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New comment by magwa101 in "Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code"

magwa101 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:43:09 +0000

Similarly, I spent 6 weeks on a kernel token-ring driver intermittent initialization issue. This required kernel restarts over and over to observe the issue. Breakpoints were useless as they hid the issue. Turns out initialization in a specific step was not synchronous and reading the status was a race condition. It tooks weeks of staring, joking around, thinking, bs'ing, then suddenly, voila. Changed the order of the code, worked.

New comment by magwa101 in "My Emacs eye candy"

magwa101 — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 13:38:01 +0000

Emacs is no longer a viable editor, however, it's a great hobby.

New comment by magwa101 in "Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news"

magwa101 — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:21:37 +0000

I have Power Toys installed and start everything via PT. spacebar "application name", just like the old quicksilver which was amazing (for mac). PT is great...but crashes an FT.

New comment by magwa101 in "Research shows we can only accurately identify AI writers about 50% of the time"

magwa101 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:48:13 +0000

Coin flip.

New comment by magwa101 in "The Yamaha NS10 Story (2008)"

magwa101 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:46:45 +0000

It truly illustrates how superstitious are musicians.

New comment by magwa101 in "It Turns Out Money Does Buy Happiness"

magwa101 — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 15:29:57 +0000

Agree. Money buys time, with time, you can workout, sleep and eat better.

New comment by magwa101 in "Ford Files a Patent for System to Reposses Cars Remotely"

magwa101 — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 01:00:50 +0000

The world of humans is just not meant to be this efficient.

New comment by magwa101 in "Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again?"

magwa101 — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 13:26:38 +0000

Shared bikes should be at the top because they will actually be ridden for that 15K or 50K miles, whereas a personal bike gets no where near that mileage.

New comment by magwa101 in "China's Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis"

magwa101 — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 21:08:07 +0000

Sounds like they're into the russians leaving, well done China, well done.

New comment by magwa101 in "Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?"

magwa101 — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 17:30:30 +0000

Ultimately spam takes over. There was a model for email whereby senders have to pay to send, I think MS had some papers on this. They never implemented it. I do wonder if a pay to post model could tame the spam and all the BS. That money could be used to fund the network, because nothing is free and it's time we all embrace that reality.

New comment by magwa101 in "Bank of America Email: “Update Your iPhone”"

magwa101 — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:52:39 +0000

There are a ton of beta tests ahead of release, I think it's always prudent to keep up to date very quickly. This seems to be the top security expert recommendation.

New comment by magwa101 in "TX Bans Local Nurses from Quitting to Work FEMA Crisis Contracts in State"

magwa101 — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:11:15 +0000

For the "live free" state they sure do take away a lot of freedoms.

New comment by magwa101 in "Stop Death Shaming"

magwa101 — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 23:17:50 +0000

We get really upset about drunk driving. Smoking indoors and in particular around kids. We're going to get similarly mad unvaccinated people taking others down with their Darwin Awards.

New comment by magwa101 in "Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 air-traffic controllers (1981)"

magwa101 — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:20:39 +0000

Note he fires them while supporting the union movement Solidarity in Poland. Totally sick. The beginning of the capitalist destruction of democracy.

New comment by magwa101 in "Canadian property bubble nears systemic failure"

magwa101 — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:22:20 +0000

Home ownership is now very liquid. People buy/sell/move very easily. Foreign ownership is huge and as mentioned, money laundering is now rife in realestate. Prices in London are estimated to be 10% higher due to laundering. I'm sure that it's much higher in higher priced homes...for a while.

New comment by magwa101 in "Elite philanthropy locks in and perpetuate inequalities"

magwa101 — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:33:44 +0000

Bill Gates was a destructive businessman. His philanthropy is tied up in his "power" world view. The way the press fawns over his every word is nauseating and a part of this power dynamic. We worship the rich.

New comment by magwa101 in "Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months"

magwa101 — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 16:40:17 +0000

Sufficient DL frameworks are now in the cloud and it is mostly an engineering problem.

New comment by magwa101 in "Metformin inhibits mitochondrial adaptations to aerobic exercise training"

magwa101 — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 20:58:11 +0000

Endless. Eat well, cut carbs, fast now and then, exercise AF. The rest is a prayer.

New comment by magwa101 in "Syncthing is everything I used to love about computers"

magwa101 — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 19:32:15 +0000

The computer has become a commercial ad delivery device. No doubt. These days work on my computers makes me feel like I'm in AdOps optimizing their ad delivery to me.

New comment by magwa101 in "Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations"

magwa101 — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:59:07 +0000

brilliant