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> ...otherwise there would be no provision for a monopoly over the commercial manufacturing of the invention.

You should always be able to make your opponent's arguments at least as well as they do, as that is the first step to overcoming them.

The argument from patent proponents is that without the legal monopoly, they would rely on trade secret law instead, so they would do their best to ensure no one else understood what they do. They still do, within the confines of what disclosure is legally required to get a patent issued (I once had an engineer tell me that if he had not invented the thing being patented, he would have no idea what the patent application the lawyers wrote for it was describing), but at least there is a legal requirement.

Of course, there are important contexts where that argument is irrelevant, such as standards development. Trade secret law is no use there, because the value is in the network effects of the standard, not the invention. Yet we still have patent-riddled standards.
Seconding the other comment, this is a pretty narrow view.

A person can do a lot with their life. There's an entire world to explore out there. Culture and history and math and science and art and philosophy. So many meaningful, fulfilling ways to spend a life that don't involve kids.

Not saying that kids cannot offer their own experience, they absolutely can. But it's not the only one that has value.
Maybe the patent system could work, without the possibility of selling patents at all? Have not thought it out, but I know musicians also seldom profit of selling their IP to the major labels. But they are pushed into it.
compare and contrast to industry practices today

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-patents.en.html
Why wouldn't they be able to exist?

If you invent something, there's a work product. There is documentation, notes, blueprints, CAD files, software, etc. You can sell this and license it however you want. You can sue people that use it without a license. More importantly, you as the original author can use the IP as you see fit.

All of that is what I would put under the category of "use it." If you stop licensing it, then you "lose it."

Personally I don't think you should be able to sell the invention as an idea to another company that only relicenses it, but I get that there needs to be a market for IP itself.
We did an almost-free registry office thing (the free ones were booked out a year in advance). One witness from each side and a surprise attendee who was literally in town at the time (we didn’t invite friends and family because of family drama and logistics issues).

It was a very sweet event where the registrant and their assistant were clearly hopeless romantics - they told us, true or not, that they had won the in-office ballot for who could marry us after we charmed the intake panel when we went in to book - the historic room was intimate and charming and the party we organised that evening for unsuspecting local friends was a huge success.

All up it must have cost us less than two hundred euros, and was an unutterably perfect day. And our unexpected guest took a great video (which seems to have been lost somehow :-)

For some people, simple and small is impossible to beat!
Fervo Energy Drilling Results Show Rapid Advancement of Geothermal Performance
Wasn't one of the key purposes of Patents to catalog inventions (not just to encourage their creation)?

Today we have Wikipedia and other free open databases for that.
csv.NewReader(f).ReadAll() takes 2 seconds in your favorite browser.

you can add arguments for other seperators and iterate over it like everything else.

I think go is a very bad example of "wasteful and lack sufficient abstraction over common problems".
It's first and foremost easy and therefore a bit verbose. If you mean "wasteful" by LOC then I'm sorry about that but that's not its purpose.
"easy to undervalue the impact of a well thought-out and expressive config system for any long-lived collaborative software project"

I wonder what they're using or if they DIY
People's taxes do not cover their EoL care, full stop.

If we are paying the fair market cost of hiring someone to be a carer, the cost of having them not do something else has to be realized. This will mean that cost of carers will skyrocket, meaning that people's care becomes more expensive. If we start to pay the true cost -- and have it paid directly -- then when population collapse happens, a ton of the elderly will die on the street.
>I find carving is a very nice escape.

It sure is. I forget any issues or worries I have while doing it.

What kind of wood do you use for carving?

I have used pine in the past, e.g., I once carved a spoon out of it. One advantage of pine is that, having resin, it has a good scent.

Currently I am using old teak, a piece which a sawmill shop guy gave me for free, and which I was pleasantly surprise to find, was soft enough to carve with my knife. I would have thought that it would be too hard to carve, because I have heard that teak is a strong wood, but maybe that kind of strength is not the same as hardness, in terms of physical properties of materials. I need to read up on that topic.
Kids aren't that expensive. I have a friend in the midwest with 5 kids and his family income is about $60k. They have 3 cars, own their home and go on vacation a few times a year. But they never eat out, and have a strict budget.

People complaining about money and kids and meanwhile their Great Depression era ancestors are looking at them with unending shame.
Now we just gotta have a VS Code Plugin that plays the Minecraft theme if the font is installed.
No, it's 100 GB per individual user. It's 100 TB for the entire organization.
TikTok is like a Potemkin village propping up the idea that the Internet is still just regular people faffing around.

