When dealing with floats, it should be noted that unlike a 32-bit `int` which is a signed 2's complement representation; a 32-bit `float` follows single precision floating point representation which is 1 sign bit, 8 exponent bits and 23 mantissa bits.
Not that there's anything wrong with the article, i just wanted to put it here.
Can you blame Linus for saying that? I can't speak with precision about 1999, but someone assumed to have a CS education should know the difference between semaphore and spinlock.
'sandwich' gives a great result. there is some song called sandwiches and it's taking that into context. may be looking for the closest match of the given word.