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hp0zgv | Data Collection Methodology | URL_0 The link above talks about data collection regarding TikTok. Is someone able to explain what the original Reddit user is saying from the line "they set up a local proxy server on your device" onwards? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hp3xlk | how one installs a operating system on a computer without anything on it alteady | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hp5zcn | I never really understood SSD/HDD IOPS | Like the title, can someone provide an easy to understand explanation of what IOPS are? I understand it's the number of "operations" a drive can do per second or something like that? But I cannot for the life of me relate it to speed When does IOPS become a bottleneck vs when does NAND Speed become the bottleneck | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hpbol2 | How exactly do photographs work? | How can you freeze an image of reality onto a tangible surface? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hpe95n | What is sn API? And the differences between API and API REST? | Hello everyone, i'm getting into code recently and i have heard these terms a lot. Can someone explain what are they? And if you have a good source or tutorials to learn API, you can leave the link in the answer. PD: URL_0 has free courses and certifications about API, but i don't know ,if they are good and if would be... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hpfmi8 | What are carbon nanotubes and why are they such a big deal in so many fields? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hpfq5s | How do sleep trackers actually lead to better sleep? | I understand what sleep tracking is. What I don't understand is how the data it provides actually helps you sleep better. Every time I think about buying one, I feel like it's just gonna tell me "you're not sleeping well" and I won't know what to do with that info. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hpiruc | Are websites just like files saved on a server somewhere far away? | Windows specifies drive letters for everything connected (like C:\ for the main storage or E:\ for a flash drive) and I was wondering if web servers are kinda like "Drive HTTP" then a folder with no name on the root directory and then inside that nameless folder is millions of files with .COM extensions. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hpjg0a | Recently, many scandals have come out about various apps secretly reading their users’ clipboards. Why is that such a bad thing? Oftentimes many people don’t have anything of value copied, so why is the clipboard specifically such a dire development? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hpn3wf | how Google claims not to 'sell' your data, so what does Google do to give data to others, and what data is being shown to them? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hpndl2 | How is a new video game sometimes "ready to play" when less than half the game is downloaded? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hpnxhw | why does traditional charcoal/wood fire ovens produce better pizzas than my home oven? It’s just heat isn’t it? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hpvlnd | Why do remote controls still work but weirdly when the battery is low? | What I mean by weirdly, is for example the AC remote sometimes wont work unless I stand directly in front of the AC, and then I get new batteries and it works from anywhere as usual. Or for example, when my wireless mouse is low on battery, it starts skipping across the screen. Or my wireless backlit keyboard, I normal... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hpxd1z | Libraries in programming. what do they help in? | I am trying to learn JS and I just can't understand libraries. What are different libraries like node.js or p5.js used for? Can we code without using any library? What are pros & cons of libraries? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hq1tnx | what makes a computer slow down? | i absolutely don’t understand computers, so please bear with me, and please use words that i’d understand ✌️ (or at least explain what they mean) basically, i’m getting a new Mac because my current one is extremely slow, and i’d like to not make my new one slow, if that makes sense. so, what should i do to avoid making... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hq2dcg | if video/pictures are stored as a collection of pixels, how is audio stored? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hq2s0z | Why did it take so much time to introduce dark theme on the most common platforms? And why do companies act like it was such a difficult task to realize it? | I mean, when they add dark theme it seems to be the biggest revolution in history, instead of saying "we are sorry it took 10 years to accomplish this pathetic color change" | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hq3py3 | Why do game developers store assets outside the map rather than just spawn them when needed? | Hi everyone, I've been watching the 'Boundary Break' series on YouTube focusing on taking the camera outside maps on video games (in this case, Zelda: OOT) to see what we otherwise wouldn't be able to, and I've noticed a common theme. Developers seem to treat the digital worlds and assets they create as though they wer... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hq4419 | how was old school film editing done? Like, aside from the veg basic two pieces of film taped together on reel, I cannot get my head around how titles, music, dissolves, VFX etc were done without computers. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hq5454 | How does dubbed anime sync up with the camera angles so nicely? | I can’t find a better way to word it in title so I’ll try to give a more thorough explanation here. I’ve noticed dubbed (let’s use English just as an example) anime and subbed (Japanese) anime audio syncs up almost perfectly, but the sentences sound much longer to say in subbed. For example the character could be sayin... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hq75pw | Why are computer loading or installing timelines so intermittent in giving a correct time? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hq7njg | How can advanced film cameras record so much data (IMAX, 8K, 4K) and the finished film only totalling to a couple of gigabytes in retail, when just my phone alone gets up to 3GB just recording 20 minutes on 1080p? