dlbpeon

dlbpeon t1_j8pxgi5 wrote

Reply to TIL that the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night" was the opening line to an actual novel published in 1830, but runs on for another 51 words: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which..." by dylancatlow

It's a running Peanut's joke also. Everytime Snoopy starts writing with a typewriter on top of the doghouse, he starts out : "It was a dark and stormy night....."

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dlbpeon t1_iugh9y2 wrote

Reply to ELI5 How did knights participate in tournaments like jousting without killing themselves? by QuantumHamster

If you were rich and could afford heavy armor, you were ok. If you were poorer and had cheap armor, you might get injured. Freak accidents did happen that would cause death, but unlike GOT would have you believe, most Knights went uninjured. Just like modern-day Bull Riders, you can make the sport safer, but there is always risk involved.

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dlbpeon t1_iu4yvo8 wrote

Reply to Eli5: Where do our files go when we delete them from the trash can in our computer? by StarExact5602

Your hard drive operating system has a file system. That file system uses a table of contents to point to the exact spot (spots) where your file resides. When you just delete a file, all it does is remove where it is indexed in the table of contents and marks the file itself as space that is able to be written over. Until new data is saved, that file is still there, just not indexed. When new data is saved, it writes over some or all the old data and a new index point is written in the table of contents.

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