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by amyjess 5y ago
Upscaling is a thing. Technically you upscale whenever you full-screen the video player on your computer (unless the video is already at your monitor's native resolution), but upscaling algorithms that don't have to be fast enough
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by amyjess 5y ago
> an attitude of "we want to do it our way, and at our pace" In Japanese, there is a term for this, and it's actually borrowed from the English "my pace" (マイペース). If somebody has this attitude, you can call them
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by amyjess 5y ago
> While doing so, you likely noticed how many recruiters are interested in you. I'd appreciate that more if not for the fact that I regularly get emails and cold calls from recruiters who do the following: - ...want me for a job tha
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by amyjess 5y ago
For what it's worth, the guy who hit my mom was an undocumented immigrant who had neither a driver's license nor a registered car. I hold no ill will towards undocumented immigrants, but there's not much you can do if someone
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by amyjess 5y ago
> I also feel like we can "blame" Github here, since it (and a few other sites/projects like it) have become the de facto place to host source code and collaboration tools. (Whereas in the past it would have been an FTP&#x
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by amyjess 5y ago
So one thing people forget about serious illnesses is that it's not just about the cost of medical procedures. It's possible that the only doctors who know how to treat your particular condition are in another city, so there are t
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by amyjess 5y ago
You'd buy long-term financial security with that kind of money. You'd never have to worry that a significant unplanned expense would ruin your life. You come down with a major medical condition and end up with years of major medic
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by amyjess 5y ago
Whether or not it grows back is irrelevant. I will not stand to be without my hair for even a single millisecond. The only way I would even remotely accept chemo is if I could get a 100% guarantee in writing—with an agreement to immediately
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by amyjess 5y ago
Whether or not it grows back is irrelevant. I will not stand to be without my hair for even a single millisecond. The only way I would even remotely accept chemo is if I could get a 100% guarantee in writing—with an agreement to immediately
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by amyjess 5y ago
I use Linux for most things and only boot into Windows for games. Wintendo is a real thing. I'd like to be able to play the games I want to without worrying about being frog-marched into an OS without a taskbar. At this point I would s
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by amyjess 5y ago
Vista SP2 was better than 7. At least Vista had a real start menu. Yeah, early Vista was rough, but by SP2 all the problems were fixed.
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by amyjess 5y ago
Welp, time to start dropping every packet from any Windows Update-related IP block in my router...
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by amyjess 5y ago
I'd settle for being able to delete explorer.exe from my system and put the ReactOS shell in its place. I want to play modern games but with the Windows 98 desktop experience.
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by amyjess 5y ago
I'm not touching Windows 11 till someone comes out with a comprehensive shell replacement (i.e. it must replace all of explorer.exe) that re-creates the Windows 98 taskbar experience.
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by amyjess 5y ago
Even if the cancer has a very high survival rate following chemo, if the only way to save my life involves losing my hair I will refuse treatment and let myself die.
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by amyjess 5y ago
I long ago decided that if I got a terminal disease, I would refuse any treatment that would extend my quantity of life at the expense of my quality of life. I've seen what chemo does to people. No thank you. If I get cancer, I'll
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by amyjess 5y ago
Is there no way to just have a script add a comment on every new PR saying "Due to insufficient staff, your PR may not be reviewed for a considerable amount of time."?
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by amyjess 5y ago
> This subheading covers common cliches/mistakes > Common blunders > many SF authors suffer from Dunning-Kruger syndrome Referring to deliberate artistic choices as "mistakes" or "blunders" is in extremely
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by amyjess 5y ago
Given that most NFTs of artwork are created without the knowledge or permission of the artist, I wouldn't call them genuine either.
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by amyjess 5y ago
Keep in mind that modern safety features add both size and weight. Increasing the maximum engine displacement (last done in 1990) and size (last done in 1998) is necessary in order to keep speed and interior volume consistent with new safet
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by amyjess 5y ago
The last three companies I've worked at have all been GSuite shops.
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by amyjess 5y ago
At the beginning of the pandemic, people theorized that public health will influence future media for a generation, much like WW2 did. For decades, we got war TV shows, war movies, war comics, etc. Hogan's Heroes ran into the '7
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by amyjess 5y ago
The problem is that fields aren't ordered in the JSON spec, so fields being ordered in Avro's dialect of JSON automatically makes it non-standard JSON which makes it difficult to use standard tooling with Avro JSON.
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by amyjess 5y ago
As someone who's used Avro [0], it's a pain because Avro records must be ordered, but JSON by definition is unordered. Avro's "JSON" format is more of a JSON-like format. At one point, when I was writing a script
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by amyjess 5y ago
At my last job, this was the attitude we eventually took with tickets that were several years old. If it's still an issue with our internal customer [0], they can reopen the ticket or open a new one. But we've completely rearchite
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by amyjess 5y ago
Honestly, I'd rather just use RHEL 8 (or a clone like Rocky or Alma) with EPEL. You have all the stability advantages, plus an additional repository with bleeding-edge software that's not in the official distro. (I worked at a R
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by amyjess 5y ago
WinCompose is one of a handful of utilities that's made using Windows virtually painless as someone who's used to using Linux as a daily driver. (other such utilities include Chocolatey, MobaXterm, Greenshot, WSL in general for co
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by amyjess 5y ago
> In many US localities it’s illegal to discriminate against military veterans. We also had a draft for a very long time, and I'm sure that when these laws were put into place, there were a large portion of draftees who were at risk
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by amyjess 5y ago
Final Fantasy XIV has been experiencing constant growth since Shadowbringers came out in 2019, and in the last few months has absolutely exploded and obliterated WoW's numbers even before the harassment allegations came to light, and y
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by amyjess 5y ago
I'm going to share a story my mom told me about when she was in high school in the '60s. There was an academic achievement award at her school, given based on objective criteria. I don't remember exactly what this award was c

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