Mastodawn

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Catch of the Day: The 1MB Wonder! 💥💾

Hey Retro Fans!

The highlights of the day:

🪶 Off By One Browser: An absolute legend of minimalism visited us today. The Off By One Browser for Windows consists of a single standalone executable and is a tiny 1 megabyte in size. No bloated frameworks, no plugins – just pure, fast web browsing. It aligns perfectly with our philosophy!

🐉 Konqueror: The classic KDE file manager and web browser for Linux also stopped by. Just a reminder: This browser's engine (KHTML) was so groundbreaking back in the day that Apple used it as the foundation for Safari!

Whether it's tiny browser oddities or massive Amiga traffic – the Frog pond is buzzing. Keep it up!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

Andreas Frackowiak Mar 11

Es gibt nur zwei schwierige Dinge in der Informatik: Dinge benennen, Cache-Invalidierung und Off-by-One-Fehler.

#software #informatik #programmierung #IT #coding #OffByOne

Petri Salmela Jan 20

Mielenkiintoinen bugi tuli vastaan eräässä palvelussa, jossa voi hakea juttuja viikkonumeron perusteella.

Järjestelmä näyttää käyttävän amerikkalaista sunnuntaista alkavan viikon kalenteria. Toiminut edelliset vuodet, mutta koska 1.1.2026 on torstai, on tänä vuonna kaikki viikkonumerot yhden pielessä. 🤦🏼‍♀️

@foone @gloriouscow #offbyone

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Tobias Migge Oct 8

@loeff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGSPBTgp-QE

#orrwurm #offbyone

Jazzkantine - 55555 (Official Audio)

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̶s̶e̶t̶h̶ ̶ ̶Oct 2, 2025

Well, another day, another #OffByOne error fixed. This one has been in production for no more than 8 years old, and it's taken me almost two weeks to track down.

The fix? Literally `+ 1`

Remember to count your fence posts at both ends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ_v6pyqaw4&t=380s

Internet shocked by teacher's mistake

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Adam Beer Jul 9, 2025

Dear anyone who ever talks about probabilities, percentages, or voting,

Please stop describing a simple majority as, "[at least] 50% + 1." That description is incorrect whenever the total is an odd number. The correct description is, "more than 50%."

In case you didn't notice:

In this context, it's implied that the answer has to be a whole number. There's no such thing as half a vote.

The use of either "more than" or "at least," means you have to round up, not down. 5 is not at least 5.5, but 6 is.

"More than" and "at least" mean different things. "4 is at least 4" is true, but "4 is more than 4" is false.

So for example, in a group of 21 people, "more than 50%" means "more than 10.5," which means "at least 11." Meanwhile, "at least 50% + 1" means "at least 10.5 + 1," which is "at least 11.5," which really means "at least 12."

Sincerely,

All of the world's programmers

#majority #offByOne #percent #precision #programming #vote