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Yes absolutely

So what does "better option" imply?

not only that, but they'll believe the ads.

Think about the hell that most people go through, who have no concept of an adblocker.

as an outsider this is the biggest thing.

It's like D-voters don't even understand how unhinged they are.

"Everyone is stupid but me" doesn't do anyone any favors and doesn't fix any problem.

"I have the makings of a plan" is 100x more attractive to people who need change.

> it's remarkable how different the consensus of serious historians is from what most people learned in sunday school.

Well one side is "children, once a week" and the other is "full time commitment in history career".

Sunday school is just day care with stories. I once believed that "wet wood burns better than dry wood" because that's what a Sunday school teacher opened with for the story of the altar burning comparison (OT).

I'm still "a Christian" in some sense of the word, in that I think humans operate wholly on stories, and that there needs to be a unifying power structure that is ruthless yet humane, and I think some form of Christianity fits the bill.

but I believe no one (in most churches) actually knows what they're talking about. "Useful ignorance" useful for the power structure. They don't want historians at Sunday school they want recital.

only a4 sized pdf.

You can make a phone-sized PDF and it'll be just fine.

it's not the file format.

This reads like serial experiments lain, or any number of weird Japanese love/horror stories

Netflix has the worst quality and selection that I've seen.

I'm about to pick up piracy again so I can watch good shows that I like

I quit facebook maybe seven years ago. I don't regret it one bit.

I joined Instagram because that was the only way to contact some friends. And progressively I get more and more into Instagram reels, which is tenacious, and bleeds into YouTube shorts, which is just the same thing but revenue for Google.

I'm annoyed that sharing memes is so fun to do with long-term, now distant (far away) friends.. we kick memes back and forth for a few months before one of us posts a larger life update: birth of a kid, marriage, job promotion, etc.

Reels are the only way I get a good chuckle with my mates now. And I don't like it.

What sort of hurdles are we talking about here?

Thanks.

I was thinking that the card is "a MasterCard" (with my branding, etc) - but the payments just come to me for authorization.

IE: I only really want to deal with step 4 of this: to "yay/nay" payments.

https://stripe.com/au/resources/more/card-authorization-expl...

MasterCard et al can deal with all the rest, as much as possible

I want to stray away from being called "a bank" though, because I am not a deposit holding facility.

Same, my initial reaction is shock and disgust that I was missing out on a fable mmorpg

That's bash

This looks cool but is too similar to "site: reddit.com" for me.

What would be super awesome, imo, would be if I could assign "some sites" as a short code, then snaps that.

So for instance, I might put html, phoenix, CSS, and tailwind spec/references all as one grouping, and then I can search "select drop-down @phoenix" - and search for that across all references (so I can see the html spec alongside the tailwind and phoenix docs)

All I want is a cheatsheet between "how you would do it in vim" and "how you would do it on Emacs"

When a long time then use up and I want to give emacs a proper go, but I really can't live without some conveniences like "change inner string" or what have you.

How the hell do you do that in emacs, I cannot find out

Watch later

That actually reminds me of a great story, for when I had to do exactly what the title is suggesting.. back when I worked at Amazon as a software engineer, the CRAZIEST thing happened to me. Here’s the story… I was working from home with my girlfriend (at the time), when suddenly I get an urgent ping from my coworker: “Our service is experiencing a SEV 2! We need all hands on deck!” Uh oh, our team’s application has gone down! However, as I scrambled to figure out how to fix the issue, I smelled something burning from another room and heard a fire alarm go off. “Will! There’s a fire! Help!” I heard my girlfriend shout. Now I was stuck in a conundrum — restore a critical Amazon service, or put out the fire in my apartment? It was at that time I remembered Amazon’s famous leadership principle “Customer Obsession”. There are customers who depend on my team’s application — I can’t let them down! So I ignored the fire and my girlfriend’s pleas, and started debugging the production issue. But all of a sudden, the smoke in my apartment cleared and the fire alarm fell silent. My girlfriend walked into the room, and to my astonishment, peeled off a wig and revealed herself to be Jeff Bezos himself! “I’m proud of you for being obsessed with our customers,” he said, and gave me a $5 Amazon gift card. He then leaped out of my window and hopped into a waiting Amazon Prime delivery van that quickly peeled away. Even though I no longer work at Amazon, I’m so grateful for these experiences that taught me lessons I’ll never forget. Agree?

