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If I'm in GNOME and go to Settings > Printers, then adding a printer is pretty easy actually. There's also an advanced printer configuration flow which takes in a lot of options and settings for the printer to work, but that's usually not necessary.
The web interface is my last resort before falling back to editing config manually, but you really shouldn't need it anymore.

Really, the only problem I've had with printing from Linux had to do with Xerox printers that required downloading some magic file from the Internet and then required me to install SAMBA to login to a Windows domain and then manually pick the right trays and other config for the specific model before I could print. Otherwise, it would register the printer but the printer would refuse the job with an error.

Normal network printers were just a matter of clicking "add" and selecting the printer. The entire process took way less time than the Windows printer drive install took.

Making printing work that way was a choice by the printer manufacturer, it could've been a lot easier. If this is what CUPS would need to do for me for every printer out there then I'm glad for the authors' sanity sake that they don't.
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This "paradox" is resolved by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streitbare_Demokratie - self-defending democracy. Before this idea, a democracy would allow itself to be subverted by allowing a dictator to be democratically elected, and consequences be damned. Not a good idea as we find out.

By extension, a system that wants the idea of free speech to stay viable needs to protect itself from ideas that bring harm to it. Maybe it can be argued that from mathematical sense there is some kind of paradox (a set of all sets that are not blah blah), but this is no contradiction for us humans. There is no mathematical beauty in submitting to a wave of harmful, malicious misinformation.
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analogy: a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
> Trying to conflate

I think that from a higher level principle, they can be conflated.

The way that they can be conflated is that many of these tech companies, just don't have many friends left.

Even if the exact reason as for why they don't have many friends left may be different, the end result is still the same.

The left and the right may be going after them from different angles, but that is still pretty bad, because nobody is there to defend them.

People who may have stuck their neck out to defend them in the past, just aren't going to do so anymore.
This sounds like academic coding "best practice"
I meant the policy of automatic censorships of certain keywords on the internet, not military crowd control ...
This instruction makes design of ARM CPUs harder.

As an example, consider page fault handling for a situation where part of access is valid and other part is not, especially for store operation. Or out-of-order execution. Or, for whatever sake, "load multiple" from PC (which is exposed to programmer in quite peculiar way) - you have to have it.

ARM is full of these quirks. I can see why they did that back in the day, but today or even 30 years ago these quirks are not a good decisions.
>Normal network printers were just a matter of clicking "add" and selecting the printer. The entire process took way less time than the Windows printer drive install took.

Only if cups decides to bless autodiscovery today, which often doesn't work properly for a lot of people. If you need to manually configure the protocol and IP/Host of a printer, you already lost the average end user.

Having to install SAMBA is likely to be far outside their domain.

The dialog to add printers hasn't changed much since a few more famous blog rants in 2008 or so, up to Ubuntu 18.04. It's still user-hostile unless you have some prior knowledge of linux and printer networking.
I guess in Germany, too. (Haven't followed the development in the last couple of years.)
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I have been there several times and I hate it. Circular means more walking to get to the other side.
>Before it became a popular term, it was intended as a criticism of arguments of the form, "A will lead to B will lead to C, so A is bad."

Sorry, this is backwards. Before it became a criticism of arguments "A will lead to B and so on" it was a term used to signify a "slippery slope", that is, something that has the potential to snowball to something much worse.

The name as a "criticism of the fallacy" resulted from the term being used as an argument -- not the other way around.
> Don’t blame social media, the biggest and loudest source of COVID-related misinformation have been institutions like the WHO.

This is demonstrably untrue. There is measurably more bullshit on Facebook groups than there is coming from the WHO and other institutions.
Thanks, I'd forgotten the Gameboy wasn't actually a z80 and never knew about the master system!
What are differences between this and original?
I wonder how can shadowban work at all to begin with. It only takes 10 seconds to open a public thread in an incognito window and confirm if voting, commenting, etc indeed happened as the commenter intended or was it only happening in a private echo chamber.
The web interface is hostile af, the standard GUI dialog to add printers is fairly hostile as well, even if you get autodiscovery to work (not always, not in all cases out of the box), it's still not friendly for average end users.
Compared to the alternative (up to 16 load instructions separately, with all of their associated fetch bandwidth), the number of cycles it takes looks really good. It's a way of amortizing the overhead of the instruction across all of the loads being issued.
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Haha I thought I was the only one. When I started being interested in coding, I remember printing the code of some mIRC scripts, and later on printing, html/css files.

