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Farid

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  • At least Quark had some integrity.

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  • I honestly don't see this changing any time soon because there are biological incentives behind both stereotypes. And, anecdotally, my gf (40+) will pout if in some context I refer to her as a woman, and be like "noooo, I'm a girl... :(". Semi-jokingly, of course, but only semi.

  • At least Quark had some integrity.

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  • Stereotypically, women always strive to look as young as possible, so calling one a girl can be seen as a compliment. While men, stereotypically strive to appear mature, hence calling one a boy can be considered an insult.

  • I really like the Vibe of this one

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  • "Iela" means "street" in Latvian, so yeah.

    Speaking of, my favorite street in Riga is Lielā iela. If for nothing else, then just for how that name sounds. But also "lielā" (feminine of "liels") means "big", but Lielā iela ("Big Street") is tiny, just one car wide (for the most part) and is barely even visible on the map.

  • Tired of dating apps?

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  • Uses Too Many Big Words

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  • Tired of dating apps?

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  • How can one be chronologically disappointed? Did you mean "chronically"?

  • Struggling

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  • It was obviously sarcasm with that 100ths precision rating.

  • Polish video games

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  • iDreams (Infinite Dreams) didn't make the cut? I love their Sky Force games.

  • A cute colugo ("flying lemur") by Hendy Lie

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  • Your mom ends in butt.

  • Type C

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  • The Pebble Has Been Brought Back

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  • I'm not criticizing the screens, they are ok and I loved my Pebble Time Steel until the battery swelled and popped off the screen. I'm just saying that calling these e-paper is a deceptive marketing strategy.

  • The Pebble Has Been Brought Back

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  • From the Verge article:

    The first watch that Migicovsky and Core plan to ship is called the Core 2 Duo (not to be confused with the old Intel processor), which Migicovsky says will cost $149 and will ship in July. [...] It has the exact same black-and-white e-paper display as the old Pebble 2 (technically a transflective LCD, if you’re curious)

  • The Pebble Has Been Brought Back

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  • As I mentioned earlier, whether a screen type is considered e-paper is subjective. And in my opinion, reflective LCD isn't a type of e-paper. You may disagree, but it's not "categorically" wrong.

  • The Pebble Has Been Brought Back

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  • Quote is from Wikipedia. You can see it's the case for both models here:

    Besides, I own a Pebble Time watch and can tell you, it doesn't perform like a typical e-paper. It has the bad viewing angles of LCD and screen goes blank when power is lost.

  • The Pebble Has Been Brought Back

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  • The watch featured a 32-millimetre (1.26 in) 144 × 168 pixel black and white memory LCD using an ultra low-power "transflective LCD"

    The problem is that e-paper is a category of displays, and some companies label reflective LCDs as "e-paper". Which is subjective (and I personally heavily disagree with that categorization, cause then LCD clocks and Gameboys have "e-paper" displays, too).

    But in the comment I responded to it was said Pebble has "eink" display, which is categorically wrong, as that is a very specific proprietary technology, which is e-paper in traditional sense, like the ones in Kindles.

  • The Pebble Has Been Brought Back

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  • IIRC, it has a reflective LCD, not epaper display.

  • here I am, doing everything I can

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  • What's with the egg covering the PS logo?

  • Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

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  • After some quick research, I tend to agree with you.

  • Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

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  • Indeterminate, to be precise.

  • Microsoft: "My PC"

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  • It's definitely not just a couple of seconds, unless you have a very lightweight OS and only 1 or 2 apps to work with. And no matter how little extra time it takes to cold boot the system, there's still no benefit to doing it that way, so no matter how little that time is, it's still wasted.

    As I mentioned, one is free to use their computer however they wish, but it doesn't make it not wasteful to shut it down. If grabbing something to eat was part of my daily routine, I'd grab it beforehand, instead of needlessly going back and forth, wake the computer and use it immediately.