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rsaxvc commented on Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes github.com/Jacksaur/Gorge... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

cosmic_cheese · 4 months ago

This is a significant peeve of mine. The need to explicitly specify resolution in boot managers is annoying for both laptops and machines that aren’t always used with the same monitor, because no matter what it’s going to end up in fallback with an ugly stretched resolution some portion of the time, rendering beautification with themes somewhat moot.

This limit made sense 20+ years ago but today it feels highly anachronistic, kind of like finding a corded rotary phone mounted on a wall in the kitchen of an otherwise cutting edge home. Surely it’s something that could be fixed?

rsaxvc · 4 months 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#.

rsaxvc commented on A Compiler Bug (2023) rsaxvc.net/blog/2023/9/29... · Posted by u/pbrowne011

vintagedave · a year ago

> the compiler vendor took care of it promptly in a paid upgrade to proprietary compiler 5.next

Ouch (assuming that this required them to pay to get the bugfix.)

rsaxvc · a year 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.

rsaxvc commented on A Compiler Bug (2023) rsaxvc.net/blog/2023/9/29... · Posted by u/pbrowne011

486sx33 · a year ago

It’s never the compiler, it can’t be the compiler. The first rule of debugging is that it can’t be the compiler…

Wow does it ever suck and waste a ton of time when it IS the compiler. I feel sorrow for whomever had to find this out in their workflow

rsaxvc · a year ago

I was still learning assembly, it took me a while to be sure it wasn't my bug.

rsaxvc commented on Finding lead in Stanley's Quencher lumafield.com/article/fin... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect

doubloon · a year ago

I have the same problem with this as with retro youtubers using lead solder.

Consumers are not the only ones that matter

The people working in the factoriesare exposed to lead. The people at the mines are exposed to lead. The people in shuttered ghost towns like Pitcher Oklahoma are exposed to lead. The people transporting lead are exposed to lead. People working in recycling or waste management or landfills are exposed to lead. Lead is not good to put into the manufacturing stream or the waste stream. By continuing to create demand you are continuing to put lead in the environment in forms where it gets into humans and damages their brains.

rsaxvc · a year 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...

rsaxvc commented on Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing ftc.gov/business-guidance... · Posted by u/nabla9

pipes · a year ago

Price fixing is when two or more land lords agree to not lower their prices beyond a certain point. There is no agreement here. I don't see how this is price fixing.

rsaxvc · a year 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.

rsaxvc commented on Hackers got nearly 7M people's data from 23andMe theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/Bender

kmoser · 2 years ago

Wait, people give their real name and DOB when registering with 23andMe? Not blaming the victim, just pointing out that if a company doesn't need to know your real name, why give it to them?

rsaxvc · 2 years ago

One might ask the same of us who use our initials on hacker news.

rsaxvc commented on Out-of-bounds read and write in the glibc's qsort() openwall.com/lists/oss-se... · Posted by u/cpeterso

jcranmer · 2 years ago

Not necessarily the only proper solution--hard failure, like array out-of-bounds errors, is also often an acceptable solution.

rsaxvc · 2 years ago

MIPS on GCC defaulted to trapping integer overflows, but they had non trapping instructions too.