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pw6hv

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    Especially when they say: > Don’t feel like you have continue the conversation if they respond. You can if you want, but don’t feel obligated. Then why did you write?! What kind of…

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    Comment #44848982

    Noise, if it does not support the claim. Signal otherwise.

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    Comment #44275105

    I would have taken the yellow book and called every bakery listed there to check if they were open. I think sometimes the impact of technology is overstated :)

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    Comment #41998955

    Just replaced for the first time battery on my Macbook Pro 2015 Retina. Feel so good using such an old piece of hardware.

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    Comment #38832852

    If I was a hiring manager, I would certainly appreciate this attitude. However, I would value as well a person who would use an already made tool for doing the job (such as yt-dlp)…

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    Comment #38113160

    If he said there's 50% chances, then he'll be right in any case.

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    Comment #35391300

    In this case was also subsidized by the companies offering the deals. And I guess they had less money to waste than VCs...

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    Comment #30439507

    Actually my experience is the opposite. In colder climates such as Russia, Finland I have seen room temperatures to be quite mild, above 20C for sure. However, in Italy in winter i…

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    Comment #29129316

    Totally agree with you. However, some times I think most of the people take what they're given and the 'radicals' are just a small percentage of the total. Manufacturers simply dec…

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    > As I was typing this, a great example of said broken crap, is Lenovo popping up a MessageBox asking me to reboot to update my firmware. Didn't software developers all agree well …

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    Comment #28837247

    Exactly. Especially considering that the plot shows only percentages. For the author of the blog post it would be better to draw conclusions about 'developers disappearance' from a…

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    Comment #28538734

    Quick question: does anyone know what involvement there is between Sourcehut and OpenStreetMap Foundation? Just curious as they do not seem related at a first glance.

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    Comment #26490543

    HN is not about downvoting things one disagrees with but rather posts that do not add anything to the discussion. Same holds for upvoting, many times I upvoted posts I did not agre…

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    Comment #26387446

    I've been on the Google Play version of K9 for years and I must say that it was perfectly fine. I changed to FairEmail as I thought having a very old version of an email client mig…

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    Comment #26387167

    Just switched from K9-mail to FairEmail. I was using the Google Play version of K9 so at the moment I am quite happy of the switch. There is only one thing that I did not manage to…

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    Comment #26177109

    I just recently ditched oh-my-zsh as I wanted to understand and have more control over my shell. I have to say that just using native zsh capabilities I don't miss oh-my-zsh at all…

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    Comment #26165031

    Could you clarify what you mean with media ? According to my understanding a medium is a mean of communication, thus including text. OTOH it seams from your message that these are …

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    Comment #25725943

    A QR code reader was the problem then... I am an Android user since the dawn of time and I was so surprised when my wife showed me that on her iPhone the QR code reader is embedded…

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    Comment #25715315

    The application was called Riot earlier and went through a rebranding in July 2020: https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/

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    Comment #25683804

    I think it's fixed now, it was not working correctly before but now the site looks great!

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    Comment #25682641

    On Firefox, the left table of content pane overlaps with the text thus I cannot see the leftmost part of the paragraphs...

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    Comment #25582633

    Vim's default behavior is to put two spaces after a period when reformatting (for example with gq). If you prefer to keep one space instead of two you can use: set nojoinspaces