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People shouldn't be buying inkjet printers unless they're printing photos all the time. Laser printers are simply unbeatable for occasional document printing because toner never dries out and the printer never clogs.

If you want to get the most out of an inkjet printer, the best thing to do with it is to load fresh cartridges into the printer and then print continuously until it runs out. Leaving it sit around with partial ink cartridges causes the printer to repeatedly waste ink on cleaning cycles in order to prevent the nozzles from clogging up with dried out ink.

Personally, I think inkjet printers are really only viable for people who do volume photo and other graphics printing, as you would in a commercial printing business.
> what I perceive to be typical for iPhone users in particular

I believe that somewhere, out there, there are iPhone users that change their phone every time Apple puts out something new.

Personally I'm rocking an XS and I haven't even considered getting the 12. I have a friend that's still using a 6 Plus :)
stubborn resistance to change

Ironic, given the recent trend of making everything out of bloated browsers, like every new IDE out there.
No, I don't see anything here that would be illegal in California. There's no requirement to include the salary range in a job posting or anything upfront, the obligation is to disclose the pay scale for a position "upon reasonable request." In fact, this is specifically called out as being after an initial interview.[1]

Employers can't ask candidates their salary history, but they can definitely ask the candidate for salary expectations.

[1] CA Labor Code Section 432.3 (c) An employer, upon reasonable request, shall provide the pay scale for a position to an applicant applying for employment. For purposes of this section, “pay scale” means a salary or hourly wage range. For purposes of this section “reasonable request” means a request made after an applicant has completed an initial interview with the employer.
It's still common to use phone number to input location for car navigation because its Japanese input system is not good. Phone number is easiest but sometimes points wrong position if you use older maps. We won't use it on smartphone's map app.
Is that wrong? Also, NIST has nothing to do with immigration if I understand its mandate correctly.

Though I suppose a group tasked with improving science and technology in the US would be all about more smart people coming to the country.
That's fair. Reasonable people can disagree about these things.

EDIT: Sorry, a bit of a rambly post, too tired and emotional to rephrase.

I will say, though, that "fundamental networking and caching issues" sounds very... weasel-wordy, if you see what I mean? It's not very concrete about what the actual problems you might experience would be. (Yes, latency and huge numbers of requests are issues, but is it really an issue until you get big enough?)

Almost all successful applications in existence until about 2018 (or so? Not sure exactly when GraphQL was invented) has done just about fine. If we're talking about a brand new type of application which couldn't have been done without it, then fine. If not... well, we're not talking about technical limitations.

I truly do see the appeal of GraphQL for developers, and especially the fast decoupled iteration that it enables, at least theoretically. The thing is that when you need more data on the client, you still have to add that data on the server... somewhere. It's great that the client can choose the overall "shape" of the data, but that doesn't solve the problem of the data not actually being on the server.
Because they are 1 of 50 states. A state is a single member of a union. The influence of a state should not be determined by geographic size or population.

The compromise of quantity of electoral votes was in response to your argument. I am saying that it was a poor compromise that has resulted in eroding the protections of the electoral college as populations have grown.

What we have is like saying the fat guy in the group counts a 3 people.
First, yes, right to know and tell, pretty much against any form of punishment.

The last point is in reference to your use of the word "entitled." English is not my first language, so I might interpret this wrong, but when one says "I'm entitled to X" it is heavily implied that "someone else should give me X when I ask," and I disagree with that in general, except in settings where those are the terms agreed (I suppose public service would be one).
You're clearly missing the point, if you've read so many of my comments then you've seen my point about the raspberry pi...

The point is laypeople don't know what bombs or basic electronics look like. And why should they when there are pictures of TV shows using CPU coolers to represent bombs and computer power supplies to represent hard drives?

> Anyone who actually takes a look at the photos of what the "clock" looks like will immediately think it looks like a bomb

Kind of makes my point. You realize the thing was in a pencil box, not some full size briefcase? The most common image used:

https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/2015/09/ahm...

doesn't actually convey the actual scale of it, the thing was barely larger than the original alarm and maybe an inch thick.

If you found this in a train unattended it'd be one thing, but the student says it's an alarm clock, anyone with a modicum of electronics knowledge would immediately look at it and say "yes that's an alarm clock". Which is exactly what both teachers did.

No one ever thought it was an actual bomb, the confusion was the intent behind it since Texas has a law about hoax bombs that treats them seriously based on intent not just appearance.

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And more generally I bring it up because it should show, laypeople are easy to convince of guilt if your standards are literally adding "allegedly" to every claim.

