Stuff I read last week

About: A collection of links and short commentary, published weekly. In theory the inclusion criteria are for it to be something I read last week (duh) and was either particularly interesting or something I might want to refer to later. Subscribe with RSS or see my main blog for long-form writing.

2017-11-20

A year of Google & Apple maps Time lapses of taking a screenshot of a specific location once a month in different map services.
Bufferbloat on the Internet backbone 400+ millisecond buffers on core Internet routers.
Did Microsoft Just Manually Patch Their Equation Editor Executable? What do you do when there's a buffer overflow in a program that hasn't been compiled for 17 years but still needs to be distributed with every copy of Office?
Determinism in League of Legends: Unified Clock It's totally normal to have 8 different concepts of time in the same program, right?
Dangers of the Decompiler Assembly tricks for fooling decompilers.

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