I just tested this on OS X, which doesn't expose printers through /dev/ in the way you're describing as far as I can tell. But apparently lp exists on OS X, so you can do echo "Hello printer" | lp -d <printer_name>, and find the name through lpstat -p.
And sure enough, this works! Just tested on my new printer.
I think two things need to be true for a “feature” to be able to mature into a full fledged company/startup:
1. People need to be willing to pay for it.
2. Other companies shouldn’t be able to replicate it easily and put you out of business overnight within a single release.
Part 2 is especially important if you’re building or extending functionality on top of a platform. An example might be the old swipe-to-touch keyboards on iOS. Once Apple built them natively, game over.
I'm not so sure either, but the Atlantic article referred to in the post is much better in my opinion, while covering the same topic. It includes more surveyed statistics about how public sentiment and wellbeing have changed over the decades.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/collapsing...
I’m fairly sure there is more to it from a technique perspective. Works like the Visuddhimagga and the Vimuttimagga explain the whole “focus on one thing / focus on breath” thing in extraordinary detail, and I consider these basically a forgotten technology. I have found these micro-steps to be really helpful in learning to meditate more deeply but are almost entirely ignored in the Western explanations and meditation apps.
That said, the traditional texts are still hard to parse. I’ve considered writing a manual-to-the-manual of sorts that explains the same concepts but in a modern way. I should mention that Leigh Brasington has some really awesome content out there (videos, books, and articles). I am not a master meditator, but if that sort of a thing exists, Leigh is.
You can see in the sidebar that you can traverse the industries in time (Preceded by and Followed by links). Amazingly, these span _species_, since stone tools were in use before Homo sapiens were on the scene.
I second this recommendation with a suggestion that has hugely helped me. I have more or less copied the approach to to-do lists described in that book into a Trello board and then – importantly – made it my home page on Chrome.
This accomplishes two things for me:
1) any time I open a new tab, I get a reminder of what needs to be done
2) adding an item or recording an idea to be processed later is just a cmd-t away.
This approach (combined with the Trello mobile app) has made the list so easy to maintain it's almost hard not to use it. YMMV, of course.
And sure enough, this works! Just tested on my new printer.