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Why didn't the 8086 use linear addressing?
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Is it possible to ruin one’s career by failing the Kobayashi Maru?
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Why did IBM make the PC BIOS source code public?
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Why are energy weapons seen as more acceptable in children's shows than guns that fire bullets?
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Mathematical ideas that took long to define rigorously
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What is the least “world changing” reason why the government would pay for you to keep a llama during your 44th year of life?
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Did any compiler fully use Intel x87 80-bit floating point?
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How can I add stippling to elements of my tikz diagrams?
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Why did 8-bit Basic use 40-bit floating point?
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Can Communism become a stable economic strategy? How?
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Were any Kings/Queens who were monarchs as children good rulers?
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Conjectures (or intuitions) that turned out wrong in an interesting or useful way
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What did the DoD think Fortran lacked?
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What was the point of separating stdout and stderr?
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“Modus moron” rule of inference?
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Where does the expression “triple-A” come from?
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How does Rust's 128-bit integer `i128` work on a 64-bit system?
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How do I use AMS Euler?
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What’s a possible one-word replacement for “applicable in every situation”?
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What is the word for using one word to replace another for cosmetic reasons?
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What is a safe programming language?
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Choice of consistent unicode open-type fonts for Phd Thesis in Engineering
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Who was the first female ruler to be given the suffix, “the great”?
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Why is the logical NOT operator in C-style languages “!” and not “~~”?
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When did FORTRAN decide on signed integers?
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A value of type “const char*” cannot be used to initialize an entity of type “char *”
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Which European monarch of the middle ages died furthest from home?
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What are all the font styles I can use in math mode?
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Why do Klingons use cloaking devices?
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How do I make LaTeX understand Unicode characters ↔︎ and ↕︎
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