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I cancelled my NYT digital subscription 2 weeks ago and it was a matter of clicking a few buttons on their website. I don’t know what all the fuzz with virtually assistants is all about.

It’s certainly easier than canceling Amazon Prime.

I think there goes my weekend, Lazarus looks... interesting!

Whenever I heard “Delphi”, I thought it was an ancient programming language that older colleagues used to mention (“... <anecdote> ... many moons ago, back when I used to program Delphi.”).

But so Delphi really is/was a GUI editor? Something like an ancient Qt Creator? And according to Wikipedia it is not even a language but is using “Object Pascal”. Wild.

I wonder why this never comes up when I read a out cross platform GUI frameworks...

The problem with unjustified bans due to some algorithm is also: These cases might not even be a close calls like: “oh yeah this person did something that is in the grey area of what our policies state. I will ban him but he might interpret things differently.”

No if you enforce your policies strictly by (machine learning) algorithms it could just be a matter of misinterpreting a different language, slang, irony or something else. Which makes these bans even more infuriating.

Thank you!

Can you please share your config? I find configuring coc quite painful.

Look through the other comments for examples.

Now that sounds very interesting. Thank you for this!

I’m not sure you “want” to understand me. I treat them as __headphones__ and simply stated that it was a shame that (esp. expensive) headphones which used to hold up for a long time are now worthless after a few years. That’s it.

> Well, it's no surprise that a product with a battery is less resilient than a product without one. But those products don't compete with each other.

But they _are_. By now I have seen many review videos that compare them with the typical audiophile/sound production headphones. E.g. Marques compared them with the Sennheiser HD800S [1].

> Also, cheaply available, standardized batteries don't address your e-waste concern either. So your post doesn't seem much different than someone being indignant or even sanctimonious about the wireless preference of others.

Does it not? If I can reuse the housing, the drivers, earpads, headband and just need to replace the battery when its dead, does this not reduce e-waste? Also I do not condemn wireless headphones in general, I said it is a shame that products which could be used for many decades in the past become e-waste rather quickly in today's world. And that I would prefer the approach Shure is taking to reduce waste and only replace the highly degrading components (at least with their monitors).

[1]: https://youtu.be/UdfSrJvqY_E?t=609

Check out your sister's comment's comments for some examples.

> If apple no longer sells the battery, it will be trivial to find a suitable replacement. As long as there is demand, there will be loads of shops able to replace the battery for you.

Its a niche product. You will bot find replacement batteries for it. Heck it is even hard to find replacement batteries for 10 year old MacBooks.

> The real question is: will people who buy $500 branded headphones really have their 5+ year old headphones repaired, or will they but the latest-and-greates shiny new thing?

That’s my whole point. These things are not build (and bought) to last anymore but to be consumed. You used to retain some value when buying into expensive headphones.

It is such a shame that nowadays even these high priced devices are contributing to the enormous e-waste we are all piling up.

It used to be like this: You spend A LOT of money for really nice headphones and use them (potentially) your lifetime. Or hand it down to your kids as your hearing gets worse. Sound doesn’t change much and the plug has been around for ages.

Nowadays it goes like this: You buy your expensive Apple headphones. And even though Apple is probably supporting these longer than your average earbuds, after a while the bluetooth version will be obsolete and eventually the battery will have reached its end or inflate and become a safety risk.

But because this was expensive and Apple supported it longer, it will have maybe lasted 10 years and one or two (pricey) battery replacements. This is still much worse than audiophile „analog“ headphones and I feel like this change is not adequately addressed.

I would really hope to see more approaches like Shure‘s „Aonic 215 True Wireless“ which is an arguably quite ugly attachment to the drivers that have been around for a long while and just adds the wireless capabilities and bluetooth. It can also be used for any other Shure driver afaik. This way you keep the good old sound producing piece while swapping out the stuff that will degrade over time.

True. I think there are categories where I take their word for gospel, like electric tooth brushes, mixers and other electric household items, food, cosmetics, etc.

But for some products they had/have really weird metrics. E.g. an early smartphone would be punished because the battery was not replaceable, so a shitty feature phone took the crone (a little exaggerated). But still, they are focused on customers.

And a lot of the non-test editorial focuses on updating the consumer about warnings of faulty products, new regulations, test candidate updates, etc.

As a German I and many others are religiously following what our consumer reports "Stiftung Warentest" recommends (except for high-tech products). Germans have very high confidence in the products and many companies print a good test result ("very good" or even "good" on their packaging). Reasons are that they are extremely thorough, unbiased, financially independent and can be quite tough. They have sophisticated testing facilities, do lab tests, test lifetime of products with machines, etc. And they have been sued several times by companies. So when I cam to the US I was very worried of the basically unregulated companies to screw me over so naturally I (digitally) subscribed to the OG Consumer Reports (which historically seems to be the role model of all other international consumer reports). However I am so disappointed about the magazine:

- it is not very thorough or strict (rather leniant)

- it has a really poor selection of product categories

- besides a table of comparing the products features it has very little editorial buying guides that go more into detail.

