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At least with me (married filing jointly), when Trump raised the standard deduction so high, the mortgage interest deduction doesn't come into play. It hasn't seemed to change my total tax liability, it just made my tax return easier to do. I haven't had to itemize for years now.

Micron isn't exiting the consumer business. Their consumer brand (Crucial) is going away.

You don't buy SK Hynix or Samsung RAM (unless you are an OEM typically.)

Consumers can still buy RAM from companies like G.Skill, TeamGroup, Corsair, Kingston, etc. Those companies can use chips from any of the big three.

Awesome doc. I've taken some pictures of real life in comparison to the game, but not to the extreme level you have. Any fans of the game who wants to visit Seattle this summer, this is the doc for you!

In Abby Day 1, I'm pretty sure she goes through the Home Depot on 1st Ave and spends some time going through SODO. Not sure where that building with the boat is. That part seems missing from your doc.

Also, you do see the Space Needle pretty closely on the Seraphite island. In real life the Space Needle and the TV station (where the WLF people are strung up) are right next to each other. In the game, not so much.

I still see it in stock for pick up in Bay Area and in Seattle. I tried a Montana zip code and it showed it as available also.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/pny-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4060-ti-...

Most people who want the 4060 Ti 16GB is because they want the 16GB for running LLMs. So yes, they really want that extra 5GB.

I'm actually tempted, but I don't know if I should go for a Mac Studio M1 Max 64GB for $1350 (ebay) or build a PC around a GPU. I think the Mac makes a lot of sense.

The guy you are replying to was employee 2 or 3 depending on how you count at Amazon.

There was a ton of various scripts written in perl that kept everything running for sure. The website code was C/C++ as mentioned elsewhere.

Website was written in C for NSAPI. obidos was the name. If you see current URLs that contain /gp/, that is when they transitioned to java backend. GP stands for Garupa.

Cool. I don't think I understood that aspect back then. I was tasked to look at converting the sun box sitting in the sodo DC to something else. I logged in and found latex but didn't understand it how it all fit together.

Well, like every internet company in 99, there was SUN servers. There was a lone sun workstation that printed some of the shipping docs in latex. I believe that was left by Paul Barton Davis. By early 97, the website (Netscape) and database (Oracle) ran on DEC Alpha hardware. Peter is wrong about switching to Digital Unix because Sun had bad support. The switch happened for 64bit reasons.

There was almost a 24 hour outage of amazon.com because Digital Unix's AdvFS kept eating the oracle db files. Lots of crappy operating systems in the those days.

He is wrong and is corrected later on in that tweet. At that time, AMZN was mostly DEC Digital Unix. The DNS and mail servers were Linux in 97. AMZN started with SUNW (pre 97), but switched to Digital Unix because it was 64bit and could fit the catalog into RAM.

Gary Kildall 11 years ago

A (the?) big reason Microsoft got the IBM contract was because Bill Gate's mom (Mary Gates) was on the board of United Way with the CEO of IBM at the time (John Opel.)

Bill Gate's parents are impressive on their own rights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates "In 1980, she discussed with John Opel, a fellow committee member who was the chairman of the International Business Machines Corporation, her son's company. Mr. Opel, by some accounts, mentioned Mrs. Gates to other I.B.M. executives.

A few weeks later, I.B.M. took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer."

Brings back old memories of TheDraw in the DOS days. Made some ANSI art back for some pirate boards in the early 90s. Someone archived it and I was able to find one of the ones I did.

http://imgur.com/tscJzzs

If your interested in looking at amazing ones, look for Jed from the ACID group (or others?) His stuff was amazing. I wonder what he is doing now.

I'm not familiar with HAProxy, but with other load balancers. I've been looking into it as a replacement for the hardware load balancers we use.

Why do you have to reload haproxy? When you update the configuration?

I reload nginx all the time (nginx -s reload) and I'm not sure if that is a true zero-downtime reload either.

Interesting hack nonetheless (stopping SYNs.)

Here's the article talking about it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/29/us-softbank-tmobil...

"Deutsche Telekom may also be more accommodating with Softbank regarding a break-up fee than it was with AT&T, the sources said. That is because T-Mobile is likely to be the surviving brand and its CEO, John Legere, is likely to lead the new combined company, thus avoiding a loss of subscribers and momentum it had to contend with during the drawn out regulatory process with AT&T, two of the sources said."

From what I understand, if this goes through, T-mobile will be the surviving brand. The current CEO of T-Mobile will run the new company.

I am a current T-mobile customer and anti-Sprint. I think this is a good move.

This is more of a merger than a buyout.

Click on the upper right (the 3 bars), which will show a left hand nav. From the left hand nav, scroll down to Settings.

From there, it is "Account Settings" and then "Notification Settings"

Here's an idea on how Apple can "win."

The phone market is quickly turning into a mature business like the PC is today. Essentially all of the major innovation on the hardware side is done and the software side will be where people choose their phone/tablet.

IOS has the best apps, period. Apple needs this to always be the case. Just like people buy Windows because of its apps (games, etc.)

Developers make more money on the IOS platform (by far) than any other. Apple needs this to always be the case.

I submit that Apple needs to drop the commission rate for apps sales from 30% to some value approaching zero. This will starve Android/Win8/BB of developer mind share.

Developers will write great apps, make more money and users will pick the IOS platform because it has the apps (games) they want.

Early on at Amazon, the forms you got with your order was generated with TeX ( LaTeX? )

It was probably installed by ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Davis_%28programmer%29 ), but he was gone by that point.

The system was running on a couple of the Sparcstations and at that time (97) the zon was switching to Alpha.

I remember looking at that the build system and thought that it was "unsupportable" by myself or any other systems admin there at that time.

Recently, I've wrote some docs in LaTeX and was told to convert it to Word/Confluence.