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by amyjess 4y ago
Also I'm fairly sure "shebang" is a contraction of "sharp bang".
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by amyjess 4y ago
From my experience, there's a strong overlap between companies that don't respect work-life balance and companies where interviewees (for anything below the C-suite) talk directly to the owner.
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by amyjess 4y ago
At the very least growing up as a kid in the '80s and early '90s, the only time I ever heard someone get compared to Kojak was as an insult. Shouting "Hey, Kojak!" at a bald guy was a good way to start a fight.
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by amyjess 4y ago
I think it's more likely that if someone's in the earliest stages of balding, people are more likely to say "he has a widow's peak" than "he's bald". Until someone hits Norwood stage 4, there's n
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by amyjess 4y ago
> Nothing, but greek system was advantaged over random non-greek friends groups or clubs. If you start own random non-greek club, the university wont guarantee or give you house for it. For what it's worth, the university I went to
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by amyjess 4y ago
They were writing the twitter thread in real time as they were reverse engineering the program. In fact, when I clicked the link, they weren't even done yet. Twitter is a better medium for this kind of thing.
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by amyjess 4y ago
It is their private property, and they have an inherent and fundamental right to decide who they want to allow on it.
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by amyjess 4y ago
Part 2, a bit late... Indian food... good Indian food is all over Dallas. Probably my favorite is Sigree, at Belt Line & Midway in Addison. They have a huge menu with lots of choices including a sizable amount of Indo-Chinese food. Othe
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by amyjess 4y ago
Well, this is gonna be a doozy... this might be multiple posts, and I'm rate-limited, so we'll see... Let's start with Chinese food... There are multiple places here that can easily be called Chinatowns, the bigger ones being
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by amyjess 4y ago
> I would never recommend visiting Dallas, it's a dull city Oh, sure Dallas, doesn't have the usual tourist attractions, but I bet that if someone came to Dallas for a week I could put a huge smile on their face by taking them
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by amyjess 4y ago
It doesn't matter how the local government votes as long as the state government is run by people who are actively committed to making LGBTQ+ people's lives hell. The state government is actively criminalizing any kind of gender-a
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by amyjess 4y ago
I think you have cause and effect backwards. I've talked to a few friends who came from small towns like these: they put in the effort needed to get good jobs so they could get out of their hometowns. They were all unhappy growing up i
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by amyjess 4y ago
> Sony Xperia 10 IV Unfortunately, it looks like it won't be sold in the US. Does it support US LTE bands so I can import it at least?
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by amyjess 4y ago
TBH I don't use gesture navigation so that doesn't matter to me. I just hate Android 12 because it forced ugly gray backgrounds on me. I miss being able to see the active application under my notification shade and to see my wallp
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by amyjess 4y ago
Unfortunately, the lack of LTE makes it unusable in the US.
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by amyjess 4y ago
Thankfully, much of this is because of edge-to-edge display technology allowing for larger screens in the same size chassis. My Pixel 4a with a 5.8" screen has the same 69mm width as my old Nexus 5 with a 4.95" screen, and it&#x27
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by amyjess 4y ago
I think I might actually get this. How well does this work with Google Fi? So years and years ago, when my main phone was a Nokia N900, I would occasionally walk into phone stores and see what was out there out of sheer curiosity. One day I
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by amyjess 4y ago
This is why I'm not moving on from my Pixel 4a. If it ever dies, I'll go on eBay or wherever and buy a new one. I don't even care if it goes EOL and stops receiving security updates. TBH if I do end up replacing it with somet
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by amyjess 4y ago
Housecats are descended from the African wildcat, not the European one. The African wildcat forms colonies just like housecats. Much of the myth that cats are naturally solitary creatures comes from people studying the behaviors of the Euro
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by amyjess 4y ago
If you're on Windows, you can just install Okular via chocolatey.
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by amyjess 4y ago
Most of the spike in gas prices here was caused by their contract being horrendously un-optimized. If they had done even basic optimization of their contract, gas prices would've been a tiny fraction of what they were, and they would b
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by amyjess 4y ago
From my experience, in most states you can order whatever tests you want from Private MD Labs and just walk into any LabCorp location and get your blood taken and a PDF of your results emailed to you within 24 hours.
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by amyjess 4y ago
From my experience, other countries are even worse . I'm transgender, and everything the top-level poster said about incompetent doctors, gatekeeping, and having to read literature and teach yourself about your own medical condition a
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by amyjess 4y ago
> A lot of guys don't make it through their rookie contract. My dad had a friend who was a Dallas Cowboy for... a few months. He spent all of summer training and the preseason partying and goofing off thinking he had it made for lif
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by amyjess 5y ago
I wish I was good enough at math to use these tables to figure out what percentage of the population is within a particular age range in any given year. In particular, I'm curious to see what years the population of particular generati
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by amyjess 5y ago
The wage gap is largely a function of how women are expected to be the primary caregivers of children. Here's a detailed article that goes into these things: https://www.vox.com/2017/9/8/16268362/gen
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by amyjess 5y ago
she But my use of the phrase "boy band*" was a mistake, because I was thinking of Elvis more than anyone else. Though I do have to wonder what would've happened if Herman's Hermits or some other Merseybeat band came to
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by amyjess 5y ago
> some act or another would be the first-to-market with catchy tunes and stadium-filling star power The thing about the Beatles is that even after they stopped filling stadiums, they turned to experimental and innovative musical techniqu
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by amyjess 5y ago
> Does Fossil have a unique or killer feature that makes it a good alternative to git, other than "simpler to use"? Fossil is basically GitHub itself stuffed inside the DVCS. Issues and the wiki are stored alongside the code.
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by amyjess 5y ago
> He recently did an IRL stream from inside one of the toilets in E3. Twitch forbids people from streaming illegal acts, and filming people in a public bathroom is likely a violation of California’s “invasion of privacy” law On top of th

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