In the case of the German magazine, when you read through some of the guides they can be quite entertaining, they slap the wrists of even the most powerful (german) companies if something breaks or if they falsely advertise features, or if there are critical design flaws in the product. I really wish CR would be as critical.

For example in my country you go to work, eat lunch but you mostly work. In the US what I have experienced is a lot more “living” at the company and everyone stays long but people are not often actually getting work done. But staying late makes you look good. To me: if I go to work for 8h I might have 6 productive hours if even. If I would go to work for 10 hours I might not be much more productive. Problem solving sometimes involves time to come up with a solution from your subconscious (e.g. under the shower)

Americans are not the only ones being critical of America. Quite the opposite: My perception is rather that Americans have very high tendency to assume they are the greatest country in the world. And because of mostly learning about their own country and history in school it is harder to hold themselves to higher standards and compare with other nations besides the size of your army or the worth of the biggest companies (e.g. when you get cancer and lose your job, you somehow must pay for that treatment that is just how it is, better have something saved up. Whereas in many other developed nations that goes much differently)

Also regarding to GP: “working more” != “being more productive”

What I don’t get is: Now the stock is clearly overvalued. Doesn’t this make shorting it now so much more attractive?

Interesting point. But I have never experienced this with other newspapers who publish the traditional articles online. And the NYT should have a higher quality than most.

Honestly the pacing and structure of NYT articles is so weird. Sometimes I read an article and after a few well structured paragraphs it seems that they just add random additional info, go down rabbit holes and just end abruptly.

As if your grandmother wants to tell you a story and weaves in random info of every participant’s relation to your family.

I think no open source project should have a maintainer who answers the question of how to make the project succeed in the future with:

“Keep me alive” [1]

[1] https://www.binpress.com/vim-creator-bram-moolenaar-intervie...

> The "cruft" like bookmark syncing, password syncing, etc, has to come from somewhere. Google was is good a place as any to me.

More like: All that data is sent to the biggest advertisement company in the world. One has to wonder if they go through all the hassle of browser development for altruistic reasons or to make money off the gathered data?

It is baffling to me that something being open-source is more important than not letting your data be harvested by advertisers, potentially law enforcement, etc.

I recently bought the Onyx Boox Note Air for writing and reading and I am really liking it. Syncs with my server, has a front light, allows to install apps like kindle or pocket and is just super well build. The default pen is crap but the Lamy All-Star EMR or the Staedler Norris Digital Jumbo are superb.

Oh for sure! I just cannot set it up where I am right now. I am sure that NetGuard may also somehow be able to block domains but I have not been able to find out how.

Yeah I have the Lamy, the Samsung pen that Voya is all about but I like the Staedler Norris Digital Jumbo the best. Voja‘s videos where the main reason why I cancelled my RM2 order and went with the Boox. For syncing I set up „FolderSync Pro“ to automatically sync between my WebDav server for PDFs and also automatically upload the notes folder (where the explicitly exported notes are saved). It is just too bad that the later are only rasterized PDFs whereas if you enable a sync service from the OS like Dropbox, the notes are uploaded as vector PDFs.

One thing I am not happy about is the constant phoning home to Chinese servers (multiple domains incl. alibaba) This can be disabled via NetGuard but then you also lose the ability to automatically upload the handwritten vectorized notes to Dropbox.

Hard to say because I have auto sync set up to keep my PDFs up to date which runs every 15mins. And Wifi is mostly on. But with that and moderte usage I may need to charge it between 7 and 9 days. But you can probably do optimize the settings more (after what time does it disable wifi when it started sleep mode, when does it start to shit itself off, front-light adjustments, etc.)

It handles PDFs well, even large ones (~300MiB) but I do not zoom. It has a nice auto cropping features which allows me to read everything (including various conference paper formats) well.

It is a proven fact that Germans systematically killed jews and other political enemies in concentration camps and elsewhere.

There is no other “conclusion” to be drawn from the overwhelming physical evidence of these crimes.

After switching to a Onyx Boox Note Air from an iPad I am so happy with this technology. Writing is truly paper-like and reading is so incredible. Latency is great, pens work nicely and are much finer and (can) have more friction than the Apple Pencil, contrast and resolution is great. And it is MUCH more versatile than a remarkable. Due to Android apps, more storage and great stock apps.

I know it is a bridge-technology at best but for me it beats any LCD/OLED screen by a mile. So I am more closely following this tech again now.