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Feb 28, 2014 at 23:28
Surprised to see that `5.0 // 2.0` in #Python, despite being integer division, returns floats.

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Mar 29, 2025 at 23:01
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Sep 26, 2023 at 03:14
Today I learnt that a continually blinking caps lock on Linux signifies a kernel panic: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3840/the-caps-lock-and-scroll-lock-lights-are-flashing-and-everything-is-frozen (On the plus side, it's the first time I've encountered this despite using Linux for years.)
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