People in general are vastly overestimate their own reliability and underestimate their suggestibility. It takes a few weasel words to fool people into creating alternate realities so far and away from reality they almost seem absurd compared to the truth, yet they're absolutely convicted about them.
> I no longer buy unknown brands from it.

I'm nearly doing the opposite. I try not to buy known brands from Amazon unless the ability to identify a counterfeit is really easy. This has been especially problematic with clothing, and I just don't buy clothing from them anymore unless it's from a cheap unknown brand where I don't care about the quality/brand.
What's wrong with only wanting the best?
Exactly, the exit tax is no joke: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expa...

Never becoming a citizen in the first place saves so much money and headache.
This is great! Already found a great wind ensemble I haven't run into before: https://roulette.alternativeclassical.co.uk/#BSyLauxdwtw.
why wouldn't it be comparable to any other modern, reliable digital infrastructure? Those are not terms I would use to describe something that was going to become a horror show to deal with in a few years.
China Could Be Developing Deadly 'Magnetized Plasma Artillery'
I think a lot of documentation still tends to suggest docker as a default, but containerd actually makes more sense.

Why use something higher level than you need that wraps containerd (namely Docker) instead of something that is exactly at the level you want: containerd itself? The only real advantage of wrapping docker is that doing so ensures the docker cli works for introspecting containers.

The Docker folks don't want people to be wrapping dockerd, because then those infrastructure folk complain about changes/additional features in dockerd. Even dockerd is (glacially) moving in the direction of move heavily using containerd, for example using it to pull/store images.

The longer-term intent appears to be for dockerd being more for implementing docker specific stuff like its networking, swarm/stack, and various features needed by the front-end.
Ik not sure the algorithm used by VisiCalc was poor for the constraints set by its operating environment. Fancier algorithms and their fancy dirty bits and inter-cell links take memory, and that was in short supply (VisiCalc was initially designed to run in 16kB of RAM, but ended up needing 48kB)

Also, in most spreadsheets (certainly at the time), evaluating in top to bottom, left to right order is the correct way. That the code had to go through all cells a second time to discover that you’re done didn’t matter, given that there were no other processes that could want to use the CPU, as long as you interrupted calculations on key presses.

Also, I’m not sure 123 beat VisiCalc because of its smarter recalculation. I think it were the charts and its macro system (awful by today’s standards, but way better than nothing)
Presumably high IQ people are more predisposed to immigrate anyway. It seems strange to need a second test, maybe my hypothesis is wrong.
Should our immigration system be set up to benefit us or as some sort of global charity-lottery?
I'm not sure this is an open, non-patented secret , because there are only 2 companies that make their burger quite similar to meat, and even with that, impossible is much more similar.
Care to define "gunsch"? Other than the expected gross definitions from Urban Dictionary I'm coming up empty-handed.
Oh, they've got the laptop. They've acknowleged a fault, but the replacement part wasn't going to be available until January so they asked me to confirm whether a replacement unit would be ok, subject to availability. I said fine. I have had no communication in the two weeks since. I have no idea if they got the confirmation, whether they have stock to give me, whether they've ordered it and it's being delivered and I should expect it to arrive tomorrow, or whether they also can't get the new unit to me any sooner than January. And I can't get anyone to tell me, because the set of people I can speak to is disjoint from the set of people with visibility into the system that actually matters.

I'm left with the sinking realisation that the only option I've got left is to pursue a refund, hope that doesn't take an age to sort out, and start the whole process over again with either Dell or Lenovo. Then deal with whatever mess I get left with if I do get a delivery.

Ironically I went with HP because I'd heard Dell was having delivery issues and I wanted to avoid that hassle. More fool me.
I love the declarative statements on HN by people who have zero practical experience in a given area.
And? Countries are allowed to have standards for the people they let in. We're not obligated, morally or in any other sense, to let every single unfortunate person in the world into our countries. Even if we wanted to, that is not a sustainable strategy for helping people!
Does it unlock the door?
You got downvoted because this is a tech oriented audience, but you are sadly correct.
Best is relative term, as are good, better, worse, worst. They only have meaning in context. Best at what? Best for what purpose? By what parameters?
So you think it was the manufacturer?
This is definitely (pdf)
Could the solution be to create a 'feature support branch', anyone with revenues under a threshold could still maybe get free access (say 100k per year), but businesses above that would need to buy an enterprise license. Basically dual-licensing it, so you get paid, but those who are trying to build side projects/etc and may or may not ever make $$ from it, still can experiment?
Don't be partisan. The democrats pulled shenanigans too, like tacking on random stuff about green energy and international trade on the covid relief bill.
No: https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/crs-tool.asp