Everything I would learn was because it was in the source of some other program,and finding something I never seen before was a thrill.

Fun times!
it's like Churchill's democracy - clearly the worst, except for all the others.
Well, I think the non-aggression principle applies without reference to the 'justice system'. That is to say, whether or not someone has committed a crime, for which they may or may not have been convicted, they have a moral obligation not to perpetrate violence against you. Post-hoc detention or punishment does not 'correct' or remediate aggression, and I am not aware of any right to prevent hypothetical aggression.
Speaking of that, you guys might want to cancel your prime subscription

https://sales.aviparshan.com/2020/10/how-to-cancel-your-amaz...
I want to live in a world where you're head of the CIA.
I wasn't making a slippery slope argument, I'm answering to whether there is more or less misinformation under a freer or a less free society. The easiest and best place to start is always going to be at the more extreme ends of something.
I had an old team lead who would say that! Good memories
I guess this was inspired by the 6809's PSHU/PSHS/PULU/PULS instructions, and indirectly, the VAX's PUSHR/POPR instructions. It's way out of place on a RISC but was a concession to practicality.
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There wasn't any new information, it was just policy decisions hiding the information.

1st stage: "We don't have enough masks to go around, we need them for doctors and such -- ok, let's tell citizens "don't wear masks, as they do no good"

2nd stage: "We have ample of masks now imported. OK, let's tell citizens they have to wear masks".
Learning Scheme and SiCP from him in CS61A was my best experience in college. Pity it happened first semester freshmen year ;-)
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Another example is early implementations of Visual Studio GUI designer. It was much easier for them to produce this using a new magic code that we didn't have to interact with but which quickly became passe and required some understanding when debugging. Once they were able to produce forms using code, the old method just went away and everything changed again.

I don't feel that we lack the tooling to be as slick as we want, we lack the motivation to invest the time and money to make things slicker. It worked at Apple, not because of integrated tooling, but because of a dictator-style management that forced people to collaborate in the name of quality. Perhaps what we are uncomfortable with is the idea that high quality requires that level of control!?
>As HN audience mostly claim to be full of "independent thinkers" we should have no problem with this being published by the Post if it indeed is legitimate, correct?

I've not read any comments on HN that claims that they have a problem with "this being published by the Post" whether it's legitimate or not.

It's possible that I missed such comments, but I don't think so.

I would be grateful if you could point me at a few of them.
You're declaring the opposite, but for a proponent of the slippery slope argument this would be a perfect example of going down the slippery slope. First came banning hate speech, now comes COVID, what's next?
I'd suggest TIC-80 [1] as an intermediate step from Snap! to larger IDEs. TIC-80 documentation [2] is a little thin, but overall it's a very pragmatic integrated development environment that combines sound, sprite, map and code-editor into one very simple IDE environment (no debugger, though, only rudimentary logging).

You have a choice between multiple script languages (Lua, Javascript and more). The run-time library [3] only has a handful of simple functions but is feature-complete nonetheless (plus there is some address-based peek/poke API to do more advanced, low-level stuff).

I'd imagine learning javascript programming by starting game-development in TIC-80 to be much more straight-forward than attempting to wrestle with the complexities of HTML5+CSS+javascript+tooling for in-browser programming.

[1] https://tic80.com/

[2] https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki

[3] https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki#special-functions
Still seems slow navigating the wordpress admin system though, maybe that's just Wordpress in general
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Both the US and Russia are known to train dolphins and other marine mammals in military espionage, even to this day.

Video of an alleged Russian spy whale: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48090616

And a fascinating report about how this works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA1qPdeeJ5s
I actually prefer number entry on the datahand. They're such a reach from home position on a normal keyboard, but they're just as easy to hit as anything else, with a datahand-like.
I've been this way since teenage years -- very light sleep, once I wake up its hard to go back to sleep, and I've had long periods where I could not fall asleep for hours.

It was all related to stress and anxiety and perhaps lower natural melatonin production.

300 mcg of melatonin helps tremendously with falling asleep, and after a week or so of usage, I find I no longer need it, I can fall asleep naturally until the next bout of anxiety/anger/depression.

I know antihistamines help me stay asleep, but I try to stay away from them.

