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  • I’m in the state of Georgia: no provision for breaks are given at all.

    Oh man that’s brutal.

    I used to live in the UK: I think the rule was employers are required to give 30 mins per 10 hours worked, cannot be in the first or last hour.

    Yeah here in Switzerland it’s similar to the UK rule. Any shift longer than 6 hours needs to be interrupted by an unpaid but uninterrupted break of at least 30min for eating, such that there isn’t more than a 6 hour continuous work period on either side of the break, IIRC.

    Our standard for full-time employment is 8.4h per day. (That’s a bit high in comparison to neighboring countries). It’s very usual that you get your eating break somewhere between 11:30-13:30 o’clock, maybe on rotation with coworkers if you need to keep the phones staffed.

    In my office job we all go together from around 11:45 to 12:45.







  • I wrote a script to turn the power of the the Wifi+Bluetooth chip off, then enumerate the PCIe bus again to start it back up.

    The chip sometimes hung itself when using both. I looked for the bug and even found an Intel engineer on some mailing list admitting that they had issues with coexistance mode.

    Just turning the wireless off and back on wasn’t enough I needed to reeinitialize the hardware and that was the best way I knew.


  • Programming in C and C++ just seemed way easier on Linux at the time.

    The assistants at university would frequently distribute virtualbox images with Ubuntu within which we were supposed to do the homework. At some point I decided that just putting Ubuntu on my laptop directly would be easier because GCC is just right there in the repos, plus I was a little interested anyway.

    Then it just kept being easy, for Java, Haskell, Scala, Python, everything was just supported nicely. The network simulators we used were Linux native, the course where we were reverse engineering binaries used GDB, Android development was simple with the tools and simulator being in the repos.

    That said for gaming I still use Windows. And my workplace forces me to use macOS.



  • That sounds a little more innocent than what the actual claims are. According to the friend of the flight attendant, when she was massaging him normally, he surprisingly uncovered his penis, touched her and offered a horse for sex. She didn’t agree with any of that and rejected the offer.

    If they had just made a deal normally I wouldn’t see an issue.





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    They said the cause was a bug in the microcode making the CPU request unsafe voltages:

    Our analysis of returned processors confirms that the elevated operating voltage is stemming from a microcode algorithm resulting in incorrect voltage requests to the processor.

    If the buggy behaviour of the voltage contributed to higher boosts, then the fix will cost some performance. But if the clocks were steered separately from power, and the boost clock is still achieved without the overly high voltage, then it might be performance neutral.

    I think we will know for sure soon, multiple reviewers announced they were planning to test the impact.