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We own an HP printer. The other day my wife told me the printer refused to print unless she renewed her subscription. I told her no way in disbelief. That can't be legal. She renew…

I purchased the ThinkPad P1 mobile workstation in 2018. It's a great machine but it's about as loud as a vacuum cleaner.

Agree with this 100%, as a father of 5. I have 2 sped kiddos that are aseverely handicapped and even at 7 and 8 years of age they cant do many so-called mundane tasks. Also no one …

I purchased new construction once. They were putting up a thousand cookie cutter houses like ours in that neighborhood. And even that estimate missed the mark by more than 3 months…

I have never looked this up, but anytime I'm checking out at a brick and mortar store, I'm asked, casually, "Phone number?" Or "Zip code?" As if thats information that is necessary…

Parent of 4 here, ages 6, 5, 2, and 8 months. My oldest two are special needs. Some thoughts from my POV... My oldest wasnt trained until about 4.5 years. It took around 6 months t…

This looks like a great case-study. Basically, it seems that if the licensing isn't in Amazon's favor (take the OSS project, put it into operation, sell it as a service), then Amaz…

New business model idea: write open source software with a license that requires, well, a license to _operate_. It's free in all the typical APL2 senses, except that you can't sell…

Yeah, I am a fan of Arch on the desktop, but the P1 runs Nvidia's P1000 chip and Arch doesn't seem to like that, so I went with Ubuntu+i3 for now. Updating the firmware first is de…

Thanks, this makes me feel better about my decision a couple months ago to switch to Lenovo's ThinkPad P1 Mobile Workstation. I don't have any regrets switching from Apple hardware…

Ha, I like this one! Actually these algorithms may approximate one another when generalized. Pirsig explores the philosophy more deeply, though; for example, generating a hypothesi…

This was the one, a facetious version of Pirsig’s algorithm: https://xkcd.com/627/

I have also experienced this phenomenon. Why do you suppose we come to these surprises, and why do you suppose we experience them? Is it because we are confident? Or because we lac…

This is a very interesting philosophy. A few years ago, a former coworker and good friend of mine introduced me to an algorithm for solving problems. This is a slightly different p…

I have been in search of what you’ve put together. My wife and I have tried unsuccessfully various strategies along these lines that were more lofi, but always come back to the spr…

PSA: if you take TripleByte's online quiz, they don't have the capability of giving you the results of the quiz. At least, that's what I was told when I took the online quiz -- the…

I couldn't find this on your product page, but does Hazelcast Jet support "global windows"? I've found 90% of stream processing systems I've come across only work within a window, …

It's interesting to me that, before I learned about databases (circa 2004), I built 3 distinct software products based on flat files (no database). They were all written in PHP (th…

Please tell me that the referenced C# dialect used in Midori is available in some form for use, research or general learning? This would really make my week!!

Cool! I authored a web based accessibility tool called Graybit some years ago. It allowed you to enter a web address and browse the web through its proxy, which converted all CSS, …

Something else people should know: AWS ES is on the Internet. You can't deploy it to a vpc yet, and you can only lock it down using IAM, which may or may not be good enough for you…

Yeah, I should have clarified I was talking with my operations hat on. From a development perspective, you might call it a "deploy-time" or "scale up" dependency.

Speaking from an operations perspective, yes, it's a runtime dependency. From a development perspective, you might think of it as a "deploy-time" dependency. Think of it in contras…

You can speed up AMI baking by using chroot + a mounted EBS volume on a running instance. It should drastically reduce the time it takes to produce a new image. Also be sure that y…