Scott David Daniels wrote:
Aahz wrote:

You just can't have your cake and eat it, too.

I've always wondered about this turn of phrase. I seldom eat a cake at one sitting.

You need to recursively subdivide the cake until you have a piece small enough to fit in your input buffer. Then the atomicity of the cake-ingestion operation will become apparent.

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