lizknope

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by lizknope 9mo ago
I switched from Solaris/HP-UX to Linux in 1994. Never ran dos/windows. It's been working great for me for 31 years now.
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by lizknope 10mo ago
shrug I got my first digital camera in 2001 and still have all the photos from then as well as all the images I downloaded from the internet starting from 1991 through Usenet groups. I scanned all of my dad's old photos going back to
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by lizknope 10mo ago
> Don’t take it so personally. I did once too. This is easier said than done. The founders of many startups are extremely charismatic. They can get you to sacrifice your personal / family life and work long hours by dangling the bi
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by lizknope 10mo ago
Yeah. I know someone that started 4 companies and another that started 5. Out of those they had about a 50% success rate in selling to a larger company, stay about 3-4 years to vest, then leave to make a new start and repeat the cycle. U
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by lizknope 10mo ago
I had never heard of the company RevenueCat. It looks like a system for mobile app developers to make in app purchases. A few Internet sources say that RevenueCat has about 120 employees. I'm in a completely different field so I&#x2
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by lizknope 10mo ago
I think Feynman needs to be heard and preferably seen. While he was a Nobel Prize winning physicist and great teacher he was also really funny. I bought the audio book version on CD about 25 years ago. Now it is on various sites and youtub
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by lizknope 10mo ago
Cadence is one of the big companies in EDA (Electronic Design Automation - semiconductor chip design software) I met someone that left to go to a startup and was bought by Cadence. He did this 5 times and about 2-3 years later Cadence woul
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by lizknope 10mo ago
I've posted this in many threads about startups. I have worked at 2 and had bad experiences at both. Why didn't I get any money from my startup? - A guide to Liquidation Preferences and Cap Table https://old.reddit.com
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by lizknope 10mo ago
I had a 36" 4:3 Toshiba CRT that had component video inputs for 1080i signals. If you displayed a 16:9 aspect ratio signal you could turn on a mode to change the display area to make the electron beam display all 1080 lines in that ar
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by lizknope 10mo ago
Nothing against Python but I still use Perl 5 because it works for what I need to do. The Perl 6 redesign was announced in 2000 and it has been going on for 2 decades? Python is clearly a good programming language but the Perl 6 redesign t
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by lizknope 10mo ago
The vast majority of computers sold today have a CPU / GPU integrated together in a single chip. Most ordinary home users don't care about GPU or local AI performance that much. In this video Jeff is interested in GPU accelerated
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by lizknope 10mo ago
I just watched Spinal Tap 2 last week and enjoyed it. RIP Rob and Michelle.
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by lizknope 10mo ago
Are you familiar with how you focus a rangefinder camera like a Leica? You are NOT looking through the lens but a small viewfinder offset from the lens. The viewfinder is usually on the far left. Then there is another window a few inches
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by lizknope 10mo ago
What is the quality like for these lenses? This says the system was discontinued in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamiya_Press I've seen a lot of Mamiya 645 and 67 systems but those were probably from
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by lizknope 10mo ago
> one of the Fujica 690 bodies I see Fuji GW690 bodies with a 90mm lens on various sites like keh in the $1200 range. I have a Hasselblad 500 series camera from the 1980's that my father bought at a pawn shop near a military base.
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by lizknope 10mo ago
When I was a teenager I responded to bans by trying to get around them like warning stickers on music. Talking about the dangers of D&D or the Satanic Panic seemed idiotic to me and still do. But when people explained why something was
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by lizknope 10mo ago
The person in the story is literally the person at Cisco I was talking about. I worked on 2 projects with him. Great engineer.
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by lizknope 10mo ago
I worked at 2 startups. Both failed. The first had been around for about 4 years when I joined and had products that made money. They were trying to get acquired. They had partnered with 2 companies making products specifically for them.
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by lizknope 10mo ago
I started working in 1997 and lived through the dot com bubble and collapse. My advice to people is to diversify away from your company stock. I knew a lot of people at Cisco that had stock options at $80 and it dropped to under $20. Beca
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by lizknope 10mo ago
> I wasted years of my life in crypto I've wasted days of my life explaining to people why virtually all of crypto currencies and exchanges are scams.
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by lizknope 10mo ago
Yeah, I had one of these in my wallet with DSL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootable_business_card
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by lizknope 11mo ago
> FreeBSD was also picky with its hardware choices. I'm not sure that the hardware I had would have been fully supported Copy / paste of my comment from last year about FreeBSD I installed Linux in fall 1994. I looked at Free&#
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by lizknope 11mo ago
I've been hearing about this for years and it makes sense theoretically but has anyone ever actually seen it? What are the errors reported? Or does the drive return bad data but reports no error? There was a guy on reddit that took a
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by lizknope 11mo ago
I still use Perl everyday. I know it isn't as popular as when I learned it in the 1990's but I process so many text logs that I find it very useful.
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by lizknope 11mo ago
The company may survive but there are still thousands of layoffs. I just wrote in another comment that in 1999 I was getting 5 recruiter calls a week. In all of 2001 I got zero.
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by lizknope 11mo ago
I work for a company making AI related products. I've asked multiple Executive VP's if we are in an AI bubble. They all dance around the question. I started working in 1997 and saw the dot com bubble and collapse. If you had as
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by lizknope 11mo ago
So much of the investment is circular. One software or hardware company is investing in an AI company which invests in the others. See this chart https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/should-we-worry-about-ais-circ...
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by lizknope 11mo ago
I asked a few weeks ago if we are at the Pets.com stage of the bubble yet.
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by lizknope 11mo ago
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/908575-one-of-job-s-busines... “One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. " If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will,&quot
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by lizknope 11mo ago
> Every kind of a man, or woman? Exactly. What about black people or any other minority? Black people couldn't even vote until 1965. Housing discrimination and things like redlining would prevent people from living where they want

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