The reality is that TT, like all social media, puts people on a hamster wheel of 'content creation'. Post about this, not that. Post using code words if [geopolitical event] is advertiser-unfriendly. Post something every single day so that the algorithm deigns to distribute your post to randomly selected buckets of users across the globe.

I skip the ads on Tiktok too, but at this point, even regular videos desperate for engagement are effectively ads. Taylor Swift memes, or memes related to [popular IP] are ads, just delivered by unpaid civilians.
ROCm works fine on the RDNA cards. On Ubuntu 23.10 and Debian Sid, the system packages for the ROCm math libraries have been built to run on every discrete Vega, RDNA 1, RDNA 2, CDNA 1, and CDNA 2 GPU. I've manually tested dozens of cards and every single one worked. There were just a handful of bugs in a couple of the libraries that could easily be fixed by a motivated individual. https://slerp.xyz/rocm/logs/full/

The system package for HIP on Debian has been stuck on ROCm 5.2 / clang-15 for a while, but once I get it updated to ROCm 5.7 / clang-17, I expect that all discrete RDNA 3 GPUs will work.
In the state of California, tips are a gratuity paid on top of minimum wage. This is also how it works in many other states, in Canada, and in many countries around the world.

So you earn $16/hr for all time you’re at work, plus tips.

Which is how it should be. You’re being employed. Those tips are for the employee, not a gratuity for the owner to offset their costs.

“Tipped wages” are just another form of theft, bought by the restaurant lobby.
When the alternative is failure I suppose you choose the least bad option. Nobody is betting the farm on ROCm!
Words are terrible and provincial. Symbols are universal and clear when used correctly and precisely.
I'm disappointed that nobody had made a mosquito CIWS yet. Has anyone tried making something based on a grid of speakers and constructive interference?
As someone who speaks to a lot of Ecamm Live users, I beg to differ. They're paying >$300/year for a tool that is basically a less-convoluted version of OBS (and Mac only).

The drawing feature is possible using other apps but it's always a bit of a compromise and awkward to set up.

I help people to do this every day and I know lots of them would prefer something easier!
> Didn't a court already rule that API cannot be patented. I believe it was a Google case. As long as no implementation was stolen, the API itself is not able to be copyrighted.

That is... not accurate in the slightest.

Oracle v Google was not about patentability. Software patentability is its own separate minefield, since anyone who looks at the general tenor of SCOTUS cases on the issue should be able to figure out that SCOTUS is at best highly skeptical of software patents, even if it hasn't made any direct ruling on the topic. (Mostly this is a matter of them being able to tell what they don't like but not what they do like, I think). But I've had a patent attorney straight-out tell me that in absence of better guidance, they're just pretending the most recent relevant ruling (which held that X-on-a-computer isn't patentable) doesn't exist. In any case, a patent on software APIs (as opposed to software as a whole) would very clearly fall under the "what are you on, this isn't patentable" category of patentability.

The case was about the copyrightability of software APIs. Except if you read the decision itself, SCOTUS doesn't actually answer the question [1]. Instead, it focuses on whether or not Google's use of the Java APIs were fair use. Fair use is a dangerous thing to rely on for legal precedent, since there's no "automatic" fair use category, but instead a balancing test ostensibly of four factors but practically of one factor: does it hurt the original copyright owner's profits [2].

There's an older decision which held that the "structure, sequence, and organization" of code is copyrightable independent of the larger work of software, which is generally interpreted as saying that software APIs are copyrightable. At the same time, however, it's widespread practice in the industry to assume that "clean room" development of an API doesn't violate any copyright. The SCOTUS decision in Google v Oracle was widely interpreted as endorsing this interpretation of the law.

[1] There's a sentence or two that suggests to me there was previously a section on copyrightability that had been ripped out of the opinion.

[2] See also the more recent Andy Warhol SCOTUS decision which, I kid you not, says that you have to analyze this to figure out whether or not a use is "transformative". Which kind of implicitly overturns Google v Oracle if you think about it, but is unlikely to in practice.
I'm not so convinced of your argument yet. You point out some cases in which granting a patent will lead to reduced innovation, which I agree is bad. But how about innovations which might never have happened without the patent system in place?

