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by lizknope 2y ago
The only time I go there is when I get an email request for a new contact that is someone I work with. My company is huge and every 6-12 months I'm on a new project with 10 new people so that usually triggers a bunch of new connection
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by lizknope 2y ago
I see people on HN approach their lack of knowledge with a little more humility than the way Altman sounds in the article. He seems to be one of those people who thinks "I'm an expert in my area therefore I am an expert in all ar
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by lizknope 2y ago
Same here. I've never cared about expensive clothes. I've probably spent less than $500 on all my clothes for the last 5 years. On the other hand I've spent at least $30K on computers and camera gear the last 10 years and bo
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by lizknope 2y ago
I read the NY Times article that someone else linked to in the thread. I've been in semiconductor / chip design for almost 30 years at 8 different companies including 2 that owned their own fabs. I've also worked on 2 differ
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by lizknope 2y ago
I found this table. I picked out a few data points https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert#Dose_examples 5–10 μSv: One set of dental radiographs 10–30 mSv: Single full-body CT scan 80 mSv: 6-month stay on the Inte
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by lizknope 2y ago
Where does your electricity come from currently? I looked up Emery County on the map and I see I've driven through it on I-70 multiple times while visiting national parks. I've driven through Cottonwood Canyon Road in Grand Stai
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by lizknope 2y ago
I also make checksums for every file and verify twice a year. Over millions of files totalling 450TB I end up getting about 1 failed checksum every 2 years. If you are having more frequent checksum failures I would check for RAM errors fi
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by lizknope 2y ago
I absolutely agree that the average tape will last longer than the average hard drive. I've got 30 hard drives in use right now and at least 10 are older than 5 years. A few are over 7 years old. I've also had hard drives die in
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by lizknope 2y ago
Tape doesn't last forever either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#Generations LTO-1 started in 2000 and the current LTO-9 spec is from 2021. But it only has backwards compatibility for 1 to 2 gener
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by lizknope 2y ago
Yeah, I remember reading some posts around 1993 where someone wanted to port some existing Unix program to Linux. Instead of modifying the program they added the missing functionality to Linux. I think it was about polling and signal hand
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by lizknope 2y ago
It looks like Expect was first released in 1990 and Linux in 1991 although Linux wasn't really that usable until around 1993.
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I used Tcl and Expect on Solaris at a job in 1995
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The US government blocks all kinds of company sales. Sometimes for anti monopoly reasons, sometimes for national security reasons. 10 years ago I worked for a company with less than 2,000 people. We made a chip that was used by a few giga
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by lizknope 2y ago
The US government would be even worse than Intel at running their business. The more likely scenario is that the US govt declares Intel "too big to fail" and they give them a bunch of money. They are already doing that through th
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AMD spun their fabs off as Global Foundries in 2009 Then in 2014 IBM "sold" their fab division to GF but IBM actually paid GF $1.5 billion to take them.
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by lizknope 2y ago
I work for a fabless semiconductor company in the US. We have hired a lot of people from Intel over the last 5 years and the main reason they leave and join us is because we pay more. Apple and Nvidia pay even more than us so we lose people
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by lizknope 2y ago
I saw an interactive exhibit at Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) in Seattle. It showed how different sections were regraded and you could push buttons where that section of hills and lakes would get lifted or dropped down. This wa
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by lizknope 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland,_Maryland#Demograph... Historical population peak was 1940 39,483 2020 19,076 It is still dropping The racial makeup of the city was 89.4% White, 6.4% African American, 0.2% Nat
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by lizknope 2y ago
https://www.zdnet.com/article/defective-mcafee-update-causes... April 21, 2010 In 2010 McAffe caused a global IT meltdown due to a faulty update. CTO at this time was George Kurtz. Now he is CEO of crowdstrike
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by lizknope 2y ago
I tried learning Motif to write X11 graphical programs in 1994. Another student in the computer lab told me about Tcl / Tk. It was far easier. Then I got a job in the semiconductor design industry in 1997. The next year the leading
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by lizknope 2y ago
The OS drive is encrypted with Bitlocker. I've seen another thread where corporate IT departments were giving out the recovery key to users. I don't need to get anything done today. I'll go into the office on Monday and se
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by lizknope 2y ago
Not disagreeing with you but we need operating systems with snapshots before updates and a trivial way to rollback the update. Linux has some immutable OS versions and also btrfs snapshots and booting a specific snapshot from the GRUB bootl
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by lizknope 2y ago
Gasoline is very useful. We also take a lot of precautions when using it. We also have things like inspections and financial penalties if you were storing it in an unsafe manner. It's clear we need to take more precautions before usi
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by lizknope 2y ago
Crowdstrike is closed source security software. What's the difference between malware and what Crowdstrike has done to the world today? We might as well reclassify Crowdstrike as malware and remove it from all computers to avoid this s
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by lizknope 2y ago
What the heck is it doing? My work laptop fan always seems to be blasting air whether it is 10pm or 3am. It's in a reboot loop now so I just shut it off. All my Linux machines are all quiet when nothing is running. In contrast I go
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by lizknope 2y ago
Yeah, I've always thought it was a bad name. I see them during Formula 1 advertisements because they sponsor the Mercedes team. They might as well have named themselves "cluster bomb" as they have done a huge amount of damag
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by lizknope 2y ago
I can't delete a file if the machine doesn't finish booting. Unless you are suggesting removing the drive and putting it in another machine. That requires a screwdriver and 5 minutes vs. the 10 seconds to reboot and pick a diffe
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by lizknope 2y ago
In the case of a bad Linux kernel update I would just reboot and pick the previous kernel from the boot menu. By default most Linux distributions keep the last 3. I'm not an IPMI remote management expert but it may be possible to scr
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by lizknope 2y ago
I'm not actually sure. We have a web page where we request group access and then I think it emails another project lead and they have to approve it but I don't know how it all works. Then we have another internal command that we
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by lizknope 2y ago
We had the whole DCE Project Athena setup at my school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena Everything was encrypted through Kerberos and AFS. We had a mix of workstations running DEC Ultrix, SunOS, Solaris,

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