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hqcl9h | How do you touchscreens distinguish between human skin and other materials, such as clothing? Was it intensional? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hqd647 | Question about how code turns into everything coded (computer screen, games, webpages, etc.) | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hqey20 | when people get sentenced to the death penalty, why does it take so many years (sometimes decades) before the penalty is carried out? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hqftn2 | I’ve just read that “Vinyl like” super Solid State Drives could one day make Hard Disk Drives completely obsolete? | Apparently using 3D QLC NAND technology, “wafer SSD’s” could totally revolutionise the way we make Drives - What on earth is 3D QLC NAND and what is a wafer SSD please? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hqggmw | Why do some app’s features change depending on the device it’s used on? | For example: why is Microsoft one note able to have colourized text blocks in the pc versions but not only is it not an option on iPhone’s one note app, but it even omits the colourized text if added from a different device. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hqh9su | Why does the volume for the same show vary so much when you’re watching it? | For example, the speaking parts will be quieter than the music or the intro. So I have to keep adjusting the volume while watching a show. It’s so obnoxious! | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hqikcs | Why do SIM cards need to have programs running on them? | Most sim card run JavaCard, a subset of Java. They also have the capability to have their software updated by the network provider. Why do they need this? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hqj57x | In video game piracy, how does cracking work? | I've heard of video games which have antipiracy software such as Denuvo. But how does cracking work and how does antipiracy software make it harder to crack those games? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hqk4wo | how do wireless wifi ‘repeaters’ actually work? | So I’ve seen some wireless wifi extenders or whatever they’re called online and it doesn’t make sense to me how they work so if you needed to extend your wifi, it would be most likely because for example a part of your house doesn’t get as much signal, therefore slow wifi, right? And since you want more signal you’d pu... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hqrqzm | Is it possible to string multiple computers together to increase performance? | Or do the parts bottleneck each other? I thought supercomputers were just multiple computers strung together; do gamers ever do that with their PC's? Why wouldnt it be better to buy two cheap graphics cards instead of one higher end one? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hqshfx | Why do you still have to close files in order to move them to a different folder? | I've never understood why, even on Windows 10, that you have to close a file before moving it to a different folder. It seems like an archaic holdover from more primitive days. Why can't this issue be fixed? After all, you can now attach an open file to an email, something you couldn't do in Windows 95. It seems like i... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hqszf3 | How did early pioneers of the computer actually manage to turn ones and zeroes into something more meaningful than on and off? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hqun3l | Why are physical passports necessary in 2020? Why isn't there an optional system in place which uses fingerprints? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hqw0j1 | Why do government broadcasts have sign interpreters instead of just subtitles? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hqyjcn | How do lights in digital radios / alarm clocks / keyboards / etc, stay on for years and years without ever burning out? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hqyvqn | what does the memory mean in a Macbook? | so, i’m planning on getting the Macbook Air and i don’t know if i want 8 GB memory or 16 GB, basically what does memory mean? will the computer be stronger with 16 GB? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hr3bar | How do you program the concept time into a software system? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hr5y04 | How can significant changes be made to video games from beta to final product in a month before release? | Currently playing a beta of an upcoming game and have no idea if/how much the developers can change things when there’s a month before release. When there is already so much work and detail put into creating a video game over years, how much can really be changed in a month or even a few and how? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hr89bd | How are sound and video perfectly synchronised in film? | I know that sound and video for films or other video productions in general are recorded on separate channels and then combined together during the editing stage so my question is how that process works and how do they achieve perfect synchronisation so one of them isn't delayed. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hr8z8n | Why the ‘Bullet Time’ effects from the Matrix were created using hundreds of cameras all situated in a circle around the objects/people being filmed instead of one or two cameras that were setup to quickly move around the objects/people being filmed. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hr9w9z | How does my computer prevent feedback when on a video call and my mic isn’t muted? | I don’t understand why, when video conferencing with two computers in the same room, one will pick up the other’s audio as feedback yet my computer doesn’t pick up its own feedback when I’m by myself in a room on a video call and the mic isn’t muted. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hrfgzg | Why do you need to press so many buttons to start a plane? Can’t there be just one button to start everything in sequence automatically? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hrgnp5 | why is camera zoom measured in millimeters? