mushyhammer (u/mushyhammer)

mushyhammer commented on Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread halfloafnear.me/... · Posted by u/prashantb

boplicity · 4 years ago

Fascinating just to see the prices of bread in another country. In the Mumbai area, it looks like a half loaf costs between 17 and 75 INR -- with most around 22 INR, or 30 cents US. Here in Toronto, we often pay $4 to $5 (USD) for a decent loaf of sandwich bread. The difference is pretty striking.

mushyhammer · 4 years ago

I’ve seen the bread in most Asian countries. You get what you pay for. Only premium bread may be worth it, and still not on pair with cheap basic European bread.

mushyhammer commented on Impressions from a first-time Mac user loganmarchione.com/2022/0... · Posted by u/loganmarchione

AA-BA-94-2A-56 · 4 years ago

Spotlight is a really good search tool, and it's worth occasionally letting it build its index. You mostly only notice this when you've changes a whole bunch of files or setup the computer for the first time. It really is short-term pain for long-term gain, because Spotlight is phenomenal at finding anything on the Mac in a really short amount of time.

That being said, if you're in the dev-space, I'd recommend using Raycast instead. I've dong some cool things with it, like format my commit messages, generate UUIDs, and search my bookmarks with a command (/w dev -> my company's development application with a really long URL).

mushyhammer · 4 years ago

> Spotlight is a really good search tool

I loved Spotlight until I had to check out several project to my computer. Now with thousands of non-own files it’s really hard to find what I want. Even if I look for my own projects, Spotlight shows the same project as it appears in several node_modules as a dependency. Find out the right one means I have to hold alt on each item. Ludicrous.

mushyhammer commented on Impressions from a first-time Mac user loganmarchione.com/2022/0... · Posted by u/loganmarchione

mushyhammer · 4 years ago

I was expecting a rant about the Finder, found one on window management (which has infinite solutions).

Other than the spacebar and column view, the Finder is a toy compared to File Explorer.exe and I’ll never forgive Apple for it. 20 years of staleness.

mushyhammer commented on An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email empty.coffee/an-ode-to-ap... · Posted by u/mlapida

sunny3 · 4 years ago

Unfortunately, I found that Hide My Email complicates unsubscribing. I tried unsubscribing from Jumba Juice many times unsuccessfully, only to realize that the email that I entered was my actual email, and I should enter the email that was shared to Jumba Juice instead.

mushyhammer · 4 years ago

That’s true, you have to be aware of the email address you used in every service instead of blindly entering your email address.

But you can also deactivate the email address and be done with it.

mushyhammer commented on An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email empty.coffee/an-ode-to-ap... · Posted by u/mlapida

4a3f35b5a · 4 years ago

> you probably don’t want to use a random address for critical services such as online banking.

Why not?

mushyhammer · 4 years ago

Because it’s a potential pain.

I just used Hide my email for a non-critical but real-life situation. I had to learn my new email address and I’ll have to remember it forever. I’ll probably change it back to my regular address at some point.

mushyhammer commented on An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email empty.coffee/an-ode-to-ap... · Posted by u/mlapida

gman83 · 4 years ago

I must be the only person who doesn't receive spam. I mean I do, but it goes into the spam folder. I've never really understood why I should use something like this. I have my email address on my website anyway, so it's not like it's private information.

mushyhammer · 4 years ago

Low-quality spam veeery rarely makes it to my inbox, but “opt-out newsletters after signup” are basically how every business operates nowadays. And that’s spam as far as I’m concerned.

mushyhammer commented on An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email empty.coffee/an-ode-to-ap... · Posted by u/mlapida

IAmEveryone · 4 years ago

Gmail also ignores the dot. If you choose a 17-character mailbox name, you can use any one of 2^16 different patterns of placing dots between them.

Capitalisation could also be used for such a purpose, but may be more likeely to accidentally get stripped.

mushyhammer · 4 years ago

Dots are useful to create new accounts on the same site, but you can’t use it to just tell websites apart (because there’s no label)

mushyhammer commented on Back to India yugal.me/back-to-india/... · Posted by u/sdht0

dontlaugh · 4 years ago

Immigrants come from poor countries, expats from rich ones.

mushyhammer · 4 years ago

This is basically it. Legally it’s all immigrants, but colloquially “immigrants” are people looking for a better (richer) life while “expats” are in a place because they like it, not because their life conditions would be poorer at home.

I grew up an immigrant to Switzerland, now I’m an expat in South East Asia.

mushyhammer commented on Those HTML attributes you never use smashingmagazine.com/2022... · Posted by u/makaimc

ttybird2 · 4 years ago

You are missing the point. Their issue is that we have two different syntaxes for specifying key-value attributes.

"are you suggesting that CSS and HTML should have the same style? <a style=“color=\”red\””>?"

Probably more like <a css-color="red"> - or alternatively: <a id=xxx> and in an css file: .xxx { href: "http..." }

I also think that you need to chill.

mushyhammer · 4 years ago

What you’re saying was not clear from the start, you keep moving the goalpost.

Ironically XML allowed namespaces so css:color="red" could have totally been a thing. However CSS came out to separate content from style, so doing that wouldn’t have made much sense. I wouldn’t be surprised if the style attribute was added later.

Edit: wow I was right:

> HTML 3.0 supports style sheets via the use of the LINK element [1]

> HTML 4.0 adds new hooks for style sheets, which suggest how a document is presented. The new ID, CLASS, and STYLE attributes [2]

[1]: https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/intro.html

[2]: https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/reference/wdghtml401/new.htm...