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bill3478

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    Comment #46491859

    > to properly articulate their problems using the jargon of mathematicians and programmers I once distilled a real-life problem into mathematical language exactly like how the Intr…

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    Comment #46491670

    If this were true, then treating any question as an X-Y problem shouldn't be allowed at all. I.e. answers should at least address the question as posed before/instead of proposing …

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    Comment #43863974

    Really not sure what/who this is for. There aren't many 3-phase LV AC + DC use cases apart from industrial load + control. I can't imaging the DC part can be transmitted at a volta…

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    Comment #43863835

    Wouldn't that be POE+=2? Also, if this is anything like USB it will be PoE 3.14 Gen 2 type E.

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    Comment #43827329

    Many supermarket chains (in the West at least) have satellite links at their major locations because they can't afford to close a store just because the local ISP had an issue. The…

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    Comment #43827276

    They can use GPS to synchronise or back-to-back DC if available.

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    Comment #43827159

    A true black start has several factors (which make it difficult and notable): 1. The grid has to fully collapse with no possibility of being rescued by interconnection 2. As a resu…

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    Comment #38024903

    Of the top 10 languages on https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ , only Visual Basic uses ^ as the power operator. Google must really like Visual Basic.

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    Comment #38013171

    Is that the power operator or the xor operator?

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    Comment #36689482

    Is not that OpenJDK developers can't prevent these, but there's a forbidding cost for doing so. The simplest "safe" way of doing this involves defensively copying the input argumen…