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by lizknope 2y ago
I was watching a documentary about 20 years ago and they said "It may not be your father's air force but it may be your father's air plane."
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by lizknope 2y ago
I went in 2010. Took the bus onto the air base to the experimental plane hangar. We only had 1 hour. I could have easily spent 3 hours there. I mainly wanted to see the YF-23 but here's a pic I took with a fisheye lens of the back o
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by lizknope 2y ago
In the 1990's my university had a lot of dialup modem lines but only a small amount of them had PPP support. You would just get 1 terminal session. So I would dial in and then browse the web through lynx. It worked fine and was quick
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by lizknope 2y ago
It depends on what you want to do. I think 90% of the people here are computer science / programmers / IT people. There are people who don't even have a college degree and are self taught. I'm in integrated circuit &#x
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by lizknope 2y ago
Lots of masters students are also research / teaching assistants and end up finishing with little debt.
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by lizknope 2y ago
Machine learning could be hardware as well. I'm in integrated circuit design and there are lots of custom hardware AI accelerators in development. Almost all of the new grads we hire have a masters degree in electrical or computer en
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by lizknope 2y ago
Sure. Older people are always going to complain about younger people not learning something that they did. When I graduated in 1997 and started working I remember some topics that were not taught but the older engineers were shocked I didn
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by lizknope 2y ago
You can go to the next step. I studied computer engineering not computer science in college. We designed our own CPU and then implemented it in an FPGA. You can go further and design it out of discrete logic gates. Then write it in Veril
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by lizknope 2y ago
I've rented 3 different apartments in the US. I always had to pay electricity myself. The water was included as part of the rent.
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by lizknope 2y ago
> Also note that the design of Linux itself changed after this debate as well. The system of pluggable modules is not a microkernel but it is not exactly a true monolithic kernel either. We do mot “compile in” all our device drivers. Als
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by lizknope 2y ago
I remember various issues with NFS file locking and I always thought the security and permissions were crap. I remember in my intro operating systems class we learned that you could open a file for read or write and they had a file offset p
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by lizknope 2y ago
You can register for a free account here and then they will give you the NNTP server and account password https://www.eternal-september.org/ I did and checked some tech newsgroups I used to read 25 years ago. It was 99% po
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by lizknope 2y ago
When I started college in 1993 about half the computer lab were DEC Ultrix machines. By the time I graduated it had transitioned to Solaris and HP-UX. I had a summer internship in 1995 and the Win 3.1 machine was so unstable for running an
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by lizknope 2y ago
I said in another comment in the thread that the hardware support was a huge part of it. What's the point of an OS if it doesn't have drivers for your hardware?
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by lizknope 2y ago
Back around 2003 our director said "This customer wants to put our camera chip in a phone." I thought it was a dumb idea. I remember when the first iPhone was released in Jan 2007 that Jobs said all the non-Apple apps would be HT
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by lizknope 2y ago
I went to an advanced high school then that had Internet access. We had multiple Sun3/4 and IBM AIX system. I really wanted a Unix system for myself but they were so expensive. The students who graduated a year ahead of me and start
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by lizknope 2y ago
Linux was free. You see that Linus says Tanenbaum charges for Minix. I started running Linux in October 1994. One of the main reasons I chose Linux over Free/NetBSD was the hardware support. Linux supported tons of cheap PC hardware
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by lizknope 2y ago
> While the original post was written well before NeXTSTEP, the Mach 3.0 kernel was converted into a monolithic kernel in NeXTSTEP, which later became MacOS. The original Tanenbaum post is dated Jan 29, 1992. NeXTSTEP 0.8 was released in
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by lizknope 2y ago
The important thing to consider is WHY you want to learn assembly language. I learned M68K in a college class in 1995. When I saw x86 asm 2 years later it looked like a mess. But I've never needed to write asm for a job. I'm thi
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I just checked my emails and it was done in 2006 by John Maddox. These are posts from 2015 and 2019 and it sounds like he is still doing it. https://www.photo.net/forums/topic/483606-for-those-of-you-w... https:
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by lizknope 2y ago
I have a Leica IIIf with a 1954 serial number. It looks extremely similar to the Leica III on the web site. It belonged to the grandfather of a friend. I sent it and the collapsible 50mm lens off and had the rangefinder mirror resilvered
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by lizknope 2y ago
I think it was a VAXserver 3000 series. The pricelist I found shows it was probably in the $15K to $25K range
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My roommate with the 386 running DOS tried to explain extended vs. expanded memory and then near and far pointers in C to me. It didn't make any sense to me. I just asked him "Why isn't memory just memory like on the VAX?&q
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by lizknope 2y ago
VMS was the first multiuser system I used in 1991. I was amazed that a single computer could have 300 users logged in all doing their own thing. I learned to program in C and tried using Borland Turbo C on a DOS. Go outside of the array
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by lizknope 2y ago
I'm in the chip design industry. After reading Altman's comments in this article and thread last year I realized that he is not as smart as he thinks he is. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-exe
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by lizknope 2y ago
> The Broken Trust of Modern Work > Layoffs were uncommon when I started working, and being a developer felt like an incredibly safe job. In most professions, the unspoken rule was simple: if you performed well and the company was fin
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by lizknope 2y ago
I remember we were at work and the power flickered and all the UPS's started beeping for about 10 seconds. Then it went back to normal. Then about 30 minutes later people looked at the news and saw a massive blackout. We were hundre
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by lizknope 2y ago
I've been here for a long time and I didn't even know that this site was for startups until a few years ago. I wonder how old the author is. I started working in 1997 at the height of the dot com boom. I knew people at multiple
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by lizknope 2y ago
I remember running "sdoom" instead of "xdoom" on Linux. It did seem faster on sdoom using SVGAlib.
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by lizknope 2y ago
Product names make no sense. Some web sites make a "product selection tool" where you answer a bunch of questions and it tries to direct you to models that will suit your needs. I was recently buying a Seasonic power supply. Wha

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