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I mean these are different answers, right?

If they stop delivering, you do what you do if they stop delivering. Coaching, performance discussions, reassignment/termination. Whether it's because of a side gig or not is irrelevant.

If they get sick more often, you...? What would you do normally? Hopefully the answer is "support them." If this is cover for "they're saying they are sick but I think they're just working on their side gig" then refer to #1 but you better be right about it.

> You can care about your team member's welfare and support them 100%, but part of that support should be defining the rules of play so that all parties know what the agreement is.

I agree with this 100%. The agreement is that they're paid a full-time salary for full-time work (whatever that means whether it's ass-in-seat for 40 hours, or WFH or whatever). Whatever they do outside of that time isn't the company's business unless they're directly competing with them.
Latest K8s release notes at 1625 lines long
> The money is made on the ink/coffee, and machines are pushed at a discount to dominate the ink/coffee distribution.

Some years ago Walmart had a HP printer on sale for so cheap that it was more expensive to replace the ink than to get a new printer.
The Ukranians are free to surrender to Russia should they want to. But the decision is theirs. As long as they want our support I say we are obligated to provide it.

I'd also recommend you to be careful with predictions on the outcome of wars.
I have to put a vote in here for Old School Essentials, an improved and very accessible retroclone of Moldvay’s 81’ basic/expert game.

It has a large friendly community on Discord, a lot of active players and an enormous amount of content - notably it is generally backwards compatible with many of the older D&D modules. You can read through the basic rules here - https://oldschoolessentials.necroticgnome.com/srd/index.php/....
Yes it does, in fact the UK is in the process of building many more HVDC interconnectors (see table in 3rd section of page) https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/energy-policy-and-regulation/policy...
Yeah, it's Drupal (PHP)
It seems like you are assuming they are selecting unqualified people to check some diversity box and as far as I know, that isn't the case at all. They have an enormous candidate pool of supremely talented people to choose from and in that pool are people of all types. But even if that weren't the case, consider that some of the people flying these days are only there because they can afford to pay for the seat. You want pilots but now that space flight is becoming more routine, you get passengers.

I agree with you - thank God for SpaceX (and FWIW, they also have diversity commitments). They are an amazing partner for NASA and are making their competitors (especially Boeing) look incompetent.
Excessive blue light from our gadgets may accelerate the aging process
> I don't know anyone who is well paid who goes on strike.

No, of course not. People usually strike for better pay or conditions. If you're well paid then you already have better pay, and are probably in demand enough that you will get good conditions or are in a position to negotiate. It doesn't really make sense for e.g. software engineers in the current economy to consider strike action.

Workers don't want to strike in general. It's stressful and costly. It's not usually their preferred negotiating strategy; it has to be less worse than the alternative.

> great efforts by the strikers will get, at best, a few crumbs

It's easy to sneer at "a few crumbs" if you're in a state of privileged wealth. Sometimes small differences in pay can mean going from not being able to pay rent to having some disposable income. And, often, it's not "a few crumbs".

> Eg, grouping together and investing in capital

What did you have in mind? How does investing in capital help you with not being paid well enough to invest?
What do you expect such a driver to do? The printer is essentially just a random network device. Packets go in, paper comes out. No drivers needed.
Damn that Putin is both very weak (his Country has GDP of Texas while having way more people), and absolute mastermind organizing far right as some kind of pauper Lex Luthor, on a shoestring budget.

Disclaimer: Western troubles are features of capitalism, they provide the fuel, even if Putin is the one to throw the cigarette butt.
Printers are the most mechanically complex computer related product. Just think, fans are basically single bearing and motor. Pumps are pretty much same. Traditional spinning disk, nearly closed system with two motors.

Printers have multiple times this complexity. And the products bought are bought for lowest price. Or at least reasonable price. You get what you pay for. And what is paid is often very little. Thus poor quality and need for other revenue streams.
I dint know if there are similar solutions in professional setups, but in the Smart Home world there are UWB presence sensors like the Aquara FP1. They are much better at detecting minor movements than traditional motion sensors are, so they could probably help with office spaces with low occupancy.
"updating the drivers" no

Good printers use PS/PCL, nobody cares about drivers, a generic one usually works
Hook it up to a Raspberry Pi and expose the printer over network

There you go, DIY AirPrint
The US is not a single jurisdiction, there are at least 50 with regards to employment law. I've worked in several and at no point has any employer held any copyright to things I product in my free time.

