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by lizknope 5y ago
Go to archive.org and search for "sears catalog [insert year]" Here is the 1986 christmas catalog https://archive.org/details/1986-sears-christmas-wishbook-ca...
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by lizknope 5y ago
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/exclusive... google "russian missile failure rate" and you can find many more articles
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Wifi 1 is only allowed for corporate issued laptops. We don't even know what the password is. Wifi 2 for employee personal devices has the password on an internal website and it changes once a month Wifi 3 changes passwords every 24 h
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by lizknope 5y ago
The last 3 companies I have worked at over the last 10 years all have wired connections in every office / cubicle as well as 3 separate WiFi networks. Wifi 1 is for if you disconnect your laptop from ethernet then it automatically conn
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by lizknope 5y ago
I've been working in the tech industry for 25 years. I've probably watched 10 different corporate ethics training videos that cover bribery and inappropriate gifts. At the end we have to answer a quiz to prove we weren't as
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by lizknope 5y ago
Not a horror story but just a disappointment story. I had options at $10. I joined and the stock dropped all the way to $0.57 before rebounding to $5 when I left 5 years later in 2005. During my exit interview the HR person says "Oh yo
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by lizknope 5y ago
That didn't happen to me but I know multiple people in the same situation after the dot com collapse of 2000. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-apr-13-mn-50476...
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by lizknope 5y ago
Intel did not throw it away. They sold the business unit to Marvell for $600 million. I was working for a different CPU company at the time but the thought was by doing this it would allow Intel to focus on the sales and marketing of the A
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by lizknope 5y ago
I didn't read the whole article but the reason I like rsync is that I get files on a normal filesystem. I don't need any special backup software to read or access the files.
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by lizknope 5y ago
I've got a MacBook Air and MacBook Pro from 2011 and 2012. Neither is supported by Mac OS X anymore but Fedora 35 works perfectly on them. Both have Broadcom WiFi chips.
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by lizknope 5y ago
I'm in the semiconductor industry and I still write Perl scripts everyday. I learned it back in the mid-90's and it is still great for all the text files that I parse. Most of the EDA CAD tools use Tcl and some of the younger peo
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by lizknope 5y ago
My virtual server is $1.67 a month (buyvm.net) My home firewall blocks all traffic except for incoming SSH from 3 IP addresses in the world. One of those is my virtual server. If I'm in a hotel with my laptop I run the first command t
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by lizknope 5y ago
If you are an 80's kid there was a G.I. Joe toy based on this. https://www.3djoes.com/skystorm.html
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by lizknope 5y ago
Everything by James Burke is amazing. He's written a lot of other books in the Connections style
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by lizknope 5y ago
There are standards like the Arm Server Base System Architecture but companies don't have to follow it. Most of the ARM servers are custom things for big datacenters. As you said the smaller systems like phones and other embedded sys
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by lizknope 5y ago
Kitt Peak Observatory is 50 miles west. When I went on the tour they said that they get more light pollution from Phoenix 140 miles north than from Tucson. The streetlights in Tucson have covers that direct the light downward which also s
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by lizknope 5y ago
A lot of recruiters won't list the company that they are recruiting for. I assume this is because you could just apply to the company directly and they wouldn't get their fee. One time I asked the company who they were recruiting
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by lizknope 5y ago
We got an Atari 800 in 1982 when I was 7. I learned BASIC on it and there were so many great games like Star Raider for it. I wish I still had it!
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by lizknope 5y ago
I worked at a small insurance consulting firm in 1994. Before I got there someone did data entry into a spreadsheet but then sorted all the rows manually by inserting and copying and pasting. I read the Lotus 123 manual and showed them ho
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by lizknope 5y ago
Capabilities were supposed to split up the need to having a single root account that could do everything. I'm not sure how far it has gone. https://tbhaxor.com/understanding-linux-capabilities/ https:/&#x2F
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by lizknope 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8b/10b_encoding The encoding takes 8 bits and turns them into 10 for DC balance and to help the clock recovery system. You are basically losing 20% of your bandwidth to encoding over
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by lizknope 5y ago
We build a test chip with the serdes and some control logic. One wafer might give us 50 chips. We package them and build a board with two of the chips and have them talk to each other.
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by lizknope 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#History Yes. Emacs development began during the 1970s at the MIT AI Lab, whose PDP-6 and PDP-10 computers used the Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS) operating system that feature
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by lizknope 5y ago
I remember using early versions of LyX back in college in 1995. I feel that it led to the development of KDE. I remember Matthias Ettrich released LyX and it used the Qt toolkit. The next year I remember Matthias announcing the "Kool
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by lizknope 5y ago
Yeah, the water is far worse than the sunlight. Airlines and the military parks aircraft in the desert for storage because with a little bit of prep work at the beginning the aircraft will stay in good shape. Constant rain would be far wors
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by lizknope 5y ago
I don't know what is normal. I had wrongly assumed that some percent of the stock would be pre allocated for hiring future employees. As far as I know we never got any outside investment after our initial angel investor that we had fr
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by lizknope 5y ago
I don't think there is. I replied to someone else in this thread with a similar question. I got very awkward responses from our management and it was clear they wanted to avoid all questions about where possible investments would come
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by lizknope 5y ago
The first startup failed and I had joined late anyway. The second startup I joined when it was only 5 months old and stayed for 3 years. I asked how many shares there were in the company before I joined. I was told X amount and just 4 mon
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by lizknope 5y ago
I've worked for 2 startups in the US and the captables were private. The employees had no idea who owned how much or what the liquidation preferences were. This post on reddit really opened my eyes about why all your stock could still
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by lizknope 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that Carmack was running NeXTSTEP 3.3 on an HP PA-RISC machine. NeXTSTEP ran on m68, x86, SPARC, and PA-RISC. Then it was ported to PowerPC and renamed. https://wiki.c2.com/?NextStep

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