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MailNerd

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About MailNerd

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https://www.mailbox.my

Check our blog: https://www.mailbox.my/blog/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #37853360

    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 otherwi…

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    Comment #37825004

    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 o…

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    Comment #37824612

    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 pro…

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    Comment #37824259

    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…

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    Comment #37787070

    Shameless ad: For getting your own geeky email address (currently forwarding only) please see https://www.mailbox.my/ (some of them are free)

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    Comment #37761715

    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 int…

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    Comment #37655158

    Great book, recommended read.

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    Comment #37340293

    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)

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    Comment #35413577

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

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    Comment #31427735

    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?

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    Comment #31421927

    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.

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    Comment #31248533

    > 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?

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    Comment #30542707

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

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    Comment #30542664

    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 r…

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    Comment #30424483

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

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    Comment #30365367

    Please do not use SHA256 for storing passwords, use Argon2 ;)

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