Heat denatured their code. Their lipid layer would just disintegrate when dried. If a cell gets damaged then that same stuff can hurt a virus.

Now for how they act. The virus is in a host and reproduces and then is some way transferred to another host. Like cough/sneeze, or other bodily fluids. They hop around until a new host and that’s how they operate

Viruses are not big enough to exhibit the complexity of a living organism. They can be compared to individual structures that exist inside a cell. Nevertheless, they can be physically destroyed like all things. You can apply a solvent to make its shell fall apart. Killing means making something stop functioning. You can "kill" a project or a running computer program.

Grading on the curve addresses the outliers generally. If the average grade is 68 but someone scored 100 (or a 0), you can ignore the 100 score as an outlier. You could have someone who is just really knowledgeable on the subject matter or someone who is cheating, which grading on the curve can be useful for finding.

Theoretically, in any group of people, the majority of the body will be average in knowledge and intelligence, and few will be outlying to the top or bottom. This creates a "bell curve", a hump in the graphical representation of the class.

If everything is done right, then the majority of students will receive a similar grade, hopefully around 70 (passing) anyway.

But if the concepts are harder, the whole class might get dragged back, putting the average grade lower, let's say 68, failing if you just grade the tests.

Grading on the curve corrects for the fact that they are doing the best they can, pushing the passing score down to 67. It allows for a teacher to fudge the numbers and allow for fewer failures for little mistakes.

But if you have a student that greatly excels in the test, that throws off the Curve. Among other things, it suggests that the subject matter wasn't all that hard and the "barely failing" students simply failed to learn the lesson.

Okay I think I understand now! Thank you :)

Grading on a curve means setting the most mediocre student to a certain letter grade, say C, and scaling everyone up or down based on that. Means the class will have some fails, some As, and mostly Bs C's and D's

Contrast that with hard number limits (Below 50 fails or above 90 is A), which might mean the entire class could get As or Fs based on the exam difficulty and how the class does.

The first one assumes the class is somewhat normally distributed as far as knowledge on that topic. The second one assumes the teachers are infallible and create the exams at the same difficulty every time. Neither of these hold all the time, so neither method is necessarily better.

un-disprovable is a brilliant new word.

also bless the mythbusters and RIP Grant

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I read an article many years ago about this, giving the example of Canadians importing American carrots because they look nicer and the US buying Canadian carrots because they taste sweeter.

It is, but it's not un-disprovable. Mythbusters did this and found that it doesn't really help. The tools break the surface tension, but the surface tension isn't the only factor, and the water still hits you like a truck.

This sounds like the kind of thing that's completely made up, but nobody can really disprove.

Water "takes a while" to move out of the way of an object that impacts it. And gravity accelerates you quite strongly on your way down, so from higher bridges you'll have quite a bit more speed than from lower bridges.

So bottom line, the faster you go, the more water will feel like a thick syrup, very slow to get out of your way and make room for your body, compared to your speed. The impact with the surface feels more and more like an actual impact, like hitting a solid surface. Such impacts cause fractures and internal damage, you can die from them.

Just to give you an idea, we do this with AIR too, that's what an explosion is. You can see an explosion's spherical shock wave, that is a wall of air atoms that are moving so fast that they are not going to get "out of the way" of any object in their path. The shock wave is just air, but it impacts with enough force to destroy buildings and kill people.

A physician can tell it's a sprain by physically examining the injury and by the symptoms. The x-ray is just to make sure there isn't any damage to the bone. And they only need that because sometimes* it changes how they treat the injury.

Injuries to tendons and ligaments, because there is a lot less blood flow to that tissue, takes longer to heal. Bones have a lot of blood, and heal relatively faster. But if you've had enough energy to break a bone, you have also injured all the tendons and ligaments around it - but when you treat the broken bone - it's the same treatment that allows tendons and ligaments to heal (most of the time*.)

This isn't quite the question you asked, but other people have already answered that. I'm sorry you are hurting, and I hope you heal well.

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*If it isn't healing well, and there isn't a bone fracture, then they may want an MRI - which is more sensitive, but also more expensive.

Workers on the Golden Gate Bridge always kept their toolbelts loose and quickly detachable so if the fell, they could throw it while falling to break the tension, thus saving them for the surface splat

Your child doesn't think of you as another thinking entity. To her, you don't have your own thoughts and emotions and desires. Hers is the only mind in the universe.

When you disagree with her, this is wrong because obviously (to her) you want what she wants. Her wants are the only wants that exist.

To feel the forces of the water do a belly flop by jumping from just above the water's surface and you will notice the water can have quite a high force on you and take time to move away

Water has a lot of mass and surface tension. When you hit it at velocity, the g's from the impact can be fatal. People who cliff dive purposely land with a very narrow profile to minimize the force of the impact.

Huh yeah maybe

Perhaps they're shared from YouTube, where there would have been ads originally?

Yes, but there are no ads in these fb videos

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Yeah, just like YouTube.

The longer the video, the more advertisements you can put in your video and thus more money you can generate if you keep viewers engaged through the entire video.

That's a great question, snake oil salesman always seem to find a workaround when it comes to human cognition, no matter the density of knowledge in which they live. Knowledge. 😁

If it's just that then it's no issue, in fact it is integral to how CUDA works (I'm assuming loop step is constant over one run of a loop). You get the index of the current thread and you can use it - for example the CUDA prime check example is "check the first N integers for primes" -> start N threads and do a prime check algorithm on the thread index. The only problem happens if your loop #n+1 uses data calculated during the #n loop.

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