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Gmail is killing independent email(igregious.com)
235 points by foxylad 4y ago|131 comments
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by foxylad 4y ago
If you are OK with a 180mm build space, grab a Prusa Mini. Very quiet, fits in a cupboard, just works. For me, ventilation isn't required for PLA. The smell is minimal and not unpleasant, and I often print (in a cupboard) while working
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by foxylad 4y ago
Very happy early Prusa Mini owner. I do remember some difficulty when assembling it, which lead to non-square axes. After an hour or so I eventually got right, so you might want to try redoing the tower assembly. I don't have a filamen
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by foxylad 4y ago
THIS. Spam is a solved problem, thanks to SPF and DKIM. But despite doing all the right things, Microsoft and Google continuously block and rate-limit delivery. Case in point: we deliver 20,000 booking confirmation emails every day, all re
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by foxylad 4y ago
My parents-in-law found LG to be much easier to control than Panasonic.
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by foxylad 4y ago
That's like saying "Postfix isn't scalable like Gmail", comparing two completely different things. and in fact the fediverse is far more scalable than any single service like Twitter can be. The fediverse is based on a
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by foxylad 4y ago
It's on Mastodon: @elonjet@mastodon.social
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by foxylad 4y ago
Imagine twenty ethernet cables plugged into a switch, and you need to remove one. You unplug it, pull it slightly to see which it is below the bundle, grab it there and pull. You will then discover that an uncovered clip magically catches o
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by foxylad 4y ago
You need a Prusa. I started with an Anet A8 which taught me a lot about 3D printers (and even more about how they fail!). My Prusa Mini just works, and it's rare I need to reprint anything.
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by foxylad 4y ago
After a close family member went down the conspiracy slide, I've realised believing conspiracy theories is an excellent indicator of mental health issues. Your MiL is a case in point, and sounds like she needs serious help. Fifty years
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by foxylad 4y ago
He's not stupid in the domains he understands. I think his problem is impulse control, and he's impulsively bought into a business that he knows little about. I do think hard times are coming for Musk. As well as burning billions
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by foxylad 4y ago
Depends where you're coming from. Our (small, but international) company's accounting system is built on Google Sheets, with python scripts to import bank data. We started with Xero, but it couldn't handle our international b
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by foxylad 4y ago
The annoying thing is that this is obviously a setting within Gmail, because our other server is sending the same volume of messages without any issues. Right now it's getting slowly better so I'm not keen to set up extra servers
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Ask HN: How to Stop Gmail Rate-Limiting
6 points by foxylad 4y ago|6 comments
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by foxylad 4y ago
I've used \u001F and \u001E for years. Don't need to check for and un/escape separator characters, very compact, and python's split() and join() makes implementation trivial. Hope this article makes them more popular.
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by foxylad 5y ago
> That shows the search algorithms ... are good enough and Google can be eventually disrupted I doubt this. I'm guessing that 90% of Google Search's development effort is concentrated on defeating SEO, and as soon as a new comp
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by foxylad 5y ago
You just moved from a family to an organisation. I was part of a small company that grew agressively. When you're small, you're a family - you know everyone else, you know each other's strengths and weaknesses, you help each
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by foxylad 5y ago
Can someone elucidate how astronomers know this galaxy has no dark matter?
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by foxylad 5y ago
Completely off topic, but there ARE fanatical collectors of scout badges, at least here in NZ. They attend scout jamborees, and we had to warn kids that they are brutal negotiators.
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by foxylad 5y ago
Yeah, only snapping on release would prevent random snaps when dragging, which happened to me a couple of times.
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by foxylad 5y ago
> When i pay in the current financial system I am giving you every bit of information to rob me blind and hoping you don't take it all. I don't understand this. You're saying if I send you $0.01 via internet banking, you c
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by foxylad 5y ago
No. Gmail spam filtering seems to work almost perfectly for me, with maybe one false negative a month. I just went into my spam folder to look for false positives, and couldn't find one.
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by foxylad 5y ago
It will be fascinating, and I agree the vaccine rollout has not been the speediest. However, one thing on our side is that we have experienced the benefits of elimination, so our lockdown compliance is extraordinary.
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by foxylad 5y ago
When Auckland is locked down, Queenstown is a ghost town, but otherwise (50 out of last 52 weeks?) we've been pretty busy actually. So much so that the tourism spokespeople who railed against the first lockdown are saying "Lets lo
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by foxylad 5y ago
Your higher death rate comes with these exciting free add-ons! - significant loss in productivity due to varying levels of incapacitation from Covid19 - additional loss in productivity due to cautious people isolating anyway - new strains d
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by foxylad 5y ago
> resources are indeed infinite, because the human ingenuity is infinite Human ingenuity is impressive, but not infinite. I recommend Collapse by Jared Diamond. It's a long read, but every single society he examines thought they wer
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by foxylad 5y ago
How do you control attitude with just two contra-rotating rotors? I've Googled, but can't find an answer. Extra points for why NASA chose this mode, and terrestrial drones don't?
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by foxylad 5y ago
Add one more: Anyone publicly attacking Signal's privacy in the future is painting a very large target on their forehead.
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by foxylad 5y ago
Can HN please add a filter for these increasingly lame "Google cancels all the stuff" posts? Yes, Google has cancelled services, but they've all been free things that they had every right to decide would never increase revenu
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by foxylad 6y ago
If you have to consume functions called call_some_function(), you've got way bigger problems than untyped parameters. A well designed function/class will have a descriptive name and descriptive parameters, which should give you go

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