lizknope

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by lizknope 4y ago
I'm a digital physical design engineer. Even though the 7nm number is kind of meaningless these days it is still useful to compare the scale. The flip chip bumps on the top metal layer interface to the outside world. Then they get dis
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by lizknope 4y ago
I've worked at 2 startups where we bought our private stock for $0.001 (tenth of a penny) a share. It had some internally made up value and we pad taxes on the difference. It was explained to me that if we had an IPO in the future th
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by lizknope 4y ago
Linux was most of it but it needed hardware to run on. I wrote in another comment in this thread that our semiconductor design software was all on Solaris. We started shifting to Linux around 2002. We still needed some Suns for the large
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by lizknope 4y ago
I worked at an semiconductor foundry that was doing chips with Cisco's Gigabit Switching Group which was the former Granite Systems team. I was 23 and all the guys there were millionaires and all under 30. All of our chip design softw
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by lizknope 4y ago
My comment from 2 months ago about Sun I started using M68K based Sun 3 machines in high school in 1991. In college from 1993-97 we had thousands of Suns, HP-UX, DEC Ultrix, Unix RISC workstations on campus. I joined the semiconductor indus
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by lizknope 4y ago
I remember my freshman year of college in 1994 when I took C++ and asked the professor about how to write a GUI program. She told us about the Motif toolkit. I got a book from the library and typed in a hundred lines of boiler plate code
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by lizknope 4y ago
I see people talking about NFL games on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl So many people complain about having to pay for cable. I watch all of my Sunday football for free OTA. ESPN of course has monday night footba
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by lizknope 4y ago
I just connected to the built in web server in my HD HomeRun and it shows 105 channels. I always see people complaining about having to pay for cable to watch sports when 90% of them are available for free over the air.
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by lizknope 4y ago
My VPS is $1.67 a month from buyvm.net I run a web server with family photo albums that are all static pages. My friends and I use it to exchange files. I also use it as a SSH reverse tunnel relay to access my home machine from outside. I d
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by lizknope 4y ago
Johnny Harris just made a good video on this last week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQSxY7TR6mI
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by lizknope 4y ago
I miss Usenet in the 1990's where threads would go on for months or even years. I used "slrn" to read news and it was great. It would only show me new posts. I could kill a thread to filter it so I didn't have to see it
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by lizknope 4y ago
We need more basic financial education in the US and probably the world. I know people some people with thousands of dollars in credit card debt. Currently I make about $50 a month in credit card rewards and after using them for 30 years I
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by lizknope 4y ago
I used mwm (Motif Window Manager) for about 1 day when I started college. A friend a year older from my old high school set me up with vtwm. I spent so much time configuring my .vtwmrc file Then I learned you could put an XBM image into y
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by lizknope 4y ago
There are some small form factor machines here with 10G but they aren't cheap https://mitxpc.com/collections/mini-server
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by lizknope 4y ago
I bought some in 1987 as a souvenir at the gift shop after I toured the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. I still have them in a folder and to me it is a pretty cool souvenir to remember that trip as a 12 year old kid. I would never think
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by lizknope 4y ago
I bought some in 1987 when I went on a tour of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. It was in the gift shop and I was 12 and thought it was really cool so my parents bought it for me. I still have them in a folder along with other souven
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by lizknope 4y ago
LOL, I clicked on this thinking it was going to be an update on the article last week about Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34446053&ref=upstract.c...
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by lizknope 4y ago
I'm in the tech industry. I come here because I see interesting stories posted and intelligent conversation. I have worked for 2 startups and both failed. I have zero interest in ever starting my own company and zero interest in ever
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by lizknope 4y ago
I will state that I have never used Macs in a corporate environment. Every Windows laptop I have ever had has an employee has so much extra corporate security software on it that they can remotely lock me out, reset it, wipe it, etc. They
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by lizknope 4y ago
I googled "how to resell macbook" and found this article on how to properly do it and reset all the T2 security chip stuff. It seems trivial to do before selling your Mac https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-h
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by lizknope 4y ago
They can still resell their laptop. They just need to google "how to resell macbook" and find this Apple support document and follow the instructions. It seems pretty easy and specifically mentions the T2 security chip. https:&
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by lizknope 4y ago
People get married, have kids, and have elderly parents they need to help. My friends and I don't have the same amount of time anymore for parties that we had even 15 years ago. Most of the time I see my friends is at lunch and even t
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by lizknope 4y ago
The first version of the ext filesystem (ext1?) was in 1992. I had some friends who ran Linux then (one of them was a Linux developer) but ext2 was released in 1993. By the time I first installed Linux in 1994 ext2 was already the defaul
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by lizknope 4y ago
Yeah, I've been using Linux almost exclusively since 1994. I've had power outages and a few crashes but I can't remember ever losing data with ext2. I don't remember losing a lot of data in DOS/Win3.1 but I rarely
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by lizknope 4y ago
I never posted anything to facebook. I deleted my accounts 5 years ago during all the Cambridge Analytica stories. I honestly couldn't stand it before. I saw so much crap from "friends" that I wasn't interested in. My
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by lizknope 4y ago
Yeah, I know people that work at Lattice Semiconductor. I had never heard of this software company with the same name.
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by lizknope 4y ago
Wow! I worked on digital camera chips and had coworkers writing demosaic algorithms. We wouldn't have even had those jobs if it wasn't for your father.
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by lizknope 4y ago
CANada Oil Low in Acid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed_oil Canola was bred from rapeseed cultivars of B. napus and B. rapa at the University of Manitoba, Canada, by Keith Downey and Baldur R. Stefansson in the e
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by lizknope 4y ago
That thread I linked to is 6 years old. The people in charge of the Bitcoin software know this and keep him on the project. To me that says a lot about the core Bitcoin people. Maybe Ethereum people are better? Let's see what Vitaly
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by lizknope 4y ago
I needed a good laugh to start off the new year! Couldn't have happened to a more awful person. https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4936kw/lukejr_is_...

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