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by amyjess 5y ago
I don't want to have any non-maximized windows on my screen. I despise overlapping windows, and I want every single application I run to be full-screen, just like on a phone.
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by amyjess 6y ago
My guess is that the whole public repo thing was just one employee's idea, nobody else at the company cared, and that employee either forgot about it or was too busy to do it for months.
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by amyjess 6y ago
> the core engine is nearly 15 years old "The core engine" doesn't do what you think it does. It's actually a running joke on /r/paradoxplaza that every time you mention Clausewitz, Meneth (or one of the oth
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by amyjess 6y ago
It's also something that could be restricted by culture. In some cultures, adopting your heir is a normal, everyday thing, but in others, blood is all that matters.
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by amyjess 6y ago
Wait, is this something they changed between II and III? Because in II, if you die with no children, but you have a brother, your brother inherits, even if you don't have Seniority. You only Game Over if your heir doesn't have you
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by amyjess 6y ago
Usually when someone says something like this, I assume they were never pro-union in the first place. "So-and-so said something I don't like, so now I've changed all my political beliefs to be the opposite of theirs" is
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by amyjess 6y ago
My main experience with Yahoo! Answers is that it's more of a trolling platform than anything else. The questions are trolls, and the answers are trolls. Nevertheless, I'm going to miss it. The trolling was fun to read, at least.
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by amyjess 6y ago
Uber could be much more proactive in surveilling drivers and terminating them for noncompliance. Perhaps they can even require drivers to sign contracts making them pay five-figure fines in addition to termination in the case they're
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by amyjess 6y ago
Because the Americans With Disabilities Act tells them they have to.
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by amyjess 6y ago
Also, some of us had sizeable RealAudio collections. Sure, the quality is shit by modern standards, but it could easily be played by ordinary computers of the time and took up very little space.
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by amyjess 6y ago
Type and creator codes were stored in the desktop file IIRC, not in the resource fork.
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Missing Stair(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by amyjess 6y ago|0 comments
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by amyjess 6y ago
I was always under the assumption that they independently coined the word. At the very least, "avatar" wasn't well-known until Snow Crash came out, so it's possible Stephenson didn't know it was an existing word and
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by amyjess 6y ago
TBH I'd entirely support the NHTSA making the new mail truck's low hood height mandatory on all new vehicles. It would make being hit by an SUV have a far, far safer outcome.
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by amyjess 6y ago
You can join files together. $ cat foo bar > baz will join the files foo and bar together into a single file called baz
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by amyjess 6y ago
> but in Ulbricht's case it was pretty white collar Ross tried, on multiple occasions, to hire hitmen to kill people he didn't like. I think once you get into wetworks, it no longer counts as "white collar". Thank goo
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by amyjess 6y ago
And for a lot of people, the lightbulb goes off once they realize what 'tty' stands for...
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by amyjess 6y ago
I have to say, the way indentation and brackets were done here looks like it's just inviting subtle bugs. Take this for example: if (peekc) { c = peekc; peekc = 0; } else if (eof) return(0); else
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The pirate assembling a better sports streaming service(theverge.com)
1 points by amyjess 6y ago|0 comments
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by amyjess 6y ago
Honestly, I'd rather deal with shitty customer service than plunge to my death.
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by amyjess 6y ago
I've already decided that once it's safe to fly again, I'm going to fly Spirit exclusively. They're a US-based carrier with an all-Airbus fleet.
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by amyjess 6y ago
> I think there’s more stigma attached to femininity in mathematics than femaleness necessarily. As a semi-androgynous queer woman, I think that I kind of fit in in the mathematics community better than I would if I were a cis, straight
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by amyjess 6y ago
And I guess this is where I go into full old lady "get off my lawn" mode and mention that I still remember when forums used WWWBoard and its clones (anyone remember CyBoard or VIPBoard?) that provided full comment threading. Any c
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by amyjess 6y ago
Yes and no. - Google used to support XMPP federation, and they pulled the plug on that years ago. - Any new features introduced as part of Hangouts haven't been backported to XMPP, and so there may be random breakage when XMPP users ta
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by amyjess 6y ago
The proper word for such translations, by the way, is "calque". Another famous calque is "groudhog", which comes from the Dutch aardvark . Yes, the two animals are completely unrelated: the Dutch referred to them both a
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by amyjess 6y ago
It's not about the game being bad, it's about CDPR lying to their shareholders.
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by amyjess 6y ago
You might want to look at what happened to Takata. Their defective airbags killed several people, and the end result was that they were forced to pay about 250% of their annual EBIT. It was so much that the company went under. More companie
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by amyjess 6y ago
A friend of mine got permanently suspended from twitter because she and a friend were bantering with each other and she made a joking threat. Her friend who the "threat" was directed at has tried to petition twitter to undo her su
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by amyjess 6y ago
It wasn't because of a copyright violation. It was because after he was booted off MIT's network for violating their TOS, he went out of his way to find another way to get back on their network by unauthorized means and resume the
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by amyjess 6y ago
Inviting insurrectionists into the capitol to stop the certification of an election they didn't like by force is different from... giving their support to people who are against unarmed black people being murdered on sight.

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