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1. about 20 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   “So many computer errors come down to division by zero errors, so changing the definition of division of zero may be addressing this.”

   The fundamental definition of division of zero is not changing. The traditional answer is “undefined”. (It is definitely not zero, regardless of what some grade school teacher might claim, as this would require redefining the division operator to behave entirely differently in one specific case, which is clearly absurd.) You can make a strong case for the answer to be “infinity”, though, which is why a JavaScript implementation can choose to return that instead of the traditional “divide by zero error”.

2. about 20 hours ago on Luann

   She is definitely not subtle, is she? :-D

3. about 23 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

   “Not in Europe though, a lot of people cross borders here to go on holiday.”

   That’s because your borders are closer by. Mind you, the Pattersons live in the Ontario Peninsula. There is one other country in very easy driving distance if they go any direction other than north. :-)

4. 2 days ago on Stone Soup

   I miss After Dark.

5. 2 days ago on Stone Soup

   Yup. :-)

6. 2 days ago on Stone Soup

   Classic joke: Satan challenged Jesus to a programming contest. Jesus accepted. They both worked hard at their computers for hours. Then, all of a sudden, right before the deadline, there was a power outage. Satan was aghast; all his work was lost. When the power came back on, he scrambled to try to cobble something together before they brought their projects before God for judgement. When the time came, he was amazed to see Jesus smiling benignly.

   Satan turned in his project. It compiled, but was full of warnings and didn’t even load.

   Jesus turned in his project. It compiled with no warnings, loaded, met the spec, had no coding standard violations, and looked great.

   Satan was astonished. “But how did you manage all that in the few hours we had after the power outage?”

   Jesus turned to Satan and smiled. “Jesus saves.”

7. 2 days ago on Savage Chickens

   As an arachnophobe (seriously, I had to read the comic very quickly so I could scroll past the picture), I can say most of them look that big.

8. 2 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Well, it kind of works. Somebody needs to use this as a sneaky way of introducing her to algebra. ;-)

9. 2 days ago on Luann

   She’s embarrassed, how cute! :-D

10. 3 days ago on Non Sequitur

    Well, it’s not entirely untrue. If you know how much the available grant money is, you should tailor your request to fit, since it’s a lot more likely to be approved if you’re not asking for more than they can give.