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ndaiger commented on Kagi Assistant is now available to all users   blog.kagi.com/assistant-f... · Posted by u/angilr
34679 · 5 months ago
Kagi search is great, but I'm not willing to pay more than $5/mo for search and 300 searches isn't enough. I have no interest in Kagi AI. Adding more searches would've caused me to sign up again. A rate limit instead of a monthly limit would prevent the "search anxiety" that creeps in as your available searches dwindle. Make it so and you can have my money again.
ndaiger · 5 months ago
I also use the $5/month plan, and the few times I have exceeded the 300-search limit, Kagi simply renews my monthly plan early.

For me it's just happened a few times towards the end of the month and I was happy with how they handled the situation.

ndaiger commented on Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?    · Posted by u/blackeyeblitzar
Kronopath · a year ago
I’m not much of an artist, so for my limited photo manipulation needs Acorn is cheap, subscriptionless, and way more than enough for me:

https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/

ndaiger · a year ago
I have been using Acorn since...wow, 2009!

After the first $49 purchase, I spent another $15 and then $19 on upgrades over the years.

It's very effective. The interface is extremely familiar if you're used to Photoshop, and it's wonderfully Mac-native.

I highly recommend it!

ndaiger commented on An anonymous donor just sent 299 Ether (equivalent to 393k USD) to redox_OS   twitter.com/jeremy_soller... · Posted by u/padraic7a
jon-wood · 3 years ago
If you deposit a quarter million dollars into your bank account out of the blue the bank are absolutely going to ask you where it came from, and "don't worry yourself with that", or even "I sold some crypto" are unlikely to be sufficient answer to avoid your account being frozen and a note sent to the relevant authorities.
ndaiger · 3 years ago
What they actually tend to do is have someone in management call to congratulate you and invite you to discuss banking products. I know this from personal experience.
ndaiger commented on Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch reviews   fullstackeconomics.com/am... · Posted by u/yedava
JKCalhoun · 4 years ago
"within Reach", LOL.

(Sorry, love their furniture, not so much their prices.)

ndaiger · 4 years ago
I agree the name is pretty terrible for a mass-market company because everybody associates it with price, but I believe the origin was due to the fact that they offered direct sales of products that were previously only available "to the trade" (aka professional designers/decorators).
ndaiger commented on Lax oversight allows Chicago police to avoid turning on their body cams   storymaps.arcgis.com/stor... · Posted by u/jseliger
pdonis · 5 years ago
> Leaving it up to local voters makes it sound like it's ok for a police dept to misbehave, eg harass minorities or evade accountability, as long as the majority voters in that city/county are ok with it.

In the extremely unlikely event that a majority are ok with it, yes, that would be correct as far as local laws are concerned. That's what "freedom" means: it means people are free to make mistakes. Note, however, that if the corrupt local cops are violating state or federal law, they're still liable even if a majority of local voters are ok with it. I don't have a problem with, for example, local cops being prosecuted for violating a citizen's Constitutional rights.

However, I strongly doubt that a majority of voters in these localities are actually ok with police corruption. I think they either don't bother voting because they don't think it will make any difference, or don't know about the corruption because they haven't personally experienced the consequences. Even in a large city like, e.g., Chicago, the majority of voters will never have a personal encounter with a city cop.

> going to a couple levels in governance (state or federal) makes total sense given the systematic nature of some of the problems

You're assuming that the state and federal levels of government don't also have systematic problems that would prevent them from fixing corruption. That strikes me as a highly unlikely assumption.

ndaiger · 5 years ago
The 14th amendment to the constitution would seem to disagree with your assertion.
ndaiger commented on HomePod Mini   apple.com/homepod-mini/... · Posted by u/axg
myrandomcomment · 5 years ago
So here is the thing I struggle with. I have a NAS. On it is my media (music, videos, photos) collection. I do not have a subscription to Apple Music, or the reset of the streaming services and I not want one. So how do I play my own music collection with this?

Right now to do this I have an AppleTV on every TV. I have an app on the AppleTV called MrMC which is basically a paid for port of Kodi for the AppleTV. The MrMC app can mount the NFS file share and play my music just fine. The AppleTV is plugged into and HDMI splitter that strips audio and outputs it to an amp which goes to my speakers. This just works, and I can remote control it with my an app on my iPhone.

