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BruiseLeeon 34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work

Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

BruiseLeeon Sega Lawyers Demand “Immediate Suspension” of Steam Database over Alleged Piracy

As long as the lawyers that filed this DMCA takedown really represent Sega and Sega owns the copyright that they claim is infringed, then there is no perjury. It is irrelevant if the notice is otherwise frivolous.

BruiseLeeon Silicon Valley firms in no hurry to open up offices despite easing of virus ban

Well we did evolve big buttocks (bigger than other primates) that are apparently useful for sitting for extended periods of time.

BruiseLeeon Major employers scrap plans to cut back on offices – KPMG

In addition (for me at least), working from home means that I can open the window and get some fresh air. I've never worked in professional offices with windows that open and there was never enough ventilation. My nightmare is a long meeting in a cramped conference room - hours of breathing in a mix of carbon dioxide, sweaty feet odors and respiratory droplets.

BruiseLeeon EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind

> I just don't get the double standards, the UK enforcing a contract is good... the EU doing the same is... bad?

Well, it looks like British tabloids are influencing this point of view in English speaking countries.

BruiseLeeon Immutable Linux desktop with OpenSUSE and Snaps

Forced updates.

BruiseLeeon Trader Buys $36M of Copper and Gets Painted Rocks Instead

Only if the chain in the blockchain is made from copper.

BruiseLeeon An early look at VLC 4.0

Looks like they are implementing most of the tenets of modern UI design:

- flat buttons

- gray on gray low contrast text

- hamburger style menu

- lots of empty space

I believe they should also add some random buttons on the title bar, otherwise it will not feel sufficiently modern when this is released.

BruiseLeeon Is __int128 Integral? A Survey

It has to - to mitigate ABA problem.

BruiseLeeon Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment

> They did it in Windows 3, an OS that had an 8MB install size and required a mere 2MB of RAM

Technically Windows 3 required only 384KB of RAM... Windows 3.1 required 1MB (in Standard mode).

BruiseLeeon Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys

Are you sure it was a segfault? DOS did not have any memory protection, so segfault would be impossible. Or maybe you used some protected mode DOS extender?

BruiseLeeon DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows 3.x and 9x emulation

Unfortunately it gives you 632KB of conventional memory out of the box and this should be enough for everybody... But you can still load up some TSRs to recreate the experience.

BruiseLeeon Ask HN: How to say no to be on-call?

Stan, Chotchkie's Manager : We need to talk about your flair.

Joanna : Really? I... I have fifteen pieces on. I, also...

Stan, Chotchkie's Manager : Well, okay. Fifteen is the minimum, okay?

Joanna : Okay.

Stan, Chotchkie's Manager : Now, you know it's up to you whether or not you want to just do the bare minimum. Or... well, like Brian, for example, has thirty seven pieces of flair, okay. And a terrific smile.

Joanna : Okay. So you... you want me to wear more?

Stan, Chotchkie's Manager : Look. Joanna.

Joanna : Yeah.

Stan, Chotchkie's Manager : People can get a cheeseburger anywhere, okay? They come to Chotchkie's for the atmosphere and the attitude. Okay? That's what the flair's about. It's about fun.

Joanna : Yeah. Okay. So more then, yeah?

Stan, Chotchkie's Manager : Look, we want you to express yourself, okay? Now if you feel that the bare minimum is enough, then okay. But some people choose to wear more and we encourage that, okay? You do want to express yourself, don't you?

Joanna : Yeah, yeah.

Stan, Chotchkie's Manager : Okay. Great. Great. That's all I ask.

BruiseLeeon Why does Linux have so much trouble sleeping and waking?

For me, my Mac Mini (running OS X) is the worst. It just wakes up whenever it wants to. Usually in the middle of the night.

BruiseLeeon Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in

Good ole Gitprime! The source of so many bad memories. I used to be on a 4 person team and Gitprime was used to stack rank us for every quarterly "performance" review. Woe to the one who ended up ranked at the bottom...

BruiseLeeon Scrollbar Blindness

Wow, thanks! I've been using "nuke anything" extension to manually remove this crap, but this solution looks much more convenient.

BruiseLeeon Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

An electron app packaged as a snap.

BruiseLeeon Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

And that is exactly why it would be very expensive to open source it. All this revenue ($30000 * number of paying organizations) would then be gone.

BruiseLeeon Booting a 486 from floppy with the most up-to-date stable Linux kernel

I believe 386 did not have certain "atomic" instructions like CMPXCHG or XADD. So in order to support 386, the kernel had to have special versions of all locking primitives just for 386.

BruiseLeeon Ask HN: What Is the Value of CockroachDB?

From my experience, CockroachDB is super simple to set up. You can pretty much follow their tutorial and get a working cluster in no time. So I would say it's a good solution for non-experts. Now if you are already running Postgres, then I don't know why you would want to switch.

BruiseLeeon What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride

It doesn't name, but it provides a link. Apparently the service is Strava: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strava

BruiseLeeon Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)

Another possibility: this destroys the "reader view" that some browsers have. Since the reader view usually skips ads, it is considered undesirable.

BruiseLeeon Show HN: I built a FOSS service to protect against link shorteners tracking us

SMS spam.

BruiseLeeon Lots of bugs in 32-bit x86 Linux entry code

Consensus? I would call it dissensus actually.

BruiseLeeon A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend

  long getRandomNumber() {
      return 0xFFFFFFFF; // chosen by fair 4294967295 sided dice roll.
  }                      // guaranteed to be random.

BruiseLeeon Estimates that mineral levels in vegetables have dropped by up to 90% since 1914

Eat durian.

BruiseLeeon Health system sues thousands of patients, seizes pay and puts liens on homes

PKB=GDP (in case anyone is confused).

BruiseLeeon Ask HN: How much do you work at your job?

I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

BruiseLeeon Linus Torvalds on aliasing

The func can be implemented like this:

    float func(int *i, float *f) {
      *i = 42;
      return *f;
    }

Since the compiler assumes that the pointers i and f do not alias, it has a right to generate the code that is equivalent to:

    float func(int *i, float *f) {
      float result = *f;
      *i = 42;
      return result;
    }

But this will change the result of the function. So in practice if you want to do type punning using unions, the compiler must know about it.

BruiseLeeon ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility

The world does not revolve around you. Regardless of your personal preferences, the Linux development model was an important part of its success.