NextHendrix

Ken's blog is great, as well as his work with CuriousMarc. Here's when he tried mining bitcoins by hand.

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and...

Are there companies still producing modern keyboards with APL in mind? I like the idea but can't see how it would be practical with a normal keyboard.

>I can choose the compilers I want to support based on the available features and compliance with the standard.

>I support GCC-Rs

What standard will you hold it to with rust, afaik there isn't one.

Or make them about 3 times smaller

If rewriting in a safe language is the main driver why not rewrite everything in Ada instead of Rust?

That sounds interesting, do you have a link for it?

For software engineers wanting to get into hardware design, the most important thing to remember is that it isn't software, despite feeling a bit like writing software. Writing instructions and describing hardware are very different, regardless of how much a HDL may try to hide that difference with similar looking constructs.

In most cases I'd agree but an excellent example of how it can work is in Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets By Peter van der Linden. It manages to be both technically dense and hilarious, the tongue in cheek style does well to contrast the fairly mundane subject matter.

I used the density of states derivation from this site in my degree revision a few years ago as it was better than my textbook

The only problem with this watch is the godawful screen light. The next model up is a negligible bump up in price and although almost completely identical otherwise, the entire face lights up bright green.

It might not be good enough for the most purist of terrorist-chic aficionados but it looks almost identical and in terms of functionality it's definitely worth the step up.

The air crash investigation episode for this incident is insane. The entire episode doesn't hint at whether the guy survived and then right at the end there's suddenly an interview room and the bloke walks in. Having not heard about the incident previously this bowled me over completely. That's one hell of a story for the grandkids.

And the threat level is for 'when'

One thing to follow in terms of nuclear power in the UK is the work being done in small modular reactors (SMR). These are much smaller PWR reactors that are intended to be considerably cheaper and faster to build than the massive reactors at places like Hinkley Point, Sizewell etc, as well as being far less onerous to decommission. The designs will be such that components can be mass produced in an assembly-line like fashion and transported to the sites.

Development is going forward under the UK SMR Consortium (Rolls Royce, NAMRC, NNL and a few others) and there is quite a lot of buzz in the UK's civil nuclear industry at the moment.

Some further reading for the interested:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/advanced-nuclear-...

https://www.rolls-royce.com/products-and-services/nuclear/sm...

https://namrc.co.uk/intelligence/smr/

Caps lock is much more useful as a home row ctrl key

And you only need to simulate a single brain to be simulating it's entire perceived universe

My only issue with the website is the little minimize "-" sign on comments is too small and difficult to reliably hit without zooming in. However as you say everything else works much more smoothly than any of the apps I've tried

I thought that about TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O until I played them, I recommend both

The point was that Apple didn't go after the others

Modelsim

I would hate to rewrite it but I wish someone would. It has the worst and buggiest UI of anything I've ever used. Everything looks incredibly dated, and while the backend (the useful bit) does what it's supposed to (though very slowly unless you're paying for the big boy license) it's just a horrific place to be.

Coming home from work and working on my own stuff with the tools I like rather than have to use is like a breath of fresh air.

Vivado is also notoriously a bit of a bloated and buggy pig. For hardware simulation, Active HDL is probably the least worst thing that I've used that has all the features. But for just doing simple simulations without all the bells and whistles, GHDL is by far and away the best experience, and it's the free one.

https://github.com/ghdl/ghdl

>For Ada it's the US government

Ada is used widely in safety critical software outside the US

Happy birthday!

On mobile it doesn't wrap, and renders in a very narrow frame that must be scrolled sideways, which is a faff especially in portrait mode.

Revision history is essential for traceability in safety critical work. The entire history with name and timestamps can show both who introduced a problem, but also gives context for how a more subtle architectural issue got baked in slowly over time by multiple people. It can then be fixed, and possibly the process can be updated to help avoid such hard to spot issues in the future.

Metal halide perovskite cells have shown very high efficiencies before, but there have always been a load of problems with them that have made them unsuitable for large scale production. They are very sensitive to discrepancies in deposition thickness on the substrate. This means you can spin coat very small cells in a lab, but applications on larger substrates always gives a massive decrease in efficiency. I see this paper talks about cells with an area of 1cm^2, so presumably this problem is still not overcome.

Pmod on the evaluation board is a nice touch. Any idea of a unit price of said board? Also I can't seem to find any information on the tooling, does it have it's own place and route solution and does it slot in with any existing tools?

Wanting to suddenly start using rust would mean putting any and all tools through a tool qualification process, which is incredibly time consuming and vastly expensive. In the field of safety critical software, fancy new languages are totally ignored for, at least partially, this reason. What's really safer, a new language that claims to be "safe" or a language with a formally verified compiler and toolchain where all of your developers have decades of experience with it and lots of library code that has been put through stringent independent verification and validation procedures, with proven track record in multiple other safety critical projects?

I can't help but think that the people affected most by the debranding of cigarette packs are cashiers. I used to work in a small convenience store, and finding the right pack a customer asked for from the giant wall of smokes behind the till was difficult enough when they were all different colours.

Very annoying when you choose to reject cookies in the optional cookie consent menu and the page refreshes to ask you again

Seems like everyone is a data scientist or a web developer. Any FPGA guys?

Do you struggle to use a computer due to not having an expertise in semiconductor physics?