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ASCII actually only uses 7 bits per letter, but because the smallest block of bits that a typical computer can individually access is 8 bits, the 8th bit goes unused and is always 0.

Which turned out to be very useful; the extra bit can be used for backwards-compatible extensions to ASCII, like UTF-8, which can represent characters not available in ASCII.

Looted is a loaded term. It was legally taken. Whether it’s morally acceptable is another matter.

Meanwhile, ”let’s retreat to this old abandoned building that nobody cares about and that is located at a strategic and easily defensible location overlooking the city“ is probably as old as humanity itself.

The parthenon in tennesse is a projection of our current aesthetic standards onto the greeks. It would not actually have looked like that, it would have been fully painted bright colors.

You are 100% right about your question.

I developed on slow CPU (think about microwave, remote control, ...) and desktop.

There is two parts you need to know.

The first one, what everyone will repeat in this thread, everything work as a multiple of 8 bits. (8 to 64 nowday). Like, you can't send 7 or 9 bits, you need to ask a multiple of 8. See it like a box. You have specific boxes size to ship your stuff and worst case fill it with garbage.

Then, it is where you are right, the meaning on those numbers all depends on the CPU or software.

You need to read the CPU manual (called datasheet) to know how those bits will be interpreted because they could be 3 numbers within that 8 bits (like your example).

As for the software, well somebody (like me) programmed it to read it in a specific way to interpret part of that 8bits as I would like. So, the software know how to read it and interpret it.

For the ELI5, you can also see CPU as a software... Running human software

For desktop applications, except when size (bandwidth, space storage, ...) may become big really fast, you don't bother at all to try to squeeze as many numbers into one of those 8 bits multiple. We prefer readability over space nowday.

As for CPU... It can be quite common to have bits different meanings like your question. Again, you must read the datasheet (CPU manual).

Although, if the parthenon was ever fully restored to it 100% authentic peak athenian spendor.... it probably wouldn't look how you think it would. Grekko-roman statuary and architecture tended to be entirely coated in paint, and not always in ways that we today would consider appealing.

I'll just add -- during the floppy disk era, you couldn't even easily transfer a text document between systems. Every system had their own encoding schemes, not to mention their own disk formatting schemes. It was annoying.

I'd argue it's just as, if not more, beautiful now than it was then. The age shows its history; the history gives it meaning beyond "cool building".

Technically it's only gorf if it comes from the Gorf region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling snarf

Oh! I actually JUST finished reading this book about the digestive system with my daughter, so this is fresh in mind. (Great book series I think this sub would dig, by the way)

Your stomach dissolves your food into a liquid concoction called chyme, and it passes from there through a sphincter into your small intestine. Solid food, food that isn't done with that part of the digestion process, straight up isn't going to fit through that sphincter.

It doesn't become solid waste again until the large intestine.

Your whole digestion tract is just sphincters all the way down.

So basically any historical landmark has a % chance of being a white elephant gift from a country's past to its future.

Celebrities paying cash. 🙂

So much this. There is not a single right angle anywhere in my house, except where the contractors added a new wall to separate a room into two distinct rooms. ...and it looks wrong because it doesn't match the rest of the angles.

Isabella Parigi once performed in the colosseum alongside some random American who looked identical to her.

Master absolutely can be destroyed - that's what nuclear fission is. A very small amount of "stuff" is converted to energy (heat).

This is is your answer. It should be higher.

If they restored the Parthenon, it wouldn't be the old Parthenon brought back to its original glory; it would just be a new Parthenon like the one in Tennessee. We live in a one-way universe.

There's constant restoration work happening in the Parthenon but it's slow moving because restoring something ancient while preserving it and not destroying anything else is hard, meticulous work.

At the moment they're literally piecing together rock fragments to reconstruct the original pieces and where that is impossible they're building new ones from marble which is very similar to the one used in the original construction.

Here's an article from 2019 with some pictures.

Edit: Also, keep in mind that while the Greek identity has existed for thousands of years it has morphed and shifted and evolved. Athens itself has been conquered and administered by a number of empires, and does not have a continuous history as a major city or capital. Cities rise and fall and in the early 1800s Athens had a population of five thousand (yes, thousand) people. It was a forgotten backwater.

There is nothing like innocent or guilty in civil lawsuit.

In a civil lawsuit you can only be find liable or not liable.

You can only settle in a civil lawsuit and the reason to do so is very simple. It's cheaper and faster.

It just isn't worth it to fight the lawsuit. The damage to your reputation might not recover even if you win the lawsuit. Even if you can prove defamation you can only get money if the other party have it. So you are most likely not going to get much from them.

So rich people and companies will rather pay you the 10% or so they would have spend on lawyers to have you go away.

You can think of a Game Engine as a framework of common things that are needed to build most games.

Before Engines were commonplace, any company that wanted to build a game would have to do things like learning to talk to the computer's graphics systems and writing huge swathes of code to make that work. Basic stuff. And they'd have to do that for every game they built, which was massively tedious and complex.

So any established company would probably have a whole load of engine code they re-used for every project to save time and effort.
Then some bright spark got the idea to market that engine-code to other companies.
Wrap it up in a nice user-interface, provide all sorts of tools, and now you have companies using Unreal or Unity or whatever other system they like. The complex deep-code is done, and rarely needs to be touched.

Nowadays very few games companies bother to roll their own engine-code, it's way easier to buy a licence for Unreal and just build off that well-established and understood framework.

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Thanks for this. I always thought it was just a way to regulate breathing. Very interesting!

Because I don’t want to get pregnant? We already have 2 kids, we’re done

Condoms are great but putting them on kind of "pauzes the passion". Also just the instinctually good feeling of having your orgasm inside, feeling every bit of shaking, squeezing, warmth and other TMI things is an addictive feeling.