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manicpolymath commented on HP have updated their printers to ban ‘non-HP’ cartridges   old.reddit.com/r/assholed... · Posted by u/imalerba
freakynit · 3 years ago
Does this open up the space for a "framework laptop" like company to open up? For "open" printers?

If yes, what other product categories is this applicable?

manicpolymath · 3 years ago
If the market weren’t in decline, maybe. But to pipedream a little:

A standardized control board (imagine if it were something like an RPi), with modular carriage (available in several sizes, including capable of 11x17” or A3), with changeable print heads (CMYK, or just a massive black, or hell, pen plotter).

manicpolymath commented on Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)   collinmbarrett.com/block-... · Posted by u/behnamoh
phantomathkg · 3 years ago
This is a very shortsighted view from developer who forget a web page is not only a bunch of text. Designer also play an important role to provide the subtle design element that developers don't value.

By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.

manicpolymath · 3 years ago
Funny you use the word “shortsighted” - for screen readers to work right your web page had better be a bunch of text.
manicpolymath commented on Secure Rust Guidelines   anssi-fr.github.io/rust-g... · Posted by u/pabs3
rpigab · 4 years ago
Don't you mean trombone? Or is there a hidden pun?
manicpolymath · 4 years ago
I detect a pun. _trombine_ is, according to Wiktionary anyway, a colloquial French word for _face_.
manicpolymath commented on Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?    · Posted by u/halgir
CursedUrn · 4 years ago
Could speed test sites do something about this? Like obfuscate the traffic somehow to get more genuine results?
manicpolymath · 4 years ago
I think the bigger problem isn’t so much the traffic type as it is traffic destination. As long as there are only a few hosts or domains providing speed test services (and there always will be: upload speeds are expensive) ISPs will be able to whack-a-mole with their whitelists.

I’d say that this needs some sort of regulation, but as long as ISPs are the gatekeepers, they can cheese $Government all day long too. This word gets overused perhaps, but the closest I can come up with is a decentralized monitoring setup with random speed test hosts (especially hosted @home style). Care would have to be taken to avoid how-are-these-still-legal data caps though.

manicpolymath commented on 3D Printing Sex Toys   billieruben.info/post/3d-... · Posted by u/app4soft
tacon · 4 years ago
https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=sex&type=things&sort=re...

>No results found for sex. Please try another search or upload your own design.

Yeah, sure!

manicpolymath · 4 years ago
Just needs a bit of creativity. There are plenty of “bedpost caps” and “espresso tampers”.
manicpolymath commented on Bring back hydrogen lifting gas   thecgo.org/news/bring-bac... · Posted by u/harporoeder
Karrot_Kream · 4 years ago
Fair enough you're probably right. And if you have a battery onboard and charge it using solar cells on the ship, you should have enough energy generated to at least run the compressor and dock the ship.
manicpolymath · 4 years ago
This might be slow, but what about using the lift gas in a fuel cell with atmospheric O2 for extra efficiency? You reduce the lift gas in the bags, and if you store the water aboard then you get extra ballast. You could even “unload” the extra electricity for use groundside.

The corollary pipe dream here is to line the entire interior of the envelope as a fuel cell membrane and use the airship as a portable battery.

manicpolymath commented on Illegal number – Represents information which is illegal to possess   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ill... · Posted by u/belter
Mordisquitos · 5 years ago
That makes me wonder if that means the product of two illegal prime numbers is an illegal number, or if it would be contingent on the computational feasibility of a third party factoring the product.

And if it's generally not feasible to do the factoring, what if you distribute the product of an illegal prime number and a non-illegal prime number? The product itself cannot be illegal, as nobody other than its creator could even detect an illegal prime was there, let alone determine its value. That is, unless you made the non-illegal prime number public... which would result in the illegal prime number being public, so it's illegal! You just made a non-illegal prime number illegal by multiplying it by an illegal prime number! How many primes can we illegalise this way?

manicpolymath · 5 years ago
Let’s start with 3 and start suing stoplight manufacturers.
manicpolymath commented on SiFive Tapes Out First 5nm TSMC 32-bit RISC-V Chip with 7.2 Gbps HBM3   tomshardware.com/news/ope... · Posted by u/pabs3
chmod600 · 5 years ago
I always thought the "cell" in "cellular phone" came from the network topology, not the battery format.
manicpolymath · 5 years ago
Oh it does come from the network region/cells. In fact in the old days when the phones were the size of an actual brick they were probably powered by a proper multi-cell battery. (Did I miss a joke?)
manicpolymath commented on Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features   inputmag.com/design/apple... · Posted by u/metahost
jessriedel · 5 years ago
Me too, but I'm not holding my breath. The idea has been out there for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard

manicpolymath · 5 years ago
The Optimus Maximus keyboard showed why OLED was a bad choice for the keyboard. Chyrosran22 did a review of a used one that had severe burn in on all the keys.

It would be interesting if someone could make a screen key cap that was compatible with Cherry MX or Alps switches. The problem is with communication and power delivery, though. Could NFC power a tiny E-Ink display?

https://youtu.be/qj7GYU-wedo

manicpolymath commented on IBM is splitting itself into two public companies   reuters.com/article/us-ib... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
manicpolymath · 5 years ago
I’m curious what the new name will be. I want it to be International Cloud Business Machines (ICBM).

u/manicpolymath

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