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by JJMcJ 4y ago
About yields in 1980s/1990s. Friends in semiconductor equipment industry visited clean rooms in USA and Japan, and said the Japanese companies were much much more concerned with keeping them very clean. Nothing to do with singing the c
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Before the direct reply, I remember Judge Jackson. The ruling in the trial was quite hard hitting and many people were expecting something like the Bell System breakup. Likely three components, Operating Systems, Office, Dev Tools. Back t
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The air conditioning is not free. Downtime isn't free. Depending on design, if the DC isn't very monolithic, then you can run with components failing and not causing much trouble, replacing when available, if your apps are designe
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Lots of visual tools run under Linux, lots of C++ written for Linux. But general Linux devs tend to be more self sufficient and need less hand holding. Unless they are doing Java, which is almost impossible to use effectively without an ID
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
I've heard of some large companies that run their data centers hot. Cheaper to have a slightly higher failure rate, or have the computers throttle their clock speed, than to pay for extra air conditioning.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Sherlock Holmes stories are interesting. The last ones were published in 1929 IIRC. So there are still some under copyright, and so Doyle's literary estate is still claiming some rights. Mid 20th Century, the term was 28 years with a
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Like many people, he now posts on Twitter instead of blogging.
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Similar to The Far Side. Also Peanuts. Charles Schultz died overnight just before the final Sunday strip. He'd been in failing health and had drawn the final strips a month or two before his death. Garry Trudeau, who does Doonesbury,
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
You know, I had UCSD in my head but typed Turbo Pascal. I actually used Turbo Pascal for a project, and found it quite good.
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You can get water shedding coatings for lenses. Then you just have a few beads of water when you do this. You can either leave them there to dry or dab at them with a soft cloth like a tee-shirt. Since I've started doing this I'
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
You could get a CP/M-86 license for the PC. Also Turbo Pascal. But MS-DOS was the cheapest so it prevailed. One of the most impressive things about this is that Bill Gates and MSFT actually had a deal with IBM and came out ahead. Ve
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Resources are more expensive because of interruptions due to war and disease. Like in the 1970s. Crude oil prices went up 10X between 1972 and 1982. Is it surprising that the price of everything went up during that time, or economies ever
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
When I realized many meetings were just an interchange of dominance gestures between two or three people, with the rest as passive spectators, it all made more sense. It didn't help me enjoy the meetings or remember one thing that was
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All the Hollywood & TV & Stage unions do that. Also professional sports unions. The Bar Associations and the AMA are not quite unions though they certainly advocate and lobby strongly on behalf of their professions. For the Bar ther
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And how did that work out for Germany? More seriously the Prussian system was created after the Napoleonic Wars to ensure that Prussia had a large reasonably well educated population suitable for warfare and for industry. That system was en
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Even earlier. Still living the old ways like you see in old TV shows.
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Used to be bedtime for even high schoolers would be 10 PM or earlier. No computers, one TV for the whole house. So getting up at 7 to make an 8:30 start wasn't so bad. My high school was a fifteen minute walk, or a similar bus ride i
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Covid has made this even worse, as they are not poorly ventilated disease pits. I've met homeschooled kids. They are fine. A cousin was Waldorf schooled from K through 12. He's turned out great. And what you describe is the bett
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
> finished my BS at the same time I finished high school I suspect a high %age of people here on HN could say the same thing. There's the Big Bang Theory effect, to portray all intellectually gifted people as neurotic social basket
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Public school socialization. Humiliated by teachers. Bullied by some people. Small circle of friends. Adults as the enemy. All the homeschooled kids I've met seem pleasant, polite, comfortable around other kids and around adults. Of c
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Second prize is a set of steak knives.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Assuming public health doesn't collapse in the near future, and that's a real possibility, it seems like 85 is the new 70. That is, someone makes it to 85, you can say they had a long life, instead of the old three score and ten.
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Firing a bunch of people shows that the CEO is "tough minded" and that boosts the stock price. For the first couple of years it hardly matters who leaves, especially at a company as big as Facebook. It's just the symbolism f
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
This also happened when more paternalistic companies in the 80s would offer buyouts of one kind or another. The better employees, feeling more certain they could find another job, were often the ones who left.
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When I read Moby Dick I found it a quick read for the length. Full of incidents and plot.
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Coworker got sued because he one-party recorded an argument with a neighbor over some property maintenance issues and then revealed the recording. This was in California, which is a two party state.
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Of course, but remember that they were first published in 1931. The last ones were 1973 but by then they were so popular they could go against the already established trend of longer books. Someone writing new mysteries today probably coul
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You mean instead of the Internet? It's a matter of some controversy but the public Internet that I'm using to reply probably should be capitalized. Discussion of the issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intern
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What I meant was that books like the Maigret novels probably wouldn't be published as free standing books, but packed into collections, say three or four of them together, to get closer to the magic 500 pages. I will mention that I hig
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Many modern novels seem that way too. Not the elaborate dialog, but endless rambling descriptions. Historical novels are often big offenders. Like the author has done a ton of research, not a bad thing, but can't bear to leave any of

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