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Interestingly, Brother provides CUPS drivers for a fairly large proportion of its range, larger than the support that is packaged out of the box by free operating systems. It provides both DEB and RPM packaged drivers. For example:

* https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=au&lang=...

The downside is that they are closed source binaries. For Linux only. And only 32-bit.

Recently I had to switch over printing from a FreeBSD machine to a Debian 9 machine because there was no portable driver and nothing supporting the particular printer range out of the box in the CUPS packages. Then printing simply failed silently with printouts apparently vanishing out of the print queue into thin air (apart from an obscure report of 0 bytes printed in a log file when debug mode is on) because I didn't have the 32-bit C and C++ GNU libraries installed on the 64-bit machine. I went on a couple of wild goose chases diagnosing that one.

I was halfway tempted to write it up for Unix StackExchange.
You could argue that they are failing to notify customers who do not use their DNS, and aren't complying with the law. Email or a notice on their invoice would not have had that problem.
What complicates this is that the negative issues with these systems are invisible to most people.

For example, the Kindle doesn't even expose its filesystem to the user. A power-user may use Calibre (separate software unaffiliated with Amazon) to extract an ebook from one Kindle in an effort to read it on their own Kindle. But upon opening the ebook, they will get a message "Sorry, this ebook is licensed to <friend's name>".

So there's really not going to be a big market for a DRM-less ereader/book store (Kobo, Kobo's store). My premise here being that DRM undermines ownership.

A similar issue exists for Steam vs gog.com. The latter gives you an executable you can copy onto a USB drive. While Steam won't even let you play a game if you haven't connected Steam to the internet in 30 days. The other day I couldn't even launch Steam because it knew there was an update but I had no internet, and it would not progress beyond the "updating..." launch modal. The average person doesn't run into these issues, else they would likely prefer gog.com where possible.

It's all a bit frustrating. There are almost zero market forces that reward the pro-consumer options, so there are no real drawbacks to being anti-consumer.
I believe that bonobos have been shown to have a sense of fairness vs unfairness. I don't know if that is different from right/wrong but I suspect not.
Are most of these employees located in a few cities/regions? Will this spill effect job market?
I can't wait until they bring in all the dark patterns from travel sites; "1,213 people currently considering this stock" or "act now; only 6MM shares left!"
I've willingly broken laws in the past believing they were fully unjust, should I have been driven to suicide as well for that time I pirated a song in eighth grade?
Robinhood strikes me as a complete financial amateur-ish company, trying to attract millennials that don't know better by branding themselves as a cool tech company.

I have been using Ameritrade for a while and was curious about their no fee platform so gave it a quick go. The graphs have no legends associated in the app. The spreads seems not up-to-date with official quotes, etc. I went back to Ameritrade as fast as possible.

They are the "go fast and break things" of finance. There is a good chance that this will not end well.
Wow - nice stuff. I'm a fan of the reference map.
You were lucky. Apple doesn't guarantee long-term compatibility of applications on Mac OS. You bought just after the latest Mac transition, so your ten years didn't happen to cross any big one (OS X, 2001; x86, 2006).

I bought some Adobe software in 2001, and it was a gigantic pain to get it working under early OS X (hours on the phone with Adobe), and wasn't usable under Rosetta, 5 years later.

If the rumors and historical trends are to be believed, we're on the verge of another transition. I would not buy an expensive binary blob for Mac today without an assurance I could get an upgrade, if/when there's another architectural transition.
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They will probably forward all DNS traffic to their own resolvers by just changing the destination IP of any UDP traffic to port 53.

This won't work with DNSSEC or encrypted DNS though.
> rather, should small towns be additionally supported.

This is the key question. No one wants to up and remove those towns. The question is: should we subsidize their existence beyond the infrastructure like road, mail, etc... that we already pay for? And if we want to do that, how do we go about it to get the most bang for our buck?
If you dont want people to walk out that fast put it in the contract. But you will have to pay more.
I would go in that direction if I needed to but so far I simply haven't needed any google services that require a login.

I've read some horror stories about google pulling the plug on all accounts due to a billing conflict somewhere else in their ecosystem. That, together with the absolute PITA of managing multiple accounts pretty much ensures I will avoid ever paying to put my data in their hands.
I am a data scientist and work remotely, living in a small town on 3.6 acres. Moving to a city would be terrible, living within a 40 minute drive is plenty close enough.

