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by amyjess 8y ago
> Today compatibility with set-top boxes is much more of a consideration than it used to be. My experience with the anime and tokusatsu fansubbing community is the opposite. There's a lot of "you must use mpv or CCCP", a
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by amyjess 8y ago
Hell, even before Linux was popular, gcc took off in the commercial Unix space because a) it didn't cost anything, while the official Sun compiler was ludicrously expensive, and b) it was more performant than the official Sun compiler.
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by amyjess 8y ago
Let's also add a time stipulation: all lawn care must be between the hours of 13:00 and 17:00. No loud noises in the morning and the evenings.
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by amyjess 8y ago
Nah, when I was a kid, I lived in a house in the suburbs with a front and back yard, and my mom always used a rake to take care of the leaves. We never even owned a leaf blower.
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by amyjess 8y ago
I don't know about Google, but if you're on Southwest's website, you can click on the flight number and it'll tell you what model of 737 it'll be.
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by amyjess 8y ago
Yes, I've been toying around with the idea of booking a flight for later this year when I get paid on Friday, and I'm paying careful attention to the flight numbers on Southwest's website to make sure that whatever I pick won
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by amyjess 8y ago
He had help from Variety Jones and Richard Bates. I don't know anything about VJ, but Richard was a software engineer (I knew him personally: we went to college together, he was a CS major, and he had a job developing software professi
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by amyjess 8y ago
(Full disclosure here: I worked with Andrew, the author's husband, at his day job for two and a half years before he moved on, and we remain in contact on Facebook... I don't know if we're close enough to be called friends ,
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A Girl and Her Makerspace: A Tale of Loss(medium.com)
5 points by amyjess 8y ago|3 comments
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by amyjess 8y ago
Oh, he was a total weeb. We were all weebs. (I still am, really)
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What you're asking for is actually very common with wine. A lot of cheap reds and chards are made with oak chips in the stainless vats, and it's pretty controversial because it results in a different flavor profile from using oak
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by amyjess 8y ago
> I know people who buy the low quality oil because they prefer it. My grandmother preferred corn fed beef to grass fed beef. I had a roommate in college who couldn't stand the taste of anything that wasn't aggressively process
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by amyjess 8y ago
> Which most Tennessee whiskey likely doesn't meet Actually, Tennessee whiskey is required by federal law to be straight Bourbon. The legal wording is "a straight Bourbon whisky produced in the State of Tennessee". As of 2
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by amyjess 8y ago
> who even writes subtitles? I do, as a hobby. Typesetting in particular is one of the most rewarding things I've ever done. There are few things as satisfying me as being able to set a sign so that it looks like it's part of t
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by amyjess 8y ago
Eh, anything that's north of Loop 12 and west of 75 (and east of some nebulous line west of Inwood) is "North Dallas". NorthPark barely qualifies, since it's on the northwest corner of Loop 12 and 75. But it's all
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by amyjess 8y ago
Well, what I meant was that if Stonebriar was out of the way for someone like me who grew up north of the Galleria, then the Galleria must be really out of the way for people in Frisco.
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by amyjess 8y ago
> There are no other upscale malls in the north Dallas region beyond those three Well, there's also NorthPark, but I believe that already has an Apple Store. And I wouldn't really call Stonebriar "upscale". It's
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by amyjess 8y ago
I work right across the Tollway from Willow Bend, and I regularly walk to that mall for lunch. There was one time that was really convenient: sick and tired of Lyft drivers using Apple Maps consistently going to the wrong location when atte
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by amyjess 8y ago
New York doesn't want to be Silicon Valley, though. New York is an Alpha++ world city. When New York looks to compete with other cities, it competes with other Alpha++ and Alpha+ cities. New York doesn't even think about SV. I
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by amyjess 8y ago
Thank you and mimixco so much for pointing this out. If I ever end up visiting DC again, I'm definitely going to do this. I have a new bucket list item!
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I’m a trans woman – here’s why algorithms scare me(dazeddigital.com)
8 points by amyjess 8y ago|13 comments
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by amyjess 8y ago
Nothing "suspicious" about it. Red Hat also explicitly evicted Mongo from RHEL 8 because of the SSPL [0], and they have a longstanding policy of only shipping OSS. It's no secret, and they've been very upfront about not
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by amyjess 8y ago
Also, Americans and Germans have different definitions of "reliable". Americans define "reliable" as "runs forever on zero maintenance". Germans define "reliable" as "runs forever as long as you
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MoviePass parent delisted from Nasdaq(bizjournals.com)
1 points by amyjess 8y ago|0 comments
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by amyjess 8y ago
> As a couple with troubles conceiving... it was not welcomed. It was salt on a wound. As a trans woman who repeatedly gets ads for period stuff, I feel much the same way. At first, I thought it was cute. "Aww look, I even pass to t
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by amyjess 8y ago
It's sad because when you do DLC right , it can actually prevent layoffs. This infographic sums it up pretty well: https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DLCWo... A good example o
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by amyjess 8y ago
> onerous regulation about fire escapes We live in a society. Societies have rules. One of the rules of our society is we don't move people into dangerous tenements where they're likely to burn to death because they're tra
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by amyjess 8y ago
Trust me, most of the software engineering world in real life is nothing like Big N and elite startups. Silicon Valley is a weirdness magnet that's not representative of the rest of the country. Enterprise Java and .NET shops are all
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by amyjess 8y ago
As much as the terminology used makes it sound like weed, I'm fairly sure Tolkien intended it to be tobacco.
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by amyjess 8y ago
> So something that's an afterthought in a real home, becomes a weekly, or every other day chore of finding a public toilet, removing your toilet (full of shit and piss) from your van, then dumping shit in said toilet without spilli

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