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Exactly. I would personally consider damage caused by an unreliable suspend mode (whether an issue of software or hardware) to be an example of manufacturer defect.

We joke, but there actually was an aircraft carrier by the name HMS Theseus. It was under construction towards the end of the Second World War, and deployed to Korea in 1950. https…

Placenta is a flat cake, from Ancient Greek πλακοῦντος. Presumably, human placentae are named for their shape.

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https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/index.asp if you want to read the actual draft proposals

Well, in FORTRAN, GOD is REAL (and JESUS is INTEGER, but that's not as funny). Even modern fortran has to maintain this feature for legacy reasons, leading one to add 'implicit non…

Some miscellaneous comments: Woman in a bar: This particular mathematician appears to be from the 5th century BC. Prime numbers: This reminds me of the Grothendieck prime, 57. Hunt…

A good name is also memorable, consistent, easily decipherable, and works around namespace conflicts. Might be a best 2.7 out of 4 situation, I guess. Why 2.7/4 and not 3/4? Becaus…

Hmm, In my experience, trying to stop a sufficiently motivated 'kid' is an exercise in futility. Here are some possible scenarios, in decreasing order of plausiblity: 1. At the sur…

The author recommends -std=c99 (-pedantic) default flags, yet suggests K&R (2nd edition, presumably) as a reference...

As if that sounds any better in English. It's probably better just to ignore us English speakers anyway. Anyway, apparently Oberfucking and Unterfucking still exist?

Now 16x those bandwidth numbers with 1TB µSD cards, granted the read/write times will still be equally awful.

As an aside, there are also ISO B and C series paper, although I believe that the C standard was withdrawn somewhat recently. The area of B_n is the geometric mean of that of A_n a…

I'm curious what 'useful' feature set of a laundry machine is enabled by Internet access. The only thing that comes to mind is remote access e.g. to change washer/dryer settings or…