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.

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.

\QB

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

LLM

and what % price increase is it worth?

negative eighty, tops

There certainly are delivery robots going around in Helsinki, but not to the extent you’re guaranteed to see them on any given day if you’re just strolling around.

Glad you enjoyed your visit.

I think this mostly proves that Leo XIV is a moe anime character.

That’s a boring perspective fuck you for sharing.

Pretty sure they’re already doing that for many things.

This feels like a lot of straw man arguments?

No it doesn’t?

Did anyone ever claim these things?

Yes?

Are these problems to implementing SMR? I don’t think so.

OK, but aside from lower efficiency, higher price per watt, and not solving any of the problems they’re supposed to solve, are there any problems with SMR? I don’t think so.

I’m a centrist. I think we should aim for the halfway point between basic human decency and hateful cruelty. I’m also willing to move towards the hateful cruelty to appease the right, because I’m a moderate.

Still frustrated over the fact that search engines just don’t work anymore. I sometimes come up with puns involving a malapropism of some phrase and I try and see if anyone’s done anything with that joke, but the engines insist on “correcting” my search into the statistically more likely version of the phrase, even if I put it in quotes.

Also all the top results for most searches are blatant autoplag slop with no informational value now.

A whole generation is leaning more socialist because homeownership is unattainable and student debt is crushing. The solution is whatever is the latest big tech fad.

Just like all of gen X’s problems would have been solved with more .com, right?

I’m not polite to chatbots because I don’t use them in the first place.

Hell yeah rule by dickgirls

I dunno, how’s the “I’m not Donald Trump” platform been working out so far?

the hawk tuah teapot is actually hysterical which is how I knew the poster was taking the piss

Oh, but you see the axis powers only ever wanted to conquer most of Europe, North Africa, a bunch of islands in the Pacific, most of Southeast Asia, Korea and large parts of mainland China, which the allies would have been completely fine with. Nothing suggests they would actually go for full conquest victory. What is a “Lebensraum”? Is it a type of cheese?

Unusually shit take on WW2 but not an unusually shit take from Moldbug. Just the usual level of shit.