Viewing profile — lizknope

I was 16 when Magic Johnson announced he had AIDS. That was the first time it felt real to me. I remember a couple of friends crying because we all thought he would be dead in 1-2 …

I don't think this is a good idea but I do think colleges should be required to list the average salaries that people with those degrees have. Include the career and salary progres…

30 years ago I remember cards like this to convert 4 30-pin SIMM modules to fit in a 72-pin SIMM slot. https://www.ebay.com/itm/383521792853

There are standard product CXL memory expander chips if you don't want to design a custom chip. https://www.marvell.com/products/cxl.html

I loved Mr Wizard's World when I was a kid in the 1980's Here's a segment where he demonstrates solar cooking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoRR_6cjmkA

To replenish it. I know it was made by accident but agricultural runoff kept it from drying out. Now it is full of fertilizer and pesticide residue and the farms have gotten better…

There have been some ideas to do this from the Salton Sea to the Gulf of California in Mexico but that is about 125 miles and would still cost billions.

It looks like it starts with: >I was born in the late 1990s >2001: The Family Computer I was both in 1975 and my first experience with the Internet was in 1991 when I was 16. I tho…

On the ground or suspended about 20 feet up? I saw Endeavour in 2017 and it was like this and you could walk under the wings. I've seen Discovery about 10 times because I live much…

Remember that IBM paid Global Foundries $1.5 billion to take their fabs and design services group. GF did not pay IBM. IBM paid GF to take the fabs away. https://www.reuters.com/ar…

No, their mainframes use the zArch which goes back to the System/360 from 1964. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture IBM sells huge servers with POWER architecture CPUs but…

https://www.eejournal.com/article/no-more-nanometers/ Sometime around 2011 when Intel named their process node 22nm which the gate length was 26nm

Ran fine on my Pentium 90 with 16MB RAM

I clicked on the post expecting it to be something from T2 and wondered why I was reading something about emulation.

AI has a lot of uses and can save people time. But AI bots are filling online forums with garbage posts. I get so annoyed when reading a question and then see clues that it is not …

Everywhere I look in my area we are building new housing. But more people keep moving to the desirable locations with jobs etc. EDIT: I live in one of the 10 fastest growing metro …

This seems to work if everyone is peaceful with each other. What happens when two neighboring countries have a conflict but one of them decides to work less and is comfortable with…

I've already unsubcribed to a bunch of subreddits because the moderators did nothing to stop the slop. I almost never go to the main "popular" page as it is full of garbage. But I …

Where are you going? Reddit has a lot of AI generated stuff Youtube comments are even worse. Twitter seems 99% AI garbage I think I need to find old school forums to discuss things…

I'm tired of talking to people telling them to stop talking to an AI AI generated slop has exploded across reddit. Last year I would see about 1 obvious AI generated post and repor…

I'd like to first see all advertisements for gambling banned. Then lets take a look at the data after 1-2 years. Or if you allow it put a warning like the surgeon generals warning …

There are no details in the article. It is probably a second source deal for a popular chip or a support chip in an older process node like a power converter.

I grew up in 2 towns in the 20K to 30K population. They were both super racist and not a lot of stuff to do. I now live in an area with about 2.5 million people and there is far mo…

Unfortunately I think reddit themselves encourage and want the bots because it leads to more traffic and ad displays so they make more money.