> if you have a side gig that matches your day job

Well this is competition, isn't it? That's completely different.
Same, more or less. It's good to see my mentality isn't unique. Reducing human suffering is a noble goal.
Anything color that's reasonably priced?
Those are your words, not mine. But having a product that has less features and is more expensive is probably not the best approach, I guess they are playing the "made in the us" card.

edit: Ohh, you work for skydio, I should've guessed. I wish you and your team a successful spam campaign.
Your Statista link doesn't show any data. It says that one needs to pay for their premium product to see the stats.
The Atlantic is really annoying in this respect. When you open an article in Firefox Focus, it fully renders for a moment, but then apparently some javascript loads at the end of the cycle which clears the page.
I don’t think he’s arguing about the benefit of having confidence and experience in a domain, but rather the origin of the experience and confidence and how it impacts a startup’s success.

In this case: the startup success rate of those who worked for startups vs those who worked in some other institutions (or for some, no work at all).

Sure, working at a startup might make you be confident at making decisions, but will that confidence lead to good results when you’re a founder? Working at another place can give you confidence as well, but again, will it help you get the results you want in your startup?

Anyhow, I’m not sure the answers matter much because the author didn’t write much about the uniqueness of the skills learnt in startups. He emphasised more on velocity of learning skills that can be learnt in many places, but high-growth startups can provide the fastest route.
Reminds me of the time the company that owns BlackBerry decided to post some listings on the new-at-the-time .jobs TLD...
I have a Brother b/w laser printer from 2012. It cost around 60 EUR. Never had any problems with it. It's build like a tank, has 4 status LEDs, and one button. I buy a new off-brand toner every 2 years or so, and that's it.

Before this printer I went through multiple hp and Epson inkjet models. They were all horrible and usually broken after 2-3 years.
At what age does it go away to hear this?

I'm in my late 30s and I still hear it. But seemingly none of my co-workers can.

I know because once one put a "test your hearing" website and they all thought it was a sham until I told them to cut it out with the annoying whistle.

But I thought by now I would no longer be annoyed by those.

Probably I'm less annoyed than before.
Assuming the website wants to do something on the first user's visit, it would start doing it on every page load. Letting the website know that the user has disabled cookies can help avoid it and improve user experience.
Look at this guy, not commenting about the name.
Toner printers are "less scammy", at least in my experience. I had a HP one and always bought the genuine cartridges.

Then I saw those videos about the printing industry scams (which does happen) and tried a third party toner that costs 1/5 of the price. Guess what? After like 10 perfect printed pages, it started leaking some powder, then stopped printing random chunks of the page and turned impossible to use.

I went back to the genuine cartridges and never left ever since. Also, the printing issues it had were identical to some issues I've had with public printers in libraries etc in the past. I guess that's because they're using those low-quality toners.
I thought that too, but once I had access to AirPrint I realized I have never needed to print from my phone, or even barely ever from my laptop.
Would be interested in a blog on this
Largely true. I've always spent a few more dollars on Postscript printers, because that tended to solve some headaches with printing under Linux in the past, and I think that makes it less of an issue with driver longevity. But the problem is security updates, lots of attacks use printers to gain a foothold.
A Shocking Number of Californians Are Moving to Texas Unless You Do Basic Math
I wondered if we were suffering from a collective blind spot where, for example, an outsider looking at copilot might decide that it's revolutionary for writing code where, in practice, I don't know anyone using it in anger.

On the other hand artists are amazingly adept at leveraging new technology, mediums and techniques to create art so it's probably less surprising if they jump at Stable Diffusion in a lot of corners of the industry.
For those who are new to TTRPGs, the best online store for such things is DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/

Also, there's a YC alum (I believe) that operates a GM-for-hire service:

https://startplaying.games/
Commercial large format inkjet for art/photography has all the same issues but with zeroes on the end. And added expense/complexity, including colorimetry.

Some models have 12 colour cartridges, each costing more than a budget printer.

I wouldn't say photographers can avoid being scammed, because the industry is basically an Epson/Canon duopoly with HP as a somewhat distant third choice.

So competition is very limited, and unless you're bulk-buying printers and ink for a huge print shop there's no leverage to negotiate prices down.
In this case it seems that 'voluntary' means 'we need some people but we're leaving it up to you which specific people take those shifts.' That doesn't seem unreasonable.
There‘s nothing fake about a bank or payment service provider giving you access to unsettled funds if they can be reasonably sure that they will ultimately be made whole.

Banks are required to make the first $200 or so of a deposited check available immediately, and at that point it‘s not even clear if the check will clear, much less has the money already settled.

What‘s important to have in real time is a payment guarantee, but of course it helps the receiving institution with liquidity management if the settlement itself is also instantaneous.
How do you do that now, with a market like Amazon?

It works the same way. You can introduce voluntary trusted market intermediaries and utilize things like escrow. Big enough markets can provide liquidity such that all transactions appear realtime, but sellers can provide a deposit to the market to cover problems.

That is one method among a gazillion.

