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Lol, not compared to what they paid us :-)

If you were already an IRIX shop, the servers were performant for a lot of uses. SGI did networking and disk I/O at least as well as Sun, IBM, and HP. We ran NFS and Perforce for hundreds of developers on SGI servers.

or The Andromeda Strain. I was on the edge of my seat for the last half of the movie as a 10 year old when it came out. The book still holds up as a medical mystery - thriller and warning of unintended consequences.

Traveling internationally with hundreds of pounds of gold wouldn't be that hard for a CIA senior official on "official" business. A diplomatic passport and access to the State Department or War Department's fleet of aircraft would get you pretty far.

You will no longer be scare when either you do not enjoy work enough at the current comfort level, or you have something better to go to. Since the first seems unlikely, explore the second. Start side projects, unrelated hobbies, volunteering - anything that makes you excited for work to end.

If work is just so-so, find something that isn't, inside or outside your daily 9-5.

/hogs reminds me of the earlier (mid Eighties) /nightowl and nightowl group. Davie Curry and others were taking up precious disk space on utilities of dubious necessity. One example was dog, a version of cat that displayed the file to screen using curses to randomly paint the letters in the correct location. Students found them, and began hogging too much cpu cycles using them, so George migrated them to /nightowl, and only members of nightowl group could execute.

Sounds like I met George only a little later - Fall 1980. By then, EE's had two Vaxes to abuse - EE and ED. The ADMs were supplemented with ADDS Regent-20s. Students had strong opinions about which was better. LSi purists looked down on the "Reject-20s".

No, the bottom of the page says they subcontract production. So it's an infomercial for a company that markets sweaters they may or may not design. And they disclose that in the article, if very subtly.

Not at these prices :-) $150 - $200 for a sweater is not cheap. I think of fast fashion in terms of "how many times do I have to wear it to get my money's worth?" If the answer is less than the number of times I'd wear it in a year, it's fast fashion. Of course, if you're a thrift shop shopper, most fashion is fast fashion.

What a thoroughly modern world we live in. My first reaction was to check if this was an April Fool's blog post.

Nice idea, but "small composable programs" includes R scripts? That's great if you're already using R, a bit much to install if you're not.

You could simplify things by cribbing from the Hacker's Diet (https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/) and using an exponentially weighted moving average as your filter. 10% of today's weight + 90% yesterday's EWMA. That's almost a one-liner in awk or perl, or a simple function in bash.

Copilot suggests: awk 'BEGIN{alpha=0.1} NF>=2 { date=$1; w=$2; if (NR==1) ewma=w; else ewma=alpha*w + (1-alpha)*ewma; printf "%s\t%g\t%.6f\n", date, w, ewma }' input.txt

Off the top of my head:

Chair

Standing Desk

Redundant Network Connection / VPN / Better Home Network

Noise cancelling headphones / earbuds

Cheap laser printer

Power protection

Thunderbolt dock.

Enough charger ports so everything can charge at the same time overnight.

UPS if needed. Sized to cover your network gear also, unless you're going to tether to your phone during an outage. Personally, if my neighborhood lost power and I had to work, I'd head to a cowork spot or coffee shop.

Sound deadening if you have roommates, young children, or loud pets. It's not just for telemeetings if you are easily distracted.

PC-related:

Mouse, Keyboard, Dual Monitors.

It's unfortunate election insecurity is only an issue when the other side wins. Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) were quick to label the claims about Biden's anomalous win in 2020 including irregularities in Georgia, Arizona, and Colorado as "conspiracy theories"; Red State Republicans only investigate voting irregularities in Blue cities. Take Texas - It's possible cheating only occurs in the counties around Houston, Austin, and Dallas, but if that's the only place you look, it's the only place you'll find it.

My wife was a great example of this. She was an undergraduate math major, then went on to get her master's and PhD in engineering. The first year of the master's was largely remedial engineering courses - statics and dynamics, thermodynamics, controls, simple electrical circuits, etc.

I asked if she found them difficult. She quipped, "If you already know the math, it's just nomenclature."

No, I had the same strategy in computer science, foreign language, and elective courses. CS? The first week of the class, I'd read the entire language manual. I wouldn't understand everything, but when a concept was explained in detail, I had a context and baseline familiarity to orient myself.

In foreign language and elective courses (such as history) doing the reading before the lecture meant I could focus on what the lecturer thought was important rather than absorbing new information.

Check your state laws. Here, there are a variety of liens available to enforce a small claims judgement. While foreclosing a real-estate lien requires an attorney, the process begins with a debtor's examination. Being called in to court to explain your finances convinces many people to pay up.

I read that book in 1985, and heartily recommend it. I was blown away by Reid's observation that in another era, Kilby and Noyce would be more famous than Edison. Reid notes the reason for that is ironically, their invention unleashed such a flow of information that their contribution was lost in the deluge! Despite Kilby winning the Nobel Prize for Physics, and Noyce founding Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, most people have never heard of them.

