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Definitely. This, plus a graduate degree in a more specific field, and you end up with a very well-rounded education.

The reason division by zero can be a number is that floating-point numbers aren't individual numbers but ranges of numbers. So 0.0 isn't really the integer 0, it is the range of nu…

I don't know how they work internally, but I can say that power hammers used for blacksmithing sound similar to the woodpecker in the video, only much slower. A couple hard, fast h…

A hypothetical god would not destroy the world, but absolutely could . I think that's the idea - they're not reveling in the fact that they can do anything anybody could reasonably…

It's better to say that, in C, characters are bytes. That's why coming at this from the modern perspective of "characters are the things on my screen" is always going to confuse yo…

C isn't Java. Even Niklaus Wirth in Pascal, Oberon, and the like avoided naming their identifiers too long. 'GetStrSz()' is enough to achieve (most of) what you want, assuming cert…

Maybe my least favorite "feature" of C. I can manage most aspects of zero-terminated strings well enough, but when I have to specify the length of them, is it an 'int', 'size_t', '…

It's entirely possible to write a wrapper function with a short name to convert string literals to actual string objects. my_function(my_var, 3.6, $("bzarflo"), my_other_var, false…

You're being willfully obtuse here. When somebody says "this algorithm is unbounded" they of course don't mean that they've changed the laws of the universe to allow for an infinit…

You absolutely can justify infinity - even if your real system can't represent numbers larger than X, you can't guarantee that won't change in the future. For example, in C, intege…

Ounces can measure both volume and weight, depending on the context. In this case, there's not enough context to tell, so the comment is total BS. If they meant ounces (volume), th…

That's lame. Ounces are an ambiguous unit, and most people don't use them for volume, they use them for weight.

I use octal for this. x vs. x

wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Too often I hear people complain that they're being oppressed for their "differing opinions." A tolerable opinion is something like "my favo…

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf Section 6.10 (Page 145): Preprocessing Directives Hey, would you look at that! The preprocessor is a mandatory part of th…

But that is a legitimate problem. Using a language feature that is a known footgun (`if ...` instead of `if {...}`) without being cautious enough to avoid shooting yourself in the …