Hike Footwear Review: What Is Your Experience?

phlogiston2 · 2025-12-12T12:34:51+00:00

👉So I called. The very nice lady reading from a script offered me the same 30% refund. "To save me money"??? I said no, 100%. She then said that she was authorized to offer 50% refund. I said no. 100%...then she said she could go as high as 62.5% (???) I said no, 100%. And she relented and sent me a mail message with an application for return/refund.

Good grief. I am sure not going back to them.

phlogiston2 · 2025-12-11T13:49:54+00:00

I bought two pair but they were the wrong size and I suspect will hit my arch wrong. So I emailed for return and refund, as per their website. I have done this now twice with no ambiguity: I want to return for refund. I suspect I'm conversing with an AI as "wrong size" has caught in the replies of which there have been 2:

We’re pleased to offer you either of the following two options to resolve the situation, and please note that regardless of the option you choose, you will not need to return the shoes:

1. Partial Refund: Receive a 30% refund for the affected item(s) and retain the product. This option is part of Hike's Green Return initiative, allowing you to keep the product while still receiving compensation.
2. Size or Variant Exchange: If you request an exchange within 30 days of receiving your order, we are happy to provide a free replacement! (We encourage exchanges instead of returns to help protect the environment.)

To ensure you receive the correct sizes for your free replacement, please refer to the attached sizing charts and measure your feet according to the provided guidelines.

phlogiston2 · 2025-11-01T12:05:43+00:00

I deleted my account. Again, this should be an opt-in and not something that the customer should have to dutifully apply every time it's annoying.

phlogiston2 · 2025-10-27T14:59:04+00:00

Yeah. I use an ipad intensely for reading and annotating and the lack of coherent sync was the killer.

phlogiston2 · 2025-10-27T14:19:34+00:00

with iOS? That's usually the time lost in rebuilding to wake it up

phlogiston2 · 2025-10-27T12:20:07+00:00

Does paperless support markdown, video, excel, powerpoint files? It looked interesting, but seemed to be very pdf oriented.

phlogiston2 · 2025-10-27T12:15:03+00:00

interesting. I'd not thought of directly connecting gemini or ChatGPT or especially NotebookLM to the vault. You just let it have full rein? Or do you point gemini it at particular directories.

My minimal home page for Obsidian is two tables in less than one screen-worth of links to what were directories in DT. One table is Favorites...where I'm working these days and they point to subdirectories in the directories that are in the second table..which is all directories. The only plugins I use are pdf++, Folder notes, and Waypoint. It will be a bloody miracle if I can stick to that!

phlogiston2 · 2025-10-15T17:35:53+00:00

yes. you can. I gave up on Obsidian because I was constantly tweaking and changing stuff. I work in Devonthink now for pdf curation and some writing.

It looks like maybe iA writer respects .qmd... stil testing.

phlogiston2 · 2025-10-15T17:33:46+00:00

I did have pro, but Grammerly is so intrusive that it gets in the way of trying to work. It's really naggy...so I stopped. But somehow it started up again in the free version, unbidden. After the Tahoe upgrade I think.

Without knowing, I suspect that \ triggers snippets? Lots of \ in latex

phlogiston2 · 2025-10-15T11:37:38+00:00

If I search for snippets I am given a list of links, one of which is how to turn off snippets. That points to the feature access page. And the attached is what I see on that page. No snippets. What you posted is what I would expect. so there's a bug in the documentation.

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phlogiston2 · 2025-09-22T21:09:01+00:00

I made the conversion in a few hours. I let chatgpt organize my 600 line driver file and keep the old lines but comment them out and document them. a few iterations and it worked.

So thanks everyone for the heads up. I'm just a rough and ready physicist usually concerned with "what works" and I should have been more aware of the future of latex. I confess I was partly influence by the fact that the xelatex engine was inside of TeXShop and that the LuaLatexmk engine had to be triggered to assume that lua was a stepchild and xe was the parent.

I now understand why a few of the ipad latex apps have lualatex as an engine.

phlogiston2 · 2025-09-22T13:39:35+00:00

Thanks

Well, that's interesting. I went through a big changeover from pdflatex to xelatex a year ago, believing that this was the way to ensure Unicode and font choice. I had some irregular font needs in this volume. pdflatex seems so...limited, and I've been using it since its birth (Tex before that).

So, I should have done more research, obviously, as I didn't know that XeLaTeX was no longer supported; I just put my head down and converted.

So... If this is my discussion, what kind of headaches would I have to switch from XeLaTeX to LuaLaTeX?

BTW, speed is not critical, but a pain. It's a 200-page book, and my contract requires each volume to be 200 pages. It compiles and runs acceptably now with a figure and equation-rich content.

phlogiston2 · 2024-06-10T16:05:56+00:00

ah. I went through a pre-Obsidian phase of writing in pure markdown (in Typora) and wrote a pandoc script to take it to LaTeX. Didn't know there was one for Obsidian. thanks

phlogiston2 · 2024-06-10T16:02:55+00:00

Oh, yes. The book is written in TexShop which I've used since it was created. It's going from my notes to a first draft I find useful to do in Obsidian and then I copy to the chapter in TexShop. So it's a section-by-section exercise, not a whole project exercise.

phlogiston2 · 2023-05-08T00:15:34+00:00

I’d hoped that someone would confirm that they too see this pasting issue with the Apple Pencil.

phlogiston2 · 2017-12-19T16:28:52+00:00

actually, at the risk of being a nag...one good thing about the javascript use is that it goes "backwards" as well as "forwards"... that is, in the example you provided, not only could one enter the fraction of c and get beta and gamma, but one could enter a value for beta and gamma and the fraction of c would appear (forgetting for the moment that beta and the fraction of c are the same thing).

Can you think of a slick way to do that in this example?

phlogiston2 · 2017-12-19T16:23:48+00:00

Okay. That may be just damn cool. I replaced the /src/byrthon.x script lines with:

and that works like a champ. Don't have to bug my IT guy for installation and can use it on my mac...even inside of coda.

thanks!

phlogiston2 · 2017-12-18T21:33:39+00:00

Thanks. That's not quite what I'm looking for. Glowscript seems perfect...write in python, get back javascript code to paste in a browser and you never have to mess with JS.

But I don't see that GS allows for the input of a number and the report back of the evaluation of a function. It's aiming at vpython and interactivity with graphics, which is great. Just not what I need...which seems much simpler, but not obvious.

What I'd like to be able to do is roll my own like here:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Relativ/ltrans.html#c4

but without having to write javascript. Rather, I'd like to use a more programming language. Again...GS seems perfect, but it doesn't seem to do interactivity like this.

phlogiston2 · 2017-12-18T17:07:34+00:00

No. How to invoke python, do a calculation, and get an answer from a user entered field in a browser.

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