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Pants

I was thinking about... ... pants 🤔 Why is it "still" a pair of pants ? Like we were still in the days when we wore it per-leg basis 😂😐 Ah, fascinating how... ... the term did not advance like the garment did 👖🩳 Similar to scissors or glasses (eyewear). They are now 💥 as one tool , but are called... as they were separate. Scissors were literally two (small) blades ⚔️ operated by both hands. Each blade was held on each hand, being positioned like ⚔️ for snipping things ➡️ Now, same function, but it's advanced — blades are combined with a pin plus the majestic holders for the fingers, conveniently can be operated by one hand — into one amazing tool, this ✂️... But still, "a pair of scissors". I'd call it sniper . Yes, that's right, one "p". It would add the confusion, thank you. Glasses 👓 ... Similar to scissors and pants. Leg Tubes Let's focus on this bit. Because there is a pair of underpants . Before the Dark...

JavaScript: Shuffling Array Elements

Shuffle is different than random in term. But indeed randomness is applied in shuffling . As in shuffling cards and giving out one random card, those are different. Algorithmically , we can loop through the reference array, generate random index based on the reference array length, then put that item (with that random index) to a new array. But since random can generate similar number (being floored or rounded down) as the previous one, that can lead to duplicates . For Example We Have Input Array: ["a", "b", "c", "d"] ⚠️ If we simply loop through the array while creating a random index then blindly 🙈 copy the randomly chosen item to a new array, surely there will be duplicates . ❌ Unwanted Output: ["c", "a", "a", "d"] ["d", "b", "b", "b"] ["a", "a", "c", "a"] 🚮 Deletion Technique We need to t...

JavaScript: REFERRER

The browser stores some information about HTTP request headers. They're useful for many purposes. One of the headers is the referral information. It's the previous referring URL of the current URL. URL Referrer Concept This post has links to another posts. If we go to any of those (click the link), then this URL will be the referrer of that link. Similar to ordinary referral (referring) concept in daily life, but within web (HTTP) realm. Legendary Misspelling Year Context Spelling Used Notes Pre-1996 (until now) Standard English Referrer ✅ The correct spelling in proper English. 1996 HTTP/1.0 Specification (RFC 1945) Referer ❌ A typo in the RFC that became part of the official HTTP header. It was never corrected to preserve backwards compatibility. Late 1990s - Early 2000s ...

Treasure Hunting in Movies vs. Real Life

🎥 Movies We found an ancient treasure! We're rich! ❗Reality How do we even convert this to currency? 😕 Right? Before we continue, did you notice the fingers, eyes, and reality glitch on certain fellows on the image above? That is some treasure hunting misfortunes ☠️ We know the trope emphasizes on adventures, dramas, and actions. But somewhere deep down, we also had those questions 🤔 Like, how does that go exactly? Question. The rich part. This is the trope where the adventurers roamed so bravely without obvious funding and sponsor and confidently presumed they'd be instantly rich just by locating the treasure from the information on a brittle goo-smudged paper — is it up or down or sideways? — ancient map. I was baffled because films always rolled the credits before ever explaining the treasure conversion process, which, let's be honest, probably doesn't exist. The formula: Drama build-up ➡️ Adventure and action ➡️ Found treasure ➡️ Celebrat...

Three Wishes

If a jinni (or genie) grants you three wishes, what would you wish? 🧞 I might guess something like generic infinite richness, or your specific wishes, maybe even world peace... Or perhaps exploiting the technicality (loophole). Like please grant me another x wishes , or better, another battalion of you , "you" being the jinni. How am I supposed to clone myself? , said the jinni. Unless the jinni stated the terms and conditions, we can surely find a cheeky way to get to the backdoor. And as for me, I might... ... ignore the jinni politely. 😂 As in, I thank thee for the generous offer, kind sir. Might I offer thee for a sugared roundel, nigh consumed, its orb defiled? 🤔 A half-eaten donut? First of all... It came from a metallic lamp. It is unwise to ask anything from vapor emanated from an antique. We could be passed out and delirious from the poisonous gas, and dreaming up whatever it shows us. The grants would act as "Continue to Faint,...

Sleeping Moth

The photos were taken in the morning.

Health: Stomach Ulcer and Food Poisoning Quick Treatment

First of all, I'm not a medical doctor. I have an engineering degree in low power electrical field and I am a web developer 😶 But I do have lots of experiences handling these: stomach ulcer and food poisoning ; for myself and for other people around me. Let me share some of quick treatments for stomach ulcer and food poisoning . Stomach Ulcer: The Habit Sometimes, or most of the time, as we get older, we do not take meal with constant periodical cycle like while we were children or teens. But as I've noticed nowadays, teens also have that habit . Our human body can adapt, if you notice, to that kind of punishment . At first, it was probably hurt like insane, but as time went by, we don't feel the pain. It has multiple meanings: Our nerves finally ignore the pain signal because we consciously and constantly pretend it did not hurt like Rambo bit, but our system hasn't actually adapted. This one is dangerous ⚠️ The...

Samson and Delilah (1984 - TV Movie)

I watched Samson and Delilah (1984 - TV movie) because, honestly, I thought it would be funny. It delivered. 📜 The Era Shall we? 🙂 Let's briefly summarize the Samson era. It was in pre-king time — Book of Judges. Israel wasn't even unified ("tribal confederacy"), hence the "judges" to lead (or protect) them. Samson was the last of the judges in the Book of Judges — Samuel is considered the last of the judges before the unification ➡️ King Saul ➡️ King David. The Samson story took place in ~1200-1000 BC (or BCE). Let's take the average, 1100 BC , somewhere in Middle East vast region. Without the number, we might still roughly deduce that the era was sometime before the Classical Greece. In another words, Romans were still, well, had not even begun to call themselves "Romans" yet... Give or take 🤷‍♂️ 🎬 The Take The plot is actually very similar to the original story. Hollywood usually doesn't do that. And then... Let...

Blogger Conditional Tag — b:if and b:else

Blogger has special b:if , b:elseif , and b:else tags. Those only work if we put them in the XHTML of the Blogger blog, not in the HTML widget (via layout). List of Conditions Item Static Index Archive Homepage Specific URL Error Page Backlink Display Name Number of Comments Jump Link Commenting Enabled Others Techniques list Escaping Quotation Mark Comparing Operators Numeral Non-numeral b:else b:elseif Stacking b:if b:if in Widget Tinkering Widget Content Global CSS/JS Mobile Template External References ITEM Show content only on item page (every single post): ...content... LIST TOP STATIC Show content only on static page(s): ...content... LIST TOP INDEX Show content only on index page (sorted by label and date): ...content... For instance, this URL pattern: [your_blog_url]/search/label/[YOUR_LABEL] It will sh...

Chess: Latvian Gambit 🥳

I played defense (black piece) — in 3 minutes Super Blitz game as Anonymous on Lichess spectaculaire . Latvian Gambit is a menace. I like the concept — "softer" than Duras Gambit . Duras Gambit is like throwing burning chair to our own face with a straight face 🤣 Miraculously, I did no blunder as a defender here 🥳 This opening is actually speculative ... ... Therefore, why not? 😂 You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board. In above image, the ptarmigan (the little dubious white creature near the chessboard) is very serious observing the "knight development" on both sides. Even though no one has even begun to do the first move. The other oddities in the image are the results of Latvian Gambit 🧐