lizknope

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   by lizknope 5y ago

   I got a new cloud virtual machine and didn't login for 2 hours. When I did the logs showed there were about 50 attempts to login from random IP addresses. I changed my port to a random 4 digit number. Not a single failed login attemp
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   by lizknope 5y ago

   I absolutely disable sshd on machines where I never need to login remotely like my laptops. My servers of course run sshd.
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   by lizknope 5y ago

   Yes. Every lane has 4 data pins. TX+, TX-, RX+, RX- The data is transmitted and received as differential pairs because this helps in signal integrity issues. You are also correct that you can transmit and receive at the same time but whet
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   by lizknope 5y ago

   I'm in semiconductor design not software but my goal is always "I've got way too much work, is this person good enough that after a few months of training they will be able to do some of my work so I can get more sleep?"
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   by lizknope 5y ago

   I have had a cable modem and now fiber for 20 years. My IP address only ever changed after a power outage that lasted multiple hours. I have probably had about 10 IP address over those 20 years. My sister and parents are similar. None of
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   by lizknope 5y ago

   I was using IDE drives on x86 PCs from 1992 to around 2005. I never had any real problem configuring them. I probably used about 20 different drives across 10 different machines. Put the master at the end of the cable and the slave in the
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   by lizknope 5y ago

   In the winter that is true but in the summer some of them have had to limit production because the water to cool the plant is too hot. https://www.climateforesight.eu/energy/nuclear-power-feeling... https://
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   by lizknope 5y ago

   John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone which was a US territory when he was born but was part of Panama by the time he ran for president.
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   by lizknope 5y ago

   I was born in the US and I am the child of immigrants who came here for college 55 years ago. I think being born in the US and automatically becoming a citizen is one of the greatest things about this country.
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    In a 5nm semiconductor chip a standard cell inverter (like combinational AND / OR gates) can switch in 5 picoseconds. These things are characterized with at least 2 more significant digits so we feel we know how they respond at the 10
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    You are correct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_MegaPixel_Display The original MegaPixel Display was a monochrome 17" monitor displaying 4 brightness levels (black, dark gray, light gray and white) in a fixed r
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    Mellanox ConnectX-2 I'm running Linux
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    We had layoffs a year ago and got moved into an existing team that none of us knew. Then they reassigned more people on and off the project. After 2 months our team lead realized that we were having problems so he organized 2 meetings a we
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I had an office with a door for 11 years at 2 different companies. It was great. Then I had to switch jobs where we had cubicles but we worked from home half the time. My current job is all cubicles even for managers. People are always
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I got 2 used SFP+ cards and a DAC cable for $60 total on eBay. 10G between my file server and primary desktop is great. 1G for everything is fine.
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    Doesn't the army give housing and food allowances? Do you even pay anything if you live and eat on base?
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    Well I don't treat them like garbage. I treat them like human beings but sometimes I wonder about how a 40 year old person ended up working in a fast food place. I know there are lots of reasons and many of them are outside of the con
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    There are too many lawyers and a lot of lawyers end up doing things that a paralegal would do.
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I know a few companies that are outsourcing legal stuff. The internet makes it easy.
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    People I know look at restaurant workers and retail store employees as the people you say "You go to college so you don't end up like them." I would never say that about mechanics, plumbers, and HVAC technicians. They have s
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    This Old House on PBS routinely installs systems over 95%. There are systems here listed at 98.5 AFUE https://www.energystar.gov/products/most_efficient/furnaces
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    He wrote those comments in 2003. The instruction decode logic takes up less space with each new chip and process shrink. These days I don't think it really matters much.
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    My professor in college back in 1997 was doing research on maintaining binary compatibility between different generations of the same VLIW architecture. If you had a different number of execution units and stuff like that. He had a few id
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    The i960 was launched in 1984 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i960 The I2O project wasn't until the mid 1990's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2O
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    Did you read the post you are replying to? Linus says to ignore the design mistakes like segmentation. Then he says: "the baroque instruction encoding on the x86 is actually a _good_ thing: it's a rather dense encoding, which mean
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    This article claims that Coca Cola switched to high fructose corn syrup in 1984 which was a year before the debut of New Coke https://www.motherjones.com/food/2019/07/the-secret-history-...
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I have AT&T Fiber along with my sister and parents. They live 20 and 30 miles west of me. Both of them have IPv6 but I don't and I live in a bigger city in the area. I don't understand.
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I have been doing semiconductor digital physical design for over 20 years The Verilog RTL for the digital portions of the design are often identical for the same design in 2 different foundry processes. The combinational logic gates (AND&#x
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    I know a lot of people with antennas. I have Sling TV but I also have an antenna and an HD HomeRun dual TV tuner. I can record from the HD HomeRun tuner to my computer or I can connect to it from my Nvidia Shield set top boxes and watch it
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    by lizknope 5y ago

    The salinity of the Salton Sea is very high. All of the fish that were introduced have died except for tilapia and the desert pupfish. They are the only fish that can tolerate the high salt levels. https://speciesfishing.com&#x