Thank you - heard about FidoNet before, but wasn't aware of these numbers or what they mean.
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I was just a little bit too young to get access to BBS in my youth.
The first thing I know about Dolby is the noise suppression technology for tapes. So you are noise suppression for reading ? Well, that didn't work.
Next thing I'm thinking of is Dolby surround. But I can't think about how surround sound should work with reading.
I look at your webpage and now I know your product. But "we're the Dolby for reading" didn't help me at all in understanding your product.
Most of the time on hackernews when I'm reading "We're the X for Y" I have to google X first to understand what they're trying to say with this sentence.
My last 3 mobile phones were MediaTek phones, but that's one of my biggest gripes with them.
I've read most of my programming books in English as most of the online resources were in English. Reading a German book about C++ with "Vorlagen". Didn't know what they were talking about unti I've used a dictionary and found out that "Vorlagen" are "templates". Was pretty funny that it was easier for me to read programming books in English than in my mother tongue.
That's the only time when I'm buying instant coffee, but all the ones I've tried were bad or horrible.
To the Nespresso or Keurig model: it is the single serving in plastic tubes which rubs me wrong and which reminds me of these models.
I'd prefer something like a Nescafe glass with better coffee (and it can be really small, like 20 servings or something like that). More flexibel and less waste. But I understand that I may not be your target group and that the model right now is working much better for you.
And the Nespresso model is working great for them and is preferred by many people I know - it's just not for me.
But a cup of great instant coffee could be awesome. Especially when you are camping or on music festivals. These were the only times I was using instant coffee. If their price point stays the same you won't save much on their model.
From a price standpoint I don't know if there is something much cheaper than buying coffee beans and making your own coffee.
But I would like to test a couple of cups of your coffee with friends. I never drank a good instant coffee so I really wonder how a good instant coffee tastes.
But if you compare the C64 palette with other 8 bit computers of the time, it looks better for me. And as he explains in his article, it is easier to generate more realistic looking pictures with it than with a more vibrant colour palette.
They are living too well with their generic phones, tablets and laptops.
Never have really used one of each.. but why is a Chromebook more limited than a iPad ?
The Chromebook has USB Ports, it has a Keyboard, you can add a mouse easily. In my experience tablets are just good for passive media consumption, light web browsing and light gaming. It is more limited than a PC, but more versatile than an iPad.
I try to park pretty close to the pump. With the filler on the same side as the driver door I have to be careful not to bang the door into the structure around the pump. That's much easier when it is on the other side.
I don't care at all to walk around the car to pump the petrol.
After driving German cars for some years it was a disadvantage of my new Japanese car for me.
But I've never filled my car on the side of a road, so this argument didn't work for me at all.
For me it was definitely the wrong device. I don't have any use for this device at all. The "reading out the names" sounds incredible kludgy for me.
To everything his own. I just wanted to share my experiences with the device.
But for what it is worth 1 GB may be fine. Handling 30 albums would be a nightmare with the Shuffle.
It works (as the name says) if you want to listen to a playlist in shuffle. But for me (and my ex) it didn't work for anything else. So we both found out we didn't had any use for this device.
I'd say definitely. One of the most used designs. Built like a tank. One of the most used and abused microphones in my opinion.
First problem - we didn't had any Mac or Windows at home. So no iTunes. But that's an iPod problem in general. Her dad didn't know this / didn't think of it.
I've tried to use the device - but it was unusable for everything we wanted to use it. She didn't like it for music - too little space (1GB), no full albums, just a Playlist (which was pretty hard to update if you don't use iTunes). Listening to music didn't work for me too (I like listening to whole albums). So I've tried to listen to Podcasts (30 minutes to 1 hour) with it. Didn't know where in the podcast I am, fast forward for 15 minutes was cumbersome.
Didn't work for me at all. It was small, it was robust, but it didn't fit any of our requirements.
But if you don't want to talk about it that's fine. I am just nosey.
It is incredible slow for many operations.
My solution is to use command line git for most operations and SourceTree just for visualizing the repository. It's pretty fine for this.
Every time I come around a German installation of IIS or SQL Server I'm cringing. Googling the right solution and then trying to figure out how they've translated this option is something I can't stand.
We are using it since 2014. First in line is a HAProxy which directs the traffic to one of the 3 nodes. If one of the nodes goes down HAProxy directs the traffic to the other two nodes.
This works quite well, as long as not all 3 nodes are down / lose network connection. After that you have to initialise the cluster again. One node is the new master and all later changes in the other databases are overwritten. Then we connect each node to the new cluster.
The biggest problems are write intense operations. We had more luck using two nodes as read nodes and using the third node as write node. When the data in two nodes got updated simultaneously the performance suffered heavily. After some smarter scheduling it works pretty well (as long as not all the nodes go down or the network connection between the nodes is lost). The slowest node can block the write operations for all the other nodes.
They circumvent this with their own car tuners which release the cars without this restrictions (AMG for Mercedes Benz as an example)
I was using this instead of Jekyll for a hardly updated website and I can't get it running on Arch linux (without putting too much effort into it). The whole system looks pretty dated and dead too (I think the upstream URL doesn't even work any more).
I would be really happy to get a "set and forget" solution, so I can update the site 3 times in a year and don't have to worry about the system.
Is Hugo stable enough for something like that ? Is the Jekyll Docker image the better solution for this ?
Austria 5€
Switzerland 9.5 CHF (8.73€)
Switzerland is topographically not really great for farming (high mountains, no big flat areas, not enough warmth), so they have some disadvantages there. All countries surrounding Switzerland are part of the EU, so there are cheap farming products in the shops.
I am living on the border to Switzerland and it is crazy what meat costs in Switzerland compared to Austria. You are not allowed to import much meat, so you have to buy it in Switzerland if you live there.