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AceStar commented on The Internet Archive is back online   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Wingy
AceStar · a year ago
This article appears to be referring to just the Wayback Machine.

The Internet Archive itself is still down.

AceStar commented on Ask HN: Why is it cheaper to buy a new laser printer than replace the cartridge?    · Posted by u/3stripe
3stripe · 9 years ago
And shouldn't it be illegal to price products like this?
AceStar · 9 years ago
I don't think it should be illegal to price things like this.

What should be illegal is only when deceptive practices are used. For example, they should be required to make it clear on the packaging when the new printer does not include a full-capacity cartridge.

AceStar commented on Ask HN: Why is it cheaper to buy a new laser printer than replace the cartridge?    · Posted by u/3stripe
tedyoung · 9 years ago
For laser printers (and ink jets as well), the cartridge you get with the new printer often has a much lower print capacity than a new (separately purchased) cartridge. For example, the printer will come with a cartridge that can print 500 pages, whereas a new one would print 2,000.

But otherwise, yes, the printer itself is a loss-leader, just like the razor industry.

AceStar · 9 years ago
If new printers included a full capacity cartridge, it would create a loop-hole where anybody could make money by buying new printers, discarding the printer and reselling just the cartridge from it.

So they sell the new printers with half-full / reduced capacity cartridges to prevent this situation.

Bottom line: don't buy a new printer when you run out of toner thinking you've "beaten the system". You probably haven't.

AceStar commented on Ask HN: What antivirus do you run on Windows, if any?    · Posted by u/BoorishBears
savethefuture · 9 years ago
Keep in mind that Windows Defender uploads your files to the MS cloud for scanning. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/window... And generally any "large antivirus vendor" is going to integrate just as well and can be non-intrusive as any other.
AceStar · 9 years ago
I used McAfee's suite once because I had to (corporate environment). It popped up all the time wanting this or that. It relied on ActiveX for a lot of what it did. Updates to it failed if your system default browser was set to something other than Internet Explorer.

I'm guessing it's moved on since then, but it lost my trust. I've had to use Norton's suite before too and it had similar reliability issues.

Since using Security Essentials / Defender on Win7 and later it just works and never needs any hand-holding.

AceStar commented on Vim for Humans   vimebook.com/en... · Posted by u/0x54MUR41
nicolashahn · 9 years ago
I disagree. Vim is bare, cold, and strange when coming from a traditional editor, and I probably wouldn't have gotten involved if it were not for a friend who already have a useful .vim and .vimrc for me to use as a starting point. He got me up and running with a Vundle, syntax highlighting for all my languages, autocomplete, and various settings that should have been default with stock vim. Though vimtutor was also very useful for getting used to the standard controls.

Edit: Forgot the most important thing, the setting that lets you use the mouse: set mouse=a. After I discovered this I knew I was never going back to Sublime.

AceStar · 9 years ago
I avoided vim for years after being introduced to vi at university, not realising vim could be customised to be much more comfortable and modern feeling.
AceStar commented on Vim for Humans   vimebook.com/en... · Posted by u/0x54MUR41
allengeorge · 9 years ago
That may be, but it's tough to use a customized vim on your local machine, and then switch to a stock install on a server somewhere, no?
AceStar · 9 years ago
I don't think it's very hard to switch to stock vim, when the keybindings remain the same. Most of the customisations commonly used are either cosmetic (syntax highlighting, brace matching, search-as-you-type, etc) or don't require much adjustment (delete through all text, etc).
AceStar commented on Vim for Humans   vimebook.com/en... · Posted by u/0x54MUR41
justinmk · 9 years ago
That's why Neovim carefully implemented[1] most of the defaults (and a few others) from sensible.vim.

[1] https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/2676

AceStar · 9 years ago
Which would you recommend more out of Neovim, or vim with sensible.vim?
AceStar commented on Ask HN: What antivirus do you run on Windows, if any?    · Posted by u/BoorishBears
AceStar · 9 years ago
Windows has had its own antivirus (Security Essentials / Windows Defender) for some time now. Do you have any reason not to trust it, or that it isn't adequate?

Most large antivirus vendors don't fill me with a lot of confidence, and my theory is that at least Microsoft's own solution is going to integrate well and stay out of my face.

AceStar commented on Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans support full-body scanners at airports   washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn... · Posted by u/jonmc12
AceStar · 15 years ago
Well, a quarter of Americans believe Obama is muslim, so go figure...

u/AceStar

KarmaCake day13November 18, 2010View Original