Why do you feel the need to shut down entire communities?
Plug alert: I am working with a company that's building a full representation of the Sanctum system using custom extensions of RISC-V (https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/564.pdf). There are critical features like root of trust key and entropy generation, and cache isolation that are missing from the vanilla RISC-V keystone approach. It offers a measure of security worth having but we're taking it all the way. We're working with MIT prof Srini Devadas. You can read more about it here if you're interested: https://medium.com/gradient-tech/announcing-gradient-crypto-...

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Appreciate the candidness here. Would love to hear more about how David tackles that conversation with his portfolio companies, when he sees that the CEO isn't capable of taking the company to the next stage.
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I have the feeling they wouldn't get much past the overly scripted front line service, unfortunately.
Can we look to any other similar regulation to estimate how much teeth it will have when actually enforced?
It would be hard to "be Google" just through business decisions. The pagerank secret sauce is what vaulted Google ahead of Yahoo back in the day. Yahoo never had better tech than the competition so far as I know.
So what? Having actually read the article, nothing about the author's conservative viewpoint or religiosity is hidden (e.g. "In October 2010, I appeared on a panel to promote a book of essays by young conservatives, Proud to Be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation." and "...my belief that suffering is sometimes necessary for personal growth, and an essential part of God’s plan for our salvation..."). While we, as liberals, may disagree with those personal beliefs, they're not the main topic of the article so your comment is merely an ad hominem.
I can't help but notice the irony that all you're doing here is ad hominem against me, in an even purer form.
Nothing bad ever comes to companies as a consequence of these leaks, so what is their incentive to stop them? It happens so often that it goes down the memory hole after maybe a week or two, so even that isn't much of an incentive. We shouldn't be surprised about this.
At this point I wonder, did he write it? Or did CenturyLink?
I don't get why you think when you are given a job you are entitled to keep it forever. If it's an issue for you then start your own business.
There are all sorts of possibilities, and it isn't necessarily even the hardware. For example: I had a screen flicker that was down to something repeatedly trying to start up GNOME Shell when the desktop was not GNOME.
You will need a user base for Software Distribution. Will you design your software for a 10M or 100M Mac user. If you are changing to a Services product that only oriented around your products, the more user the better.
Fairness about themself, or about other bonobos?

The first means nothing, the second would be interesting. i.e. if they see another bonobo being treated unfairly and don't like it.

But if it's just about them, then that's not the same thing.
Laws should be written specifically. It should be expected that they will go obsolete and it should be routine to expunge/replace laws as tech changes. If they meant email they should have put email.
> They offer a certain quality of life many desire.

But at an enormous cost to the environment, tax base, and economic resilience of society.

It's legitimate for people in the cities to ask whether they want to keep subsidizing this lifestyle, and whether a better kind of arrangement of land use can be achieved.
There is an issue open for this: https://github.com/vaexio/vaex/issues/93
It should have been fixed, some more detailed report (version numbers installed) would be good to know.
Yes.

The technology that article mentions is Microsoft's Intel->ARM translation, which is surprisingly good, and entirely unrelated to Firefox.

The "optimized" build they're talking about is almost certainly natively-compiled ARM64, and the reason it's hard is because Rust is built on an older llvm version...which doesn't have Google's patches that improve support for Windows ARM64.
My understanding is that the advantage of something like a SNN is mainly in custom-hardware ultra-lower-power applications. But it adds a lot of complexity and makes training a lot more difficult, compared to something like ODE nets or standard discrete neural nets.

Looking at the links you provided, they don't appear to train the network dynamics, only the feedout weights. In principle you could differentiate through the ODE solvers used in the software package linked to train the dynamics, but as far as I know we were the first people to release an open-source set of differentiable solvers using reverse-mode adjoint sensitivities (the most scalable variant of autodiff for training scalar losses). [https://github.com/rtqichen/torchdiffeq]

In the paper we talk a bit about how you can now more easily train Possion process likelihoods, which might make training SNNs easier. I'm not sure.
"So, the fault here lies with the politician."

No. The fault lies with CenturyLink. They're the ones who decided to implement this in the most repulsive way allowed by law.

The law only required notification using normal communications methods, not disruption of services. CenturyLink is the one who chose disruption of services.
Your constitutional protections are protections from the government, not businesses.
Ski instructor on a powder day is a blast. You get to cut the lines and get fresh tracks. Also if you sign up for small group advanced lessons, you're usually the only person in the group so its like a private instructor for half the price.
Considering that gdpr doesnt contain a single technical requirement (in contrast to all food / safety / medical regulations) , typically anyone and anything or nothing can be a violation. Your guess is as good as mine
Someone needs to write the applications those users have access to.

So if the desktop market is bigger, by definition there needs to be a bigger amount of desktop devs to serve the market.

