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When ever ISPs come up people are so quick to ignore the obvious to entertain some absurd entrenched political opinion.

The reality is that service is generally pretty good when the cost of advancing infrastructure is lowest and horrid where it is most expensive. That generally means that suburbs have it best due to high population densities and physically segmented real estate. Rural areas have it worst where the most material is required between the population and the service provider. An additional factor is that service providers are more willing to provide new infrastructure at their own expense when the path to profit is shortest, which also appears to preference the suburbs.

While a lack of competition might be a problem it is insignificant compared to the more obvious problem: a lack of incentive. In some areas service providers are eager to compete while in other areas they aren’t, which isn’t a monopoly problem.
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It doesn't have to be.

Neurons are created and die all the time. Replacing them one at a time, with their virtual equivalent, would not be entirely different to what is already happening.
Ha! I literally replaced my Laserjet 4P at the beginning of this year.

I now have a multifunction Officejet Laser, so scanning multiple pages over wifi is an added bonus.
>Everyone feels they’re doing the right things

In addition to what others have said, I don’t think this is true enough to be a generalization. I’m reminded of a radio conversation with a derivatives trader after the financial crisis over a decade ago. They said they knew what they were doing was wrong (in the sense of being shoddy and unsustainable) but that it wasn’t worth the risk of sticking their head up to sound the alarm. It’s much safer to just try to ride the wave with everyone else.

Likewise I’ve worked with plenty who knowingly kept along the easy path when they knew it wasn’t the best for the organization. But it was easy and safe. Instead of following the cliche “nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM” they would have been a better leader if they followed the military aphorism of “taking the harder right” decision.
> He has been able to regrow damaged optic nerves all the way from the eye back to the brain.

I assume the process may be similar to do the same with other cranial nerves? Eg hearing
I've been on teams with minimal interaction between dev and UX, where the UX team would throw a design over the wall. These were not great experiences and led to frustration on both sides.

I've also been on teams where we work very closely with UX and they are a part of all our agile ceremonies, etc. They were a core team member of the team.

The latter experience was on a mobile team. We would review the proposed designs as a team, make comments on potential navigation issues, or non-standard UI elements for our platform. There was some give or take here on both sides.
Once we were in general agreement the dev teams would start their implementation work.

Then we had a bi-weekly meeting for both platforms where a rotating engineer would meet with the team's UX team member (UX-Palooza) for 30 minutes. They would come prepared with a list of small UI issues they saw that they wanted adjusted. Minor alignment issues, font issues, etc. Things that were too small to bother writing up tickets for. The developers would try to fix everything live while sitting with the UX team member and if anything seemed like it would take more than a couple minutes we would create a story.

I feel like this model worked really well. The one "drawback" is that the UX team member identified more with the product development team than their UX peers who didn't operate like this. I feel like it may have caused some friction between the UX team member and their broader UX organization.
Twice now I've had, for reasons I can't explain, a folder on my Mac somehow gets renamed from "backgrounds" to "Backgrounds", and then syncthing complains it can't sync the folder for a day or two because the folder is still "backgrounds" on the other clients(which I usually don't notice until I go back digging through the logs), and then somehow syncthing deletes all of the files in this folder on all of the machines, and then spits out a steady stream of errors complaining it can't sync files because no machines currently online have these missing files that it just murdered.
If you are still building in a year, reach out to me. Former inner city high school math teacher, current principal engineer in a high scale, high available system. I nearly started what I called MathPods a decade ago: wiki style, interactive math skill tree. The idea being to flip the classroom: best in class online instruction whereby a teacher in class focuses on student’s questions and facilitates understanding. The idea is that the students work at their own pace and the teacher can jump in as needed. Then Kahn Academy got popular and I sidelined the idea.
No, inkjets are an inherently flawed technology. The nozzles dry out and clog up. If you use them infrequently, you'll use more ink for cleaning than you do for printing.
Today I replaced a HP Laserjet that ran a firmware update. Shame on me for not keeping it from phoning home.

Four toner cartridges inside, 70% filled or higher, and after the update I see "supply error" on the screen. Turns out my aftermarket toner cartridges, which have worked for several hundred prints without problem – and I'm on the fourth purchase of these same aftermarket cartridges – are now DRM locked and will not print.

block out all from inet 10.10.10.5 to any

I'll not make this mistake with the Brother I'm unboxing now.
As someone who has built out over 30 different accounts in AWS for various clients, this is definitely not entirely accurate. Elasticache is a caching mechanism not a database. Anyone who thinks they are the same has not used them extensively. Also RDS and Aurora both have had their super privileges removed so you might have to possibly overhaul some of your code base just to make it work. I’m sensing some uninformed fan base propaganda here
That's a pedantic distinction. If github won't allow hash X and you put in that has on purpose just so github won't allow it then obviously the intent was on your part.
I have a Canon Pixma Pro-100. Not quite as fancy but it does an amazing job. I've been using cheap matte photo paper for the few color documents I need and that works pretty well. It uses far less ink than I expected. It's cheaper to run than the terrible Epson photo printer it replaced.

