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Agree, and the display is called a PPI ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_position_indicator ). Before computers, they were easy to connect to a scanning (rotating) radar since t…

extrano84 already found some errors but also 0 will fail and if x is int (instead of unsigned int) all negative numbers will also fail (but so will the original s-macke obfuscation…

Of course you should do the right thing, but if you want to break the private of C++ it is much easier to "#define private public" before including the header file.

More info (but a little vague on myth vs fact): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect

I'm on Linux Mint (21.2) and get the same error. Probably macOS only. A quick reading in readthedocs confirms it is macOS only, no Linux, no Windows.

The article is not correct on salaries being public: What is public are your tax reports and those are done a year later. To my knowledge you cannot see all details either, only to…

A modern car has >100 ECUs, blink is distributed to a few ECUs, think: front body, rear body, left door, right door plus instrument cluster and maybe a trailer control ECU. It does…

ECU is abbreviation for Electronic Control Unit in automotive. (And a modern car may actually have multiple ECUs controlling the engine(s), especially if it is a hybrid=HEV, plugin…

There is one more problem with encrypted elections not yet listed here; the vote is secret for now but 5, 10 or 20 years later it will be easy to break. This might mostly be a prob…

While f/64 sounds like a small aperture, it can be worth remembering that it was on large format cameras. A small sensor like on iPhone 6 is wide open corresponding to depth matchi…

I agree with this thinking. It is also possible that competitors to multi-billion contract being awarded to AWS by DoD wants an argument to distributing the contract among many clo…

I don't know the percentage B2B vs consumer-focused startups in EU or US so giving a few examples makes no real sense but Spotify, iZettle, Skype and Pirate bay are all of swedish …

I think more CPU performance is attractive if you edit photos or movies - something that is typical for a home computer. The reason AMD provides CPU performance through a high core…

With respect to the bmp example: 1. Removing the bmp_get implies that the application needs to implement a shadow image if it needs to check the color o a certain pixel. Or even wo…