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RevaniteAnime t1_j9egjz7 wrote
Reply to eli5: What are the odds in 2023 that California “falls into the ocean” due to a massive earthquake (or anything else for that matter)…? by jennyjuice9799
No earthquake would ever cause California or any other place to "fall into the ocean" ever. Land doesn't work that way. At most a continent could be torn apart, slowly, and a new sea/ocean will fill in the gap. It would take millions of years.
RevaniteAnime t1_j6l8lb5 wrote
The goal of those wildly inaccurate ads is simply to get the person to click the ad and download the game, and hope they'll stick around and keep playing the game even if it's nothing like the ad depicted it to be.
The goal of mobile game ads is to get a new player who will spend some average amount that is less than it costs on average to get a new user.
Cost to get user < Revenue per user = profit
RevaniteAnime t1_j2dhgsu wrote
Reply to comment by amattias in ELI5: The difference between Blu Ray and DVD by i_photo_sims
Ah, late night minor error. Higher Frequency, Shorter Wavelength.
RevaniteAnime t1_j2d48tg wrote
They're discs that store and read data using pits and lasers. The main difference is that BluRay uses a blue laser instead of a red laser, or bluray uses a higher frequency/shorter wavelength of light than DVD for its laser. This allows a BluRay to hold a lot more data than a DVD. Why a DVD only has a SD resolution movie on it but a BluRay can have an HD to 4K movie on it.
Edit: Added Higher frequency and Shorter wavelength.
RevaniteAnime t1_j2cmdjz wrote
Reply to ELI5: How do services like YouTube simulatenously stream to thousands of users? by NativeSonSF
A video that is very "in demand" will distributed it to data centers and "peers" across the world. Peers meaning YouTube/Google makes agreements with ISPs to host popular videos on their servers which are as close as possible the end users, this applies to pretty much all big streaming services.
Streaming doesn't require the server to send the whole video at once, it only needs to send a steady stream of little chunks of the video to each individual viewer every so often.
RevaniteAnime t1_j27dvuv wrote
Reply to eli5 What is the difference between a compiled language and an interpreted language in programming by GamingRocky_YT
With a compiled language, the human friendly code that gets written is compiled in advance before the code can be run, which may take some significant amount of time depending on complexity, into generally faster and more efficient "machine code" which is what computers actually understand.
Interpreted languages don't get compiled, their code gets translated on the fly between the human friendly code and and what the machine can understand. The advantage of interpreted languages is that they're generally easier and you can test and work out bugs more quickly without spending time compiling.
As a trade off, the interpreted languages can take significantly longer to run the same functions. Which isn't a problem on the small scale, but and add up a lot with more complexity.
RevaniteAnime t1_iy8z652 wrote
Reply to comment by dmootzler in ELI5: How can we fit entire 3D open world games on such small devices? by fernando_favela
The "chunks" that have been modified in Minecraft get saved to the storage. So, the more you start changing things in a Minecraft world the bigger the save file gets.
RevaniteAnime t1_iu4v67k wrote
Reply to comment by Excellent_Set2946 in Eli5: Where do our files go when we delete them from the trash can in our computer? by StarExact5602
that's um... gibibytes vs gigabytes.
gigabit = 1/8 of a gigabyte
RevaniteAnime t1_ja0elhb wrote
Reply to ELi5 Why are assholes not festering? by tulaero23
So, our entire digestive system is technically the "outside" of out bodies. Our immune system keeps most little breaches that might happen under control. There also a healthy supply of "good" bacteria inside of us, that usually helps keep "bad" bacteria from taking hold.