lizknope

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by lizknope 4y ago
Look at the title again. This is the guy who cleaned up Enron and he is calling it "unprecedented" and says "never in my career have I seen such a complete failure..." This is not typical language. John Ray III is a se
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by lizknope 4y ago
People need to actually redeem the tethers for actual US dollars in order to collapse the tether scam. I think all the crypto exchange collapses and bankruptcy declarations will actually help tether. All the money will be locked up for ye
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by lizknope 4y ago
Binance offered 45% https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/earn-up-to-4...
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by lizknope 4y ago
You don't have to listen to me or another expert saying that FTX was a ponzi scheme. Literally just listen to SBF himself. He described his business as a ponzi scheme. If that isn't obvious then I don't know what is. This
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by lizknope 4y ago
I think crypto currency should have a value of 0 But the value of gold would change if mining got easier
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by lizknope 4y ago
https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/aluminum-common... Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold. Then we discovered cheaper ways of processing the ore. Aluminum is so cheap now that people throw away alum
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by lizknope 4y ago
SBF literally describes a magic ponzi box https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6nAxiym9oc
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by lizknope 4y ago
It seems like it because it is. No regulations, no protections, only idiots "invest" in this garbage. It's just one scam after another
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by lizknope 4y ago
Yes it is all made up. Or about 95% made up with a tiny amount of actual USD or Euros Just listen to Sam Bankman-Fraud on a financial podcast describe his magical ponzi box. Well now the thing anyone with a brain would have said sounds li
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by lizknope 4y ago
Golden handcuffs in the form of millions in unvested stock. I knew people at companies that were acquired and joked that they were in "rest and vest mode" They didn't care what the new company did as long as they got paid and
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by lizknope 4y ago
Exactly. The IP portfolios that TSMC has is huge. You can go to Cadence, Synopsys, or TSMC themselves and get PLLs, serdes PHYs for PCI Express, USB, HDMI, DDR 3/4/5, LPDDR, etc. Is Intel going to let a customer use their intern
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by lizknope 4y ago
I wrote another comment in the thread that they have tried being a customer foundry and given up multiple times in the past. Around 2002 and 2009.
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by lizknope 4y ago
I've been in the semiconductor industry for 25 years. Intel has tried to be a fab to external customers multiple times in the past. I can remember around 2002 and 2009. After a few years the effort dies out. I know a couple of compan
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by lizknope 4y ago
That happens at every company. I've been working in the tech industry for 25 years at 8 different companies. You lay off people and then the best engineers start looking for a new job and leaving 2-3 months afterward.
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by lizknope 4y ago
I've been taking photos for 35 years and I would say that the camera is the LEAST important part of photography. Composition and lighting are far more important. For film cameras the lens is far more important than the camera which is
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by lizknope 4y ago
For those unfamiliar with the author. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout He is probably most famous for having created the Tcl language and Tk GUI library. He also worked on the Sprite distributed operating
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by lizknope 4y ago
I realize that not everyone is technically capable of doing this but my 3 suggestions are: 1. Wipe Windows and install Linux 2. Wipe Windows, download the Windows .iso image or buy media from Microsoft and install that so there is no extra
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by lizknope 4y ago
My EE program had a control theory course as a senior year elective but it was not mandatory.
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by lizknope 4y ago
My first experience with Unix was when I went to a new high school in 1991 and they had an IBM RT running AIX. This used the ROMP CPU before the POWER architecture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RT_PC People would
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by lizknope 4y ago
All the ads on the home screen suck now. When I first got my shield I made another account just for it because I didn't want it connected with the rest of my google stuff.
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by lizknope 4y ago
I had a DirecTV satellite receiver with DVR. They rolled out an update and made a big deal their new "Energy Star ECO power savings mode." I wondered how much power it could really save because it was a DVR with a spinning hard d
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by lizknope 4y ago
I'm 47 and I never really knew what a slide rule was for until a few years ago. When I did I thought "Oh, we've had calculators all my life, now I know why I never learned about them." They are interesting and I can see
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by lizknope 4y ago
I'm 47 and I haven't written anything in cursive (other than my signature) since age 16. In 11-12th grade we had to type all reports and I always did homework and tests in print not cursive because I hated writing in cursive and
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by lizknope 4y ago
I installed Slackware in the fall of 1994. I only had about 10 blank floppies so I would go to the computer lab and download the "A" base system, then wipe those, go back to the computer lab, download and install the "AP&quo
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by lizknope 4y ago
These are the top 2 links I get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_temperature_recorded_o... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_superconducti... "High-temperature superconducto
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by lizknope 4y ago
I have no idea what you are expecting from "high tc record" I'm getting links about the highest temperature on earth and it is listing it in Fahrenheit so if the "tc" means "temperature celsius" it is fail
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by lizknope 4y ago
I'm an electrical engineer so we did a lot of math in circuits class where we used Euler's identity. We did stuff like e^(i * theta) = cos(theta) + i * sin(theta) Then our teacher said "that part is imaginary" and just
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by lizknope 4y ago
In high school we used Newton's method to solve polynomials. Then we got an equation and just a slight change in the starting point gave a different solution. We started plotting everything on graph paper. Then we wrote a program in
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by lizknope 4y ago
How much math have you learned? When I first saw Euler's Identity I kind of laughed and said WTF? We "discovered" Euler's number while calculating compound interest continously. We knew pi from grade school. Learned a
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by lizknope 4y ago
I always that the JFS code in Linux came from AIX but it does seem to have come from OS/2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFS_(file_system)

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