trapperkeeper79

In the old days (like .. a few months ago), I was able to google for articles and click them to see full stories. I suspect this was done so that articles would be indexed by Google. Increasingly, I find the text of…

I'm a mid-career, professional scientist (about a decade out from grad school). I've worked at several top industrial research labs and all of them are shadows of their former selves. Friends are heading for the hills…

Pieter Hintjen's passing made me really sad and made me reflect on patents. I'm a professional scientist and a tiny part of my job is to file patents. I find this part to not be that great. If people from FSF or some…

As we move to further process nodes, I presume we have more surface area to put cores in. About a decade ago, people used to say we'd get CPUs that have the same clockspeeds but have a lot more cores. When I look at…