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hrjfme | Why is it that watching movies at 24 fps feels completely normal and smooth but playing games at anything below 50fps feels rough, laggy and like it's having constant micro stutters? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hrjnze | How was trance music and the likes made in the 90s, before the release of "user-friendly" software? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hrlie0 | Why do newer apps take more resources even when doing more or less the same thing as before? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hrs5pd | How are aliens expected to decode the golden record on Voyager 1 and 2? | I understand that an advanced civilization would have to use science to decode them, but how would they be expected to decode something that is based on human-constructed measurements, such as the use of cm, AU, time in seconds, etc. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hrtiba | Why do some software require a restart to work? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hrw8i0 | How are bank balances stored? | Are bank balances stored as integers, a hash only the end user can decrypt, or a completly diffrent way? Could an admin in principle change his own balance to $1B? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hrxg9f | Why does European 50hz electricity translate to 50hz refresh rate on displays? Does this apply to 120hz displays too? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hrzw21 | How do we save an image in our computer? | How is it that we just right click an image and it’s saved? How does the computer know what to copy and how does it do it so perfectly? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hrzxxj | How do jet engines work? | how do jet engines make a plane fly. and how do they spin so fast and loud? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hs1li0 | why are counterfeit items never perfectly copied ? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hs36lo | How does a dashcam work? Won't recording for a long time use up a lot of disk space? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hs6oo0 | Why is it than we were able to put men on the moon with a 5kb RAM but my game keeps lagging and heating up my phone with a 4gb RAM? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hsc7jf | Why can't you install a program as it downloads from the internet? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hsgjhe | what exactly a factory unlocked iPhone is, and what you can do with it | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hshlcw | How do 1's and 0's and electricity tell chemical elements to move? | For example, a car or any other device with wheels moves. What I never fully understood is how the heck are they moving giant masses of sorts by that electrical and chemical process, and how rubber withstands that much metal on top of it. How exactly does data tell wheels to move giant pieces of metal? Is it the combus... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hsiv4l | What causes that delay on cellphone that you hear sometimes where you hear your own voice back a second or 2 later and how can that happen if your voice isn't being recorded and played back? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hsk1wf | Modern cars have parking assistance where it looks like a drone flies over it. It even works indoor. It even shows the surrounding in real, not just in outlines How does this work? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hskenc | Why it's common to have two (or more) graphic cards in computer, but there is always only one processor? Wouldn't it help to have two of them? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hslddh | Why do cheap quality or lower voltage chargers cause devices to heat up so much more than oem and higher voltage ones? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hsm8eb | Why were 4-speed automatic/manual transmissions so common in so many cars? What made them THE choice? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hspjfc | Why do some websites only work on certain browsers? Sometimes it’s only safari or sometimes anything but safari | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hspzsr | What happens if you turn a computer off while it says not to turn it off? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hsrvkj | How do trains work? Especially, how does the electricity flow between the power lines and the train, for example, while changing tracks? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hssra3 | how does the internet go around the whole world? | I have basic understanding of hardware. I get wifi, kind of... But like, shouldn't there be cables in the ocean to connect our continents? But that's so stupid. How is it done? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hstf5x | I have a Reverse Osmosis water purifier and I've noticed that it has a pipe that constantly pours out 'waste' water. Why does it do that? | Can't it just purify all the water? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hsupps | how does a electronic weighing scale work ? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hsur9y | How come forging doesn't seem to have improved since the metal ages ? | I'm a huge fan of "forged in fire" and it seems to me that technology hasn't done a great job of improving this craft. I mean except for things like a power hammer, how is it possible that we're not able to control a quench. There are so many "castrophical failures"from what seems to be competent bladesmith. I don't un... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hsvede | Has photorealism / hyperRealism in art always been possible? If not, what changed? | It seems that old masters also tried for realism. Is that not the case? If they did, how have people gotten so much better at it recently? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hsvm4m | Why are photos and selfies different from real life? Is the mirror more accurate? | I notice this with myself and others. For instance, my face shape looks different in a selfie than in the mirror (or apparently real life according to other people). It's really unflattering. Why does this happen? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hsvpkw | Whats the difference between OpenAI vs DeepMind? