I think there’s a bug in Figure 3. The unsigned m will always be >= 0 so the while loop will not terminate.

What is up with those prices? They are ridiculous!

no, they are quite reasonable, but you have to have a yen to get them

It it common to use a $ for yen, which is what I see, rather than ¥?

I assume you’re aware that Admiral Cloudberg writes for Mentour Pilot on YouTube.

Also, pretty low volume but also low sensationalism the Australian regulator, ATSB, posts report summaries on YouTube.

E.g. https://youtu.be/dum4SfnX8uk

I thought WASM allowed capability based permissions for the code running inside, or has that fallen by the wayside, which was my sad expectation?

I can see bathtubs being used in places like real estate sites.

Only if their modem didn’t implement the Hayes command set properly or you could otherwise control the per-character timing of the OS sending. It required a pause (1sec by default), “+++” with no pauses, another pause, _then_ the ATH command

I had an external USRobotics 56k modem, I was immune. But the many many "bulk" no-name modems were vulnerable. You could ping entire ranges of dial-up IPs and watch the results on big IRC channels. Uhmmm, allegedly :)

Which was fairly common, as Hayes had a patent on those pauses.

Huh, TIL. I guess they might have used TIES

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Independent_Escape_Sequen...

Only in the dial string to ATD, surely?

Perhaps a hard link would help to prevent the deletion?

Does anyone know why it’s “code page 437”? Like why 437? Was there 437 code pages before it? Does the 437 bit pattern map to something in the hardware? Was it a character rom part number?

It originates from the code page 37, which is the EBCDIC-based character set for US and Canada. At least initially EBCDIC code pages are numbered sequentially while PC DOS code pages were numbered more or less randomly; I have no clue why it is the code page 437 and not 337. (I can see why it is not 137 nor 237, as later code pages were numbered from 251.)

There's a list of known code pages on Wikipedia[0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page

The author has acknowledged their error in the article you’re referring to in a later post https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/RustSor...

This was posted a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43381088

Thanks - I wish I could find the video I watched. I think it had the information in that article, but in a more digestible format.