Given that the HomePod will not be able to access my music collection, it is useless.

I would be happy with the HomePod being able to steam music from an open Music app on a Mac somewhere. I have enough spare Macs that it would be simple to just run Music on it (which mounts the network share.) But of course, I would be wasting power.

Oh well.

It would also be really nice if the AppleTV would just support SMB again.

ndaiger · 5 years ago
You can make it work with iTunes Match. It will upload all your music (it's not just filename or metadata matching, apparently it uses audio fingerprints).

Then you can play your own stuff without needing an Apple Music subscription.

It's $25/year.

I moved to Apple music a while ago, but iTunes Match worked great for me before that.

ndaiger commented on Schwab Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commissions   pressroom.aboutschwab.com... · Posted by u/lxm
whalesalad · 6 years ago
As a side note I use Schwab as a checking account and it’s incredible. Zero fees. Reimbursement of ATM fees. Easy overdraft protection from the brokerage account. I love them as a bank.

This is even more reason to love them.

I’ve used Chase, Citi, was a Simple customer for a long time... and Schwab blows all of them out of the water.

ndaiger · 6 years ago
Great customer service, too. Punch in your account number and you get a smart human immediately. No scripts.
ndaiger commented on Weighted blankets might ease insomnia and anxiety   washingtonpost.com/lifest... · Posted by u/laurex
Bootwizard · 6 years ago
I guess this is a little off topic, but can anyone recommend a good side sleeper pillow? I've bought around 6 pillows in the last few years and all of them cause me to wake up with neck and back pain because they don't hold my head up.

I've had insomnia for a long time and I'm still tackling the causes. I'm definitely going to try one of these weighted blankets, and maybe a sleep mask. I made the leap a few months ago to buy a Casper mattress and that's helped a lot. It's not as dramatic a difference as I'd hoped but replacing a ?? year old mattress with anything is better.

ndaiger · 6 years ago
https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-pillow-for-side-sleep...

I use the Xtreme Comforts Shredded Memory Foam Pillow recommended; when I replace it I'll probably buy the upgrade pick mentioned in the article just to see if it's much nicer.

I've spent years trying different pillows (usually super-expensive ones) and the memory foam is by far the best for me (I am also a side sleeper).

Other random insomnia advice: try to focus on relaxing each and every muscle in your body so that you are totally slack. Mindfulness apps/podcasts can help you do this. It helps me a lot. Low-dose melatonin (1mg) is good when you're training yourself to sleep but I wouldn't take it long-term (very vivid dreams are a side effect).

ndaiger commented on The War on Waze   reason.com/blog/2018/04/2... · Posted by u/Fins
ndaiger · 7 years ago
I live in Los Angeles near a lot of the construction going on for the new subway line running down Wilshire Blvd.

My neighborhood (Carthay) has been getting a lot more cut-through traffic. There are days that seem particularly "Waze-y", when it's basically just gridlock on our little streets for an hour. I imagine it's due to apps re-routing people.

But I don't really think it's any faster for the commuter. I'm reminded of this article (seemingly now password-protected, so I'll link to a summary) that Waze chronically underestimates your travel time, while Apple Maps chronically overestimates (and therefore overdelivers):

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/02/22/informal-testing-...

From my anecdotal experience, Waze does vastly overestimate the benefits of a crazy route, like making a left turn from a stop sign across 6 lanes of rush-hour traffic.

ndaiger commented on Blue Apron to Sell Meal Kits in Stores to Buttress Sagging Deliveries   wsj.com/articles/blue-apr... · Posted by u/uptown
ndaiger · 7 years ago
I use Blue Apron sporadically; it can be a good thing on a busier week because it removes both menu planning and shopping while still letting you make home-cooked meals (take-out more than once a week or so gets really old).

It can also be a great break when your go-to recipes feel too repetitive.

But often one of the three recipes ends up being a dud, and if you forget to skip a week and get a bunch of stuff you don't feel like cooking it's an expensive and annoying obligation to prepare meals you didn't really want or make an ersatz recipe out of the ingredients they sent.

There is absolutely zero chance I would go to a store to buy a Blue Apron box. Without the convenience of home delivery, it really loses its appeal.

u/ndaiger

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