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Jun 28

All This China Bashing is Just a Smokescreen

It’s fashionable these days to dump on China, but some of the bashers have hidden motives. Politicians, influenced by powerful manufacturers, wittingly or unwittingly, are helping to weaken the intellectual property regime that has been the wellspring of U.S. prosperity for literally centuries. Senators and congressman on both sides of…

China

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All This China Bashing is Just a Smokescreen
All This China Bashing is Just a Smokescreen
China

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May 17

Penetrating the Dissimulations of Microsoft and Google

For a long time, I’ve been bothered by the fact that certain HTML emails — ones I’m interested in — won’t display accurately in Microsoft Outlook, my standard email/calendar/contacts desktop client. This problem doesn’t occur on my Apple mobile device, which renders everything perfectly. In particular, the emails sent from…

ChatGPT

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Penetrating the Dissimulations of Microsoft and Google
Penetrating the Dissimulations of Microsoft and Google
ChatGPT

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Apr 26

The Enshittification of Google Proceeds

The other day, I was doing Quordle, the version of Wordle that involves solving four grids at once. Who knew there were that many five-letter words in the English language? And speaking of English, there are a lot of words that the New York Times (owner of Wordle) and Merriam-Webster…

Search Engine Optimizati

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The Enshittification of Google Proceeds
The Enshittification of Google Proceeds
Search Engine Optimizati

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Mar 1

Qualcomm Opens a Comms Frontier in Space

I’ve been following the tech industry so long that I’ve seen everything at least twice. For that reason, I’m rarely impressed by various corporate announcements of breakthroughs and such. But this one caught my eye. Qualcomm is arguably the king of connectivity, having deep intellectual property portfolios in all the…

Technology

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Qualcomm Open a Comms Frontier in Space
Qualcomm Open a Comms Frontier in Space
Technology

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Artificial Intelligence in Plain English

·Feb 13

Specialized Accelerators on Die Will Bring AI to the Masses

Transistors on a single die are not all uniform, and blocks can be optimized for particular tasks. For a central processor (CPU), performance is often tied to the number of compute registers: more is better. But these days, given process node advancements, even single dies have enough transistors on them…

Artificial Intelligence

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Specialized Accelerators on Die Will Bring AI to the Masses
Specialized Accelerators on Die Will Bring AI to the Masses
Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence in Plain English

·Feb 9

I Asked ChatGPT, “Do Snakes Miss Their Arms?”

It said: “Snakes do not have arms, and therefore do not have the ability to miss them. Snakes have evolved to have a highly specialized body plan that allows them to move effectively on the ground, in water, and in trees, and they have adapted to this body plan over…

ChatGPT

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I asked ChatGPT, “Do snakes miss their arms?”
I asked ChatGPT, “Do snakes miss their arms?”
ChatGPT

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Jan 30

I Wanted Charles Atlas Ribs

When Damar Hamlin collapsed on a football field from a frightening but fascinating medical event called “commotio cordis” (disrupted heart), the name alone sent me off to read about it in Wikipedia. I was fascinated to learn that the “window of vulnerability” is tiny, occurring during only 1–3% of the…

Personal Development

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I Wanted Charles Atlas Ribs
I Wanted Charles Atlas Ribs
Personal Development

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The Scarlett Letter

·Oct 8, 2022

Hector’s Hundred Women

When is it enough? — I was sitting in our local cantina the other day with my good friend Hector and a couple of beers, when he decided to unburden himself. …

Adultery

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Hector’s Hundred Women
Hector’s Hundred Women
Adultery

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Oct 3, 2022

Intel Woos Software Developers at Freshly Minted Conference

Last week, Intel hosted the perhaps-confusingly named InnovatiON conference in San Jose. InnovatiON could be seen as the restart of Intel Developer Forum (known to everyone in tech as IDF). IDF had been slowly dying for a few years; the last one was in 2017, and Covid made sure it…

Semiconductors

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Intel Woos Software Developers at Freshly Minted Conference
Intel Woos Software Developers at Freshly Minted Conference
Semiconductors

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The Scarlett Letter

·Jun 27, 2022

The Captain’s Wife Steps Out

Sometimes a kaleidoscopic fireball comes in a plain package — It’s been many years. So many that I don’t really have clear memories of much. What I have are snapshots, mental stills that I took with my brain, not consciously, of course, but in the moment, as particular images were burned into my head. The first image I can dredge…

Adultery

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The Captain’s Wife Steps Out
The Captain’s Wife Steps Out
Adultery

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