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I've found Opus 4.8 pretty amazing, and Codex a bit meh. YMMV?

I mean, that's fair. To an extent it depends how high the stakes are and whether there are realistic alternatives to a service.

I have plenty of ability to read, but I never read these T&Cs because they’re usually dozens of pages long and life’s too short (or, if you prefer, the cost/benefit doesn’t support it). For consumers in Europe, at least, it’s usually safe to assume that anything too shitty is unenforceable, which helps.

(It's a double-press, which I think of as one action but I guess it's technically two button presses, because I believe the EU mandates that)

Renault have nailed this. In their latest cars (the EVs, at least) you set up which features you do and don’t want, then a single button press when you get in the car makes it so.

Some of their implementations, such as lane keeping, are good enough to keep. Others, such as speed limit detection, aren’t (though it’s much better at French speed limits than UK ones, which I suppose makes sense).

There's a middle ground between ORMs and raw SQL, especially if you're using a strongly typed language. My library Zapatos[1] is one example among several.

[1] https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/

Basically: you can't teach people to think without giving them some facts and ideas to think with. It's like trying to teach woodworking without giving the students any wood.

Which is generally slower than Googling, because it's paged content in a terminal which can search only for literal strings?

Practically speaking, yes: I have a Renault EV and the battery % goes up on long descents.

It’s interesting that EESMs can be more efficient at high/highway speeds, and it’s something I had read before. This seems to me to be a key advantage of EESMs, because when people worry about EV range, they worry mainly about range on long-distance, high-speed journeys.

(I have a Renault EV and it’s excellent. Aside from the motor technology, it’s relatively light, has a heat pump as standard, and a good-sized battery).

No, it's an immigration restriction. There's no way it applies if the Swiss start having 5 kids each.

Are you trying to claim that American private healthcare is anything other than a giant shitshow of inefficiency, profiteering and death?

My monetization idea doesn't involve charging users, and it's more on the printing side (but most of the source is shared with scanning).

That is super helpful (I may well use it myself). But I guess a web app probably reaches some non-technical users that CLI tools don't.

There’s separately a /credits page where I’ve done that, linked from the footer. Perhaps I should link it from the apology too. Tell me if you think I’ve not shared what I have to.

If you think I’ve done something wrong according to the licences involved here, please do clarify. I had understood that open-sourcing the Linux stuff (as branches of a fork of v86, linked from the /credits page) met all relevant legal obligations, which I absolutely intend to do.

More broadly, it’s unusual for me not to make everything open, and I do feel bad/conflicted about it. But, unusually, I feel like I have identified a possible route to monetising this, and I think open-sourcing all of it risks making that harder.

Do you really find you can reliably sustain your full attention that long?

My EV can do 3 – 5 hours on the motorway between charges (depending on weather conditions and speed), but to avoid fatigue I always want a break within 3 hours or so.

And by the time I've parked, gone inside, queued up for and drunk a tea or coffee, used the facilities, and checked the next leg of my trip, that's half an hour and the car is ready to go again.

Previous discussion on Yes We Scan's sibling project, printervention.app: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677885

This is great. It makes https://printervention.app (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677885) and the soon-to-be-released https://yes-we-scan.app work on Firefox.

It would be even greater if it were possible to avoid the two-step installation. It certainly used to be possible to ship a binary inside a Firefox extension (I did that here: https://mackerron.com/zot2bib/), but I guess they may have shut that capability down for security reasons?

Staying in a holiday rental and there are no hooks on the walls!

I don’t feel like that’s a reasonable analogy. Kitchen knives don’t purport to give advice. But if a kitchen knife came with a label that said ‘ideal for murdering people’, I expect people would go after the manufacturer.

Claude was great, but I did put a fair amount of my own time and (non-printing-specific) expertise into this. OTOH, sure, I wouldn’t be asking for a million dollars.

Fair enough! I just don’t think I fully understand what you’re suggesting.

Can you elaborate on how using the network sharing features of CUPS would let you achieve the same thing (printing to old USB printers) in any major web browser?

Huh, interesting. Is the driver built in to Windows, downloaded from Canon, or acquired some other way?

TBH the web app story on Windows isn’t ideal anyway because you have to install Zadig before it will work.

I mean, anyone is welcome to do just that! But I guess coding Rube Goldberg machines in JS (to push the boundaries of the web) is a thing I really kind of enjoy.

From the Gutenprint home page, https://gimp-print.sourceforge.io/:

As of July 7, 2024 the Gutenprint project has formally deprecated MacOS support. This means that no further MacOS-compatible binaries will be produced.

Gutenprint has not had an active MacOS maintainer for over three years, and the remaining developers lack the technical ability to produce MacOS binaries, much less undertake the substantial amount of work necessary to produce, test, and support binaries on newer (post-Mojave/10.14) MacOS releases.

Interesting suggestion: I guess that would have been possible. On the other hand I think this is a more general solution, and it does minimal reinventing-the-wheel.

In case you were to miss it, there's some background and explanation here: https://printervention.app/details

It doesn’t much change your calculations, but if you charge at home in the UK (we trail a cable across the pavement with a low-profile cover) then the electricity _is_ all but free.

We pay 7.5p/kWh for 6 hours overnight, but we also get £5 per month back (if we charge at least 10 hours) in return for having charging interrupted for up to an hour each night when the grid has least capacity. I drive about 7000mi/year, which means I’m paying about 1p/mile on average for home charging.

(The £5/month is from the charger manufacturer, SyncEV).