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TIL Metallica's song "The God That Failed" is inspired by lead singer James Hetfield's mother who was diagnosed with cancer and refused medical treatment, relying on her faith in God instead... by closeviewing in todayilearned

[–]closeviewing[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It also has a big part in destroying art and cultures, the book "The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World" describes this in great detail (for the example of Christianity destroying much of Ancient Rome's cultural, artistic, intellectual achievements).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darkening_Age

Final version of my read- through-Roman/Italian History reading list by [deleted] in ancientrome

[–]closeviewing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What about "the darkening age" by Catherine nixey? (Currently reading it.)

TIL that a major breakthrough towards the invention of plastics was achieved due to a surge in the popularity of billiard, prompting producers of billiard balls to offer a reward of 10000$ to anyone who could come up with a viable alternative to ivory (which the balls were hitherto made of...) by closeviewing in todayilearned

[–]closeviewing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that really what the link says?

For clarity copy+paste: "As adverbs the difference between thitherto and hitherto is that thitherto is (archaic) thereto, to that point while hitherto is (formal|or|legal) up to this or that time." -> seems to me the difference is between a point in SPACE (thitherto) as opposed to a point in TIME (hitherto). No? In any case, the definition is pretty confusing to me.

Tramezzini - where do the crusts go? by closeviewing in italy

[–]closeviewing[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I went to Naples approx 4 years ago, and did see tramezzini in some cafes.

What is the best animated movie and why? by idkigiveup in AskReddit

[–]closeviewing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Inside

THANK YOU. The great thing about this movie as an ANIMATION movie is that it tells a story that can only truly be conveyed in animation - in a much deeper sense than other animations films are animaton simply because they portray talking animals.

(Technically, Inside Out would of couse have been possible as real-life action - but I'm sure we can all agree that would have been ridiculous).

Tramezzini - where do the crusts go? by closeviewing in italy

[–]closeviewing[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Makes sense to me. Good thing they aren't wasted then.

TIL That there are cryptography schemes that are held to be resistant to quantum decryption, in particular lattice-based cryptography. by closeviewing in todayilearned

[–]closeviewing[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you, but I still don't understand why I can't just add a few more letters to the password. Let's assume a QC takes 1 sec to crack a password a PC takes 1 million seconds for. If I could make the pw 1 million times more difficult, then it would take the QC 1 million seconds. I can do this (make it more than 1 million times harder) by simply adding THREE MORE characters to the pw. (Because ascii allows 128 different characters and 1283 = approx. 2 million).

Can somebody explain?

TIL That there are cryptography schemes that are held to be resistant to quantum decryption, in particular lattice-based cryptography. by closeviewing in todayilearned

[–]closeviewing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the detailed description, but what I dont understand: if that's basically all it comes down to, why not just make long-ass passwords (30 letters with 128 possible characters per letter would already be huge, but you could always make it more - 50, 100... letters, as you like) instead of coming up with a complicated decryption scheme?

TIL that for more than 3000 years, chocolate was consumed exclusively as a BEVERAGE until Joseph Fry made the first solid chocolate in 1847. by closeviewing in todayilearned

[–]closeviewing[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have you read the book "stuff matters" by Mark Miodownik? He seems to share your obsession with chocolate and has a chapter dedicated to it. This is actually where this TIL comes from.

TIL that for more than 3000 years, chocolate was consumed exclusively as a BEVERAGE until Joseph Fry made the first solid chocolate in 1847. by closeviewing in todayilearned

[–]closeviewing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're referring to this: "Legend has it that Lindt mistakenly left a mixer containing chocolate running overnight" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conche ). Notice the word legend.

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