Yeah, he could easily bankroll a 36 month severance package or something similar. Like "sorry I fucked you right at the onset of a recession, here's a pile of cash to help you weather the storm." That would be actually taking responsibility
> And the people filing obviously make sure their language doesn't easily bring back prior art. Meanwhile you have no skin in the game at all.
You'd think so, but standard operating procedure for most patent prosecution is to intentionally not perform a prior art search. If you do find something relevant, you have to disclose it in your IDS. So let's say you pop in a few search terms into google patents, and there's ten thousand hits. You know only a few are relevant, but you don't know which few. And if you don't submit the relevant reference that was on page 99 of those search results, your patent could be invalidated in litigation some day because it could be construed that you were hiding that reference from the examiner. So you might think that you should just submit all 10k references? Wrong again, it could look like you're trying to bury some super important reference in a sea of garbage. So by opening one browser tab and typing in a couple of search terms, you've essentially shot yourself in the foot one way or another, and any patent that ever is issued from your search will have a target on it's back forever. So, most patent attorneys will ask the client for relevant references to cite in the IDS and have a standard practice to not perform any prior art searching for prosecution purposes. Patent attorneys are a paranoid bunch.
Former examiner here. Largely agree, however, you and I both know you can string together some hand-wavey 6-reference 103 if you have a gut feeling you shouldn't grant something but you haven't found any better prior art ;-)
Cool helicopter! It brought me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole and it looks like there's an even bigger one: the Mi-26.
"In early 2002, a civilian Mi-26 was leased to recover two U.S. Army MH-47E Chinook helicopters from a mountain in Afghanistan." [1]
And here I thought the chinook was big, this thing is the tow truck you call when you get your chinook stuck in the mud.
Agreed, duplicacy seems to be more resilient to the inevitable errors or hiccups along the way. The only downside is that it seems to be inefficient with storage with small metadata updates which happen frequently with my use case.
Have you tested restores? The problem I had with duplicati was that eventually restoring from a backup would take exponentially longer, to the point of never finishing. Maybe it would have eventually, but I can't wait multiple days to restore one file. There's a possibility it was an error or problem on my end, and this was a couple of years ago, so ymmv.
Not saying that wasn't difficult, but that actually sounds pretty cool to me.
And not to be overly pedantic (although we are on hn here, and when in Rome...), but leading American socialist movements are focused on democratic socialism, much like many European countries where I'm pretty sure forced agrarian labor isn't a thing.
This is what I don't get. I thought military and aerospace used decades old cpu designs on decades old fab technology for the radiation hardness? Not saying they couldn't benefit from an upgrade, but it's not like Lockheed is putting Nvidia GPUs in fighter jets, right? It doesn't seem like a deal breaker to use a 14nm node compared to a '5nm' node (or whatever is the latest TSMC process). Seems like a weird line to draw in the sand to me. Frankly, seems like the only applications which are make or break on EUV lithography are all gaming related. Am I that off base here? Certainly prices would rise, and critical supply chains would have to be remade, and there would be no more iPhones, but seems like we'd get by just fine for a few years before catching back up and then likely surpassing Taiwan. And it's not like the real brains behind TSMC would willingly help a Chinese controlled takeover, and add on a new layer of corruption and bureaucracy, and in a few years TSMC is irrelevant anyways. And don't forget, TSMC is reliant on ASML, who certainly wouldn't be shipping any more EUV lithography equipment to a Chinese controlled Taiwan.
Try this: select all the text in a text box input in teams with your mouse, click and drag the cursor to select the text. Start typing. It will type the correct characters, right to left. So instead on "hello world" it will display "dlrow olleh". No joke. Selecting by triple clicking doesn't trigger the right-to-left typing. Using shift and arrows doesn't. Just by dragging the cursor. I can't imagine what could possibly cause this, even as a bug. Truly impressively bad software.
I've heard variations of this story a lot. Common people and workers received a share of the company they work for, but times were so dire most people sold them to those with money for a pittance. So foreseeable, why was it allowed to happen?
This. The disease is gross wealth inequality that leads to a certain sector of society having to figure out where to put all that money while the bottom 99.99% are facing real problems.
Unfortunately this is accurate, much like the bounties put on certain people within Afghanistan where it sure seems like it was abused by certain local tribes to take out some rival and profit from the US Government in the process. In areas where you'd want to put a bounty on people, there's bound to be enough corruption and misaligned incentives to make it not work the way you hoped.
This is only pragmatic if you accept the first order assumption that they must use GCP. Which, maybe it's the case for a dev at Discord, but it's a somewhat idiosyncratic choice to call pragmatic. Seems like a lot of developer time and GCP charges to overcome limitations of GCP and wind up with something that's far more brittle than just running your databases on real hardware.
Do you really envision a world where every person who now rents is homeless, and every rental unit is sitting empty? Is that realistic in any way? The answer is that the market would adjust, prices would come down, different types of mortgages may be created to serve different markets, etc. It seems untenable that a huge percentage of people would be homeless while also having a similarly huge percentage of housing sitting empty and idle. Both things happen now, but if you're talking all renters, that's an order of magnitude more.
Yikes, never heard of spraying lead as an insecticide! Even more eye opening is that according to Wikipedia it was a "less toxic alternative to then-used Paris Green, which is about 10x more toxic." [1] Makes you wonder what common practices today will frighten future generations.
