BEg2 ch31 references

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 06:25:58 UTC 2022


Eric messing with Ice’s computers:
“meantime not only have I been corrupting his malloc(3), I’ve turned it out
trickin in the street, years of therapy before it’s straight again.”


         “Please just watch your ass….”


https://m.economictimes.com/definition/memory-corruption/amp

So I guess you request an address beyond the usual memory limit & write
something in there (graffiti opportunity) - it’s a C thing, I wouldn’t
understand…maybe like the good old “ping of death” but more so?


But Maxine’s caution is certainly warranted. Lots of money on Ice’s side to
pay people to watch for that kind of thing!



“Someday, Eric, they’re going to have the time machine, we’ll be able to
book tickets online, we’ll all get to go back, maybe more than once, and
rewrite it all the way it should have gone, not hurt the ones we hurt, not
make the choices we made. Forgive the loan, keep the lunch date. Of course,
at first tickets’ll be an arm and a leg, till the product-development costs
get amortized . . .”


         “Maybe there’ll be a frequent-time-traveler program, where you get
bonus years? I could pile up a lot of those.”


         “Please. You’re too young to have that many regrets.”


- Ah, age has nothing to do with it, right? The overexamined life can
happen at any age!

https://youtu.be/RY7S6EgSlCI



Note how it’s “*the* time machine,” as in AtD.



Think I already mentioned this, but “Wahhabi Transreligious Friendship”
isn’t findable - not really surprising…


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