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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Interesting fact, Nintendo still makes playing cards, including the standard 52 card decks. Ran into one once, very high quality plastic cards.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
SF (especially downtown, Mission, SOMA) is not the same as the entirety of the Bay Area. Some aspects of the article are true generally in the Bay Area: expense and a feeling that the government leadership seems indifferent to the difficult
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
> Why? Why do they feel the need to do this? Because the still common belief that Africa was in a very primitive state before the Europeans showed up and "civilized" them.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
> Faster I was thinking since the early days of the transistor, which really began around 1947/48. Or even since the beginning of the microprocessor era. Let's just say it would be hard to make a modern CPU with discrete transi
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Michael Barnsley has two books that discuss this in greater detail. https://maths.anu.edu.au/people/academics/michael-barnsley and http://superfractals.com/wpfiles/
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
One of the amazing things is that as transistors get smaller, they get faster, use less power, are more reliable, and cheaper per transistor. That is why we have cheap, fast, and powerful computers and cell phones.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
> 1973 Don't forget that the price of petroleum and everything downstream of it, which meant just about everything, more or less doubled twice, once in 1973 in the OPEC boycott and then again in 1980 with the Shah of Iran crisis. It
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Contract work is a possibility. The benefits aren't as good but employers will take people they wouldn't hire full time. And work to update skills. Without more details I won't consider giving you advice on what to study.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Bellard spelled backwards is Bourbaki.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
It also tends to empower lobbyists, not in the sense of elected officials needing money for campaigns, but the officials and their staffs lack knowledge and sophistication on many issues.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
South Bay, Silicon Valley in the old historical sense, is still a boring suburban sprawl with above average restaurants and high rents/house prices. Certain amount of extra package thieving but it hasn't changed much in the last 2
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
So called Net Negative Producer. Much more dangerous than someone who is merely slow.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Also California is two-party.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Certain documents must be signed by an officer of the company. So many become vice presidents, to have that ability. Then other people of the same rank become vice presidents. At one bank anyone at director level (manager of managers) was
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
If you live downtown in SJ you could move a few miles and have a much more pleasant life. Still expensive, though.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Private student loans often have very high rates, like credit cards. Very easy to end up paying $200,000 to retire a $50K debt.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Private non-profit - Harvard Medical School - very low under 1% default Private for-profit - Joe's No Good Truck Driving School - maybe 25% or even 50% default With a spectrum in between depending on quality of school and area of study
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Sometimes links to other subs go to the new site, sometimes stays on old, I suppose depending on how the links are set up.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
> Microsoft . . . huge checks E.g., any company smaller than MSFT would have been destroyed by the endless Word For Windows effort.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Hmm, 25 downloads at $100 per month would do it.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
> pay for health insurance Have cancer, or a premature baby with 90 days in Neonatal Intensive Care, in the USA, and get back to me on your health insurance.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
. . . just saw it in passing . . . Typo
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Phillipe Kahn seemed bitter over OS/2. Perhaps using up the company's intellectual resources, when the resources could have been better used elsewhere, money from IBM or no money. But that's just a guess for why.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
On desktop you can choose to remain on the old format. On mobile you seem to need to do old.reddit.com every time. Never installed the app on mobile.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Sorry, I don't. I just so it in passing and didn't book mark it.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Borland fell for Microsoft's OS/2 fiasco, and devoted a lot of energy to porting products there, to no economic benefit. At that time I was using Borland C++ and the quality really went downhill. Errors that never should have got
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
POV-Ray has a powerful set of solid geometry operations and is quite good for generating scene descriptions from another program and then invoking PV to render. Obviously it's command line rather than a visual tool.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Recently a group finished a stone block of the size in the Egyptian pyramids in just a few days. Another group hauled a Stonehenge sized block of stone from area the stones came from to the site of Stonehenge in about two weeks. Estimate is
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
This isn't so bad but consider new Reddit vs. old Reddit. If "new" were to become the only way to access Reddit, I would probably abandon it.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
The system design part of interviews seems to be much rarer than ten years ago, when it was quite common.

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