Perry Lorier
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Do not feed the bear
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Reposted by Perry Lorier
@0xabad1dea Fun fact! Mobile phone networks don't have the concept of an "emergency number", the network provides a special "emergency call setup" feature. Your phone and SIM card establish a list of "emergency call numbers", which trigger this feature. (Or you just hit the big red button on the […]
Original post on social.troll.academy
social.troll.academy
September 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
@0xabad1dea Fun fact! Mobile phone networks don't have the concept of an "emergency number", the network provides a special "emergency call setup" feature. Your phone and SIM card establish a list of "emergency call numbers", which trigger this feature. (Or you just hit the big red button on the […]
Reposted by Perry Lorier
I can't resist mentioning (again) one of my favourite bugs:
The Atari 2600 game Haunted Mansion has an incorrect instruction which showed up in the emulator I wrote and yet the game works fine on most real consoles.
It turns out that if you accidentally use SBC 15 on a real console (subtract […]
The Atari 2600 game Haunted Mansion has an incorrect instruction which showed up in the emulator I wrote and yet the game works fine on most real consoles.
It turns out that if you accidentally use SBC 15 on a real console (subtract […]
Original post on mathstodon.xyz
mathstodon.xyz
May 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I can't resist mentioning (again) one of my favourite bugs:
The Atari 2600 game Haunted Mansion has an incorrect instruction which showed up in the emulator I wrote and yet the game works fine on most real consoles.
It turns out that if you accidentally use SBC 15 on a real console (subtract […]
The Atari 2600 game Haunted Mansion has an incorrect instruction which showed up in the emulator I wrote and yet the game works fine on most real consoles.
It turns out that if you accidentally use SBC 15 on a real console (subtract […]