We do not need banks. All bank functions need to be mathematically automated with no trusted parties.
Just buy it on DriveThruRPG instead: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/91183/Microscope
I'm actually from (East) Germany, but I moved to Singapore exactly because of the advantages you mentioned. Putting my tax-money where my mouth is, so to speak. And I have to say I am happy with the value-for-tax-money I am getting here.

If the private sector in your country can't handle infrastructure, I think the role of government should be to clean up regulatory hurdles and barriers to entry, so that the private sector can handle this task.

Honest and competent civil servants are one of the rarest and most precious resource in any country. Affairs should be set up, so as to economize on their time and effort required.

Singapore ain't perfect. For example, our government has significant ownership in eg an airline and quite a few other businesses. But still, Singapore is one of the best run countries for a neoliberal.

> Business tends to work well when the value created is short-term and can be easily measured and captured by the entity creating that value. For example, a grocery store.

I agree. I agree even more: any organisation works best when feedback is immediate.

> Government tends to work well when the value created is long-term and diffuse, and doesn't have a single point of capture. For example, the road network which the grocery store relies on to get both its goods and its clients to the store.

I disagree. We know that governments work badly at the best of times. Why would anyone think they'll magically start working better when the outcomes are harder to measure?

You could try to make an argument that both governments and businesses work badly under these circumstances, but that for some reason governments are slightly less impacted?

I mean, it's theoretically possible. But seems unlikely?

In your specific scenario: toll roads work just fine. Alternatively, the shop can also choose to subsidise road tolls for their customers. Just like shops often offer free parking already, or other freebies.

(And yes, I also think that governments should not be in the business of issuing currency either. At least they shouldn't have a legal monopoly. See eg https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/white-the-theory-of-free-b...

This is a minority position these days, but one with a long intellectual heritage.)
Every time I have a frustrating experience with a printer, I spend the next two days imagining inventions to overthrow printer market, then I move on to over things because, really, who gives a shit about printers. I assume there are lots of people in this camp.
I feel like Roko's Basilisk belongs on any creepypasta list.
In germany, the right to strike is in the constitution (GG, Art 9, (3) https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_9.html) and still, while a collective bargaining agreement is in place, strikes that aim at changing any aspect of that agreement are illegal - and the union/workers may be liable for damages. (Striking for aspects that are not part of the agreement in place would be legal). Collective bargaining agreements here are usually time limited or have termination clauses. I would be surprised if this was fundamentally different in France.
I think the problem here is "potentially blocked".

How do you know what's potentially blocked? Maybe it's listed clearly somewhere in the browser docs, or maybe it's not. Did they change it between versions? Did you even know about this issue in the first place?

I know people like to think of checked exceptions as a failed experiment from the dark past of object oriented programming, but this situation is a great example of statically-typed (or at least statically-checkable) side effects are a huge improvement in code safety.
they are using drupal and php, maybe it can be solved by static typing !
People not recommending inkjet - I won't recommend them too.

But there are ink tank printers available. I bought a cheap one, it doesn't have nice colors, but it has colors. And that printer doesn't need a refill for months (well, mostly printing for kids)

I have HP Smart Tank 510 series. Altgouh I would recommend researching HP ink tank / Epson EcoTank / (other vendors may have different names), I don't recommend particular budget model I have - sometimes it is frustrating that it doesn't want to print over wifi. And that is my complaint in general, that I haven't been lucky enought to own "it just works" printer.

But no, I haven't been familiar with issues you mention (technician?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_and_blades_model
No, it doesn't depend. The idea that there is that sort of salary boost waiting for a large number of people if only they'd stop working/argue really hard is not remotely on the table. The system doesn't have that sort of slack in it, people are realistically not even arguing about a 2x salary bump. There is something in this situation that you've misjudged, it doesn't pass the this-might-be-remotely-feasible test.

I've seen sites where the employee truck drivers were allegedly all paid $150k plus. The stat was misleading because there was also a large number of contractors paid in the $50-100k range who weren't official employees. The Australian figure is probably picking up some effect like that.
The marginal GHG cost of the extra trip is almost 0.

In fact, if they were alternatively sitting at home running air conditioning the overall CO2 output would probably have reduced by them sitting in the train for those hours instead.
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You could use the Windows Sandbox to prevent them from accessing anything sensitive on your computer. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...
Same here.

The android brother plug in sucks and I wish google cloud print was still around. I tried mobility print but it didn't quite work as expected and decided to just stick to printing from my laptop.
Meh. OSX and Windows can dream upon upgrading everything with Unix/Linux utilities.

Half of these crap can be solved with xdotool/wmctrl and some scripts. Everything else it's maked to be scripted. Cron, package managers, X11 events, notifications...

