[HN Gopher] Things I Learnt in 2023
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Things I Learnt in 2023
Author : valzevul
Score : 53 points
Date : 2024-01-13 20:55 UTC (1 days ago)
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| xz18r wrote:
| Cool list, some reading material for tonight. This reminds me of
| a similar thing I did in 2021 which was collecting a tidbit of
| trivia knowledge every single day:
| https://www.karelvo.com/blog/2022-01-01-365-thing-i-learned-...
| valzevul wrote:
| That's pretty cool, thanks for sharing!
|
| (seems like I will be spending tonight learning how to mimic
| bird sounds)
| throwup238 wrote:
| _> I wonder what happened though, and how kids managed to study
| constantly drunk._
|
| They learned early how to be functional alcoholics. Drunk kids
| these days just don't know how to handle their liquor and society
| has been going down the drain because of it.
| giantg2 wrote:
| Upto half a liter isn't much, especially considering that most
| traditional brews were lower alcohol content than the typical
| stuff today. So they probably weren't drunk, but who knows how
| that might have affected them in the future.
| abid786 wrote:
| Half a liter is 2/3 of a standard bottle of wine. Even if
| it is only 11% ABV, this still equates to 55 ml of ethanol.
| An average 14 year old male weighs 112 lbs, about 70% of an
| adult's size.
|
| So if we extrapolate linearly, 55 ml of ethanol would be
| equivalent to 78 ml of ethanol for an adult, which is 6.5
| shots, assuming a 1 oz shot
| giantg2 wrote:
| Yeah, but the wine was supposedly watered down for the
| children too. And that would be the maximum limit too.
| maximinus_thrax wrote:
| Everything you're saying is true, but the wine was watered
| down. I grew up in (Eastern) Europe and I used to have a
| glass of wine with my parents at dinner time when I reached
| my teens pretty much every time they did (we had a small
| vineyard, like most people, and wine was plentiful).
| However, I was mixing it with mineral water (50-50) and
| with a heavy meal, I never got drunk from that.
| fasterik wrote:
| I wouldn't consider functional alcoholism to be a good thing
| for anyone. It's especially bad for brain development under age
| ~25, before the prefrontal cortex is fully developed.
|
| https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/alcohol-and-adolescen...
| bsder wrote:
| Drinking contaminated water could kill you for most of the
| first half of the 20th century.
|
| So, it's probably an unclear tradeoff, historically.
| oa335 wrote:
| I've recently read that the idea that pre moderns drank
| alcohol as an alternative to contaminated water is a myth.
| See https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ol1h45/
| comme...
| singedproxy wrote:
| This gotta be the most alarmist, out-of-touch with reality
| comment I've read this year.
| AnimalMuppet wrote:
| Yeah, but it's only mid January...
| throwup238 wrote:
| How out of touch with reality do you need to be to take an
| absurd "kids these days" joke seriously?
|
| You _should_ be alarmed!
| gumby wrote:
| I believe Belgian schools still serve low-alcohol beer in the
| canteens.
| LaundroMat wrote:
| That's the first I hear of this and I've been Belgian for the
| past 49 years.
| gumby wrote:
| Well you've been missing out!
|
| I have a small group of Belgian friends and it's quite
| possible they've been pulling my leg. Sad (for the kids) if
| so. Belgian beer is great!
| Lukeisun wrote:
| Spam musubi is so good, the author should try making some :)
| tinycombinator wrote:
| I loved having spam with kimchi stew too. Growing up, I didn't
| even realize spam was a brand.
| myrandomcomment wrote:
| It is not Rugby but American Football you are talking about.
|
| Rashomon is film by Akira Kurosawa from 1950 where the killing of
| a Samurai is told from various points of view. That is why the
| story telling you are talking about is called that.
| valzevul wrote:
| Ah, then today I learnt that rugby and American football are
| different!
|
| I knew about the Kurosawa's movie though, just didn't mention
| it in the snippet.
| atom-morgan wrote:
| I'm surprised anyone thought the line was drawn on the field
| considering it changes with every first down.
| simonw wrote:
| A fun note about the multiocular O - - is that Unicode 15.0.0
| included an update to it because it didn't have enough eyes:
| https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1571615998335123457
|
| It should have 10, but many existing fonts only have 7.
|
| Here's "Proposal to revise the glyph of CYRILLIC LETTER
| MULTIOCULAR O":
| https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5170-multiocular-o.pdf
| throwup238 wrote:
| Also known as the trypophobia character:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia
| AndriyKunitsyn wrote:
| There's that (practically useless) thing, there are all sorts
| of palm gestures like U+1FAF3 "PALM DOWN HEAD", U+1F91E
| "CROSSED FINGERS", and of course U+1F595 "MIDDLE FINGER", but
| there's no fig gesture [deg] in emojis, and proposals to add it
| were filed and rejected twice [^]. The Unicode consortium
| priorities are weird.
|
| [deg] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_sign
|
| [^] https://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-requests.html
| wideopenjake wrote:
| As far as Spam Musubi - the US military brought Spam to the
| islands during WWII, and it quickly became available off-base.
| Combined with wartime fishing restrictions on the islands, the
| quickly became the easiest meat source available to locals. They
| made do with what they had, and spam sushi was invented along the
| way. Eventually, it took on a cult following of its own, and the
| rest is history - but Spam's place on the Hawaiian Islands
| originally comes from hardships imposed by the US military
| occupying the islands during WWII.
| JoachimS wrote:
| Kaffeost is nice! Here is some more info:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_cheese
| gweinberg wrote:
| Spam Musubi isn't that rare, you can get it at any Quickly.
| account-5 wrote:
| > Conkers... I wonder if there is a winning strategy...
|
| Cook them, just don't get caught having cooked them because then
| you're going to need to win a fight too.
| paulette449 wrote:
| I have fond memories of playing conkers in Dublin in the late
| 70s/early 80s, thanks to a number of horse chestnut trees at
| the end of our street. We'd "borrow" a knitting needle to piece
| them.
| oa335 wrote:
| Falooda is not the only Mughlai dessert with noodles: Doodh
| Savaiyan is sweet milk with vermicelli noodles.
| gumby wrote:
| Thing I learnt is that this person says he collates things he
| finds in RSS feeds but doesn't offer an RSS feed himself.
| o11c wrote:
| Note that "Stone of Scone" is pronounced "Skoon". Unlike the
| food, which is pronounced "skon".
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