Thanks Hank Green.
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
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“If left in the sun, mayonnaise grows hair.”
The hard part is getting the mayonnaise into the sun.
“If your bra is too tight, it’s uncomfortable. If you’re a boy and your bra is too tight, I’m uncomfortable.” — Lori Beth Denberg, All That
Kevin Spacey’s middle name is Spacey.
And that’s a rock fact.
For anyone else wanting to look this up: yep. His full name is Kevin Spacey Fowler. Not Kevin Spacey Spacey as I thought OP meant.
Middle names are for messing around a bit
Thank you Gregory.
In the movie “Catch Me If You Can”, the french police officer that arrests Leonardo DiCaprio who is playing a young Frank Abagnale Jr. Is Frank Abagnale Jr.
Don’t know that. That’s kind of cool.
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.
Very neat!
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.
Two, wasn’t it?
Your
mommoon is exactly at the right distance to give full eclipse of the sunIf you have two arms, you have a higher than average number of arms.
And if you have one skeleton in your body, you’re below average.
Well now wait, if pregnant people have four (or more) arms, we’ve got to have more than half as many pregnant people as people missing one or more arms, right?
That is of you count them to be the same body. Genetically that isn’t so.
Ha that’s a good one
I’ve always thought the drummer from Leppard was below average
There is a giant hexagon on the north pole of Saturn.
It’s more evidence that hexagons are the bestagons.
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)
Hydrogen, if left on its own long enough, names itself.
That’s a wild way to think about the universe. Gonna steal this
Over billions of years, hydrogen left on its own collapsed under gravity into stars, under went fusion, supernovaed, created all the heavier elements, formed secondary stars and rocky plants, evolved into creatures, which learnt chemistry and gave it a name. We’re all stardust + time basically. But we’re stardust that names itself.
Two pieces of matter cannot exist at the exact same place at the exact same time.
Is this referring to the Pauli Exclusion Principle or just like macroscopic physical objects
Fermion condensate
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.
How do they indicate yay or nah
They sneeze!
Amazing they can just like do that on demand like that! Sneezes are almost better than orgasms!
I think it’s quiet or sneeze
That’s awesome! Maybe they should teach us some of their tricks…
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…
There are more grains of sand in the ocean than there are stars in our solar system.
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There are about 8x10^67 ways to shuffle a deck of cards, and about 10^80 atoms in the observable universe, so there are actually far, far more atoms.
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I’m pretty happy about that. It’s warm enough.
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
