bitofhope

I watched most of the first season of Silicon Valley with a friend who recommended it to me. I liked it. Every single character with a speaking role so far (with the possible exception of an exotic dancer and a graffiti artist) deserves death by nuclear weaponry. SFBA delenda est.

You think that's impressive? It guessed my dad's name on almost first try.

Signed, Rumpelstiltskin Jr.

Someone should come up with a catchy alliterative name for this tactic of incorporating competing ideas in Microsoft product family, augmenting them with their own proprietary crap and pulling the rug after achieving lock-in. Maybe call it AAA for "Adopt, add on, annihilate".

What stereotype? The stereotype that awful.systems posters are hostile to people who praise LLMs? Good.

I don't think announcing he's "genuinely grateful" to his newly earned dogpile is helping recover his dignity too much. A simple admission and apology suffice, I don't need you to go "thank you daddy punish me more" while at it.

Paul Graham randomly blurting out inane and ostensibly vague insinuations about fellow rich people's obvious bullshit smells to me like the sort of buggy behavior you get from a lifetime of ass kissing. I sure hope it isn't. It would be really bad if Paul Graham got his rocks off on huffing the smell of his own farts.

So I have two laser printers, a cute little HP one and an old Lexmark. The former works mostly OK, but requires fiddling* to get it working on Linux, and prints things smaller than their actual size. The latter is also good enough to be useful, but leaves streaks on page and is quite low on toner. Replacing the photoconductor and toner is just about expensive enough to justify consideration of buying a new printer altogether instead.

So anyway, I might be in the marker for a new printer, which reminded me of one of the best pieces of tech journalism of this decade . I also noticed it has been followed by sequels for subsequent years. Also a rare example of LLM use I can approve of, even if having to fight fire with fire (or search engines with slop) is a bit saddening.

A little offtopic (or I guess it's almost ontopic for NotAwfulTech), but I found myself considering a color printer and seems that LED printers are the new hotness for that. Since the top results when searching "led vs laser color printer" are mind-numbing slop, I thought I'd ask if anyone here has experience with LED printers. Any typical pitfalls to watch out for? Is Brother still the least worst brand for them?

* For the curious, the printer requires a plugin called HPLIP. My distro has an automated installer for it in its repositories, but the installer's Python code is not compatible with newest Python versions. Thankfully the fix only involves changing a locale.format to locale.format_string in one file and ignoring some warnings about invalid escape sequences. The URL for automatically dowloading the plugin from HP website is also empty, so I had to manually download the .run file from hplip's sourceforge repository. The filename was also slightly different from what the installer was expecting and the cryptographic signature file was also mandatory, though when the installer tried and failed to download the corresponding key from a keyserver, it let me ignore the signature altogether. I can see how proprietary printer drivers made rms what he is, minus the pro child molestation stuff.

I read it as "Derek Smalls" at first and only now I remembered he was the bassist of Spinal Tap.

Disappointing if true. The omake for TH19 hits the nail on the head on why genAI as it exists today is antithetical to the ethos of the series.

I don't get it. It's like you're saying the sexy robot woman is a representation of seductive futuristic promises of a problematic technology. I don't see how that ties into the article at all.

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What’s the “killer features” of these new laptops

LLM

and what % price increase is it worth?

negative eighty, tops