Like rocket engines in space, the sun has its own oxidizer tank. Let’s hope it won’t run out anytime soon.

No, you absolutely don’t need to care at all about the memory management when using Linux. This rabbit hole is really only relevant when you want to work on the Linux kernel or do some really low-level programming.

I would say the most obscure thing that is useful to know for running Linux is drive partitioning, but modern installers give you a lot of handrails in this process.

The really crazy thing about the graph is that there are 433 fucking datapoints!

Alright, but seriously: IPv6.

Why not go with the base version then?

Monaco got stung by a wasp.

Snake case and kebab case mixed arbitrarily.

man -k to the rescue: mbsrtowcs, strxfrm and wcstold are C functions.

/boot/vmlinuz-linux

Maybe try k3b, a CD burning program by the KDE project instead. It always worked well for me.

Can we just take a step back and admire how completely bizarre this title sounds out of context?

Now that’s the kind of industry secrets I opened this thread for.

A major political agenda of Vim is to support children in Uganda. A message about that is displayed whenever you open Vim’s start page. Bram Moolenaar insisted on users donating to the ICCF charity instead of to him, making Vim a very political editor in my view.

This statement is wrong.

The premise is already wrong. No orchestra can play Beethoven’s 9th symphony in 40 minutes, this piece is longer than an hour.

THE MORE YOU SAVE

IEEE 754 is the standard to which basically all computer systems implement floating point numbers. It specifically distinguishes between +0 and -0 among other weird quirks.

Okay, who will go to court for the cereal soup question next?

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game on Steam with “Overwhelmingly Negative” reviews before. Usually “Mixed” is already a good indicator to leave your hands off a game.

That’s wrong, it calculates the surface distance not the distance through the earth, while claiming otherwise. From the geopy.distance.great_circle documentation:

Use spherical geometry to calculate the surface distance between points.

This would be a correct calculation, using the formula for the chord length from here:

from math import *

# Coordinates for Atlanta, West Georgia
atlanta_coords = (33.7490, -84.3880)
# Coordinates for Tbilisi, Georgia
tbilisi_coords = (41.7151, 44.8271)

# Convert from degrees to radians
phi = (radians(atlanta_coords[0]), radians(tbilisi_coords[0]))
lambd = (radians(atlanta_coords[1]), radians(tbilisi_coords[1]))

# Spherical law of cosines
central_angle = acos(sin(phi[0]) * sin(phi[1]) + cos(phi[0]) * cos(phi[1]) * cos(lambd[1] - lambd[0]))
chord_length = 2 * sin(central_angle/2)

earth_radius = 6335.439 #km
print(f"Tunnel length: {chord_length * earth_radius:.3f}km")

A straight tunnel from Atlanta to Tbilisi would be 9060.898km long.