Latin1 was the early default character set for encoding documents delivered via HTTP for MIME types beginning with /text . Today, only around only 1.1% of websites on the internet use the encoding, along with some older applications. However, it is still the most popular single-byte character encoding scheme in use today. A funny thing about Latin1 encoding is that it maps every byte from 0 to 255 to a valid character. This means that literally any sequence of bytes can be interpreted as a valid string. The main drawback is that it only supports characters from Western European languages. The same is not true for UTF8. Unlike Latin1, UTF8 supports a vastly broader range of characters from different languages and scripts. But as a consequence, not every byte sequence is valid. This fact is due to UTF8's added complexity, using multi-byte sequences for characters beyond the general ASCII range. This is also why you can't just throw any sequence of bytes at it and ex...
It bothers me that in popular science discourse, gravity is so frequently emphasized while other forces are overlooked. Nobody even discusses the strong and weak forces anymore! OK. Maybe they do sometimes and I’m just exaggerating. Furthermore, gravity is the weakest force! However, it does affect things on an infinite scale. Behold, a list of the four physical forces:
- Strong interaction — This is the strongest force—the force that holds the nuclei of atoms together, binding protons and electrons to nuclei
- Electromagnetism — Another force stronger than gravity—electromagnetism is the force that acts on charged particles. (e.g. light, radio waves, etc.)
- Weak interaction — A force weaker than electromagnetism, involved in subatomic interactions like radioactive decay or the decay of unstable particles (e.g. like muons or nuclear reactions in the the Sun)
- Gravity — The weakest force, but with range that inevitably affects large-scale things, like objects, planets, asteroids, and so on.
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