We have proteins in our diets that our body could use intact, however our digestion breaks those down and we absorb the amino acids and rebuild the needed proteins.

No protein survives digestion. It’s really quite surprising that some prions do survive and fuck us up

You can keep secrets from the future. Future decryption won’t help government see what you did in the now, the logs don’t store the encrypted payload, only the end points and the user/ip

The high end of 0 to 100 is nice for boiling, when I’m making beer at the boiling stage the number on the scale goes from somewhere below 25 to 100 and so the end point is obvious

We boil water quite a lot, though we often aren’t tracking the temperature

Most of the time the temperature scale that’s best is the one you know. I don’t know of any case where Fahrenheit is objectively best (like Celcius is when water is involved) but I think the best argument for Celcius is it is used in science, so American scientists start a step behind all the others by having to learn a new system. Given neither have any great advantage I reckon it’s worth America changing to make things better for American scientists

Celcius degrees are quite a bit larger than Fahrenheit degrees. 0 to 100C is much larger than 0 to 100F so I don’t get what you mean by Celcius covering about half of Fahrenheit. In any case neither scale runs out of numbers high or low

With the sucking venom out of a bite memes they always warned that you needed good mouth health as the venom getting into your blood through a cut or sore would be dangerous, suggesting that venom could be safely ingested

Our digestive system is pretty good at talking apart proteins

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My mail lived on an Intel atom based mini itx machine for years. I wanted to play with breakup by replication and bought a cheap shell. Now the cheap shell is my only mail server

Linux + postfix (SMTP) + dovecot (IMAP and POP3) + SPF + DKIM on the host

Point the MX record for your domain to your IP address

Contact your ISP and ask them to set the PTR record for your IP to your hostname

Mail can be handled by a very low end computer, a raspberry pi can handle email for a small number of users

If you have a specific mail machine you would forward the ports you use to that host on your router.

I self host email. Email is easy. I went a tad overboard with database configuration, a configuration/password change program, a few virtual hosts so I can renew six different names, but a single domain on a Linux box (any flavour) is easy

It makes it easy to make a bespoke email address for every entity you interact with, or show them the respect they deserve by giving your valid email spam@your.domain.tld

It is a bit of a hobby though. You need to keep up with email security if you want to send to anyone.

100F is just about half

Your scale in water terms starts at 32. 100 is nowhere near halfway between 32 and 212

You can make the temperature dial of an oven have matching degrees of rotation and degrees Celcius.

Turn the dial to point straight down to bake at 180°

Turn it 3/4 of the way to cook a pizza at 270°

Highest I have driven on is 130km/h, but it has no speed enforcement.

an ammonium chloride brine

At what molar concentration? Was it just as much NH4Cl as he could dissolve at ambient temperature and pressure?

We live on a water planet. The weather we care about is water.

If you look at the overnight low you probably want to know if frost was likely. Guess what Celcius temperature frost happens at.

The records are -80°F and 134°F

That’s quite an error in a “whole human experience in zero to one hundred” system

Can you feel the difference between 23.5° and 24? I can’t. You don’t often need precision to tenths.

In Australia most weather providers give you whole degrees, the bureau of meteorology gives you to one decimal in reports and whole degrees in forecasts

My coffee and beer boilers can hit high precision temperatures to variously 0.1° or 0.5° precision. The beer boiler gives 3 digits - hundredths below 10°, tenths below 100°, whole numbers 100° and over

You can choose the precision of thermometers you wish to buy for yourself

I have seen fahrenheit thermometers which are hard to read to better precision than 5 degrees

HIV speeds up your recycling (especially untreated) so it’s quicker recycling than an unmodified human

Picture going for a very tight periapse in a highly elliptical orbit. Now make the periapse lower. Lower still, within the atmosphere or below the surface of the thing you’re trying to hit. If you don’t plan on arriving alive it’s much cheaper to arrive like a meteor

So you have ~30km/s in a near circular orbit. You interact with a gravity well to point your vector at the Sun (a highly elliptical orbit). Sure you’re carrying enough energy to come out of that with a very high aposol, but with the perisol within the Sun that energy will convert to heat

You don’t need to kill all your earth orbit speed to hit Earth, just enough to aerobrake

You don’t need to kill all your lunar orbital energy to hit the moon if you’re happy to lithobrake

No one is talking about reaching the surface of the sun alive

You can just change the shape of your orbit (but not your orbital energy) with the help of a sufficient gravity well from solar orbit, so it intersects with the Sun. Drag (aerobraking!) within the Sun will slow whatever is left of you enough to sap your orbital energy