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Mind Grenade (2019)
- ankitg12 3y agoGreat to know about one of the brains behind Intel 8008 microprocessor - Harry S. Pyle. An interview with him at CHM - https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102702017 https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10270201...
- alister 3y agoThis is the web site of John Walker, founder of Autodesk and co-author of AutoCAD, living in Switzerland for a long time now, and still a hacker (in the good sense) despite being very wealthy.
- havaloc 3y agoReminds me of this device: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phPp5oYnps0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phPp5oYnps0
- xarope 3y agoThanks for the rabbit hole! It's hilarious how extensive a prop can be re-used (last starfighter, STNG, The Flash etc)
- BizarroLand 3y agoThat was fun! There's so many clips that look interesting to watch, I wonder if anyone has a list of each movie or show that was shown?
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- 21echoes 3y agoThe tradition of using shift registers for automated music generation very much lives on! These days they are typically called "Turing Machines" (I know, kinda of confusing for us CS folks), due to the influence of a popular version which came out in 2012: https://www.musicthing.co.uk/Turing-Machine/ https://www.musicthing.co.uk/Turing-Machine/
- Animats 3y agoThe most common use of this recirculating shift register technology are those little flickering LED lamps used to simulate candles. That's how the pseudorandom flicker is generated.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndXQex_spS8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndXQex_spS8
- jongjong 3y agoReminds me of how these days it's almost impossible to register a patent. Some of the techniques I used in some of my open source projects are probably just innovative enough to be patent-worthy but it's too expensive and the potential financial returns are unclear. Tech nowadays is a two class system. The innovator needs to have a certain pedigree or else their innovations don't register.
- itronitron 3y agohttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12298575-patent-it-yourself https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12298575-patent-it-yours...
- darkclouds 3y agoIf you register a patent, you have to be able to protect it, which will require money and knowledge, and that is always something the people who could register patents don't always have, if they have even thought that far ahead.
- mrguyorama 3y agoThere is no requirement to defend a patent. There is a requirement to defend trademarks
- TheCleric 3y agoWould you want to prevent others from using your techniques?
- MobiusHorizons 3y agoPatents need not prevent others from using a technique. Licensing is a perfectly valid option and the terms need not be onerous. Some even provide free licensing. As a child I wanted to be an inventor when I grew up, and to me that entailed patents. While I have now learned that inventing isn’t a job so much as something that might happen along the way, filing for a patent is firmly on my bucket list. I think many people consider a patent proof of some level of novelty or ingenuity. It is some measure of achievement and a status symbol.
- qawwads 3y agoDon't build this. Don't bring it to school. Don't show it to anyone. This is the kind of thing that get you expelled, jailed, or shot.
- colordrops 3y agoWhy?
- qawwads 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident
- unyttigfjelltol 3y agoThe history and engineering teachers were impressed, the English teacher claimed it was an effort at a bomb scare and called the police. Sigh.
- atemerev 3y ago“don’t bring it to school”, yes, but the rest should be safe.
- asjfka 3y agoairport too
- thedanbob 3y agoNothing about it looks particularly dangerous except the label. Slap a "random tone generator" sticker on it instead and you'd be fine.
- atemerev 3y agoCan we interpret these 9-bit square arranged combinations as letters in Marain, the language of The Culture?
- qwerty456127 3y agoIs this supposed to affect your mind somehow?
- jbotz 3y agoNo. It's just fun.