The Random ASCII blog discusses various technical issues and solutions encountered by the author, Bruce Dawson. These include investigative bug fixes in Windows, performance problems with Chrome, and quirky personal stories. Notable posts feature solutions to desktop icon rearrangement bugs, Chrome hang issues, and accurate floating-point number comparisons.
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Everybody on Windows has some desktop icons so this first issue is potentially relevant to all Windows users:This next problem is a bit more esoteric but for a while it could potentially be hit by some normal users of Chrome and gmail on Windows, although Google’s IT department also played a role:The next two problems are particularly esoteric. You can really only hit them if you are a Chrome developer on Windows or are doing something similarly extreme. One was a bug deep inside Windows that many people had seen but I was the first to correctly diagnose, and one was a performance problem with a very popular writeup:And in the number one spot…Share this:RelatedSort: