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  2. Fork bomb - Wikipedia

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    The concept behind a fork bomb — the processes continually replicate themselves, potentially causing a denial of service. In computing, a fork bomb (also called rabbit virus) is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack wherein a process continually replicates itself to deplete available system resources, slowing down or crashing the system due to resource starvation.

  3. API - Wikipedia

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    In building applications, an API simplifies programming by abstracting the underlying implementation and only exposing objects or actions the developer needs. While a graphical interface for an email client might provide a user with a button that performs all the steps for fetching and highlighting new emails, an API for file input/output might give the developer a function that copies a file ...

  4. Preprocessor - Wikipedia

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    For example: Instead of macros, some languages use aggressive inlining and templates. Instead of includes, some languages use compile-time imports that rely on type information in the object code. Some languages use if-then-else and dead code elimination to achieve conditional compilation.

  5. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Two naming scales for large numbers have been used in English and other European languages since the early modern era: the long and short scales.Most English variants use the short scale today, but the long scale remains dominant in many non-English-speaking areas, including continental Europe and Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America.

  6. Uninitialized variable - Wikipedia

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    In the code snippet below, we have a struct student which contains some variables describing the information about a student. The function register_student leaks memory contents because it fails to fully initialize the members of struct student new_student. If we take a closer look, in the beginning, age, semester and student_number are

  7. DuckDuckGo - Wikipedia

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    DuckDuckGo is an American software company that offers a number of products intended to help people protect their online privacy. [6] The flagship product is a search engine that has been praised by privacy advocates.

  8. UTF-8 - Wikipedia

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    It also works to "fall back" or replace 8-bit bytes using the appropriate code-point for a legacy encoding when errors in the UTF-8 are detected, allowing recovery even if UTF-8 and legacy encoding is concatenated in the same file. Prefix code: The first byte indicates the number of bytes in the sequence. Reading from a stream can ...

  9. Java bytecode - Wikipedia

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    Java bytecode is the instruction set of the Java virtual machine (JVM), the language to which Java and other JVM-compatible source code is compiled. [1] Each instruction is represented by a single byte, hence the name bytecode, making it a compact form of data.