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  • Every book has a unique number used to identify them, the ISBN (International Standard Book Number). If you can figure out the ISBN of a book, it becomes an easy search term for piracy, because now you aren’t looking for a long title, you’re looking for a unique number!
    Most bookstores will list the ISBN of a book on their website, so that step should be pretty easy.

    Then to commit the piracy, you can often just google the ISBN + filetype:pdf and get a free PDF pretty frequently.
    There is also library genesis (libgen), where you can look up pirated books via their ISBN, which has a super wide selection.
    And if even libgen does not have it, you can try torrent trackers (read up more on !piracy )

    Of course most of those options are legally questionable or illegal depending on where you live, and I of course would not recommend you actually perform them ;)



  • Because even a long (64-bit int) is too small :)
    A long can hold 2^64-1 = 1.84E19
    A double can hold 1.79E308

    Double does some black magic with an exponent, and can hold absolutely massive numbers!

    Double also has some situations that it defines as “infinity”, a concept that does not exist in long as far as I know (?)




  • Ive never used githubs CI/CD, but gitlab has quite a large ecosystem for its CI/CD.
    Seems to me like you could use gitlab as a one-stop-shop to host everything from your code to your artifacts and containers, if you are willing to pay for those fancy features

    Free is able to just do basic CI/CD for like 250 minutes a month, or unlimited via your own runners/build servers, thats about it



  • I actually have aphantasia :)
    I get open-eyed distortions and wavyness, and can see some images with my eyes closed. I have very little control over what I see, and it is more like short glimpses, but it is tons more interesting than the black void I usually stare into with my eyes closed!