lizknope

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   by lizknope 4y ago

   I had around $47,000 in Wachovia in 2008. I was a Wachovia customer since 1991. I didn't lose a penny. Wells Fargo bought Wachovia and over the next year they automatically transitioned us to Wells Fargo accounts with the same logi
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   I had an office with a door for 12 years. I switched jobs 3 years ago and everyone has a cubicle even the managers. Constant distractions with people talking loudly on conference calls. Then someone else talks even louder on their call. B
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   I've worked in suburban office parks for 23 of my 25 years of professional work. They're fine. Nothing great, nothing bad. Just fine.
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   I agree. I've been in some strange stock option situations and 3 of us hired a tax accountant to investigate everything and help us file the additional paperwork properly. It cost us about $500 but it was better advice than the quest
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   The part where he says "There are of course companies that don't require this, but when was the last time they shipped a great new product? It's been a while." Is he serious? There are plenty of companies shipping grea
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   Boom, Bombardier, and maybe some others are developing aircraft but we don't really know the final cost both in planes, fuel, and whether passengers are willing to pay that.
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   So where is the money going? If the price of something is increasing faster than inflation then I expect something in return for the extra money I am paying like a bigger house, faster computer, whatever. I went to college in the 1990'
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   by lizknope 4y ago

   Just google "super bowl crypto ads" and you can find lots of articles including the ads. They had big Hollywood celebrities like Matt Damon and Larry David. They were very well produced like most Super Bowl commercials. The Sup
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I'm sure some college kids have tried to use it and classify it as a "pizza emergency"
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I keep a small printout in my wallet with 20 phone numbers just for that situation.
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    Some people had ideas to flood the Qattara Depression in northwest Egypt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project It would have provided hydroelectric power and as the water evaporated and formed cloud
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    This video was from a month ago and is about the same podcast with Sam Bankman-Fried. The way he describes the box and how it isn't a Ponzi scheme is just ridiculous Crypto CEO Accidentally Describes Ponzi Scheme https://ww
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    The Sun SPARC machines I used in the 1990's used Open Firmware for booting. It contained a Forth interpreter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I had a SPARCstation 5 on my desk in 1997. I took an SBus graphics card out of another machine. It would boot just fine without it. Then I put it in my SS5 and connected a second monitor. People around me thought it was amazing that I co
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I just assumed that 99% of the people saying "this is good for bitcoin" are using the phrase as a meme mocking bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general.
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I was searching the comments for this! I used my first Unix machine in 1991 and started college in 1993. I knew vi but the professor used emacs and showed us how to run make from within emacs. But wow was it slow! I asked an older studen
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I'd like to support news sites behind paywalls by reading a single article for $0.25 but I'm not willing to pay $10 a month for a subscription if I just want to read a random article every once in a while.
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    Have you ever had a fraudulent credit card transaction? I've had at least 5 over the last 30 years including some for over $2,000. I call the credit card company, tell them this wasn't me, the charge gets removed, they cancel my
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    They locked all new threads. You can still post in an existing thread but you can't create a new one.
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    crypto currencies need an FDIC Which would defeat the point of crypto currencies
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I've worked as a normal employee at 2 startups and both failed. Some people invested their own money for different classes of stock. Before going to a startup I would tell everyone to read this post about liquidation preferences and c
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    Serious question, why don't people have faith in the El Salvadoran currency? Why don't they try to fix the problems that are causing that lack of faith?
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I'm in semiconductor design not software but we write a lot of scripts. One of my good friends is an analog custom layout expert in Cadence Virtuoso and its built in scripting language SKILL is a version Scheme / Lisp. If you tol
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    Yeah, 75% of my team on the current and previous projects are in other parts of the US. We just had a massive reorg to make it more flexible to assign free people to projects around the world. The CEO and senior VP's have said that we
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I had an office with a door and window for 12 years at 2 different companies. It was great. I left the door open 90% of the time but it was great to be able to close the door for privacy the other 10%. I changed to a much better job in 20
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    by lizknope 4y ago

    I work for a large semiconductor company and during the pandemic the test engineers in the lab and IT staff were the only ones allowed into the office for the first year. Even the test engineers were allowed to take a lot of lab equipment
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    A lot of semiconductor EDA / CAD tools use Tcl as the built in scripting language. Our CAD flows are thousands of lines of Tcl code that are both wrappers around the tools and scripts for the tools to execute that set options and run
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I was a big sports fan in the late 1980's and RBI Baseball had the actual Major League Baseball names and stats along with a big instruction book showing even more stats including speed. I still play it a few times a year and it&#x27
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    When I was in college in the mid 1990's Sun was the dominate Unix workstation company. We had a couple of thousand on campus. Then I started working in the semiconductor industry in 1997 and every had a Sun SPARCstation or Ultra 1&#x