like, I know what a zero is, and also what a function is sometimes even how to calculate them, bo idea of the difference between a trivial zero and a non trivial one

I understand how hardware determines limits on what software can run, but how can it also affect software security?

What is the benefit of having the cell body in different locations? What factors do neurons used to communicate with each other so that they can for complex circuits, and what determines if a neuron is stimulatory or inhibitory?

I randomly came across this term "high-density life" in a self-help kind of article or speech. It says strong people live their lives with more "density". And these strong and successful people manage to experience more, create more, complete more and stuff. I feel anxious when I read it because I can't help feeling that I'm wasting my life.

What do you know about "life density”? Do you think the whole concept exists? What do you do to make your life "denser" if you agree on this concept?

Footage from a 1929 game between the Packers and Giants.

For example the Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease

Hopefully this is properly flaired. People have been talking about ETH and AI lately and I don't understand what ETH really is.

Bonus for ELI5: How did AI supposedly disprove ETH—But I'm mostly interested in knowing what ETH is on its own.

Given the rather distinctive makeup of Staten Island vs. the rest of New York City, there must be some good reasons why secession hasn’t been allowed to happen and why SI hasn’t been preemptively kicked out of NYC.

I’m interested in understanding what those reasons could be at a basic level.

Connecting two other ELI5s. This is something that I've always struggled with.

Space is nothing. There is no actual "fabric" of space. There are things in space, and the "space" in between is.. nothing.

Nothing, as I understand it, is without mass, energy, information, anything. There is no thing to bend.

But! Gravity doesn't bend light because light doesn't have mass. It bends space and we see light bend along it.

How can nothingness be bent?

And why doesn't light just pass through empty nothingness on the same trajectory, if it isn't being acted on by gravity? OR is it that it does do this and it's only our 3D perception that it has changed trajectory?

When we talk about gravity bending space, are we actually talking about the distribution of Stuff within a given area, as it relates to another body, due to the effect of gravity? e.g. the distribution of Stuff around a random planet

I know this is very long and contains multiple questions. My hope is that by including all of this, it will make clear where my misunderstanding is. The real question is, how can nothing be bent?

I have an Owala cup. I've never been a cup girl but I seen the color, bought it and never drunk out of anything else since.

However- the damn plastic straw thing inside is always falling off inside the cup.

Imagine a mouth full of the most vile, disgusting liquor (corn liquor) and the instant relief you feel when you realize you have a refreshing chaser next to you, you open the lid, and nothing comes out bc the straw isnt attached. Now I had to swallow satan piss, raw dog.

Anyway- maybe this is just an Owala thing but all the cups i've ever seen and owned but never used all have the same mechanics of just pulling it for it to come apart.

As an example, a cockroach might lay an egg somewhere that hatches hundreds of cockroaches which are all siblings, but then dozens of those siblings will mate with each other, and then their children will mate with each other, and some with their aunts/uncles potentially, and this will just go on and on with seemingly no issues. How is this possible?

Studying osmosis stuff for an exam, I thought water was able to slip through gaps in cell membranes, but a quiz question my professor posted said to cross the cell membrane water must pass through aquaporins.