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I have been using MXRoute continuously for the last 3-4 years as both my own personal email service, as well as reselling it to several of my clients for their business email services.

The pricing is hard to beat, but the service is sort of no frills. It's been 100% reliable since I began using it, but the UI, documentation, and process for setting up domains with LetsEncrypt SSL and DKIM/SPF is...unrefined is a good way of putting it. Once you find the appropriate documentation (it exists, it's just not always where you'd first look for it) everything is straightforward.

I pay for 40GB of storage (I think I pay ~$25/40GB, but it's low enough that I literally don't recall), and from there I can host as many domains, email accounts, aliases, and my choice of webmail services incl. Rainloop, Squirrelmail, Roundcube, and MXLogin. Recently they've even added an option for Horde along with a slew of other groupware products such as Nextcloud, OpenOffice, and MatterMost--any/all can be deployed under any of my registered domains with little more than a few clicks. As long as I don't exceed my storage quota, my annual bill is always the same.

It's white label, so I can brand all of the relevant client-facing endpoints and products with logos, color themes, and custom URLs with LetsEncrypt SSL. Things like spam control are nothing to write home about, but my philosophy is to pay someone like MXRoute to handle the actual Dovecot/Postfix/DNS/security and then I can self-host or integrate the other features I want/need like spam control, sieve routing, and proxies. That's everything I can think of to define my experience with MXRoute. Mostly positive, albeit unrefined. I haven't had any cause to seek out their customer service, but I wouldn't expect anything too stellar, just given how their website's account management and documentation is setup, and the relatively little effort I have seen in maintaining communication for things like upcoming invoices. To be fair, I've not had any bad experiences with them, but the reports you mention don't strike me as surprising either.

Bottom line - MXRoute is a solid choice for flexibility and affordability, but only for a specific type of user.

It is suitable for:

- People who are typically self-sufficient, and are looking to strike a middle ground between total DIY/roll-your-own solution and a walled-garden hosted service like Microsoft or Google.

- Someone who is comfortable managing things like domain registrations, DNS, and DKIM/SPF/DMARC records, and who can seek out and parse sometimes spotty documentation without requiring hand-holding from customer support.

- Orgs that need/want the option to resell basic hosted email/groupware services to clients. Just bear in mind, you are the customer support for anyone you are reselling services to.

- Orgs that might need a lot of accounts/addresses, but don't consume excessive amounts of raw storage space for emails.
> I hate to go there, but isn't this because of their unrealistic views on work?

I don't know. Older people have a lot of vague, thinly supported stereotypes about the young, and they always have.

Actually, we all have stereotypes about each other. Millennials and Gen Z think Boomers were the generation that had everything handed to them: affordable college, affordable housing, secure low-skill high-pay union jobs, etc. And now they have the gall to judge younger generations for complaining about their challenges living in a much more competitive and unequal world.

I don't know if anyone's right about anyone else here.
Okay, I hear you and will do better. I've been reflecting on the HN guidelines and I truly want to support the community objectives. I will try to stick to more interesting discussion and reign in the hate for astroturf-ey articles such as this.

Thank you Dang, and I'm sorry for making life more difficult for you.
Fellow dane here. I guess i shouldn’t be surprised, it’s just not something I’ve encountered personally yet (that I know of).
Do you know if a bank is obliged to give you your credit score if you ask for it?
Good time to remember that saving money isn't only for making a big purchase one day. Having money saved, money that just sits there doing nothing, is power in these situations.
You could just answer the question. Obviously there are many readers here not intimately aware of RAF history.
Also, good contracts are difficult to write. There are templates for most contract types but it can take a while to work out the kinks. IP clauses around open source, for example, are incredibly hard to get right. We've had multiple iterations on this topic at my company.
This is a mains power cable, but yes stores will absolutely sell you an audiophile ethernet cable. Often claiming it should be connected a particular way round for the signal to flow correctly!
It's telling that you don't tend to see this in Europe, where leave is more generous and people actually take it. (Typically around 6 weeks, including public holidays).
> I like seeing the stack on the screen

