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New comment by bchociej in "Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images"

bchociej — Thu, 21 May 2020 18:58:46 +0000

New comment by bchociej in "The Patent Office is “adjusting” to a Supreme Court ruling by ignoring it"

bchociej — Thu, 21 May 2020 18:48:16 +0000

I agree with your point, and I don't consider RCE a disposition. Still, the average application has about two office actions (CTFR, CTNF, CTRS, CTEQ) before an allowance or abandonment.

New comment by bchociej in "Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results"

bchociej — Thu, 21 May 2020 18:46:56 +0000

I am away from my laptop for the time being, unfortunately. But it's generally a bit of pointer acceleration and enabling two finger scrolling, if I have to configure anything at all.

New comment by bchociej in "Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images"

bchociej — Thu, 21 May 2020 18:40:33 +0000

New comment by bchociej in "Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images"

bchociej — Thu, 21 May 2020 18:32:53 +0000

I was surprised by this, but at least as early as September 2008: https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/c67bb312ac44737c6c175b...

New comment by bchociej in "Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images"

bchociej — Thu, 21 May 2020 18:22:07 +0000

New comment by bchociej in "Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results"

bchociej — Tue, 19 May 2020 21:40:41 +0000

Color me stunned that people are so dissatisfied with their touchpads in Linux. 0-3 lines of options in my config have made me perfectly content with every touchpad I've ever used in Linux.

New comment by bchociej in "The Patent Office is “adjusting” to a Supreme Court ruling by ignoring it"

bchociej — Fri, 08 May 2020 00:41:11 +0000

Edit: new guidance is from 2019 so my comment is not relevant, but we haven't had a chance to analyze much published data from this period anyway

New comment by bchociej in "The Patent Office is “adjusting” to a Supreme Court ruling by ignoring it"

bchociej — Fri, 08 May 2020 00:36:49 +0000

Applications average about 2 office actions to disposition, so some back-and-forth is implicit

New comment by bchociej in "Floating Point Visually Explained (2017)"

bchociej — Tue, 05 May 2020 18:25:37 +0000

Is all of that really easier to understand than exponential notation? It's a great tool to visualize floating point precision, but it's lot more circuitious to get to an understanding of what a floating point number actually means IMO

New comment by bchociej in "Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act"

bchociej — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 19:48:22 +0000

I run it, along with other sketchy garbage proprietary software for wook, in a QEMU VM. Or I just dial in and let people suffer through me being on a phone connection owing to their choice of software.

New comment by bchociej in "Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act"

bchociej — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 19:46:54 +0000

Agreed. I find the whole experience to be horrible. Especially having to install some garbage executable rather than using my browser. It does nothing for me that Google Meet doesn't do better.

New comment by bchociej in "Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act"

bchociej — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 19:44:44 +0000

Google with bad quality? Meet is working fantastically for me and my coworkers and hasn't been affected at all by the pandemic.

New comment by bchociej in "Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act"

bchociej — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 19:43:45 +0000

I mean, so do all the major WebRTC video chat programs. Google Meet is absolutely painless, and I can use it in the browser instead of downloading Zoom's very sketchy application.

New comment by bchociej in "Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act"

bchociej — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 19:42:51 +0000

I'm with you. I have no idea what people like about it that isn't already done better in e.g. Google Meet. Having to download a program is also really crappy IMO. Plenty of other video chat applications work in my browser.

New comment by bchociej in "Our first patent troll"

bchociej — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 18:39:13 +0000

At very least, the EDTX circus was shut down, and I believe plaintiffs must now file in the district where the defendant is headquartered. [1]

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/22/supreme-court-location-p...

New comment by bchociej in "Tesla Cybertruck"

bchociej — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:05:26 +0000

I think you're making a decent point, honestly. I live in a close-in suburb of a midwestern city and I think quite a few of the trucks in my neighborhood are probably 99% unnecessary from a utility standpoint. Having a reasonably sized pickup truck is a godsend for me right now, as I'm renovating our house and landscaping the yard. But frankly, since I work remotely, I really want this truck to be the last vehicle I ever purchase for myself (wife still commutes), and ideally we'll be a one-car household in the next 5 years.

New comment by bchociej in "Tesla Cybertruck"

bchociej — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:00:24 +0000

Yeah I feel like they are almost certainly putting this design out to create some buzz. I can't picture them releasing this hideous thing as-is.

New comment by bchociej in "Tesla Cybertruck"

bchociej — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 13:59:44 +0000

Better utility than a truck? Excuse me? 6.5' bed and you can't even reach over the sides to get stuff. No stake pockets or any apparent affordance for installation of racks in the bed either. However, I am a fan of a factory tonneau cover and what looks like a built-in ramp in the tailgate.

But there's no avoiding that the thing is just ugly as can be.

Frankly I'm just waiting for an all-electric replacement for the bigger Tacoma / smaller F150 niche. I don't want or need an 80s stainless steel wedge that can tow a 747. Rivian doesn't appear to be interested in that segment. Toyota isn't going to do it until 2025 at best. I was hoping Tesla might, but I'm not surprised that their first foray barely qualifies as a truck.

New comment by bchociej in "Bad JSON Parsers"

bchociej — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 03:43:49 +0000

Interesting results e.g. on Ruby. I did give the javascript test file a whirl and was able to run it just fine with a nesting level of 1,000,000, so I wonder if something else is happening there.