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Only if you use floating point in your filesystem checks, which I really hope nobody does. How do you even store 3.14 bytes.

Any project depending on Integer identity had years of warning that this change would come. Also given implicit primitive conversions and object pooling Integer isn't exaclty a pri…

It explicitly allows research, tests and third party tools. I am sure that any contributer can still find plenty of use for AI with that.

> is indeed just an American airline. I would say there is nothing descriptive about calling something American. America doesn't even refer to a single country, does it operate out…

At least the GL part isn't something that has a widely understood meaning and I don't think any of the competing APIs are generally refered to as Graphics Libraries either.

How is Minecraft doing these days?

> By "through metadata", you mean with some external separate mechanism unrelated to the XML spec? The code generating the xml text may not be aware of the final encoding used to s…

By default XML is either UTF-8 or 16, any other encoding has to be identified either through metadata or an explicit declaration in the document itself. If you are guessing it is b…

The candidates for prime minister and similar positions tend to be front and center during an election. From what I remember the head of the european commission was picked from a g…

Folded paper has some structure, so not as much?

> Netscape decided to add a programming language to Navigator. They pursued two routes to achieve this: And the reason for that two language approach is given in the linked source:…

> Having to install a binary blob from a free-software hostile vendor that wanted a monopoly to load a website was always ridiculous ask. The entire browser ecosystem started out c…

The result I get has an entire section dedicated to scammers using the company name. The only links in that section go to a wikipedia page that doesn't mention any scams and a poli…

> due to how easy it is to trick them into installing something You have tools from large corporations where the official installation procedure involves copy pasting a command fro…

Isn't that what vfork tried to address? No COW, the child starts in its parents address space and only gets its own after calling exec.

> In modern CPUs a mispredicted branch is much more expensive than a memory write. Mostly because of caching. The writes either go to the same address as a previous one or move onl…

That was an unrelated issue from an audit that had been done before the heist. One of the theories right after the heist was that the thieves where former security guards. France h…

Shouldn't desktop environments detect if a lock screen terminated abnormaly anyway? The OOM killer is just one of many possible causes.