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About 9 years ago I had a run-in with stomach cancer. After a few months of chemo and a 7 hour operation I was eventually declared cancer free and have been ever since, but still h…

An enthralling example of just how good a public speaker Duouglas Adams was and, 30 years later, still relevant and insiteful.

Many years ago I was a technician supporting a few custom programs on thousands of PCs. The developer of one of these programs had added a date check to his code so the program wou…

I can attest to this from personal experience. After undergoing stomach surgery 8 years ago I started experiencing completely debilitating stomach aches. I had many appointments wi…

Why go to this much trouble for a Reddit account? A few months ago I browsed r/all by new and downvoted every crypto scam post to unrelated subreddits I saw. This raised a red flag…

I first used Uber while on holiday in Poland and consequently every email I got from them was in Polish until I worked out how to cancel that account.

A demonstration of exactly this problem (only in older versions of .Net, newer versions use a different seeding method) https://dotnetfiddle.net/tLGMp6

It's been a while so I can't provide a link but I remember reading about someone who got hold of a video blackjack machine that used a pseudo random number generator and was able t…

I think the most probable reason for this instruction is for calculating parity bits. This would need to be done fast so it makes sense that there would be a CPU instruction to do …

I ended up being the sole developer for a system that managed vehicle trackers installed in fleet vehicles. A few months after I took over they picked up a new client that was a fi…

They really should have used the code that controlled the ghosts in Pac-Man.

"All of them should be allowed on the pavement, because people aren't stupid, they will get out of the way if they see one coming." Speaking as someone who sometimes puts his back …

That would stop any drop-down menu navigation bars from working though.