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Re:Where are the robotic bricklayers? by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @07:17PM (#28055442)
Printing is hard primarily because of misaligned business incentives, which form a bubble of suck that's eerily resilient to market optimization.

Automating programming definitely seems like an easier target in comparison.

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Re:Where are the robotic bricklayers? by XorNot on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @08:50PM (#28056039)
Printing works really well. It's print drivers (software) that are an utter and complete mess.

I've never had a printer that didn't work: I've had plenty that wanted the correct offering to the HP website to be made and several hundred megs of adware installed before a postscript file made it to the actual hardware.

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