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Color laser has actually pretty terrible color, especially for photos, prints or any output that requires any sort of vibrancy or color accuracy.

Epson makes some excellent inkjet printers. The cartridge based ones are expensive to run, but their eco tank offerings have pretty good output and are cheap enough to run - still no eco tank model is photo print grade, but the 5 ink version isn’t bad and not too expensive.

Ink is a messy, nasty media, but is almost unavoidable if you want good to great color quality.
In NZ we have 2 levels, wholesale and retail providers. By law you cannot be both. The price paid by retail providers to wholesale providers is currently set by the commerce commission because the infrastructure being built and managed by the wholesale providers was heavily subsidised by the govt. The (4) wholesale providers are effectively regional monopolies but importantly cannot set their prices, and the retail providers compete on value-add services and price for which there is fairly healthy competition.
I'm looking for a warm glow for my dining room.

Wdym with "250-400 ways" is that a brand?
It is a capitalist forum after all, a space to worship assholes and publish some dangerously spicy takes on poverty and homelessness.

Sorry about your property value!!
Shameless plug: my company has launched an alternative authentication modality that eliminates this issue, yet is also app-less and requires no download. It is also not limited in the ways FIDO authenticators are today, yet provides the same level of security because it can actually leverage FIDO authenticators if needed. Soft launch was last week. Email in my profile if this piques your interest and I can send more info directly.
What does that have to do with Termux or F-Droid?
Go?! I don't think there's even a comparison here -- the .Net ecosystem is huge compared to such a newcomer.
I've been looking at .Net libs (for F# and C#) and JVM libs (for Clojure) recently, and I've came across way more old, crufty, poorly-documented Java libs than the .Net ones.
Nice! When I wanted to drill a bit deeper past docker, this was a great additional resource. https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/10/10/what-even-is-a-container/ definitely demystifies some of the magic.
Color lasers are not crazy expensive anymore. I bought a Xerox color laser about 8 years ago for under $300. It's one of the best hardware purchases in terms of value for money I've ever made.
But then your e.g. tax return may be stored on a hard drive that gets found when the printer/copier is recycled.
> Color lasers are crazy expensive.

Not really. Honestly, I find the space taken by the duplexing color laser all-in-one I have from Brother a bigger deal than the up-front price was, but it's fast, excellent quality, and total cost of printing is much lower than a cheap ink-jet.
People would pay good money for this if you could (1) put it in a Jupyter notebook, (2) create gui bindings for matplotlib.

The single biggest time-sink for me outside of research is back-and-forth with management about how results get presented to project sponsors.

An intuitive interface like this would allow me to pass off raw research to people who refine it for external consumption (people who care about ridiculous things like color schemes).
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Mine was the UBPorts edition but I believe the latest shipped phone is Manjaro based. I was planning to try that as well at some point but the current version I have makes me happy enough to not want to experiment anymore :) . Edit0: s/release/shipped phone/ .
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I swore off HP products for a run of crap in the 2005-2010 era. What finally did it was a wireless printer. We got a new router, and I spent a couple of hours trying to get the printer to work again. I finally contacted HP support and the answer was, yeah, with that printer, you can't change the router. No way to get it to forget the old network and move to the new one.

They fell so far.
My color laser provided significantly better color than any of the inkjet I have used. It provided nice even color. Whereas the inkjet color was often banded.
Is option 1.5) available? Hire a "legal service" that has templates, pay 1-2k and get it mildly customised to your needs
Individual cells might live forever, but as of today organisms do not. Optional implies you (as a person) have a choice, but you do not.
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Hi @xchip, thanks for trying out! if you ask me, things in life are all well since I've first encountered God (and Jesus) personally. Before knowing God (and Jesus), I was the guy who didn't put much value in my family. Didn't really respect my parent (they treated me the best they can though, later I realize). But, thanks God, years went by and really, God is changing my view on my family. You may not believe this, but now I always see my family is much more alive (more than you can imagine), good communication, and I proudly say my family is my best support system, all thanks to God (and Jesus).

I believe God exists. My family life, my personal life, are enough for me to believe God exists. There are many other things, though, such as my career and business, are all thanks to God, too. I hope this answers your question @xchip
This is why I keep coming back to the idea that we need tools that keep their data serialized in the repo itself. I talking about issue tracking, project planning, documentation like github wikis or confluence, all that stuff.

There are quite a few problems to solve to support this that I haven't worked out properly, otherwise I'd be building it.

For example, where do you keep your backlog? How do issues and issue statuses get stored? How do you report on open tickets and progress if the state is scattered across a bunch of different branches?
I struggled with exactly this model and use case. Check out the AUR package for the 2270DW, and make sure image quality is set to 600dpi. That was the magic combination for me. Also check out the Arch wiki on Brother printers.
Not sure if anyone else is wondering, but I was looking to see what was being parsed.

