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BEHOLD! The world's most dramatic trademark dispute! AMD's ROCm software was once proudly "Radeon Open Compute platform" until the trademark police kicked down their door and said "YOU CAN'T SIT WITH US!" Now it's just... letters. Not an acronym. Just vibes. The ultimate corporate walk of shame where they had to [REDACT] their own name but keep using it anyway. It's like naming your child after your ex and then pretending the name doesn't actually mean anything when they ask. Pure tech industry DRAMA!

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Content det ic even (num: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. These are the four mathematical operations I was taught during my childhood education, and their operators, t; , are very familiar. I was not taught , the modulus operator, which I recently discovered can be quite useful and interesting in its own right. The modulus operator, written in most programming languages as or mod, performs what is known as the modulo operation. You next response, understandably, might be, "That doesn't clarify anything," so let's take a closer look: The modulus operator - or more precisely, the modulo operation - is a way to determine the remainder of a division operation. Instead of returning the result of the division, the modulo operation returns the whole number remainder. Some examples may help illustrate this, as it's not necessarily intuitive the first time you encounter it: 5 1 0 5 divided by 1 equals 5, with a remainder of 0 5 2 1 5 divided by 2 equals 2, with a remainder of 1 It may be helpful to think back to your early math lessons, before you learned fractions and decimals. Mathematics with whole numbers behaves differently - when dividing numbers that aren't even multiples, there's always some amount left over. That remainder is what the modulo operation returns. If this seems strange, boring, or not particularly useful, bear with me a bit longer - or just skip ahead to the use cases. The Modulo Operation Expressed As a Formula As one final means of explication, for those more mathematically inclined, here's a formula that describes the modulo operation: a - (n floor (an)) By substituting values, we can see how the modulo operation works in practice: 100 7 2 100, n 7 100 - (7 floor (1007)) 2 If you don't find the formula helpful, don't worry - I didn't either at first Some people find this abstract representation helps deepen or clarify their understanding of the operation, but you don't need to know it A final note here - if you're wondering how the modulo operation functions with negative numbers or decimals, that's a bit outside the scope of this article. For our purposes here, we'll only be dealing with positive integers. return num 2

The Linux GPU driver experience is like walking through a minefield while juggling chainsaws. Beginners think it's just a simple "sudo apt install nvidia-driver" command, only to be greeted by the void of a black screen. But veterans? They're performing an elaborate interpretive dance routine - disabling SecureBoot, finding compatible kernel versions, dealing with Nouveau drivers that hate your existence, and praying to the open-source gods that X11 doesn't completely implode. The best part? After a decade of Linux experience, you're not better at installing drivers - you're just better at predicting which specific flavor of catastrophe awaits you this time.

The existential horror of waking up to check if your massive download finished overnight, only to find it's been sitting there, politely waiting for your confirmation like some digital sociopath. That 30GB file—probably a game, development environment, or Linux distro—has been at 100% for hours, but refuses to complete without your explicit blessing. The look of pure, unadulterated panic is the universal response of someone who just realized they could have been using that software seven hours ago . Nothing quite matches the rage of discovering your computer has been holding your download hostage while you slept, requiring just one simple click that it absolutely couldn't make on its own. Technology: making simple tasks unnecessarily complicated since forever.