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> HP's ink DRM is clearly more despised—they not only block non-DRM ink, but the ink is region locked and they expect you to pay for and maintain a subscription to it.

I'm uninformed about this. I have an HP laser printer that's around 5 years old, and while I'm sure the toners have DRM chips, they don't require a subscription. Also, the printer has already been saying for a year that "supplies are very low" but so far it kept printing fine (I don't need to use it that often)

Just to know what to expect: is a subscription for ink required for all new HP printers now, or only some models? Because that kind of bullshittery is an immediate no-go for me, but the issue is I do quite like HP's interface (the UI on the printer itself) compared to some other brands...

E.g. HP supports all PDFs from a USB stick, while another brand I know (that is quite an ethical brand otherwise) cannot parse almost half of all PDFs and when it cannot will actually print a piece of paper with the text "Unsupported PDF" on paper, which is also quite unacceptable to me (not supporting is already a problem, the paper waste is the cherry on top)
The Freelancer seems a little too close to the scammer who admittedly used someone else card! For a second I wondered if they’re same person… just tiny bit.

Who eats the cost in this particular case is a gray area - I believe Upwork should be suing Robin to try to recover the funds.

I can feel for the freelancer but the real victim is CC owner - charge back was the right move.
Very few people "have yet to return to the job market" - over 90% of people who are "missing" from the labor force compared to pre-covid time 2 years ago, are over 55. These aren't "people who are too afraid of the virus to come back to their workplaces" or "people who had enough" but rather, simply people who planned to retire in 5-10 years and did it now due to excellent stock market performance in 2020 and 2021. They are lost for the job market forever and not coming back.
There are even special litter boxes sold that are intended to go on the toilet seat for this type of training. But as cool as this is, I believe it can be dangerous, especially for owners of male cats.

Cats' urinary habits are important to keep an eye on. A change in urination volume or frequency can be the sign of a critical issue that requires veterinary attention. You just can't easily track urine volume if the cat is going to the toilet, even if they don't flush.

With a litterbox, you can get an idea of what their normal clump size is and notice if that changes. Regarding frequency, maybe you can hear your cat jump on the toilet, but I'm not sure it's as reliable as hearing them repeatedly scratching the litterbox. If you are out during the day and come home, with a litterbox you still notice the pee clumps to get an idea of how much they've peed - unlike with a toilet.

One aspect where the toilet may actually be better is that you _might_ be able to spot blood easier in the water.

I also wanted to train my first cat to use the toilet, until he suffered from a urinary blockage as a kitten. If he'd been using the toilet, I likely wouldn't have noticed that anything was wrong until it was far too late. Blockage is more likely in male cats, and it is _not_ an uncommon problem. It is already far too easy to not notice if a cat is blocked if you're not careful, and it doesn't take long at all to become life threatening. I believe a toilet would only exacerbate this risk.

If I see blood in the litter, no clumps, or clumps that are smaller than usual (or heck, even much bigger than usual), I know to pay extra attention to my cat and either book a vet appointment or go to the emergency room. It's allowed me to catch bouts of infection, crystals, and idiopathic cystitis early (all of which he is now more prone to after his initial urinary problems). A cat's kidneys and urinary system can also be impacted by stress levels, with unexplained straining and bladder inflammation thought to be in some cases caused by stress. Having them pee in a toilet in my opinion decreases visibility of a very important and sensitive health factor.
There was that one weird trick that they mentioned ‘slave’ exactly once to reify the concept but failed to define who a slave was, what rights they had or did not have, etc.
> it's more of a fee for the paperwork that you generate for the government than a tax on income.

It’s more of a total ripoff. I do less than 20 invoices a year so 300$/month is ridiculously overpriced if it’s only supposed to cover “paperwork costs”.
Something something owning the means of production, hahaha.

In the 20th century that phrase was written about workers, as in employees, but if even the business owners don't really own the means of production... are they really business owners ?

It seems history repeats itself, just one echelon higher in the society.
Lol! Wholesome tutorial!

Reminded me of how we tend to forget that even the most outstanding people are just as ordinary as we are. When at home, legendary jazz musician Charles Mingus is just an ordinary guy, training his cat to use the toilet.
Actually, the cheapest consumer 3d printers are now like $100. They pretty crappy, but so are a lot of the low-end printers. (My mom actually just went through that and had to return a 2d printer that was hot garbage.)

The cheapest business 3d printer are about $1000 pre-built ($750 as a kit), and I think 2d printers of the same quality are about half that. So things are coming down nicely. There's still innovation going on in the 3d printer industry, too, so I expect them to keep getting better and more reliable and cheaper.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I appreciate it. All of what you say make sense.
> I believe this issue of Turing complete config language vs simpler declarative configuration is one of the basic thing for which there exist no good universal solution.

