mritun

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Comment · 1 month ago
Patently false narrative, equivalent to saying all americans are fat - both are extremely cheap uneducated arguments.

Every single H1B I worked with was brilliant in their field - and paid extremely well often in excess of $400K. I know several that are earning well past $500K. If you claim these are generic Jira pushers, well you are showing ignorance.

The $100K fees isn’t material to them but the whole vitriolic nonsense poured around what they do and just rolling their work in mud - well that’s where they just move and take their 50 ppl organization with them.

This is pure nonsense.

Comment · 4 months ago
^ How can you make such an obviously wrong statement?

Drag Music app to Trash, and that it! Like you do with any other app.

Comment · 1 year ago
> Google will eventually copy…

Weird take given Google basically invented and released through well written papers and open-source software the modern deep learning stack which all others build on.

Google was being disses because they failed to make any product and were increasingly looking like Kodak/Xerox one trick pony. It seems they have woken up from whatever slumber they were in

Comment · 1 year ago
Why? Social security is young supporting the old.
Comment · 1 year ago
That’s pretty much what the British did in Bengal.
Comment · 1 year ago
Frankly there isn’t much money in surveillance - with the “Google” and the four colors gone I doubt the “Chrome” brand is going to be worth much. “Blackrock Private Equity LLC Chrome” just does not have the ring.

The money is in Chrome patents and copyright. One can go to town and blitzkrieg the NodeJS ecosystem which has super deep pockets. SCO will look baby-talk.

Comment · 1 year ago
“Divesting” Chrome does not even make much sense. Divestment means owner must sell the assets to an unrelated party so $$$ must trade hands in exchange for something of value.

Here is me “thinking aloud”, I don’t have that kind of money to buy Chrome.

Assuming someone has the funds to buy Chrome, they will end up buying the IP and brand. The IP is copyright on the code which is mostly open source, proprietary Google services integration bits, and then the brand.

I can see value in buying the patents & copyright to the codebase and taking it private to build a proprietary State of the art browser to sell or bundle for free with Ads.

Nobody is going to pay for a browser in 2025 so Mritun’s Chrome (my brand - I can’t call it Google Chrome anymore) is going to be ad supported. I might have to think of paid V8 runtimes like Mritun’s Electron and Mritun’s NodeJS to extract maximum value from my investment.

All in, in these high interest-rate environment, I do not see someone buying Chrome to fund it for free - however a lot of ecosystems depend on Chrome, so the best bet would be to use copyright and patents to go after the users. If I have money, I can totally see buying Chrome for approx $100M and then going after monetization.

Comment · 1 year ago
> investigators did not receive a response from Raoult, the corresponding author. To date, 32 papers published by IHU authors have been retracted, 28 of them co-authored by Raoult, and 243 have expressions of concern.

I am not a scientist but it of 32 faulty widgets, 28 widgets are made by a guy called Raoult, then even blue collar workers know Raoult is an idiot with no business making widgets. If that does not happen, ACME Widgets will eventually go out of business.

This is how science gets discredited - by allowing idiots do “science”. Here Raoult does not get kicked out, but is Director of the ACME - this is how entire field of medicine research gor tainted.

Comment · 2 years ago
Same thing happened that has the cooks and gardeners beholden to non-compete agreements in the land of the free!

Greed is universal. Slavery is one of the outcomes.

Comment · 2 years ago
Non-determinism doesn’t mean chaos.

Record the seed for all RNGs used (if you’re using more than one for your SkipList implementation) and then your Skip lists are no more harder to debug than a linked-list.

Comment · 2 years ago
RO2040 isn’t slow - it’s literally one of the fastest on the market. It’s a dual core microcontroller that can easily run both cores at 133-250+ MHz.

https://github.com/Wren6991/PicoDVI

The GPIO on RPi is not very useful for precision work and you’re limited to using SPI (usually to talk to an auxiliary microcontroller). The GPIO on RP2040 is so good that you can use it as 24 channel 100Msps logic analyzer in a pinch.

https://github.com/gusmanb/logicanalyzer

Comment · 2 years ago
RP2040 is a micro-controller and does not have an MMU. It cannot natively run any OS that relies on a MMU and that includes NetBSD. One can of course write an emulator that does and run that emulator on RP2040 and NetBSD on the emulator.

edit: Emulators, of course!

Comment · 2 years ago
All this isn’t exactly a secret. ARM maintains and provides extensive documentation and so does Apple. Is there anything specific you think is being hidden or obfuscated in the documentation?
Comment · 2 years ago
This thread is definition of serfs jealous of other serf’s 7% over while the masters clear 23% for watching over serfs.
Comment · 2 years ago
Sick people with life-threatening diseases are incredibly impressionable and a lucrative customer base.

… and dead people tell no tales. They can’t warn others against ineffective treatments and the preventive measures that they would love to have access to.

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