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hahamasteron Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions

I prefer prices per 100g because I mostly buy food that's under one kilo. I'm sure they show prices per 100g just to make them look cheaper but in my case I actually prefer it this way.

hahamasteron CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

Someone at CrowdStrike got fired for this. I'm curious to know who this person is.

hahamasteron Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it

You're just used to Android. It's hard to put buttons on a phone that's nearly all screen.

hahamasteron Volkswagen Group brings electric car for EUR 20k

This is obviously meant for shareholders, not customers. Either way it's just pathetic.

hahamasteron Krazam OS

Then it's .ops

hahamasteron Ask HN: How do you learn and research every day?

Honestly, what exactly is the purpose of knowing when was Rockefeller born or how many companies was his company split into? I think what you get out of a book like this is gist of his character and what made him successful so that you can pick up some of his traits. All this information is stored somewhere in your brain in some way.. it can possibly be used at some point without you even realizing.

hahamasteron Rotten Apple

But why? What does an iPhone have, hardware-wise, that a Samsung or Xiaomi phone does not?

hahamasteron Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after deal collapse

It's similar to you buying a car because you're unable to make one yourself, really.

hahamasteron Birth rates are falling in the Nordics. Are natalist policies no longer enough?

If you're waiting for your life to be stable enough to have children, most likely you're never going to have them.

As years go by, life becomes more complicated, not less. With or without children.

Having children also involves sacrifice, improvisation, unpredictability, suffering... and lots of people are apparently allergic to all of those things.

hahamasteron Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)

You can install Midnight Commander on a Mac as well.

hahamasteron Decimal Time

Only when you explain timekeeping to a small kid you realize how strange the whole system is.

hahamasteron Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

Ever since I got presbyopia a couple of years back, I have lost tolerance for large screens. You constantly have to move yourself to have things in focus. Alt-tabbing on a smaller screen is much easier.

hahamasteron The pro-Israel information war

"Under Serbia", oh my. I'm sorry you have to comment on things you know nothing about. They're not ethnic but religious tensions.

hahamasteron Balkan genomes trace the rise/fall of Roman Empire's frontier, migrations

People of ex-Yugoslavia have a slightly amusing trait that they overestimate importance of their local history and its impact on the world history. You'd think Abraham Lincoln was picked to be the US president by a commitee from village of Crapski 113km southeast of Zagreb. This excessive pride in obscure, embelished and unimportant historical events is probably one of the reasons for animosity between peoples of the area. If they were half as smart as they think they are, they'd be long united and speaking the same language, like wiser nations such as Germans, French or Italians. But they're not, hence the hatred.

hahamasteron The pro-Israel information war

Bosnia is a terrible example. It is not doing fine precisely because Muslims in Bosnia are 51% of the population and demand a centralized government so that they can overrule Christians any way they please.

When Turks left about 100 years ago Muslims were a minority but thanks to much higher birth rate they now want to set the rules in Bosnia. Serbs know that, that's why they resisted, and still resist, a unified Bosnia.

Ottoman Empire tolerated Christians, true, but to achieve anything in life you had to convert to Islam. Otherwise you could just remain a haraç-paying Christian peasant without any chance of education or growth. Haraç was a tax for being a non-Muslim.

It was super hard to be a thriving Christian under Turks. In fact the Turkish policy was to demographically and economically slowly bleed Christians and for those with ambition to convert to Islam.

hahamasteron I Hacked the Magic Mouse

I’m not saying he shouldn’t do it, I’m just saying it’s strange.

Magic Mouse was designed to be held with two fingers and moved with the wrist.

Personally I would never buy a product completely, diametrically different from what I need and then adapt it. But I guess some people like the challenge and I have no problem with that.

hahamasteron I Hacked the Magic Mouse

There are thousands of mice available on the market, and almost all of them can be used on a Mac. It's strange that anyone bothers to fix any mouse. Just buy a mouse that fits your requirements.

hahamasteron Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year

Time for another color, blue for iMessages, green for SMS, light brown for RCS.

hahamasteron Yugoslavia's Digital Twin – When a country's internet domain outlives the nation

a lot of older ex-Yugoslavians

Hm, more like "some", probably "very few", definitely not "a lot."

In my experience these people are from very mixed families, for example: has a Muslim mum, Slovak dad who was a Yugoslav communist bureaucrat, born in Belgrade, married to a Slovenian army man, lives in Vienna and is 75 years old.

Everyone else finds one branch of their ethnic composition to identify with.

hahamasteron Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative

Absolutely. My wife stopped sending me stuff over AirDrop because she can't see my phone half the time. So she just sends me stuff via iMessage. We both have the latest iPhones with the latest iOS.

hahamasteron Two years of raising a bilingual daughter

In my experience it's hard for a child to speak both languages very well if they are bilingual.

So you end up with one of two situations: a) one language is spoken much better than the other one, or b) neither language is spoken very well.

hahamasteron Galaksija: The Soviet-Era, Z80-based microcomputer

Thank you!

hahamasteron Galaksija: The Soviet-Era, Z80-based microcomputer

Galaksija was a very impressive undertaking considering the fact that it was made by a single person. However, it was underpowered compared to other computers accessible to citizens of Yugoslavia at the time. I was a little kid back then but even I looked at Galaksija as mediocre in terms of power and features. My parents were middle class but we could afford a more powerful computer with color graphics and more memory.

hahamasteron Galaksija: The Soviet-Era, Z80-based microcomputer

It was called iron curtain, not iron wall. Yugoslavia was in between the west and the east back then. We were not under USSR control. We could hop on a plane and fly to London any time we pleased, unlike for example, Hungarians or east Germans.

hahamasteron Winklevoss twins secretely withdrew $280M in assets before crypto firm collapsed

Totally untrue. Viruses and 'things that went wrong' were tiny bits of mainstream coverage of anything computer related.

hahamasteron iPhone 15 teardown reveals software lockdown

Give this man a Nobel prize, we have a proper genius here.

hahamasteron My solopreneur story

> with ample time left over for nature walks, rock climbing, reading, and more. > Unlike these authors, the money I make is not the most interesting part of my story

You're deluded if you think anyone (other than your mom) is interested in your walking, climbing or reading.

hahamasteron My solopreneur story

Someone handing me their winning lottery ticket is wonderful, not totally useless.

hahamasteron I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997)

I think the majority of these people are despicable individuals who damage children's teeth for profit. But some are just plain incompetent. My son doesn't have a single cavity but there were cases when dentists at his school (who visit once every few months) "detected" cavities which were later proven to be simple food stains.

hahamasteron Apple reports third quarter results

They've subscriptions, not human beings. Some people have five subscriptions, some none.