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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • Lets say you use a variable named abcd in your function. And a variable named abcb in a for loop inside the same function. But because reasons you mistakenly use abcd inside that loop and modify the wrong variable, so that your code sometimes doesnt work properly.

    It’s to prevent mistakes like that.

    A similar thing is to use const when the variable is not modified.







  • You don’t have to know. It does not matter because your 8GB stick can’t fit 16 512MB files anyway. Funny enough it might fit 500MB files if it is FAT32.

    Being consistent with base10 systems does not matter in real world usage. Literally nobody cared before the asshats changed it.

    Edit: i also understand si, down to its history. I don’t live in an inch country. Computing is different then physical measurements. In computing 1024 is more “correct”.