I agree with you that patents a probably a net negative for innovation, but we need to come up with a stronger argument than monopolies are bad.
"Accelerationism" is an overdue corrective to years of gloom
Proof of Concept Project: Combining Swift and C# on Windows with SwiftToCLR
> One of our outstanding engineers described what it’s like to create a new product

This is a good reminder to enthusiastically help out your legal team if your company is the target of trolls!

I had the opportunity to do it once. Our legal team was helpful, patient, and curious. The work was pretty annoying because you have to try to help them work out whether some bizarrely worded unrelated thing could possibly be construed to be part of our product.

In our case the troll went away as soon as we made it clear we were serious about taking it to court.

I cannot tell you how thankful I am for Cloudflare taking it as far as they can. The cost and risk must be considerable to them.
> people's views change from one generation to the next

Or in other words, our society itself currently has a short attention span.
We’ve tried to kick the can down the road to a weird ponzi where we all do services for one another, but I don’t know how much longer that can go for. Now AI is going to disrupt that. We need to just stop sending all the money upwards and enjoy the benefits that mechanization and AI can bring. But I doubt that happens.

> In a short essay published in 1930, the world’s most important economist, John Maynard Keynes, predicted that within 100 years, most people would be working no more than 15 hours a week.

We did not get this future. We got a future where both husband and wife have to work 40+ hour weeks for the same lifestyle. He did not envision the siphoning off of wealth that would characterize the 20th and 21st century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
> could be solved by just having front-firing speakers

That makes the bezel bigger, which (for a given screen size) makes the phone bigger and harder to fit in your pocket.

If this technology can move the speakers to the front without making the phone larger, that seems like a real benefit. Especially since phone size is such a common complaint.
The government is run entirely by capitalists, so good luck with that.
I just updated the pricing last week and missed this button. I've fixed it now, sorry about that!
Yes, I agree that most of our tools that we've been using are actually very poor, and that's a polite understatement. As the great Jonathan Blow has pointed out, it takes far more effort today to accomplish something that would have taken a few hours (if that) back in a high school programming class decades ago. I think this is an indication of failure in our toolchains, which seem to evolve at unreasonably rapid paces, yet don't seem to actually make us any more efficient as programmers; at best, they cover up the inefficiencies in other tools.
I often work with a guy who's a pure computer scientist. He communicates in LaTeX and pseudocode only. I don't think he could find a compiler if he tried. What I've learned to do is keep his notation whenever I implement something. I start the function with a comment that says what paper I'm referencing when I implement it and then comment all of the one-letter variables. (In this case I would use K[i]).

Usually the stuff I'm implementing is complicated enough that reading the code without reading the paper won't have much meaning. And if you're reading the paper, it's good to have as close to a 1-1 representation to help give confidence that I implemented it right.

I've had non-zero times where I took his pseudocode, pasted it into my IDE and did a search and replace of begin/end to braces and "<-" to "=" and it "just worked" on the first try. I always found that amazing that he could write this stuff without ever trying it (outside of his head).
I think an integrated hub would be a bit extra tbh.

Amazon sells a coordinator usb for $20, so pair that with anything that can rub home assistant(raspi, ha green/yellow, old laptop, etc.) and you have a ZigBee hub that's plug and play for ZHA and Z2M.
Why are great animal migrations collapsing?
I've thought a lot about a book or course on woodworking for software engineers. Bits to Bits was my "clever" name :)
They make the Starship effort look like a giant boondoggle. Sure, it might fly one day but won't be practical for anything but sucking up gov't $$$.
Never underestimate the ability of rich folks in sport to spend money with gear.
That is hard I think, as there are patents that are not licenced because no one wants to - but I think every holder of a patent must licence it to any party interested. So just "sitting on patents" is not really possible to my knowledge. (but I am really not an expert here)
Atmospheric river storms are getting stronger, and deadlier
No, this entire you're working for $2 an hour and hoping to earn tips shit needs to end.

>They want $7.25 for that hour. Regardless of the fact that the previous hour they took in $20 in tips.

Good. It is the companies job to pay the minimum wage rate per hour regardless of weather customer come in or not. If the restaurant industry cannot survive this they have no legal right to slave wages to survive.
Yeah, of course, but grammar can be designed as to not allow as much implicit magic.

If you can do it, someone will do it (in prod, in your product).
Doesn't Flash, the tool, export to JS now?

It was having Flash player, the browser plugin, that was an ongoing security and privacy problem for browsers.
> it's sort of strange to think that everything else in their lives is going so well then, isn't it

where are you getting this information from?
I get your point with blockchain(altough i'd like a source for 2% of the entire human energy production going into it) but ads are useful actually, they make people know about what other people do which drives economy, and economy is basically a fancy word for the system that distributes each human's limited time into the various tasks society needs(which do include large scale planetary development but also for example, your local supermarket which makes you eat).