Indeed there isn't. And people that want simpler declarative configuration files can have them as far as I'm concerned.

My ire is the mentality common of Red Hat employees that I am wrong for wanting traditional Unix-style flexible configuration and their dependency politics to try to get others to switch over. If they just designed their software how they want to and otherwise let it be, such as KDE and XFCE are doing, then they would not be drawing the same criticism, but they have a tendency of coming with a dismissive attitude to everyone who wants it different than they do and insist their way is the future and when people point out that their way does not offer functionality they need either for convenience, or their livelihood they dismiss it.

> For now, if so many users have it easier thanks to systemd, which seems to indeed be the case, then it's still something.

If various Red Hat projects didn't find a way to create dependencies on systemd to encourage it's adoption and systemd was simply there for the people that wanted it but left those that didn't alone, then it wouldn't be so controversial.

What I quoted was “Who wouldn't want [...]”; that's the Red Hat mentality, that everyone who has subjective ideals than they either does not exist, or is wrong.
Was it literally someone elses name on the credit card? Perhaps the freelancer would have rejected the credit card as payment for this or other reasons if they had taken the card directly. Who knows?

Also they would be fighting with the credit card company against the chargeback -- whether and how much they can take back in situations like this depends on the nature of your agreement with the credit card processor, and whether you followed it -- that is, whether Upwork did. Perhaps the freelancer would lose if they had directly charged, but it would be their fight to have. Instead, they are just told by Upwork they owe Upwork money now, because it was Upwork that took the card, not them. But sure, maybe they'd have ended up in the same place anyway, it's true. They would have at least known they were responsible for vetting the credit card themselves -- which you can't be when you never even see it because Upwork is the one charging it.
They'll CRAM it down your throat whether you like it or not.
With all respect, the claim you are framing these stories as "cautionary tales" is questionable given certain tone of your writing.

Also the PP had examples where the counter example is simply demonstrated. That's what parents should do instead of repeating them with implied certainty. Of most concern, I can't recall a single doom story from my childhood that came true or that I could work on by the time I was an adult(e.g., we'll be out of oil in 25 years, the Russians will drop a bomb on us any day now, the Japanese will own the US soon, world population growth will lead to world wide famine, collapse of the USD, Social Security will end in 10 years, etc.). My childhood years (and possibly most of my life) were lost to depression, negative rumination, anxiety, and hopelessness. It was only until I limited interaction with doom-sayers that I finally have a clear, calm, and focused mind and that is a prerequisite for solving meaningful problems.
There is that risk, for sure. That said, i had to tell a kid (with his 4 wheeler) to get off my lawn just yesterday.
This may be a red state, blue state difference
Should children have to sacrifice their development to protect adults? I always thought adults should be the ones making sacrifices for children, not the other way around.
Local library / commercial print shop.

If your yearly volume is low enough (and specialised enough), you can come out ahead even if the price per page is relatively high.
My 4050 with duplexer must be 15 or more years old. I once had to re-solder the JetDirect network card in the stove. Hooray for the Internet and the kind person who posted that. Apart from that it just works. Can't beat it for correspondence and everything that can be printed b/w or gray.
I've already found the source (or more correctly the trigger) of my panic attacks and while it was in the same plane you're assuming, the rest of it doesn't really match. I'm a very "free" guy who hates dumb restrictions. These restrictions could be potentially imposed in my neighborhood, unrelated to covid situation. Once I realized that with the help of my therapist, PAs reduced substantially and later went away. I would even agree with the idea of "caging", but I usually cage myself much more successfully than any pandemic measures do. I just thought about my feelings for the last hour and my anxiety is probably/in part about the mass media hysteria rather than restrictions. Compared to e.g. 2018 the entire existence background is filled with that constant creepy infonoise.

Anyway, it was a trigger and not the reason, you may turn out to be pretty close on that.
I dunno, I was there in the very early 2000s and as I remember it, for the subset of programmers I knew on IRC at the time, it was as Susam says: writing a shitty IRC bot - not a script, something from "scratch" that actually spoke the IRC protocol - was almost a rite of passage back then. From rose-tinted me-tinted glasses, I seem to remember that IRC-bot-related questions were a plurality of the questions asked in #vb on Dalnet back in the day!

You are also right to some extent as well; I wonder how much mIRC scripting has been underestimated as the gateway drug to programming for thousands.

(Rose-tinted/me-tinted disclaimer: the first non-trivial program I wrote was an IRC quote bot, in Visual Basic. I later rewrote it into Python, because I wanted to learn Python, which eventually led to my day job today...)
Who does the flushing?
That's why I qualified it with at least as the narrative goes. It's an assumption in favour of the manufacturer.

It's even worse if it's not true.

