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It seems to me incongruous and disrespectful that she capitalizes on the commercial cachet of non-secular Christmas carols with explicit Christ references edited out. Presumably they are so-redacted because singing the songs with the Christ words left in would not be acceptable to her as a...

Got me there ##-## at first I thought, typo? (presumably yes, for an actual number of books in an actual library ##-## either ##{({10^{10}})}^6## or ##10^{({10^6})}## is way too big) ##-## but ##10 \times 10^6## (##=10^7##, or 10,000,000 = ten million, is a goodly number of books for a very...

I found this book very helpful in my student days -- its content is still comp-sci foundational, and by it the applicability of graph theory to computer programming of/or/and data structures is clearly shown...

The rosettacode.org site has many sample programming tasks/problems and it shows solutions implemented for each of them in dozens of languages,

The IBM System/360 had a date format with 2 digits for the year. IBM Systems Reference Library IBM System/360 Operating System Control Program Services Changing to a 4-digit year genuinely was necessary for disambiguation, and all the mainframe software vendors had Y2K-compliant editions of...

The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology is not prohibitively expensive: new on Amazon: https://amazon.com/Oxford-Dictionary-English-Etymology/dp/0198611129?tag=pfamazon01-20 in very good condition on Alibris: https://alibris.com/search/books/isbn/9780198611127?qwork=4942312

Perhaps 'Formicians' -- Formicidae, the ant family, as far as we know are the only insects that never sleep.

zoology/taxonomy quiz Q&A Q: What is a difference between an alligator and a crocodile? A: The alligator will see you later, but the crocodile, you'll see in a while.

Circuit Scramble is a logic circuit solitaire game for Android, available for free download at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Circuit-Scramble-Computer-Logic-Puzzles/dp/B078X99YQG

Reference: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/the-infinitesimal-in-calculus.1066628/#post-7129537

If there were a 100% MS-approved way, then presumably there would be no reason for the OP to have started this thread. The tool automates use of MS-approved interfaces to accomplish the disabling of auto-update functions. It's open source, and its workings are well explained in the accompanying...