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by jtlienwis 6y ago
This is nothing new. I had a Shearson account back in the early 1980s and bought an oil company stock that was undervalued. One of those leveraged buyouts occurred when I was on a short vacation, and I did not find about the expiration
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by jtlienwis 6y ago
I saw a program once about elephants that showed that they carried around the bones of the revered loved ones in their mouths. Maybe the males were not as revered or maybe they tended to die in spots that it was dangerous to get to carry
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by jtlienwis 6y ago
Well, we already manufactured in Wisconsin a lot of the stuff you need for an LCD panel. 3M Menominee makes the light diffuser (Vicuiti) film that a lot of the top end LCD makers used, Wisconsin up until 2008 had one of the top flex circu
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by jtlienwis 6y ago
They should renumber it CS 6502.
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by jtlienwis 6y ago
Is it legal to hire someone in the US from a foreign country because the hiring manager is not fluent in English and needs someone with fluency in a foreign tongue, when other qualified candidates DO speak English? I lost an engineering j
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by jtlienwis 6y ago
Missed the cool toggle switches on the PDP-11 front panel. And the MITS Altair front panel. I once was typing innocently on a Cray-1 operators keyboard and found out that a certain key combination would reboot the whole system.
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by jtlienwis 6y ago
Maybe it is time to think about moving astronomy to space or possibly the moon. Issues for years about street light polution. Even ducks show up sometimes on astronomy photos.
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by jtlienwis 6y ago
Cray-1 from that era had 80 Mhz clock and 8 Megabytes (1 Megaword) memory. But had peak floating point of 160 mega flops. Also, no cache. But highly interleaved main memory.
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by jtlienwis 6y ago
Well I just love my friendly neighborhood gas and electric utilities... NOT.
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by jtlienwis 6y ago
I am opposed to UBI. I want smart people to have more money. I want less smart people to have less money, provided they have enough to live on. A smart person might invest in books, study and self improvement. Then those industries
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by jtlienwis 6y ago
Back of the envelope calculation says that one gallon of gasoline makes 20 lbs of CO2 when burned. One hundred gallons of gas per ton of CO2. I have seen sequestration costs of $200-$500 a ton for current CO2 sequestration or conversio
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by jtlienwis 6y ago
For a minute I thought it was the Next. But that was a bomb that went off 32 years ago.
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by jtlienwis 6y ago
"Unlawful acts, performed long enough and with sufficient vigor, are never enough to amend the law. To hold otherwise would be to elevate the most brazen and longstanding injustices over the law, both rewarding wrong and failing those
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by jtlienwis 6y ago
Sholzenitzen's Gulag. Twains Pudd'head Wilson and "The Corruption of Hadleyburg" Ayn Rand et al "Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal" Peter Kropotkin "Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution" Tannehill, Morse &qu
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by jtlienwis 6y ago
There was once was an operating systems that allowed you to format your entire hard drive when you only intended to format a floppy disk, if you typed format c: instead of format a:. This was called Microsoft Dos 2.x.
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by jtlienwis 6y ago
My favorite was when I was working at SGI after it had taken over Cray Research. I was one of the lowly Cray guys in Wisconsin working with the wonderkind in California. I was to run the regression tests on the chip being design in Califo
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by jtlienwis 7y ago
My fist thought was what could Denmark trade at that time for the return of Bornholm? My first thought was the atomic secrets that the Neils Bohr group had.
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by jtlienwis 7y ago
Ten years ago I got an MRI when they were searching for kidney stone. I think the hospital charge was over $3000. I had one last year and the charge was less than $500. You can point to MRI as one of the success stories for technology in
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by jtlienwis 7y ago
When Facebook pays me for my supplied content I would think about going back. But I am not interested in making someone else rich using my data.
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by jtlienwis 7y ago
I am an EE with a degree from a big ten university. Now turning 66. What amazes me about electronics/computer science is how much I do not know and how much I am still learning.
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by jtlienwis 7y ago
The process for making ammonia from air (nitrogen) and hydrogen. Allowed a huge increase in agricultural output that saved a few billion people from starvation. Haber-Bosch process.
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by jtlienwis 7y ago
The Elxsi 6400, built in the early 1980s could do logical operations to memory using the off the shelf drams of the day. Designer was Harold (Mac) McFarland, of PDP-11 fame.
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by jtlienwis 7y ago
Stories about opioid addiction downplay the role of users.
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by jtlienwis 7y ago
Cray-2 was all dram except for maybe one of the first to ship which was sram.
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by jtlienwis 7y ago
I saw a youtube interviewing the guy that wrote the code for the HP-35. He said that David Packard got mad when he heard that every engineer in a certain division of HP was going to get their own HP-35. He said that one calculator could
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by jtlienwis 7y ago
Remember programming these when in college in the 1970s. We bought some surplus (probably out of spec) 1702s. The programmer would have trouble programming them until we noticed how hot they were getting. We spayed them with freezing
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by jtlienwis 7y ago
To quote Steve Oberlin of Nvidia ( quoting House M.D.) about cloud customers... "Everybody lies."
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by jtlienwis 7y ago
Taking money from a man that was convicted of earning money from sexually exploiting children makes taking money from a bank robber look virtuous.
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by jtlienwis 7y ago
I think one famous Minnesota politician called it the Hoot-Smalley tariff.
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by jtlienwis 7y ago
I thought about this. My watch needs to tell me (no matter were I am, by using GPS) what time are the most common for meals and what time is my meeting with the locals. What numbers it assigns to these are not material, but UGMT would m

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