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bassdigit

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    Comment #40444074

    The physical keyboard is king! For a long time I was looking for a modern alternative. The 'GPD P2 Max' comes close and for me hits the sweet spot of offering a small size while no…

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    Comment #40443394

    further idea: let strings resonate with the overtones of other strings being played also: support different materials like steel/nylon/gut

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    Comment #40116395

    edit: OP apparently [fixed it]( https://github.com/tinyworldmap/tiny-world-map/issues/6 ) 6 places now, so it's [accurate to 11cm]( https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/8650/mea…

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    Comment #40112264

    I wonder if it could be even smaller when they wouldn't store all coordinates with 10 decimal places, at least for the label positions.

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    Comment #39468865

    Hilarious that these outputs, depicting black founding fathers, popes, warriors, etc., overturn the narrative that history was full of white oppression.

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    Comment #37842785

    OP doesn't owe you an excuse for offering content for free through a technology you disapprove of.

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    Comment #37675108

    Still not hard: In that case, instead of msg use sendMsg AND/OR in the second statement use { status, msg: resultMsg }, or just result and later result.msg .

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    Comment #37673314

    Not hard: msg can be derived from the parameter name of the send() function and status is a fixed attribute of the result.

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    Comment #36968681

    Not quite, the "0" of the minute hand is always aligned with the direction of the hour hand, so it points >down< at 6:00 unlike an ordinary clock.

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    Comment #33664834

    This year, Cartier took the idea to the next level with the "Masse Mystérieuse": An absolutely gorgeous watch with insane mechanics where the movement is the rotor. [1] https://www…

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    Comment #25913642

    Look, three paragraphs beginning with "Look," give the article a rather condescending tone.

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    Comment #22767545

    > Website design is poor. You could definitely do with a designer to make it look nicer. Really, in what way? In my view it's clean and simple. > You either need to make it cheap, …

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    Comment #22752730

    You are right, I found more on this: https://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/10_1/bernardin...

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    Comment #22732504

    Birds sing seconds after ear-blasting gun shots. Really?

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    Comment #22664650

    "So avoid disputes if you want to get real work done." There is an exception: When a dispute forces you to view a topic from a different angle, like in rubber duck debugging. https…

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    Comment #22658378

    After thinking about it more, maybe I am wrong and there is a use case for these animations: Small children like to look at moving things. So it depends on the target audience. Toy…

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    Comment #22657522

    Am I the only one who finds subtle animations much more pleasant? I think there is a reason why it's dark when the stage set of a theatre is being changed between scenes, but with …

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    Comment #22522177

    Not sure how to feel about being author of the most upvoted and also the least upvoted comment.

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    Comment #22521883

    The commit message succeeds in justifying the effort but lacks an in-depth understanding of the related mechanics. I can imagine the developer felt bad about 'only' committing a on…

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    Comment #22521309

    I'm not a ruby developer but the actual problem seems to be the default file encoding. There is a detailed blog post[1] about it, adding a lot more to understanding what's happenin…

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    Comment #22521234

    No-break spaces aka &nbsp; can be quite useful for preventing line breaks for example between a value and its unit, or between label and value. Or when writing for example 'e.g.', …