Readit NewsIf your disappointed by this being from 2017, check out some actual recent advancements (June 17 2025) by a different company
https://generalistai.com/blog.html
That was amazing.
mingabunga commented on Ask HN: How do you handle VAT / Sales Tax accounting as B2C SaaS? · Posted by u/throw_1VJ51pMb
What if you just…did nothing. What would happen?
Exactly! Nothing if you don't ship physical goods.
I've been doing this for 24 years and only collecting sales tax for users in my home country. All other countries I just say on my invoice that any sales tax is included in the price. What are the going to do about me not charging sales tax in their country and remitting it? Come and get it?
mingabunga commented on Outlook classic dropped from Microsoft 365 office-watch.com/2025/out... · Posted by u/miles
I finally ditched Outlook last month - and settled on eM Client and it's really nice. It does a lot of stuff.
Outlook for years had these recurring issues:
- mail profile gets corrupted - requiring me to re-setup my mail accounts
- from time to time, emails would sit in the Outbox not going anywhere. Then I'd notice hours or a day later. Frustrating. Have to restart Windows to fix it.
Maybe the New Outlook is better, but when I first tried it, it was missing lots of stuff.
I’ve been a web developer for decades as well as doing scraping, indexing, and analyzing million of sites.
Just follow the golden rule: don’t ever load any site more aggressively than you would want yours to be.
This isn’t hard stuff, and these AI companies have grossly inefficient and obnoxious scrapers.
As a site owner those pisses me off as a matter of decency on the web, but as an engineer doing distributed data collection I’m offended by how shitty and inefficient their crawlers are.
We've had to block a lot of these bots as they slowed our technical forum to a crawl, but new ones appear every now and again. Amazons was the worst
Calorie in, calorie out. If you have more calorie than the control group, no matter what substance that is - brownies, Cliff Bar, apples picked by Tim Cook, fruit juice, or Coca-Cola, and you expend as much energy as control, you’re going to end up heavier. Where are the calories gonna go? They’re going to stay in the body. You put them in there, they didn’t, and you didn’t do more stuff to take them out.
I think the hand wringing about natural vs processed is really about how appealing a given food is - anyone is more likely to overindulge in hyper palatable foods, so if natural foods are less palatable it’s good for that reason. Fruit (juice) is an example of a natural food that can be hyper palatable. So, beware just as you’d beware of Cheetos or Almond Roca.
Here, educate yourself https://open.spotify.com/episode/1MDqwjo3TfL1w7NJo1wldR?si=A...
mingabunga commented on FedEx launches new e-commerce platform theverge.com/2024/1/14/24... · Posted by u/jollofricepeas
I’m glad it’s a “platform,” because FedEx appears institutionally incapable of making a usable website or mobile app. But maybe they can pull off a “platform.” :)
You're absolutely right. Their website is terrible to book anything on or do any admin with, probably got many different antiquated systems in the background
I have an Asus from 2017 that still works great. I replaced the ram and ssd with higher capacity ones a couple of years back, but apart from that no repairs in the last 6+ years.
Sure, they always have the latest bleeding edge stuff. I'd definitely get this in the future though. Good yours has lasted
- First of all, drop sugar. Right now. Even if you are not fat, you should not eat it. It's not just extra calories, it's poison. Don't be like "oh, I'll just finish this stuff I still have around", throw it out. If your are only going to follow one point from this list, then let it be this one.
- Forget about calories, a calorie is not a calorie. You cannot "work off" that cake your have eaten, your are not an oven. Calories are an upper limit (you cannot break thermodynamics), but the human metabolism is much more complicated than just balancing an equation.
- Exercise is necessary, but not sufficient. That means you should exercise to get your metabolism going, but exercising itself will not let your lose weight. And when I mean exercising I don't mean you need to get a gym membership. Just going for a walk for half an hour or an hour is good enough for starters.
- Fat won't make you fat. I grew up under low-fat propaganda, yet I kept getting fatter. Then when I increase my fat consumption I started losing weight. By fat I mean real animal fat from meat, not seed oils or other processed fats.
- Eat real food. If you cannot tell what it's made from by looking at it, then it's not real food.
- Processed fruits and vegetables are still processed food, and thus not real food. Don't be fooled by marketing, stuff like fruit juice is not healthy, no matter how many vitamin labels the manufacturer keeps putting on the packaging.
- Caloric restriction works in the short term, but will drive you crazy in the long term. This is why people lapse eventually and regain all their weight.
It is important to understand that obesity is not a "surplus of energy", it's a medical disorder brought about by disruption of your metabolism. I was able to keep eating and eating without ever feeling satiated. It is pure torture to be hungry with a full stomach. It was my body telling me "stop feeding me this garbage, give me real food". I have since been able to keep my weight and never feel hungry. It's only when I find myself unable to eat real food and lapse back into old habits that I start gaining weight again.