lizknope

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   by lizknope 5y ago

   GNUstep started in 1995 back when Jobs was still at NeXT before Apple bought the company. He didn't try to stop it back then.
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   by lizknope 5y ago

   There are lots of them around. I have seen SR-71's and A-12's in at least 6 different museums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#Accid... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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   by lizknope 5y ago

   I had an Abit BP6 with 2 Celeron 366 CPUs overclocked to 533 running Linux. It was great being able to have great compiling stuff while stuff having great interactive performance without slowdowns.
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   by lizknope 5y ago

   I got my first PC in August 1994 and it had a Mitsumi 2X ATAPI CD-ROM. Everything I read said that Linux didn't support them yet. The drive worked fine in DOS/Win 3.1 which is what the computer shipped with. I downloaded Slackwa
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   by lizknope 5y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster#Incendiary... They tested the incendiary paint hypothesis on the TV show Mythbusters. The MythBusters concluded that the paint may have contributed to the disaster, but
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   by lizknope 5y ago

   I don't use ZFS or QNAP but Linux has its own native dm-cache and bcache implementations for creating hybrid volumes out of SSD plus hard drives. I would suspect that QNAP is using one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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   by lizknope 5y ago

   I remember using some Sun workstations in the 1990's. They Open Firmware boot system used Forth. It was also used for PowerPC Macs but I never had any of those. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
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   by lizknope 5y ago

   Most of these film changes where in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_d... In 1970 the US was 88% white. Today it is only 61% white.
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   by lizknope 5y ago

   Your body's visual processing system (eyes and brain) are the result of millions (maybe billions) of years of evolution. Photography and digital sensors are less than 200 years old. The film technology 50 years ago was not racist. The
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I was on the Internet since 1991. Usenet was great but it was hard to find other stuff. There were mailing lists for specialty topics and Archie and Gopher to find FTP sites. Then you'd have to use an FTP client to download files. T
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    Most RAW camera files like Nikon NEF are based on TIFF with a lot of proprietary extensions to the format.
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    You can find a lot of cheap VM instances at this site. I use buyvm.net and I've been happy with them the last 5 years. https://lowendbox.com/
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    Does the US really need more electricity generation? Electricity use is stable or even dropping although 2020 may be an outlier. Electric cars will change this though. At a personal level I use significantly less electricity now compared t
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I had an Atari 800 in the early 1980s. The games were close to the arcade version and with the BASIC cartridge we could write programs and save them to a cassette tape drive or floppy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ata
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I had the same thing happen about 10 years ago after buying a bag of pine nuts and eating them all in 3 hours. The strange metallic taste from everything had me worried until I read about it on the internet. It lasted about 3 days and wen
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I thought this was going to be about Theo being forced out of NetBSD back in 1994 and then starting OpenBSD. I was in college and ran Linux but my roommate ran NetBSD and was telling me all the mailing list drama. It is still archived here
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    Have you looked at Chisel? It isn't really high level synthesis but the Chisel is converted to Verilog and then that is synthesized like normal. It makes connecting things and configuration a lot easier. https://en.wikiped
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    We used to remove the hard drives which takes about 20 seconds on a desktop that has a "tool-less" case. Then donate the computer to anybody including the employees if they want it. It takes a few minutes to do that on a laptop b
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    The NeXT Cube and Slab were some of the prettiest black boxes I have seen.
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I know the one in bash is fake but I'm saying that /dev/tcp and /dev/udp could be filesystems like /dev or /proc Open /dev/tcp/google.com/80 or /dev/tcp/192.168.1.1/
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file Why is the socket interface the way it is? Why isn't it like /dev/tcp in bash? I tried Plan 9 about 10 years ago. Since then I use VPNs everyday and i
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I don't disagree with anything you said but the article claims they are turning CO2 into fuel which the ISS is NOT doing.
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    The article claims they are already converting CO2 to fuel on the ISS. This process has been TESTED but we aren't using it right now. Article claims: > Known as the “Sabatier reaction” from the late French chemist Paul Sabatier, it
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I remember when Google Mail launched on April Fool's Day in 2004. I thought the 1GB of storage for email was a prank because it was a huge amount to offer for free. I made an account just to try it out but then I saw all the advertise
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I think it is more likely that WW3 would be AVOIDED because of semiconductors. The world wants peace so that Taiwan can keep building chips.
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I don't mean across delivery companies. When I order something and it is being shipped via FedEx I can login to my FedEx account and see the package tracking info. From there I can redirect the package to one of the multiple FedEx &#x
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I was specifically talking about picking up packages at FedEx and UPS retail store locations not the USPS (United States Postal Service) The USPS usually has a line of 5-10 people and takes me 30 minutes but I go there about twice a year. F
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I live in a pretty safe suburb in the United States so I'm fine with packages left at my front door. In 20 years I have never had a package stolen. For high value packages that require a signature I have them redirected to a UPS or Fe
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    Do you want to put a bunch of data on a hard drive, tape, DVD, whatever, and leave it for 10 to 100 years and come back hoping it works? I think this is a horrible strategy. Data needs to be verified periodically and migrated to new format
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    Yeah. I got on the Internet in August 1991. People introduced me to Usenet and told me to lurk on any group for a few weeks to see how people communicate before jumping in. I remember coming back to school in the fall of 1993 and there wer