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Is there such thing as an original for a 3000 year old tale? The ancient Greek versions will be heavily edited and modified

I have a head-torch with a pretty good compromise. The bay either accepts the proprietary battery, or three AAA batteries. The supplied lithium battery lasts longer than the AAA, b…

That doesn't really answer the question. Why are legumes worse than nuts, given that the macros of peanuts and cashews are pretty similar?

The casino will break even, but for the gamblers there will be a small number that win big, and a much larger number that lose out. Consider two rounds, there's a 25% chance you 4x…

In the UK cell numbers start with 07 and landline numbers start with 01. And there is no region encoded in a cell number, but landline numbers begin with an area code.

"anything stored in that pointer to memory you got back from malloc() is stored in an area of ram called "the heap", which is moderately slower to access than it is to access the s…

Yes, you can buy an interest rate swap. But I don't know how readily available they are to small businesses.

Addresses in Scotland use a slash to separate flat number from street number; e.g. 15/4 West Wallaby Way is equivalent to Building 15, Flat4, West Wallaby Way. I've had multiple we…

A lot of IDEs (I know Eclipse and VSCode both do this) will create a copy of the file you're working on each time you hit save. You can then navigate back through the local history…

-funsafe-math-optimizations always makes me laugh. Of course I want fun and safe math optimisations

In the UK at least, the lighting circuit contains a neutral wire, so this shouldn't be an issue.

My local hardware store has a fairly large range of smart light switches. I had no idea they existed until now. But the cost and difficulty of installation must drastically reduce …