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Did the author forget to add pictures? They seem to be referred to in the text.

One of the meeting rooms here at work has a couple of big panels for displaying presentations, and they're regularly misinterpreting noise on some line or other and changing their …

There was also an issue with Linux about 8 years ago where the THP daemon would start busy-looping searching for pages to amalgamate, wasting loads of CPU time (and I believe freez…

That particular tool's purpose was actually to shift the Amiga's very simple RTOS-like static priority scheduler more towards a more complex fairness-based scheduler like Linux/Win…

Software that tried to implement memory protection or virtual memory on the Amiga had to have a huge long hit-list of software that set the AllocMem flags incorrectly and had to be…

AmigaOS couldn't be described as a RTOS proper, not like QNX. For one, it had a forbid() system call which would stop the scheduler from pre-empting the current running process. It…

Yeah, it works really well on a tiny screen, surprisingly enough.

On Android there is Endless ATC. It also appears to be on Steam.

Agreed. It'd be great for after the person has left the DV situation but not really beforehand.

It's not just so that a few people can tune engines. The majority of the MOT is the roadworthiness check.

I don't think "enormous costs" is a strong argument here. The annual MOT is usually under £50, and that includes a fairly comprehensive roadworthiness check and emissions check. A …

PSA: Flashing someone is never a signal that you're giving them priority. That is explicitly forbidden in the highway code and dangerous. Flashing someone, like using the horn, onl…

My 18 year old A3 reads about 1mph higher than the true speed at motorway speeds. It's pretty spot-on, which is very unusual.

I'm not.

It's a "drop everything and patch" if you have a large multi-user server where you don't completely trust all of the users. Like say in a university with a server that students can…

I used one of these to win an inter-school science competition when I was ~13. It was a minute timer. The competition board doubted I had built it all myself, so they plonked it do…

How many capacitors do you have that can hold their charge for 55 years?

To go along with these, aurora light consists of emissions at specific wavelengths, and this can potentially interact with the optical system of the camera you use to produce inter…

Yeah, but that one's ok because it's just named after the guy who wrote it.

Price, no. Value - probably.

Yeah. Recurring card purchases are hard to stop. They can keep going even after the card has been cancelled or expired. The direct debit guarantee is so nice in comparison.

I'm getting a 403 forbidden on this page.

Agreed. It should get itself into a twist with the undefined output being fed into the input and therefore the output always being undefined or 1. Likewise, level 2.12 is a bit mes…

It's an LCD display.

I think Zstandard would be the most benign example.