MailNerd

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by MailNerd 3y ago
Logitech MX Ergo https://www.logitech.com/en-eu/products/mice/mx-ergo-wireles... Note that the tilt only has one level (flat and tilted), the animation might make you think otherwise. I use it in tilted mode.
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by MailNerd 3y ago
To each their own. Many people don't bother setting this up themselves. Others want to have a shared email domain similar to Gmail.com with their first name before the @, instead of their full name in the domain name.
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by MailNerd 3y ago
I have found a trackball to be even better than a vertical mouse. Only your thumb moves. Otherwise it's also Ergodox for me. I switched to Colemak at the same time, also have a programming layer ()[]{} etc. In addition I have a layer f
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by MailNerd 3y ago
Most of these techniques are engineered to not cause much of a performance degradation. Otherwise there would not be much uptake. Also they are often implemented in compilers which produce native binaries so the impact is low. The mitigati
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by MailNerd 3y ago
Shameless ad: For getting your own geeky email address (currently forwarding only) please see https://www.mailbox.my/ (some of them are free)
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by MailNerd 3y ago
AI can now generate verbose content from a short prompt. AI can also summarize verbose content. I see a rosy future for AI. Humans will use it to transform their salient points into prose, and back. Or we as humans could just do away with a
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by MailNerd 3y ago
Great book, recommended read.
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by MailNerd 3y ago
I'm using Goodreads to check the ratings for books, and it has better signal for that than Amazon (where the minimum book rating seems to be 4.4)
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Passkeys: Making authentication faster than ever(security.googleblog.com)
3 points by MailNerd 3y ago|0 comments
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by MailNerd 3y ago
ChatGPT cannot access the Internet. You can copy & paste the article though and then ask for a summary.
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by MailNerd 4y ago
There's an incentive to bail out the banks to keep up trust in the currency, so government can print more. What would be the incentive for crypto?
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by MailNerd 4y ago
Big chunk of memory - that's not the case except if you are using deduplication. I have it running fine on a 4GB machine (10TB mirrored volume) without any issues.
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by MailNerd 4y ago
> I wrote a short mail to the admin contact and got told I had to host a web page with contact information on the same IP. T-Online?
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Mailbox.my Feature Update (Sorry, No April Fools)(mailbox.my)
2 points by MailNerd 4y ago|0 comments
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by MailNerd 5y ago
Sounds reasonable, source: http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/premature-optimiz... Let me fix it.
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by MailNerd 5y ago
Not totally sure. https://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1513451 > Every programmer with a few years' experience or education has heard the phrase "premature optimization is the root of all evil." This fa
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Why enterprise software is bloated(mailbox.my)
118 points by MailNerd 5y ago|137 comments
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by MailNerd 5y ago
Anyone looking for even cheaper backup storage, AWS Glacier Deep Archive is $1/month/TB. Retrieval costs are high though.
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by MailNerd 5y ago
Please do not use SHA256 for storing passwords, use Argon2 ;)
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Why (Enterprise) Software Is Bloated(mailbox.my)
1 points by MailNerd 5y ago|0 comments
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Why (Enterprise) Software Is Bloated(mailbox.my)
3 points by MailNerd 5y ago|0 comments
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by MailNerd 5y ago
There are many companies who do not participate in this process. I did not want to spend lots of time setting this up and adding another middlemen when the alternative is much simpler (contact us and get a refund). I still do not believe th
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by MailNerd 5y ago
The dispute resolution would not cover any damages incurred, so it would be a refund anyway. That is my understanding. Would you expect language that offers compensation for any damages incurred, for example due to a hack or the loss of an
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by MailNerd 5y ago
You can configure most email clients and webmails to use a custom sending address. This is how it's done for mailbox.my: https://www.mailbox.my/setup_clients.html (Disclosure: My project)
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by MailNerd 5y ago
Only if you abuse the hell out of it.
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by MailNerd 5y ago
Also have a catchall for personal email, I see lots of spam targeted at random accounts (e.g. first name) However the spam filter works well on most.
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by MailNerd 5y ago
Shameless plug for my project: https://www.mailbox.my also offers email addresses that forward to your existing email. You can send emails from that address as well, not just replies. We have 150+ domains to choose from. Some ni
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Why (Enterprise) Software Is Bloated(mailbox.my)
3 points by MailNerd 5y ago|0 comments
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by MailNerd 5y ago
Great work! Looking forward to a Linux system where the majority of user land is written in a safe and performant language!
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by MailNerd 5y ago
My setup: For business related services I use root servers hosted by e.g. Hetzner. I don't want to deal with hardware maintenance nor the 24/7 power bill. For private stuff (pictures, videos, movies) I have a cheap old desktop mac

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