lizknope

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   by lizknope 3y ago

   I used to check out the O'Reilly X11 series of books from my college library in the mid 1990's. This is the one volume that I actually bought and still have on my bookshelf.
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   They did stop using Roman numerals for Super Bowl 50 but only for that game and then reverted back to to Roman numberals for LI 51 and so on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_50
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   There are many programs out there that will find duplicates files. I use this one. It gives you the option of replacing the duplicates with either hard or symbolic links. https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   Are you a galactic cook or a garbage scow captain?
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   I had only used my Atari 800, Apple II,DOS PCs and Macs in the 1980's. In 1991 I went to a new high school and we had a VAX running VMS. I was amazed that hundreds of users could be logged into the same machine all doing their own thi
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   I grew up in North Carolina in the late 1980's. There was tobacco all around and I knew many classmates that picked tobacco from at least age 14. Some people in the thread are remembering their own experiences fondly. I can't r
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   I read the press release twice and it doesn't really say much. I'm a digital physical design engineer. What it probably means is that ARM will port their standard cells and memory compiler to Intel's process. The other IP l
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   I worked at an ASIC foundry in the late 1990's. We had an embedded DRAM option but it was basically the DRAM process with standard cells ported to the DRAM process. We only had a couple of customers ever choose it because the logic &
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_instruction,_multiple... An example of MIMD system is Intel Xeon Phi, descended from Larrabee microarchitecture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(mic
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I've been in the semiconductor industry for 25 years. I do digital physical design using Cadence and Synopsys tools. I'm working in 5nm right now on huge SoC's I enjoy your videos and always look forward to watching them.
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    My unit has both a heat pump and gas furnace. Of course the heat pump is used for cooling in the summer. In the winter the thermostat is set to use the heat pump for heating until it is below 40F. Below that and it switches to natural ga
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I did the same with a Celeron 300A at 450. The other great thing about that era was the 440BX chipset supported so many CPUs. I upgraded the same Slot 1 board from that 300A@450 to a Celeron 900 in a "slotket" socket to slot 1 a
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I had one of those with dual Celeron 366's running at 533 It worked great from about 1999-2002 when I upgraded to an Athlon 1700, then an Athlon 64. I finally had 2 CPU cores again with the Athlon 64 X2 around 2005.
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I'm not sure what window manager was on AIX in 1991 on an RT. Maybe it was twm. That is the first time I used Unix / X11. When I started college in 1993 our default environment was mwm but I quickly switched to vtwm and had a re
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    Okay but it supports 5 monitors. 1 via HDMI and 4 via the Thunderport / DisplayPort Type-C outputs. I've got a Lenovo Thinkpad and I use a $15 Type C to DisplayPort adapter and it works fine at 4K @60Hz The specs say it supports
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    The 20-core Mac Studio with 128GB RAM is $4,800 It would be interesting to see a 24 or 32 core Threadripper vs the Mac Studio. I didn't price out the full system but those CPUs are in the $1300-2800 range
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I ended up buying a SCSI card in fall 1995 so I could use this. The drive was about $500 but each 650MB cartridge was only $30. I could format it with a ext2 and use it as a regular filesystem. No need to make an ISO image to burn. CD b
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I've been using XFCE for about 15 years. It feels like nothing has changed during that time and I think that is one of its best features.
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I think Linus would have forked it and made LinBSD and more people would have joined his effort. The Linux community was a lot more friendly and helpful to me than the BSD crowd in the mid 90's
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I installed Slackware 2.1 in the fall of 1994. I had everything working. X11, networking, sound, Mosaic. I compiled Spice 3f4 and used it for my EE circuit sims. The next year I asked some questions on a FreeBSD usenet forum and was told
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I don't deal with OPC. That's handled after me. I mainly do floorplanning, place and route, static timing analysis, and write tons of scripts in Tcl for our CAD flow. This is a quick summary. https://en.wikipedia.org
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I installed Linux on my PC in September 1994 at the start of my sophomore year of college. I remember playing Doom during that school year from Sept 1994 to May 1995. The Quake Wiki says Qtest was released Feb 24, 1996 and I remember playi
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I've a digital physical design engineer so I literally make the data for the mask layers. The industry is so segmented that I know very little about the manufacturing side so I learned quite a bit from this.
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    XFree86 worked fine for me since 1994. I sometimes had problems when exiting a video game like Doom or Quake. SVGAlib would give problems but that wasn't X.
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I remember creating a new modeline and adding it to the list. Then using ctrl+alt and +/- to cycle through the modes. I would get to the new mode and the monitor would start buzzing and clicking and the image would flicker. I would
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I posted already in the thread but when I started college in 1993 we had a mandatory intro to computing environment class. At the time everything on campus was Unix based with a mix of Sun, DEC, HP, and IBM workstations. The class is still
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    70% of my coworkers use vi but most of us are in our 40's. About 20% use emacs and the other 10% use some other usually GUI text editor.
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I started college in 1993 and my school had a mandatory "Introduction to Unix Computing Environment" class for all incoming engineering freshmen. We learned the basics of the shell, file system, file editing, AFS ACL's for gr
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    This seems like one of those blindingly obvious things. The comments on the reddit thread were more informative. If someone is autistic or thinks they might be then these comments from autistic people describing how they feel might help mo
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I'm a US citizen that has worked in the semiconductor industry for 25 years. Since 2005 every chip I have worked on (over 75) has been manufactured overseas at TSMC or Samsung. Every time Intel decides to get into the foundry business