From https://github.com/mroth/emojitracker,

> emojitrack-feeder Consumes the Twitter Streaming API and feeds our data pipeline.
I noticed this happens within the US too in mainstream politics. You can sometimes just tell who is writing a piece based on their word choice, let alone any deep framing of the world.
Are you saying there is no such thing as a free market? Or simply that it's not a "pure" free market? I'd go with the later.

Whatever you want to call the part of the economy that functions in part on competition between businesses, that competition has played a part in car safety. When businesses are marketing safety features, they are competing on safety features rather than (just) price or other factors. Those are market forces, whether or not they meet a specific definition of free market.
You had me at whipper-snappers. I think more people should write books filled with stories just like yours. Feynman's was basically that.

There's not much knowledge about "what it was like to work for Sun 15 years ago." Stuff like that gets lost with time. It's always seemed like it should be preserved somehow, though I suppose an HN comment is as good a way as any.

It's cool that coworkers were doing LAN parties 15 years ago :) I thought it was mostly a teenager phenomenon, but most phenomenons seem that way to teenagers.
In Texas, they 'lobbied' (bribed, imo) the state government to overturn Austin's plastic bag ban. It occurs to me that the most workable tax policy that can be passed in the US today consists of politicians raising their 'prices'.
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If you can nail WebGL, this project becomes so tempting. There's basically nothing out there that gives you good cross platform.

We're using Unity, and optimizing for wasm performance and size is so awful (they don't have a good solution for streaming).

Our parent company uses a js engine, which has meant a far better story on the web, but porting successful games to mobile is awful.

You could quite easily become the natural choice to develop a decent cross platform game in.
Tech support. If they have a good ticket system and they use it you can gleen all sorts of info.
I wonder sometimes Google start providing ChromeOS for RPI officially.
I grew up in the age of 8 bit computers, C64s Ataris, spectrums, amstrads, etc. It was cool. Everything was really constrained, and it was super exciting when something broke through a constraint.

But now, I think it's even cooler, there is just so much we can do with all the computing devices available to us. We are connected with so much human creativity these days that it really is overwhelming. Things like raytracing and VR etc are still pushing at edges that makes things exciting, then there are things like raspberry pis, microbits, arduinos, etc are super cool, I still think top end graphics cards are cool. I think because there really is so much cool stuff, it starts to get hard to appreciate it.
If you find tech frugality, low-end computing etc interesting, then all the other essays on this guy's pages are also worth a read. Great and thoughtful blog, especially given that The World Is About To End Pretty Soon. Thanks a lot for posting the link.
I'm aware of this.

If it is talking to a database, it's not a unit test.

If you've mocked out the database, it is a unit test.

My point is that the unit test version is a lot of work to create and tends to be useless. (Which is similar to the point that your blog link made.)
Methanol has half the energy density of gasoline.
My phone is about to die, but last time I checked FCC's data on ISPs in my area it was quite inaccurate, showing more and faster options than are actually available. Also it included several geo satellite options, which hardly qualify as options.
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> Say you need to print something for a school project. BW prints look ugly.

I admit my kid is only in second grade so far, but I disagree with you that color is mandatory. We've been very happy with the B&W laser.
Making hardware is difficult. It's called HARDware.
Quote: "When I was a kid, computers were cool.

Nowadays? Not so much."

Yeah, I call BS on that. This bubble us techie live in it paints this sort of boring. Try go on the country side or in another industry and suddenly you are looked upon as some sort of god - it's almost cringy they way they treat you when you spend 5 minutes fixing something that half the village tried to fix it in past year and then they gave up.
Did you link the wrong article?

Title: "50 million US homes have only one 25Mbps Internet provider or none at all"

Article:

> The household analysis found a slightly better, but still troubling, situation, with nearly half of the 118 million US households lacking any wired Internet choice at the FCC's broadband standard of 25Mbps.
Thank you.

I hate pay walls.
Can this run GPT3? Also a 6.5kW computer must need quite some cooling system...
BT Openreach and Local Loop Unbundling comes to mind.
I mean, we use the term "hacker" consciously as a reclamation, we can hardly be surprised or affronted when people outside the circle mistake it for its more common negative meaning.

I suspect that people wanting to reclaim the term are over-represented in Wikipedia editors, too.
I am mystified by your comment.

How has OS X's "multi-userness" helped organizations?

Do you literally mean two or more people using the same Mac?

Has it been useful for organizations that users can ssh into Macs? Or is Apple Remote Desktop involved? (Does Apple Remote Desktop even allow 2 people two use two instance of OS X's GUI at the same time?)

