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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Leg... There are cases here where companies used GPL code without releasing their changes. How do licenses of a source code check if the people using their code
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Com... The mere act of communicating with other programs does not, by itself, require all software to be GPL; nor does distributing GPL software with non-GPL sof
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory I swear that 90% of the posts I see on some subreddits are bots. They just go through the most popular posts of the last year and repost for upvotes. I'm looked
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That sounds great. I probably haven't asked my software friends about their setups in 5-10 years.
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Are most companies this flexible in allowing developers to install whatever they want? > My physical machine is a 2023 MacBook Pro with M2 Pro CPU > I’m using VMWare Fusion Pro > Quite often I’ve found developers frowning up Ubuntu
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I've been running Linux on my desktop since 1994. I've never actually run Windows (or DOS) as my main computer. From the first time I saw commercial Unix in 1991 I knew that was what I wanted. I have about 15 computers running
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I just got a Crucial T700 last month which is a PCIE Gen5 x4 NVMe M.2 drive. I put it in an ASUS PRIME Z890M-PLUS motherboard with an Intel Core Ultra 7 265K Started to install Fedora Linux version 41. The drive would just completely disap
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I always do that when I type. It's just normal to me.
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Around 2010 I met a former coworker for lunch and he told me how they were running serial stuff really fast. I told him I was also working on high speed serial stuff. I asked him how fast and he said 115 kilobit/s. I told him I was
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Black and white? Color? Printing documents or photos? How much and how often are you printing? I bought a B&W brother laser printer in 2015 and loved it. I had a cheap $80 inkjet and while it worked fine I printed so rarely that my
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Most of my coworkers above age 45 still use Perl. I am constantly parsing reports and then generating commands to run from that. I learned Perl in the 90's and it still works great for that. I have to code in Tcl for most of our EDA t
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I was following this discussion on the /r/chipdesign subreddit when Ken posted there a few days ago. Nice to see that he gave credit and linked to that thread. I'm a physical design engineer that uses software from Cadence a
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Fish ladders have been around for centuries. They have mixed results. I went to Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon and it was kind of like being in an aquarium watching the fish swim upstream. They seemed t
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I'm in chip design and our VP's and C level execs have been saying "shift left" for the last year. Every time someone in the Q&A asks "What does shift left mean?" No one talks this way except for executiv
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I've been designing chips for almost 30 years. We have a bunch of AI initiatives in my company but most of them are about using Copilot to help write scripts to automate the design flow. Our physical design flow are thousands of lines
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Does anyone remember IP multicast? I remember a lot of trade magazines in the late 1990's during the dot com boom talked about how important it would be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_multicast I never hear abo
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Of course you need iron to live but many times too much of something leads to bad consequences. The previous studies I have looked at point to heme vs non-heme iron sources. The heme iron comes from animal sources and is easier for the hum
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That table doesn't have the Snapdragon 810 https://www.qualcomm.com/products/mobile/snapdragon/smartpho... I worked on it in 2014. The table does have 808 listed. That may have been a lower end version
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Snapdragon 805 had a 32-bit Krait designed by Qualcomm https://www.qualcomm.com/products/mobile/snapdragon/smartpho... 810 had a 64-bit core designed by ARM https://www.qualcomm.com/products&#
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A few of my high school teachers in the early 1990's made our final paper into a big project. It was not just "turn in the paper at the end" but turn in your topic with a paragraph describing it. Then make an outline, then b
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Over 27 years I have worked at 8 companies. 6 were large to medium size publicly traded companies and 2 were startups. The startups were very chaotic and when I saw them fail to sell the companies 5 times, fail to secure more funding, layo
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In the 90's I remember using various backup tools that had their own custom format. I decided that I wanted my backup to be just wanted files on a normal filesystem without being stored in some kind of special format. I realize that
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I subscribe to a bunch of technical subreddits and over the last 2 years I've seen so many questions spammed to multiple subreddits. The account is new or every reply seems to be generic 1 line responses that could be autogenerated.
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Wow. That is awesome, I skimmed through it and it looks like something I will enjoy. I've still got my Tanenbaum Computer Networks book from 1996 and the first chapter starts with OSI, then TCP/IP, and explains the differences a
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I have a windshield glass breaking tool and seat belt cutter in my car. It also has a flashlight and an AM/FM radio. It has two AA rechargeable batteries but also has a hand crank. I can remove the batteries and use the hand crank a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_KENNEN We don't know how much of it is the same but the mirror is very similar. > KH-11s are believed to resemble the Hubble Space Telescope in size and shape, as they were s
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I've been in integrated circuit physical design for almost 30 years. What signal integrity issue are you referring to? For on chip nets we have SI issues from cross coupling capacitance. For the last 25+ years the routers will try to
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At my first job in 1997 I convinced my manager to put Linux x86 boxes on everyone's desks and move the Suns to the server room. The Suns required expensive Sun monitors while we could put cheaper larger higher resolution monitors on a
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Yeah, our Enterprise E450 had 10 PCI slots of various speeds and bus widths
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How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells https://www.npr.org/2024/05/31/1197959218/fbi-phone-company-... https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23&

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