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by lizknope 1y ago
Microsoft and IBM were both developing OS/2 together. There were a lot of disagreements between the two companies. IBM wanted to keep supporting the 286. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2#1990:_Breakup &gt
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by lizknope 1y ago
That looks like it. I didn't have one but I remember the magazine ads for it.
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I remember a laptop in the early 1990's that had Microsoft Office in ROM to load faster. I can't find a reference to it right now.
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by lizknope 1y ago
It does. OP says it runs on an FPGA, specifically a Zynq-7000
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by lizknope 1y ago
We had an Atari 800 with a 6502. Learned BASIC on that and also the Apple II in school which also has a 6502
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by lizknope 1y ago
Crater Lake in Oregon is a beautiful national park. Mount Mazama erupted 7,700 years ago. Native Americans lived in the area at the time and have stories about the eruption passed down through time. https://www.klamathtribesnew
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by lizknope 2y ago
It was registered in Delaware but it was an LLC. I'm not a lawyer so I don't know if an LLC would have to comply in the same way. I do know that there was an operating agreement and we had a very strange meeting at one point where
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by lizknope 2y ago
At both startups we bought our shares early using Section 83(b) of the IRS tax code. That first year when we bought the shares I had to file extra paperwork but it shifts the tax rate to long term capital gains. https://www.cool
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by lizknope 2y ago
Why didn't I get any money from my startup? - A guide to Liquidation Preferences and Cap Tables https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/a8f6xz/why_didnt_... I've posted this before but it&#x
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by lizknope 2y ago
I haven't used an alarm clock in 20 years and wake up within the same 5-10 minute window almost every day. I have a friend that will just sleep through multiple alarms. But he can also just fall asleep in 10 minutes on an airplane and
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by lizknope 2y ago
The way dolphins sleep with half of their brain asleep is fascinating to me. https://us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/how-do-dolphins-sleep/
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by lizknope 2y ago
Every camera has a unique RAW format even cameras from the same company. The article briefly mentions this but doesn't go into that much detail. I've got at least 10 Nikon cameras going back to 2005 and every "NEF" Nik
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by lizknope 2y ago
The dot com bubble from around 1995 to 2000 was huge. I started working in 1997 and we thought it would just keep going but then the bubble popped. Thousands of people lost jobs. Stock market dropped way down. But that doesn't mean
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by lizknope 2y ago
You are right. I didn't realize that OSF/1 was used by anyone other than DEC which rebranded their version as Digital Unix and then Tru64 Unix. The wikipedia page has a link to this Intel Paragon supercomputer which specifically
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by lizknope 2y ago
Your OSF/1 link makes a lot of references to Mach 2.5 which still required the Unix portions to be in kernel memory space so it was still a monolithic kernel. This was the same as NeXTSTEP which is the basis for the current Mac OS X.
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by lizknope 2y ago
Start by googling "university_name degree_name curriculum" Here is my school's 4 year course curriculum including all senior year elective choices with descriptions of the classes for electrical engineering, computer engineer
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by lizknope 2y ago
What country are you in now? The difference between mechanical and electrical engineering is huge. Why do you want to do either? In your last paragraph you are also considering computer science. You need to decide which degree you actuall
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by lizknope 2y ago
6 years ago I was driver from El Paso, Texas northwest on Interstate-10 I was running the air conditioning and after a few minutes I noticed a bad smell and then my eyes started burning. I saw tons of farms and cows for about 10 miles just
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by lizknope 2y ago
I run snapraid once a night and it has a scrub feature to read every file and compare against the stored checksum. https://www.snapraid.it/manual All my drives are Linux ext4 and I just run this program on every file in a f
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by lizknope 2y ago
I've got files going back to 1991. They started on floppy and moved to various formats like hard drives, QIC-80 tape, PD optical media, CD-R, DVD-R, and now back to hard drives. I don't depend on any media format working forever
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by lizknope 2y ago
You are right. I've worked at 2 startups and we had options and filed Section 83(b) elections and pre bought our stock for $0.001 a share. But both companies failed so I lost about $50 I had options at the 2 companies in 2002 and 200
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by lizknope 2y ago
I had friends that worked at a startup that Cisco acquired. They have options to buy at around $30. So they bought the shares and watched the stock hit $79 but didn't sell. Then the stock dropped to $20 and even though they didn&#x2
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by lizknope 2y ago
That's been my job for the last 30 years. Our flow is thousands of lines of Tcl code around all the cadence and synopsys tools. Then we write more Tcl to create the power grid, create blockages, etc.
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by lizknope 2y ago
We used to have to buy music in stores on physical media. We had to pay money for that album so I think that helped develop an emotional connection to the artist because we were literally giving them our money. Unless you were rich you co
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by lizknope 2y ago
My favorite band of all time is Led Zeppelin. A large number of their songs especially in the early albums were heavily influence by black blues artists or so close that they later had to give songwriting credits to the original black arti
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by lizknope 2y ago
I have a US passport. I use it when I go to another country. When I have traveling within the US I never take my passport. There is zero need and I may lose it so why even bother taking it when it serves no use? My trip was a 6 week long r
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by lizknope 2y ago
Clicked on the article thinking it was about S3 Graphics, the company that made the graphics chip in my first PC. Now I see it's some amazon cloud storage thing.
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by lizknope 2y ago
I'm an American and I was annoyed at how aggressive and militarized the southern border is. I was on a big road trip across the country visiting national parks. I went to Organ Pipe Nat. Monument in Arizona which literally touches the
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by lizknope 2y ago
This third party company announced a Nikon F to Z lens adapter that will autofocus with older screwdriver autofocus lenses. They already had a Nikon F to Sony adapter and now they have a Nikon F to Nikon Z adapter. https://nikon
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by lizknope 2y ago
Do you mean your own personal energy usage? Or your family? City? Country? The world? This is electricity use in the US from 1975 to 2023. Between 2010 to 2023 it has not changed a lot. https://www.statista.com/statisti

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