As a millenial, I never understood this. Back when we were having LAN parties, we always shared our porn, so I know what pretty much everyone I care about tosses their salad to and they do know what I get off on as well. I'm impervious to that sort of blackmail, it's like a superpower.
Yes, it's easy to understand, but this ifelse is much safer because it "handles" uppercase and digits by just returning 0. If you'd call OP's function with something like 'A', you'll get nonsense data because it doesn't have a default. (I think it will return whatever value currently resides in eax)
I know 2 people that both had an accident this way. One tore off a tendon around the knee, the other fractured their hand from trying to cushion their fall. And I don't know that many people.
Same thing that led to the surge of racism in the US. Lyndon B. Johnson said it best:
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
Not sure. Putin has other means of staying in power, like killing political opponents, disillusion and propaganda. The reason he invaded Ukraine is because he is an irredentist bozo that wants his beloved Soviet Union back, not because he was threatened.
It doesn’t matter how “elite” your military equipment is or how many billion dollars it is worth, a war is fought by boots on the ground and the geography favours the defender.
It's not about achieving anything, it's about staying in power. Who cares if millions die if some pedophile gets what he wants?
Lemme translate:
The work-life-balance in our company is so terrible that our turnover is insane, so please, please do our dirty work and get scraps in return.