What I've found works great for staying asleep is reducing stress and anxiety, no stimulants (after having COVID-19 I quit all stimulants because I haven't had my heart checked yet).
I see your point. The problem with exact numbers is that they are hardly (publicly) available as on the one side, there is the cost of building and running the platform, and on the other, there is potentially lost productivity (which is generally hard to measure). So, for the 2-year development example, I could only rely on the KubeCon talk, and it just mentions costs briefly (saying that it was cheaper for dev teams to use the platform).

Another problem is that it can be very different depending on your situation: If you are currently working with local clusters that are free to use, the direct cost benefits will be much lower than if you use individual clusters for each developer, which are quite expensive even for small teams.

So, I just wanted to give a rough overview of what that drives cost and where you potentially could save money.
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I remember working out of a coworking place in Thailand. There were a group of guys next to me running a marketing agency based upon hundreds of fake profiles they maintained and talking about it like it was the most natural thing in the world.

People who are surprised about these things forget that in large part of the world doing this (black hat marketing) is not illegal at all.
That's already using this hard way though, there's a great big "add" button in the top right that spots most printers automatically just like in Windows. The advanced dialog your first two links use only applies to printers that cannot be configured automatically (often because they require additional files and config that you can't just repackage without licensing issues).
They actually did something similar with Amazon Assistant (chrome extension). But it only has 30 days of history.

They don't want people to stop shopping because it's not a "good deal"
Do you find that Amazon.de has better offers than others in Europe? I usually shop on my own country TLD and didnt't think before of checking if .de or any other has better offers and free shipping
For everyone spouting the current theory as to what it will be like: my terminally ill self (I’m not currently dying from anything other than entropy aka time) would be the only person from earth that would really know. Of course I couldn’t convey that knowledge but still. That’s the whole point.
Yes, being able to scribble on a source code listing has its advantages in the case of truly obfuscated code.

I have done it once in the last 15 years or so, only 2 years ago. Imagine the faces in the office when I worked with that source code listing in front of me :)
Makes sense, printers are going the way of trebuchets and polaroid cameras.
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It's going to be interesting to see how YouTube polices information from Govt sources that are arguably lacking in scientific rigour.

For eg. India has a whole ministry devoted to 'alternative' medicine called AYUSH (which is an acronym for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Homoeopathy) which puts out videos like this:

https://youtu.be/hBxXOYk3bVw
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A tear just dropped.
My fears have been quelled,
And the nightmares have stopped.

The road to the top seems quite far.
Low level is where you want to be,
To raise the bar.
Agreed ;)

But I don't mind amazon smile (as money goes to charity as well)
That stuff is minor. For about $10,000 you can change it out, and you certainly will over the years. Budget about $1000 per year for a normal system, with replacement every 10 years.

The serious concern is ductwork. Replacement means ripping open walls, unless you go for the weird industrial look. Fixing your walls is not cheap.

Normal ductwork grows a thick layer of toxic black mold. Normal ductwork is impossible to scrub clean.

Good ductwork has a hard and perfectly smooth inner surface. It can withstand vigorous scrubbing. It is made of bare uncoated metal that is corrosion-resistant and mold-suppressing. Nickel and copper are great.
This. YouTube should be free to allow or block any content they want on their privately owned and permissions platform.

At the same time, no company should have the power to decide what content can be shared and spread.

It’s all of our responsibilities to take back the power we always had and give it back to individuals. The other their is through open protocols through decentralized / federated permissionless infrastructure.
If democracy requires free speech to be sacrificed, why do you think keeping democracy is a worthwhile endeavor? Perhaps you should be questioning the validity of universal suffrage.

If your mode of government can't withstand fake twitter bots, you should probably just toss it and start over with something else.
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Can someone with a low enough level of programming knowledge do anything in Javascript that is not already really easy in C?

Sure, some things like interrupts and PWM control take a bit more work in C (although most uCs have libraries to encapsulate this) but if someone is that noob, are they really programming interrupts and PWM?
Technically yes.

But in term of development running JS allows devs to code on their PCs and to run some tests on PCs. So once code is ready on some level to be deployed on microcontroller.
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That's also the feature I love when using MicroPython. Having a REPL on the microcontroller itself, that can be accessed through serial-over-bluetooth? Awesome.
I'm at the opposite end. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to play new games if I ever had the time, then realize the chore of making accounts, buying into walled gardens, installing platforms just to download 50GB+ games with only a couple of hours of playtime sans multiplayer and it is an instant turn off.
> not thinking about files

And I hate app-data not being files, not being portable. My data may be stuck inside a SaaS and only accessible through a closed-source app, and I have nothing to say about it.