As for tiktok and silly dances, humans don't need only food and water to work reliably, they also need mental health. So leisure, amenities, relationships etc.(yeah tiktok included) are an addiction in the same sense food water and oxygen are an addiction, we just need them to work.(obviously while "addiction" to leisures is in general not a real problem, addiction to a specific thing in this list is, just like addiction to a specific food is a problem. I'm not saying tiktok addiction is a good thing)

If you think humanity's purpose is to develop their knowledge of the universe and techonological grasp, then i reassure you that(almost) everything we do on this spinning ball is a cog in the machine that ultimately sustains that development
People value family differently. For some, their dream life is to have sick cars and a sweet loft, for others, it's to raise other humans to be good. You should probably understand that there are some that read your perspective on life as equally puzzling.

I agree that childcare and college is mad expensive. It's why people complain about these things as much as they do!

What I've always thought, as a parent: those without kids don't know what they're missing, and those with them know what they have.

I'm not saying this to try to brag about how I have some special thing in my life that you'll never understand. I'm saying it because it feels like a perfect system in a way - you simply don't miss what you don't have.

And lastly, those some sort of information bias at play. Non-parents hear all the time about how parents don't have time for this or that, or they hear them talk about how annoying their child is being. But most people have the self-awareness to not just sit and gush over how great their kid is to their non-parents friends, and even when they do, it's just obnoxious.
Ublock Origin has no effect on email modals or cookie popups. Those have to be manually zapped.
>The most significant of these is that version control is not guaranteed to be the primary gate to changes to your system’s state. The size, shape, volume, skew of your data can change independently of any code.

That has been true in SWE since the days of ENIAC.
This comes up every time and it's just as stupid every time. I'm sorry you went through a terrible experience being a musician. That doesn't justify other people going through terrible experiences.
The launch of Hubble in 1990 marked a turning point in our quest for deep space
The weight and efficiency benefits of current composites vs aluminum lithium (AlLi) frames are not enough to justify their costs.

Also wide-bodies are just different from narrow bodies in length or diameter. Narrow bodies are designed to go through more and frequent pressurization cycles, fit and weigh enough for certain gates and runways, carry different amounts of cargo.

The other variable is the cost to build the plane you describe. The reason Boeing decided to rengine the 737 for the NG instead of the 757 is the 737 costs less to build and operate. The 737 MAX 8-200 and the MAX 10 are very economical to fly on a level a shrunken 787 couldn't reach.

It's also important to remember the 737 Max was kind of a stop gap on the higher capacity variants for the NMA. If Boeing had been willing to give the MAX a slightly different type rating and difference training for the MAX, MCAS would not have been necessary. Then the MAX 9 and 10 could be replaced by the NMA and bought Embraer with stretched E2 jets replacing the MAX 7 and 8 if executives were concerned with more than their annual stock comp.
that is so not not !false
Easy to criticize, hard to create (2011)
Is this something like velcro? Where they created an ad to tell people to stop using the name velcro because they'll lose the trademark otherwise?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8LptvFZY
> Nobody should have a problem with you wanting to be a part of a church community, even if you aren't a "real" believer.

I really appreciate this view, but certainly some people do have a problem with it. I think it would be especially awkward if you spend a significant amount of your life there, raise kids, etc, but never claim the religion is true. It almost sounds like a cringe-comedy movie
> One of the most embarrassing moments came when they asked me a question about Carl Jung, whom I had quoted in one of my essays. I had included a few lines about how Carl Jung believed this or that.

> “Have you ever actually read any books by Carl Jung?” one of the students asked me.

> “No, I’ve never read a single thing by him,” I answered truthfully.

> “Then how can you possibly have a large quote from him in your essay, base an essay around his teachings and also lead us to believe that you know what you are talking about?”

> It was a really good question and he had a point. The rest of the experience and all of the questions went basically like this: I would say one thing and they would contradict me and accuse me of not really understanding what I was talking about.

This is a big paradox of modern society: most of what people believe is bullshit.

But you can’t go around saying people believe bullshit, because they are people, and worthy of respect.

The best solution is to focus on contributing new knowledge, not destroying the bullshit.

It would have been much more impressive if a student actually addressed the ideas attributed to Jung, or explained why the quote was misleading.