Not cheap to acquire though.
I've got mine networked with an old Orange Pi using some old cell phone charger plug running the brlaser driver and it works great. Before that, I'd always have issues between Mac/Windows/Linux for seemingly no good reason. I'm glad brlaser came around.
Hi Max_Mustermann, it's all in a mix of google docs and jsfiddle snippets. Once it's in a distributable format I will be sure to show HN. If you're keen to help flick me a message on twitter (even to just help structure things :) )
I'd be happy to hear more about this workflow you've set up for yourself. The more I do development work the more I've come to appreciate having a framework to offload mental overhead onto. I don't think I've found one that quite fits me quite yet, but hopefully soon :fingers_crossed:
Thanks, I hadn't come across crev. I have always worried that open review systems could create a false sense of security, if enough bad-faith actors poison the well.

But it looks like crev deals with this by allowing users to choose their circle of trust, which is an interesting concept, definitely following this project and will take a deeper dive into it. Cheers :)
Query planners unexpectedly “helping” can lead to very real availability and performance problems. For large scale workloads, I really want to know what my database is doing. Having it suddenly flip an index for reasons no one can predict or explain because some ML algorithm decided it was the right thing sounds incredibly dangerous.
Over the past five years, I've bought two HP printers (based in part on recommendations from the Wirecutter) and then three Brother printers, and have also read a dozen HN posts like this.

My summary is that Brother is the way to go, period. The HP printers are constantly fighting me by, e.g., demanding internet access to print, failing to print when HP servers temporarily go down, putting up baffling errors, etc. The Brother printers just work.

The fact that Wirecutter recommended HP when Brother is so clearly superior has forever lowered my faith in their recommendations.
> I like a good quote too, but there’s not much substance here. [...]

I agree with you here, there's no substance to this kind of thought process. It's too generic and, ultimately, self-validating since one can't ensure what one does is leadership worthy since there isn't a final definition for what that means.

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Some have already mentioned it but the quote seems to make an unfortunate use of the word "right" which leaves a lot of room for interpretation. That might even be the reason people find it appealing.
Our main backend is wgpu, which is backed by Vulkan, DX11, DX12, Metal, and WebGPU (according to whats available on each platform).

We also have a work-in-progress WebGL2 backend (which will eventually become a desktop OpenGL backend too).
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Probably not, but the election of the same name as the boy that was assassinated is unfortunate at least.
Given the fact that the Austrian school literally rejects the scientific method, I think that it indeed barely qualifies as economics.

The Chicago argument on this matter is pretty generally rejected.
What a nice way of saying most managers are useless :)
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Oh, that's a great visualization! (And that's a wonderfully low-tech way of animating it.) I appreciate the Johnston notation, too, which made it easy for me to follow.

The Well-Tuned Piano [1] also has a really nice lattice, though the Wikipedia page doesn't reflect this yet. (The B7+ should just be an A. I think scholars have taken La Monte Young too literally when he said everything was an overtone of an extremely low Eb.) Here, just drew a picture: https://imgur.com/S5OndL6.png (light gray is the piano key it's mapped to). It's illuminating taking the "chords" in Kyle Gann's paper and seeing them on this lattice, which shows major and minor septimal triads in each triangle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Tuned_Piano
Nope, its absymal. I was carrying 45 pound full on winter gear loadout while thru hiking and I was getting 23 miles a day at going from 5k ft to 13k ft

This was without any real special training.
Not for origin of life, no. We’re talking >3gy. These fossils are rocks, not biomaterials. Isotopes of trace decay products in the rock itself are used to age it, as is done with other geologic samples.
I had a Deskjet 722 I think? Worked flawlessly until one day the drive belt just shredded. Decided it was a total loss at that point.
So NRE is producing custom blocks pistons heads and cranks for SSC's supercar engines?

Because if it's just another Chevy v8 with some shiny manifolds and turbochargers hanging off it and an E85 compatible fuel system, it's nothing more than a souped up crate motor.

At 30k I'd personally be more interested in the h1v8 with turbos hanging off it, but it's still not something I'd be willing to pay $1M let alone $1.6M to get in a "supercar" package. That's insane IMO. And it's not that I'm against exploiting COTS parts for performance applications. It's just a matter of cost; Chevy-based powertrains are economical, this vehicle is not; hence: nice profit margin.
The reason I prefer HP Laserjets to Brother laser printers, I believe when you replace the cartridge in the HP, it contains the fuser and the toner.

