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  • In the manufacturing space, people are questioning if patents help them at all. There is no stopping China from copying your design and selling it on Aliexpress. In fact, since you're almost certainly getting your product manufactured in China in the first place, there is no stopping the very manufacturing plant you're using from producing extras and undercutting you.

    Consider this old EEVblog vid about bringing a product to market, and the #1 tip is "don't bother with a patent": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7BL1O0xCcY

    Patents have evolved to be useful to patent trolls. That's it.

    That's not what Dorsey and Musk are after, though. They want to kill copyright law because it's inconvenient for AI training data.

  • None of this has anything to do with any good faith effort for clamping down on illegal immigration. Generally speaking, people in the country illegally don't want their names on records for receiving benefits.

  • I understand the motivated reasoning of upper management thinking programmers are done for. I understand the reasoning of other people far less. Do they see programmers as one of the few professions where you can afford a house and save money, and instead of looking for ways to make that happen for everyone, decide that programmers need to be taken down a notch?

  • That might be the underlying problem. Software project management around small projects is easy. Anything that has a basic text editor and a Python interpreter will do. We have all these fancy tools because shit gets complicated. Hell, I don't even like writing 100 lines without git.

    A bunch of non-programmers make a few basic apps with ChatGPT and think we're all cooked.

  • Along those lines, consider the decision for why the Model S charge port is where it is, according to Tesla's former chief engineer:

    https://electrek.co/2025/01/31/teslas-charge-port-location-is-due-to-elon-musks-garage-layout-says-lucid-ceo/

    tl;dr: you don't want it directly in the front-center (like the Nissan Leaf) because a minor fender bender will ruin it. Front-driver's side is a good choice that a lot of other manufactures are going to. Elon didn't want that, because it didn't line up with his Bel Air garage. So they stuck it in back, but due to the way Tesla Superchargers are laid out, it now means Tesla drivers have to back into the parking space.

  • I know it because I've actually implemented RSA as an exercise and know how it works.

    What you're talking about with hashes is an implementation detail. It's an important one, because using exactly the same algorithm for signing and encryption has some security pitfalls, and it will usually be slower. However, the function you call is exactly the same. The hash is encrypted with the private key. It can be verified by generating the same hash, decrypting with the public key, and matching the two hashes.

    See also: https://cryptobook.nakov.com/digital-signatures/rsa-signatures

    Signing a message msg with the private key exponent d:

    • Calculate the message hash: h = hash(msg)
    • Encrypt h to calculate the signature: s = hd (mod n)

    The operation "hd (mod n)" is just RSA encryption, but with the private key.

  • We have the wife of the world's most famous pro wrestling promoter, who someone gave the title of Secretary of Education. You may ask why the the wife of the world's most famous pro wrestling promoter is Secretary of Education. As in, that is a question that may be asked.

  • No legal way out of that one except Form 1 3d printing. It's from the MAGA shop, the MAGA shop that doesn't have too many stickers on its wall, or the gun show. Which is also MAGA.

    And even if you print it, you'll still need to buy a bunch of smaller parts from one of the above, or an online retailer. Which will be MAGA.

  • I can make the sound of one hand clapping.

    It was a thing that went around my middle school. You keep your hand at about a 90 degree angle to your arm, and then flap back and forth with your fingers loose so it hits your palm. Takes a little practice.

  • It's contradictory to imply any existing bank is socialist. Many branches are ultimately reaching for a moneyless society, anyway, so even a socialist bank would be transitionary.