My paternal grandfather starved himself death because of health issues. My paternal grandmother died in agony from colorectal cancer. My maternal grandfather faded away and died not recognizing most of his children. My maternal grandmother was trapped in a noisy ICU where she couldn't sleep until her heart finally failed.

We can all come up with shitty anecdotes.

Was your grandfather a jain? They have a end of life ritual called sallekhana where old people fast to death.

No. He was just in pain and had no other way out.

Canada has medical assistance in dying now that lets people avoid this.

Having managed programmers for more than 30 years, there are a LOT of programmers who just want to code. There are also a lot of programmers who went into programming because "it was a good, well paying job".

Doesn't really take much away from the article but a significant percentage of the developers who are unemployed are not losing their passion, they are worried about what job they will get to pay the bills.

My father worked for the railroad as a blacksmith but he apprenticed to an old blacksmith who was a farrier before. There are still farriers to this day.

Some of us will need to move on to other things but there will probably still be a lot of farrier type jobs around.

Check out his comments in this thread, this guy appears to be a corporate apologist.

Check them out on other threads, too. I think he’s just a garden troll.

I don’t really appreciate being assumed to be a troll just because I’m holding a contrary opinion. That’s very much against the guidelines of this site.

I think if you are the type who is interested in digging up comment history you’ll find plenty of comments from me that show that I’m pretty much a regular person who has respectful conversations.

I apologize if I didn’t follow the popular “corporation bad” narrative. Like, I do recognize that ink is grossly overpriced and all that. At the same time, I don’t really think we are held hostage by printer companies these days. I buy ink once a year or less and it’s not even a laser printer. It isn’t a significant expense or inconvenience.

This is disingenuous; a car needs both gas and oil to run. A printer should only need black ink to print black and white documents.

> That’s what you think, though, you didn’t design the printer. I assume you don’t have a background in color theory or chemistry or whatever else you need to produce ink.

Do you?

Monotone printers are a thing and have been since the 60's.

I agree, monotone printers are available technology, and monotone printers have worse output quality than a color inkjet printer.

If you want a monotone printer, buy one. I just have a little bit of confusion around the situation where people who bought color inkjet printers aren’t willing to put color ink in the printer.

You’re aware, aren’t you, that a color inkjet that only squirts ink out of the black cartridge is, technically speaking, a black and white inkjet printer? A color inkjet is literally a superset of a black and white one.

You think there is zero chance that the ink formulation differs between a color printer versus a black and white printer?

I’m pretty sure the reasoning for color ink cartridges relying on both sets of cartridges is that the “black” cartridge is no longer perfectly black in that configuration.

Ive seen older inkjets share inks cartridges between color and black and white only models. And the only reason you don't see that commonly nnow is because people who use primarily black prints bought laser printers now which are chwaper than in the past.

Obviously there is that chance. But just as obviously, someone who just wants to print their homework is almost always way more concerned with their printer “working” than they are with it printing “perfectly black” ink.

Again, this goes back to “someone who is doing critical time-sensitive work must have supplies on hand.”

Anyone who runs out of color ink presumably could run out of black ink or run out of paper, too, because they weren’t keeping necessary supplies on hand.

So really the only cognitive adjustment they need to make is to tell themselves “this printer requires two cartridges to operate” rather than making a blind assumption that it will work with just one.

I would be surprised if this wasn’t already disclosed in the user manual as well.

The psychological justifications don’t matter. This is how the machine works. If you don’t want that machine then you buy a different printer.

You are bending over backwards to justify this user hostile practice. Most people wouldn’t choose to not print at all just because it “isn’t really a perfect black.” They’re just trying to get their homework printed.

I bought a color laser in 2004 and I’ve never replaced the C M or Y toner because I almost never print color. Miraculously, it is still happy to print “imperfect” black and white, which is exactly what I want.

But now we are diving deep into personal preference. I personally never want to print stuff that comes out wrong and looks bad.

I think that this definition of “user-hostile” depends on a deliberate misinterpretation of the requirements of running the device.

If we just change our frame of reference to hold the expectation that “all ink supplies supplies must be sufficient for it to operate” it seems perfectly reasonable to me.

I dunno, maybe I just have an aversion to broken shit being in my house. Maybe you’re right, maybe it would be better to have some kind of “emergency” functionality for the times when I forget to refill ink. I also just keep spare ink cartridges so I’m never rushing out to buy another one. This is, to me, part of being a functioning adult.

I wouldn’t really allow the things I own to be broken or out of supplies if they’re things I rely on.

These are $30-50 ink cartridges, and many inkjet printers have cheaper refill supplies with the popularity of ink tank designs where you can refill them yourself including third party ink without the need to buy new ink cartridges.

There’s just so much outrage around this subject for no reason if you ask me. People barely print anymore anyway, I think it’s time we get over it.

Slightly suboptimal black ink coverage is not an “emergency” use case.

The solution to your issue is a warning about low ink and quality, not refusal to print at all.

> I assume you don’t have a background in color theory or chemistry or whatever else you need to produce ink.

You don't, either.

Black ink is all that's required to print B&W documents. Period. No one designs a black ink to be supplemented by another color before it achieves "full blackness". That's literally the entire point of black ink.

It was, it was just hard to do at scale by a lot of different people.

LLMs and other automation tools make things that used to be annoying but uncommon to a steady part of life.

I'm curious, why do you think the movie will ruin your good memories?

Curiosity killed the cat

They mean "a faithful translation" where "original" means whatever Greek version was chosen to be the source not "original" as in the first text from Homer.

> A quick scan shows a lack of rigor that usually points towards zealotry rather than a reasoned position

You're doing the same thing:

> you imply that models are only trained on copyrighted work

Actually, they said "The technology is built off wholesale theft of protected works without compensation". The word "only" never appears here, nor is it really implied.

> you don’t address the ridiculous “copyright forever, nothing goes public domain” policies that got us to this place

This is pure "whataboutism". Both things can be bad.

I mean, you didn't address wealth inequality or global warning.