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by wiether 1y ago
I wrote first "25k" because that's how I usually write on other platforms, and then I remembered that I'm on a US website, so I felt the need to add a unit. Sorry! And if I had written 25000, I would have been afraid of
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Yeah if you do mainly MTB, I can definitely see why we had a hard time understanding each other! That's partly why when people talk to me about "how many km do you ride each year?" I respond in hours on the saddle.
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Carbon/Titanium pedals: https://www.lookcycle.com/fr-en/products/pedals/road/race/ke... Basically all high-end pedals include some kind of titanium or carbon
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> First, plastic frames are almost unheard of. That's why I talked about "parts", not "frames". Cheap pedals and cheap brake levers? Plastic. > The lighter materials cost more, not less Plastic is lighter and
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First, this is what OP said: > Even avid cyclists could never hit the kilometres travelled by your average car user in a year. And you tell it yourself: > Sure, there are some So, if OP really thinks that no cyclist can ride more than
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I agree that using them as a VPS provider is a mistake. If you don't use the E(lasticity) of EC2, you're burning cash. For prod workloads, if you can go from 1 to 10 instances during an average day, that's interesting. If you
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Yes, it's about weight. Basically as long as it pass safety regulations, manufacturers will aim to make the lightest (and cheapest) parts. That's why they use plastic in low-end bikes and carbon/titanium in high-end ones. Yo
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> Even avid cyclists could never hit the kilometres travelled by your average car user in a year. According to different sources, the average kilometers travelled by motorists are under 25k km/year (including Europe & US). You&#
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Funny, I did exactly the same things in my childhood, in my cousin's pool. But it was on the other side of the pond!
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> Supports ... code blocks with syntax highlighting. Based on the documentation and the screenshot next to it, I don't see how it differs from Obsidian on this point. A Markdown code block in Obsidian is going to be highlighted as e
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If it was a small player, everybody would laugh and forget about them. But now we're talking about AWS... so aren't other players going to see this as an opportunity to start increasing their pricing and stop bleeding millions?
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Worse, in my first scenario, I started a £4,500 but then "girlfriend" ask to move together, so apparently Nick was living solo And once they moved together, the rent moved to £5,500
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For those big corps, the large sum of money is mostly hiring consultants to fill the paperwork needed to pass the certification But what I see here in France is mostly young companies getting certified as a proof of them being built better
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> In a video I watched recently Macy with Morning Brew ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucWsaVbEu78
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Yesterday they sent me an email inviting me to use "Dropbox Passwords". A service that they decided to abandon: https://help.dropbox.com/installs/dropbox-passwords-disconti...
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> ambulance chasers TIL
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I don't remember the last time I used Safari on iOS, but once I started using Kagi, I was naturally drawn to Orion and that's been the best browser experienced I ever had on mobile. The included ad-blocker being a big factor in th
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> simply because they’re afraid of looking dumb I'm on the opposite side of this. Being the expert at works means that I can't fail. I'm the one everybody is relying on. The pressure is huge. Being able to try new stuff th
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Having gone through probably twenty HRM during the last 10 years, my recommandation is now Coospo's products, available on AliExpress or Amazon. My own experience and the one of many friends using them daily is that they are more durab
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by wiether 1y ago
Interesting! In France, Belgium, Spain, I see Fiat 500 everywhere (both the regular and the large version). IIRC, in the UK the Opel cars are sold under the Vauxhall brand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_Motors#
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If you're on a treadmill, then you should try Zwift
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I guess you are from the US? In Europe they probably make a quarter of the cars we see on the roads (Peugeot, Citroën, Opel, Fiat...)
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> And yes, a lot of people are willing to go into debt to effectively pay to have a job. That's the same _class_ element that OP was talking about, no? I guess most of the people on HN don't see issue with people going into deb
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When I saw an official "Free Plan" that is automatically deleted after six months, I thought that was a good move: now students could open an account, experiment for absolutely free for six months without the fear of unplanned cos
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You'll probably reach Localstack's free-tier's limits sooner than the ones of an AWS Free Plan.
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I don't see how the Antennagate can be qualified as "acceptable" since it caused a big public uproar and Apple had to settle a class action lawsuit. https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-antennagate-scandal-ti
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It's not the work itself that is exhausting: it's socializing at work. This comments deeply resonates with me because that's exactly how I feel. When I'm wfh I have to put an alarm to remember to stop working because I&#
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by wiether 1y ago
Unrelated but as an ESL, I always felt uncomfortable with the name "killer whales". Not only "whales" is inappropriate according to their scientific classification, but also "killer" seems prejudicial since it
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You should ask Zuck, since, for what we've seen and what we were ask to act against, Meta is the main culprit in scraping every single page of websites, multiple times a day. And I'm talking about ecommerce websites, with their bo
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The condition you're in now is a result of what you went through previously. Someone with no one to care about until their 40s is supposed to be in a much better shape than someone who raised three kids for the last +25 years. Congrats

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