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It builds corporate value. If you end up with a portfolio of patents that someone might want to acquire, you've just created a new market for your company. Individual software pate…

Barely. There are import duties on everything. Seems the old agreements that expired were hard to replace. At least they got the academic research funding sorted last year. Part of…

The same goes for all reporting on YouTube. Many publishers jumpers the gun without looking at context. It's also interesting that Citadel is mentioned everywhere as the buyer, as …

Although, you don't know how many species before us caused their own suffering and destruction. Perhaps it's normal and expected. There's a slight chance we'll leave documentation …

The Epstein affair was eventually successfully forgotten. I still pretend to be surprised, to keep my decency.

I'm the same. Though I still think they could have made USB much neater as a protocol, USB-C now does everything I need for goto-connectivity. I recently looked at the connector an…

Getting rid of ARC would be so nice, but of course this just means I need to add DKIM2 and need ARC for backwards compatibility.

I find his way of talking funny and entertaining. I can't say why, but it's a nice way to waste a few minutes. It's very boring if you're only there for the information.

Fire first, ask questions later.

Is anyone using LLM on the other side, to vet incoming PRs for quality and whether it's worth reviewing?

Elon is missing the bigger TAM here. Once they've created a time machine, they can not only sell all these things backwards and forwards in time, they can also start making industr…

North of Sweden too, from the same mountains. Switzerland could probably extend their hydro if they wanted to, but it's NIMBY rich. Wind and solar has stalled, though there's plent…

And the more uselessly amusing thing is that the manager who requests higher tokens usage probably also doesn't care whether it's producing slop or not. Metric goes up; managers ha…

The unsung heros we need. Thank you.

If Anthropic tanks in the public markets, that will cause a revaluation of OpenAI in the private markets. If they delay IPO to try another private round, they also want to sign tha…

I wonder which of the management consulting companies caused this fire/rehire experiment.

Yes. That's not an argument against my point: they could achieve the same biased result using recordings of real bets. Be happy they (maybe) haven't yet, because that conartistry i…

The alternative would be to ask both sides of the bets to record a video, and tell them to only post winning bids, but to pay out to both sides. Is that really better? Classic tact…

I think this has been Musk's play for more than a decade. Except the Twitter purchase, which was just weird. It's possible the AI play is for data center subsidies/tax breaks. TBC …

I've been wanting to visit courts for a while, but never had the time. I had a look at the local courts' agendas, and I was appalled by how many SA/CSAM cases there were. Probably …

In this case, the missing piece in Go is the NonNullable hint. That would make it clear that null checks aren't needed, enforceable by the type system, and lintable. Option types j…

In 3.6 years, chances are they are still worth $3k. Unless some new chip fab pops up that can spam the chip market. Even if the AI bubble bursts, I doubt we'll see high-RAM GPUs se…

Generally increasing "money supply" will increase the spending floor, which business will eventually use to increase profits, which we read as inflation. (Sorry, I mean they'll do …

I can't imagine the news headlines the first time a stolen such drone is used in a (civialian) terrorist attack. Dark times ahead. Fear is already driving polarization and class so…

If the requester stops applying common sense, the reviewer has to apply more of it, and there's a finite review budget. I will deal with requests on a lowest review effort-first ba…