You're right. They should have just done it and told no one.

We need to focus on the important things: not telling anyone, and not trying to break anything. It's important to just not have any knowledge on this stuff at all

Pretty much the only moleskine I got, and still use regularly. Is the A5 week to a page diary.

I love that the right hand side of any opening is lined for free form writing. And the thing is small enough to fit in your pocket.

Absolute game changer, I think I'm up to my fourth year in a row now.

Other than that I have used lechturm1917, I really like the numbered pages, but I find it difficult to get in any local bookstore.

Having the pocket diary has changed the way I do notes, so I'm finding I need it less and less.

I'm using a pilot juice-it-up four coloured pen 0.4mm ATM and love it to bits, but the ink runs out way too fast. It would be lovely if someone made a pen that has such vivid colours end flows well without quickly emptying the tank

Hey HN

I came across this idea two years ago when my first child was born. my partner and I use different phone OSes (pixel/iphone), so we have different media storage that we can't easily collect together.

We also find it difficult to share photos and videos easily, other than just sharing on WhatsApp.

My father-in-law has cassette tapes of when my partner was a child. and I want to be able to preserve the media we take today, so that we can also view it in the future.

It is not a sure thing that Google photos (or apple) will even preserve your data now unless it is a way for them to get profit, and the "camera roll" means that there's so many photos and videos of everyday life, all the photos are just mashed together into one blob.

I originally started this as a SaaS, and people tried to buy it, but I realized I was falling into the same trap (I also don't want a second job). So now I want to make this open source, and open-designed from the get-go.

My intentions is that digitapes becomes an open ecosystem of interconnecting services so that we can preserve and transform our personal media into the future. Let me know what you think!

my wife chooses not to let chrome remember her passwords because she thinks it's lazy and insecure: everyone uses chrome, how will chrome know not to give her password to someone else?

Freedom gives freedom for people to fail

We must all be whipped into Utopia.

I argue with my wife, maybe, once a quarter. Together for 6 years.

The important factor is working together to work things out, as one of the other commenters said.

But I don't believe arguments should be considered normal. We stop 100% of the time and say "ok hang on, we've got different ideas here, let's figure something out" - sometimes we will have to leave it and come back to it later.

I was abused by boomer parents early similar to the OP. And I am not going to continue that for my family or kids. My wife hasn't been abused but she's woken up to how awful her own parents are at arguing

Margaret sounds like my psychotic foster parent that would religiously abuse me.

This really isn't cute. This is psychotic. Both that it describes and then writing about like this.

This is what boomers think "cute quirky relationship" is?

That's kind of why it's a secret song.

Or a b-side that has all live performances of the same album songs

what trade off is not being able interleave two dialogue boxes from different apps? or losing keyboard focus when in (mission control? exposé?) for tools such as raycast?

Pretty much everyone at work agrees the window manager sucks, so I'm surprised this is getting downvoted as much. I think I'm sitting against HN here, you've got the HN brain fart

Perhaps this is what I was trying to say.

Like I said, I'm only a very recent Macos user. I'm actually shot how bad some fundamental things of this os is. I don't know the history of it, I just know it doesn't work for me now

> And so Apple, I say, whoever had a hand in this should be ashamed of themselves. You can and should do better. I love SwiftUI. I love building iOS apps. But please clean this up.

As a recent macbook convert (work gave me one) I have to remind myself every day:

Apple is not a software company. Their business is to sell hardware at a premium. Software is an afterthought, and if they could offload software, they would. The sleek aluminium case, lovely screen, arm processor.. that's what you're getting.

You're not paying a premium for the inability to stack windows, or for shitty dual monitor support, or for awful application/state management.

Apple is a hardware company. They don't give a shit about software.