harha

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by harha 6y ago
In an ideal world, we'd have one standard of markdown, along with a few simple and fast editor that directly renders it nicely without all the other features. In the real world, it starts with computer classes at my school started out
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by harha 6y ago
Thanks for sharing, this looks like an interesting place. I understand that it's challenging, I just don't think it's unsolvable given there is sufficient of a market for people to complain. You won't get the same up to
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by harha 6y ago
I wouldn't mind printing out a paper (as in academic paper) to read and add notes while building things, since I would need to take hand written notes anyway and to avoid having the screen on all the time or to read outside when the we
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by harha 6y ago
If that is the only problem, wouldn't laser printers have fixed it? There's a ton of other things that don't work, e.g. paper jams. With the multi-function devices this gets even worse. Not using a device all the time should
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Why do printers still suck?(wired.com)
484 points by harha 6y ago|503 comments
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by harha 6y ago
It’s hard to reach 100% but very doable to keep the most intrusive stuff out. These are my steps: - replace search with DDG, gradually reduce usage of !g and either search directly on the site of interest or narrow down the search further i
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by harha 6y ago
Another compelling reason is to avoid actively contributing to their ad ecosystem, which is ultimately paid for by the users and businesses that (have to) rely on the products because they are the biggest player in the market. One of many e
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by harha 6y ago
My issues were with Zoho, with DKIM and SPF set up correctly. Would be interesting to see if the domain (or top-level-domain) or the e-mail provider is at fault. It's difficult to test given the number of signals that are involved in f
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by harha 6y ago
That you should be able to obtain through GDPR in Europe at least, though it might be an issue to prove ownership if you didn’t provide your real name. What doesn’t work that easily is resetting passwords without account access, especially
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by harha 6y ago
Fair point, I was referring to the unpaid version. With the office 365 support I did have a minor accounting issue that they didn’t intend to fix and support tried some standard responses (I needed the billing company name to be different f
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by harha 6y ago
I've had trouble with e-mails from my own domain frequently landing in spam folders. I do agree on the control though.
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by harha 6y ago
To be fair, I don't think other providers like Microsoft are much better, but also note that the service is equally bad if you pay for ads or cloud. I'm generally against too much regulation, but given how important e-mails are (a
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by harha 6y ago
I have the impression that corruption and being overly friendly towards big corporations seems to be quite the issue, compared to other places I know well the infrastructure is pretty bad (though other large European countries aren't m
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by harha 6y ago
If the business model is solid, I prefer the type of investors who look at the assumptions and not at the font the calculator uses. It’s not rocket science, it’s adding up a bunch of imaginary cash flows, explaining where they might come fr
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by harha 6y ago
Yes you’re much closer to deciding on the people spending your money, since it is clear what is cantonal and what is state responsibility and they tax you very clearly visible and separately. That way you don’t need to blindly trust the c
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by harha 6y ago
I suspect the Swiss calculated that individual transportation doesn’t scale well. The US build ever bigger highways (I recall a summit at Stanford on clean energy in 2014 where some guy from McKinsey claimed that the solution to all problem
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by harha 6y ago
Higher taxes won’t get stable and fast internet (or anything else being efficient) - neighboring Germany has high taxes, expensive services and very slow internet even within cities. Also the trains are notoriously unpunctual, and expensive
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by harha 6y ago
Which almost doubles the size of what I need to carry along to simply charge my phone and more than doubles what needs to be on my table. I’d rather have a single cable on my desk, in my car etc. that ideally works across generations (from
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by harha 6y ago
Yes that seems to be the direction. I'm really trying to vote with my wallet here, so I'll hope the cheap iPhones will keep the port and luckily in my city repair vouchers are out as part of the local corona relief program, so I&#
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by harha 6y ago
I would have much preferred a USB-C plug for all my devices. It’s nice that it’s wireless on the new iPhone and all, but it’s still an extra cable (or puck) to carry around. Much like the headphone cable, I think that things like charging c
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by harha 6y ago
You could reduce some of the downsides by reducing the amount required for bail by day and by adding limits for how long someone could be required to stay. Also an automated system to calculate bail and maximum duration (as in not the judge
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by harha 6y ago
The delay might be there to slowly get us used to the no-port era of phones to come and the speed of switching headphones from one device to another using bluetooth.
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by harha 6y ago
I'd be really interested to learn what specific systems didn't work. I recently commented on the PG&E and fires issue and I think this is significantly different regarding who is responsible - how can a hospital not operate? I
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by harha 6y ago
Yes this makes sense - back to driving, it's like a road that clearly wasn't safe to operate, but the drunk driving didn't help either.
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by harha 6y ago
I understand the constraints and I'm not blaming them for everything, creating this dangerous situation is also a great issue, but I think this was handled very badly on their part as well. As a utility they should have a set of rules
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by harha 6y ago
Take driving as an analogy - there's a non-zero risk of having a crash, but it's significantly higher if you don't follow the rules (drunk, speeding, broken car). This feels like PG&E was betting it wouldn't happen t
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by harha 6y ago
Not only in tech, e.g., modern portfolio theory. Agree that it would be better to use more descriptive names.
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by harha 6y ago
I usually do too, but then again I don't change settings all the time, so it's mostly initial set-up where I spend a while in the settings app or control panel and this is where the problems come together: 1. at least for my pref
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by harha 6y ago
I don't think having a similar UI as mobile is very good for the user since the input mode is very different. I think macOS does way better here with a minimal use of white space because I can easily have a browser open on the side to
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by harha 6y ago
Coming from Mac and Linux, I sometimes need to use Windows and I'm always surprised how they managed to make it so incredibly difficult to use and bloated. A minimal version of Windows along with a good package manager and a UX closer

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