So do I. Therefore I bought the DM42 from SwissMicros:

https://www.swissmicros.com/products
I don’t know about you, but when I cut out the toxic folks I actually discovered I wasn’t using Facebook for keeping up with folks at all. That was a side-benefit of the arguing I was doing with folks I hadn’t seen in years. I didn’t realize how insane that was of me, just giving all of these people my emotional and mental energy, until I stopped. And yeah, you can point to me and say, “see? Just stop! It works!” but it took MANY years for me to realize what was happening.
If the problematic contract clause is completely unenforceable by law then I usually don't bother arguing about it.

People like to write all kinds of weird things in contracts, but you can't legally sign away your rights (in Europe, USA may be different?). I quite happily break unlawful contracts, no company with a functional legal department is ever going to be stupid enough to take it to court.
I’d take a file system that can be indexed by my local operating system (MacOS).

The last MacOS update broke Spotlight indexing for my Google Drive folders. Really annoying not being able to use Spotlight (and by extension Alfred), so the only logical thing to do was move to iCloud.

In the process of moving off of Google Drive, I also decided to move my email to Fastmail and just ditch GSuite (or whatever they are calling it today) forever. I’ll sleep better at night knowing that Fastmail knows their place and (hopefully) won’t try and force a chat function into my web email client as a means to build engagement for a product I don’t care about.
Well, that's the other thing. I'm in Ontario, and I'm not even 100% sure on the legality of "unlimited PTO" here.

Presumably it's basically, legally, no contractual paid PTO but then they let you take PTO anyways? Because if they put N days in writing, well, then it's just the same as always. A liability on their books, etc.
Yeah same happens if someone tries to open it and the HSM deletes the content, or someone physically burns it, etc.

Generally that's why you ideally don't just have one key, but multiple. Ideally with voting, but even if you just replicate the key into a second HSM at a different physical location, it's going to improve your situation a lot.
True but not $5939 per meter nicer, there are cables just as nice if not better for far less. But most importantly people aren't buying these for their looks but for the false performance claims.
As others have said it would be more productive to just support standard PC mainboard standards like DDR3 over SO-DIMM.
> There's really no reason US recycled soap needs to be the soap that is sent to (eg) Africa, shipped over oceans. Doesn't (eg) Africa have it's own soap production facilities?

The article mentions several target areas that are under civil war and natural catastrophe conditions, where soap production might be collapsed. Syria, for example, was renowned for their Aleppo soap, whose recipe was allegedly over a thousand years old, and whose original production facilities were in one of the most embattled locations in fights between Western Forces and the so-called Islamic State (Syrian refugees have started making that soap again in their exile, mostly in Turkey). I'd wager soap production in Haiti also was impacted.

I once was in the "don't send them goods, send them money so they can buy local goods and help their economy" camp. Then I experienced the high levels of corruption in these countries, and how money easily disappeared. It's hard and unprofitable to make a truckload of soap disappear, unless the local warlord has some kind of soapy-water fetish.
Metabolic processes are dependent on temperature.

Think of yeast cells. They barely survive at 10 °C, but they do get along in water and sugar, slowly. If you bring them up to their ideal temperature with a lot of food, they go into explosive growth and the solution starts aggressively bubbling. It's orders of magnitude more metabolic activity when it's warm. If you cool human cells down their metabolism and oxygen demands slow down in the same way.

