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Jessica Veit
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What is Some Random Tech-Fact you Know?

We all have something living rent-free in our heads 🐛. Be it a meme, gif, song or something completely different. Yet most of them are basically a File on some server, something only existing digitally (next to our minds). These are the true wonders of our technology as they make us happy.

Our Everyday Heroes! 🦸🦸‍♀️

And just like those - which can also be found on every meme Monday here on dev.to - every engineer has some random tech fact someone with another profession would probably not know 🧠.

So, here goes my rent-free Tech Fact concerning hardware limits:

The Bekenstein bound limits the amount of information that can be stored within a spherical volume to the entropy of a black hole with the same surface area.
Read More About it on Wikipedia

And something more coding related - Atwood's Law:

Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

Read More About it, also, on Wikipedia

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Flavius

The firefox logo is not a fox, it's a red panda. Yeah...

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Jessica Veit

This is something that cannot be unseen 😅

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Blockchainorama

Here is also a good one:

QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down the typing speed

Taken from wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_... 😁