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Precedence: and > or?
The question Precedence of “and” and “or” asks if there is any notion of precedence ordering in the English and it would seem not, based on the answers.
Regardless of that, if you saw the following ...
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Why pool of processes?
I hit the sentence:
The ProcessPoolExecutor class is an Executor subclass that uses a pool
of processes to execute calls asynchronously.
I was looking for the word pool which means swimming ...
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What does “no-op” mean?
In the Remarks section of a Microsoft dbset.add page I read
Remarks: Note that entities that are already in the context in some other state will have their state set to Added. Add is a no-op if ...
