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I pretty much stopped using email altogether once I realised this is what was happening. Maybe 10 years ago now.

Email was really useful if you wanted to send a message or notification to multiple people at the same time, but that got abused so much literally everyone disabled it, at which point email was no longer useful.

People can still send me emails (e.g. for plane tickets), but the chances of me replying to one are nearly zero. Now I send maybe 4 or 5 emails a year and only to people who wont use literally anything else.
I am ashamed to admit that I have no idea how email works. Is there a dumb down explanation of what are the moving parts and how you can achieve that sweet spot?
Pretty good assessment, except I think your figure for heat efficiency of power generation is way off. I would expect to convert around 30-40% of the heat energy to electricity.
Why isn’t beamforming a way of increasing effective bandwidth?
This looks interesting but I am confused about the relationship between the open-source version and the SaaS-y for-profit version. There is lots of verbiage at the website about how the two projects share zero code, along with a none-too-subtle pitch to get potential users to go for the paid version.

Can someone knowledgeable recap the history & politics here? If I apply for and am offered a job at "screenly", am I joining a FOSS project, or a for-profit company that supports the FOSS version merely to fill their hopper for the paid product?
>the correct approach would have been for Destiny to take legal action, instead of vigilantism.

So the correct response to percieved harrassment is indeed taking legal action, and not, say, mobilizing mobs to retaliate back ? Mmm, I wonder who needs to hear that.
Consider installing /e/ os on your galaxy. https://e.foundation/e-os/
The year is 2006 [1] again.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis
Have you ever considered that you're straw-manning and not engaging with what I've actually said?

I'm not supporting Kiwifarms having a platform.

I'm saying speech being effectively squelched by a small number of powerful parties is problematic. If the small party is the government, this is obviously problematic. If Facebook is a huge part of people's discourse, and subtly tilts the playing field in various ways, this is problematic, too.

I can insulate myself (mostly) from the effects of Facebook's curation. But there are still profound social costs.
As others point out, some of these are quite naive. (E.g. at many companies you have a large monorepo, so the "git clone" comment is silly, etc.)

What really gets me, though, is the tone. There's a nice way to probe for organizational problems like too much bureaucracy without coming across like a jerk. If someone showed this lack of self-awareness and basic social skills in an interview, I can promise they'd be a strong no hire.
My problem with these arguments is that there is supposedly a permanent class of “owners” and one of “workers”, and the workers are completely without agency nor ability to become owners themselves. Especially in software, a good idea can be converted into a business with minimal friction no matter where you live.

America has helped created more Latino millionaires than any other business through McDonald’s franchising model. These millionaires are now “owners”.

The Marxist class-based ideology ignores that fortunes are made and lost dynamically and your situation in life is not static. Even worse, once your viewpoint shifts to class-struggle you became a miserable defeatist lacking hope for the future. There is a reason communism died and Venezuela / Argentina are economic basket cases - once you view the economy as a zero-sum struggle, you start scheming to steal from productive private enterprise, and eventually everything collapses into shit.

My recommendation to OP, if you seriously want to raise your station in life, is to start hustling. Find a new job that pays more, start your own business, or immigrate to a higher paying country. No one is going to hand you anything. You have identified a problem - “my company pays me too little and I deserve more”. Option A is to give up, become demoralized, blame society, became a miserable complainer. Option 2 is to strategize about your situation and figure out a path to better compensation. Good luck!
I know this is some kind of sarcasm but I'm not sure what kind of sarcasm it is.
It's easy to feel thankful to Wikipedia, motivating you to donate.
They are in the benchmarks on the page.
This is best accomplished in coordination, just as employers coordinate against workers (whether illegal anti-poaching agreements or by sharing market data with each other etc.)
Seems like Wifi solves this?
Here is an example: https://wesmckinney.com/blog/avoid-unsigned-integers/
I did all that. When I started I could not run more than maybe a hundred yards. So I would run a little, walk a lot, run a little more, and slowly the ratio of running to walking changed and I could run a few miles without stopping to walk. I still felt just terrible and exhausted at the end of it. I never felt a high, or any other "good" feeling from it.
TIL about PCI-X. Northlight looks like a pretty cool piece of hardware! It's cool to see what other obscure stuff is out there - that's why I like Hacker News :-)
Not a new thing. Also plenty of grants are probably for things you would consider supporting wikipedia, and parts of "support wikipedia.org" are probably for things you would think arent about wikipedia.
It’s an opt-in program where people got paid to opt-in. Voluntarily being paid to use less power when the grid is under stress seems a bit different from being locked out of your house.
Gustavo Arnal, chief financial officer of Bed Bath & Beyond.

