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   Ask HN: Custom domain for personal email – yay or nay?

   13 points by alentred 2y ago|26 comments
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   by alentred 2y ago

   Not to dismiss the study - I agree that hypotheses require proofs - but, based on my personal experience coding *feels* much more like math, and almost not at all a spoken language, except for the fact that we give identifiable "names&
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   by alentred 2y ago

   Don't know why are you being downvoted, perfectly correct assumption, in fact being discussed in another thread right here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40476339 !
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   by alentred 2y ago

   https://www.bing.com/ is down too at the moment. Curiously I cannot find a "health" or a "status" page for either.
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   by alentred 2y ago

   Why yes! This is how I got into software development in the first place! I wrote all kinds of silly programs. First ever "serious" piece of software I wrote was for my parents, to help them calculate their taxes. In Borland Pasc
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   by alentred 2y ago

   So, you are saying the very same lorries transporting the raw material for road resurfacing someplace else? That should one profitable business!
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   by alentred 2y ago

   Oh, wow. I am always somewhat worried about the uncontrolled costs when deploying my personal projects to any cloud. I would freak out if I saw an invoice like this. This is why I like rate limiting stuff, authenticating the users before us
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   by alentred 3y ago

   Thank God they added a toggle and not an on-by-default fuzzy matching where "MARCHF1" would still yield "March 1st". What a pity if the genes had to be renamed again and again, playing hide-and-seek with Excel. I am not
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   by alentred 3y ago

   Just early this week I spent some time (in fact, a bit too much time) on the "State of CSS 2023" [0], choosing the CSS framework for "my next hobby project". The usual thing: I don't know CSS well enough, but got bo
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    by alentred 3y ago

    I am not sure what do you mean to say. This looks very transparent and consistent. A company that has clear values and transparently states them in its "About Us" page, explaining what they believe in and why they exist. What is t
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    by alentred 3y ago

    I don't think this is correct. The case was against Orange, which is a publicly traded company. I don't see how they could "invoice" it to their customers. Also, the service was rolled out ~14 years ago, I assume it was
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    by alentred 3y ago

    > Many don’t believe that simply importing a GPL Python module is enough to make your extension have to comply to GPL. I can almost hear the chairs squeaking under the many SaaS devs reading this. IANAL, but as far I know the debate is n
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    by alentred 3y ago

    You may look into Trivy [0] , works very well for me so far. [0] https://trivy.dev/
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    by alentred 3y ago

    All great advice. Avoiding the situations that require the "quick thinking" is not always possible, but this advice holds in a general case as well. More that anything else I agree with a) taking the time, and b) keeping an option
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    by alentred 3y ago

    The issue will those CO2 estimations is always the same: what is counted it, and what is not. For example, are the CO2 emissions related to the maintenance of the railroad counted in? On the other hand, are the CO2 emissions related to the
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    by alentred 3y ago

    That! I would argue this can be generalized into other fields, to everything related to the attention span. It probably boils down to actually giving a thought , consciously or not, to the new information: be it in a conversation with a pe
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    by alentred 3y ago

    BigQuery - Athena Pub/Sub - Kinesis Cloud CDN - CloudFront Cloud Domains - Route 53 ...
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    by alentred 3y ago

    I like the idea very much! Using an LLM as a "sparring partner" for training in various areas. LLMs tend to hallucinate, so I find it harder to use them reliably in the context of decision making. Training however is a nice idea i
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    by alentred 3y ago

    As an alternative, you may subscribe to the Hacker Newsletter: https://hackernewsletter.com/?ref=find-your-newsletter
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    by alentred 3y ago

    My goodness, you are right. Your comment is like a cold shower, I never thought of it in this way. *We are hippies.* I'll keep being a naive optimist as I am, but this way of thinking offers an important perspective to add some realism
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    by alentred 3y ago

    Can't help but notice the minimalism of the DataHaven.net web site [0] (the company that handles the sales). Obviously they don't need it as a storefront, and yet it contrasts so much with how modern business operate. Just recentl
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    by alentred 3y ago

    I remember reading a book about UX years ago, and one of the fundamental principles there was the discoverability and the intuitive use, which boiled down to sticking to conventions that are rooted in everyone's experience. Stuff like
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    Identifying a microwave oven as a source of false extragalactic FRBs (2015)(arxiv.org)

    1 points by alentred 3y ago|0 comments
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    by alentred 3y ago

    You can try Zoho, including the Zoho sheets and their other products. It is not as polished, but does the job.
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    by alentred 3y ago

    I wonder how good that trackpad was. Looks pretty cool. Also, can't help but notice the Control key position, it's right where it was meant to be!
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    by alentred 3y ago

    On a side note, > between 1,900 per cent and 6,300 per cent higher than industry has reported Maybe that's just me, but I find it harder to think in percentages above 200%. I mean, the math is easy, but it is less intuitive. I feel
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    Improbable Island, one of the largest and longest-running online text adventures(improbableisland.com)

    231 points by alentred 3y ago|96 comments
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    by alentred 3y ago

    I am in absolute awe of the results of research and engineering at NASA and many other space agencies for that matter. Nevertheless, I wonder: how much of the overperformance is in fact about playing it down in the first place? For example,
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    by alentred 3y ago

    I have been using DDG exclusively for more than 10 years now. Because of that I cannot really compare it to other search engines, but this is also to confirm that so far I have been able to find everything I needed. I know there are some ne
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    by alentred 3y ago

    With this "solution" it looks like the world of art enters the cat-and-mouse game the ad blockers were playing for the last decade or two.