One guy posted here an smart automation menu sequence to create a jar from a class within Eclipse. Any competent Unix programmer would create that for Scite, Gvim, Emacs or whatevers with an external script (man java and man javac, FFS) in seconds.
i understand that but 90% of the time that i try to print something it just sits in the queue all alone with no error code and no attempt at printing, i don't think that's a mechanical problem.
Underscore is (was?) illegal in domain names.
I remember at the time hearing stories of legacy systems that were in a dreadful state and in one case still using microfiche as part of the day to day processing.

I know some time has passed since and a lot of money and effort has been spent in improving things but I'm still pretty impressed just how quick it all works. My banking app notifies me when money is sent or received from my account and it usually beats the checkout confirmation page load time or POS approved message when I make a purchase.
The real american way is to add layers of inefficient private middlemen to barely solve problems that were done efficiently in giant majority of different countries, while paying 2x-10x for it. Healthcare, taxes, payments.
Snowden: US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian publishing revelations
It's still magic for me how they can get just 1 sheet of paper at a time.
> jews can move to israel

That's been going... Swimmingly for everyone involved. No violation of human rights, whatsoever.
Inkjets are also super complicated to build, regardless of the patents there's a very high barrier to entry.
As a yet another filthy Russian, I don't understand all this eagerness to give people "traitor" (enemy of the people, 5th column and so on) labels. Especially since this is pretty much the favorite communist/putinist activity. This is not a healthy mindset. At some point we'll have to admit different people might have different opinions on running the country.
Based on their logo I'm pretty sure Pen Island knows exactly what they're doing.
So there exists a Turing machine (with some finite number of states N, naturally) that is just complex enough to encode ZF(C) and first-order logic such that it can enumerate all theorems of ZF(C). But because of Gödel, at some point it must necessarily either get stuck in a loop or return "can’t prove or disprove this" for some candidate theorem. As I understand it, the result relayed by Scott proves that N=7198 – as in a state space of merely 13 bits – is sufficient to construct a Gödel-territory TM (but this is just an upper bound)! Having an unbounded tape as a scratch space helps, of course.
I used to work for Lexmark, back when they were in the inkjet business. They are perhaps most notable for starting and fueling the race to the bottom in printer price. The theory was that if you could lock the users in, the customer lifetime value would be made on selling profitably prices supplies (i.e. the ink cartridge).

There were a few big problems with this:

- People often could buy a new printer, with supplies included, for cheaper than a new set of cartridges.

- The primary focus of new printer development was on eliminating as much cost as possible.

- Refillers and remanufacturers compete with the official supplies.

The result was an almost completely customer-hostile industry. Printers became worse over the years. DRM and write-only memory were used to try to stop refilling and remanufacturing. Expiry of the ink was considered a good thing, as it would force customers to buy more ink even if they had low usage.

While I was there, Lexmark sometimes made losses by selling too many printers. About a decade ago, they left the inkjet industry, which they had played a major role in wrecking. Laser has come down in price to the point that it has largely supplanted inkjet for light-duty use. The manufacturers in the home/small office laser market haven't been quite as hostile.

Interestingly, we're seeing a similar dynamic play out in the venture-backed startup world of the past decade. What's old is new.

Companies eventually started marketing higher quality machines, targeted towards power users with broader needs. But the era of the bargain inkjet printers seems to be pretty much over. Also, it took an entire generation, but we're finally much further along towards the paperless office/society.
Unix IDE's and OFC any good Unix editor (even scite) would make it trivial with a command.
> because a Turing machine halting or not halting feels like a concrete fact that shouldn't depend on assumptions about weird infinite sets

Think about it this way. If a particular Turing machine halts, that’s a finitary fact: you can prove it by exhibiting a finite sequence of valid states for the Turing machine which ends in a halt. But if it doesn’t halt, that’s an infinitary statement: it doesn’t halt after N steps, for any N. And no finite enumeration of steps can prove that it doesn’t halt eventually.

Since the statement is infinitary, it’s liable to avoid being probable if our axioms don’t capture it - and so computable set of axioms captures all true statements.

And if we can’t prove that a particular Turing machine of N states doesn’t halt, we can’t prove any value for BB(N), as otherwise we could just staple the first BB(N) states of the Turing machine to show it doesn’t halt, which we can’t prove.
Yes, along with the C2 wiki it is one of the best places to discuss classic but currently untrendy ideas in PLT: https://wiki.c2.com
Not sure on a book for you on this, but one central tenet useful to entrepreneurs would be the limited scope of regression models. If the underlying data don’t reflect the situation being modeled then the model is possibly wildly incorrect. This seemed critical to the failure of the underlying models that fouled up the financial instruments of the Great Recession.