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charleshan

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About charleshan

https://twitter.com/charleshan_

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    I came across the website a few months ago and bought my first fountain pen and two of the top recommend inks from the site. Black: Sailor Jentle Black Blue Black: Sailor Sei-boku

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    Comment #43142188

    250221 is probably a better format for your needs ;)

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    Show HN: DailyTown – An alternative to the algorithmic feed

    Hi HN, there is something that's been bugging me for some time. I choose to follow specific people on social media because I want to see their posts but at the end of the day, an e…

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    Comment #40534600

    I lift weight 3 times a week an hour each day. Look into Starting Strength, 5x5, or any simple programs that focus on progressive overloading. I got to 405 lbs squat and deadlift a…

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    Comment #39633348

    Oh wow... I used to play this when I was a kid! Thanks for sharing!

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    Comment #38730874

    This is awesome! Push to Kindle (HTML to EPUB) isn't converting the page properly but I'm sure it's coming soon

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    Comment #37678691

    Link to Google Play Books: https://play.google.com/books

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    Google Play Books is down for uploaded books

    I'm hoping that it's just some kind of server outage but it's been down since around 7pm yesterday.

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    Comment #37666981

    TLDR; a phone sized e-ink reader without the phone capabilities

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    Comment #37311297

    100mb per file and supports 1000s of files. I keep long blog posts that I converted into epub in another account so that I'm less likely to hit the limits. You can switch accounts …

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    You can fix the epub error by converting "epub to epub" in Calibre

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    Comment #37304610

    Thanks for sharing. For those who haven't tried, Google Play Books is really good. It's free, cross-platform (plus web), you can upload epub, and syncs annotations across devices. …

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    I've been using it for a couple of years. One problem I have is that the idle cpu usage goes up to 10-20% after a while on my Mac. Drops back to ~1% after restarting the app

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    One of my all time favorite apps got an update and I just wanted to share it with the community. I've been using it for 8 years and logged 1152 workouts as of today. Just a heads u…

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    Comment #33286806

    For those who are looking for an open source alternative, you can use Syncthing to share and sync files without uploading anything to the cloud.

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    This comment reminds me of Status as a Service by Eugene Wei. "Some people find status games distasteful. Despite this, everyone I know is engaged in multiple status games. Some pe…

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    "Visualizing temperatures around the world over the last 75 - 100 years" would be a better title for HN.

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    Comment #31290664

    > each time I pick up a book I think I can probably do a little bit of work or practice some interviewing skills like leetcode rather than reading > I tend to read 10 min summaries…

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    The downsides are your time spent into doing some research and jailbreaking, and the barrier to update the Kindle firmware freely. But I wouldn't worry about the last point because…

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    Syncthing is available on android