Thanks Hank Green.
The natural logarithm number e is the most efficient base, Benford’s law shows that a collection of numbers where their logarithms are uniformly and randomly distributed, the probability of the first digit being 1 of any of the numbers is around 30%, and most humans can learn echolocation with some training.
The firealarm speaks Welsh
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mommoon is exactly at the right distance to give full eclipse of the sunEmoticon :) has etymology stemming from emotion + icon. Tis from the 80s, early computer stuff
Emoji 😊 is japanese, from 絵文字 which is like, drawing + character, basically. It’s a word MUCH older than computing.
False cognates. Sound similar, similar function, nothing to do with each other.
My favourite false cognate is the plural ending -s in French and English. The English one has Germanic roots, while the French one come from Latin accusative plural -as/-os. They are unrelated etymologically.
After looking it up I have to correct myself, the Germanic plural - s also come from the accusative plural
There’s a :) in a typewritten cookbook I have from the 40s. I don’t know how widespread smileys were back then, but they existed.
That giraffes exist. I’m a simple man, and giraffes are awesome.
I like Geraffirigh, the Pokamon
Its name is Girafarig, which is most of “giraffe” forward and backward
African Wild Dogs decide on when to go hunting by voting. If there is a supermajority of votes in favor of hunting, they will go out and hunt. If that quorum is not reached, they will stay home.
Dingo Suffrage is my new punk band name
We have a Lemmy instance for this kind of stuff: https://lemmy.world/c/fakebandnames
Count me in.
And a one 🎶 and a two 🎶 and a one, two - one two three four!
Somebody once told me…
How do they indicate yay or nah
They sneeze!
Amazing they can just like do that on demand like that
I think it’s quiet or sneeze
Another interesting fact: dogs also use sneezing to communicate, though not in the same way. I also easily trained my dogs to indicate yes or no by either licking their lips or not doing anything.
That’s awesome! Maybe they should teach us some of their tricks…
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
*are
Two pieces of matter cannot exist at the exact same place at the exact same time.
Fermion condensate
Is this referring to the Pauli Exclusion Principle or just like macroscopic physical objects
There was an X-Files book I read when I was about 10 which says otherwise.
The Great Lakes contain enough water to submerge the entire continental United States in nearly 10 feet of water
Almost all web traffic now uses the utf-8 encoding, a clever hack which works because ascii is a seven-bit code but web traffic uses 8-bit bytes.
- If the first bit is 0, treat the byte as ascii.
- if the first bit is 1, treat the byte as part of a multi-byte unicode character.
multi-byte characters in utf-8 can officially be up to four bytes long, with 11 of those 32 bits used for tracking the size of the multi-byte block. That leaves 2^21 code points available, about two million in total, easily enough for every alphabet you could need to write on a website, and all without breaking ascii.
Oh, I wondered about why there weren’t more characters in the ASCII code set.
yep! the ascii standard was originally invented for teletypewriters, and includes four ‘blocks’ of 32 codes each, for 128 in total, so it only uses seven bits per code.
the first block, hex 00 - 1F, contains control codes for the typewriter. stuff like “newline”, “backspace”, and “ring bell” all go in here.
The second block has the digits are in order, from hex 30 = ‘0’ all the way to hex 39 = ‘9’,
The uppercase alphabet starts at hex 41 = ‘A’, and exactly one block later, the lowercase alphabet starts at hex 61 = ‘a’. This means their binary codes are 100 0001 and 110 0001, differering only in a single bit! So you can easily convert between upper and lowercase ascii by flipping that bit.
The remaining space in the last three blocks is filled with various punctuation marks. I’m not sure if these are in any particular order.
The final ascii code, 7F, is reserved for “delete”, because its binary representation is 111 1111, perfect for “deleting” data on a punch card by punching over it.
Very neat!
Two from me:
People took the London tube to the last public hanging - https://londonist.com/london/undergroundtoapublichanging
The University of Oxford (1096) is older than the Aztec empire (1345)
On Titan, you could strap on wings and fly around.
Moreover, the atmosphere is >5% natural gas, but without oxygen you can’t burn it. I suppose oxygen would be considered the fuel in that case and you’d pipeline that instead? And being able to breathe would be a nice side-benefit.
Early cycling laws and rights predate the invention of the automobile by decades. So it is actually the car that is the invasive newcomer.
Yeah, but it’s the cyclist that annoys me (more than cars. Cars do annoy me as well). At least the ones wearing a helmet and riding a street bike.
If they’re wearing a hoodie and a backpack I usually sympathize with them. They probably got jammed up and this is their only way to get to work, groceries, drugs, see someone, or whatever else they might need to go out for
Your view of cyclists contains a lot of assumptions that I don’t find likely to be true often enough to be actionable
Your pinkie is a perfect fit for your nostril.
All of mine fit in my nostrils (ed gang), and none of either of ours fit in my husband’s.
Maybe yours is. Mine is more like the thumb.
The people who built the stone towns of Gobekli Tepe and Carahan Tepe in Anatolia in Turkey, built and lived their villages so long ago, that the very first historical civilization recognized as such, with cities and writing - the ancient Sumerians - are closer to us in time than to those hunter/gatherer people, who lived near the Atlas Mountains foothills and the rivers and tributaries that eventually merge into the Eufrates further downstream.