Bed Bath & Beyond is in serious financial trouble, but this indicates there may be worse problems, the kind that involve people going to jail. In the US, we don't usually see executive suicides for ordinary bankruptcy.
Honestly, I'm very conflicted about this.

My issue is not directly with my salary. It's more with the fact the I'm being payed less when compared to my peers in other locations while I'm doing the same/more work.

Location doesn't influence output, why should it influence the pay scale?
>I just looked at my spam folder. I'm regularly being offered dental supplies, large hydraulic sheet metal bending presses, and ammonium sulfate fertilizer. It seems that having your own domain now means you get mostly business-to-business spam. I subscribe to Machine Design, which gets me some heavy industrial marketing, but I have no idea why I get dental supply ads. The fertilizer spams, from China, look like a scam - there's a fertilizer shortage, so that's a spam which might get replies.

I used to have a 'Shirley' email all the time from China about elevator parts. It was such a niche kind of spam that I eventually replied and requested pictures of a bunch of parts. They sent them!
even if you could, what is the value-add of all the ports being usb-c to begin with?

what is my printer going to do with a displayport and pcie channel? obviously it doesn't need to implement those, but, it worked just fine with a USB Type-A 10gbps connector, what is the value-add of pushing that to USB-C at all?
Software developers are more expensive than other fields.
There's a difference between an indie dev flipping an idea into a profitable app with their own hands vs say the approach taken by the Fast CEO. I didn't even get into ideology stuff or politics, only a material description of what he's seeing - but looks like you are repeating a bunch of rw talking points there without helping the OP.
Ok that was fun
Hacker News uses the canonical link attribute of the site, if present. The canonical link to your site, according to the HTML header, is test.plink.in. You should fix that because not only Hacker News will get confused by that.

That said, it's a nice toy!
Maybe. If race matters to the story, then it might be confusing if the person doesn’t look like the race they are supposed to be, to some viewers. If race isn’t really part of the story, I don’t see how it matters.
Linux was my first choice, however I keep running into issues with Sleep/Hibernate with an nVidia discrete GPU on my laptop;

And Optimus seems to be bothersome with requiring constant restarts and hassle.
Meh, so Google knows your wifi password. So what? You think US intelligence will be calling up Google for that? Those protocols were backdoored before the first design went on a whiteboard.
And they know your location? So what? You’ve been able to triangulate any cell phone within meters from day 1. It’s just how the cell towers function, no getting around that. Terrorists, smart drug dealers and murderers already know to leave the phone behind. Google wants to sell you stuff you don’t need. It’s a business, that’s their goal.
There's the catch - VMCs are not a mandatory part of BIMI. Though if you want to establish trust, someone has to be willing to put their name on the line and verify everything required. If you have a better approach in mind, I'm sure a lot of people would love to know.
How is Best Buy still in business?
It is. But, someone can come and disrupt that too
Talking compensation has opened my eyes to this. We need to stop this culture of being secretive about compensation.
got a brand/model name to look for on amazon or whatever?
Maybe the Pixel 3 was better, but I still have a Pixel 2 XL which came with a USB-C-to-headphone adapter which simply does not work, and also it's very picky about which USB ports it will connect to - it seems to prefer USB-C. Once you get over these issues though, it's an Ok phone...
Why are there no recalls for smartphones like there are for cars?
Do instructions like these work?

https://technastic.com/remove-samsung-bloatware-safe-to-remo...

