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[Guest]

Throw random knowledge at this post pls so I can learn.... I want some knowledge pls

[minibois]

The word 'quarantine' comes from the Italian word 'quarantena', which means 'forty days'. This word was used to describe the period people from incoming ships would have to wait, before entering the mainland. This was used during the times of the Black Death (plague) to avoid (mass) contamination to the people of the mainland.

 

Or were you looking for other type of knowledge?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, minibois said:

The word 'quarantine' comes from the Italian word 'quarantena', which means 'forty days'. This word was used to describe the period people from incoming ships would have to wait, before entering the mainland. This was used during the times of the Black Death (plague) to avoid (mass) contamination to the people of the mainland.

 

Or were you looking for other type of knowledge?

I was looking for computer/tech knowledge but cool fact

[Curious Pineapple]

The transistor was orginally not a switch. The name comes from "transforming resistor" as it was a resistor who's resistance could be changed based on an input.

 

You can also make them at home in your kitchen.

[minibois]

1 minute ago, turtlecraft said:

I was looking for computer/tech knowledge but cool fact

At the same time, there is a lot to say about tech facts, but also very little.

Most of the tech knowledge you could possess has less to do with knowing raw facts and has more to do with knowing how to look up different things. Or most importantly, what these facts mean?

 

What use would it have to know how many cores each current CPU has, without knowing what a core does and how to look up how many cores a product has the next generation?

So that's where people can differentiate themselves. Do you want to be a bundle of random knowledge, or do you want to know a cohesive amount of information, that can still be useful next generation around?

 

So without knowing.. What you want to know.. I wouldn't really know what to say.

1 minute ago, Curious Pineapple said:

The transistor was orginally not a switch. The name comes from "transforming resistor" as it was a resistor who's resistance could be changed based on an input.

I still think an electronics fun fact is that an LED is just a 'type of' diode. Which is what the D in LED stands for; 'Light-emitting diode'.

[Curious Pineapple]

1 minute ago, minibois said:

I still think an electronics fun fact is that an LED is just a 'type of' diode. Which is what the D in LED stands for; 'Light-emitting diode'.

An LED also generates electricity. Bonus fact, a solar panel, if the diode is bypassed, will blast out infrared light, they are just a massive array of silicon diodes

[WkdPaul]

* thread locked *

 

This isn't how learning works, or how this forum works.

 

We have a multitude of sections related to different subject and parts of the tech world, browsing the section you're interested in and reading the pinned thread will give you more information than receiving random factoids about tech.

 

LMG also has a channel called TechQuickie, that seems to be what you're looking for ;

https://www.youtube.com/user/Techquickie

Edited May 14, 2020 by wkdpaul