TIL: Today I Learned

[aimeeandbeatles]

Today I learned that there's a bridge in Scotland that dogs keep jumping off. (Some of them don't survive. )

 

[Valka D'Ur]

AFAIK you can crawl around a variety of Egyptian sites in Assasins Creed Origins. It even has a free roam mode without the stabby bits.

I have heard of this game, but have never played it.

Hes wrong, its not just noise, its deeply irritating noise.

If you don't like the disco versions, why not give a listen to the videos I posted of the Ecuadorian musicians playing them on panflutes? Sometimes one arrangement of a song won't be appealing but another one will.

For instance... Gordon Lightfoot's "The Canadian Railroad Trilogy" is one of his best-known songs. But I prefer the Irish Rovers' version instead because it's more expressive.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Like Fleetwood Mac?

You almost certainly know more about Fleetwood Mac than I do.

Fleetwood Mac's most successful song in the UK is Albatross.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Here's a list from Rolling Stone

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-guitarists-153675/thurston-moore-39681/

Thanks for the clips...that guy can definitely wail. The one was a definite throwback to the Jefferson Airplane days with the girl in the barely crotch length skirt and the screw me boots. Made me long for a good microdot.

I'm no expert either, but I have one thing to say against Rolling Stone's list by experts...like most experts they are more impressed by innovation than sound. Yes, they are entitled to their opinions and I don't disagree with their opinions or want to argue with them. I don't even disagree with their perspective being a very valid way to look at the question because no doubt that anybody who can have a historical impact on not only the music of their own moment but players down into future generations is beyond question a master.

But on some level I'm a simple guy, and I like what I like. A player might be dismissed as "totally derivative, he just took his style from _______," but if he can wail he can wail and I'm not taking that away from them just because they aren't making a mark in the history of music.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

TIL that there was a drug trade-related shooting in the neighborhood where I used to live. Thank goodness I got out of that part of town, because the cops didn't clean it up anywhere close to how they said they did. It's still dangerous there.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Generally speaking, drug trade related shootings are only dangerous to people in the drug trade.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

But what if they miss? The bullet might hit somebody else.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

But what if they miss? The bullet might hit somebody else.

Stray bullets, even in nominal high crime areas, are a negligible risk even compared to stray cars, which in themselves are pretty much a negligible risk.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

TIL that somebody made a computer game about curling.

I have no interest in even trying this game, but have just posted it in case someone else might be curious. I did download one about golf, though. Of course these are older games that might not even work on Windows 10, but we shall see.

 

[H4run]

TIL:
Scandinavian love to growl long before the emergence of death metal.

Growled vocals may have been a part of Viking music. In the 10th century, Arab-Spanish Sefardi Jewish merchant Abraham ben Jacob visited Denmark and commented on the local music as follows: "Never before I have heard uglier songs than those of the Vikings in Slesvig. The growling sound coming from their throats reminds me of dogs howling, only more untamed."

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

TIL that if you don't ever use Windows hibernation, you can free up a bit of disk space by going to command prompt in admin-mode:
powercfg -h off
This gets rid of the enormous hiberfile.sys file.

 

[Synobun]

TIL that if you don't ever use Windows hibernation, you can free up a bit of disk space by going to command prompt in admin-mode:
powercfg -h off
This gets rid of the enormous hiberfile.sys file.

How enormous are we thinking here

 

[Samson]

How enormous are we thinking here

It probably depends how much memory you have. Mine is 6.5 Gb:

C:\>dir /ah
...
16/02/2020  22:18     6,348,902,400 hiberfil.sys
13/04/2020  18:12    20,376,760,320 pagefile.sys

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

How enormous are we thinking here

The size of your RAM from what I've heard

 

[Arakhor]

I use Windows hibernation, because my PC will insist on blinking at me when I use Sleep and that's really not appealing.

 

[Cutlass]

I use Windows hibernation, because my PC will insist on blinking at me when I use Sleep and that's really not appealing.

I use sleep, and then shut off the power supply to the pc. When you turn the power supply back on, it wakes from sleep like normal.

 

[Zkribbler]

TIL that, in the first Rambo movie First Blood, Rambo killed 0 people.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

TIL that, in the first Rambo movie First Blood, Rambo killed 0 people.

He kills one person by accident.

 

[Samson]

He kills one person by accident.

Rambo throws a rock at the chopper, meaning the chopper losses control briefly and Galt falls and dies. In the US, that is not going to be a verdict of accidental death when it is the police that die.

 

[Traitorfish]

Rambo throws a rock at the chopper, meaning the chopper losses control briefly and Galt falls and dies. In the US, that is not going to be a verdict of accidental death when it is the police that die.

In the US, a police officer could choke on a donut on the other side of town and Rambo would be help responsible.