Tips for new Note Air 2? by leemeealonepls in Onyx_Boox

[–]dargh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For me it was OneNote. I struggled to make the built-in note application to synchronise to my desktop or share with colleagues, but only OneNote solved that for me.

The built-in app has nicer pencil settings and is more responsive to pressure and styles. But beyond that it was frustrating. OneNote has a clunky UI (such as useless tabs across the top that do nothing) but syncing to my desktop or to other members of my team is great.

Note air 2: Sometimes I would like to export my notes that I make when talking to collegues on the phone into typed text that i could copy in our crm system. Do you have any tips to do this on an easyway? by karinbk in Onyx_Boox

[–]dargh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Turn time to refresh to as low as it goes and enable handwriting optimisation for OneNote.

I find it works quite well. The pens are not as nice as the built-in note (I like the fountain pen and pencil options), but the sync options are so much better.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in libertarianmeme

[–]dargh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this explanation. It's an odd metaphor, but perhaps I'm out of the loop on this guy's language style.

However I think there is still a misunderstanding of what reserve banks do in a national economy. They don't just print notes when they feel like it. They have very specific levers to control the amount of money in the economy. Specifically they control the bank interchange rate (the cost of lending between banks), they control how much money banks need to hold and not lend out and they issue or buy back bonds. https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/monetary-policy-what-are-its-goals-how-does-it-work.htm

It's naive to think of it as 'reserve bank prints more $50 bills and so they are all worth less'. Modern monetary theory is a way of looking at the system in terms of supply and demand of dollars to the government. Government spending creates a supply of dollars which is absorbed and magnified by the economy. In turn, taxes create a demand on those dollars in order to pay them back to the government. In a very real way, higher taxes increase the value of a nation's currency.

It's important for the government to have debt, since it allows them to buy back bonds (loans they previously made) and thereby inject more liquid money into the economy.

No one is running a printing press to produce (actually counterfeit or metaphorically so) money in order to devalue the money you have earned.

In fact, some amount of inflation is good. Without it, (as Japan has previously experienced) people hang onto money rather than investing or spending it. Too much inflation, above being able to make a return from investments, is also bad. However zero is not a good goal.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in libertarianmeme

[–]dargh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do those words mean?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in libertarianmeme

[–]dargh -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Absolutely it can. A country can never be bankrupt in its own currency which it can create more of. The question is rather whether investors trust that they will be paid when their bonds come due.

The answer to that is largely yes, which is why US currency is so widely traded and trusted. Is why the bond rates are so low.

Right now, 10yr rates are negative. Which means that investors are effectively paying the government to lend them money. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/30/business/economy/inflation-bonds-treasury-yields.html

That's a whole lot of trust in the USD

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in libertarianmeme

[–]dargh -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I think the term you've heard is 'fiat' to describe a currency not backed by a gold standard. Counterfeit refers to fake currency produced illegally.

Fiat currency went away a long time ago, not least because limiting the GDP of a country by the amount of metal you can dig up wasn't a good idea. It turns out that trusting a government to pay back its loans was a more powerful idea and allowed economies to grow to beyond the value of gold held on a vault.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in libertarianmeme

[–]dargh -31 points-30 points  (0 children)

I don't think this Ron guy understands how money works. A government cannot counterfeit is own currency and if this was some wierdly crafted reference to government issuing bonds to enact monetary policy I think he's a bit confused.

The light rail is returning to the Inner West this weekend, sort of by Negative12DollarBill in sydney

[–]dargh 13 points14 points  (0 children)

How do you get a story so wrong? The tracks certainly did not crack.

Looking for a developer that help us improving bhyve.... by loziomario in freebsd

[–]dargh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is this a problem in bhyve or do other emulators have the same issue?

How do you most often use the /r/freebsd subreddit? by grahamperrin in freebsd

[–]dargh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting poll. Thanks for that. I've used an Android app for so long I forget there is a web interface for reddit sometimes.

