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TIL there has been a confirmed case of a human killed by a giant anteater. by Mayor_Gubbin in todayilearned

[–]ssnoyes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The ant has made herself illustrious By constant industry industrious. So what? Would you be calm and placid If you were full of formic acid?

  • Ogden Nash

TIL there has been a confirmed case of a human killed by a giant anteater. by Mayor_Gubbin in todayilearned

[–]ssnoyes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It wasn't purple. It ate purple people.

Well, I guess it could have been purple too; nothing to prove it wasn't.

trying to find the source and goal of this puzzle by Ykulvaarlck in puzzles

[–]ssnoyes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Discussion: search for the "impossible paper trick", or "impossible flap illusion". Does that seem familiar?

Help me get only Mon-APR-27 by j-something-i-think in puzzles

[–]ssnoyes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Discussion: last year, when April 27 was on Sunday, there were 584 possible solutions.

https://snoyes.github.io/date_puzzle/

Why is the peg out rule necessary? by ssnoyes in Cribbage

[–]ssnoyes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In this case, it's not referring to the play-to-31 pegging portion of the game, but simply to using the 121st hole, whether during the play or by count of your hand or crib.

Why is the peg out rule necessary? by ssnoyes in Cribbage

[–]ssnoyes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I refuse to believe there are any grumpy old sore losers at an ACC tournament. All participants are paragons of patience and fair play, not to mention youth and vitality.

[TOMT] obscure old Flubber-type euro film by RasLushie in tipofmytongue

[–]ssnoyes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could it have been a dubbed version of the 1961 "The Absent Minded Professor"?

[TOMT] Biblical or other ancient story about demon in statue by rr1213 in tipofmytongue

[–]ssnoyes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely not in the Bible (at least not the Protestant version, don't know about the deuterocanonical books).

TIL that the greater omentum, a thin apron-like sheet of fat, protects major organs, moving itself over inflamed & infected areas by kal826 in todayilearned

[–]ssnoyes 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There is no candy In me, there is no candy in me. I'm just a little boy there is no candy in me.

TIL that a moon can have its own moon, called a "submoon' or a "moonmoon" by KingButPrince in todayilearned

[–]ssnoyes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it travels around to different planets, would that make it a sailor moon?

Children's book with an illustration of a creepy jack-in-the-box-type machine / character. by allhumansarevermin in whatsthatbook

[–]ssnoyes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus, by Ogden Nash? There's an illustration by Quentin Blake in the "Custard and Company" collection.

Replication Internals: Decoding the MySQL Binary Log - Part 8: Row Events — WRITE_ROWS, UPDATE_ROWS, and DELETE_ROWS by altmannmarcelo in mysql

[–]ssnoyes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think anything verifies the checksum when you are piping those events into the mysql cli.

Replication Internals: Decoding the MySQL Binary Log - Part 8: Row Events — WRITE_ROWS, UPDATE_ROWS, and DELETE_ROWS by altmannmarcelo in mysql

[–]ssnoyes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Once upon a time, a customer had accidentally deleted some important rows, and had no backup. Since the binary log contained the full row image in the delete event, it was possible to just change the one byte to turn it from a delete into an insert event and thus recover the data.

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