Thanks to people that buy Apple to develop for GNU/Linux instead, Microsoft has learned that for many developers it isn't about GNU/Linux rather some kind of POSIX like compatibility.

Since Linux seems to have replaced POSIX in the minds of many devs, they apparently decided it was better to support Linux syscalls than bring back the SUA personality.

Which is something that even BSD and illumos were kind of forced to do.

So given the current trajectory of Apple hardware, they saw an opportunity there to get those devs on Windows.
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HIPAA only carries criminal penalties when someone knowingly discloses covered information - not a software bug. Until the bug is identified at least. For the most part HIPAA is enforced with civil penalties.

And your "nightmare" scenario of (civil) liability flowing from programming bugs already exists in the investment world and it hasn't come apart at the seams. Google Axa Rosenberg. A coding error in their trading algorithm went undiscovered for two years. Negligent for sure, but not why the SEC went after them. The problem was they didn't promptly disclose the error to investors and they didn't promptly correct it. Algorithmic trading firms should have mechanisms to catch errors, correct errors, and disclose those errors to investors. And after seeing Axa Rosenberg's $250 million fine and Rosenberg's lifetime ban from the industry guess what they all implemented?
How does Figma compare to Sketch?

The article is completely focused on Adobe but Sketch's greatest competition moving forward is from the free-to-get-started Figma. Not one mention of that.

In fact the article kind of whiffs on this as it concludes that "Omvlee’s refusal to accept venture funding" was a "major driver of growth." Ehh.. really? Figma's funding has been a major factor in helping it do in a couple years what took Sketch a decade.
It's not at clear to me that Uber costs less than the ride takes to provide due to the differences between marginal and total cost accounting.

As an example, if I'm going to own my car anyway, I'm going to pay the time-based depreciation whether or not I drive Uber. My marginal cost to drive a mile is around 10 cents for power, 2 cents for tires/brakes, and 2-3 cents for miles-based diminution of value. The fact that GSA/IRS allows $0.545/mile doesn't mean that's my actual marginal cost, just that that's a permissible financial rate for profit-seeking business usage. (As one example, the IRS only allows $0.14/mile for charitable deduction driving, which squares pretty well with my marginal cost estimate above.)

Near as I can tell from a few minutes of Googling, Uber pays $1.35/mile and $0.21/minute in Boston, or roughly 10x the marginal cost of driving a mile. That leaves a lot of margin for driving to/from fares, positioning yourself to an in-demand area, disputed rides, Pool differences, etc.
Our systems lack mechanisms for accountability. If we can solve that, we can set off a runaway reaction.
What was rude? A question?
So, cars are reasonably successful at a feature like this, most cars' infotainment systems disable a lot of functionality when the vehicle is in motion, and it highlights the same problems phones will have.

For one, as a passenger I am sometimes trying to help my grandma set her clock in her car after a time change. But I have to wait until the car is stopped, because it doesn't allow it, even though I am not driving. Similarly, I'm annoyed that in my own car, I can't look at contacts beyond the favorites list, or dial a phone number from the touchscreen on my car unless the vehicle is stopped. Even a passenger can't use those features while the car is moving.

I found out that it's a simple hack to override this "feature". For cars like mine that don't have GPS navigation, you can easily just remove the connection between the car's speedometer and the infotainment system. For those that do, there's often aftermarket kits to install a switch so you can turn that connection on and off, as you still need it for navigation console use.

So the issue with phones is that it's likely whatever you come up with will annoy passengers excessively, in addition to drivers. And that in a lot of cases, it will lead people to hack/root their phones to remove the functionality. (While people are somewhat resistant to hacking their cars, hacking their phones is vastly more likely.) Furthermore, while Apple or Google could implement this sort of functionality, no other OEM can. Because if your Samsung started doing this, a lot of people would switch to LG instead. The company that does this first will hurt themselves, since consumers will consider alternatives. (Which likely means this would only be built if the government mandated the feature by law.)
> And when you want one color for one deployment of your application, vs a different color for another deployment?

Easy, have the build process select a different variables file to be imported by the entry point, with different colour variables per deployment. You ask the question in an accusatory manner as if you think this is difficult.

> Or you want to reuse Configuration values across A and B components, but C and D components are a different variant. All of which are configured differently on different deployments (application deployed to different clients with different themes).

What exactly do you think is stopping you from programmatically selecting styles in this situation? I’m not getting where you think the difficulty is arising.
Financial regulators are happy to do it.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2225633/software/knight...

https://www.qa-financial.com/articles/cftc-fines-societe-gen...

