noasaservice (u/noasaservice)

noasaservice commented on Bill to ban social media for Texans under 18 dallasnews.com/news/polit... · Posted by u/geox

dang · 3 years ago

Please don't take HN threads into regional flamewar. It leads hellward, and is easily avoidable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly lately:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33821967

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33766363

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33682063

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33671032

... and we've already asked you more than once to stop:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32808611 (Sept 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31520523 (May 2022)

Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fixing this? I don't want to ban you, but if you can't or won't stop posting abusively, we'll end up having to.

noasaservice · 3 years ago

Do what thou wilt.

I'll abandon this account and create another. It's not hard to game the "community" here.

And especially since you don't allow deletion of accounts, it's actually a good thing to regularly get new. Thank you for reminding me.

noasaservice commented on Stripe’s real pricing: a primer github.com/getlago/lago/w... · Posted by u/AnhTho_FR

noasaservice · 3 years ago

What I would love is a USPS money solution. Extremely low fees, just works, hooked up with USPS. Fraud would be under bank AND mail fraud.

All these companies in this realm are vultures. They add nothing - they just take their cut to do something that should be easy.

noasaservice commented on Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues? meter.com/mac-osx-awdl-ps... · Posted by u/bradleybuda

dwohnitmok · 3 years ago

This has gotta be some sort of HN meme at this point but... NixOS gives you this (with the tradeoff of course of a really steep learning curve and very opinionated packaging structure)!

noasaservice · 3 years ago

The asymptote for NixOS approaches -infinity.

Once it actually is usable, sure, I'll take a look.

noasaservice commented on Fast midpoint between two integers without overflow lemire.me/blog/2022/12/06... · Posted by u/ibobev

ardel95 · 3 years ago

The correct way most people would write this for positive integers is:

if (a < b)

  return a + (b - a) / 2;

else

  return b + (a - b) / 2;

This method is just more efficient (for places where it matters) as it avoids divisions and branches. But for a vast, vast majority of use-case that tiny efficiency gain doesn’t really matter.

noasaservice · 3 years ago

you can also do

min(a,b) + (max(a,b) - min(a,b))>>1

noasaservice commented on Fast midpoint between two integers without overflow lemire.me/blog/2022/12/06... · Posted by u/ibobev

noasaservice · 3 years ago

I've used

min(x, y)+( ((unsigned int)abs(x-y))>>1);

with no issue.

abs(x-y)is the distance between points x and y. We don't care about order here because of the absolute value. And by its nature, it will always be positive - hence unsigned.

We divide the distance between the points by 2. This always provides a solution that fits in the signed bounds of X and Y once you add to min(x,y).

And it costs an ABS, a subtract, a non-negative bitshift, and a min().

To make it more complete, a switch statement depending on type of input function would be needed to handle the various sizes of numbers. And then it'd be doing the same but for long int->unsigned long int etc.

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noasaservice · 3 years ago

Damn that's a user hostile site. Ublock origin blocking to the rescue.

noasaservice commented on Activision’s faulty anti-cheat software blog.mikeswanson.com/post... · Posted by u/mdswanson

jakogut · 3 years ago

This has been going on since the release of MW2019. I myself was banned after trying to launch and play the single player campaign on Linux through Wine/Proton. I was unable to even launch the game to play the campaign again on Windows after that, and I no longer use Windows at all.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/nfeupc/modern...

I emailed Activision support back and forth more than a dozen times explaining the issue, finally resulting in them saying they were escalating to another team. I sent them another four emails over three months, asking if there was any update, before asking if there was even anybody left alive at the company that my emails were reaching, with no response.

I really enjoyed the MW2019 campaign, but I won't be buying another game from Activision.

noasaservice · 3 years ago

You should have charge backed for defective/sabotaged goods.

noasaservice commented on PFC bans are going to change waterproof garments cyclingnews.com/news/pfc-... · Posted by u/goesup12

meindnoch · 3 years ago

It will be something that turns out to be a carcinogen/endocrine disruptor 20 years from now.

noasaservice · 3 years ago

I know you're being sardonic... but it will likely be another fluorine based chemistry that is hopefully more biocompatible (flush out of body easily), and not cause undue harm.

The perfluro- line of chemicals are quite amazing.. if it werent for them being completely obnoxious and stay in the body like lead.

noasaservice commented on Snap updates happen without user consent smaller.fish/posts/snap_u... · Posted by u/smallerfish

noasaservice · 3 years ago

Reminder for you Ubuntu(and XUbuntu and KUbuntu) people:

Snap is closed source garbage ware, with MS Windows forced updating and the terribleness of being 10x slower....

So here's how to "Snap-Off" your system https://haydenjames.io/remove-snap-ubuntu-22-04-lts/