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hsxmwb | if everything is registered in computers and databases, why do fake passports still work? Should they fail on arrival when read thru the machine? Like a 404? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ht5agg | I often hear how scary and dangerous Biotechnology (gene manipulation etc.) is or will be. Why is it that? What is so scary about it? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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htaujp | Why/How do programs get signed? | I'm a novice programmer and have been seeing around the internet this concept of signing an application. IRL, signing documents is vital to make sure some is legit and not a forgery and these signatures are unique to each person. In the computer world I assume it is to make sure that the program you are running is from... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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htbgkq | what's the difference between a pointer, reference and an array variable? | I mean I just started with C++ and they All look the same and it's so confusing. And sometimes a pointer is being initialized to a reference and sometimes an array is similar to pointer, I mean what's the point of other two then? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hte38o | What is "Inverter Technology" and how does it reduce electricity consumption/bill? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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htf98j | how does “local play” on the Nintendo switch work? How can I play “online” with someone if I’m not actually online? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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htfan2 | why some websites don’t let you remove your payment method? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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htg4jq | Why are news websites (esp local) so horrifically painful to use? | Is there some explanation for how they got that way? Stuff like pop-ups, the page jumping around when you're trying to read the article, ridiculous paywalls, improperly implemented paywalls, the whole page absolutely littered with ads... It seems the rest of the internet figured out how to make a website, but local new... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hthsk7 | Why do code systems have to be "maintained"? What happens that part of it suddenly doesn't "work" anymore? What causes a "bug" in the system? | I have no background knowledge whatsoever, so please forgive me if I'm not using terms correctly. This was prompted by a popular story I read on Reddit about a guy who designed a program to monitor the machines in a factory, was eventually let go, but then begged to return because the program wasn't doing its job anymo... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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htjiyw | If I have 500gb/s internet speed and want to download a 100gb game, shouldn't I be able to download it in 1/5th of a second? | OBVIOUSLY this isn't how it works, but I honestly have no idea what it means for me to get 500gb per second and how that applies to real life. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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htkphl | How is an Operating System created? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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htma4n | How can some cell carriers have coverage in certain areas while others don’t? Do they all have separate physical towers? If so, how do small companies have coverage? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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htmf0v | How do companies keep creating new and improved components for PCs consistently every year? | Is it all planned obsolescence or what? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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htnro5 | Why computer scanners have to "scan" the page? Why there is no scanner that works like a camera, you place the page on the glass bed, close the lid, snaps the image like a camera and done. Isn't that much faster? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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htq8aj | Why do old tv shows have such bad quality compared to old movies? | TV shows and old sports games from the 90s and early 2000s have such bad quality, like you can count each pixel on the screen, when old movies from decades prior have quality similar to what we have today, why is that ? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hturcp | What is 5G? Why is it supposed to be so dangerous? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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"5G is the newest radio frequency that will be used for cell phone networks. Like 3G and 4G before it, it's just another frequency, there's nothing really special about it, other than it's higher frequency than 4G, which means you have to be closer to the ... | [
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htwr4h | What is Django actually used for? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hu193d | How can cameras take videos with 24 frames per second while having a shutter time which is far longer than 1/24? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hu7dmp | Can water from a dehumidifier be made drinkable? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hu85fk | How come iPhones take forever to turn on after dying, while Android phones can turn on the second you plug in the charger? | Hi guys, & #x200B; I have seen a few posts explain why it takes a few minutes for a phone to turn on after dying while you charge it, but no one has explained why it's such a big difference between iPhones and Android phones. An iPhone takes around 5 minutes (depending on the phone) before it can turn on again, while a... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hu8pgs | Why do a lot of website login forms now only ask for email, and after successful submission, then they present you with the field to enter your password? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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hudd2i | Why do device storages(and ram) always come in multiples of 4? 4,8,16,64,128,256 GB etc. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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