The Brother is a separate fuser that is replaced after some number of toner replacements.

I am not sure if it is still like this for Brothers.
If a cure is invented in Country X and monopolized, every other country in the world has an incentive to replicate it by some combination of espionage and reverse engineering. If it can be invented at all, what makes you think that it can be used without other parties figuring out how to copy it? The atomic bomb was duplicated within 4 years.
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The bigger HP printers seem to work well for our people who are a bit picky on the subject.

We stopped buying any servers from them when they started requiring a service contract for firmware.
It's not even sarcastic. The Austrian school literally starts with assumptions that basically imply their solutions, that people always act in their best interest and so on, and reject any kind of empirical test of their theory. At all. The Austrian school assumes that these bases are absolutely and completely true, and then posit that all economic truths can be derived thereof and cannot be impacted negatively or positively by empirical evidence.
Nice tool!

I just wonder: Are imagemaps still a thing? I haven't seen them since decades in the web. Clickable maps on wikipedia is literally the only thing where I still notice imagemaps.
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Couldn't this potentially dangerously amplify ambient RF if you follow the author's advice of re-using an antenna dish & covering it with a non-conductive reflective vinyl coating?
Welcome to HN Andy! As you are witnessing, people find that actually reading the links can be a real impediment to hot takes...
What are the differences between Unikernel and RTOS? Both are lean. Except for the fact that RTOSes are usually coded in C/C++ mostly. And Unikernel implementations are present in various languages. Other than that what is the difference?
Moreover, RTOSes provide all those Real-Time guarantees.
The obvious solution to that is to make it more difficult to consolidate companies. Disallow at will M&A's,and also force anyone that still goes down that route and manages to succeed to justify their continued consolidated existence.

In short the market/regulatory environment should support disaggregated business as a first class citizen, mergers and vertical integration as a very second-class construct. To the tune of if you merge, you must maintain 3 sets of accounts. The original accounts separately, and a combined set. You must gain more capability or utility to create value for the public as the combined company than by being separate. The capacity to measure the utility amplification being facilitated through the extra set of books. As more companies are bought and merged, the audit workloads would increase very quickly. Failure to make a good case for why you should continue to run as a merged company kicks in an orderly spin-off of the previous acquisition to get operated by someone else. M&A's should not be one and done. This greatly complicates hostile takeovers, makes the business model by which large entrenched entities buy out and kill up and coming competitors, at best, a stalling tactic, but more often a worthless waste of time to the perpetrating company as much as it is to the public.

If you let M&A's have their cake (the capital assets of another company) while giving them the option to cut fat without insisting that they "compensate" the public for the decrease in competition, only one side will ever benefit, and it won't be the public.
550c. I am jealous, I had a 500c, so had to manually swap the color cartridge with the black cartridge, depending what I printed.

It was $499 from Sears.
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Something that works rather well is taking ratios a/b with, say, a and b in the range 2 through 10, and then changing a or b by a small amount and avoiding a=b. You get some nice harmonies if you have multiple of these running simultaneously in a few octaves.
Do they make "directional" or "angled" Fresnel lenses?

Because you also really want the light to come out of the vertical window at something like a 45° angle downwards.

The physics of it should be fine, I've just never heard of them being manufactured.

And then just add a translucent blue diffusing layer on top.

It seems highly commercializable.
Last I checked we’re partly growing our population with immigration, the birth rate is 1.7, below a replacement level of 2.1.
Can you elaborate? All of the examples I can think of where favoring an in house brand is "bad" ultimately end with the consumer being harmed by either paying a higher price or receiving a lower quality product. What are the other "bad" scenarios which don't reduce to either of these?
Would it be able to apply some (most) of these technics to other RDBMS like PostgreSQL and MySQL? Maybe some of (non private/secure) information about the queries/stats could be sent back to a centralised server that would be ingested by the ML model making it even "smarter".
I have the exact same story, and I too now mistrust the Wirecutter!
For used books, bookfinder.com is a great site that has listings from independent booksellers (as well as amazon)
Conservatives focus on doing the least good.
Progressives focus on doing the most harm.
Given that actions can reference other actions, is this even feasible? You'd have to go and fork all deps, and then if you ever want to pull upstream, repatch.
Where do you see that being the case with broadband? There are many examples of private sector monopolies, but I've never heard of private sector broadband being regulated out of existence.
I think that that's very poignant symbolism. It's taken such an ahem incredible journey from such an innovation hotbed (Fairchild Semi/Xerox PARC/Bell Labs) to companies that extract money from eyeballs.