"
The CRS is a points-based system that we use to assess and score your profile and rank it in the Express Entry pool. It’s used to assess your:

* skills

* education

* language ability

* work experience

* other factors. [Not psychology-related]
"

Richwine's proposal is specifically intended to displace the privilege-bias baked into measures of educational attainment.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_3FlLndbex3NnNDVXZxUWp0YXc...
Doesn't really matter - it correlates (strongly!) with economic productivity and other desirable metrics, even if variable work ethic is a source of noise.
You shouldn't make assumptions about how others see the world. I'd prefer that my cheese came from an animal that didn't live in abysmal conditions, but TBH I just enjoy the cheese and don't care all that much where it came from.
> I hear a lot of positivity on HN about what a single instance of C# monolith can handle, but I'm not familiar with the ecosystem.

I work a lot in the C# and .NET space, but also write quite a lot of Python. The performance differences come down to a few key things that are baked in:

* The .NET runtime (ignore the web framework for now) is highly optimized compared to the Python or Ruby interpreters. In practice, you can even save VM costs given how inefficient the interpreters can be. StackOverflow's original dev, Jeff Atwood, has written extensively about this over the years (https://www.google.com/search?q=c%23+asp.net+performance+sit....) For many web developers, you could consider runtime performance of the platform a solved problem. Obviously, there are situations where you still need to measure and optimize. If you have to optimize, some of the tools seem ugly, but work out well in practice (e.g. WinDbg and other low-level debugging tools which have existed for 15+ years.)

* The web framework options look like libraries compared to frameworks like Django or Rails. ASP.NET started with some sucky abstractions (I spent years elegantly working around these with custom HttpModules and HttpHandlers), but around 2007 they introduced ASP.NET MVC which was a big improvement. It is closer to Flask than Django, but there is some structure by default.

* Many C# developers are building on SQL Server. It has warts, but like the .NET runtime, it has some fairly serious optimization behind it - and, you have to buy into any bespoke SQL extensions as part of T-SQL. The tools available were always more advanced than those for open source database. In my experience, better .NET devs more frequently have intermediate and advanced SQL/RDBMS skills. As a result, they'll use ORMs, but catch things that I've seen missed in other frameworks. Dapper (https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper) and other low-level tools are available for even better data access performance.

* Generally, the tooling is well optimized as long as you buy into Microsoft's workflows. With ASP.NET MVC and later, things improved a lot because the original tooling was built for the ASP.NET Web Forms abstraction.

All of the items above come together for great performance, but you have to be prepared to buy into the platform. This is becoming less of a challenge, but many people left .NET from 2006 to recently because of some enforced choices with the experience. I see a really good future with .NET Core because they've recognized and are fixing the earlier issues.
Anyone who actually reads the article can see that this news is entirely pointless. Mainly due to the following snippet :

> As a political appointee, Richwine is required to submit his resignation to President-elect Joe Biden, a letter the new administration would presumably be happy to accept. One political observer speculated that the lame-duck appointment was based on the assumption President Donald Trump would win the 3 November election and Richwine would then continue to serve during a second Trump term.

If he is required to resign and will not be a person in a senior NIST post, his posting is nothing to care about at this stage.

From a broader point of view, IQ is a bad measure to select immigrants. IQ Tests might be a good measure (debatable) for academic intelligence but for an immigration system, unless the US only wants academic geniuses, it seems like a bad idea. More broader sense of intelligence i.e. social intelligence, creativity etc are not something that shows up well in these tests.
They could not have released it. Coronavirus was like 80% the democrats platform. Without that, they truly had nothing.
Every mobile phone? You click the link expecting an article, and your phone starts downloading a large PDF instead (4MB, what the what?).

This needs a (pdf) in the title, because it's a pdf file, not an web page.
By that logic Amazon (or any other site) can never crack down on unscrupulous behavior committed by a 3rd party.
You are basically saying that no language is a silver bullet and any of them can go badly wrong, which is trivially obvious and not a productive addition to the discussion. If you have specific criticisms of this approach, that would be much more constructive.
While I have never been in the market for an Android phone I do appreciate that this review compares Android to Android and did not blunder off into some comparison with iPhones.

It makes it far easier to understand the underlying issues this phone has when compared to other offerings with similar hardware
IQ doesn't measure educational attainment. Adult IQ is not strongly influenced by educational attainment; in fact, twin and sibling studies confirm the converse relationship. If you have a high IQ you are more likely to have high educational attainment, but attending a high-value school will not raise your adult IQ from what it would otherwise have been (based on other predictors).
I've seen many people saying "Onyx was the Pokemon, not the language" and I have to resist the urge to reply in all caps going "IT'S SPELT ONIX NOT ONYX"
It always comes back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
It seems that we, as a society, have embraced mediocrity as a an acceptable norm. I'm 66 years old and have seen this trend for many years and has always troubled me. Just take a look at the school requirements of the 1960's compared to today for example.
The point I am trying to make -- and feel like I am utterly failing -- is that when I have talked with people about wanting to contribute to open source as a non-coder, their replies just increase the barriers to my participation. They don't decrease them.

