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by lizknope 8y ago
Computer Shopper magazine in the early 1990's was a huge magazine about 3cm thick printed on cheap paper (like a phone book if people still know what that is...) It was probably about 95% ads and just a few articles. Before comparison
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I've been designing semiconductors for 23 years. This article is 17 years old and I haven't seen any clockless designs in my professional experience in all of that time. About 1/3 to 1/2 the power usage is leakage and I
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by lizknope 8y ago
The cancer arm of the World Health Organization has some serious concerns about some of Americans’ favorite foods. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies processed meat as a carcinogen, something that causes cancer. And
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by lizknope 8y ago
I live in the Raleigh-Durham, NC area and we heard Google Fiber was coming to the area around 2015. A couple of months later Time Warner upgraded my cable modem speed from 15Mb to 50Mb download for the same monthly price. Then 2 years ago A
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by lizknope 8y ago
Headline says it is not a pipeline problem and gives very few statistics about why it is not a pipeline problem. The articles DOES list problems in the workplace once women have a job. I consider the pipeline to be college. When I studied
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by lizknope 8y ago
I've been flying Raleigh to London nonstop every 2 or 3 years since 1995. I don't know if there is a direct to Paris flight.
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by lizknope 8y ago
I bought a $5000 Nikon lens because I learned that there would be a price hike of $900. Leica equipment gets constant price hikes. The cameras and lenses are great but at this point they are mainly for rich amateurs rather than working pro
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by lizknope 8y ago
In the United States we require super majorities to amend the Constitution. 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the state legislatures. Something as important as Brexit should require more than 50.1% to pass. But it was actually non-bind
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by lizknope 8y ago
> Where are the people who initially brought in Brexit- why are they not supporting May? They resigned. Boris Johnson the Foreign Secretary resigned. David Davis who was literally the "Brexit minister" resigned. https:/&
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Senators don't have to know everything just as a CEO does not know everything. But they do have to be capable of hiring competent STAFF to help them! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_staff In 2000, eve
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by lizknope 8y ago
Okay, let's have a discussion. I said that I have never worried about this but my relatives in India did and I provided a link. Provide some links or describe what happened and then we can have a discussion.
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by lizknope 8y ago
I live in the US and have never worried about cash (paper or coins) not being accepted because they are "old." I have many relatives in India. They all complained about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/201
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by lizknope 8y ago
I live in Raleigh too and work downtown. When walking on the sidewalks I've almost been run over by scooters about 8 times and been hit twice by jackets flying behind and to the side of the rider. I was okay but it did hurt. All of my
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by lizknope 8y ago
Sun had different kernels for the sun4c and sun4m architectures. In this infamous post David Miller brags about how he has made a single Linux kernel capable of booting on both. https://cryptnet.net/mirrors/texts/k
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by lizknope 8y ago
I was 14 in 1989 when my Dad and I were watching TV and they switched over to show East and West Germans breaking through the wall and hugging each other. I remember watching for hours because I knew I was watching history being made.
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by lizknope 8y ago
90% of the stuff I write is in Perl. The other 10% is Tcl. I design semiconductors and every week I have to write a couple of small scripts to process text files or reports and that is always in Perl. Everyone at work knows Perl. Those t
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by lizknope 8y ago
In Jainism some of the more strict followers do not eat root vegetables (like potatoes) because it is considered violence against plants. If you eat an apple you are not killing the plant and actually helping it to spread its seeds. If yo
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by lizknope 8y ago
I can drive a stick. I borrowed my sister's car for 3 months and drove it on occasion at other times. I define stop and go traffic as when I'm in 0-15mph traffic during rush hour on the Interstate. If I leave a large enough gap s
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by lizknope 8y ago
Lots of theories but it may have been licensing, a possible NetApp patent infringement lawsuit, or maybe they thought they could do better. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/10/apple-abandons-zfs-o... htt
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by lizknope 8y ago
I've been designing semiconductors for 20 years and I thought I would learn something but this article said nothing other than he wished there were more radiation hardened devices out there. You can learn more from wikipedia than this
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by lizknope 8y ago
I just don't bother peeling most fruits and vegetables and just eat the peel. Cucumbers and potato skins are fine to me. Obviously things like bananas and oranges need to be peeled but I throw all of that in a compost pile in my back
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by lizknope 8y ago
This post is literally from yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17634079 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/micro... "Microfilm machines haven’t been
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by lizknope 8y ago
Yes but you have to check what you buy carefully. There are HDMI over cat5/6 cable that are basically point to point and are basically just replacing the cable to transmit a longer distance. The more expensive products that claim to tr