Readit NewsHello? We have 17(!) federally funded national labs, full of scientists doing the work this article waxes nostalgic about. Through the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program they afford employee scientists the ability to pursue breakthrough research. However, they are facing major reductions in funding now due to the recent CR and the upcoming congressional budget!
Some FPGA vendors are contributing to and relying, partially or completely, on the open source stack (mainly yosys+nextpnr).
It is still perceived as not being "as good" as the universally hated proprietary tools, but it's getting there.
Windows 7 was the last good OS from MSFT but even that had a bit of telemetry.
A paper-tech protocol for validating Sudoku solutions without revealing the solution:
I honestly, need to unplug from news, and just focus on nature.
From a dev perspective this area has a ton of super interesting algorithmic / math / data structure applications, and computational geometry has always been special to me. It's a lot of fun to work on.
If anyone here is interested in this as a user, I'd love for any feedback or comments, here or you can email me directly: tyler@vexlio.com.
Some pages the HN crowd might be interested in:
* https://vexlio.com/blog/making-diagrams-with-syntax-highligh... * https://vexlio.com/solutions/state-diagram-maker/ * https://vexlio.com/blog/speed-up-your-overleaf-workflow-fast...
This is an example, https://terostechnology.github.io/terosHDLdoc/docs/guides/st...
But it only outputs an SVG, and there are no tools (AFAIK) that go from diagram to code, which should easy to setup.
So I'd consider extending this to both generate code and read in code and make these nice interactive diagrams.