It may seem obvious to a coder that "Well, you just submit a pull request." -- so obvious that it literally goes without saying -- but it was not obvious to me that this was how I should try to tell an open source project "You have a typo."

I spent probably two or more hours yesterday reading articles, writing and rewriting a question that I never posted on HN, etc. It was vastly more time and effort than it took to submit the pull request to correct the typo.

I'm trying to say: Coders need to help non-coders move those things mentally out of their way. They need to find a way to succinctly tell non-coders that they don't have to jump through all those hoops and spend hours and hours reading through documentation and looking up procedures and joining email lists.

If a writer sees a typo and wants to correct it, they can skip all that stuff and just submit a pull request. It isn't hard. It doesn't take long and you don't have to spend hours and hours doing your homework to find out how to do it.

I started to fill out the form and got a pop-up message "This field is usually less than 50 characters...etc" So filling out the form was the best way for me to learn how to fill out the form.

And no one ever told me that. They just tried to assure me "We are friendly. We are welcoming. You can join our email list."

That just adds a long list of tasks and work to my end of the equation that makes it look to me like "It is going to take a zillion hours of homework and prep work and networking before you will ever be allowed to suggest a change to the documentation, like correcting a typo."

Having experienced it that way for years, I think that is a huge and unrecognized barrier to participation for non-coders. Having gotten replies for years that just made it look to me like "Yep, you need the equivalent of a four year degree from a university before you can correct a typo." I'm telling you that's probably a primary reason you see so few non-coders helping with things like documentation.

You need a sound bite that strips all that away and tells people "See a typo? Submit a pull request!" That's the part non-coders don't understand and aren't being told.

In my opinion as a non-coder who has literally spent years on Hacker News and years wondering "How in the heck does a non-coder get involved with open source???"
Looks a lot like https://branch.gg/

Has anyone here tried both? I personally like the style of Branch a lot more, and movement seemed a lot smoother.
That is the handle of the person who wrote the comment.
Incredible. Majestic.
IQ is the biggest predictor of economic productivity. That doesn't mean there aren't 140 IQ individuals who flip burgers at McDonald's and it doesn't mean there aren't hyper-successful 100 IQ individuals.
No. I didn't write "Intentionally murdering possibly thousands of people" or "Intentionally delaying a vaccine"

I wrote "We're talking about announcing a result a few weeks earlier versus later."

And if that was the goal, I think it worked. It looks like Biden won by literally tens of thousands votes. An announcement a week earlier probably would have swung the election to Trump.

At a cost of zero lives.

If the vaccine works as announced, we're still weeks away from the end of the trial, and months away from widespread distribution.
It's not a matter of being allowed; it's a stupid way to choose. Any young adult eager to emigrate that's not a criminal is overwhelmingly likely to be a huge gain for the receiving country.
NIST seems a bad home for pseudoscientists.
Materialistic is the best Android HN app I'm aware of, and it doesn't support PDFs until I open the article outside the app.
Correlation is not causation

Taleb on that matter
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...
They proved the Rust lang and replaced some features on Firefox. Replacing entire engine is hard but current work is still great.
Humans might have been eating a lot more meat in the past when they were hunter-gatherers: it's just that their entire existence was centered around getting that food. Look at Inuits and how little plant based food they consumed.
I have no idea why they highlight the $2/user/8 hours when they also offer $7/user/month. The latter makes it clear that you could use this all day, every day.
Obviously, I'm ironically sanctifying the term "The Market" as a rhetorical device. Replace "swt" with "hallowed be His name" if you prefer.
Yes, this being cost competitive in the marketplace is a huge win.

Lets not leave out the sole most crucial factor, other than price, being taste.

My proposition has always been the following, and in fact, has gotten me to switch a number of things in my diet to vegan over the years, its really simple

If you blindfold me, and tell me what I'm eating, and I eat it, does it taste like what I'm expecting it to?

When it does, I switch to that thing, if its something I don't care enough about that I want it to be an exact replicable experience, I may switch to it anyway since its often healither and better for the environment.

Given the texture and general makeup of the average McDonald's patty (its not 100% beef, per say, it has alot of veggie based fillers like soy), this may not be a hard test to pass.