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ek750

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    Comment #44685554

    agreed. Additionally it may reduce the power of fringe groups from pressuring private companies who are doing legal business. The recent Steam and itch.io takedowns due to collecti…

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    Comment #42764592

    These days, there are some engines with (oil immersed) belts, but that's for fuel efficiency, not longevity. Chains last longer, typically, although I used to have a 97 Honda VFR t…

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    Comment #41349011

    This is a great and important topic, one that I’ve bumped into against in past code. I think I understand the basics of time/zones/storage. However, on one codebase I worked on in …

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    Comment #39485324

    I'm kinda sick of buying these cheap lead-acid based UPS units (only tried APC and Cyberpower so far) to have the batteries die in just a couple of years. Are the lithium-based bat…

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    Comment #39228585

    I also have YT premium. On desktop, I use firefox and the popout video feature. It is easily resizable and movable. Downside is that js-player controls still show on the webpage, n…

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    Comment #39198817

    not many I suspect, but enough. :)

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    Comment #38631871

    Do we need some way to grade these services based on vertical or use-case? I actually tried the same tech questions to multiple services when I first started playing around with th…

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    Comment #38573656

    what would you prefer? Would WSJ or other paywalled sites make you happy? Don't make me start submitting aol links.

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    Comment #38487995

    heh, I know right? I see all those comments shitting on ruby and rails, and it's like, yeah, I get it dude. They hate rails, but luckily nobody is forcing them to use it. The more …

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    Comment #38117851

    As another non-python dev, interested in and trying to get into AI/ML, I think the limitation of venv is that it can't handle multiple versions of system libraries. CUDA for exampl…

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    Comment #38088758

    Sadly I agree. Splits are great. I am eagerly awaiting my ortholinear split keyboard from https://dygma.com/ - no affiliation other than being a customer of their first keyboard, t…

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    Comment #37262134

    interesting, i'd love to do this too. but it sounds like there aren't any full-featured, opensource packages/projects that do this all-together? I'd love to hack the parts together…

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    Comment #37067858

    Sadly yes. I've dealt with product managers that want these sort of things, and when I explain why I think it's a bad idea, it completely flies over their head at mach 2. They real…

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    Comment #34029427

    I don't have any experience with the remarkable, but i recently got a kindle scribe and it's better than the boox ereaders/tablets i've gotten over time. The clarity, density and s…

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    Comment #33872939

    I agree, I'd prefer longer battery life, and better performance in a slight weight and thickness tradeoff. Sadly, I've tried PC laptops (Surface tablet, Surface laptops and Asus la…