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BadOakOx

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    Comment #45192755

    A proper bend test from jerryrigeverything: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yQHFCpO6gHE

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    Comment #44556622

    I'm no expert on this, but I also read about this as I also tried calorie restriction. You still have to keep your macros (and micros) in balance while on calorie deficit, which is…

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    Comment #42449698

    Thank you! I was searching for this the whole morning!

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    Ask HN: Looking for this specific joke / funny story

    There was this joke or real story, where somebody fixed an edge case in a software re po iirc on github and somebody started to complain that they were relying on this edge case. I…

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    Comment #40192774

    1 and 2 kind of contradict themselves (or compliment, based on how much DRY we allow)... You want to make that abstraction when you need to have a single source of truth. Also, the…

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    Comment #36254840

    I think several watch makers started to do something similar, but not sure if I would trust their software. However, Garmin has good health tracking features and they offer them in…

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    Comment #35828627

    iirc Mate mentioned in an interview that they don't get offended about the "English" pronunciation. As any other automaker on the international market... being it Porsche, Volkswag…

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    Comment #35710641

    I think this still seems trivial with a 5th grade algebra knowledge. Additionally, for the 4k+1 / 4k-1 topic, it is just a complicated way of saying 2k+1 (as parent suggested).

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    Comment #35625652

    Previous conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35615778

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    Comment #34592821

    I fully agree, this is my favorite write up on how a git commit messages should look like: https://cbea.ms/git-commit/

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    Comment #34544813

    > Just the four letters D U N E, which are exactly the same shape but rotated 90 degrees. This is what they went with for the movie posters too: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe…

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    Comment #34261429

    ..and also the parking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsb2XBAIWyA

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    Comment #33418237

    > 2) A lot of times something like this is how you form some new regulations - it's truly one of those "You know, this was excellent but we can't do it again" situations. I don't w…

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    Comment #33080756

    > How does a company change to a new/better connector, if it's required by law to use an old connector? EU is pushing for "One charger for all" for a long time. Here is an article …

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    Comment #33066765

    Dupe of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33038272

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    Comment #32436057

    In Hungarian, we mix the two of yours: Goat guarding the cabbage.

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    Comment #32073605

    It might be only my bubble (of non-tech-savvy people), but recently I started to use QR code to share my WiFi and there was never such friction you described. I don't do it with a …

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    Comment #31922276

    > > Ursula von der Leyen was not elected by EU citizens > But was she not elected by EU members of parliment, who were elected by EU citizens? This is a common argument when critic…

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    Comment #31862208

    What about Asket in EU?

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    Comment #30801239

    The best is how it is 11AM -> 12PM -> 1PM -> 2PM and then again 11PM -> 12AM -> 1AM -> 2AM

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    Comment #30587237

    Maybe it was not called "Responsive layout", but it was a thing since 2004: https://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2004/09/21/ Flash was as bad as Java Applets. They both…

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    Comment #30405520

    + this, that Unihertz Titan in the list is a chunky one, because of the qwerty keyboard but small screen with 153.6x 92.5x 16.65 mm dimensions...

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    Comment #30405421

    + better display (higher refresh rate), + better battery (it lasts me 3 days on average), + better CPU/more RAM, + one more camera I wouldn't agree that it is a terrible value (but…

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    Comment #30405368

    I asked this question so many times. For a long a time I was a big fan of the Xperia Z Compact line... Now, Sony also stopped making these smaller phones... I switched to Pixel 5 r…