Things you should know by now, but only just discovered

Jason Statham was a diver... and had hair.

There is caffeine in chocolate!
There is 20mg in each 100g of milk chocolate. There is about 30mg in each teaspoon of instant coffee.

I have been coffee free at work for ten years but I was eating chocolate as a pick me up in the afternoon. I was only eating it for the sugar.

Yep. And more (sometimes much more) in dark chocolate, depending on the percentage. My doctor didn't even know that, I was avoiding caffeine due to PACs and borderline BP, but wanted to know if a dark chocolate bar a day (stevia-sweetened) was bad, and his reaction was amusing. I had to explain it to him.

If the milk chocolate you're talking about is Hershey's, that's got 11% cacao in it, and 9mg of caffeine in a 1.5oz bar (42g, I believe). So for the 55% cacao chocolate bar I eat, that's a serving size of 40g (close enough), it's got about 45mg of caffeine. And three servings per bar, I think...

Hmmm. I need to rethink my habit, I guess... Dammit.

Robear wrote:

My doctor didn't even know that, ... his reaction was amusing. I had to explain it to him.

Sounds like a fun conversation. 'Hey, doc....it sounds like your medical problem is _______.'

I just think it had not occurred to him. And I'm kind of pissed now. The bars are 90g, so it's two servings per bar, but I do three, so 2/3 of 45... That's still 30mg of caffeine. One coffee cup equivalent per what I usually eat. And that's *exactly* what I'm not supposed to be eating.

It's so f*cking hard to give up sugar AND chocolate.

You're not responsible for anyone else's happyness.

This needs more context.

If you deliberately make someone unhappy that's on you. If you are in a relationship and never make any effort at all that's on you.

However if the above doesn't apply to you and someone's unhappy, no matter how hard you try you cannot make them happy.

In the same vein noone is responsible for your happyness.

Again if you have an abusive partner then that's on them and you have every right to get out. But otherwise if you're unhappy in a relationship only you can fix it. You just have to grit your teeth and find ways to improve yourself, explore new hobbies, get professional help and/or medication if needed.

But putting the burden of your happyness on anyone else but yourself is a fools errand.

Took a divorce, several bad relationships, and getting remarried for me to figure that one out. I somehow always end up taking the slowest, hardest path.

Was anyone else here pissed off when jumping from Windows 7 to Windows 10 because you can no longer select a file in Windows Explorer and then press Alt-F and then M to rename the file?

...

F2

F2 is all you need.

F2 is probably better but doesn't clicking the file after it's selected rename it too?

Mermaidpirate wrote:

F2 is probably better but doesn't clicking the file after it's selected rename it too?

That requires patience if you don’t want to end up double-clicking.

Vargen wrote:
Mermaidpirate wrote:

F2 is probably better but doesn't clicking the file after it's selected rename it too?

That requires patience if you don’t want to end up double-clicking.

You can adjust your double-click rate in the mouse settings, but not sure if that actually affects renaming. I wish Windows had built-in mass renaming features. Seems crazy it doesn't.

Delerat wrote:

You can adjust your double-click rate in the mouse settings

It's a classic Type-I / Type-II error problem: make the settings too far in one direction and you'll never accidentally rename files, but too far in the other and you'll never be able to open a file except when you're fully alert --- or something like that--I'm way too tired to explain correctly and I think you know what I mean. F2 solves that.

macOS handles it with clicks just like Windows but also you can select a file and hit Return to enter renaming mode. That is a more convenient button than F2 IMHO.

Rykin wrote:

macOS handles it with clicks just like Windows but also you can select a file and hit Return to enter renaming mode. That is a more convenient button than F2 IMHO.

More convenient yes, but also a worse choice IMO. When teaching computer use to seniors, one of the tricks I have used very successfully is to not attempt to teach double clicking; whenever you would double click, have them single click and hit enter. People who have even minor motor control issues have a far easier time. by switching this functionality to the much less commonly used rename it makes the MAC much harder to use for a significant portion of the populace. I can't say it's too surprising that the "young hip" company that brought us the dark grey on slightly darker grey background imovie interface would neglect the needs of senior users, but it is not a good design choice.

x% of y = y% of x

so

2% of 75 = 75% of 2

Oh my, very nice. Wonder why that didn’t come up in high school?

The only reason I can think of is because the math involved is so trivial?

x * y/100 = x/100 * y = (x*y)/100

Like, of course that's the case, but I'd never grokked it that succinctly before either!

I assume it's because multiplying and dividing with fractions can too easily lead to errors, so just stick to the basics.

You can also think of direct translation.
"Per" for division
"Cent" for 100.

I'd teach students to replace the percent sign by 1/100 or by 0.01.
Similarly, if you need a number to be as a percent....multiply by 1.
Just in the form 100/100 or 100%.

But no.....most just want to remember to move the decimal and I catch them with questions where a percentage is under 1% or over 100%.

(And don't even get me started on most mnemonics. I loathe "is over of")

I don’t know if you’ve ever been given a carriage clock. I have. It’s a little rectangular clock, often golden if not actual gold, with a little handle on top. In the UK they will adorn the mantlepieces of people of a certain generation.

Yesterday a friend of mine asked, “Do you know why they are called carriage clocks?” I’d always assumed it was a term relating to the clock case. I said I didn’t. “ People would carry them in carriages when travelling up and down the country (he mimed carrying one) so they could know the time in relation to their starting point. There was no effort to keep time the same all over the country, that came in with the railways, so different areas could ‘drift’ time wise and different towns could have considerably different times. Carrying a little clock would help people stay in touch with their own areas time.” My friend looked at me. “I didn’t know that,” I said and then, after a little pause, “and that explains the handle!”

Higgledy wrote:

I don’t know if you’ve ever been given a carriage clock. I have. It’s a little rectangular clock, often golden if not actual gold, with a little handle on top. In the UK they will adorn the mantlepieces of people of a certain generation.

Yesterday a friend of mine asked, “Do you know why they are called carriage clocks?” I’d always assumed it was a term relating to the clock case. I said I didn’t. “ People would carry them in carriages when travelling up and down the country (he mimed carrying one) so they could know the time in relation to their starting point. There was no effort to keep time the same all over the country, that came in with the railways, so different areas could ‘drift’ time wise and different towns could have considerably different times. Carrying a little clock would help people stay in touch with their own areas time.” My friend looked at me. “I didn’t know that,” I said and then, after a little pause, “and that explains the handle!”

That's really interesting! I thought it was just because they could be 'carried'.

I’ve always thought the fantasy name Kolbold was notably similar to Colbalt. Turns out it isn’t a random coincidence. Kolbold is the German name for a Goblin and the mineral was called ‘Goblin ore’ or ‘Kolbold ore’ because of it’s disagreeable nature. That led to the minerals final name Colbalt.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt

Disagreeable? My wedding band’s structural material is cobalt!

Miners had long used the name kobold ore (German for goblin ore) for some of the blue-pigment producing minerals; they were so named because they were poor in known metals, and gave poisonous arsenic-containing fumes when smelted.

Don't smelt it.

That's already been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt...

He who smelt it dealt it.

He who smelt it, gets arsenic poisoning.

Higgledy wrote:

I’ve always thought the fantasy name Kolbold was notably similar to Colbalt... ‘Kolbold ore’...Colbalt.

"Kobold" and "cobalt" - only one "l" apiece. Sorry, but that was the orthographic equivalent of fingernails (or "finglernails") on a chalkboard.

But not in German....possibly.

Evan E wrote:

(or "finglernails")

And now I'm determined to find a use for this new word...