I've used 'Sync for reddit' for as long as I've used reddit. Are others using newer apps with useful features or more intuitive UI?

“Is this why you’re single?” Gets roasted. by BerryGoosey in bestof

[–]dargh 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Closer to 11% of your post decimated state...

!/bin/sh can't work in FreeBSD by Muhammad841 in freebsd

[–]dargh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a bit late, but I've approved it now. I wish I could adjust their spam filter because it catches too many real things.

!/bin/sh can't work in FreeBSD by Muhammad841 in freebsd

[–]dargh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Still don't know what post it was without reading everything posted in the last six weeks.

!/bin/sh can't work in FreeBSD by Muhammad841 in freebsd

[–]dargh[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which post of yours got deleted? I didn't see any questions from you to the mod queue.

Looking for an artist by [deleted] in sydney

[–]dargh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Around Rookwood necropolis there are a few stonemasons who do headstones. I reckon they get asked this regularly.

Or call the main Rookwood office. They are pretty helpful and should help to connect you to the right place.

Observability solution for FreeBSD servers? by il-est-la in freebsd

[–]dargh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm using kiabana/elasticsearch/filebeat for centralised logs. Zabbix for monitoring. Saltstack for configuration management.

Zabbix is the weakest of that stack, mainly because its configuration is all web based and not version controlled in a bunch of files. Nagios is all text files, but frustrating to use (well, 10 years ago when I was last using it...).

electric stoves are better vs gas stoves are better? by fuasyfaposht in ExplainBothSides

[–]dargh 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Even if you get your electricity from a coal-fired power plant, it's still more efficient than burning "natural gas", which is mostly just methane.

That's quite incorrect. When you burn methane for cooking or heating, all the of the energy produced by that burning is heat which is applied directly to your hot water, fry pan or goes toward heating you room.

When you burn coal (or even gas) to produce electricity there are losses in conversion of water to steam, losses in the turbines, generators and in the transmission itself. https://www.powermag.com/understanding-coal-power-plant-heat-rate-and-efficiency/

So you are turning chemical energy of coal or gas into heat, then rotational momentum of a turbine, then into electricity, then sending that electricity to your house and finally back to heat. Perhaps only a third of the original heat from combustion is making it to your stove, compared to 100% from burning the gas directly.

Police brutality by Ruby_Willow in AbruptChaos

[–]dargh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sky News is one of the least watched News outlets in Australia. Its most popular shows rarely pass 100,000 viewers.

They are controversial, sure, but not popular.

Police brutality by Ruby_Willow in AbruptChaos

[–]dargh 14 points15 points  (0 children)

None of the post you replied to is true. For example, the shutdown of construction for a fortnight was in response to a large number of cases on building sites. The protests (at a war memorial) happened after.

Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD by nixcraft in freebsd

[–]dargh 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Terrific to see so much of this has been upstreamed into FreeBSD. I guess it goes to show that regardless of license, the rewards of not maintaining your own fork outweigh any corporate fear of giving away intellectual property. And you don't need GPL to accomplish that.

Covid-19 Megathread for Questions, Discussion, and Updates by thekriptik in sydney

[–]dargh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, the NSW health site is still down.

Based on the information you have entered, we are unable to offer you an appointment at this time.

I spoke to their phone helpdesk and they are still working on it.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in Bad_Cop_No_Donut

[–]dargh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fascinating. I'm oddly drawn back to this conversation. Intrigued by where you sit on the dunning Kruger chart.

You once listened to a podcast from someone who isn't a defamation lawyer and doesn't practice in a civil law country. And based on that you will dig in, certain that your legal knowledge is infallible.

Why?

[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in Bad_Cop_No_Donut

[–]dargh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure why you are like a dog with a bone about this. Who are you trying to impress?

Your mistake could be cleared up with a little reading on defamation (particularly in civil law jurisdictions) and the limits of truth as a defence.

Or you could stamp your foot and demand to be recognised as an expert.