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by amyjess 5y ago
My experience as a Final Fantasy XIV player is that Duty Finder (the equivalent of LFR) is such a massive necessity for quality-of-life that I'd never ever be able to go back to an MMO without it. I used to play EverQuest back in 1999-
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That's because all the riskier ideas are on television and TV-emulating streaming services (if you make a series divided into "seasons" and "episodes", I consider your series television even if it's straight-to
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Honestly the first two paragraphs of this article alone indicate that this article is a polemic intended to stir up a pogrom against so-called elites. This isn't intellectually gratifying: it's an angry political screed. Furthermo
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by amyjess 5y ago
> Population growth is another. The Bay-area population went up by ~2 million people between 1990 and 2020. Even if the income distribution remains the same, the number of potential diners who can afford an expensive meal goes up. And wi
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by amyjess 5y ago
The only services I've seen competitors provide via LLU are ADSL, back when ADSL was still a viable competitor to cable. But I've never seen any competitors offer service over a cable, VDSL, or other fiber network, and those are t
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by amyjess 5y ago
I can guarantee you that unless you're an experienced professional chef yourself, restaurants make way better food than you can make at home. They make the same dishes night after night after night for as long as they're working f
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by amyjess 5y ago
If you can't stay open while paying people a living wage, you deserve to go out of business. I would rather have nothing but chain restaurants owned by megacorps than have people working for less than a living wage.
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Why this font is everywhere(youtube.com)
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I'm assuming GP's preexisting condition requires frequent doctor visits and medications or other medical devices—or even occasional surgeries—that would be prohibitively expensive if you're uninsured. This means: - If you los
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by amyjess 5y ago
> Who cares about WFH when you get to live in California and work with some of the brightest minds? Only privileged person wouldn't value that. On the contrary, only a privileged person would specifically care about "work[ing]
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At 11:45 on Sunday, I was on a phone call with Near(docs.google.com)
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by amyjess 5y ago
I quit my job because my company wanted us to go back to the office 3 days a week. Funny thing is, my last day ended up being two days before my fifth anniversary at the old place. Longest job I ever stayed at, and I'd still be there i
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by amyjess 5y ago
I have about a decade of experience, I live in Dallas, and I've spent my entire career working for local Texas companies. I never saw a six-figure salary—not even close—until I got the offer for the job I'll be starting next week.
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by amyjess 5y ago
Well, I can finally say it: I'm part of the Great Resignation. I found a new position that's 100% remote, I put in my notice at my current job the week before last, and my last day is coming up this week. It's kind of bitters
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by amyjess 5y ago
I could also say much the same about Magneto-Optical and Syquest disks. That aesthetic is just cool . (though I'd say that flash drives can be cool if you treat them as James Bond spy gear and get drives disguised as everyday objects
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by amyjess 5y ago
Have the Vivaldi developers confirmed whether or not they'll continue supporting Manifestv2? I think I heard something along those lines but I Can't remember where.
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Honestly a lot of people talk about how much they hate skeumorphism, but in the early '10s when most of the existing vendors abandoned it, it broke my heart and basically destroyed any love I still had for GUIs. First Microsoft abandon
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by amyjess 5y ago
> CSV is more of a rumor than a standard This reminds me of something my boss at a previous job would say: "I am morally opposed to CSV." Why? Because we worked at an NLP company, where we would frequently have tabular data fea
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by amyjess 5y ago
Children should not be in in-person school until either the vaccine is widely available to children as young as 5 or SARS-CoV-2 is completely eradicated worldwide. Since this will take a long time, the government can kill two birds with one
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by amyjess 5y ago
I do not care about being competitve. I work so I can draw a salary to fund my life. That's it. I don't care about constantly climbing a ladder. I don't care about advancing my career for the sake of advancing my career. I ju
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by amyjess 5y ago
Mixed WFH/office should be 100% voluntary or it isn't truly mixed. If I can't decide, with zero notice to my employer, to spend a month living and working on the other side of the country, it's not mixed. Anything that r
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by amyjess 5y ago
> And instead of creating documents — a sort of heavyweight work product — a lot of what we work with on our computers now are fragments: URLs and meme gifs that we copy paste between windows or chats, a PDF that we download to print out
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by amyjess 5y ago
The sad part is that Twitter wasn't always like that. I remember old versions of Twitter being pretty snappy. Facebook too... the latest redesign is an abomination, and as much as I like having a dark mode, the new UI is so slow and so
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by amyjess 5y ago
I'm not really sure how Slack saving documents to disk would really make sense. IRC was around before SaaS took off and webapps replaced desktop apps, but I can't think of a client that implemented "IRC documents" saved
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by amyjess 5y ago
That's a good point. I quit years before the pandemic, but if I was still smoking when lockdown started I would've probably gone from being a pack-a-day smoker to a two-pack-a-day smoker. First, all that pandemic anxiety would&#
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by amyjess 5y ago
My experience quitting smoking was that once I actually quit, I was just done. I don't normally get cravings anymore, though a few times a year, usually after eating a huge meal that leaves me stuffed or while drinking a lot, I'll
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by amyjess 5y ago
Much of Python's influence is actually from Modula-3, not C++. The only reason C++ is similar is because C++ also borrowed liberally from Modula-3. In particular, Python's import, exception handling, and object systems are based o
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by amyjess 5y ago
> I'd like to have a different recommendation for a "garbage collected Rust" but there really isn't anything that I think is good enough for the title. D and Nim are both good candidates IMO.
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Officially, it's a column-oriented database. This means that, internally, it stores columns together rather than rows together. In practice, it means that it's optimized for calculating analytics over large datasets. I've fou
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The fact that you can say this without being hauled off to Room 101 and tortured until you recant proves that this is in fact not exactly like 1984.

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