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The CPU choice was changed last minute from AMD to Intel. Andy Grove and Bill Gates had a last minute phone call. The demo on the stage was still using AMD.
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It seems like the salaries quoted here haven't changed much in the past couple of decades. It's a shame. I know in the past there was a brain drain of talent from the UK to Canada due to the salary disparity. Here's an exa
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I think what you are describing is what the central bank calls hedonics. They substitute one good for another in the basket of goods used to calculate inflation. Otherwise the inflation figure would be much higher than it is. So instead
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Yes, Google family allows to set time limits per android device, require parent permission to install apps, and also set time limits per app. I set up the server, they connected and played on it. Fun to hear them yelling at each other.
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It's been a challenge to me to figure out what's too much. If you let them, they will spend hours watching YouTube shorts, or tiktoks. I've removed YouTube from our TV for that reason. Also the devices are locked down usin
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I agree, recreating them physically would be just as important. I'm university I used the HP48 calculator. There's emulators for it, but it's not the same as holding the old calculator in my hands, the tactile feel of the b
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My five year old son was watching Lankybox, that stuff is mindnumbing. I tried to control what he's able to watch, but next thing I know he's watching it again. I ended up removing Youtube, relying on PBS Kids. He protested t
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I remember when he first ran that was one of his planks.
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I went to a bar in SF that had some graffiti all over it. One of the graffiti said "Itching to get out of Portland". I asked inside about it, and they said it's because at the time Portland had a bedbug infestation.
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They should be preserved somehow. Even a modern web browser has enough compute power to emulate a network of them probably.
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The paint program we used was called "fged". It could generate C code for animations. People would spend hours generating their animation masterpiece, then bring their friends to play it back for them.
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I really enjoyed the whole process of figuring out how to get the keys to the kingdom. Our teachers were pretty good about logging out after they were done. The first way I got root was by running a fake login program remotely from anothe
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It was possible to poke two byte memory locations with the value 255, run a new shell, and you would be root. I figured that out by comparing memory dumps as different users, figuring out which locations corresponded to user and group numb
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I've been running some of the larger models (like Llama 405B) via CPU on a Dell R820. It's got 32 Xeon's (4 chips), and 256 GB RAM. I bought it used for around $400. The memory is NUMA, so it makes sense if the computing i
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I never understood why people say SF is NorCal. It's only halfway up the coast. I know of Crescent City because I drove up 101 once, and we stopped there. We were amazed at the size of the redwoods around there. Each time we drove
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I'm reminded of this guy each time this topic comes up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4NU_84eCKI https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/in-2000-walkerton-s-pois...
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AMD doesn't have the burden of capital expense that a fab is. It did take several years for AMD to capitalize on the freedom this enables though. As far as I know Intel is the only company left that is vertically integrated. This mi
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This song brings back good memories for me. Other songs from that era I remember are "Life in a Northern Town", "Walk Like an Egyptian", some Corey Hart songs.
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I feel that traditional media is slowly dying. I haven't watched it in ages. My kids definitely won't. I watched Trump and Fetterman on Joe Rogan. They both began their interviews talking about how their teenage sons were real
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In this book, old people on earth can volunteer for military service in space. Those that volunteer end up getting their consciousness transferred to a new body, and effectively start a new life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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I was listening to a podcast where Tucker interviewed Paul Manafort. Manafort had some theories about how Kamala was chosen. He believes that Biden was pushed out by Obama and Pelosi after the first debate. As revenge Biden said he would
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Just look at what happened to Altera under Intel. Preacquisition it was similar in size to Xilinx. Now it's just a shadow of its former self, latest few quarters shows it in the red. The person they have in charge of it. Sandra Rive
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I took a class there while I lived in the area. The guy teaching it worked with me at Intel. It was a good local resource, sad when it was taken over by OHSU.
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I remember watching a documentary on the GM EV1, it was also popular, but it was scrapped too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1
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I doubt there's much here that's cutting edge. Any digital processing that's done in typical radio's to correct for channel impairments is avoided as it just adds latency. Meanwhile LTE is using as many digital techniq
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Intel also had the stack ranking. I think this management technique originated with Jack Welsh at GE. It does pit groups against each other. Even for individuals on the same team, it pays to sabotage each other's work. I heard of m
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I thought this was a good review of the cybertruck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK_EJ3DyiiA
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I agree. I was reading about Rupert Murdock's start in Australia. He was able to swing an election there through his ownership of a few newspapers. Newspapers don't have the same pull as they did back then. Now I guess it&#x27
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I don't understand what makes gambling addictive, but I do remember studies done on cats that we read about in psych 101. Cats had implants surgically implanted to their pleasure centers of the brain. A lever would trigger the implan
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There's a project called MisterFPGA, there's probably a C64 core available.

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