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/citigroup-fined-7m-over-software-b...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-30125728

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/06/microsoft...
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My father received ~1 month for every year of work at Kodak in severance, when he was laid off. I'd be surprised if a lot of those employees didn't have similar contracts.
You can rant about an "attack on freedom" all you want, but how do you propose that Confluent protect its business so that they can continue paying their engineers to keep working on tools for which they publish all the source code?

The alternatives seem to be 1. they keep all their stuff proprietary or 2. they leave it truly open and AWS takes the majority of their market and they slowly suffocate.

Aren't both of those strictly worse than the path they've taken?
The original article title is more accurate. Replacing "CenturyLink" with "Utah ISP" as if they're some podunk lil' no-name ISP is misleading.

CenturyLink is a Tier 1 ISP, and 5th largest in the country by customer count. Maybe city folk haven't heard of CenturyLink but they have monopolies over vast swathes of rural copper networks.
If there’s one thing that Facebook has been highly successful at, it’s making people numb and uncaring about any of these “bugs”.

Like the saying goes, “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic” — Facebook has made all its privacy blunders and issues over many years a statistic...something people may nod their head at, feel bad for a moment and go back happily to the same company’s platforms.

Unless lawmakers around the world do something, nothing will materially affect Facebook (the company). Even if they do, I personally have no faith that the company is capable of changing unless people at the top, like Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, are out.
The biggest one? Not having to wrangle class names. Like the author points out here, that becomes increasingly difficult over time. Sass is wonderful (I still rely on it in some older projects), but when I'm working with JS/React, CSS-in-JS just feels smoother and tidier.
You get your dividend, but the actual price may (and did) decline. Actual performance over the past year is under 0.1%.

If you want a guaranteed return you do not buy bonds or stocks. You buy a money market fund like VMMXX. See https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/performan...
How does this have any relevance to the article?
"If they meant email they should have put email."

If they put email, then that would have required the use of email. That's certainly more narrow than they intended, as it would exclude other acceptable methods such as sending a physical letter, including a notice with the invoice, etc.

This is 100% on CenturyLink.
I've found snowboarding sucks compared to skiing if your skiing in somewhat consistently icey conditions like we have here at Tahoe. Getting kneepads definitely made it less painful, since it's easy to trip over your toe edge onto your knees when you turn into a groove on ice.
It might not be a poly, Elon probably sincere about that. It doesn't change the fact that it's terrible working for someone treat his employees like that. I think probably it's a strategic thing. I have given it some thoughts, it probably works somewhat like this.

Mars, well, Elon is a recruitment tool. So, recruiting talents hasn't been an issue for Tesla.
There is a natural turnover rate for technical staff either case. Elon figures so long his metrics is okay, everything will be fine, which is "incoming talents ~= outgoing talents" (adjust the operator as company expand or reduction).
So far the company has expanded too fast, so Elon let his ego take over to abuse at will. Also probably due to stress, etc. I called "controlled let go." (both the employees and his self control) Haha.

Of course this is just speculation.
How do do you shut down a town in an orderly fashion?

More to the point, how do you avoid putting the people you displaced from their homes on a high-rent, low-wage treadmill?
Why would they want to own the property just because they provide cleaning services?
whether a better kind of arrangement of land use can be achieved.

What would some examples of this be, in your opinion?
We've spent so much time and money gentrifying urban areas, now we're going back to the burbs. This is like going back to the mainframe, or from the cloud back to physical hardware. We toggle between the two extremes.

My only hesitation is that the burbs haven't historically been so diverse and welcoming in the past and likely part of the reason "the kids" flee to the city. Maybe that will change.
Uses HDF5, which itself is a great file format, well suited for big tables of numbers. Good for similar reasons as SQLite3, but for different applications. Not a relational database, columns are more strongly typed. Better suited when you have hundreds or thousands of columns, worse when you're trying to query a particular row.
I know I certainly qualify. I cannot wait to leave the city, even though I'll still need to work there.
They did that because cost of maintaining platform was higher than its ROI. If Google+ had like 300M-400M monthly active users I don't think they would have shut down Google+
I think it will be more like "New app enables ordinary people to work on demand as waiters, janitors, and baristas in their spare time!"
And that's the worry, especially if the providers share ban lists (like casinos do). When the government provides a service, I have a right to benefit from that service, and due process for that right being taken away (I hare a right to use the streets, and I can't lose my driver's license without said process). If all significant transport is via shared vehicles, and Uber/Lyft put me on their banned-customer list, can I travel anymore?
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Unfortunately, it can still vote for some reason.
However: This particular law was not well written.