Or by "multi-user" do you refer to the services that can be enabled using the "Sharing" pane of System Preferences (e.g., file sharing, printer sharing, remote management, internet sharing)?
The best printer in my household is still my dad's hp Laserjet 5MP. It's outlived every one of the multifunction inkjet plastic pieces of crap.
Reactoring and reuse is a bit of a pain compared to functors or typical OO code in C#, etc., esp. moving from idiomatic F# to to more performant code, when this is needed.

For example, I may use a List at first, as it's natural to start with and offers niceties with [H|T] pattern matching or List.filter() somewhere, then if I decide to use a .Net List (ResizeArray) or Array or Set instead, I'm screwed. The pattern matching needs to either change syntax or go away, and all the List.Foo() calls need to change to Array.Foo's or whatever -- or I have to use Seq.Foo() everywhere to get extensibility even I don't want to pay for lazy evaluation.
Long time F# fan here! -- but still some sore points.
autocorrect fail: it's "watts"; 250W & 400W are two common size for metal halide lamps.

Unfortunately they are full of mercury and can explode at end of life.
This is an interesting concept. I think this is a tool that I would use, however I don't have an iPhone and I don't use Chrome. Are there plans to release this as a Firefox addon?
Wouldn't it make sense to share the pipes the dumb light pipes and compete on service?
To be fair thats a one sided view of the issue. Will be interesting to see Githubs take.
Now that's the kind of "go get 'em" attitude we like here at clencher-knobs.com!
Since Swift strives for clarity at the call-site, you will definitely still have that property. Readers will know it's async because it will say `let x = await loadContent()` (the same way they know it could return an error because it has to start with `try`).

If, rather, you're looking at the function definition, you already need to read the whole thing. You need to read what the parameters are, whether or not it throws, what its return type is, etc. So putting the effects (like throwing or async) after the name makes it IMO much more scannable. Because the first thing I want to know is the name. I only care about those implementation details once I know I'm looking at the right thing.

There's also no universal consistency between languages. Rust put `.await` after the function invocation rather than as a prefix keyword. C++ used `co_async` and `co_await` as the keywords to avoid breaking lots of people's code. Swift should put the keyword where it makes sense from a consistency standpoint with Swift, which in this case is with `throws`.
1. this was a tax in an attempt to get recycling, not a tax to discourage use of something

2. a tax on all bottles doesn't incentivize using a different material for bottles

3. if the tax is ineffective, it isn't large enough

4. recycling plastic is expensive - better to just not use plastic in the first place

A tax on plastic (not glass or tin) would incentivize making bottles out of glass or tin instead.
Free associating? I never experienced F-Droid before or since my scattered Cyanogen/LineageOS experiments. Honestly, I doubt I'm alone making that distinction (similar to how its hard to make a distinction between javascript and jquery when you're first learning)

Honestly I'm a little confused about the DIY mobile software landscape, and would love to get a minimalist, open-source wonderland mobile OS - and I wouldn't even mind if it was browser native, and neither should anyone else because WASM.
Is just nostalgia or those dot printers where actually less error prone?
If I have $100,000 USD equivalent in yuan in a Chinese bank account and try to have it transferred overseas in one go, they will certainly ask me questions. Similarly if I suddenly try to withdraw that amount in cash, I will be queried as well.

Ergo, as long as limits and thresholds exist, the banking systems are equivalent, and all we are left to quibble over is the what (or how much) and the why.
The analogy would make sense if it was lip service for a year rather than trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands dead over the course of decades.
For the brother multifunctions I've used, the fuser is replaced at 100k-120k pages; the large toner cartridges are like 6k pages. So, yeah, you don't replace the fuser with every toner replacement, but I don't see how that's a mark in favor of HP, if they replaced it with the toner (but doing some googling, it looks like HP also uses separate fuser kits.)
I'd find it hard to believe that he's still a missing person if they already had his real name.
He has a video of that project as well. It's not as good as this version but can look very nice.

https://youtu.be/8JrqH2oOTK4
City-owned ISPs are unfair competition, but coops or non-gov non-profit organizations are perfectly valid approach.
It does matter if you tax the company profits at 20% and capital gains at 20% (assume the normal income tax is 40%) or if you tax the company 0% and tax capital gains at 40% - because there's a substantial timing difference. You have to pay the corporate income tax this year; you can generally defer the capital gains tax for arbitrary amount of time with some structuring to avoid any taxable event; there's some overhead involved so it's not for small amounts of capital gain, and you need control over the corporate structure, you can't do it for capital gains on 0.001% or Apple; however, if you'd have 0% tax on company profits and capital gains at 40%, then all the billionaires would be paying essentially zero taxes.
But there are many such island nations and the consequences are global - In England and Wales, for example, there are at least 1700 coastal landfills in the coastal flood plain and at least 60 threatened by erosion ( Coastal Landfills, Rising Sea Levels and Shoreline Management: A Challenge for the 21st Century - Nicholls, 2019). Last year a landfill on the south west coast of NZ busted open due to unprecedented high rainfall, sending hundreds of tonnes of waste matter down the Fox river and out to sea. Inthat region alone another 12 historic landfill sites are at risk, and remediation for the already-busted one to ensure no further spillage is a multi-million-dollar project that the region can't afford.

