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kevin_thibedeau··on Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers
An EULA is not a valid contract.
kevin_thibedeau··on Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers
Trade secrets aren't protected by law. That's why they aren't disclosed. If someone lawfully reverse engineers your trade secret, its secrecy disappears without legal recourse. Decompiling a binary for RE interop purposes is legal in the US.
kevin_thibedeau··on What's new in the .NET 11 runtime
0.1 is not representable in binary floating point. The old behavior was adding magic that shouldn't be there.
kevin_thibedeau··on Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers
This demand letter may become evidence in a future case and judges don't look kindly upon lies and deception.
kevin_thibedeau··on Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers
GPLv2 works the same way for license violators. It would be sweet irony if they linked any GPL source into their codebase.
kevin_thibedeau··on Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers
Trade secrets aren't an encumbrance if you discover them independently. Reverse engineering (for interop) is legal in the US. The only leg they have to stand on is patent infringement.
kevin_thibedeau··on Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View
That's where the dragons are.
kevin_thibedeau··on .name Grandfathered
There have been video terminals that allowed overstriking glyphs.
kevin_thibedeau··on AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast
You should prefer using the standardized likely/unlikely attributes instead.
kevin_thibedeau··on Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei truck in America
There's already a market for off road use. They are far superior to SxS UTVs that are overpriced for what they deliver. You usually get heat and air conditioning in an enclosed cab with flexible bed configurations. SxSs are glorified toys in comparison.

This is exploiting the existing LSV classification to bypass the chicken tax that limits the current market to old used imports. It will be easy enough to mod them for higher speeds on farms.

kevin_thibedeau··on Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system
Zelle is ACH, everyone else uses card processing rails. It's not the same as real instant transfers between banks. There are middlemen involved that don't need to be there.
kevin_thibedeau··on The Reconstruction of Torn Documents
> Could shredded paper be reconstructed?

> No. A few thousand other bags contained paper that had been shredded into incredibly small pieces in 1990. This material was destroyed back in 1991 after inspection by the Stasi Records Office. Hence, there is no longer any paper shredded by the Stasi at today's archive .

Shredder chads from the 90s can definitely be reconstructed. This is why the NSA has gradually decreased the maximum size permissible for chads. If they'd held on to that material they could be recovered today.

kevin_thibedeau··on Tesla Hasn't Had a Successful New Product Launch Since JB Straubel Stepped Down
Those are just side projects. SpaceX is now an AI company. All their phony future revenue projections are dependent on magic numbers cooked up by a drug addict who convinces people to believe his stream of lies.
kevin_thibedeau··on I'm not a fan of Deno's security model (2024)
> the permission prompt is “partially visible” (you can see an emoji)

Terminals can be configured to render emoji in text presentation form where they become monochrome glyphs that can be colored like ordinary text with escape sequences. Not something to hinge your security model on.

kevin_thibedeau··on Port 0: The Port That Does Not Exist
"No" here doesn't negate needs. It is part of a subordinate clause "no privileges". Substitute with "nothing" (literally, no thing) for the same parse.
kevin_thibedeau··on US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028
HD floppies were much worse, both 1.44MB and 1.2MB. They are just much more susceptible to defects from wear and tear because of the shrunken sector size. DD 3.5" wasn't as bad.
kevin_thibedeau··on First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI
> The linker won’t complain if your code calls functions that don’t exist – it will just mark them as external, expecting them to be provided by some other code. But they won’t be, and the program will just crash when it calls one of these missing functions.

You can verify no external symbols remain after linkage with: nm -D --undefined-only. This can be incorporated into a build script to verify the binary is valid.

kevin_thibedeau··on Where Each U.S. State Gets Its Tax Revenue From
It's about the proportional distribution.
kevin_thibedeau··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
> small company

> Stretched over two months

These companies aren't Google. There is no valid reason why it should take so long to decide on candidates for a position. It is not necessary to have more than two interview sessions. I bail on any company that subjects people to this garbage.

kevin_thibedeau··on Where Each U.S. State Gets Its Tax Revenue From
They need to show distribution of federal funds because it is not fairly allocated.
kevin_thibedeau··on Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS
Not going to be a good day when Wise or Plaid are breached and accounts start being drained. Adding middlemen is not a solution to poor banking services.
kevin_thibedeau··on AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history
AMD is also a hardware company with significantly more overhead than a software house that is swimming in margin.
kevin_thibedeau··on Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines
> It spends 1 hour reading the file list before starting to delete

Shift delete bypasses the relocation of files to the recycle bin.

kevin_thibedeau··on Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time
It helps you regain control and the tires will naturally drag against snow and slush once they have regained some traction.
kevin_thibedeau··on Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time
It makes slides more controllable since you will spin around the middle of the vehicle rather than the front or back. All four tires interacting under power with snow also helps to restore traction. It isn't a magic wand of course that subverts the laws of physics.
kevin_thibedeau··on Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI
They could innovate and let people buy unobtrusive ads triggered by keywords. Crazy, but it just might work.
kevin_thibedeau··on Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
Their benefit is they can operate in any space designed for a human without custom modification. No wires to get in the way with an assistant robot that interacts with the existing built world.
kevin_thibedeau··on We halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85%
Why the heavy reliance on Javascript when native code would bring performance and energy savings?
kevin_thibedeau··on Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks
This is why I use a fanless PC as my internal router. I have complete control and get timely kernel updates from a responsible distro.
kevin_thibedeau··on U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947
Ah yes, the ouroboros economy. It will just run itself like a perpetual motion machine. Marx was so close to the correct solution.
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