of carry bag for tablets.

 

[Kyriakos]

TIL that half an hour ago Eliud Kipchoge started a marathon in Vienna with as goal to finish within two hours.

"Marathon" is cultural appropriation

 

[Hrothbern]

"Marathon" is cultural appropriation

Sharing culture is human enrichment free of charge

 

[Kyriakos]

Sharing culture is human enrichment free of charge

Easy to say when no one wants Zwarte to be shared in the first place