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by hyperman1 9mo ago
I can't agree with this interpretation. A human, somewhere in the bigco, decided laid you off. That specific person decided to take advantage of you, and is responsible for that action. Bigco may have an incentive structure that push
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by hyperman1 9mo ago
I started reading books with a Hugo Award, most recent first. I would recommend it. They're very readable but still slightly non-standard enough to be interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_B
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by hyperman1 10mo ago
I'd rather not, because it would damage the power dynamic of the EU. The USA is an all-powerfull political entity that can dictate terms on its own. A bit like a monopoly. Europe is a large group of players, condemned to each other,
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by hyperman1 10mo ago
I wish I had more upvotes for you. While the swiss cheese model is well known on HN by now,your post goes a little bit deeper. And reveals a whole new framework for reading incident responses. Thanks for making me smarter.
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by hyperman1 10mo ago
Postgres allows you to choose a different page size (at initdb time? At compile time?). The default is 8K. I've always wondered if 32K wouldn't be a better value, and this article points in the same direction.
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by hyperman1 10mo ago
BB is a mod-97 checksum. The first A of AAA encodes your gender in an even/odd fashion, I forgot if its the first or last A doing that. MM or DD can be 00 if unknown. Also MM has +20 or +40 in some cases. If you know someones birth da
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by hyperman1 10mo ago
I've tried them once, and my experience with Flixbus was a disaster. They optimize for cheapness above everything else. Their drivers can't do anything except scan your ticket and deny entrance if the computer says no. They don&
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by hyperman1 10mo ago
I didn't expect the microcode to be at the center of the chip. I'd expect it on the side and only talking to the microcode engine, making more room for data traffic between chip halves. Also, the microcode is huge.
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by hyperman1 10mo ago
Reversing the numbers as required here is one of the few algorithms thats nicer in assembly than in a high level language: When you get a digit from the divide, push it on the stack and increment a counter. At the end, do a loop, popping ea
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by hyperman1 10mo ago
I don't think the problem is the money. Neither of them provides a long term stable API, let alone ABI. So progress gets reset on a regular base. Gnome is further hampered by no respect for user choice. They provide an appleish UI,
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by hyperman1 10mo ago
Im not sure how ar does it, but tar has no centralised directory. The only way to get file 100 is to walk trough the 99 files before. This kills random access speed.
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by hyperman1 10mo ago
A father I know took was sitting in the bar of a swimming pool, his daughter swimming. He saw something wrong in the pool, grumbled, and took a picture to request repairs. He now, as a side effect, had a picture of zillions of 12 year old
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by hyperman1 10mo ago
When my son was born, he was early and had a bit of a rough start, so his left hand got a bunch of oxygen and hearth sensors attached. To make sure they stayed there, the nurses taped his left hand to his breast. After a few days, the hand
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by hyperman1 11mo ago
In my country, the elderly used to ride for free on busses and trams. 15 years ago I was involved in this problem where some decided to get on a bus or tram in the morning, go back and forth all day, bring a lunchbox, and go home just in t
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by hyperman1 11mo ago
There are 2 interesting articles here. Not only does Ken treat us with a great text, but hidden in footnote 1 is a second gem. Thanks for the early christmas gift!
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by hyperman1 11mo ago
Wow. That text is wild! Another excerpt: I've always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted, their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.
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by hyperman1 11mo ago
My son has his own linux account. He made an absolute mess of everything he could drag around on the desktop, just for fun. Every time I'm in there, the KDE start menu pops out of some other weird place, not even at the border of a s
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by hyperman1 11mo ago
I played it a year ago. To my surprise, in some ways, the advanced graphics broke my immersion. Standing in Vivec and expanding the render distance to Seyda Neen takes away part of the mystery. I had the same with Gothic, where my more po
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by hyperman1 11mo ago
Oracle the database is the Apple of Enterprise. They have some best in class aspects, but also a lot of you're holding it wrong. They cost a lot and have a really arrogant culture. They both have a rabid reality-denying fanbase. The
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by hyperman1 1y ago
Funny, actually. I've noticed there is a point in dual booting where you do enough in Linux that you can't get back to windows without it updating. This pushes you to stay longer and longer in Linux, to avoid the dreaded update.
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by hyperman1 1y ago
This war of mine.
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by hyperman1 1y ago
I have a script/alias,named p, that allows me to task switch. It takes an issue and maybe an argument, and does a bunch of things if they make sense in context. It has grown over the years. So 'p ISSUE-123' : * creates a fo
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by hyperman1 1y ago
We use 55% more energy than in 1997? Where is all that going? I've seen graphs with plastic production with even higher numbers. I have no problem going back to my 1997 lifestyle and cant point to much explaining this growth. Is it
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by hyperman1 1y ago
Let me tell you about Belgium in 1830. It got attached to the Netherlands, and their king would not listen to the locals. Things got completely out of hand until we got huge protests. All the while, the idea at the Belgian side was thing
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by hyperman1 1y ago
I wish the blocked page made it clear who is doing the blocking, e.g 'This page is blocked by La Liga. Contact their helpdesk at (phone number).' Maybe add the number of their lawyers and CxOs while at it.
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by hyperman1 1y ago
I've spent a lot of time not seeing how xor is just the 'not equals' operator for booleans.
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by hyperman1 1y ago
I see a lot of elder people age very suddenly. It's like the capacity to recuperate from a problem is gone. With some luck no such problems appear and you can become old without much troubles. But once a problem appears, it hits in
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by hyperman1 1y ago
Yes and no. There are many distros, but they all use the same components. If outside entities only allow you to run specific distros or configs, you're done. Some examples: * My jobs VPN only runs on Ubuntu. There is code in there
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by hyperman1 1y ago
As a long term Linux desktoppy, I find this a mixed blessing. I fear Linux will get ruined by the influx of windows runaways. Enterprise managers will start enforcing their braindead ideas. Group policies, DRM, security scanner slowness,
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by hyperman1 1y ago
Imagine any other thing treating you like this. Once a week, your IKEA cupboard locks itself and repairs some factory defects. You want something? Tough. Once every half an hour, it opens a random hatch and drops a ton of paper on the f

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