(Not coincidentally, yeast's happy temperature is not too different from normal human body temperature. A lot of biochemical processes go their fastest around ~35 °C or so without the involved molecules breaking down, and the mammalian trick was to keep all our cells at a near-ideal point all the time. We're aggressively bubbling solutions of CO2 all the time, normally.)
Yup. We've discussed it a fair amount, as we also frequently talk about the news. One friend in particular has lived in a half dozen states, mostly in large cities but also smaller communities, and now lives here because it is where he wants to be. He was stabbed in a metro area by a skinhead. This illusion that big coastal cities of super expensive housing as a mecca of love and diversity that exists nowhere else is just that.
Is It Time to Ditch the Office Ping-Pong Table?
If I recall right this depends on the original message length and 1 bit is a bit of an edge case. If you transfer just 1 bit, you're very space constrained and it's hard to do much. 1 bit to 1 bit has nothing, 1 bit to 2 bits has single-bit error detection, and 1 bit to three bits has single bit error correction (--and 2 bit error detection-- (this isn't right, thinking about it for a second)). After this, the minimum required checksum length growth logarithmically, plus 1 or 2 for detection / correction - and that constant factor makes 1 bit so weird.
It would work just fine. And if you call those messages equivalent then there is no cryptographic failing. You'll need better than that argument.

Nobody complains that RSA gives you the same result for 45 and 0045 after all.

Better, think of it like a hash algorithm that takes bits vs one that takes bytes. They both work fine and are secure. If your byte happens to be a really wide byte, that's not a fatal flaw.
Fractional scaling is a thing. It is also per-monitor. Just have to enable it via gsettings.

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"

The problem with it is that X11 doesn't handle the scaling well. Tend to get blurry fonts with X apps.

Now that most applications are supporting Wayland this is less of an issue than it used to be.
And everyone could build Twitter in a weekend.

Google cookies do not work that way. Ironically, one of the challenges is that some of them are firewalled from each other so that it's harder to aggregate a holistic picture of a user in one location. You know, for privacy reasons.

And not even moving an onClick handler is trivial given the layers of abstraction that Google's UIs are built on top of.
I'd probably try to do it with some kind of dummy framebuffer I could capture to an image file, and then inspect that image for variance against a known good snapshot. It's an approach I've seen work well with mobile app e2e testing; I grant it's heavyweight and can be somewhat imprecise, but I can't think offhand what could be much lighter and still work as well.

To be clear, I realize I'm asking a good deal here, but I'm being asked a good deal here too. If I'm to consider building a production application on this or any platform, I need considerable confidence that that platform isn't flawed in ways that may prove to mean I'll have wasted what might be a great deal of work. And if I'm going to have to design against the assumption I may need to have the application still work even when the platform doesn't, why use that platform at all?
Depends on whether you want the people to have soap, or their local strongman to have a soap-money-financed golden AK47.
That's exactly what's being done in Europe, sponsored by EU and multiple national governments. I was a contractor on a related software project.

https://www.audi.com/en/innovation/autonomous-driving/car-to...
Zuckerberg's metaverse obsession is driving some Facebook employees nuts
Most of the tightly closed enclaves are by choice (refugee communities tend to stick together harder than others, from what I can tell). Obviously, not everyone lives in an enclave.

What on earth makes you think they are second class citizens? They vote, attend school board meetings, own homes and live just like anyone else.
Yeah it's pretty foreign here in Canada, too. A Silicon Valley import. Prospective employer (US-ian) seems to be doing this, though. But it remains to be seen what they'll do for an offer to a Canadian. Guess I'll find out.

Before I quit Google I had 5 weeks PTO + a whole pile of unpaid "flex" days if I wanted them. It could get hard to use all 5 weeks sometimes.
Note that the lignin in the wood is horrible for the cutting edge. Knives on wood need far more frequent sharpening. But in my opinion it is a good trade off.

Note to use solid wood. I've seen cutting blocks of wood strips glued together - impossible to clean and easy to warp. All the disadvantages of every type of cutting board in one overpriced scrap ))
I wouldn’t observe gamma rays. They’re bad for your health.
At this point, I'd ask a lawyer.
I don't know about this. From the employer perspective you'd hope the interviewee would be excited enough about an opportunity that they'll give up a few hours for it without charging. Also feels a bit entitled to expect software engineers to be paid to have the chance to get a well paid job when most others aren't.
>but they were also made of vastly better materials than modern home construction

No way this is even close to being true. Newer houses with all the advancements in materials and construction science are much better than the post-war garbage that was spewed out.

