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Good post! I'll add that computers largely do not actually subtract binary values. Negative values in binary are, in most cases, represented as a two's complement value, where the most significant bit (the leftmost bit in most representations) is the sign bit - 0 for positive, 1 for negative. When using a signed integer of this type, subtraction is performed as the addition of two numbers where at least one is negative, because the rules are actually the same.

For example, take the calculation 10 + (-3). Normally you could represent 10 in 4 bits, but since we need the MSB to be a sign bit we have to use at least 5.

  01010 (10)
+ 11101 (-3)
-----------------
  00111 ( 7) 

Technically this does overflow (the output value is 100111 = -25, but since we're using 5-bit hardware in this example we have to throw out the MSB). At this moment I don't remember the rules for when overflow should be ignored.

No Japanese

That just reminded me, CoD hit markers are always great.

A life-sized mold of your... personality

haha image uncomfortable

kek, sounds pretty bluepilled to me.

Speaking specifically about quoting the OP: It's not a problem in general - breaking up the post to respond to different parts (see: this entire thread) is very useful. Even quoting just a single (perhaps long) section of the OP can communicate that your reply only refers to that particular part of the post (though some post-quote editing should be used to make a succinct, high-quality post). On the flipside, I can't think of a single legitimate use for quoting the entire OP. Perhaps it's not worth warning points, but

would be nice.

Not that it's necessarily an issue around here, I've only noticed it in this topic.

Let me preface this by saying that I haven't been active on the forums for years and years, so I'm not really in touch with its modern culture.

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I don't think this is necessary. If your post is even tangentially related to the topic then it shouldn't be considered off-topic in the first place.
If you have a thought to share that's actually off-topic, just have that interesting discussion in a new thread.

I don't see this as an issue, actually.  If the thread evolves to discuss the new issue (given that, again, it's related to the original topic), that's what the thread becomes about. If the OP is dissatisfied with how the conversation is going, they should have the right to request a new thread be made and warnings issued if the discussion continues.

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Agree. Well, the example you posted is just obnoxious, but doubleposting with distinct thoughts (that are both related to the thread) is not an issue.
Also (evidently):

I just made a big ol' gooferino, my friends

So I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on an old Thinkpad of mine, as one does. I decided to run a quick test before wiping my drive just to see what kind of a night I was in for, so I quickly (read: slowly) grabbed the Linux source from Github and attempted to benchmark the compilation. Actually I manually paged through every file in the source tree and typed it out by hand but that's beside the point.

Three hours in I decided I wasn't gonna sit around for that. It was sure to be a long night if I didn't speed things up a bit, so I installed and started distcc on every computer I could get my hands on, hoping it would turn a multi-hour process into... still a multi-hour process in most likelihood, but hopefully less so. I ran through the Gentoo install, and got to the very exciting

emerge @world

About three hours later, I notice that although jobs are being dispatched to my other machines (occasionally), they eventually fail and are built by the laptop anyways. Oh no!

After about a half hour of googling and trying different things out, I realized that my slave machines were running a different55 major version of gcc than the host, which is of course why my jobs were failing. Damn. I had to halt the updates (it was compiling Linux at the time so it wouldn't be done for a few hours at least if my test was any indication) and install the proper version of gcc (which is testing in portage. Like, what the hell Gentoo, I thought you were supposed to be ~bleeding-edge~ /s).

Once that compiles I'll be on my merry way, and hopefully in not too long. I'm hongry and tired and my wife left me because I stopped paying attention to her.

Who can relate?

I second this. EE\[U\] doesn't really need full audio files, and short of encoding inappropriate content in MIDI a la this (which becomes low-quality and is easily thwarted with a note limit per time quantum) it would eliminate the need to curate content.

Also diff why can't I escape square brackets? >:^(

honestly, it's bad enough we have to share a server with the non-beta plebs ?