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Re:Finding Water in the Wild on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @10:45PM (#17555245)
4L of fluids, currently around 3L of water + 1L of milk.

If you're awake for around 16 hours, not sure why drinking an average of 500ml of fluids every 2 hours seems excessive to you. Or why drinking 1L of fluids every 2 hours (when your agenda for the day includes doing a 15 mile hike in hot weather) is considered a lot.

If what I've described above would make you go to the bathroom every 30 mins, perhaps see a doctor.

Re:Finding Water in the Wild on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @06:00PM (#17553839)
I pace myself, I don't drink all of that at once, or quickly, and its not all water. Some of that fluid count is milk
Re:Finding Water in the Wild on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:59PM (#17553832)
Not trolling. And it's 8L of fluid if I hiked 12-15 miles in hot climate that day. Not 8L on the hike itself
Re:Finding Water in the Wild on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:56PM (#17553802)
I mean sure, that's sort of a given. Are you suggesting you don't piss?

Maybe you just hike differently to what I assumed.

I do the occasional hike anywhere from 4-8 miles and I usually drink an extra 1-2L for the day - that's how I reckon I'd double my intake for a 12-15 mile hike. I don't piss like a race horse, the hikes are in 95-105 degree weather, and I go at pace. To each their own.

Re:Board: only remote developer jobs on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:41PM (#17553702)
Please expand?
You are also listed and quoted on their homepage. You must really, really like it I guess
Re:Finding Water in the Wild on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @02:33PM (#17551939)
I drink at least 4L of fluid on a normal day. For what you describe I'd probably double it.
Fighting a war on two fronts did Germany in. Do some research on what contributed to that 20m and you’ll soon realize the number didn’t have to be nearly that high. Stalin was a political genius, but almost as atrocious as Hitler when it came to human rights
Their model is not exclusively space tourism. I imagine this is either PR or fundraising (or a mix of the two).
Re:The Middle Child Is Going Extinct on Sunday July 15, 2018 @05:51PM (#17537292)
Can you explain/expand on why you think it’s natural selection?
From my understanding a lot of it was pills too. Turinabol, an oral steroid, was invented in East Germany and to my knowledge used heavily during the doping years
Re:The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up on Friday July 13, 2018 @10:31PM (#17528471)
I’d be interested to see a breakdown of reasons the keyboards failed for each model year.

And what percentage of the pre butterfly design were because of sand/dust etc. then contrast that to the butterfly design percentage. They could have merely improved reliability in another way(s) with the butterfly design.

Re:The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up on Friday July 13, 2018 @10:28PM (#17528454)
I don’t dispute that. My point is they half-assed the fix
Re:The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up on Friday July 13, 2018 @10:27PM (#17528451)
I fail to see how what they did is change “in a significant way”. It seems more of a bandaid to me. It almost signals an unwillingness to fundamentally change the keyboard design for the better
Re:The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up on Friday July 13, 2018 @09:57PM (#17528344)
They didn't really fix it though, did they?
Re:Editorial and Marketing Calendar for Small Business on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @05:51PM (#17502521)
Some things of note:

UI is dated. Logo isn't great. Name isn't great. The help videos have terribly inappropriate music.

This looks rushed/outsourced, or both

Sure, but that’s not very polite
Re:Tech Giants Take Their Talent Hunt to Cambridge, UK on Friday July 06, 2018 @01:09PM (#17473106)
Well, UK officers don't carry guns as much as US officers do. UK officers also don't have to worry about guns as much. However, the lack of centralization of the US system and culture/mindset of the US officers (as a whole) are the main problems IMO
> - the United States as a whole is depicted as evil by default

That's my pick of the bunch

Re:Tech Giants Take Their Talent Hunt to Cambridge, UK on Thursday July 05, 2018 @01:05PM (#17464885)
People are down voting because of the dice roll part. But it's not that far off reality when compared with other western nations
Re:Tech Giants Take Their Talent Hunt to Cambridge, UK on Thursday July 05, 2018 @08:49AM (#17462803)
Why’s that?
It was an awfully written blog post, which I mistook as an article.

I agree with the ridiculous assertion, given that I’m to be ashamed and the top reply to my comment includes the line “I'd take something with an angrier tone, like an appeal to fire the school principle and ban him from teaching for life.”

It always appears like most on HN don't actually know much on the subject. So partly that
Ashamed of what?
The piece is an angry rant, hence my comment
Re:Tesla Q2 2018 Vehicle Production and Deliveries on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:22PM (#17443596)
That is a lot of text to not say much
This article is extremely biased and poorly written. I'd prefer to read something coherent with a more neutral tone vs an angry one. Sucks for the 13 year old - a felony charge seems extreme.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018) on Monday July 02, 2018 @12:15PM (#17442920)
Can Senior Front End Engineer's without JavaScript experience still apply?
Re:The “Boring Software” manifesto on Monday July 02, 2018 @12:12PM (#17442888)
> I've worked with plenty of "page reloads" frameworks that were at least as complex as their SPA counterparts. I get that you don't like Javascript, but seriously, SPA is proven and popular at this point too.

It's certainly popular. I wonder if sites like github would be simpler for users, developers, and devops if they just embraced SPA - judging by your comment, maybe?

Re:Does Column Width of 80 Make Sense in 2018? on Sunday July 01, 2018 @04:09PM (#17437300)
I find 120 fine at work, I think 100 would be about as low as I’d go. Under that decreases readability (for me)

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