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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#.


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.


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


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...


Doesn't have to be a smelter. Battery factory is enough. Like former VARTA, now Hawker, now closed (2021) in Hagen i.W., Germany.

Lead, so sweet, its dust a sheet, over kindergardens, parks and shools, the fools!

https://osm.org/go/0GMgy_p2J--?m=


thats very interesting, i never heard of this, i wonder how many other towns are off-the-radar. and in China probably even more now.

i wonder if the EPA could be better off if it gave grants instead of fining people.


government handouts seem to escape their original purpose, famously.

For a recent example there are the covid relief scams galore. very often in the news the last year or two at least in Arizona, where some egregiously shameful people 'embezzled' and 'gamed' the grants system to buy super extravagent properties, etc. .


Superfund is such a a program.


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.


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


It's crucial to include your birth year to confuse the hackers (numbers in names are really confusing, they will give up in no time)


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


Takes many bit flips to go from one pattern to another.


If that is the only constraint, wouldn't the goal be to be as far as possible from the only success state?

the distance between success and failure is 28


Maybe, but in practice malware that makes sudo always fail is also bad. At the same time, getting 28 precise distance from row hammer is basically impossible.


This happens near loads of broadcast AM stations.

https://www.reddit.com/r/audio/comments/rfmfkq/home_audio_sp...


Everyone in that thread says it's not the cables.


I'd guess insurance companies. Who used to get it from oil change places.

https://abc7news.com/car-insurance-auto-mileage-odometer/133...


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