what I have learned today.

[chrisbainbridge]

I guess so. (I'm not arguing, just mildly curious.)

Don’t know. I have no personal knowledge of them.

[JefO]

But how is it removed?

How is which removed? The huck bolt simply unscrews, if that is what you meant.

No they don’t unscrew. That is the point of them. You apply a known compression and then the “nut” compresses and locks into the grooves but the nut is round not hexagonal and so will not undo.

It is the fact that these new ones undo because the nut compresses into a helical thread that makes them new to me.

[grams]

Easier to machine that way?

Bolts are manufactured by rolling a rod between two big flat grooved jaws, so circles would be just as easy as spirals.

[citoyen]

The name of the skin colour of Caucasian Lego minifigures is “light nougat”.

[Mr Larrington]

Whereas one of the driver models buried deep in the strata of Euro Truck Simulator 2 is “vanillaice”.

[T42]

What a "thumb turn" is.

[rogerzilla]

The PC game Doom was released 30 years ago this month.  That's not the interesting fact.

The interesting fact is that it repaid the development costs and was profitable ONE DAY after release 

You can buy it for a couple of quid via Steam.  I'm afraid it's a bit rough by today's standards; the fact that you can't look or aim up or down is odd if you're used to Quake, or more or less anything released since 1996.

[MattH]

Doom was what got the first company I worked at networked. The engineers did it as a lunchtime project, drawing network cards out of stores (they were supposed to have been for customer deliverable machines) and draping coax around the factory to connect the different offices together so they could play.

[Mr Larrington]

Doom was entirely responsible for the marked drop in notwork performance at my then-employer every lunchtime, on account of the System Support Team shooting each other utterly to DETH.

[ian]

Curiously, I just writing some blurb for my PhD supervisor's elevation to emeritus and semi-retirement status, and commenting on that fact that many evenings were spent using the lab computers for network Doom against other labs across the building (and yes, the Trewavas Lab sucked the hardest, I killed so many of them). Quite a few late-night, post-pub competitions, fueled with more beer and the occasional whiff of volatile organics.

[Hot Flatus]

The PC game Doom was released 30 years ago this month.  That's not the interesting fact.

The interesting fact is that it repaid the development costs and was profitable ONE DAY after release 

You can buy it for a couple of quid via Steam.  I'm afraid it's a bit rough by today's standards; the fact that you can't look or aim up or down is odd if you're used to Quake, or more or less anything released since 1996.

I was a master of Quake II, played online circa 1998/99.  3dfx card rendered it as shiny magic. Dial-up Internet meant having to wait until about 2am to play a brief 15 minute game before connection speeds dropped. Connecting had more in common with a ouiji board session than anything technical.

My speciality? Leaping from a high up camping spot and loosing off the Rail gun in mid-air for a one-shot kill.

In some ways, parallels could be drawn to my online forum activities in the early days of acf/yacf. 

[rafletcher]

The meaning of confabulation. And although I was correct(ish) that confab derived from it, it is not a contraction and has a completely different meaning.

[Mr Larrington]

Today I are mostly learning that while Iceland has many crime writers it has only one forensic pathologist.  Consequently said pathologist decided to hold a seminar to bring the crime writers up to speed instead of bothering him all the time.  It sold out, obliging him to hold another.  Which also sold out.

This also led me to wonder what happens to suspicious stiffs when the forensic pathologist is on holiday.

[T42]

They send them to Grindavik for the annual Christmas barbecue.

[rafletcher]

That the lights transformer I’ve just had to replace has a timer function built in (8 on, 16 of). No matter as I use a Tapo plug to operate them.

[Hot Flatus]

I've learned a new french word when doing the french version of wordle.

And the word is: nonce. (nm)

Turns out it means a representative to the Pope 

[rafletcher]

That wine could be bought by the pint until we joined the EU in 1973. 

[Canardly]

That Kith as in Kith and Kin is an old English word originally meaning uncouth, which today should more properly refer to places and people well known, rather than family.

[T42]

I've learned a new french word when doing the french version of wordle.

And the word is: nonce. (nm)

Turns out it means a representative to the Pope 

And the Papal equerry who attends a nonce is called the nonce equitur.

[Nuncio]

I've learned a new french word when doing the french version of wordle.

And the word is: nonce. (nm)

Turns out it means a representative to the Pope 

I think I must be a nonce. At least for the time being.

[Feanor]

And the word also has a meaning in cryptography...

[Diver300]

And the word also has a meaning in cryptography...

All the two-factor authentication systems are too squeamish to use the word "nonce" and use the far clunkier description of "one time passcode" or similar.

[ian]

And the word also has a meaning in cryptography...

I once managed a project around SSO that had nonces everywhere. As a result, all the British people would snigger, and the Americans looked puzzled. Then we'd get to crabs and all the younger British people would also be confused. I'm fairly sure they wouldn't get that on TV these days.

[FifeingEejit]

And the word also has a meaning in cryptography...

I once managed a project around SSO that had nonces everywhere. As a result, all the British people would snigger, and the Americans looked puzzled. Then we'd get to crabs and all the younger British people would also be confused. I'm fairly sure they wouldn't get that on TV these days.

Given the Americans liking of forcing their censorship on us, it's time we force it back on them, Mongo DB can go in the bin to start...

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[Snakehips]

There is a bird called the Sunbittern which looks like a giant butterfly when it spreads out its wings.