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    Comment #46654743

    IMO, in person it's much nicer on the ears than the old single-tone beep that they used to have. It's less jarring and easier to locate where the noise is coming from, ye olde beep…

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    Comment #46328411

    anyone else experiencing the slowdown?

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    Comment #38803054

    Amazfit watch gives a "score" that can be seen on device screen, in addition to the total hours and and breakdown per awake / REM / deep / light time.

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    Comment #36276129

    TFA says the task could be procrastination too > And don't forget that it could be "take a nap"!

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    Comment #35551014

    And JS can detect that and send it back to the server.

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    Comment #35220736

    I thought that it's hard to radiate-away heat in vacuum?

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    Comment #34199940

    Seems that the World Map is "fixed" and does not rotate to keep it aligned with the hands (expectation is that New York hand should roughly point to New York on the map)?

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    Comment #30734844

    Submitted lino includes hardcoded location, maybe that's what's tripping people up?

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    Comment #30233686

    Presumably when inhaled, since the lawsuit talks about talc containing asbestos.

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    Comment #30128657

    Better translated as "Professor Fortran's Encyclopedia"?

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    Comment #30032593

    Highly recommend you look into keyboards that have "Enter" and "Backspace" reachable by thumb/index fingers. I've been dailying a TECK for nearly a decade, and it's helped immensel…

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    Comment #28689549

    I don't know how reliable that Canadian towers site is, it shows seemingly ridiculous number of towers in some suburban blocks?

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    Comment #27979924

    Screenkey https://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/screenkey/

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    Comment #27557451

    Spinalis looks to be similar idea, available in Canada. I had a lot of lower back pain that went away shortly after I started using it. https://spinalis-chairs.ca/

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    Comment #27485888

    Last time I used Qt, it had classes to abstract hardware. Stuff like QSerialPort worked fine across platforms for my usage. YMMV

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    Comment #26797279

    Kind of funny that we trust Google's index of the whole www to take us to manufacturer's legitimate website, but don't trust Apple's own search of their curated store.

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    Comment #26415409

    From Wikipedia you linked: > There are recurring tales of sailors being pressed after a shilling was slipped into their drink, leading to glass-bottomed tankards. However, this is …

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    Comment #25918125

    Article comments on this nearly immediately: > even if “animals” is a bit of a loose term that encompasses “Catholic Priests” (Ethics of Big Data) or “Soldiers or rangers, with rif…

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    Comment #22941584

    Certainly evokes a lot of nostalgia. The tactile feel of 3D buttons can be mesmerizing at times, a lot of experience has been lost in the race to flat, in addition to lowered affor…

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    Comment #22878552

    We are using Continix[0] to package up regular NixOS modules in docker [0] https://github.com/notgne2/continix

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    Comment #19137935

    One could argue that if you are about to majorly break back compat, that you should just rename your project. Even calling it `foo2` is better than pretending it's `foo 2.0`. It ma…

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    Comment #19019953

    Perl6 allows it, and it's the preferred convention to boot. Small Intro: https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/05/day-5-identifie...