That is not to say "real" innovation is not taking place, but I get the sense it's just optimization and refinement of internal processes. Maybe VR or high(er) speed networking, but with all the recent IP lawsuits (a copyright on APIs?!) it seems to me that the collaborative spirit of truly new discovery is gone. To use the cliche, I can't shake the feeling that we've discovered everything already.

But what do I know; it all happened before I was even born. I'm just amazed every time I read about all the discovery and experimentation that named it Silicon Valley in the first place.
Brother makes a basic AF black laser printer that costs $88 (back when I bought it). It's been 4 years and I have yet to replace the replaceable materials (toner). I was planning on upgrading but I don't wanna throw away useful hardware.
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About 12 years ago I stumbled upon second hand Brother laser printers and haven't looked back. They've even worked in Linux using the Windows driver and some sort of wrapper I found just searching online.

I've currently got a Brother HL-2132 I paid $AU30 for sitting on my desk in a dusty metal fabrication workshop. When the printer tells me the toner is low I start looking for another same or similar model just for the toner cartridge. When the drum goes I just switch over to the next second hand one.

The current one has only had two paper jams that needed the printer blowing out with compressed air, despite the dust in the workshop being full of metal particles and grinding disk particles.
Disproved,

it reads "algae pool (area)", so is a game and all that I wrote above about Spirulina is wrong, as jml7c5 pointed correctly
Brother's firmware doesn't do funky stuff like that... but I do only use USB-based ones.
You're preaching to the choir, but it was my partner's employer buying and we were at the mercy of what they had in stock :-)

This one doesn't appear to have Ethernet.
I had a B&W LaserJet for so long that I couldn't easily get it to work on Windows anymore, which is rare, especially for a basic printer. It seemed likely possible as a slightly later but very similar model was still in the included drivers, but it was a decade+ old.

Even color laserjets are decently cheap these days.
Well, you won your merit badge, thats the main thing. I can't help feeling using mechanical turk was logistically the same as buying the karma: you could have paid them to do things which either directly or almost directly earned you the score, not just grading inputs. But I don't mean to quibble: it was an interesting/entertaining read!

I think if you'd gone into an investment space, you might have earned the score faster by virtue of earning other people money from your picks.
Any Xbox controller support
And even Unity uses 3rd party networking solutions, so I wouldn't sweat it that much
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this doesn't answer everything outside the print capabilities such as:

why can't I scan to the SD card inserted, is there no write capability?

why is this wireless printer looking for a wired computer to scan to?

why can I only scan to Google Drive or Dropbox?

why is it app so slow?

why can't I just tap it with NFC or bluetooth to get this data?

Just like really common frustrations which should be default by now in even the cheapest models.
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Say you have a kid in elementary school. Say you need to print something for a school project or even a home craft she's doing urgently (because if course kids don't plan long term - else they wouldn't be kids). BW prints look ugly. Color lasers are crazy expensive. Inkjets suck but the come with reasonably priced nice colour and photo paper printing options with a scanner built in. The inks are expensive but you're not printing much anyway. It's a hell of a lot more convenient to just fire a print from the printer at home than check if the nearest print shop is open and mount an expedition

(Source: Switched from laser to inkjet)
Until you've used a wet process printer you haven't lived..

Bromides are cool. feeding them the tape of the fonts, super cool: adjusting the hex for minor positioning, extra merit points (I never did that but I know a guy who did)

The Early canon laser was half good, but the size of a fridge. The Benson Varian stuff was ok, but the paper felt slimy.

I think using the pen plotter to write cursive was my favourite, but the operators hated me when I did that.
There are already self thermalling RC gliders. But thermals are slow things, and everything these days has to be fast, right? Thermals would only allow for greater loitering. IF the thermal stays where you want to loiter. They move a lot.
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Most good theories of monopoly power encompass the abuse of natural monopolies via collusion
Probably the increase in dpi. 90's era inkjets didn't have nearly the troubles with disuse as later ones do.
> Inkjet is garbage and cannot handle being left idle for any period of time.

Modern printers are much better in this context, however what you pointed is true. To avoid heads clogging, when I moved from Laser to Inkjet, I planned a way to save the printer from inactivity by preparing a directory of family photos I already planned to print, but instead of printing lots of them in a single take, I print each of them every two weeks, so the printer heads never get dried.
The printer is a Epson WP4515, and of course I use refilled consumables (€3.50 per cartridge). Admittedly from time to time I forgot about printing my photos, nothing that one or two heads cleaning passes couldn't solve.
In short, it is definitely possible to have an Inkjet printer, make it print no more than a few hundred photos in years, but never clog a head or have to ditch new cartridges or worse, that is, an extremely low cost of operation.
It requires some attention though.