I made a small fortune in my early 20s fixing and renovating those post-war houses. They're almost universally junk in comparison.
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I agree and want to emphazise that especially desperate job seeker might sign it just to get a job in the given industry to a few years down the line hit a wall when getting a great offer at the competitor...

I went through this with a lawyer and she told me it is unlikely they would sue me, but they could make my life miserable. That was enough for many to be too scared to go to the competitors. - My experience is from Europe; but I will never ever sign a non compete anymore and so fo I recommend go anyone.
fingerprinting probably brings in more identifyable bits, but without the cookies it would not be commercially reliable data to determine uniqueness.

i am aware what FLoC was and tried to be. it was a horrible idea with it's default optin putting onus on website operators to add headers to opt-out from a mass survelience exercise generating money for the surveillance capitalists.
Wordle works with a 12k-word dictionary, which is very much comprehensive (that includes "words" like "grrrl"). However, the hidden/secret words are picked from a much smaller set of 2k reasonable words (i.e., frequent ones, and that most people would describe as English words).

There are two reasons that you always win within 6 guesses:

1. It has been shown [1] that in hard mode you can always solve wordle in 6 guesses (but not always in 5) if you assume that the hidden word is "reasonable", i.e., taken from the 2k-word list. However, if you know 12k 5-letter English words and if you don't assume that the hidden word is "reasonable", then you will sometimes need 7 guesses.

2. Even then, the average number of guesses that you need is much lower, at 3.5 guesses (or 4.5 using all 12k words). So if you play optimally or close to it, it is only in very rare cases (the worst case) that you will need the full 6 or 7 guesses.

So, surprisingly, the game is easier if you are not a "savant", or to be more precise, if you are not a computer :-).

[1] http://sonorouschocolate.com/notes/index.php?title=The_best_...
It's just the data that's available.

The median house price so far this year is over $390K, by the way. The earlier value was for last year.
Be careful when trying to draw conclusions about cultural values of different ethnicities within western countries with high percentages of recent immigrants. Immigrants in general outperform natives in income mobility, and this tapers off in later generations. Additionally it's difficult to ignore the massive selective bias within immigrant populations. Immigrating is very difficult and that's positively reflected in basically every way you could measure the character of those populations.
A lot of people sure don't get British humour, with a 'u'.
Works out to the same thing. They get more work time from the employee for the money they spend.
Pretty much. There's a recent video going around of a Russian helicopter in Ukraine firing off all its flares in panic after its sister helicopter is taken out by MANPADS. Predictably, the Ukrainians wait until he runs out, and then he gets taken out anyway. Not that hard to search for it.
Margary Numbers
I was unable to find extended statistics, but DMV rates over the past 3 decades seem to have fallen dramatically. During the 1950s there were no laws to protect battered women and assaults on women were not considered as a crime. Even in 1960 New York domestic violence cases are transferred from criminal court to civil court, where only civil procedures apply. The husband never faces as harsh penalties as he would suffer if he was found guilty in criminal court for assaulting a stranger.

“The rate of domestic violence declined 63%, from
13.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older in 1994 to 5.0 per 1,000 in 2012 (appendix table 3).”

- https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/ndv0312.pdf

Also, getting accurate statistic pre 1960s for DMV is likely going to be difficult. Here’s a short TIME piece illustrating how views on DMV can alter studies and how DMV is qualified/quantified given the times.

- https://time.com/3426225/domestic-violence-therapy/

Take a look at some of these poster, DMV was more or less normalized in the cultural ethos at the time: https://ibb.co/279sjZ2
I have pushed back against contract clauses. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The most important outcome is the communication itself. Done well, the discussion builds mutual respect. Both sides want to enter into an agreement that is healthy for them as individuals and, in the best case, for the relationship itself.

