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3y ago
The ink is extremely cheap compared to what you pay for ink in a print cartridge on a traditional inkjet printer.
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If you turn it off and back on again, it will clean the print heads. Might not be a bad idea to do that every week or so.
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> they have horrible ideas that they think are profound I'm not so sure this is a horrible idea from the standpoint of their business. Other businesses could operate differently and if people preferred that, they wouldn't buy
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3y ago
I have had a pretty good experience with Epson Eco Tanks. They cost more than an inkjet, but the ink seems a lot more reasonable...even when buying it from Epson.
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3y ago
Two books that did for me what I think you are looking for: - From Mathematics to Generic Programming by Stepanov & Rose - Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Hofstadter - The Little Schemer / The Seasoned Schemer
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Funny that most of the stuff mentioned is low enough that it doesn't even meet my deductible. I'm not paying for insurance to cover a $250 bill, or even a $2,500 bill. I'm paying for insurance to cover an unexpected $250,000
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3y ago
So you think the classes are much easier? Might it be related to your life experience and focus you have now? Or are there things that simply aren't are rigorous as it used to be?
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I've read these as a kid and they were some of the books I made sure I had in our house to read to my children. It seems like these would make a great TV series. Brinley also wrote a book about creating model rockets that I read as a k
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> what marketing value Most people who are doing this type of things offer consulting services to help make sure your site / app are secure. > The best approach is not to do it. Don't do what? Don't tell them there is a
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> 42.7% of internet users worldwide use ad blockers. Given how many people I know that still type google into the google search bar, I find this number to be extraordinarily high.
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> I'm curious, does the LGPL state explicitly that the licensor guarantees that the licensee can excercise their granted rights in practice? It feels like such a requirement would mean you would have to test each potential user for
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In what way do you feel unemployment isn't sufficient? It seems to be high enough that people are able to provide for necessities while being low enough to keep them looking for another job...even if it isn't quite as much as they
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I'm curious if the best monetary approach for a white hat hacker would be to show them the problem, give them time to fix it, and then give them an option to pay a consulting fee for the discovery in exchange for NOT publishing the exp
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What if he says that he has discovered that if he stands on one foot in the street in front of your house, holds anyone's garage door opener above his head, and clicks it 25 times at precisely 9:01am while shining a laser pointer at th
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The potential downside of stopping once you find a critical defect is that the company may not take it seriously unless you go just a bit further and show what you can do with the defect. In this case, showing that it gives you access to th
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I've played it a bit with my kids. It seems to be a game version of the Nand 2 Tetris course: https://www.nand2tetris.org/
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> Cheating maximizes the benefit to that individual. But possibly damages the collective. It would seem like a species that has a language would greatly benefit from having individuals with more years of experience on how to handle infre
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I'm not seeing how longevity slows the number of generations you can have per unit of time. That seems like it would be determined by how quickly a species reproduces after being born...not how long they live.
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I was part of that remediation effort in the healthcare sector. And yes there were things that were fixed that prevented problems. However, given how many things were not fixed, it is amazing how few problems actually happened. (Someone got
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> The author would also conclude: > The prediction that Y2K would happen was a bad one since it didn't happen. (We spent billions of dollars to make sure it didn't.) I would argue that we don't really know what would ha
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If you are asking yourself, "will this do what it says it will do?" and you are comparing a project that hasn't had any updates in the last 3 years vs one that has seen a constant stream of updates over the last 3 years, whic
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> I disagree with Dijkstra that it will do any permanent damage Dijkstra's quote about people who learned programming with BASIC being beyond repair is obviously hyperbole, but given the number of programmers he taught, I'd ass
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From a corporate standpoint, the big fear is that the LLM might do something that cause a big enough problem to cause the corporation to be sued. For LLMs to be really useful, they need to be able to do something...like maybe interact with
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SICP is a textbook. The Little Schemer is a tutorial. You sit down with a pen, paper, and the book. Then you cover the answer column in the book, read the question / prompt and try to write an answer on your paper. You compare your res
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Some of the books I've read this year that I'd recommend: The Divine Comedy by Dante - It is hard to underestimate how much it has influenced our culture. A Distant Mirror - The history of the 14th century, but engaging like a nov
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> apple is the new Nokia. You obviously haven't dropped an iphone on to concrete. :)
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I think that part was done by the ghostwriter.
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"at least in Detroit, they're looking to try it." Is Detroit a place with a really tight housing market? It wasn't that long ago that neighbors were offering potential purchasers of near by houses dinner every week for a
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"More profitable" would include the cost of getting the zoning changed.
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The only reason it is profitable is because the cost of buying an existing home is often less than the cost of building additional housing. If you want to discourage people buying houses to rent them out, the best thing to do is make it eas
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