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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Sounds like you want trademark reform.

    There are basically no requirements for maintaining trademarks. If a company owns a name they can use that name and branding forever, no matter how false it becomes, no matter how much the business or product changes, they can keep the name. This shouldn’t be the case.

    If an ice cream company is named after their two founders, the company shouldn’t be able to keep using their names after they’re no longer involved. But under current laws they can.

    A glass company can build its reputation on making heatproof glass, then change the glass so its no longer heatproof, while still selling it under the same name. This is unjust.

    Companies should be forced to rebrand upon major changes. Current trade mark laws are fundamentally misleading.










  • I don’t like most western RPGs because all the enemies are sponges. You can’t sell weapon upgrades if the weapons are already balanced.

    Western RPGs often have interesting systems like speech and other noncombat abilities. This is what keeps me coming back to RPGs despite everything. But upgrades are done with the same currency, so investing in speech means underinvestment in the manditory combat making it even more unpleasant.

    I would much rather play a game about combat, movement, or speech than a game that awkwardly tries to make all three sit comfortabky next to each other. JRPGs are often more focused, so I do prefer them, a bit.






  • The average car weighs approximy 4000 lbs.

    The ford f-150 is about 5000 lbs, which causes 2.4 times the road wear as the average car.

    A big rig with no trailer weighs about 20,000 lbs, which causes 625 times the road wear as the average car.

    An truck with an empty trailer weighs 30,000 lbs, causing 3,200 times the road wear as the average car.

    A truck with a medium load weighs about 55,000 lbs, which causes 36,000 times the road wear.

    A truck operating at the federal weight limit of 80,000 lbs causes 160,000 times the road wear as the average car.

    But it gets worse. The average car driver drives 13,000 miles per year. Long haul trucks drive an average of 100,000 miles per year. They are commercial vehicles driving during most of a workday. Trucks drive 8 times further.

    In comparison to the average car, a truck hauling medium loads causes around 288,000 times more road wear than a normal passenger car.

    Trucks cost more to register than passenger cars, they pay slightly more in tax, but nowhere near the 288,000 times they should.

    Trucks are economonically viable entirely due to the massive subsidies they get for being grossly undercharged for the roads they run on.

    Edit: On reflection my numbers are probably too high, and extrapolating the available studies to big rigs is probably unreasonable. Trucks have per axle/tire weight limits. Bigger trucks have more axles. A truck with twice the weight distributed across twice the number of wheels will probably be closer to twice the wear than what I predicted. Not enough to negate the conclusion, but real numbers are probably not quite as high as I predicted.



  • I wouldn’t call it a bug.

    Any software running in kernel mode needs to be designed very carefully, because any error will crash the entire system.

    The software is risky because it needs to run in kernel mode to monitor the entire system, but it also needs to run unsigned code to be up to date with new threats as they are discovered.

    The software should have been designed to verify that the files are valid, before running them. Whatever sanity checks they might have done on the files, it clearly wasn’t thorough enough.

    From my reading, this wasn’t an unforeseeable bug, but a known risk that was not properly designed around.