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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Yep, same. Well I actually remember finding the best ways to copy a game on a tape error free first. Some, without protection you could just save back to tape for a digital reproduction (and this also allowed tape to disk conversion). Actually those with non destructive copy protection could kinda be copied too if you knew a little Z80 ASM. Others, you needed to copy tape to tape and hope the quality turned out OK.

    But yes, then bringing your box of copied disks (Amiga in my case) into school and swapping with your friends was the way to go.










  • Here you go

    #include <iostream>
    #include <csignal>
    #include <unistd.h>
    
    void sigusr1_handler(int signal)
    {
    	std::cout << "Signal USR1" << std::endl;
    }
    
    int main()
    {
    	std::cout << "Installed handler for USR1" << std::endl;
    	std::signal(SIGUSR1, sigusr1_handler);
    	while (1 == 1)
    	{
    		usleep(5000000);	// 5 seconds
    		std::cout << "Waiting for signal" << std::endl;
    	}
    }
    

    That will help you read at least one of them.


  • Well it’s not a scam. It works exactly as advertised. But, just like in casinos, the house is always the winner.

    I made a multi-threaded UK lottery simulator that draws 68 million lotteries per second on my machine. It shows the ROI on average is around 30% meaning the “house” (lottery company/government/charities) gets 70%. Here’s the last line after 5.1billion draws:

    Draws: 5,130,046,351. 3: 56,022,165, 4: 2,521,545, 5: 38,525 5+b 5,918 Jackpots: 113. Losses: 2,491,081,393. Cost £10,260,092,702, Winnings £3,058,100,000 ROI: 29.810%. 68,548,225.400 draws/s

    Yes that means you will wait on average 45.4 million draws before you hit the jackpot.

    In any case. You could implement the meme like the lottery and make money and I assure you, if you made the full info public people WOULD send you money and you’d keep the 70%…


  • This is exactly it. It’s always been a risk of being an estate agent/real estate agent. You take on the up-front cost on the basis you will make it back overall in commission in the long term.

    12 or so years ago, we were looking at rental properties. And not only was there none of this nonsense. They were finding extra properties to look at, in addition to the one(s) we asked for. They wanted to sell and understood they need to put in the time up-front to get that.

    But, if you can get the seller AND the buyer to pay you for your services? Damn, is that a win for them?


  • So, I think a decade or so ago (maybe more), the bigger corpos went full mask off, and stopped even pretending they cared about anything but making more money. Screw the employees, screw the customer, screw the regulatory departments. Money only.

    It seems this is filtering down to more and more businesses.

    I am not sure how it is over there. Here in the UK the number of rental properties has dropped drastically. I suspect, it’s because of a few changes legally here that make it not quite so lucrative to buy-to-let any more. In any case, rather than bring house prices down, it just made the rentals still on the market go up in price. As an example today for my postcode there are over 80 properties for sale (excluding retirement/shared properties) and only around 10 for rent with the same filters. It used to be closer to half the number of rental properties up until around 5 or so years ago.

    If there’s a seller’s (well landlord’s/renter’s I guess) market, they could for sure make people pay to get an edge on gaining an increasingly rare rental. It’s downright scummy. But, I expect nothing less any more.