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You wouldn't be running anything that has been repaired, the fact that a repair is done means that a syntax error has occurred and compilation has failed. The repair is just a reco…

I looked at about 20 different "popular" languages and I believe that only 2 (Go and Swift) of them have shifts at a higher precedence than addition. I think I'm missing a referenc…

I've had MS for probably about 5 years now. Thankfully my case is relatively mild, but it can still be both disruptive and stressful at times (especially during my first few attack…

The nominal voltage of a battery isn't the maximum voltage, 3.7V lithium cells are typically charged to around 4.2V. A 4S battery (or equivalent) will have a nominal voltage of 14.…

To me it seems like the ATX12VO specification is more of an endorsement of the direction PC power supplies seem to be moving in rather than a from-scratch redesign. It would be nic…

I remember how excited I was when I heard the announcement that Keller was to work on a new project at AMD a few years back. And I can certainly relate to the latter point: As an e…

WolframAlpha lists the factors as 2^38 * 5^38, which is just a compact notation for 38 2s and 38 5s, totalling 76 factors. If you count the 2s and 5s in the output of factor, you g…