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History of Labor Day(dol.gov)
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The 1950's Jet Launching Tiny Satellites(bbc.com)
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Reading this reminded me of one interceptor variant that was canceled. Same specs as the A-12, but armed ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_YF-12 ). The second seat was added to operate the fire control system (r
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by jcbeard 10y ago
This is going to sound odd, but I'd go for a used macbook pro. Apple has awesome parental controls, and you can set things up remotely. I also like the programming environment for my son (7). We started off with scratch a long time ago
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Slightly mis-leading headline....bug it's direct from the register. tldr; the headline should read "Windows 10 is the only Windows OS that will support latest processors." Guess MS is tired of supporting 30 years of hardware
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Details Emerge on China’s 64-Core ARM Chip(nextplatform.com)
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Thank you! Really like mine. As luck would have it, the distributed daemon I haven't released yet is called "oar" so it fits perfectly :).
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Making open source look beautiful(medium.com)
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by jcbeard 10y ago
that's crap. self documenting code sometimes works...but not always. I love people that hand me HDL and say "it's self documenting." Then you open it, and wire names are "x_1245_to_y." Happened all the time whe
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by jcbeard 10y ago
>The trend in programming lately seems to be less to no comments and less to no documentation Hasn't this always been the case for young programmers? Seems you don't comment until you have to go back to code you wrote yourself
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by jcbeard 10y ago
not sure they haven't always been fairly accessible? I suppose prices are now dirt cheap vs. 2010/11 where I'd have to pay 300-400 for a mediocre FPGA (I've used digilent for years, prices on there have dropped quite fas
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by jcbeard 10y ago
So what's changed that FPGA's are making a come back? They were all the rage in 2008/9...however that faded relatively quickly when people realized programming them was a hassle and that programming had direct implications to
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More Details on Phytium ARM 64-Core HPC Chip(vrworld.com)
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by jcbeard 10y ago
this is true....and thankfully this technique is also being taught in some CS algorithms classes.
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by jcbeard 10y ago
The problem is, that's not really true. There isn't a hard/fast rule that'll get you what you want given the way modern hardware is designed. Run something on a core designed for mobile workloads and that changes vs. one
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by jcbeard 10y ago
I agree with aaronbwebber that for general use, and for teaching, that it's far easier to assume O(1) memory access. It's a decent approximation, and works until you start having applications where loads/stores dominate. It a
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by jcbeard 10y ago
How much of the perpetuity is the uncertain funding faced by researchers in the field? The same can be said of supercomputing which directly feeds fusion research. Instead of long term funding, we get 1-2 years of off and on "kickstart
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Anybody ever wonder if we put 1/3 of the defense budget into Fusion energy research (literally a new Manhattan project, lets call it the Princeton Project) that we could have more impact than that entire defense budget? Think about it.
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by jcbeard 10y ago
As a middle school student in the early 90's we coded in basic on the Apple II. I loved it. I'm not sure fancy features like auto-indent are really necessary, nor would they detract from learning depending upon the goal. They&#x27
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by jcbeard 10y ago
sounds like maybe the locking clutch pads were malfunctioning (pretty sure they used clutch packs vs. gear type). the hopping is never fun.
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by jcbeard 10y ago
I agree with the headline, but I'm not sure I agree with the reasoning. Manufacturing is increasingly robotic, however it's also increasingly mobile, and scalable. In the not so distant future I think various forms of 3D printing
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Interestingly, I find that most of the time I know far more about the inner workings of the body than the docs that "treat" me. Then again, I have a bio/molecular bio/comp bio background...so that might be the cause. See
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by jcbeard 10y ago
hah, I'll edit after a bit :) . Wrote while re-enacting the battle of hoth in lego form with my son...hard to do paragraphs on iphone.
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by jcbeard 10y ago
This isn't always true either. 4WD can mean that you send equal amounts of power to each axle, but at that point there are things that can change the amount of power going to each wheel within the center differential casing. If you hav
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by jcbeard 10y ago
The RaftLib C++ library (and eventually with other language bindings) aims to bring heterogeneous parallel programming to the masses. We get rid of any and all explicit thread operators, by allowing users to build applications using C++ ios
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by jcbeard 10y ago
"When Mylan bought it, EpiPens cost about $57 each." I can concur. I have a family member I purchase these for. At first, it was like...okay, $50 after insurance. Now $100 after insurance. The thing is...nobody really seems to car
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by jcbeard 10y ago
With its built in thread-thread FIFO support, something like RaftLib ( http://www.raftlib.io ) would likely rock on this. Almost have it working on Parallella, initial results are pretty decent. Seems far better than TLB/DRAM
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Ha, I just wrote a comment along these same lines. Given that many of the slide decks I had as a grad student had extensive genealogies at the start indicating where they evolved from I suspect that this is very much the case....despite it
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by jcbeard 10y ago
It's also about familial/class privilege. Once you get in with a good mentor (for academics that means advisor)...it sets you up for life. Getting into a good lab (train under uber mentor X or Y), no matter if your work is crap or
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by jcbeard 10y ago
In summary, number of co-founders doesn't necessarily matter. What does is (in no real order): the ability to raise cash, the ability to produce something that has value, and the ability of however many co-founders you have to get alon

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