Do I need to explain sarcasm to you?

Yeah right... as if this is a result of gun laws. Clearly those toddlers are mentally unsound. They need better mental health care!

AC gotta build up that Karma, yo.

I hated math in high school. I took a couple of coding classes when I got to college, and soon thereafter got a few jobs programming. I didn't really enjoy what I was doing, so I went back to school.

Programming taught me how to think rigorously. With a mind geared towards precise thinking, I found math to be a breeze. Now... I'm a mathematician who spends all her time programming -- I can tackle problems that old pencil & paper mathematicians balk at.

You don't have to be good at programming to do math. You'll just suck.

Also, math is not just arithmetic and calculus, you incompetent fools.

You can say that they don't agree on a good way forward 'til you're blue in the face, but that doesn't address the fact at hand: 10 of 10 climate scientists agree that defunding climate science to silence the alarm bells is not the most pragmatic solution. And that's what we've been getting from the Republicans.

You seem to have mistaken my disdain for the right, for support for the left. I agree with your first two sentences completely.

Republicans have railed against the "liberal bias" of science. Because, for example, they view climate change as a political issue, and climate scientists overwhelming agree that anthropogenic climate change is real. This is not smart. And it appears that facts, themselves, have liberal bias: an informed voter is a Democratic voter. Smart!

I, for one, will be generating trillions of copies of the Virgin Killer cover art, to cover as much of the hash space as possible.

Easy. You don't need to worry about upstream updates 'cause the system is unhackable.

Duh. Idiot.

I puncture my company's firewall all the time, without any risk to my work computer, without any logging on my work computer, etc.

Who cares? If their product existed, they'd have pictures and not 3d renderings. Idioth.

My vibrator is a sexual object. Treating it as a sexual object is not demeaning. It's a damned vibrator. Idiot.

Do you mean that images of naked porn stars are "safe for work" because the models are "at work"? Sounds legit.

Ouch. +5, Informative indeed. <sigh>

Mathematicians can argue for any value at all, not just zero or one. This means that neither of your "rules" could take precedence.

Annnnd, on to your rules. Any number multiplied by zero is zero. Any nonzero number divided by itself is one. Of course, mathematicians are wont to generalize "number" to "field element". Go crack out on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_(mathematics)

Sure, better technology exists than topological sort ! Thanks for pointing out a better approach. OP's point, and mine, is that a few minutes of thought can be used to replace a horrible, unmaintainable cludge a graceful, robust approach. In fine Unix tradition, epoch wants to keep ritual animal sacrifice as a neccessary part of system administration. Good for the goat industry, bad for your coldroom floor.