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by amyjess 8y ago
In Dallas, dockless bikes are nothing but problematic. People have gotten in the habit of dumping their bikes on strangers' front lawns and laying them down on sidewalks without using the kickstand. There was a pretty public case of a
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by amyjess 8y ago
Shopping for me involves so much loading and unloading that I'm happy to cut out one of the steps. First, as you're shopping, you load everything into the cart. Then, you get to the cash register, and at most supermarkets you have
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by amyjess 8y ago
I thought this when I first started my gender transition and I was buying women's clothing while still presenting as male (in suburban Texas at that). I insisted on using the self-checkout for a while before I eventually realized two t
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by amyjess 8y ago
This is also one of the reasons I prefer Kroger whenever I go shopping. Most Krogers in my area don't have conveyor belts, and instead the cashier personally takes all the items from the cart directly to the scanner. At Tom Thumb, Albe
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by amyjess 8y ago
> What is the issue with self-checkout, I found it is actually faster. Unexplained item in bagging area. I have had so many issues with the self-checkout's sensor not working properly. If it's not telling me there's some
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by amyjess 8y ago
It still puts my address in the wrong location. I even walked into an Apple Store, found an iPad, and submitted a correction request once. That was almost two years ago. For a long time, every time I'd pass that Apple Store, I'd w
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by amyjess 8y ago
The one thing I've never liked about Microsoft mice is that the scroll wheel doesn't click the way it does in everyone else's mice. It's too bad, because everything else about their mice was good, but that scroll wheel w
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by amyjess 8y ago
IANAL either, but the Supreme Court generally prefers to set very narrow precedents. It's possible they'll rule that civil forfeiture was acceptable in this one specific case, and they'll go out of their way to make it clear
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by amyjess 8y ago
An abusive employer, just like an abusive SO, can demoralize you to the point where you think you deserve the abuse and that nobody else will take you. Getting out of that pit is genuinely hard. One of the companies I worked for back in the
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by amyjess 8y ago
And yet the Genesis couldn't do Mode 7, which was responsible for some of the coolest graphical tricks on SNES games.
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by amyjess 8y ago
The problem wasn't that she was a coworker. It was that she was a subordinate. Nobody cares if two engineers hook up, but it's a Very Bad Thing if your boss starts putting the moves on you. Relationships where one person holds rea
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by amyjess 8y ago
> I know it sounds punitive, but it’s really a question of fairness to every other employee working for that manager — nothing improper needs to be done by either party for it to negatively impact the other employees. > It also discou
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by amyjess 8y ago
According to the CNBC article linked elsewhere in the thread: > Krzanich violated a policy that said he could not have a relationship with either a direct or indirect report
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by amyjess 8y ago
I used to use Transmission, but I gave up on it because of UI/settings issues. I've since switched to KTorrent.
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by amyjess 8y ago
While the DMCA has been abused by large corporations, it has been invaluable in helping protect the little guy. It's been a huge boon to independent content creators that you can just send somebody a DMCA takedown notice and they'
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by amyjess 8y ago
Bandai has their hands in pretty much every merchandise-driven kids' show in Japan.
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by amyjess 8y ago
That's disturbing. I distinctly remember seeing that image too when I read the article. Thank you faitswulff for preserving the text at least for posterity.
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by amyjess 8y ago
Yeah, this has to be a deliberate fraud outlet. Back in 2009, I ordered a pair of boots for a Halloween costume online. They sent me an email telling me a window when the boots were supposed to ship, and I specifically ordered two-day shipp
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by amyjess 8y ago
I like to call this "Eddie Haskell Syndrome". After some quick googling, it appears I'm not the only one to use this term.
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by amyjess 8y ago
The problem is that many people, after exhausting the cargo container, don't bother to take down the listings and continue to take orders in the hope that they'll stumble on another cargo container for cheap.
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by amyjess 8y ago
Honestly, as much as the Mac startup sound makes me nostalgic, if I was going to go to that much effort, I might as well have it play the SGI Indy's glorious startup sound [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH9saU
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by amyjess 8y ago
> Also a powerhouse in IP licensed video games iirc, esp licensing Sunrise anime. FYI, Bandai has actually owned Sunrise since 1993. Gundam had become so integral to Bandai's business that they bought the studio that made it (over
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by amyjess 8y ago
One thing that people don't talk about much is how much people just suffered before divorce was normalized. People who call their spouse "the old battleaxe" or "the ball and chain". Old married couples who are mis
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by amyjess 8y ago
Honestly, this just fuels my dislike of startups. Startup culture is toxic by nature. My advice is this: companies need to suck it up. We live in a society with rules and laws for a reason. If your business can't exist under those rule
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by amyjess 8y ago
And yet juvenile crime is not only at a 30-year low but keeps hitting new lows year after year after year. [0] [1] [2] [3] [0] http://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/documents/CA_Youth_Crime_20... [1] https:/
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by amyjess 8y ago
This is very interesting. I'm familiar with Bandai's toys, having been a tokusatsu fan since I was a kid [0], but I knew nothing about their board games. [0] And seeing Gorenger mentioned in an article posted on HN put a smile o
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by amyjess 8y ago
I made an archive link for you: https://archive.fo/qVRU1
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by amyjess 8y ago
Despite the name, Time Warner doesn't own Time Warner Cable. They split years ago.
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by amyjess 8y ago
Depends on the kind of treatments. What was killing me then was the cost of doctor's appointments to get on hormones, which are generally covered (whereas it's a pain in the ass to get surgeries covered even with good insurance).
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by amyjess 8y ago
On a related note, I saw this piece of code in a vendor's install script. Not a Debian package, but an executable install script. One of the environment variables has been censored to anonymize the vendor, but everything else is verbat

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