If it's not true, they are selling their DRM-protected product at cost price + margin and double dipping by selling exorbitantly priced cartridges.
Are you a senior software engineer yet?
I think you're thinking of a very literal "I'm here for my vaccine" ""No, denied due to skin color" when I'm thinking of "We should spend some money and put some collective effort in to ensure everyone has quick and easy access to the vaccine, especially the poor and the vulnerable" "No, we’ll follow the same general plan as for voting, long lines at a few awkward places where lots of black people live, lots of locations with short waits where white people live".
If you're the head of an intelligence agency perjuring yourself to congress, then there is no penalty.
I understand the need to avoid distraction but think that I’d still want visual feedback, even if it’s just a one line display. You could conceivably make this tool launch in full screen too.
Not so theoretically. Perfect hash functions have exactly that property, although I've never heard of a perfect cryptographic hash function. That concept seems inherently contradictory.
Support increases for Manchester bus driver sacked for being ‘too short’
Absolutely, do that!
In Defense of Bradford Pear (2021)
I’m thrice vaccinated and think masks are the biggest scam out there. It’s a worthless political virtue signal that gives people a false sense of security.

Go ahead and lock me up…
Kazakhstan unrest: At least 164 killed in crackdown on protests, reports say
Deepchecks: Open-source tool for high standard validation of ML Models and Data
Exactly this. This form of affordance for drop downs is well established.
It's not a joke.

I've never tried it, but I've seen plastic products selling on the internet that replace the cardboard.
Completely depends where you live. We absolutely did in New York for a very long time.
https://www.tvtime.com/

TV Time does this somewhat - track what you’ve watched and it’ll recommend other stuff for you. It also shows where to watch but needs some work on identifying what’s free vs paid streaming.
They measure something different, I agree, but not different enough to matter in real life decision-making process, which often involves factors outside of the model.

In real life decision-making, there are many other factors that are not known or quantifiable that come in and dominate any errors arising from using confidence instead of predictive interval.
Do you use the s-pen for general note-taking or only when you need to draw something?
There are commercially available kits to do this that are concentric rings that work very well. The kit coupled with flushable litter makes it very easy to toilet train a cat.

However, I can confirm you will get into a bathroom stare down with your cat every once in a while.
I feel like it's easier to relax without a screen. Things like fishing and mushroom foraging are relaxing. Even the drive to or from them can be (especially nice weather, windows down, slow country road).
This totally true. I think however, Flutter does a better job in fixing platform related issues.
Also, in my experience upgrade to a new version of RN was usually very painful, with Flutter so far it was straight forward.
Dropbox still has my files on its servers. Not sure what you mean here. If all my devices are off, I can access anything in my Dropbox account from any computer's browser.
I successfully got 2 middle aged cats to do this. They have both since passed and I have two new cats. I haven't bothered to train them, but I think it's because my wife cleans their box and I haven't thought about it.

The first two cats did this almost effortlessly. They didn't give us any trouble because we changed steps slowly.
Saw this while scrolling through Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/rxczzl/p_d...
I find that the "fat" clients encourage bad behavior that IRC used to allow people to handle independently. Examples:

* bot spam that I can't /ignore

* "inviting" people to channels tht you can't opt out of (invite is slack terms is yank. there is not option to say no)

* inline sharing of screenshots of article snippets that support an argument but not sharing links to the source material

* so... many... channels...
> This story does not add up to me.

Agree. It's weird that there's no mention of either Upwork or the OP trying to get "Robin" to pay what he owes... But it could be benign. In a complex and emotionally charged situation it's all too easy to focus on the wrong things.
Performative work reflects the reality that the output of most office jobs just doesn't matter that much.

Jobs like trash collector, produce harvester, chicken plant worker, and snowplow driver actually matter and as we've seen during the pandemic when they aren't done it causes real problems.

Office work is just something to keep people occupied in our economy because it's anathema to recognize that we can produce more than enough necessities to keep everyone comfortable without most people working more than a few hours a week.
It's at high risk to run in the medium-reputation-problem: If you have e.g. the choice between your stuff being linked as "foobar.platform.com" and "foobar.com", the former is great if the platform confers a positive image over any other random URL. That's often the case early-on for new platforms, when they pull in cool early adopters and thus are associated with high-quality content. E.g. the trope-namer medium.com early on had a reputation for nice clean pages and good content. The problem is, that often changes over time, and now a medium.com link encountered in the wild suggests "stupid subscription nagging" and "low-quality self-promotion think-pieces", it's not the neighborhood you want your content to be seen in if it is any good.

