philippejara

while it is obvious my comment was hyperbolic, the underlying sentiment still stands regardless. I can be charitable only so far, not complaining that the drivers don't make my color image perfect on a vinyl postcard, not even complaining that I need to realign the heads or whatever every other time I've got to use the printer, those can be mechanical issues and probably not their fault. I just want to print black and white on A4 and a color print every month or so.

But the consistent issues almost every single home printer I've used had with regards to connecting to computers, both wireless and wired is not reasonable. There's a plethora of other issues but that's more on a software in general than driver front so I'll leave them out of it.

All these problems on a windows machine by the way, surprisingly enough I've had less headache with printers on linux than windows. Maybe the lack of software layers to muddle shit helps here, who knows

> I don't think the driver programmers have much fun with their jobs, having to deal with seemingly greedy product requirements, and lots of variation in real world use (humidity, paper type, ink quality, yada yada).

That's a normal job, everyone has greedy product requirements outside of VC money pits. Also don't think their job in the capacities I complained about is very much mechanical at all, yeah it's very much I/O but that doesn't mean much.

>I'd like to think I am about an average programmer and I am reminded by my own actions everyday that I know nothing. I am constantly learning (and forgetting) new ideas every week.

people learn stuff and do their jobs, its not rocket science, nobody know everything nor can hold all the information in the world in their heads. As far as i'm aware printer connectivity isn't some CS open question, it's not a new field that needs exploring, it should've been explored by now. Yes of course drivers are a bit of a moving target regarding support for different architectures, but printers aren't the only things that need drivers and yet seem to be the only ones consistently having this issue ever since I can remember(maybe network cards as well?).

In my experience signing up to do it or not is irrelevant because I'll end up doing it anyway since they're my parents, so i'd rather have full easy remote teamviewer/ssh access to the stuff I know works and how it works because I set it up instead of going there to debug some crap they downloaded or bought in the app store/mall that claimed to do x and now it doesn't work and now nothing is working etc etc.

Still can't avoid having at times to go and fix the god damn printer however. Printer driver programmers/designers really make me question if politicians should be the most hated profession in the world.

those people are free to work as independent tradesman, many do.

>Imagine how many juniors cant, and imagine how many of those might life in india.

I can't imagine a junior developer not being able to set up a vpn in 2023, and if by some bizarre turn of fate he isn't able to he is a junior and other people will just tell him how to do it.

>And even if you ignore that fact, can you imagine the hit the gdp will take if thousands of companies need to setup vpns?

No? vpn's are cheap and honestly I doubt most of the companies need to read github code*, and those that do well just use the vpn. Hell you can even not pay for it but use opera's free built in VPN, use Tor on clearnet as a VPN of sorts, all for effectively zero cost.

*:we're talking gdp here.

Somehow I missed a paragraph from the article and yeah, the books seem to be mostly evaluated as they come into the jail.

I don't think it's that bizarre when you think about it, shallow and silly reasoning for sure but it's not that weird nor does it seem to be some racist conspiracy or whatever.

Talking about texas Is it really surprising US prisons are going to ban books written by prison abolitionists? Not sure i'd even chalk it up to that to be honest.

Unless we know how books are added to the banned list not sure there's much to discuss, for example you'd think the malcolm X books would be banned, but they aren't(although there is one nation of islam book banned). If you need to bring the book in it wouldn't be very surprising to me that maybe nobody donated a mein kampf to the prison.

From a quick look[0] it seems like there are 38 books banned for racial things in Texas, and those are the titles:

