what I call Atheist. You don’t care if one exists or not.

The classical Atheist cares. He finds it important that God does not exist.

This here is an Agnostic.

This might save a tiny bit of electricity,

…and therefore it is the users perfect right to do it or not to do it.

Unless the provider pays for that “tiny bit of” electricity, they have no say in this decision.

LMAO

decision to incorporate 8GB of RAM on all iPhone 16 models

Does it mean, their top models also have only 8?

In 2024, if you buy a new phone with only 8GB RAM, then this is more like a poor man’s phone.

Gopher. Now that’s a long time since I heard that name.

Reminds me of my childhood :-)

In high school we used to play card games. I was wearing glasses. The others (the smart ones only) could see my cards in my glasses, until I learned how to hold my cards properly and hide them.

hit dog will holler

Tools. So what.

You know, AI was able to lock up my computer in less than a minute!

You know, I won’t let AI do that to mine.

We don’t know about all programmers, but we know one at least now.

You don’t need AI. Take some basic programming courses.

Only touch the screw that is also shown in the Amazon picture. Then the water is safe from you.

It could simply be a loose connection. It will go out again.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Caleffi-Ecocal-Replacement-Thermostatic-Radiator/dp/B07VGY3J6P/

Look here, just as an example.

You can easily replace it, but pay attention to the size of the thread (after you have unscrewed it). M30x1.5 is the most common, but there are other sizes, too.

There is no favorite. There is only the lesser of several evils, and usually it changes after a few years.

I say, this mod has held you in very high regard by giving you an answer at all 😉

Unix? Come on, really?

What is Unix in 2024?

Trolling. And I have seen it so much better.

I love Europe. It’s my favourite country.

Is your one in the southern or northern parts of England?

Because the information necessary for that is already available from the subnet mask WITHOUT the bitwise AND, e.g., with 255.255.255.0 or 1111 1111.1111 1111.1111 1111.0000 0000, you count the amount of 1s, which in this case is 24 and corresponds to that appendix in the CIDR notation. At this point, you already know that you only need to consider those first 24 bits from the IP address, making the subsequent bitwise AND redundant.

On a technical level, the bitwise operation is all that is needed. It is one calculation of the simplest kind. A CPU can do it in 1 tick. That’s why they invented it this way.

The other way that you described is the super extra ultra lengthy complicated - and maybe redundant - thing.