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Comment Re:Really object to emergency information ? (Score 1) 199

Yeah, "nothing you could do." Except, maybe, TURN OFF that type of alert in your settings?
So you were inconvenienced once because of your ignorance about the included features of the phone. How is that anyone else's fault?

There are plenty of settings on my phone (any tons of other devices & applications) for which I do not agree with the default value of. That is why one of my first tasks is to peruse ALL the options and set them up according to my personal preferences. That is, after all, what those settings screens are there for in the first place.

Comment Re:Long division? (Score 1) 656

Of course you need maths at a higher level. Try binary subtraction by hand.

Subtraction? Try binary long division by hand (which of course involves some binary subtraction).

About 30-40% of my "Computer Architecture" course comprised of doing all kinds of random ass math in various radicies from 2 to 16 (problems often given in a mixture, requiring lots of conversions). Everything had to be done by hand with all steps shown.

All that grilling of maths in there (among the pile of other CS & Math courses I took) has actually come in handy quite often throughout my career and even non-work-related stuff.

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