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by amyjess 7y ago
My experience in North Texas is that malls aren't so much going away as they are concentrating in a small handful of locations. We lost or are losing a bunch of malls, but there are also a small handful that are thriving. Prestonwood,
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by amyjess 7y ago
This was also my experience going to the movies in the '90s in North Texas. Don't forget that this was before stadium seating was invented, so good luck being able to see the screen if the person in front of you is taller than you
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by amyjess 7y ago
I'd probably go with Black Panther or Doctor Strange . Captain America: The First Avenger wouldn't be a bad recommendation either (and follow it up with the Agent Carter TV series, which is one of the finest examples of die
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by amyjess 7y ago
> Presumably, for lower budget movies, direct to streaming becomes more common although it's hard to say what that means in terms of what works economically. Lower-budget productions, in general, are increasingly being produced as c
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by amyjess 7y ago
Nope, it's Sun City Summerlin in Vegas. But I wouldn't be surprised at all if the formula is common. As for their age policies, from what I remember of my dad telling me, only one resident of each house has to be 55+, but nobody u
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by amyjess 7y ago
My dad lives in a 55+ community in Nevada, and they have golf carts too. There's even a sign when you enter the development warning you that golf carts are permitted on the roads. Unlike a lot of retirement communities, it looks like j
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by amyjess 7y ago
I would rather not fuck with the OS on my Surface. Not only does it have a bunch of oddball hardware that may or may not have fully-functional drivers on Linux, but Windows has a really good touchscreen UX that I'd rather continue usin
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by amyjess 7y ago
I was actually just talking to a coworker last week about this, and he told me that modern rootstock almost entirely comes from Grayson County, Texas (a.k.a. the Sherman-Denison MSA, just north of the Dallas area). Interestingly enough, a f
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by amyjess 7y ago
Honestly, even in cold liquids, I'd be worried about non-plastic straws getting soggy and/or melting if left long enough. I haven't specifically looked into PLA and PHA much, but a quick google sees PLA being referred to as &
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by amyjess 7y ago
...and they'll also get soggy and dissolve in your drinks.
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by amyjess 7y ago
Biodegradable plastic has its own issues as well. Nearly all of them are food-based and will set off one food allergy or another, plus you may also have issues with straws dissolving in hot liquids. Someone elsewhere in the thread mentioned
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by amyjess 7y ago
* Many disabled people cannot wash their own straws, due to both cognitive load and lack of manual dexterity. * Stainless steel causes sensory issues for autistic people and can destroy your teeth if you accidentally bite into one. (edit: a
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by amyjess 7y ago
Automats were a thing until the 1970s or so. And you also had delivery services before the Internet. Delivery services would hand a book full of menus along with a page containing their phone number. You call the number, order off the menus
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by amyjess 7y ago
Honestly, if we're bringing back no-FOH restaurants, can we get automats again? I've heard stories about them from my parents and seen a re-creation of one in Agent Carter , but I'd really like to actually get to experience
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by amyjess 7y ago
I tried it twice, back when I had Prime. Amazon's mapping system puts my house in the wrong location, and to make matters worse, in my experience the drivers are utterly nasty about it. I have stood in front of my house as I can see th
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by amyjess 7y ago
One time I got really fed up with FedEx because when they delivered a package to me while I wasn't home, they dropped it off at the leasing office instead of taking it to the FedEx facility. The leasing office closes at 6pm. The FedEx
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by amyjess 7y ago
What I find interesting is that when Stephenson wrote REAMDE , he said that he had come to the realization that MMORPGs were how the Metaverse happened in real life. From https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/20
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by amyjess 7y ago
> Companies these days bend over backwards to make the office experience as optimal as possible. Sorry, but most companies nowadays use open offices, which are absolutely anathema to me. Here's the thing: I absolutely want to work i
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by amyjess 7y ago
Unfortunately, this is exactly what happens with identity theft. Imagine if someone stole your credit card number, ordered $5000 worth of furniture with it, had it delivered, and then you discovered the unauthorized purchases on your accoun
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by amyjess 7y ago
People who sell physical goods bake the cost of these losses into their pricing. In fact, any large business will have financial analysts whose sole job is to calculate exactly how much they'll need to inflate their prices to make up f
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by amyjess 7y ago
Just because people disagree with you doesn't mean they're being paid off by people you don't like. That's an egregious and unreasonable assumption of bad faith.
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by amyjess 7y ago
I'd honestly be okay with using Vivaldi 99% of the time and then switching over to Chrome only to watch Netflix and the like. And honestly, when I watch Netflix, it's usually in my Surface, in which case I'll use the app.
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by amyjess 7y ago
I'm also very fond of Vivaldi, and I intend to switch one of these days. It would be especially nice if we can get the Vivaldi developers to fork Blink to keep the old API around.
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by amyjess 7y ago
Ah, I just checked, and no you can't. So I guess that's a third difference. Thanks for the correction! Another correction I noticed when looking that up: I meant to say XHTML 1.0 Transitional, not 1.1. 1.1 was Strict-only.
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by amyjess 7y ago
XHTML 2.0 also did screwy stuff with MIME types I believe. It required specific MIME types that a lot of browsers at the time didn't support, and because of that most browsers would straight-up refuse to render XHTML 2.0.
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by amyjess 7y ago
I honestly don't think either was the purpose. XHTML existed to make parsing easier. The only things you couldn't do in XHTML 1.1 Transitional that you could do in HTML were having unclosed tags and using uppercase in tag names. T
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by amyjess 7y ago
While the use of the term "dimwits" is definitely unprofessional, there is considerable value in knowing a language that's used by a small but critical segment. Case in point, the banking world's use of COBOL. Very few o
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by amyjess 7y ago
From what I understand, it's just a wrapper around the GDI, so implementing WPF on Linux means re-implementing the GDI. Kitbashing this with winelib will probably be the best way to do it.
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by amyjess 7y ago
> It's not clear by this comment if you live in Japan, but if you do, it's quite common to have a hanko even for foreign names (custom made, of course, ~￥1000+). Nah, I live in Texas. I'm just a weeb.
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by amyjess 7y ago
Well, that's the thing. He's not being charged with terrorism. They're just throwing his self-description back in his face as a rhetorical device, to persuade a judge or jury that he knew what he was doing was wrong. It'

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