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

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.

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.

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.

Greed is universal. Slavery is one of the outcomes.

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.

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

edit: Emulators, of course!

… 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.

OP, the tech exists however contrary to expectations, to have multiple displays attached with a bandwidth constrained connection, the display tends to have all the special bits in it (contrast it with your “please stop having displays be 'special”)

To support no bits moving when image is static, the display must incorporate a framebuffer and once you add franebuffer to the display, it stops being a dumb display. Eg. You can add smarts to it and expose higher level primitives for “display acceleration” and reduce the bandwidth required further… and very quickly the display is just a computer with memory and video accelerator (aka graphics card) connected with a cable.

This is what RDP. Xdisplay and VNC accomplish. The basic complexity is not reduced but moved elsewhere. However the function gained is very useful so they exist and it’s a competitive landscape!

“It was just a joke” smh

“ In various conversations, the Quigleys refer to attaching images of oven doors to the Aronsons' house, of burning their children and of wishing their Jewish neighbors had been blown up in a terrorist attack in Israel.”