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From 2008, but still applicable: https://nealabq.com/blog/2008/09/15/bugs-returned-mem-refs/

Oh, the irony. https://iili.io/qkNFd7.png

Someone tracked this down to a piece of software called Live! Cam Avatar: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56010156

> x86 is notable in that you can cause a branch or jump without calling a branch or jump instruction. I'm curious what you are referring to here. Are you talking about CMOV? Or INT…

It's because they have the "American dream" of rising to the top. https://youtu.be/xxD9nGL3NLY

Not disputing this, but the UX of navigating to a bank's website using Chrome on XP and getting redirected to a "Download Chrome" link when there isn't a newer version for your OS …

Or just turn off javascript for the site, and the paywall doesn't happen.

Less effective at cooling, more effective at dehumidifying (it seems there is a presumption that dehumidification is roughly linear with operating time.)

I think this is what is being referred to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643052

For N=104, if you look at the PDF and zoom in, you can see the blue circles have a line rather than a dot. Admittedly, it is hard to see why the blue circles do not have enough fre…

> So they have a duty to select a CEO who doesn't enable the unnecessary waste of corporate money on optional taxes. Waste is one of a very short list of categories that are consid…

That might be true, but the reason for this recommendation is because botulism spores can exist in honey and the systems (mostly gut bacteria, from what I understand) of infants ar…

> I'm not sure I've ever seen the design you're referring to I think this style is what was being referred to: https://www.amazon.com/Stansport-Aluminum-Scout-Canteen-1-Qu... This …

I basically gave up on twitch after it stopped working on the Xbox 360. The app just shows thumbnails but never streams. It doesn't work right in the browser for me either, probabl…

Nothing. It made the news in 2009 in Phoenix: http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/airport-luggage-theft/

The paper talks about dynamic networks where nodes are being added or removed. If m and k are fixed, does it set an effective upper bound on the number of nodes? How do you address…

If you have array @foo in perl, $#foo is the index of the last element of the array, which is just the size of the array -1. So if @foo is undefined, $#foo is -1. Using a variable …

It is much older than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell,_book,_and_candle I believe in contemporary use it has become associated with witches, and I have seen it used as a g…

The popularity of lobster is generally attributed to it being canned and served on the railroads (thinking that they could get away with serving cheap meat to customers in the midw…

Calculator is interesting in that there is a physical button on (many) keyboards to open it. Ironically enough, I encountered a bug with the Windows 10 calculator that caused it to…

I remember getting a free polo shirt with the AltaVista logo embroidered on it. I don't recall the specific circumstances that led to being sent a shirt, and I wore holes in it so …

The US does have a television network called PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) which is a non-profit organization although it is only partially government funded (they generally as…

The term comes from the history of firefighting: http://www.firehydrant.org/info/hist-fp.html

Well, there is this approach: #include #include #define FIZZ(x) (x & 0x0924) #define BUZZ(x) (x & 0x0210) #define FIZZBUZZ(x) (x & 0x4000) #define NONE(x) (x & 0x34cb) void fizzbuz…