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by hpcjoe 7y ago
Hmm ... I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on low temperature grown III-V material (GaAs to be precise) and studied InGaAs, and other variations. GaAs would make for awesome switching systems, as it is a direct bandgap semiconductor, as opposed to Sil
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
I'm not sure where you developed that understanding. NVidia drivers and CUDA are trivial to set up on Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, CentOS/RHEL). If you use a different distro, you might have a little more work to do, but even th
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
> If you're 43, you should know what you want to do. In a word, no. You can change what you want to do at any age. At 29, I chose to put academia behind me to "go industrial". At 37 I started my own company. At 51, I jo
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
> I used to hate Slack’s UX a lot until I started to use Teams. This. I was told MSFT has switched to Teams. They don't use Skype. Both my current and soon to be new employer (company bought) use Skype for business. Skype is terr
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
This. Loans for small business require personal guarantees. If you are at a point that you need the capital that badly that you cant leverage it from existing cashflow, and VCs put you into their "maybe later" bucket (e.g. &quot
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
Why can't I upvote this continuously? In spirit, I'd say 1000x my up-vote, even if it can't be done in practice.
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
Wishing you all (Bryan, Jess, and Steve) much success with this endeavor!
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
Not a practicing physicist anymore, so I may be hopelessly out of date. This noted, I've been under the impression for a while that dark energy/dark matter is more likely a detailed accounting error. That is, it's likely tha
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
Airbnb has had issue for a while. This[1] is a post I wrote about them in 2014. Basically, it is not in Airbnb's interests to provide quality control, or stop these scams, as either action will negatively impact their revenue. [1] h
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
(another Physics Ph.D. here) Solving a problem in physics or math generally implies a closed form solution. Which this is, decidedly, not. It is in fact a special case, with low particle count, and doesn't return velocity information
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Yeah ... most of my 2-company-ago's software stack was written in Perl. Worked very well. The specific example cited while(<>){ $h{$_}++ && ... } is quite understandable to anyone who has used Perl for more than a few we
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
What troubles me about this is the rate of planting. The idea of reforestation is hopefully a net positive. But the rate of planting seems improbable. 350M seedlings/trees. 12 hours or 43200 seconds. This works out to roughly 8102
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
I don't have laptops with older AMD. My current laptop has the ability to switch between CPU and discrete GPU, but it doesn't work well even under windows, so I disabled it in BIOS. AMD drivers have been hit and miss for a while,
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
I prefer using the term experienced.
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
This is a Sager Notebook NP8156. There are newer models, including better NVidia cards. Up to 64 GB ram. I bought mine with 16GB and added 32GB. Very expandable. Battery life is 2-ish hours, though can be increased by reducing brightne
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
I use it daily. Have done so since early 90s.
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
I generally set up my own toolchain, with up to date versions of Perl 5, Python, Julia, R, Octave. I've found the system distro installed tooling to be too ancient for productive use. While this doesn't bother me much per se, the
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
I've not had obscure graphics or bluetooth problems for like 4 years now. Graphics problems have not been a problem for the last decade. I've been running linux desktops and laptops for about 20 years, starting with early/pr
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
Who ever has been downvoting this isn't getting the Futurama reference[1]. That was about the "eye"-phone. For the uninitiated, it means that they want the product faster. Seriously, its a (humorous) vote of confidence in B
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
My understanding of things like this is, until the day the acquisition closes, the teams should be fighting tooth and nail against each other. Since that was very recent closure, this is normal. OTOH, once the acquisition closes, the bus
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
2 minutes of searching found a number[1] of modules implementing frameworks. Notice the static site generator you mentioned to be one of the lacking elements[2]. Or the CMS system[3]. But sure, lets just dismiss these, and accept the &quo
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
I remember doing something like this for my comps. I had left one school with a masters, looking for computational physics stuff I was interested in. Found another and an advisor who was interested in this work. I applied, got in, and sta
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
A little tooting of my own horn here, but nyble[1] allows you to build a ramdisk bootable image and kernel, that you can serve trivially with any http server and iPXE. A related project, tiburon[2] allows you to make this JSON db controlle
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
Not sure of your meaning of "Linux void of polished apps." Do you mean commercial apps running natively on linux? FWIW, I've been running Linux as my primary desktop through 4 companies and 20+ years thus far. I'm not
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
> You can end up with poorly written code generated by unqualified people that addresses short term business needs. Such code tends to be abandoned quickly by its sponsor which causes long term maintenance problems. In the Linux ecosyste
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
Er ... there are lots of nuclear decays which produce beta particles electrons. Neutrons have a short half-life when free of a nucleus, and decay into a proton, electron and an electron anti-neutrino (to conserve momentum). [1] Electrons
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
Illumos did something akin to this, though it was more of a syscall translation layer. It was/is quite nice. The problem with this is that you are always chasing down the corner cases.
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by hpcjoe 7y ago
Early 2000's for me, and yes, similar experience. What was really interesting to me is that my home domains had no problem emailing my work and side bit gmail based mail service a few weeks ago. Then, suddenly, this stopped working.
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Apologies in advance if this triggers anyone. Way back when I was starting as a systems engineer at one of them-thar unix workstation companies, my mentor in sales laid down a bit of learning on me. He said "anything you give away for
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
My favorite was something that happened 2+ years ago. I had closed down my business, and was speaking with folks, including a well funded startup in Milpitas area. I was in the area for a different interview, and spent the evening before

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