I think SO may have done it partially to help their job board thing, but I'm not sure. Some of the info seems like it's used to help tailor the job board to users' preferences or better design SO jobs to appeal to more developers, but I don't know exactly how they use the information.
@HyperNeutrino Yeah, one of my co-workers gave up 5 minutes in because all the first questions were so obviously tailored to improve SE Jobs. He's happy with his current job.
> After investigating, Microsoft has determined that some AMD chipsets do not conform to the documentation previously provided to Microsoft to develop the Windows operating system mitigations to protect against the chipset vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown
@Poke Just like what happened with Vista. Microsoft said they were updating their driver model, updated their driver model, but vendors didn't update drivers so everything broke. Then Microsoft took the blame, waited a few years, and released Windows 7.
Hm, I want to ask the clever fellows here about something we're planning for the next version of Dyalog APL, but it is a weighing of two concepts, both of which are foreign to the non-APL world…
@Poke Uh, but the whole problem is how to order them ;-)
CMP: If we compare two empty arrays to find which precedes which, what should be more significant, their shapes or their (prototypical) content?
E.g. if A is a 0×0 character matrix and B is a 0×1 numeric matrix, should A precede B because it has lesser shape, or should B precede A because* it is numeric vs B being character?
Do I have the same number of factors as the next number?
code-golf factoring decision-problem number-theory
This challenge is simple: for the input integer n≥2, determine whether n has the same number of factors as n+1. You can either count or not count 1 and itself; the result should be the ...
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I suspect that @WheatWizard Has slowly been taking the brain-cells that were previously dedicated to "Spelling" and "Deciding what avatars to use", and dedicating them to Brain-flak golfing skills