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by amyjess 5y ago
GitHub is private property, and they have the right to eject anyone from their property for any reason or even no reason at all. And the code is open-source under the MIT license, so GitHub can do with it as they see fit.
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by amyjess 5y ago
The Cryptoland Twitter account also endorsed pedophilic grooming: https://twitter.com/widesauce/status/1478816782966136832 Transcript: > Q: what will the age of consent be in Cryptoland? > A: Mental maturity
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by amyjess 5y ago
Why not just give them the next title up? If you're looking to hire someone for an Engineer position, and they're demanding Senior Engineer pay, and their skills are worth the money, then why not just call them a Senior Engineer a
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by amyjess 5y ago
There have been several stories from within the trans community of trans women experiencing some amount of regrowth after being on finasteride + HRT. Not growing a full head of hair back from being completely bald, but a lot of trans women
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by amyjess 5y ago
A now-former coworker of mine had walking pneumonia in 2019. He didn't know it was pneumonia until he eventually went to the hospital, but he had been suffering from severe unexplained back pain for days. It wasn't pleasant, and h
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by amyjess 5y ago
Probably an acquisition. In 2005, Macy's bought May Department Stores, which owned a large number of regional department stores. May liked letting each chain have their own identity, but Macy's just wanted everything in their busi
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by amyjess 5y ago
I have to use a Mac for work, and I've been using WindowSwitcher as a cmd+tab replacement. I liked it enough I paid for it at the end of the free trial. It's excellent, except I wish the mouse interacted it on click instead of mou
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They feel like the fake LinkedIn stories about "someone showed up for an interview and they were late and had zero relevant skills and experience but I hired them anyway and they turned out to be the best employee I ever had", exc
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There's always sideloading at least.
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Have Vivaldi's devs said whether or not they'll be requiring Manifest V3? I'd hope that if anyone rejects V3 it would be Vivaldi...
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I think we should consider outlawing "most VC-funded businesses" then. The sole reason anyone should ever start a business should be to make long-term sustainable profit, and anything else should be illegal.
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> limiting it would have a chilling effect on startup formation I'm okay with that. Startup culture is toxic, and the world would be a much better place if the only legal reason to found a business would be to make a steady profit s
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by amyjess 5y ago
Tough. We live in a society, and that means we all have to follow rules that protect the less-well-off members of society.
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by amyjess 5y ago
In Final Fantasy XIV, Scroll Lock is the default key for hiding the UI, which is what I like to do when taking screenshots of my character.
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Some universities in the US have apartments instead of dorms at least. I went to UT Dallas (graduated 2007), where they have apartments. Freshman apartments are 4-bedroom units with each student getting their own bedroom (and pairs of stude
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Glass Cliff(en.wikipedia.org)
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by amyjess 5y ago
The problem isn't the lack of AA, it's the lack of hinting. Unhinted fonts just look like an unaligned jumble when used in UX.
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by amyjess 5y ago
Y'know I love the idea of using a serif font as your system font—I use Noto Serif as my own system font—but good lord, if you're going to use a serif font you need to enable hinting. The unhinted fonts in that title bar look anyth
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My own anecdotal evidence says that I'm part of it. I quit my old job in June to take a position that would be permanently remote forever after my old company decided they wanted us all back in the office again. It was actually kinda p
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by amyjess 5y ago
I decided a while back that if I ever developed long covid, I'd off myself. This just confirms my priors. (fwiw I had my third Pfizer shot a little over three weeks ago, and I'm only just now starting to go to restaurants again)
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Because of things like this, I'm at the point where I consider the invention of public-key encryption to be the worst thing that's ever happened to the world. If governments had _immediately_ preemptively classified anything relat
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by amyjess 5y ago
Slight correction: Ximian started out as a support company for GNOME. They didn't pivot to .NET until later.
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Miguel and Nat have, ever since the early '00s, been enthusiastic supporters of Microsoft technology and have spent this century doing little other than enabling Microsoft tech to play well with open source. The takeaways from this are
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Also, these are all staples of Indian diets even in modern day: paneer, raita, ghee, etc.
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by amyjess 5y ago
I'm okay with that.
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The best way to make Facebook clean up its act is to revoke Section 230 with no exceptions. If someone's relative dies to covid because people on Facebook convinced them to refuse the vaccine, the whole family should be able to sue Fac
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> Computers may have been used, though. Marvel Comics's former typesetter (and editor and technical artist and all-around production guy) Eliot R. Brown maintains a blog where he posts a number of pictures and stories from his time
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> It's primarily a testament to how simply mind bogglingly slow Python is outside of its optimised numerical science ecosystem. From my experience in using Python at my last job, I'll also add that Python is decent at tasks tha
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Honestly I'm just disappointed that I can't match against random locals. I'm at the point where I'm willing to pay someone to write a preprocessor that'll let me put switch/case statements in my code and then r
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by amyjess 5y ago
Because A/UX requires an MMU, that means the only emulator that can run it is Shoebill.

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