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by lizknope 2y ago
I personally don't but our computer cluster at work as around 50,000 CPU cores. I can request specific configurations through LSF and there are at least 100 machines with over 4TB RAM and that was 3 years ago. By now there are probab
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by lizknope 2y ago
I got my first PC (Pentium 90) in September 1994 with a 1GB hard drive. In summer 1995 I bought another 1GB hard drive for $299 Here is an old PC Magazine from October 1998. If you go way in the back (page 352) to the advertisements you c
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by lizknope 2y ago
I can only think of about 3 people that completely changed profession. I'm 48 and I could list hundreds of people that have been engineers, scientists, doctors, and lawyers since they finished college and are either still doing the sa
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by lizknope 2y ago
Normally the Hacker News thread has higher quality posts than Reddit but I thought this reddit thread has good comments including from someone on the Immich team https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1c
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by lizknope 3y ago
I installed Linux in fall 1994. I looked at Free/NetBSD but when I went on some of the Usenet BSD forums they basically insulted me saying that my brand new $3,500 PC wasn't good enough. The main thing was this IDE interface that
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by lizknope 3y ago
Yeah but it still sounds really cool! From 1991 when I first saw SunOS I wanted a SPARCstation. I started college in 1993 and the school was full of DEC Ultrix machines, Suns, HP PA-RISC, and a handful of IBM RS/6000 and SGIs. I just
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by lizknope 3y ago
These are from Intel's site so of course it is going to be pro Intel but they reuse the water. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/article/int... https://www.intel.
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by lizknope 3y ago
It depends on what the computer is doing. My home server runs 24/7 and idles around 80W. I have a backup server at my parents house that uses about the same amount of power but it only needs to be one once a week for an hour while I
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by lizknope 3y ago
Of course, that is why there needs to be some incentive to get them to change their minds. Biden Calls for Federal Workers to Return to the Office August 2023 https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/news/employee-relatio
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by lizknope 3y ago
My company's profits were up in 2020-21 and then we went back to the office in 2022 and our profits and stock price dropped. We had 500 openings in 2020-21 and then we laid off 8% of the employees in 2023. I joke in meetings that we j
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by lizknope 3y ago
People are attacking single family homes and commuter culture. Okay, but my solution is different. The pandemic showed that millions of us can work from home. My office was closed for about 2 years. Our stock price shot way up. There wer
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by lizknope 3y ago
I understand that the author is mad and wants things to be opt-in. But I also think the author is smart enough to know that the tech industry understands consent just fine. It just doesn't care. twitter and reddit will soon be bots t
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by lizknope 3y ago
In my first paragraph I said: "got a free product and paid money to do a promotional video about the product?" It's not just a free product but also money to promote the product.
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by lizknope 3y ago
When you say sponsor do you mean a 1 minute advertisement in a 10 minute video where you say "Today's video is sponsored by ABC Corporation, they make this useful product to do XYZ" or do you mean a video where you got a free
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by lizknope 3y ago
I've posted this many times regarding startups. "Why didn't I get any money from my startup? - A guide to Liquidation Preferences and Cap Tables" https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/
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by lizknope 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Type_51 > The 1916 Type 53 was the first car to use the same control layout as modern automobiles- with the gear lever and hand brake in the middle of the front two seats, a ke
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by lizknope 3y ago
Yeah, I stopped reading the article, downloaded the file, the only word processor is in Libre Office. It seemed to work fine so I didn't know what the issue was. Then I read the article and kept scrolling to the end where the author
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by lizknope 3y ago
It's an IQ test but does it help evaluate NFL players? Ryan Fitzpatrick went to Harvard and was said to have gotten a perfect socre of 50. It turns out he might have only got 48 which is still really high. He bounced around 9 teams a
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by lizknope 3y ago
I've got over 30 first cousins. Not joking. My mom was 1 of 12 children and my father was 1 of 8 children. They were born in India during the 1930's to 1950's when modern medicine was saving people's lives but modern
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by lizknope 3y ago
I've been using ifuse on Linux for years. https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse I type "ifuse /mnt/iphone" and there is a DCIM/###APPLE dir with the images and videos where I use &quot
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by lizknope 3y ago
If you look at the release notes you can see that some versions say they are protocol compatible with prior X.Y version release https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/releases But I have seen problems when one versi
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by lizknope 3y ago
I've been using Unison for over 15 years. I have my main desktop and 3 laptops. It has a simple GUI that shows which direction the file update will happen and lets me decide any conflicts if the same file has been modified in both pl
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by lizknope 3y ago
I had used AIX and SunOS in high school but when I started college in 1993 our university had hundreds of DECstation 2100 and 3100 machines. There were a few DECstation 5000 machines that were faster. I thought they were great machines bu
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by lizknope 3y ago
All of which makes me wonder how the author is interviewing people. I've been working over 25 years and interviewed at least 100 people at all levels of experience. The hardest to interview are college students because they have so l
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by lizknope 3y ago
I feel like most of the stuff the author is complaining about is taught in computer engineering and not computer science. Computer engineering curriculums usually focus on lower level subjects and computer science on higher level abstracti
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by lizknope 3y ago
That's immediately what I thought of too
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by lizknope 3y ago
All of the current RAW image processing software have features to reduce chromatic aberration. Many of them have databases of lenses that match the EXIF data of the lens you used to take the photo to help automatically adjust the image the
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by lizknope 3y ago
I wish Slack supported webp. I end up saving an image have to run "convert image.webp image.jpg" and then upload the jpeg
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by lizknope 3y ago
Google dug up my neighborhood in summer 2023 for fiber and are now sending me ads every week. I've had AT&T 1 gigabit fiber for the last 5 years. My parents have the same thing and I do my backups from here to there but the faste
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by lizknope 3y ago
I have 3 old Macbooks. MacBook2,1 from 2007 (64-bit CPU with 32-bit EFI boot environment) MacBookAir4,1 from 2011 (full 64-bit) MacBookPro10,2 from 2012 (full 64-bit) The article author had a link to this page at the bottom. I've u

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