lizknope

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by lizknope 5y ago
That was basically East Prussia and they forcibly removed the Germans.
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by lizknope 6y ago
My city provides me clean water, treats my sewage, and picks up my trash. They seem to do a pretty good job at it, I would be fine if they provided Internet service too.
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by lizknope 6y ago
Linus Torvalds looks at the big picture all the time. That is basically his job as he doesn't write a lot of low level code anymore. Do you have an example of something that you consider part of the "dumping ground?"
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by lizknope 6y ago
Does it support two 4K monitors now? I have an old Macbook from 2013 that runs Linux now with an Intel integrated GPU and it supports dual 4K monitors at 30Hz. I use the Thunderbolt ports as Mini DisplayPort outputs and connect to two 4K
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by lizknope 6y ago
The Omnibus Podcast with Ken Jennings did an episode on this last year. https://www.omnibusproject.com/276
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by lizknope 6y ago
After my trip through Burns, Oregon where I got some of those comments at the grocery store I went to John Day, Oregon. I mainly went to see the fossil beds national monument but I also stopped at this small museum which was a Chinese run
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by lizknope 6y ago
I couldn't agree more. I was born in the US to Asian Indian parents. We lived in a small town in the southern US and dealt with a lot of racist crap. I went to college in a big city and while racism still exists the majority do not h
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by lizknope 6y ago
Look at Bozeman on Google Maps with the satellite view. There are mountains to the NE, E, and South. Many of these desirable mountain locations like Vail are in mountain valleys where there is a limited amount of land to build on.
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by lizknope 6y ago
I grew up in a small town in the south. We were the first Asian family in the town and dealt with a lot of racism in the 1980's. When I went to college in a big city the weekly racist comments were basically gone. I'm not sayin
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by lizknope 6y ago
When I was in school I remember a professor saying to "Never gate a clock." In the 90's I think people were worried about clock glitches. My first few years in the industry in the late 90's we had customers that didn&#x
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by lizknope 6y ago
When I have worked at large companies we handled everything ourselves and dealt directly with the fabs. When I worked at startups and smaller companies we have interacted with: Global Unichip Corporation (I believe TSMC owns part of the com
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by lizknope 6y ago
The article mentions that is is from the OpenFive division of SiFive. OpenFive used to be Open Silicon and their business model was working with other companies to take their Verilog RTL and do all of the physical design (synthesis to logi
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by lizknope 6y ago
They pay money just like any other customer of TSMC. SiFive has a lot of buzz in the industry. I wouldn't be surprised that TSMC wanted to work with them. But there are other intermediary companies that help startups group multiple c
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by lizknope 6y ago
I'm in the semiconductor company. I don't really understand your question. Anyone can start a company and tape out a chip even in 5nm. My previous startup did something similar. We used an intermediate company between us and TSM
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by lizknope 6y ago
Did the PCs have ethernet? Our campus network had a lot of DOS PCs but they ran a bunch of DEC Pathworks stuff to turn them into terminals to the VAX. We also had some PCs with a DOS telnet client to telnet directly to the Unix machines. J
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by lizknope 6y ago
We had a mix of terminal types from VT100 to VT420 I believe. Yeah, the phone / talk stuff was great. This was in 1991 at my school.
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by lizknope 6y ago
Did you have multiple MS-DOS machines? My first programming class was in 1991 on a DEC VAX running VMS. We had a room with 30 VT100 style terminals so everyone at least had their own display and keyboard.
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by lizknope 6y ago
I actually tried facebook for a month with other windows covering up the "trending" sidebar. It was a little better but the ads in the main area still annoyed me. Then I started unfriending people that just posted stuff that anno
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by lizknope 6y ago
I live on the east coast of the United States and I have always felt that rivers flow east from the Appalachian mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. If I lived in Siberia I would probably think that most rivers flow north to the Arctic Ocean.
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by lizknope 6y ago
The houses just 100 yards away from me have wells for water. There is a large upfront cost of making the well but after that you have "free" water other than the electricity for the pump.
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by lizknope 6y ago
I thought Scotland DID have a large oil sector. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Scotland%27s_oil You can argue whether it is Scotland's or the
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by lizknope 6y ago
I learned Perl in the late 90's and I still use Perl 5 all the time. The semiconductor industry is held together with thousands of lines of Tcl and Perl code. Every day I have to parse some new type of text file and Perl is great for
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by lizknope 6y ago
We had an Atari 400 and then an 800 along with the Atari 410 program recorder that used ordinary audio cassettes to store and load data. I learned BASIC on that along with hours of Star Raider, Miner 2049er, Jumpman, and arcade classics lik
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by lizknope 6y ago
I just realized that this is not about the Unix "script" command that leaves a file behind named "typescript" If you ever have a program that outputs a lot of text but you can't redirect it to a file (maybe you need
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by lizknope 6y ago
Why? If something uses more energy for the transaction than the value of the item I am buying or selling I call that ridiculous.
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by lizknope 6y ago
I thought we already knew this. Euler's Identity is used in electrical engineering.
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by lizknope 6y ago
I replaced all of the frequently used lights in my house with LEDs. Now I actually have a stockpile of incandescent bulbs for things like the closets, laundry, and guest rooms where those lights may be on for less than a minute a day.
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by lizknope 6y ago
Emacs has a long history with so many versions and editors with "emacs" in the name but not necessarily what we think of emacs today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs In the 1970's there was TECO and
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by lizknope 6y ago
I have not been to a club night or otherwise in over 25 years. It's just not my thing. But I am curious what is the difference between a top table and a regular table? What even goes on at a regular table?
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by lizknope 6y ago
Linux used to refer to the arch as amd64 and then Intel copied it a few years later. AMD licensed the EV6 bus from DEC and there was some discussion of having motherboards that could accept either an AMD K7 or DEC Alpha and just flash the B

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