Suppose you are working on a complex bash script to automate a series of tasks on your Linux system. You notice that as it grows, there are certain parts of the script where the same code blocks are ...

Making a Minecraft server is a nightmare. This is a common belief that many players, including myself, have had for years. You have to download files, set up codes ...

The introduction of dynamic arrays triggered the biggest change to how we work with Microsoft Excel formulas in years, if not decades. They allow a single formula to spill multiple results into ...

As today’s database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database ...

Abstract: Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a key technology for delivering low-latency services to mobile and edge devices, supporting applications like autonomous vehicles and smart cities. However, ...

The IF function is probably one of the most well-known formulas for Excel, as it allows for data points to be compared between a value and what you are expecting. IF statements are powerful because ...

It seems that COALESCE may be expanded to a CASE/WHEN, which causes the expression to get evaluated twice (link); ISNULL apparently doesn't have this behavior. This has a performance impact (i.e. when ...

Abstract: Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly being used to promote exercise among older adults. The data captured through VR may be a useful indicator of the game user's experience as well as ...

Researchers have developed an easy-to-use optical chip that can configure itself to achieve various functions. The positive real-valued matrix computation they have achieved gives the chip the ...