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by jff 12y ago
Patenting the work, then licensing it allows companies to acquire the technology in a very straightforward and well-defined way. You want to build an X, you work out a deal with UW's patent office and they give you the information. As
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by jff 12y ago
The specific contract with the DoE may have defined ownership and distribution of the results, but in general it should be possible for the creators to get IP ownership from the DoE if for example they want to create a company around the te
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by jff 12y ago
That's why I don't call myself a "maker". It's all about wanking each other over your kickass 3d-printed steampunk goggles, while the technical meat of "maker" projects is usually less interesting that thi
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by jff 12y ago
> the "We here in the Maker movement could not be more pleased with ourselves" vibe. Oh my, yes, it is rather cringeworthy.
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by jff 12y ago
Or Red Dwarf's "Rastabilly Skank", 1988.
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by jff 12y ago
Rust looks a lot more like a slightly more sane C++, given the proliferation of Someclass::Somethingelse
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by jff 12y ago
So when the parent here says males genetically have less self-restraint, that's a fair point, but when https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8338135 says women are genetically subservient, your response is "Wow, yo
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by jff 12y ago
You remember that girl in high school who was always talking about how Becky was totally giving her this look earlier, seriously you guys she's such a bitch? Yeah, she's 25 now and likes to write angry Yelp reviews whenever her
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by jff 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo8kfV9kONw
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by jff 12y ago
GMO food, off the top of my head.
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by jff 12y ago
Yes, Europe, known for its lack of reactionary restrictions on useful technologies.
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by jff 12y ago
Keen was amazing, I hope we see more of them released like this... IMO Keen Dreams was the worst of the lot.
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by jff 12y ago
> A desktop OS done in C++ instead of C. It's everything I could ever dream~ vomits uncontrollably
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by jff 12y ago
I opt out whenever I can, but not because I'm afraid of radiation--I just don't think the new scanners are necessary or useful.
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by jff 12y ago
Seems unlikely if you know anything at all about optics.
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by jff 12y ago
You actually can split up a physical simulation. Imagine you're trying to model heat diffusion through a piece of metal. You split the chunk of metal up into many small pieces and model temperature in each one. Each node in your cluste
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by jff 12y ago
Split up your jobs how? Is the job embarrassingly parallel? Because if it isn't, and most things aren't, it's going to require significant programmer overhead to simply "split up your jobs". And then once you'v
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by jff 12y ago
Real scientific computing needs high-bandwidth low-latency networks.
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by jff 12y ago
I think the generally correct way to do it is to send all previous documents to the memory hole for correction, so we will know that the woman Chelsea Manning released information regarding our war with Eastasia. Edit: spoken tongue-in-chee
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by jff 12y ago
"This is actually good for Bitcoin because..."
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by jff 12y ago
Lots of insurance has a deductible. Doesn't stop it from being galling... I've made two trips to urgent care this year and just hit my deductible, but those will probably be the only healthcare costs I incur this year meaning Un
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by jff 12y ago
Yeah, I was agreeing with you that $300 is pretty fine.
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by jff 12y ago
$300 ain't bad to save the sight in your eye.
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by jff 12y ago
It only takes a minute or two to eat, while a lot of people will spend the entire trip on the phone, either talking or texting. Also, I don't know about you, but I don't have to think much about eating, compared to carrying on a c
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by jff 12y ago
Do you consider the shell an overly-featured program because you use it to copy/delete/create/link files, install packages, etc? No, because it's a tool which loads up other tools for your use, providing some convenience
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by jff 12y ago
That seems odd when you consider that a Lisp can be implemented in, what, a couple hundred lines of C? All the guys who can design a processor know how to program, and it's not like Lisp is totally magical. Now, most people who do prim
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by jff 12y ago
Now tell us about how a soda only used to cost a nickel in your day!
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by jff 12y ago
Well, when I did VLSI, I built adders from individual gates... but I only took one course in VLSI, so maybe I'm wrong.
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by jff 12y ago
Both "books" are kind of regrettable, but SR flip-flops and 7400-type logic gates are essential background knowledge for writing HDL. You'll have a hard time describing hardware if you don't know what kind of hardware yo
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by jff 12y ago
I'd like to point out that the code he has on there isn't a Lisp CPU and I don't think will even work in a real FPGA. I don't know Verilog, just VHDL, but that business in the INIT state looks sketchy to say the least. E

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