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by systemBuilder 5y ago
It was a great product and was the first widely available c compiler for the Macintosh. I purchased it (LightspeedC) for my Macintosh II for $100 in something like 1987. I was coming from Xerox office systems division to grad school and f
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
Your death rate is doubled in the year after covid recovery from hospitalization!
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
Vaccines change the reproduction rate. Do you know how much? No? I thought so!
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
What really hurts the USA more than student debt is the explosion in University inefficiency, 1950-2020. My dad started a top-10 university professorship job in 1956 and there were 10 faculty for every admin person. Today it's f*ckin
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
Wow that is SICK! I think if I had to read viral particles in wastewater for many different diseases at a sewage treatment plant I would go crazy and move to the countryside!
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
Nexus 5x has a pretty serious design flaw, I think it was boot looping but I can't remember precisely ...
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
Ever since the G2, every generation of phone sold less and less. Pretty soon there weren't enough economies of scale to pay the engineers to build the next generation of phone.
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
I completely agree there is so much mumbling that we watch movies with subtitles turned on, most of the time!
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
There were ~60B pages on Facebook in 2015 I think your numbers are outdated. - Google search SRE
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
The rest of you guys are too young to remember but I remember something called yellow pages and white pages. Google has certainly forgotten. White pages Were a search index that could never be monetized in the phone book! Google offers o
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
I also use "forum" to skip the link farms and content farms that Google so often serves up.
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
No. It's Google squeezing money out of search to subsidize the CEO's flavor of the month money-losing AI project, that's what it is ... Ex-Search-Engineer
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
YouTube has started showing me the same videos over and over again! I keep telling it I don't want to see this content because I've seen it before and it keeps forgetting! I absolutely hate the Google has changed the semantics of
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
I think many people (myself included) think of V7 plus virtual memory plus fast file system plus job control as the ultimate pure version of Unix. Add Berkeley sockets from 4.2 BSD and stop there. Most of the subsequent work including alm
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
It's all a total myth. On paper I am doing 2x better than my parents. We both have the same degrees in the same field. In reality my wife also works as an engineer. (my mom was a stay at home mom), our house is smaller, I work longer
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
This was a fun article I was astonished that you could fit all eight of those function types in to only 320 instructions!
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
Netflix will download TV shows and movies but only onto your phone! You should check it out it's pretty awesome for going to the gym using wireless headphones and the treadmill... Android 1plus6t & Bose qc35.
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
My three-year-old Android OnePlus 6t lasts 36 hours on a charge even after 3 years of daily use. I have to laugh at these Apple fanboys who don't understand how far behind apple is in many ways...
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
My OnePlus 6t drains only 10% during an 8 hour night! And it is 3 years old!
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
YAWN. UNIMPRESSIVE! Quite frankly I don't approve of how Apple invests 100% of r&d into tweaking hardware specs and never improves or innovates (other than power savings) in their software! If Steve Jobs were alive he would be d
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
This article reminds me of the fake cities that Rand McNally puts on maps to see if someone else is copying their work. I feel like this is probably a fake article put into Wikipedia to see if somebody else is copying their work....
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
Taiwan engineers work for $30k/yr and a handful of stocks that's all the they want!!
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
Everybody saw Intel slacking off a decade ago including Apple and Google but Google didn't have the guts to start their own CPU design Department despite being the #5 largest computer maker on Earth!
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
$20B is enough for 1 foundry if you can find the people but the people at Intel do not make good hires because they don't know how to make state of the art chips at Intel anymore! Our only other domestic fab are the former IBM fabs ow
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
Intel was stupid. They could have become a foundry 20Y ago like every other chip making company on Earth but they chose instead to greedily try and make cell phone chips three times and they failed all three times at the cost of many many
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
This is so right. It used to be theoretically justified to charge a cost for editing, reviewing management, and printing costs of a paper journal but most paper journals have disappeared and the paper format is useless today. High tech has
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
Sun used to ship bricks when they couldn't get enough Spark processors working. Every customer return was repackaged as a new computer and sent to the next customer as a stalling tactic .
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
It happened to my wife, who was paid for 18mo and given lots of "options". People were steadily laid off around her until she was asked of she would work without pay? Because if you say no you're laid off and nobody wants t
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
Any IRA owner with more than 50 years of average family income ($3.5m) should be required to liquidate it. These are not tax shelters for the rich! But seriously this is no different than if he owned the stock shares outright and he just c
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by systemBuilder 5y ago
I'm an old-timer, having used emacs for 41 (!) years. I started in a LISP class at MIT, but I was always a UNIX-lover so ended up using Gosling's UNIX emacs throughout the 1980's, and when that ended I borrowed gosmacs.el an

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