The government and people of Taiwan understand that TSMC is a major reason mainland China hasn't bulldozed their tiny island yet. It's their ace in the hole. They have a monopoly on arguably the most important technology in the world right now, and the US and EU will protect them as long as they hold that monopoly. There's no way they'd actually physically offshore that golden goose. It's a brilliant move by Taiwan, and I highly doubt they'd voluntarily give it up.
Sometimes, some people fail down too, and it damages them. If you think that all failure is 'failing up,' I'd suggest you haven't really failed, and have just experienced setbacks.
Out of curiosity I looked it up on a map [1]. It appears two of the closest settlements [2],[3] are also ghost towns or otherwise pretty much abandoned. Kind of nice to know there are habitable but uninhabited places left in the world.
I chalk it up to a cost benefit calculation. Google clearly isn't trying to eliminate all spam in search. It's not their goal. They are not trying to optimize for the user experience. They're trying to optimize revenue.
Too often I start my car and it begins playing a podcast where I left off. With my kids in the car. I listen to a decent amount of stuff that isn't necessarily appropriate for kids. Makes for a fun scramble to hit that pause button.
As a recent PHEV purchaser, I have to disagree on most counts. All typical driving is fully electric, meaning routine commuting, shopping, etc. is all covered by the battery. The home charger is required, but so so simple because it fully charges off a normal (15A) circuit overnight. So it's literally just plugged in to a normal wall outlet. No big deal. Sure you're lugging around the ICE, but it has a much smaller and lighter battery compared to an all electric. Id be curious to see what the real weights involved are, but it's not like you're adding an ICE to a full electric battery. The thing still gets 46mpg even when the battery is depleted, which is better than any other ICE car I've ever had. And there is no transmission in the electric power train as far as I can tell, if there is it's seamless. As for maintenance costs, we'll see. I suspect your analysis will be at least partially correct, having the two independent drive trains and the system to combine them seems like a minefield of long term maintenance. But that was the risk I was willing to take given all of the other benefits.
Except this is a complete straw man in the current political reality. Climate change legislation will never get a single Republican vote, and we all know it. And they will never be held accountable for that because the people that vote for them are either uninformed or misinformed about climate change, by the same forces that influence congress!
I would like to introduce you to Senator Joe Manchin. No substantive climate change legislation is going to pass the Senate. Stop pretending like it's possible.
As a lawyer, I agree with you whole heartedly. Just because a legal decision recites a sound legal argument doesn't mean that that's the only sound legal argument they could have made. In the same way that a competent lawyer can make the best arguments for either side of a case, a judge could write multiple opinions for the same case that have different outcomes. And all could be just as legitimate from a logic and legal standpoint. But the judge chooses what opinion to write and what outcome they want. All of this makes the study of law kind of silly, because you study a bunch of case law and pretend that there's consistency or logic that ties them together, but really it's largely driven by the individual personalities more than some platonic ideal of what the law should be. It's a liberal art, not a science.
Just happened to be listening to Dan Carlin's hardcore history about WWI. From memory, the Germans would build multiple railway lines to the front to supply a large offensive like this. And then they'd spend weeks stockpiling ammunition and food using those multiple railway lines. At times this conferred a large advantage to the Germans as parts of the Allies side would be supplied by a single road vs. multiple railway lines.
Maybe for the long-tail, but the largest subreddits are far from pet projects. I am under the impression that being a mod on a sub with millions of subscribers is at least a part time job and it's hard to imagine what Reddit would be like without the largest, most popular subreddits. In those cases, I think the premise of the study seems fair.
Now I'm grateful for my parents' choice of dentist. She worked out of a small office attached to the back of her home, and had family members as office staff. This is in the 90's in a very posh suburb of a major city, not some backwater a long time ago. Anyways, that dentist always had unique advice, she told me that if I were going to only do either brushing or flossing, that I should do the flossing and skip the brushing. Doing both is better, but she observed that many people skip flossing too much. She also said that toothpaste was largely superficial, and good brushing without toothpaste was just as good. She also would spend lots of time literally demonstrating good brushing technique and explaining why to do it that way. I also have some slightly crooked teeth, she said to push them with my tongue instead of getting braces. When I grew up, before going to college, she advised me that I don't really need to see a dentist regularly as an adult, and my teeth will be alright as long as I continue brushing and flossing. Cool somewhat hippy dentist was right on all accounts, and I've had good dental health ever since. Another anecdote: she would trade dental services for my dad fixing her various dental machines and equipment. Not sure how that arrangement came about, my dad wasn't really qualified or anything, he was just pretty handy and usually managed to fix things more than break them. And it wasn't disguised charity or anything, we had no issues paying. Pretty cool dentist.
Now I'm a imagining a science fiction weapon: the black hole trebuchet. Just launch a small black hole at your enemies planetary system and they're doomed one way or the other. If the gravitational signature is too much of a dead giveaway, then launch two from exactly opposite sides and their force will cancel out - until they collide in what I imagine would produce a catastrophic explosion and either blow up or consume the enemies host star.
Isn't the switch a notorious outlier and oddball with respect to its usb-c implementation though? I think it's more just that Nintendo screwed up one product than the standard is bad.