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Or searching « latex color red » on Google at work when you’re looking for how to color text for your paper ;p


Oh are we sharing accidentally embarrassing Google searches now?

There was a time I was asked to work with a C code base that was last touched three years ago. Now, C in any standard isn't even my forte. It was doing some string manipulation whose behavior I can't exactly understand. Thinking I need a basics refresher, I Googled "c strings".

Woops. Got to be among my quickest tab closes. Cue look around if anyone happened to be looking at my monitor too.

(I will save people the mystery and possible blushes: apparently there's a type of lingerie called a "C string", in the same fashion as a "G string". The more you know.)




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