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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.

It is highly customizable using the Logitech options software which I am using on both macOS and Windows. For example you can assign actions to all the buttons that are dependent on the running program, and even involve custom key combinations.

The only downside of the trackball is that you have to clean it once in a while, when the pointer appears to be moving very slowly - simply eject the ball by poking a screwdriver into the hole at the bottom of the mouse, clean out the accumulated dust and push the ball back.

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.

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 for cursornavigation and selection, word wise/char wise/start&ens of line/page wise, comparable to vim mode, but using the default shortcuts for Windows and macos (with the help of Karabiner)

It took a few weeks to get up to speed but I couldn't be happier.

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 mitigations for the various hardware sidechannel attacks discovered in the past year have a bit larger impact. But you don't need these at all on your local computer, only in shared environments.

As a rule of thumb each mitigation usually costs a single digit percentage, seldom double digit. Of course in a system multiple mitigations will be at play but the impact should be far below 100%.

The performance impact of scripting languages, interoperable web standards and bad implementations are far worse :)

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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 lot of boilerplate pretense, and just communicate the important bullet points. This might rid us of a lot or jobs though so it probably won't happen.

Great book, recommended read.

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)

ChatGPT cannot access the Internet. You can copy & paste the article though and then ask for a summary.

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?

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.

> 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?

Sounds reasonable, source: http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/premature-optimiz...

Let me fix it.

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 famous quote by Sir Tony Hoare (popularized by Donald Knuth) has become a best practice among software engineers.

Anyone looking for even cheaper backup storage, AWS Glacier Deep Archive is $1/month/TB. Retrieval costs are high though.

Please do not use SHA256 for storing passwords, use Argon2

;)

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 this platform is meant to claim damages, that needs to be done in court.

But I will have another look and probably support it when I find some time.

Edit: It's fixed now, we support the process. But please just send en email to us it's much easier ;)

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 email? I do not believe any email provider has such provisions. Of course we are still liable for any misconduct as specified by law.

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)

Only if you abuse the hell out of it.

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.

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 nifty features coming up, too!

Let me know if there's anything you are missing from your existing email service, always looking for ways to improve!

Great work! Looking forward to a Linux system where the majority of user land is written in a safe and performant language!

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 machine at home with lots of storage running Ubuntu. Easy to administer, and I can switch it off if not needed. Data is mirrored and snapshotted.

For long-term backup I encrypt my data and upload it to Amazon Glacier Deep Archive (around 1$/TB!)

That said the cloud in general is great and you can do some things today for cheap that weren't possible for most companies 10 years ago. For some use cases it's the best choice.

In general a lot of workloads can be served orders of magnitudes cheaper than 10 years ago.