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Median of Two Sorted

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Programming with Memory

The question is to determine the median of an array formed by blending two sorted arrays.
That is:

Given two sorted arrays nums1 and nums2 of size m and n, respectively, return the median of the two sorted arrays.

  • Example 1: Input: nums1 = [1,3], nums2 = [2] Output: 2.00000 Explanation: merged array = [1,2,3] and median is 2.
  • Example 2: Input: nums1 = [1,2],

Windows 10 – File Explorer Freezing on Clicking the Office

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The Windows of Caerbannog

P

erhaps due to overstretched compatibility, Windows 10 bear many problems as if oneself is a Trojan horse.

Indeed, in the Windows, we see the house divided. Its core organs – File Explorer – and most intimate kins – Microsoft Office – apparently causes an immune response.

Upon appealing to Google, immediately came up two patterned victims suffering the consanguineous disease:

An as of usual,

Execute Order 0x00007b

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Code Name 0x00007b

0x00007b, perhaps one of the most common and (most obnoxious) nemeses we encounter in the digital realm. Its evil approach comes in a variety: from nipping your Touhou experience in the bud (which has some good, in a sense) or blocking all pathways to Adobe installations.

"The time has come. Execute Order 0x00007b"

At another unexpected time, I confronted this digital Angra Mainyu,

Quick Type-sketching Quick-Response Codes

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Quick-Response Codes are Slow

Every year in the fall, the quad is filled with thousands of students from hundreds of clubs in the school. Technology has enabled club sign-up to be done with a quick scan of QR codes, but the delivery of such codes still relies on traditional medium -- paper.

Betraying its name, Quick Response codes often don't work quickly. Moreover, QR codes on curved surfaces are never read. Spending the day full of QR scans,

Languages in an Online Melting Pot

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“Albeit”, “pão”, “manteau”; vocabularies you may expect to hear in European countries. Indeed, these are respectively German, Portuguese, and French vocabularies that settled into the very core of Korean language to a degree where most Koreans believe them as ‘pure Korean words’. Can you imagine Koreans on the street literally saying ‘give me some pão’ or ‘I’m doing albeit (part-time job)’ without context? Not surprisingly, Japanese also has corresponding words, whose usage is no less common than their Korean counterparts.