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mrlonglong··on Trump vows to investigate EU over fining of US tech companies
EU vows to investigate Trump.
mrlonglong··on The MJ Rathbun case: How an autonomous AI bot cyberbullied a human programmer
Just pull the plug.
mrlonglong··on Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux
Boost asio if you love C++ and asynchronous networking.
mrlonglong··on Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches
the zero terminated string is I think is computing's biggest mistake. Pascal style strings were much safer.
mrlonglong··on Dealership revoked offer to buy back customer's BMW, blaming wayward AI chatbot
The real problem is the quality of US built BMWs. Not as good as the German built ones. Otherwise this poor chap wouldn't have had to offload it.
mrlonglong··on Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to overturn crypto fraud conviction
The only reason why he's still in jail and not pardoned is that he stole from the super rich.

Bernie Madoff is doing a 150 year stretch because he did the same exact thing.

mrlonglong··on Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway
Back in Victorian times very rich people owned their own railway carriage which they would have hauled across country.
mrlonglong··on Project Sunrise Nears Reality as Qantas' Airbus A350-1000ULR Makes Maiden Flight
No, they did not need to design a new aeroplane. They redesigned the fuel tanks on the existing A350-900ULR and certify it as A350-1000ULR, that's all.
mrlonglong··on Debug Project
It turned into 5 days. After realising I'd forgotten to change the block size to 4096 and it was horribly slow, I yanked the drive out, tried with my utility to set it to 4096 bytes and failed, found another utility that did the job, put the drive back in, wait 3 days for it to rebuild the array without the new disk, and then another two days to add the disk back in. Sigh.

Still, with 4k block sizes, it goes like shit off a shovel.

mrlonglong··on Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history
C'est tres magnifique!
mrlonglong··on Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager
They now have over an exabyte worth of data on tapes.
mrlonglong··on Debug Project
Sigh. How the times change. Right now I'm looking at 2 days to rebuild my NAS array after adding another 10TB disk.
mrlonglong··on Debug Project
I thought this was about the old MSDOS debug utility, funnily enough it was named debug.com
mrlonglong··on Ask HN: What Are You Thankful For?
That Mr klatchex is thankful that I'm not an US citizen.
mrlonglong··on Ask HN: What Are You Thankful For?
That I'm not an US citizen.
mrlonglong··on How the ZX80 Works (2019)
if you can stop it falling off the back ...
mrlonglong··on Paint.NET developer gets "paint.net" domain from scammers after 22 years
these "dickovers" will be the death of the human race some day.
mrlonglong··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
White supremacists on the rise in the US. Never forget, there were people already in the US when they first arrived. White supremacists stole their lands.

Come to the EU instead, we want more STEM people.

mrlonglong··on Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)
Oh nooooo.
mrlonglong··on OnlyCats – TikTok for Cats
Aww.
mrlonglong··on First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed
There's even a website gambling on how late DB trains will be.

https://bahn.bet/

mrlonglong··on I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care
Really? Downvoted for speaking the truth?

https://westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/daily-telegraph-dis...

mrlonglong··on I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care
Please stop paying any attention to the Torygraph / Reformgraph. It used to be good decades ago but now it just spews propaganda nowadays.
mrlonglong··on Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house
"State records show in 2024, Bradley nearly tripled his salary, earning nearly $250,000 in one year"

Holy cow.

mrlonglong··on TomTom's route planner takes an unplanned detour into oblivion
Yes, something happened to me. Been without my routes for the last three days.

Wtf is going on?

mrlonglong··on Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant
In the UK this issue was recognised decades ago. They only allow certain letters and numbers in specific places on the registration plates.
mrlonglong··on Show HN: I remade my blog into a Windows 3.1 environment
I feel soiled. (lol, it's good)
mrlonglong··on 80386 Memory Pipeline
There are things like DOS4GW that you can use as loaders.
mrlonglong··on 80386 Memory Pipeline
Voodoo mode is the ultimate test. Imagine having access to 4GB of memory from real mode.
mrlonglong··on The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA
After an “incident” with the first astronaut fitted for the device, the UCD’s designations were changed from “Small, Medium, Large” to “Large,” “Extra Large,” and “Extra-Extra Large.”

I knew it. Serious issues that still persists to this day.

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