Or these are also temporary?
If you lay out a carry-lookahead tree the naive way, it occupies a N x logN rectangle with the N-bit adder along the N side, but most of the rectangle is empty (each layer has half as many gates as the previous). You can easily pack it more densely on a ad hoc basis, but I don't know of a systematic approach, so possibly it's only a (mildly large) constant factor better than the naive way at scale.

> Do you have some reference

Nope; that's why I was asking for one.
The answer is the same here as for anyone else who wants a substantial raise. You need to find a new job. It’s possible your current employer could match a new offer or even pay you more, but first you need to show them you’re serious about leaving.
That's the point. Little to no users have the interest in wasting time distro-hopping for 10 years just to use a computer to get work done and it has nothing to do with 'full driver support' which that is a given and is the bare minimum.

Windows and macOS have full integration, high consistency and developers support one type of OS for their apps to test and that is it. Now with WSL2, there is no need to dual boot or format, re-install a Linux Desktop after a failed distro upgrade / conflict and this fully works inside of Windows.

Also, 1 anecdote from 1 user isn't remotely sufficient evidence.
> At the moment, hosting costs are about €3M / year. Let's round that up to €10M for sysadmin and development salaries

That rounding up makes no sense and is unrealistic.
You work in what field? You just said it would replace a giant company that hosts porn videos. How will it do that?
The Helm email server — funded by future YC CEO Garry Tan’s VC firm, but I bought one before he returned – is a really great compromise between privacy and convenience.

The IP block is managed by the Helm co., they tunnel connections and sell you the (tiny, silent) server and software. Each Helm server generates its own TLS cert, so the tunneling does not violate your privacy (unless it was delivered without TLS, in which case your privacy already vanished upstream).

The only delivery issues I hit are sometimes with Outlook/Microsoft managed domains. It’s been at least a year since I had that issue. When I first bought one someone on gmail had to move a message of
mine out of spam, but it’s been fine since. Last I checked their infra is hosted on AWS but apparently they have some screening technique for getting clean IPs.
But what can it actually do?
VS Code still uses gulp for compilation.
Why Does Campfire Smoke Follow You?
Ask HN: Why do apps hide their primary use case?
In my mind the Pocket app, by Mozilla, has one job.

Help me save my links.

So, I had just copied a link.

And I thought... let me install Pocket real quick and save this link.

After installing the Android app, I saw lots of buttons and UI elements.

None of which helped me save my link.

The app readily showed me how to add a friend...

Something that never even crossed my mind as a primary use case.

I saw how to look at my historical feed.

I thought. Ok. Sure, that will be useful one day.

But, all I wanted to do at this moment is save my link that is already on my clipboard.

After 45 seconds of fiddling, nothing...

Immediately, I uninstalled the app.

When an app can't do its main use case well, I'm done with it.

It's so frustrating to waste time on something that seems like it should be so simple.

And, this is not the first time I've experienced this.

It's a very common experience.
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How is it that so many popular apps forget to put their one primary use case front and center?

It's just mind boggling.

I've always felt, one reason Instagram was so successful, is their workflow to post a picture was simple.

And consuming pictures via infinite scroll was natural.

Its two use cases were front and center, and well optimized.

As a software developer, I just can't understand.

