lizknope

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   by lizknope 4y ago

   What kind of software have you written? Open source projects you have worked on that are on github? Microcontrollers you have programmed for home automation? What have you done that proves to a company you can write software? A coding cha
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   I'd like to see an efficiency curve of this heat pump at -20F, 0F, +20F, +40F I have a heat pump that can be used for both cooling an heat along with a natural gas burner. The installer has set the system to use the heat pump at 40F a
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   I was also without power last week for 6 hours. I have a SEER 18 heat pump for cooling which can reverse for heating in the winter but it also has a natural gas burner. Based on the installer's advice we set the system to use the heat
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   I watch the PBS show This Old House which takes place in the Boston area. The plumber / HVAC guy Richard Trethewey is a fan both ground ("geothermal") and air source heat pumps including the air source heat pumps that work a
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   I live in a pretty standard suburban subdivision in the US. All the houses are 25 years old. I have about 60 coworkers in very similar situations. I think everyone of us has natural gas that was installed when the original company built a
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   I remember that Doom had IPX network support but not IP. My roommate and I first played each other with a serial cable and null modem adapter. It look like TCP/IP support came later. https://www.gamers.org/dhs/he
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   HP developed Itanium jointly with Intel. HP was the last Itanium vendor and wanted Oracle to keep supporting their DB on Itanium. https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/30/oracle_loses_itanium_...
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   I agree, our use cases were quite different. In my other comment I said that around 1997 we put Linux x86 and 21" monitors running at 1800x1440 on all the engineers desks and used them basically as X terminals to the Suns in the closet
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   4 years of college on Sun workstation keyboards and then another 4 years in the late 90's at work and my hand and brain are hardwired to expect control being where caps lock is on traditional PC keyboards. In vi/vim I never hit th
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    Strongly disagree. I posted elsewhere in this thread but the semiconductor ran on Sun / Solaris / SPARC. We switched to Linux x86 practically overnight in 2002. Sun was slightly relevant for a few jobs requiring 64-bit >4GB
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/ibm-to-spend-1-billi... IBM to spend $1 billion on Linux in 2001 This long before IBM bought Red Hat in 2019
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    Freshman year in 1993 and my school had a thousand DEC pmax Ultrix workstations. It migrated over mostly to Suns and HP's but I run OpenLook olvwm at my internship but I mainly ran vtwm which my school had compiled for everything. Ul
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I still use xv to print maps and various screenshots. I take a screenshot then xv filename then right click, print, greyscale, Max, Ok It changes the colors to greyscale for my non-color laser printer, scales it perfectly to fit the 8.5x11
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I think the compliance tests were making sure that your add instruction or memory load instruction followed the spec. You mention ARM ecosystem and that is precisely the point. Apple controls their ecosystems. How do you write apps for th
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    There is some good stuff here. I remember xantfarm, xfishtank, and xmelt / xflip very fondly. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/ftp-archives/sunsi... My university in the 1990's used MIT&#x2
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    xoj was great https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/#xoj There are a bunch of great stuff on this link
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    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 industry in 1997 and all of of chip design
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    https://1000logos.net/sun-microsystems-logo/ The emblem was created in 1982 by Vaughan Pratt, professor of computer science.
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I worked at a semiconductor company that had an ARM architectural license and we implemented our own ARM CPU. We still had to pass ARM compliance tests. I heard from some of the people on the CPU team that Apple did not have to pass those
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I learned Perl in the mid-1990's. I'm in semiconductor design and most of our CAD tools use Tcl so I write a lot of that but for any text report processing or sysadmin type tasks I write in Perl. I've got nothing against Py
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    Soviet Union built this and it wasn't really practical and ended up leading to test ban treaties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    Google "national ignition facility careers" and this is the first link https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/careers
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    > I wonder if people felt this way about Apollo? In hindsight it feels worthwhile. But the big difference between Artemis and Apollo is that Artemis is coming after Commercial Crew/SpaceX has proven a different business/enginee
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I had no idea and after reading the article I still had no idea. I only clicked on it because I misread it as SPARC thinking it was an article about Sun's RISC CPU
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    Now I feel old. I remember I was in college and excited when I heard about GIMP. I had been running Linux for a year and wanted a photo editor but GIMP was written for the Motif GUI toolkit which was shipped with commercial Unix systems (S
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I remember getting the "text file busy" message on various Unix systems in the 1990's https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16764946/what-generates-...
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I miss seeing Sun SPARCstations boot. The Sun logo and the black text on white screen was always cool to me. https://pcmuseum.tripod.com/sparcboot.jpg
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    We used to spend $400 a month on gasoline because we both commuted 25 minutes each way. During the pandemic that was down to about $100 a month. And when we did have to go somewhere the traffic was so much lower so less wasting gas in
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I first learned C in 1991 on a VAX running VMS and also on an IBM AIX machine. If I went outside the array bounds I might get a crash or segfault and could use a debugger to load the crash dump and see where it died. When I tried using my
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    Ban it. Problem solved