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Re:How long do you need to hold down the power button to turn off a PC?
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:05AM (#50315834)
It seems to be 7s, at least in ntoskrnl.exe 10.0.22621.1105:
; PopPowerButtonWorkCallback+0x1DF
shr ebx, 1 ; unpack elapsed milliseconds
cmp ebx, 0x1b58 ; 7000 milliseconds
jb ... ; below threshold: skip crash pathYou don’t exist in a vacuum. Pretending the politics doesn’t exist is itself a political position. Excluding it is how we’ve ended up with technically impressive but socially awful systems.
Re:David Ahl's Basic Computer Games Ported to C
on Sunday June 21, 2026 @09:48AM (#48618972)
Anyone remember GORILLA.BAS and NIBBLES.BAS? I learnt to program by fiddling with these.
Re:Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in ...
on Sunday June 14, 2026 @06:58PM (#48533890)
Oh the irony of this giant repo for a prompt. Is this the new leftpad?
Re:Anthropic's Model Naming, Extrapolated
on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @06:13PM (#48483453)
Re:Using an Engineering Notebook
on Thursday February 12, 2026 @05:59AM (#46987240)
I don’t use a notebook and have done fine over the years - for those of you that are reading this and getting anxious you’re not doing your job the “right way”. I don’t have a particularly prodigious memory.
I’ve sometimes thought there’s a value to forgetting. If it matters I’ll learn it through repetition, like compression almost. It always seemed like reconstructing things from first principles saves brain space and allows for generalisation and creativity.
Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @03:12PM (#46785791)
The authors clearly don’t intend this to happen but that doesn’t matter. Someone else will do it. Maybe this can be stopped with licensing as we tried to stop the SaaS loophole with GPLv3?
Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @03:00PM (#46785609)
Remote attestation is another technology that is not inherently restrictive of software freedom. But here are some examples of technologies that have already restricted freedom due to oligopoly combined with network effects:
* smartphone device integrity checks (SafetyNet / Play Integrity / Apple DeviceCheck)
* HDMI/HDCP
* streaming DRM (Widevine / FairPlay)
* Secure Boot (vendor-keyed deployments)
* printers w/ signed/chipped cartridges (consumables auth)
* proprietary file formats + network effects (office docs, messaging)
Re:A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London
on Saturday December 20, 2025 @12:05PM (#46337614)
It’s not just a tunnel, it’s a game-changing lifeline
The idea that people aren't stupid
Re:I was alone on shift when Newark air traffic control went dark
on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @02:38AM (#44048871)
I was alone on shift when Newark air traffic control went dark
Re:Ask HN: How do you work in Programming language research?
on Sunday June 11, 2023 @09:58AM (#36281431)
Jane Street has a compilers team who do OCaml: https://signalsandthreads.com/future-of-programming/
The 2-Maxsat Problem Can Be Solved in Polynomial Time
LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100%
Re:QuantMath: Financial maths library for risk-neutral pricing and ris...
on Sunday January 17, 2021 @03:46PM (#25814786)
It’s still under development but some at Google are writing a quant library in Tensorflow. https://github.com/google/tf-quant-finance
Re:New – Savings Plans for AWS Compute Services
on Thursday November 07, 2019 @03:02AM (#21471341)
Here’s a link to the actual pricing: https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/pricing/
This doesn’t show up for me when googling “AWS savings plan pricing”.
Re:The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics (1939)
on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:39PM (#20436702)
> I would suggest, as a more hopeful-looking idea for getting an improved quantum theory, that one take as basis the theory of functions of a complex variable.
Nailed it.
MegaDos TRS-80 Running Windows 8
Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider
on Monday February 20, 2017 @12:56PM (#13689345)
200/20 is available from Openreach as fibre-to-the-premises but it's rare and only a handful of providers offer it.
C++ parser for ASX 24 ITCH messages
Re:Dropbox New Plans: Pay If You Want 2FA
on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @07:11PM (#13536806)
I enabled 2FA on my Pro Dropbox account because they allowed my account to be hacked back in August. Now I have to pay for their security mistakes?
Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case
on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @11:58AM (#13264245)
> There has never been any "study" showing that "women talk almost three times as much as men", although this non-existent "research" has been cited by dozens of science writers, relationship counselors, celebrity preachers, and other people in the habit of claiming non-existent authoritative support for their personal impressions;
TalkTalk's wi-fi hack advice is 'astonishing'
Re:Ask HN: As a hacker and “math person”, how do I learn about finance?
on Sunday November 27, 2016 @05:05AM (#13048526)
Yes. Hull is the canonical, if dry, text graduates in banks are told to read.