Why is this so hard for our industry to get right? ...When so much extra money can be made by just providing a simple workflow for your primary use case!?!?
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I did figure out how to do it at one point. I think you had to remove some default config from a JSON file to stop it connecting to their cloud. You still had to query Google directly for the STT though
Still not quite 1930s dust bowl dry, but we're on the brink. Dangerous situation with no easy fixes either (other than telling California farmers they can't water)
> if you're just a regular person buying a random USB-C dock at the computer store, it's very likely the model you're going to get will support charging, display out and fast enough port speeds that using an external drive won't be painful.

sure, but, when they plug it into their computer it's not going to work because almost no motherboards support video or pcie over their type-c connectors. the dock will do it, that doesn't mean the rest of the system will.

also, while the cable that comes in the box will work... what if you need a longer one? if they buy a random usb-c cable off the shelf, will it work with video? survey says probably not... especially if they're a typical consumer and buy the cheapest one.
You are totally missing the simple fact that the number of blessed email providers to choose from is slowly going down. I've seen ISPs with thousands of clients to give up and move the mailboxes to large players simply because their clients' email was ending up in the spam so often that running the support has gotten too expensive.

It's definitely an anticompetitive practice.
> how would you have avoided excessive startup times?

I don't think it's a problem? kitty terminal is programmed half in Python and is fast.
I really don’t get all the hate I encounter around brew. I’ve been using it for ~10 years and largely without issue, I certainly wouldn’t say I’ve had less issues with other package managers on Linux etc.

That auto update feature they’re flicked on is a pain in the ass though.
i didn’t say haskell should be used commercially; imo it should not. I say commercial projects would benefit greatly from a study of computational structure and that is equivalent to a study of Haskell (given that it is exactly a catalogue of computational structure). That knowledge can then inform commercial practices.
I mean freedom of panorama is pretty directly related, as wikipedia needs to have users be legally allowed to upload images.
I see. My point is it's a choice we all make everyday. How else can we do it? We can choose to live free, or as serfs. I acknowledge that you disagree.

And yeah, Meta sucks.
I always wondered where the integral sign was coming from. This gives a very simple explanation: it's just the letter 's', the shorthand for sum!
You send your email through a client. That client then sends (transfers / SMTPs) that email through an MTA either bundled with it or provided by your mail server.

The MTA parses the message, figures out who it needs to go to (To, CC, BCC headers), figures out what servers receives mail for those recipients, and then transfers (SMTPs) it to the server.

What OP is referring to is that the MTA essentially does a DNS lookup for the recipients domain for a record of type MX (Mail eXchanger).

If you own the domain you have complete control over where that mail goes: you own the MX record.
windy is my favorite website. Absolutely loved it from day1. Wonder if anyone on that team is a HNer
Just delete the LinkedIn. Despite what everyone under 30 will tell you, you don't need it to get or maintain a job.
But now the sender needs to know the receivers policy and if they remember that there has been contact before. Or I guess you change SMTP but we still allow unencrypted connections so good luck with that.
Unless you're doing something special, there is a big difference between sending your mail to the recipient's smtp server and relaying it through you ISP's smtp server. The difference is that if you send it direct the ISP can't read it, because it's encrypted. If you relay it, the ISP can read your mail, and even tamper with it, unless the message itself has been encrypted with something like pgp.
I think it's creepy as well, but as a counterpoint my wife is delighted by stuff like this. She finds it convenient and helpful, and I can't say she's wrong.
I tried it on Windows 11.

- Startup is fast.

- Memory usage is a bit high (133MB with no files open)

- CPU and GPU usage on idle is weird (25% and 40%) doing nothing, the window is not even displayed...

That's unfortunate, that is a pass for now...
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This is wildly cool. At one point I locked in with another user for about a minute or two, we were taking cues from each other and getting into little call-response counterpoint kinda patterns.

Every once in a while when I'm playing with other musicians, I hit this little moment of magic where both people start to smile - there's something happening, you're working together. That feeling is one of the most joyful human experiences I know of. I started to feel that same smile creep across my face when I synced up with whatever anonymous stranger was playing at the same time as me. We were dancing back and forth, trading high and low voices.

This a really fun little toy. What an awesome thing, to enable that brief moment of joy and connection with another, anonymously online while I sat here on the toilet. :)

Thanks for sharing.
> Is there actually a "big tech" email provider that accepts a message with a 2xx SMTP code and then deletes it?