> Real sandboxing, with a nice permission layer

Sandboxing apps is a good thing. Depending on your use-case, Snap/Flatpak or containers kinda solve this, but they are not the default way of running apps for now.

What mobile does wrong here though, is that it also sandboxes the user, not giving the user full access to his device, nor letting him let his apps get that access either.

This is user-hostile, on all current major mobile-platforms.

> Extremely easy sharing of data between apps

I would rephrase this as barely functional sharing, for only the limited subset of data the application has decided to implement sharing for, and only in ways the application-developers have considered inter-app sharing.

On a desktop, I as the user, have the power to decide how I want to share data and invent new ways data can be shared and utilized.

> URIs that go deep into other apps

While that is certainly a neat feature, it's an app-centric feature. How do you know which kind of apps I have installed? How do you know which of those apps within that niché I have installed?

And if you're not going to make it app-centric, you have to make it file/data-centric anyway... Which leaves us Android. Android does this better than iOS by having an intent-system which lets you register ability to handle both files, urls and subsets of those, and other apps can query for which apps supports which file/url-intents. So basically just a minor addition to the system we already have had on all desktop OSes for decades now.

And again: that's a system which already works really well when files are first-class concepts which everything else builds on.

So it's all back to files. If you want to empower the user, you must have files.
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They have an RSS feed, so I sometimes set notifications for myself, but I'd rather go through a deals group like this instead

https://twitter.com/israelbestsales
Try 300-450 mcg of melatonin -- I get 5 hours of good sleep this way.

I hope I can find some slow release, 300mcg melatonin to take after my melatonin drops to extend this great sleep to 8 hours.
Speaking of the Steele Dossier, here is an interesting website about the Steele Dossier. It shows you which parts have been corroborated and proven:

http://annotateddossier.com/
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> Saying that free speech has nothing to do with governments is like saying making contracts is nothing to do with governments

The concept has absolutely nothing to do with governments. If you were the only person in the world living alone on an island, the concept would still exist.

That some entity deals with the concept, or doesn't, does not change this.
I understand the position but let me argue for the other side a little bit. The problem with companies like Youtube, Google, Amazon, and Facebook is that they do everything algorithmically, since anything else wouldn't scale. Meanwhile, they have no incentives to care about false positives and the power relation between them and their customers is extremely asymmetric - basically, it's a system of oppression. To the false positive victims of algorithmic censorship, this can become a Dystopian nightmare of bureaucracy. Like in the movie "Brazil" or a Kafka story, only much worse because everything is automated and biased against them.

You can see that with Youtube content policing, Facebook and Google ads accounts, etc. Anyone whose livelihood depends on their services can lose their income at any time for no reason whatsoever. Even spreading the risk will not help much, it still means you might loose 30% or 40% of your income over night at any time thanks to a change of the algorithms. None of this is transparent and the companies will not explain anything, so you will not even know why or how to avoid this. You might claim it's anyone's own fault to depend on such companies, but there are many types of businesses where the dependence is unavoidable. These companies have quasi-monopolies in some areas.

AFAIK, the only remedy is to regulate algorithmic control of people and their content by laws more tightly. At least the appeals process needs to be more transparent and there need to be way more humans in the loop.

In this case it's the same, by the way. I guarantee you that many videos will be flagged falsely and many reputable Youtube content creators will be demonetized once again for nothing. This might be tolerable here and there, but the algorithmic oppression of people accumulates across all domains and also has a strong chilling effect.

In the long run, algorithmic oppression of people by a faceless company bureaucracy may turn out to be a bigger problem for society than what these moderation efforts are trying to solve. It creates strong and effective power structures that govern our lives, work in parallel to democratic power structures, and are not democratically legitimized at all. What's worse, the people who create them sometimes don't even seem to understand what they are creating, which is basically a recipe for creating systemic evil.
I wish "Separation of Concerns" applied (cleanly), but at least in my personal experience, it doesn't, as AWS services end up being widely coupled - nobody's at fault here, I believe it's just the nature of the systems.

On a tangent, something that would improve TF team work is to simply split state locks into R/W; right now, two read requests (ie. `plan` operations) can't be applied at the same time on a configuration.
The same thinking applies to PCs and supercomputers, but sometimes we trade efficiency for convenience. That's happening in the "microcontroller" space too (which are surprisingly powerful nowadays).
Honestly I'm happy to print at my Uni's library at this point. I just send a PDF and that's it - it's much cheaper than a personal printer anyways.