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Illotus

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    Comment #48705994

    Not really, healthy person can easily handle that amount of sugar. Has plenty of fiber to balance.

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    Comment #48705636

    8 to 10 oranges per day being healthy or not is largely dependent what else you eat. Biggest issue there is likely teeth decay due to acidity.

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    Comment #48705146

    Great drugs. Have dropped 10+kg couple of times and tried a few more with low carb. Dropped 20+kg with Ozempic and it boosted me to exercise. Its wonderful that even a string of ba…

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    Comment #43867184

    Looks like the links in the posts no longer work, but all the posts are readable and he goes through the work they did and why. They did a lot of usability testing for the ribbon. …

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    Comment #43859387

    Not really, it is much more discoverable for most people. If interested, MS UI lead has a blog about lot of the reasons for ribbon and on the research backing it https://learn.micr…

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    Comment #43858582

    Ribbon was better for most people who didn't have all the shortcuts in muscle memory. It is much more discoverable.

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    Comment #43858562

    My recollection is completely different, software was really slow on contemporary PCs in the 90s. Spinning disks, single core cpus, lot more swapping due to memory being so much mo…

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    Comment #42964322

    If you look at back pieces of old classic furniture made during hand powered tools era, its mostly very roughly finished. Professionals rarely had time to spend dicking around with…

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    Comment #41625470

    If only the speed was the big issue, but mostly it is the mass. Even with all the reckless cyclists there are very little fatalities where cyclist runs over pedestrian. Ultimately …

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    Comment #41349878

    So essentially what you are saying that because we couldn't catch the smart criminals who use e2e encrypted services we shouldn't catch the dumb ones either?

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    Comment #41349694

    I find it pretty ridiculous to assume that any dev would comment on the inner workings of their employers software in any way beyond what is publicly available anyway. I certainly …

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    Comment #38783308

    > See, I feel like that's almost the exact opposite unless you assume Apple and its internal legal department is made up of the biggest idiots on the planet. If they were intending…

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    Comment #38089667

    Not really good if AI can run around it but to normal people it exists as before.

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    Comment #37347327

    This. No matter how intelligent you are, you can not make connections between things you don't know about. If you externalise all knowledge you are ultimately just extension of tha…

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    Comment #37347272

    I guess you use what you are familiar with, but using react for doc site instead of using some off the shelf static site generator/cms with caching seems like wasted effort. More f…

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    Comment #37318997

    Originally in the W. Royce article from the 70s it was a strawman put up by Royce. He then went on to define much more reasonable iterative model. Unfortunately the strawman was wh…

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    Comment #37317514

    Yes, it is pretty weird to think that VB.Net flavor was fairly used in web dev even as late as 2006.

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    Comment #37117493

    This would basically guarantee that regulators would inevitably separate either Youtube or Chrome from Google.

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    Comment #37009020

    > Other than the fact it seems to be an industry standard so it's good for your job prospects, what are the benefits to Terraform over CloudFormation/CDK or whatever the equivalent…

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    Comment #36930908

    At least in Finland this is common knowledge and pretty much every house has rhubarb growing in the yard somewhere.

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    Comment #34960396

    When your employer is contracting people out against hourly rate you generally have to be accurate with the hours. When customers pay by the hour I find it quite reasonable. Also i…

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    Comment #34939491

    Largely depends on the market, where I am used iPhone 11 without major flaws costs little over 300 euros.

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    Comment #34831731

    Because settings related stuff is needed so rarely.

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    Comment #34831725

    Wsl really did make Windows better developer platform than Mac. I'd still prefer straight up Linux, but that is not possible in all organizations.

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    Comment #34831699

    Yeah, this is very unfortunate development. It is really tough to find good mobile first games that aren't infested with grind or micro transactions.