  BEST OF JOE R. LANSDALE, THE
  BLACK KLANSMAN (BLACKKKLASMAN)
  BLACK MANS BIBLE
  BLACK MESSIAH MURDERS, THE
  BLACK SUN
  BRING THE WAR HOME
  EVERYTHING YOU LOVE WILL BURN
  FROM NIGGAS TO GODS PART ONE
  FROM NIGGAS TO GODS V2 ESCAPING NIGGATIVITY &
  GREEN RIVER RISING
  HEBREWS TO NEGROES 2 V1 WAKE UP BLACK AMERICA
  HUNTER
  I HAD A HAMMER
  INTO THEIR OWN HANDS
  JEWS SELLLING BLACKS
  KU KLUX TERROR
  LEGACY OF VIOLENCE LYNCH MOB AND EXECUTIONS IN
  MAKING OF A SLAVE, THE
  MURDER IN PLAIN ENGLISH
  MY MOTHER THE CHEERLEADER
  NATURE'S ETERNAL RELIGION
  ON LYNCHINGS
  OUTDATED ADVERTISING
  PRISON GUARD'S DAUGHTER, THE
  REGGIN: AMERICA IN A MIRROR
  ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY
  SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL
  SON OF MR. SULEMAN, THE
  TAKE ME TO THE BRIDGE
  UN-CIVIL WAR BLACKS VS NIGGAS
  WATERMELONS, NOOSES & STRAIGHT RAZORS
  WERENIGRO, THE
  WHITE HOODS: CANADA'S KU KLUX KLAN
  WHITE MAN'S BIBLE, THE
  WHITER RACISM
  WILLIE LYNCH LETTER & THE MAKING OF A SLAVE
  WILLIE LYNCH LETTER AND THE MAKING OF A SLAVE
  WOLF WHISTLE

What does become apparent is that most of these that are deemed racial deal with black people as protagonists, and while that is a problem knowing the process how they came to be there is pretty important to if anything be able to fix it. If you're gonna ban for this kind of content all should be banned equally, black sun seems to be a neo-nazi book of some sort so at least there's that.

[0]:https://observablehq.com/@themarshallproject/prison-banned-b...

All those things can be painlessly done with a vpn. I'm not saying people wouldn't have to change, but to affect the economy as gp is trying to make it sound well, doubt it would even make a rounding error.

I doubt it would mean much, you don't even need to self-host git just use gitlab, bitbucket, etc. Hobbyists and small projects would be the most affected but VPN's are a trivial solution for this demographic.

>You don't want to fracture knowledge and make hiring/training more difficult

these are not maxims of development, there can be reasons that make these consequences worth it. Furthermore you can still use just a single language with microservices*, nothing is stopping you from doing that if those consequences are far too steep to risk.

*:you can also use several languages with modules by using FFI and ABIs, probably.

You'd be surprised, I myself know several and I have no interest in the hobby to be adjacent to their circles. Anecdotally it seems like MLP all over again, but even more skewed to the adult demographic, which does make a lot more sense to me than MLP at least.

The vast majority of published scientific progress is completely devoid of value outside their specific field of study, and those in their specific field of study know where to look for it and are(?) giving its due value.

If anything I'd prefer less interest of the general public on specific papers because the way it ends up is with people misunderstanding it to fit whatever the journalist/redditor that peddled it wanted it to mean, maliciously or not.

I think most people, ignoring the specifics, would consider making 100k/y from youtube a pretty good deal, but well there's the specifics. Let's not kid ourselves 100k/y is not a modest income, but surely he should be the example of the guy that would get rich off of it, lego's mr.beast or whatever.

At the end of the day there's already huge amounts of youtubers showing their mansions or whatever to influence the gullible viewers, the ones who would miss the nuance of his situation would most likely fall for them anyway. There's already an abundance of blatant "false hope" being peddled far harder and wider, the chance of his objective analysis being misinterpreted by people is as far as i'm concerned insignificant.

I'd say its the opposite, you're talking about a channel that gets 10M views average per video while being kid friendly and targeting probably the audience with the most spending power(middle aged males in the US), you'd think they'd make far more than 100k/year.

>A full half of the voting base, or more, fervently vote against their own best interest.

You really shouldn't assume you know more about half a voter base's own interest than they themselves do, regardless of their "side" in an election. People are driven by different things and put different weights on said things than you do.

The only thing this kind of thinking does is infantilize adults at best and demonize them at worst, which is pretty silly when you're talking about half the voting population.

Is only the US allowed to be nationalistic? India isn't actively destabilizing the middle-east since the 2000's, but they are the ones being agressively nationalistic?

First and foremost, from the guidelines:

  Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Nobody here that would otherwise just downvote will write a counterargument because you complained about it, keep the reddit bot downvote whining where it belongs.

> Crypto can be suborned into any existing ponzi scheme easily by allowing exchanges of these fiat assets and leverage from any of those fiat systems.

>Those crypto systems which have ballooned as a result of that would then accurately and appropriately be considered ponzi schemes, even though its just a small leg of the entire ponzi scheme.

