You do realize the incident you point to happened 170 miles away, right? And wasn't Haitian? When people say "nobody is eating cats" in the context of the time, they meant Haitians in Springfield. They weren't ignoring half the facts. They were ignoring irrelevant facts.

I worked for 10 years in China with engineers. I'm one myself. This is what I learned:

Most go into it because they don't want to work with their hands. i.e. get dirty. It's not because they have any particular interest. It's for the money and social status. As such, ~80% of the ones I worked with were unimpressive. They do what they are told, nothing more, nothing less. Minimal problem solving skills. No curiosity. Your average US high school student would definitely know less engineering, but could do a better job without being micromanaged.

This isn't to say they were bad people. Some were friends. The system in China just tend to create a lot of these people. And if you are brute forcing a project and able to micromanage, it's a powerful resource.

The other ~10 percent were more typical of Western engineers. Loved technology, hands on, tinkered with stuff, curious, smart. And yeah, a bit nerdy. That said, the work culture still ties their hands. You're to stay in your lane. Don't question superiors. Do exactly as you are told. We had several meetings where it was explained that it is their job to call bullshit on me.

They liked that, but it didn't come naturally. There was one guy that was an absolute master at it. He was incredibly polite about it. So much so that when he started acting a certain way, I knew I'd effed up and just had to wait for him to politely tell me he must be wrong and could I please help him learn where he made a mistake. To this day, I still feel he was being sincere. Dude should teach classes in how to tell your boss he is wrong.

Anyway, just comparing engineering numbers in China and the US misses a lot of nuance.

This is what our Congressmen/women should be doing... structuring markets to unleash the creative forces of competition while retarding rent-seeking extraction.

How's that boot taste? This is terrible for free speech. If you would love liberty, adopt the attitude of Voltaire: âoeI may disagree with you, but I defend to the death your right to say it.â

This will be really nice once it gets into their default server OS install, because then you'll be able to use it via remote PowerShell sessions. Currently you can use psedit to do this, but it only works if you're using the PowerShell IDE.

Chalk up another competitive advantage for Linux!

Critical race theory is the retelling of American history thru the lens of a "white oppressor" narrative that downplays American and Western accomplishments in freedom and democracy while ignoring the broader (and more brutal) historical context in which it occurred. CRT constructs a world in which all socioeconomic differences are the result of oppression with the implication that present day whites owe a moral debt for the sins of their ancestors.

It's not propaganda, it's education. Education that we're all being skull-fucked by idiotic policy decisions that any economist could have told you would be disastrous.

Markets are apolitical. They hate chaotic change and restrictions on trade, especially when the specifics of the policy are nonsensical. Any president who did this could expect a similar market reaction. And things aren't back to where they are: S&P is down 8% since tariffs were announced and 15% since Trump took office. It'll take some time to retake lost ground since the threats of capricious tariffs and irresponsible leadership haven't gone away. Further, we've lost geopolitical influence by threatening the sovereignty of other nations, aligning with autocrats against our allies, and launching trade wars. Several countries have cancelled orders of F-35's and Starlink. Canadians seem set to boycott American brands for a generation. Not everything that happens in the market is the president's fault (we're overdue for a recession, so that played a factor in the drop as well), but these policies don't help.

...that code is uncopyrightable

he was clever to say "authorship is still going to be human"... even-though we expect AI to write all of it...

If AI can really write "nearly all" of Microsoft's code... wouldn't that capability put Microsoft out of business? (e.g. hey, AI, write me an operating system, business software, etc., from scratch!, and make it backwards compatible to everything I have.... on second thought, rewrite all of my legacy stuff too!... on third thought, forget me using software at all, you go and generate revenue for me, I don't care how...).

With AI "future" they're pushing, what would be Microsoft's competitive advantage over say anyone else?

How many of those million users are AI training programs?

Why do you think Amazon Sidewalk exists? lol.

You didn't think that they would let you skip out on sending them all that valuable data, did you?

If you don't share your WiFi, the day is quickly coming where your smart devices will piggy back on your neighbors WiFi, or the Amazon delivery vehicle, or another smart device, or any connected car that comes near your house.

Filing a patent does not require a lawyer. I am not a lawyer or patent agent and have written patents for my own inventions. But I'm not a typical inventor. I've worked with lawyers to review thousands of patents and have worked with them to write dozens, including doing the drawings and drafting claims.

But with that said, it's incredibly difficult and time consuming, so usually wise to use a lawyer. Which costs anywhere from $5000 to $20,000. So saving a couple hundred dollars in filing fees doesn't mean much.

Especially if you start dealing with responses, international filings, maintenance fees, etc. Then you better budget $10,000 to $250,000 or more.

As someone who has filed with large corporations, small, and micro, it's kinda hard to miss. It's a box you can check on the payment options.

You don't have to defend a patent against infringement to keep it. That may be sorta true for trademark, but is not true for patents. "Defend against infringement" isn't even a thing. A patent holder can chose to enforce or not enforce their rights as the patent holder as they see fit, They can enforce absolutely, selectively, or not at all. Immediately, or delayed.