BTW, if that history is interesting, Makers of the Microchip: A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor is on my to-read list (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9434037-makers-of-the-mi...).

Are you looking for semiconductor technology specifically, or technology journalism about information technology?

A similar bit of technology journalism is The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder's Pulitzer Prize winning account of the design and development of Data General's MV/8000, a 32-bit upgrade to their 16-bit Eclipse. It's more a tale of the people and process than an introduction to computer design.

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller is more history, economics, and international relations than semiconductor science. It's about how US dominance in computing and communications led to military and economic power from the Cold War to the present. There's extensive discussion about how semiconductor technology accelerated that dominance, and how China sees semi technology as key to competing with the West.

If you're in the US, there are many resources. Many states have a beekeeper's association that offer mentoring, training, and apprenticeship programs. If you have a child, 4-H probably has a program. The US Department of Agriculture, Country Agricultural Extension, or State Universities often sponsor workshops. Try searching on "Learn Beekeeping in <CITY> <STATE>".

Also, that "80%" had a sample size of 63; they had 361 total, but only 63 had information on the hunter's gender.

Don't believe the clickbait titles. It's nothing earth shattering or unexpected. From Skepchick: "This study also can’t speak to the frequency of female hunters: “80%” is a binary number, meaning that it only tells us that at some point 80% of these societies showed evidence that yeah, women here actively track, locate, and kill animals for sustenance. It doesn’t mean they did a greater or even equal amount of hunting as men. It only supports what seems to have become a pretty well-accepted fact: many modern hunter-gatherer societies, and probably many ancient ones, don’t or didn’t have strict gender roles that would forbid an able-bodied person from doing whatever they can do to help the health and safety of the larger community. " https://skepchick.org/2023/06/did-a-new-study-debunk-man-the...

Looks like a display error, right? Your query was 50+123/1000000, so the answer is correct. For some reason, the calculator is not displaying the "+".

Are you intentionally obfuscating this? If you enter it as you have displayed, (with spaces in the denominator), you don't even get the calculator: https://www.google.com/search?q=50+123%2F1+000+000 is not the same as https://www.google.com/search?q=50+123%2F1000000

Talk about timeless - Strang was the textbook for my undergrad course in Linear Algebra - 40 years ago.

Corollary: Dave Ramsey's observation that Cash is King. It's less true now that commercial sellers (car dealers, big appliances, etc) often make money on selling you the financing, but few sellers will forego a sale just because they're not getting a commission on the financing.

If the batch jobs have few or simple interdependencies, scheduling is the easy part. Are your tasks too complex for cron/at/batch? For example, do they require coordination across machines? That might suggest looking at slurm/lsf or another distributed job scheduler or implementing them on Kubernetes. Sounds like that would be overkill in your case.

It doesn't sound like a scheduling problem - it sounds like a noticing problem. You have to figure out what to do on failure - email, text, retry, log, etc. (Hence the suggestion for Kubernetes, or another declarative automation system like Ansible or Puppet). If "daemon X should be running", checking for it and sending an email is the easiest and most useless response.

I love Apollo, but it's not a complete answer. If you attempt to visit an 18+ reddit on mobile, it will redirect you to either HOME or Reddit's official client. Not the "iOS App you've selected for Reddit", the official Reddit App.

Wage Theft? A 2017 report claimed that US wage theft (by companies against employees) was 100 times the size of reported robberies ($50 B vs $438M). https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-bil...

I'm going to guess induction at military boot camp. It's designed to be a significant emotional event. Any marines want to chime in?

Nature is lit. Moths' wings and fur are extremely efficient at absorbing sounds. One study showed a moth's wing scales absorbed up to 87% of the sound energy directed at them. ""Even more impressive is that the moth's wings do so despite being extremely thin, with scales only 1/50th the thickness of the wavelength of sound they absorb. This extraordinary performance shows that moth wings are 'supernatural'. surfaces' (materials with unique properties and abilities that cannot be achieved with traditional materials) absorb sound in nature," explains Dr. Thomas Neil, lead author of the study." https://scienceinfo.net/soundabsorbing-weapon-helps-moths-fi...

If you've bought a license, who's going to know? "Developing Mission Scenarios" is indistinguishable from "Flying the Cessna under the Golden Gate Bridge".

The question is more "Is it worth buying a Dev or Academic license"?

Nuclear (fission) generation is more expensive - but you have to compare apples-to-apples. Electricity production will be a mix of sources. Renewable / Sustainable tends to be variable - think solar, wind, and even hydroelectric to some degree. Exotic technologies like geothermal (land or sea based) may help with this, but we are a long way from having substantial production capability. Base load generation today largely consists of creating heat, boiling water, and spinning a turbine. We have decided that creating heat by burning carbon-based fuels has unacceptable externalities.

Given that, doesn't research and development into making fission safer and more affordable make sense?