lizknope

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by lizknope 5y ago
I have a bachelors in computer engineering but I've taken drawing and painting classes at my local community college. It was a fun and we met once a week at night for 3 months. I think it was $120 for the entire 3 months but we did h
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I drove around Slab City so that I could see Salvation Mountain. It was... interesting. Bombay Beach was scary and depressing. The smell was fine when I was there but there are frequent massive fish die offs. Something has to be done about
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At least 75% of the people I know with masters degrees didn't pay a thing and in fact got free tuition AND a stipend. I have a lot of relatives from India that came to the US to get their masters in various engineering disciplines. No
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by lizknope 5y ago
Ground based telescopes have improved significantly in those 30 years. The mirror in Hubble is 2.4 meters Large ground based telescopes now have mirrors in multiple segments with motors keeping them at the right curvature. The largest has 1
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by lizknope 5y ago
Intel wants to get into the foundry business. 99% of what Intel does is for their own chips. They don't have the support infrastructure of being able to deal with external customers. Global Foundries has that. You don't just de
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by lizknope 5y ago
> assets from IBM, which GloFo "acquired" in 2014 (for -1.5 billion at the time) You used the term "acquired" along with a minus sign in front of 1.5 billion but just in case other people don't get the joke, IBM
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Wikipedia has a list of Falcon launches and a column with the customer name. NASA is on there quite a bit but there are plenty of other customers including other US government agencies, other governments, and private companies. https:&#x2
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methane + oxygen = carbon dioxide + water https://www.middleschoolchemistry.com/multimedia/chapter6/le...
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In Oklo, Gabon there was a natural nuclear fission reactor about 1.7 billion years ago. The concentration of uranium and groundwater was just right that nuclear fission occurred naturally. We can measure the elements left behind and we hav
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by lizknope 5y ago
I subscribe to Tom Scott's youtube channel and I wondered how did I miss the video you are talking about. This is Tom Scott's channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/enyay The video you linked to is interesting
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I read the name "Oklo" and thought "that place already had nuclear reactors." I assume the company named themselves after the natural fission reactors discovered in Oklo, Gabon. 1.7 billion years ago the concentrations
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Corel even made the NetWinder which was a small ARM based Linux computer. https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3288 http://www.netwinder.org/about.html
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by lizknope 5y ago
The article briefly mentions HAMR (Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording) hard drives. Seagate has been shipping them since 2020 to some customers. Seagate's roadmap is 120TB drives in 2030. https://www.anandtech.com/show&
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by lizknope 5y ago
You mean like the Intel i860? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860 Or the Intel Itanium? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium Or the AMD Am29000? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by lizknope 5y ago
I used SunOS from 1992 and Solaris up to around 2004. I'm in the semiconductor industry and we used to have thousands of SPARCstations and SPARC servers for larger jobs. All of the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools ran on Unix
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by lizknope 5y ago
Strange. I will grant you the less stress but Apple opened a new site near one of my company's offices and we have lost quite a few people over the last year to them. Everyone has said they are offering a substantial raise and huge a
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Lots of cars have buttons to set the exhaust modes and adjust baffles and stuff in the engine / exhaust system to make louder pops and crackles. Some people think it sounds cool. Some people think it sounds extremely annoying. Either w
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We got an Atari 800 around 1982 but I believe the 810 floppy drive cost more than the actual computer so we never had one. We did get the 410 program recorder that used ordinary audio cassettes to save and load programs.
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I guess you need a VPN for your VPN
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I think I am the exact opposite of these people. I've been working at home for the last 14 months and I realize that I love my home and reconnected with a lot of my stuff. I spent a few weeks cleaning out some closets and donated a lo
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by lizknope 5y ago
Initially I thought the Phalanx would be able to defend against drones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS Lots of comments about why it could be overwhelmed. The ammo is still expensive and limited https:&#x2
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The original Apple I / II before the Macintosh used the MOS 6502 processor.
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Picking a CPU is not just about the CPU architecture. It is mainly about the ecosystem around that processor. ARM has a huge amount of IP, bus fabrics, compilers, operating systems, boot loaders, and people you can hire with knowledge of
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by lizknope 5y ago
I've been there. It's a bunch of casinos literally a foot over the state border. It's less than 2 hours west of Salt Lake City. Wendover is a tiny town in Utah but West Wendover in Nevada is completely different just a foo
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Antelope Canyon is a popular tourist attraction in Arizona. During the summer Utah is on daylight savings time, Arizona does NOT observe daylight savings time but the Navajo Nation within Arizona DOES observe daylight savings time. Antelope
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When I started college in the fall of 1993 we had a lot of Sun SPARCstations around. They were older IPC and IPX machines. Around 1996 we started getting SPARCstation 4 and 5 models. I developed my senior design project (a neural network
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Most companies buy the ARM CPU RTL or an existing hardened core for their chip. Large companies like Apple have an architectural license and implement the entire instruction set on their own. I worked for a couple of companies with ARM arch
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Okay but they should be paying taxes locally. I don't know about Montana but in my state I pay state income taxes, county and city property taxes, and state, county, city sales taxes.
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I have old computers, Raspberry Pi's, and virtual machine cloud instances with just 128MB to 512MB RAM and they work perfectly fine for the tasks I use them for. None of those tasks involve anything graphical. If you want a modern web
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Will Netflix be okay if I pirate their shows but I talk about them to my friends a lot and provide them "free exposure?" /s maybe?

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