rsaxvc
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Comment · 7 months ago
No rush - been busy over here too.
Comment · 7 months ago
Thank you for this.
Also small world, floating point JPEG person here.
Comment · 8 months ago
looks like they never went 64 bit
Comment · 1 year ago
My pet peeve is that grub repartitions windows disks on chain load, so if it ever boots with the disks remapped, there's a chance it'll plow apart the partition table of whatever poor disk got mapped to that hd#.
Comment · 2 years ago
Long enough ago I don't remember the business details.
The 4.x compiler line never being patched was a bit of eye opener into commercial toolchain support.
Comment · 2 years ago
I was still learning assembly, it took me a while to be sure it wasn't my bug.
Comment · 2 years ago
You're eactly right. I saw the blight at Herculaneum, MO in the 2000s - dozers plowing down houses in a slowly expanding circle centered on the smelter.
1 in 5 students had excess blood lead. The schools nearby were scraped down and soil was replaced whenever the lead levels got too high from the dust blowing off the open ore and slag trucks running town. The smelter didn't hit EPA requirements for 25 years, and when faced with enforcement, decided to leave rather than produce lead cleanly, because it is not economical to do so cleanly. Cheap lead offloads the environmental and health effects to someone.
https://health.mo.gov/living/environment/hazsubstancesites/p...
https://www.kbia.org/science-and-technology/2012-08-08/the-e...
Comment · 2 years ago
You could review their argument: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/YardiSOI-filed%...
Search for "adherence to the agreed-upon Prices", "fix list price", and "Express delegation".
They argue that collusion through delegation counts as price fixing. They argue colluding to set list prices even when there isn't a price floor is price fixing. They argue that replacing the delegation with an algorithm is still price fixing. Most of their arguments are based on already settled cases.
Comment · 2 years ago
One might ask the same of us who use our initials on hacker news.
Comment · 2 years ago
MIPS on GCC defaulted to trapping integer overflows, but they had non trapping instructions too.
Comment · 2 years ago
Takes many bit flips to go from one pattern to another.