An example: I've always looked very skeptically at NDAs. I pushed pretty hard for a sunset clause on one once. The other side pushed back. I ultimately decided to sign, as everything else about the arrangement was very acceptable. Once privy to the information on the other side, I understood their reluctance.

Also, there are some states with reasonable worker IP protections. Those change the foundations of some contracts for the better.
i mean when you redose, its effect will be significantly diminished. it is not something you can do recreationally, "only on the weekends" type of thing.
This exact line caught my attention as well - despite the author's attempts to mock the copywriter's optimism, they could sure turn a phrase.
I'm not alone that psilocybin has improved or outright "cured" depression in people, you will find plenty of studies and articles on this.
Banks cover their funding needs through the interbank market that provides the overnight loans required to balance their books at the end of the day. Banks will raise deposit rates to attract deposits if they constantly find that they need to go to the interbank market to balance their books because it is cheaper.

The discount window is used when the bank is unable to access the interbank market which is usually an indicator the bank is expected to fail. The discount window provides liquidity for high quality assets at high costs (which is why it is called the discount window).

If the bank runs out of high quality assets and can’t raise capital it becomes insolvent (bankrupt) and the FDIC takes over the bank and winds it down.
I think social media is just serving people what they want. We can argue if this is a good thing or not.

> Addiction is not healthy, and neither is social media.

Maybe I’m an old head, but maybe we need more self discipline in the world? I know this is not pragmatic but I feel there are lots of things that are addictive (even things that were not designed to be).

> We don't need social media, what we need is real social connections
Maybe I’m using social media differently, but what is in today's social media that makes it mutually exclusive to real social connections?
I deal with Chef at work, and I wish that was even remotely true. It's not a declarative system at all because it does not have the properties of being one. Namely the part about being able to specify the end state.

Chef doesn't allow you to specify the end state. Instead it allows you to specify a list of actions to be taken during deployment. The end result is affected by bunch of external inputs sent from the Chef server and every single bit of state the target server is able to observe. It is therefore impossible to reliably determine the end state of the target server before deployment. Our team has been burnt by this more than once.

Other similar systems are more or less the same. They have every hallmarks of being an imperative system.
It's probably not viable as business. You can buy a rework station for under £100 these days and it does not take up a lot space, so you could store it away in the storage among other tools needed but rarely used.
I mean, for instance, my dad was never into electronics, but we had a soldering iron at home, just in case a wire needs to be redone etc.
Times have changed and I see no reason why there shouldn't be a rework station in every home.
Maybe the name "rework station" sounds misleading, like you would need a dedicated bedroom to use it...
But to redo a couple of chips is no different than taking your blender from under the stairs to do a smoothie.
What assurance do I have that some rando at a festival who claims to have "magic mushrooms" is actually selling psylocybin mushrooms? None.

They might have picked some "little brown mushrooms" in a field somewhere thinking they were psylocybin mushrooms but not gone to the effort to identify them properly, or just not known how to do it, or made a mistake. Or maybe they got it from someone who told them that's what they were, but themselves didn't know, etc.

Or they (or their supplier) might have gone the easy route and bought some mushrooms and sprinkled some "bath salts" on them.

As a consumer you just don't know -- especially if they're dried, crumbled mushrooms which could be just about anything or a mix of stuff.

It's just sad hearing people who are so adamantly determined to stick their head in the sand and trust whatever drug they're being peddled is what their dealer claims it is.

Nancy Reagan's famous line was "Just say no." I'm not saying "Just say no". I'm saying "Just say know."

Educate yourself. Test your stuff. Be smart. Don't just guzzle down whatever you're given without satisfying yourself that it actually is what your provider claims it is.
Edited to indicate "laptops" :)