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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

[–] VoodooMug@feddit.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

midi-chlorians are the powerhouse of the Force.

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 28 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] mech@feddit.org 22 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

You can't go faster than light because time and space are basically the same thing, and you're always moving through both of them together at a constant rate.
When you stand still, you move only through time, at the top speed of one second per second.
When you start moving through space, your speed doesn't change, only your direction. (You can visualize it as an arrow showing your speed that stays the same length, but rotates in a coordinate system from the time axis towards the perpendicular space axis.) So the faster you move through space, the slower you move through time.
At light speed, you're moving only through space. Your movement through time is zero, so time stops for you.
Going faster through space would mean going back in time, which would break causality.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Causality is overrated. I'd be ok if we broke it.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago

What would we replace it with? The raw chaos of the universe in its unformed state?

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[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

To be fair, what even is "standing still"? I'm sitting in a chair in a spaceship made out of almost all the elements and water traveling around 220km/s relative to Sagittarius A.

[–] mech@feddit.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

It's always in relation to a frame of reference.
Compared to earth, you're standing still, so your time passes at the same rate as earth time.
Compared to Sagittarius A, you're moving through space, so your time passes slower than that of Sagittarius A.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

"I don't know shit about fuck" - character from Ozarks I forgot the name of

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[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 15 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Alan Wake is a boolean operation between Alan Rickman and Rick Wakeman

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Socrates only knows enough to know that he doesn't know anything.

The reason the Oracle of Apollo said "No man is wiser than Socrates" is because no man is wise, and Socrates is only wise enough to know himself to be a fool.

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[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I know a dog called mister Dingleberry. Mister DingleBerry likes to dingle his berries. In dingling his berries he takes such delight, if he could he’d dingle his berries day and night.

One time, I remember it well, he dingled his berries so hard, he tripped over them and fell.

In dingling his berries he takes such glee, they say he dingles his berries mercilessly.

He dingles and dangles his berries berry hard. One time he got completely dingleburried under em and let out a fart.

The end.

[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I’ve learned a few things about some stuff to the point where I can definitely say I have some experience with them.

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Security by obscurity does not work, because people are only so creative up to a point. Hence, there are only handful of configurations for the attacker to try out.

This contrasts to e.g. 128-bit secure encryption, which involves trying 2^128 times to break it - which is a number with whopping 38 zeros. It takes 10^22 years to break it with trying at 1GHz rate. It is simply incomparable, and adding a few bits of security by obscure combination is simply not worth it.

Yet, so many people and organizations seem to prefer obscurity to actual security.

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It really depends on the purpose. Sometimes you can hide stuff in unexpected places when there isn't much interest for other people to find it, or if they don't even know about it's existence.

Also sometimes it is good enough to just delay the discovery of something for a while, because its value after a certain time diminished completely.

So, I would argue that sometimes security by obscurity can be useful. But I agree that it generally shouldn't replace proper encryption.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I know like 3 things, and it's mostly where my stuff is.

[–] richie_golds@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago

I don’t even know that most of the time.

[–] Gwot@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

I think that Descartes fellow was onto something...

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

The real secret to the most delicious sauces you've ever tasted is one anchovy fillet chopped into paste and simmered into the sauce, for every litre/quart of sauce you are making.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's why the Romans didn't use salt as a condiment, but fish sauce. The umami+salt is different and objectively better.

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[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

You can clean cooking pans and pots by heating them up and then pouring water on them. As the water boils it pulls all the stuck particles off with little to no scrubbing.

You can also make a nice sauce if you use wine or some kind of stock.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 weeks ago

I've had some experience and know stuff about something, just letting you know

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Fun fact: for a system of differential equations to have a unique global solution, you only need the vector field to be continuous in time and Lipschitz continuous in the state space.

This Math Fact is brought to you by Math-Autism Gang. Subscribe for more Math Facts.

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[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Sky is blue

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

What kind of experience are you talking about? Maybe I'm a candidate for having it. I dunno.

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 4 points 4 weeks ago

I've a lot of experience with not having experience with things

[–] SoloCritical@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

You can test if a 9 volt battery is good or not by touching the 2 prongs on the end to your tongue. You’ll know if it has juice or not.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

A basic AAA battery has enough amperage to kill a human without the ohmage that the skin provides.

One time a guy got curious and poked himself with copper wires so they would be in direct contact with his electrolyte-filled blood. Those wires were attached to a 1.5v battery, and he electrocuted himself and died.

[–] mech@feddit.org 3 points 4 weeks ago

You can do the same with any two wires to test if they're live.
Depending on the voltage, either you'll know, or the people around you will.

[–] jankforlife@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago

Hi yith I no thingz

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I know the best way to get cat hair off things is

[–] mech@feddit.org 4 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)
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[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I knew this guy who knows a thing or two about knowing what I don't know.

[–] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Well, I'm over 40, so I know a bit about WW2.

Mostly from the documentaries I fall asleep to in the afternoons.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Butterphinger@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

This reminds me of something my dad used to say

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

For hand sewing, pull your thread between your thumb and a block of bees’ wax a few times after threading it, and you won’t have to worry about knots nearly as much.

I know how to write "Shauwn"

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

An airplane tire will hydroplane at a speed in knots equal to nine times the square root of the tire pressure in PSI. The real trick is undoing the little cap on the tire valve and reading the tire gauge while turning left base.

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