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The world outside of the USA that functions perfectly fine with CCS2 adapters.

The farebox recovery ratio in many western nations are not enough to ever fully fund public transport. In many cases, the systems to collect fares end up costing hundreds of millio…

Fun fact: z/OS is now emulated on Red Hat Linux nowadays for "new" deployments.

I'd read the following before eating too many Brazil nuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_nut#Nutrition_and_human...

Communications of the ACM.

> Such small software shops like Microsoft unfortunately cannot afford to hire designers to do multiple sets of icons. I had to chuckle. I remember back in the Windows 3.11 days, t…

> An engineering company should have engineers as managers from the bottom level all the way up to the CEO. Sun Microsystems had this. Didn't work too well for them. It's not at al…

I think this aspect is also worth considering: https://www.thebillfold.com/2012/05/only-an-idiot-would-rob-...

I believe Bryant and O'Hallaron wrote a text book just for this course. You can always "optimize" it by reverse engineering the benchmark app and providing the correctly aligned bl…

This is probably the best way to learn about pointers in C. The book "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" addresses this area very well: https://www.pearson.com/us/higher…

Bluetooth still isn't perfect for certain use cases. That's why Apple ended up augmenting it for audio. Apple was an early adopter of the standard. I remember when being amazed at …

> A lot of people forget that the G in GTK stands for Gimp Source? It's always stood for Gnome Toolkit. You must be confusing this with the GDK (GIMP Drawing Kit) that's between th…

Is this an msi hiding in a wrapper? Anyone who has dealt with the innards of an msi file knows it's a dog's breakfast!

They even had a version of Java for .Net called J# (J-Sharp). That didn't last long.

> You need a special screwdriver P5 Pentalobe screwdriver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentalobe_security_screw

A couple of things I've noted over the years: - Fields, or anything that uses fields: They're completely broken. They only seem to function in straight-forward case. For e.g: it's …