It's not just island nations either - A great portion of humanity lives close to a coastline and waste is generally interred in proximity to where consumption occurs. Physical damage is not the only consideration - Any situation that prompts power interruption, water damage, or reduced access to the site puts a landfill site at risk of incident. In the US the EPA considers there to be significant risk of these events and has had it in their sights for at least a decade: https://semspub.epa.gov/work/11/175853.pdf

Assuming that sea level rise is just a matter of adjusting the shoreline in accordance with topography is also a huge mistake - Erosion increases rate and begins occurring in places it didn't previously. Storm surges and king tides bring surge water to higher points that ever before, and intrusion of saltwater into landfills poses far higher risk of leaching than rain, river, or aquifer.

The underlying problem is a changing risk management landscape - A decision to site a landfill on a once-in-300-years flood site may be taken, but when that assessment is later revised to once-in-100 years, you're faced with either rolling the dice each year or pulling funding out of your ass to relocate. Repeat the gamble at a global scale at many thousands of sites, the overall odds look very bleak.
Oh, here's my worst outage story:

https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-l...

I will never, ever again use a non-.com domain for a business.
> How can Jack Ma belong to the Chinese communist party, and also own a huge company? Does communism not mean what it used to mean any more?

- to own a huge company in China, you would have to be a member of the CCP. Otherwise it would be stripped from you and you would be jailed.

- as of 2019, companies over 50 employees have a CCP cell in their office. The CCP is now going after even smaller companies in 2020.

- communism is totalitarianism. That means the society is strictly controlled top-down, from Dragon Families/Xi to the lowest peasant. The families pillage China on a national scale (Three Gorges power generation revenue, etc.), while the CCP has ultimate control of literally everything else.

- China has had tremendous growth, funded by the West, but aggressively-managed by local officials with KPIs, etc.

- the CCP is modelled on the Soviet Union, but on steroids

- It's reported that the top 100 CCP officials have personal wealth of around $2 billion each.
Totally agree with this post!

I fondly remember a summer job in the IT department of a gas exploration company where we were unboxing and setting up a load of SPARCstation 10 machines, each with three(!) monitors. Monitors so huge and splendid that they came with a credit-card sized remote control (which when not in use was stored in a slot in the monitor casing) and a warning not to damage the screen on your belt buckle when lifting it. So cool.

We also did a series of RAM upgrades to some long-forgotten Silicon Graphics machines. Whatever they were, the cases were large and purple, everything inside looked like it was designed to survive a nuclear attack. When powered back on the machine played some wonderful indulgent sound deep from inside. So cool.

When all that was done it was time to get back to the PC users to complete their upgrades from 4MB to 8MB of RAM. Less cool, but at least the users were happy at the end of it.
Love this belief, if only everyone thought this way too
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I've had a black and white fuji-xerox laser printer for 6 years now about $120 new

Used about 6 reams of paper (I don't print that much really) and haven't replaced the ink cartridge once! Still works great.

Here's the printer: https://www.fujixerox.com.mm/en/Products/MM-Printers/DocuPri...
Tidier, cleaner more rational layout and work-flow than 8 or 10. (OK. More "traditional" if you like.)

Every time I try to use 8 or 10, I seem to spend ages just trying to find what I want.

I don't boot Windows very often, but when I do, I try to make sure that it's Windows 7.
My favourite times were playing Marathon and Quake during lunch at work. This was mid 90s. Marathon was a cutting edge Mac game made by Bungie. It was the first 3D shooter I played where you could look up and down.
I’m sure that’s how the other poster found the LinkedIn user...
I think the author is way off base.

Back in the day, everything related to computers was cool. It was a small priesthood for the nerdiest among us.

Now that Harvard MBAs are "going into tech" there is a whole lot of uncool computer-adjacent activity.

But computers are cooler than ever. I can roll my own object detection algorithm to tell me if my dog is eating my shoes while I'm out. You can do so much cool stuff with them.

Back in the day, Richard Feynman thought using computers to print tables of arctangents was cool. Look what we can do now! It is straight up wizardry (or sorcery).
I wonder if some in China are worried about the opposite.

Ant has trouble of some sort and it hits home hard.

I agree about unpredictable regulations, but I thought that was kinda the status quo there anyway.