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China has basically no domestic patent litigation. The way you stop the litigation is to just remove the legal rights associated with patents. Let everything become a free for all.…

Anyone who has ever taken part in a software patent litigation ... or in the creation of a software patent, knows intimately that its a bunch of bullshit. The boogieman that softwa…

Reminds me of the ship names in the Culture novels by Iain M Banks.

This phrase could have been authored about every single community leadership committee I've been a part of for the last 20 years.

I have about 20 or 30 fountain pens. I do system architecture diagrams, with notes in the margin, using pen and ink. It does help me think. I actually find it relaxing and fun.

There are certain influential people on Twitter, who if you see them start tweeting on a subject, you know the influx of hype and hucksters is coming.

Ha! I had a similar story, Om saw me and a group of other engineers that our boss briefly introduced as he was walking through our offices, and Om remarked: "You are working these …

Imagine if they applied this same logic to the NBA draft.

One of the reasons I started messing around with Zig.

It's interesting that saying the Earth is more than 10,000 years old is not haram in Saudi Arabia. I thought it would be, since they are so religious, but it turns out the Koran do…

The UPI payment system in India seems to work really well. I'm not sure about the architecture exactly, but there seems to be a way to generate one-time passwords that you can use …

How much of this action by Bambu is driven by the fact that they're being threatened from Washington DC that they will have to be able to prevent people from printing "illegal" ite…

Oh lord. If this is the trend, I probably can't avoid improving my Rust language knowledge in the long term. I hate reading Rust so much right now. I guess I just have to get over …

This is the way. Sovereign SOTA models might also be possible with nation-state involvement. But this is a good stopgap.

Is it just me being ignorant and crazy, or does it make more sense for EBay to take over Gamestop, rather than vice versa?

Was interesting to read this post because I've always been an extrovert and have never had trouble making friends. I usually make friends quickly ... and my problem is in the other…

My biggest gripe with Rust, which certainly reflects my own shortcomings, is that when I go back and revisit simple Rust programs I wrote more than a year ago, it takes me a long t…

Hahaha! This is great. Somewhat related. My mom once yelled at me for losing a necklace she really liked. Then we were moving her stuff out of her house and found the necklace behi…

Law enforcement being lazy, dumb, and incompetent is not an unpredictable bug. Its predictable. The smartest human capital does not go into law enforcement in this country. They go…

This issue of large organizations making shitty products seems to infect every company except for a handful. Even Google, with all its good intensions, by 2010 was full of politica…

Butlerian Jihad vibes are building.

What a coincidence. Just today, someone on my high school alumni group just posted an album they "made", which is 100% AI generated music. They claim authorship because they create…

I had no idea there was an entire OS written in Rust that was this far along. Is all the bootstrapping from assembly directly into Rust, or do they still have a dependency on C and…

Reminds me of this game show episode. I was watching it with friends, and I'm not sure if we all picked out who the smartest person would be, but I do remember we definitely figure…

I don't know what it is about me, but I have a sixth sense for losers who will not pay. There's been a number of times where acquaintences have taken contracts I've turned down (ag…