TIL: Today I Learned

PatrThom

PatrThom

@Li3n said:
it's unlikely anyone would have stopped it at that frame to read this.
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It’s very unlikely, since holding a motion picture film on a single frame will cause it to burn through due to the intense heat of the projection lamp.
Modern movies use digital projection, which avoids the burn-through, but I don’t know if digital projectors will permit the operator to freeze a single frame because of DRM lockdown and all that.

Some napkin math estimates the resolution of 35mm movie film at a little over 5K at around a 16:11 ratio, though since film is an analog medium, the size of the “pixels” is variable due to the physical size of the silver halide crystals in the emulsion layer(s), meaning that there is going to be a lack of uniformity.

EDIT: The higher the ISO number, the lower the effective resolution will be, because higher speed means coarser film grains.

—Patrick
 
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GasBandit

GasBandit

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Huy Fong was founded by a refugee, and Sriracha sauce made him the world's first and only hot sauce billionaire. A really inspirational rags to riches story... but unfortunately also a reminder of what often happens in those circumstances.

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness
Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,--
Comes of the purple he from childhood wears,
Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
- Victor Hugo
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

TIL Michael B Jordan played....Pretty Boy FLIZZY on the Boondocks. It's not so much surprising he was on that show,more that he guest starred on one of the worst episodes of the Boondocks and that didn't take him down a peg.

For real, that show should've ended at season 3.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

I was enjoying that explanation. But from wiki:

The European name, porcelain in English, comes from the old Italian porcellana (cowrie shell) because of its resemblance to the surface of the shell
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

sixpackshaker said:
But it is a huge leap to think someone looked at a piece of china and thought, man that reminds me of a pig's pussy.
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Oh, you're thinking of it wrong.

The ceramic looks like the shells, and the shells are named for pig genitalia.

It already goes from the colour to the ceramic, what's one more leap?

That's just how etymology works most of the time, things getting named from other things, all the way to whatever the 1st human language was, likely.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

@Li3n said:
Oh, you're thinking of it wrong.

The ceramic looks like the shells, and the shells are named for pig genitalia.

It already goes from the colour to the ceramic, what's one more leap?

That's just how etymology works most of the time, things getting named from other things, all the way to whatever the 1st human language was, likely.
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Except that by now we're pretty sure there never was one First Language, no matter what the Babel crowd might claim.
 
Frank

Frank

I didn't know that either but it makes sense that strippers aren't some magical frictionless beings that can glide around metal like that without so much of a squeak.
 
Dave

Dave

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I met someone online and they had a tag “Friend of Dorothy”. I laughed and sent them a message that I loved the obscure IT Crowd reference. Turns out that being a “friend of Dorothy” is code for a gay man. They have used it since the 1930’s to be able to meet up and make sure they were safe. Which is not only something I didn’t know but makes the song from “Gay: A Gay Musical” have another layer to the comedy that I’d never realized.
 
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