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by jboy55 3y ago
Apple is the new Sony might be better. I'm trying to figure out who is the upcoming premium tech product company... not thinking of any. I think Tesla wants to be
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by jboy55 3y ago
I bought some from the 30s, 40s and 50s. Each magazine was 300 pages of Radio or TV repairman training courses, and a dozen pages with some fluff about the 'future' or advertisement article about a new tool.
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by jboy55 3y ago
GP seems to be a little factious, they haven't had V10s in awhile, although they were considered the 'best sounding' F1 engine. They have migrated to hybrid V6s for the last 5 years or so. If it was just for the sound, perhap
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by jboy55 3y ago
They didn't, here is an article from Feb, https://www.meteomotorsport.com/2023/02/f1-2023-climatology.... They just got the head guy to say he didn't know, and now its all of F1 that didn't know.
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by jboy55 3y ago
The low, at this point, is predicted to be 51F/10C on race day, 13C supposedly at 10pm (1). Montreal has the record at 5C. There are a lot of reasons to roll your eyes at the LV GP, this just seems to be the latest click bait trend. At
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by jboy55 3y ago
These 'Jobs' are already filled. Someone on an H1B, who's working at the job, in some cases for years, asks for the company to get them their green card. The company now has to advertise that job, and take applicants on the
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by jboy55 3y ago
Most likely the picture was taken with a monochrome sensor with a filter applied tuned to a specific wavelength. That's more valuable than a color filter, which is made up of a mosaic of single pixel individual red, green and blue filt
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by jboy55 3y ago
>Quantum gravity is obviously the elephant in the room, Isn't that just our understanding of gravity not being complete. > the standard model doesn't account for neutrino masses ,matter/antimatter asymmetry, or why the
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by jboy55 3y ago
There have been actually many positive theories trying to explain what particles dark matter could be, they've all been proven wrong. To me dark matter came about from this, "As we understand gravity we can postulate how galaxies
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by jboy55 3y ago
Hey, I spent 6 years at a company collecting over 200k options, spending $2k exercising and having new money come in and try a 200:1 reverse split. Now, 15 years later, I'm a proud owner of common stock in a private company that is mar
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by jboy55 3y ago
I remember in around 1998 I just started my career and one of my duties of my job was to go around to our alpha testers of a photography product we built and make sure things were going well. These customers were often pretty angry at my co
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by jboy55 3y ago
To correct, the Fair Market Value of the common stock went from $4 to $4.75. Saying "Price" indicates you can sell at that value, you most likely can not sell your stock for any price right now. You should value those shares at 0
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by jboy55 3y ago
Amazon still has some Perl kicking around, mainly on the main website. I don't think there's any new development though, just maintenance and gradual replacement.
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by jboy55 3y ago
When I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, it wasn't the breaths per hour that was the concern, it wasn't waking up during the night, it was my blood oxygen would dip to the 60s. So the researcher measured heart rate, breathing rate a
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by jboy55 3y ago
I did a number of basic electronics tutorials and kits without much of it sticking. Mainly because there wasn't anything very interesting on the other side of the project. What got me through the basics into understanding was, http:&#
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by jboy55 3y ago
The last cat I had that was allowed to go outside was a fearsome mouser, delighted in toying with them and was quite the biology teacher, showing off their inner anatomy to us kids. However, birds mercilessly teased him as he had no clue ho
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by jboy55 3y ago
I think the most efficient means of delivering so much xrays that kilograms of material can fuse is with the primary stage of an hbomb, which is just an implosion fission bomb. I wouldn't be too worried about this test creating a new w
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by jboy55 3y ago
I felt a similar way with the news of the fusion 'breakthrough' around 6 months ago. "Fusion power is here! All we need to do is engineering!". They achieved this fusion by creating a container of material that produced
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by jboy55 3y ago
Depends on who, I've seen an aquihire for around 7 engs with pedigree go for around 30 million. Now that company had taken on around 20m in VC and had developed a product... but that product was immediately thrown away by the acquirin
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by jboy55 3y ago
VC looking for an aquihire payout. I haven’t looked, but perhaps some of the team is ex-FAANG and the VC is counting on a purchase price > $5mil.
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by jboy55 3y ago
And that's the only "energy system", that I can think of, that is also part of a weapon.
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by jboy55 3y ago
I'm not sure I follow, if I were to define "Energy System" as a system to create or utilize energy, I can think of a half dozen that never were weapons. Solar, Wind, Natural Gas, Coal, Hydro. If you define energy systems to m
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by jboy55 3y ago
Regarding #1, it pains me to see so much hype about this feat. To restate it. We were able to simulate the implosion of the secondary stage of a thermonuclear device in a lab by the means of lasers, to the point that this simulation has ~ 0
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by jboy55 3y ago
Looking at the C# poker, it amuses me that you end up closer to Enterprise FizzBuzz(1) than the basic game. (1) https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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by jboy55 3y ago
I tell this story often, when I was first out of college and at my first job, I was able to go on a business trip to a customer in a big city. A coworker joined me, he was around 30 years older than me, and had been at my company for about
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by jboy55 3y ago
The scams are still the same as how he hacked. He called someone, claimed to be an authority, knew the lingo, asked for help and time was the critical. Someone calls your parents and claims to be an authority figure, that there is a crisis,
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by jboy55 3y ago
My parents vaguely remembered who Kevin Mitnick was when I gave my father my copy of 'Ghost in the Wires' to read. I told him, this was the 'hacker' of the 80s, read how he managed to 'hack' all these places. M
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by jboy55 3y ago
There's also a great game that walks through a bunch of these concepts and ends up with a working computer starting from gates. https://turingcomplete.game/
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by jboy55 3y ago
Hasn't RedHat been headquartered in Raleigh since its inception? I knew a few people who moved out there for RedHat from the Bay Area.
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by jboy55 3y ago
We can build concrete that can withstand maritime conditions, we just choose not to due to cost. We also really don't know how much Roman concrete only lasted 100 years.

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