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“Bizarre” is the only word from the Basque language that is regularly used in the English language

(Can’t wait to be proven wrong in 5.. 4.. 3..)

Hermeticism is the origin of most conspiracy theories if you dig deep enough. Truly the OG brainworm

Not sure if I can call this knowledge since I don't know if it's true, but I think I identified a couple of women from the 8th century CE who are mentioned in some Irish annals as actually being the same person. As far as I know there's next to no discussion of these women on the internet and there are basically no historical records of them, at least. So I guess if I'm right it's very obscure?

The women in question are Eithne ingen Bresail Bregh and Eithne ingen Cinadhon (and possibly also the legendary Eithne mother of Tuathal Techtmar)

Human blood is a valid substitute for eggs in baking.

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T-rex is closer temporally to humans than they were to Stegosaurus.

There are two types of color E-ink displays:

One that uses a color filter on top of a regular black and white particle display, like in their Kaleido screens. This has a faster refresh rate like black and white displays, but the colors are muted and the screen’s “pure white” is much more gray than other displays.

One that uses four colored particles, cyan, magenta, yellow, and reflective white, like in their Gallery screens. This has a much slower refresh rate, but the colors are vivid and the screen’s “pure white” is just as good as a non-color screen.

There are also color transflective LCD screens from other companies that are sometimes marketed as “e-paper” or “paper like” that are fairly uninteresting.

And there are just straight up backlit LCD screens marketed as “e-paper” or “paper like” that are just not. XPPen just made one. I personally think this should be considered false advertising.

The SR-71 used an Astroinertial Navigation System that used stars to keep the navigation information accurate as the plane flew over long distances. Normally an inertial navigation system degrades in accuracy over time and distance due to small errors building up and something called gyro drift. The NAS-14V2 used a catalog of known stars and a gimballed telescope to identify specific stars (even during a cloudy day) and determine the position of the stars in relation to the aircraft. Using this information the position of the aircraft can be used to revise the inertial navigation system's data every so often so the accuracy is much better.

ifupdown2 has a 15-character interface name limit, and the systemd predictable interface naming system uses the mac address for usb nics (giving them a 15-character name), so if you try to create a vlan subinterface of a usb nic using the standard interface.vlan naming scheme on a systemd host, it will fail, and you'll have to set up systemd network link files to rename the base interfaces to something shorter.

We don't know if π+e is irrational.

We don't know if π*e is irrational.

Hm, I guess this is esoteric in the sense that most people aren’t interested in it?

Some clothes are made with what’s called ‘slub cotton’, which is cloth made from cotton thread that has irregular lumps jutting out of it. It gives the final woven fabric an interesting look, almost like static. If it’s done with bright or contrasting colors it can give a really interesting pop to the final item.

The most efficient base for a number system is e.

We use base 10 with 0-9 digits and each position is a ten's place, and the efficiency being measured is the product of the number of digits and the length of digits needed to represent a number in a given range of values. So if we used base 2 binary instead of base 10 decimal we only need to remember 2 digits 0-1, but to represent most numbers we'll need more digits, 11 in base 10 is 1011 in base 2. On the other side we could use hexadecimal to write shorter numbers like 11 is B, but need to use more digits, 0-F digits where A-F are the 10-15 digits.

If you try to plot a function that minimizes the efficiency the minimum is at e. So you'd have digits 0-2 and e would be written as 10 since each position is an e's place.

All contradiction is reconciled above the abyss, hence why spiritual visions can sometimes appear horrible at face value.

Wait, what kind of esoteric did you mean?

The UK issued silver dollars once. They were dated 1804 and considered "bank tokens" as they had less silver than their denomination required at the time. They basically stamped a new design on Spanish colonial 8-real coins and passed them as five shillings.

The UK had a hard time with coin supply for most of the 1700s until 1816 when they finally downdized many coins.

Crime novelist Jim Thompson [Pop.1,280] wrote a novelization of the TV show Ironside.

If that's not esoteric, I don't know what is.

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I mean I've spent time studying occult stuff, so I guess pretty much the trope codifier.

Turns out they mostly just like to do the macarena. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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