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Michael Stachowsky
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Engineering instructor and part-time mathematician

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Why is EEPROM called ROM if it can be written to?
Jan 31, 2021
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Did the computer mouse always output relative x/y and not absolute?
Dec 3, 2019
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In the ISO 1990 C standard library, what was the rationale for having memcpy return one of its inputs?
Jun 21, 2022
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Was there any technological reason that C was designed to return only a single thing from a function?
Feb 1, 2023
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How could the SNES take advantage of in-cartridge coprocessors that weren't invented when the SNES came out?
Dec 19, 2022
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How did games like Doom offer free trials? What was packaged in their free trial software packages?
Oct 28, 2020
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Why does the x86 not have an instruction to obtain its instruction pointer?
May 20, 2022
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What happened to the job market for assembly programmers once high level languages became mainstream?
Jul 11
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In P.J. Plauger's "The Standard C Library" (1992), why are for loops used so frequently instead of while loops in the implementations?
Jun 22, 2022
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In x86 real mode, how does BIOS know what hardware is present?
Oct 22, 2021
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Failing students when it might cause them economic ruin
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I recently started my machine learning PhD and I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing
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How to reward students for learning from mistakes without penalizing those who didn't make mistakes in the first place?
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Should I do anything if I am cited for something that wasn't in my paper?
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Sending mail to the Professor for PhD, after seeing his tweet