Agreed, that is really broken behavior. Once you accept mail for delivery, it should be treated as a contract to deliver that mail. Rejects during SMTP conversation are fine as they notify the sender and do not generate backscatter.

I have heard complaints that Microsoft's hosted mail offerings accept then silently delete mail. It is somewhat believable, as MS Exchange server would respond 2xx for any message to any (including non-existent) destination address and later spam the possibly spoofed sender with bounce messages. Maybe MS has broken behavior like this in their hosted offerings too? And, rather than fix their software, they silently delete mail since they have finally learned that backscatter is a bad thing?

And, MS o365 allows 'delete' as an option for the centralized spam rules maintained by the admin. These mails are accepted 2xx then silently deleted.

MS does other questionable things on their 'free' hosted offerings to mitigate their abysmal spam filtering. I have a couple burner @outlook.com addresses, and they no longer receive any mail reliably from any sender. MS provides the user a place to whitelist senders and domains, but after wasting a bunch of time whitelisting domains, mail still is marked spam. "Junk" is effectively the inbox on those accounts.

Disclaimer: experience is dated, from a past job, running Postfix MTAs for a large organization and dealing with / mitigating MS issues, but never directly involved with any MS stuff.
I've one from EU distribution for over half a year now. There were some very minor issues with the interface at the beginning(removed with updates later). Apart from that all is great. If there are multiple crashes per day I would get it replaced, because it's clearly faulty unit.
Which again, if that's what people want, then fine. Do that. Except when the question is put to people what they want to have be the case with what someone rlse can get away with, everyone seems uncomfortable with the prospect of lack of due process. Everyone wants a procedural. Nobody wants the procedural to get in the way with something they care about though. You can't have both.
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As a general purpose OS, I actually quite like Windows 11, its nice, clean, and beautiful. But unfortunately, Windows is not there for development. I've used WSL for years and its actually gotten much worse with WSL2, especially with Docker. Specifically, I'd be plagued by this issue (https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166), where Docker would eat all the WSL memory and never release it. I finally pulled the plug and use Ubuntu 22 as as a daily OS (on dual boot), the UX is not bad, e.g. I was actually pleasantly surprised by the smoothness of the windowing gestures as a first time user, but there are many warts (e.g. very janky around sleeping/hibernating). I mostly develop and browse the web so its OK overall.

MacOS is very good, no real complaints.
Yeah, this is essentially a form of greylisting. The difference is (as I understand it, this is fairly outside my domain), with the current setup, MTAs can accept an email, and it ends up getting blackhole'd or spam-folder'd anyways. My hypothetical scheme would put more onus on the first "boundary node" to report on errors/compliance. Basically the MTA tells the client what hoops to jump through, and the client gets some indication what will happen once those conditions are met.

That could be an exchange like: "Sign this nonce, and your message will be vetted", or "this is very suss, you have to do X difficulty hashes to have any chance of delivery, and regardless it'll be flagged as potential spam". Or perhaps just a guarantee on how an action would affects the message's "spam score".

This could be used alongside nested packets/envelopes and various headers/trust levels in a network of trust to give a message some overall trust level.
But for me
How did turning off the engine almost cause an accident, were you overtaking?
They don't do better in the medium term if you fail. If you don't get any use of out Beeminder, you will stop being a customer.

I have been a customer of theirs since 2014. The few times I have had to interact with support they have always helped me (and to be clear I only remember having to contact support when I had a legitimate reason not to complete some work for a given day).
nextdns works real well for me.
Trust (by way of VMC) is the whole point of BIMI; it’s what’s in all the marketing copy: The fact that nobody else can send mail with your logo. If you merely wanted to send e-mail with your icon on it, that already existed: the X-Face header has been around for decades.
No, they'll break modern cameras due to their shape, but that's why I mentioned the FT3 and FM.