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"ref": "2001 May 24, Jasper Becker, “‘Comrade Jiang Zemin Does Indeed Seem a Proper Choice’ [review of The Tiananmen Papers (2001) by Zhang Liang]”, in Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor, London Review of Books, volume 23, number 10, London: LRB Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-06:",
"text": "Jiang Zemin has almost managed to make the event disappear down an Orwellian memory hole. Even in Western countries, sub-editors have taken to calling it the ‘Tiananmen crackdown’, rather than ‘massacre’, making it seem as insignificant as the endless stories about routine ‘crackdowns’ on smuggling, prostitution, counterfeit goods, VAT forms or corruption, which provide the stuff of daily reporting here in China.",
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"ref": "2011, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M[eade] Conway, “Denial Rides Again: The Revisionist Attack on Rachel Carson”, in Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Press, →ISBN, page 236:",
"text": "The painstaking work of scientists, the reasoned deliberations of the President's Science Advisory Committee, and the bipartisan American agreement to ban DDT have been flushed down the memory hole, along with the well-documented and easily found (but extremely inconvenient) fact that the most important reason that DDT failed to eliminate malaria was because insects evolved.",
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"word": "bit bucket"
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"word": "/dev/null"
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"ref": "1997, Stephen J. Bigelow, “System Questions”, in PC Hardware FAT FAQs: Troubleshooting, Upgrading, Maintaining, and Repairing, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, pages 11–12:",
"text": "A memory hole provides performance improvement by reserving certain parts of memory for use by ISA cards. […] The memory hole is usually disabled because there are few ISA cards today that need to be mapped. If you have an ISA card that refuses to function properly in a PC with more than 16MB of RAM, you should enable the memory hole.",
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"ref": "2001 June, Alessandro Rubini, Jonathan Corbet, “Hardware Management”, in Andy Oram, editor, Linux Device Drivers, 2nd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly & Associates, →ISBN, page 245:",
"text": "We won't touch high ISA memory (the so-called memory hole in the 14 MB to 16 MB physical address range), because that kind of I/O memory is extremely rare nowadays and is not supported by the majority of modern motherboards or by the kernel.",
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"ref": "1992 September 9, Andrew McRae, “C++ in an Embedded Environment”, in AUUG 1992 Conference & Exhibition: Maintaining Control in an Open World: World Congress Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 8–11 September 1992: Conference Proceedings, Kensington, N.S.W.: AUUG, →ISBN, paragraph 5.5, page 5:",
"text": "The use of new and delete, along with the scope related creation and deletion of objects, provide safer and more consistent management of the available memory pool. […] It also resolves common problems with passing incorrect pointers to free, or obtaining memory using malloc and then forgetting to free it (causing a memory hole). This typically occurs when a subroutine allocates some memory via malloc, and during some processing a premature return taken that does not free the allocated memory.",
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"ref": "2008, Andre Bogus, “Writing Lighttpd Modules”, in Lighttpd: Installing, Compiling, Configuring, Optimizing, and Securing this Lighting-fast Web Server, Birmingham, West Midlands: Packt Publishing, →ISBN:",
"text": "When Lighttpd finishes, it calls mod_helloworld_free to release the memory held by plugin_data. Beware that not freeing the plugin_data creates a memory hole.",
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up",
"word": "ثقب الذاكرة"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up",
"word": "思舊穴"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "sījiùxué, sījiùxuè",
"sense": "figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up",
"word": "思旧穴"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up",
"word": "忘懷洞"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "wànghuáidòng",
"sense": "figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up",
"word": "忘怀洞"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up",
"word": "musta aukko"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up",
"word": "muistiaukko"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up",
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"word": "Erinnerungsloch"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Gedächtnisloch"
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"code": "it",
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"tags": [
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"word": "buco della memoria"
},
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up",
"tags": [
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"word": "buraco da memória"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up",
"word": "hafıza deliği"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fragment of physical address space which does not map to main memory",
"word": "tyhjä osoitealue"
}
],
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"Nineteen Eighty-Four"
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