This can happen to literally anything else that isn't prohibited from being traded using fiat currency.

>There is no effective way for an individual to tell inflows and outflows from the system, and any financial banker is aware of frauds that can create the illusion of price action through the use of leverage, and collusive wash-sale contracts (similar to options). That is how gold and metals commodities are largely suppressed.

I assume you're talking about the price in non-crypto currency that was paid for the crypto? if so yes, you can't really tell the inflows and outflows, but that is also true for everything that can also be traded outside centralized exchanges(including stocks), and commodities are even worse given most of them will be traded outside any exchange for industrial use and with even less transparency. I don't see the argument against crypto here inherently.

Yes, crypto can be used for scamming, this is a post discussing exactly one of those cases, but that's no different from anything else. It has a real tangible value in a world where you can be effectively cut off from global financial processing if 3-4 US companies -that got quite opinionated after the patriot act- decide they don't want to do business with you. Until payment processors aren't held to the standards of common carriers, crypto is imperative.

crypto isn't a ponzi scheme inherently and allows for in his case dissidents cut off from financial networks to actually function.

its a poll whose participants consist pretty much entirely of people who follow a pornstar on social media, so I'm not sure you should take it as conclusive on anything other than what her fans like

this is not a rationalization over what actually happened, that's a different discussion, but about current public sentiment over it. What drives the clickbait is exactly the inflammatory narratives and connections.

>In the real world, we don't evaluate people relative to how better training they have received.

In the real world people mostly still hold pelé and maradona as the best football players to ever get on field so i'm not sure that's accurate.

I myself end up using soccer at times due to reflex, a mixture of learning american english and never reading/talking about american football hence barely seeing the word football being used, given the vast majority of english speaking media is US-based. It's not as uncommon as it may initially seem.

elon is making a big stink(for whatever reason) about privacy and surveillance, going quite against the federal agencies that do it at least publically.

jack dorsey pledging a million per year to signal in the wake of these revelations is the entire reason the piece this is responding to exists.

trump outrage bait(and real things) was probably the single most guaranteed way to get traffic for these outlets

idk like I said there is no conceivable way I can think of why would the outlet publish such a piece otherwise

As a brazillian, as I assume you also are, can't help but disagree. The ratio of good to bad is at most 9-1 in my experience, and I say this with no exaggeration. The only time I can remember people really talking shit about his personal was in the ~2013 protests when he called for protesters to watch the cup(?) or something instead of protest, his illegitimate daughter is mostly a footnote when talking about his personal life for better or for worse, the man's affair with xuxa is far more of a topic of discussion.

if you are in a position a crime ring can take over your town, no amount of surveillance will help, it will most likely make the crime ring stronger by giving them access to it, there's a joke here about the government being already the crime ring I guess.

It never fails to amaze me how people are currently ok with effectively wiretapping communication, compared to how it was treated back when wiretapping was a thing. That you have the NYT blatantly publishing something this brazen while ignoring completely the repeated surveillance scandals in the last decade is mind boggling. I know I should be charitable but there's no explanation I can find other than they're trying to create a second "x man bad" with elon for the guaranteed traffic now that trump is effectively neutered and irrelevant.

Even during the heyday of the patriot act the mentality didn't seem this bad for americans, granted that could be my memory failing.

Many comparisons were made for decades, that doesn't mean you should bring it up unprompted during the announcement of the death of one of the subjects purely to disparage the other side. If you want to honor pele, act as he would, instead of using his death as another opportunity to bring up what was effectively an old timers console war.

I'm sure GP is talking about in the context of what is really Tesla's fault here, as the article clearly is trying to bait a reaction on it. Not sure about criminal liability, but at the very least there should be a fine for using it.

I also wouldn't want the AI to decide i'm not touching the wheel because my hands are cold that day or something said AI training might end up.

I'd be willing to bet a lot more would prefer to have only remote than only in person work, on both demographics. And even if not, seniors are just more important to retain anyway.

to be fair it's pretty surprising you can find rust jobs at all, a luxury most languages lack

>(Note, the way Elon "talks" in tweets would be sarcastic if it was someone younger, but remember he's middle aged and still calls things epic unironically.)

the way he tweets is pretty much distilled 2012-ish reddit