Effect can be used as a verb though https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/effect

The limiter on an ebike also protects the 14 year old kid riding it from going too fast. If it didn’t have limits then it’d be an electric motorbike that would need licencing, insurance, roadworthiness etc.

But 95% of people that call support don’t know that stuff. And those things solve 95% of the problems that users have. And support staff have been told to go through the script or get fired. So just be nice to them, get to the end of Level1’s script AQAP then you’ll get someone that’s allowed to use their noggin, considerably more quickly than if you piss around.

Oof, I thought it was only constipated mathematicians that had to work it out with a pencil.

This works for both positive and negative numbers:

private static bool isEven(int number)
{
	bool result = true;

	while (number < 0)
	{
		number = number - 1;
		if (result == true)
			result = false;
		else
			result = true;
	}
	while (number > 0)
	{
		number = number - 1;
		if (result == true)
			result = false;
		else
			result = true;
	}
	return result;
}

Output:

isEven(4) = True
isEven(5) = False
isEven(-4) = True
isEven(-5) = False

Mutt

Simple. We let them get away with it. Compare:

“Your PC is out of date” “Don’t be stupid, it’s only 2 years old and still works fine” with

“Your phone is out of date” “OK I’ll buy a new one”.

There needs to be a lot more of Answer A to Statement B.