For now substack isn't there yet (although you start to hear the first sentiments in that direction), and their focus on subscription helps avoid it to a degree too, I also see more often people point to "their substack" from elsewhere. But if they go the path of putting the platform more in the foreground, i.e. not "foobars newsletter, which happens to be on substack, but you don't really need to know or notice that", but more "go to substack to find cool content!", that risk increases. Again the medium-comparison: medium was and is big on finding other stuff on medium. Which means even if you read a good article, right next to it medium will push you to read more fluff, because their algorithms have no clue how to promote relevant high-quality content.
I have to object here and say that out-of-date comments are better than no comments. I've worked in organizations with "no comments" policies and having no clue what people ever planned to achieve with a piece of code is worse than some old misguided explanation for sure.
Check out the book "How to Read a Book" I found it to be a great help in reading and digesting texts.
Ask HN: How do you split time between design, coding and testing for a feature?
Suppose 10 days were allotted to add a feature on which solely you are working on. How many days will you allot to create class/architecture designs, coding and testing the feature.
Feel free to elaborate the approach for each although not necessary.
This is true, but surely dealing with these issues is part of what upwork takes their share of the revenue for?
Also probably "backward compatibility." Math books have a long shelf-life!
That must be some really good marketing that makes the clash with reality so potent. Article doesn't mention what other cities produce the same effect.
This is great. You can now charge the client again as he has got his money back he still owns you $12.5k Then you can walk away from Upwork with 12.5+12.5=$25k ... or take the Upwork deal.
>The only value I ever saw people getting from Dropbox

Your exposure to Dropbox users is very very limited, then. I only very, very rarely use it as a medium to share. OTOH, I use it CONSTANTLY as a every-device file system, i.e. across my main machine, my backup, my iOS devices, and remote systems I work from. The sync is everything to me.
> If an encryption scheme can’t stop infrastructure providers having opinions on the moral value of messages, what’s the point of it?

Good question.
It's unfortunate that the article speaks so much of NASA engineers and managers, but fails to mention the actual engineers that designed, built, and tested it: TRW (now Northrup Grumman) and Ball Aerospace.

> The concepts used to create the JWST are built on the same concepts used on the first satellites and space probes in the 1950s.

AKA, the field of Systems Engineering [0]. Further reading if you really want to take a deep dive [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Analysis-Design-Technology-Li...
> NEVER EVER give access to your bank account to ANYONE.

The thing is, that’s the only way to do direct deposit. It makes me uncomfortable too, but that’s been the standard for decades.
For most new printers. Older ones have got a firmware update.

https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/cv/instantink
You'd turn the beef into totally unrecognizable meat paste that could come from any number of species. Pulverize the meat, wash it with solvents, and cook until there is nothing left of the original protein structures or flavor (i.e charcoal). Just unique enough in physical composition to say this lump of burnt paste is different from that lump of burnt paste but not enough information to say anything else about it or what it originally may have been.
> Performative work reflects the reality that the output of most office jobs just doesn't matter that much.

I disagree. Performative work reflects the reality that most office jobs have concrete results that are hard to measure individually, separated in time and/or space from the work, and highly dependent on other office work that shares the first two features.
I go to a different doctor. You can also use Yelp!
I can think of several reasons why, over the last few generations, people are not as keen on marriage:

- when America was more of a farming country, kids were needed as free labor. But now we are no longer a country of small family farms.

- the pill only became legal in 1970: https://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book-excerpts/health-arti... Widely-available, effective, and no-stigma birth control is a rather recent thing, and without it, you get kids, and kids need adults - usually more than 1 - to raise them.

- in past generations, women were financially dependent on men, so marrying was required. Women can be self-sufficient now.

- in the 60's, a young couple could own a home, car, boat, motorcycle on the husband's income, and have a couple of kids. My parents, like many others, did it right after high school and my dad worked at a grocery store as a bagboy and then butcher. The economy has changed a lot in the last few generations (60 years) and raising a family right out of high school is no longer a slam dunk.

- college tuition has become completely unreasonable. My generation could pay for college with a part-time job. The next generation needed lots of financial help from parents. The current generation is taking out huge co-signed loans that are like buying a house, and going into a marriage with a couple having two of those loans is a scary proposition IMO.

- in previous generations women raised the kids because they didn't work. Now that women work, daycare corporations raise kids, and daycare is expensive. A couple needs 2 cars & insurance for both. In the 60's, women didn't have cars. In the 70's, women (mothers) had a "beater" car. In the 80's, more women worked part time and got decent cars, like with air conditioning! Today, working women want a nice car just like their husbands have, and cars today are expensive: most car loans are 5-7 years now

I suspect if kids could graduate from high school, own a home, 2 cars, and raise a couple of kids on one parent's income, or both parents work part-time, more people would get married and do just that.
I can see the CRAM/CRAP bill advance it's way to the Senate floor. Would love to ask my local congressperson "What's your stance on CRAP?" and watch him try to say "I'm all for CRAP it's good for business, and if CRAM/CRAP is good for business, it's good for the little guy." If someone can get this done, I'm running for office on a NO CRAP platform.