HollywoodZero

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by HollywoodZero 4y ago
It's laggy on Safari on Mac too. It's moving at like 15 FPS, so it's pretty choppy.
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by HollywoodZero 4y ago
they do a great job at compressing and encoding. I'll buy the bluray/dvd, then download the torrent for the movie to put into Plex. Like a backup, but MUCH better and easier on the size than I would be able to do myself.
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by HollywoodZero 4y ago
Anyone else rip their DVDs, import them into Plex, then share your Plex library with others?
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by HollywoodZero 4y ago
+1. The URL is a huge red flag since it's exactly how scammers create fake links online.
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by HollywoodZero 4y ago
It's not just India. The rise in the random texts (which end up pushing investment scams) also originates in off shore call centers in Southeast Asia. Often times they get migrant workers with promises of jobs, but then take their pass
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by HollywoodZero 4y ago
> I'd imagine that creative engineers who can ensure clean water supply and working electricity (or other smaller services) would be more valuable In the World War Z novel, there's a section where the head of rebuilding in the
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by HollywoodZero 4y ago
I am 100% supportive and in agreement of this. Case in point was going to Athens for a work event. I felt like the Parthenon was disappointing experience. The crowds were terrible. You can't get anywhere near the actual building. And i
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by HollywoodZero 4y ago
You could also just use an Xbox controller, right? I mean, I'd rather use that than the Stadia controller.
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by HollywoodZero 4y ago
The interesting thing is that in MANY of these situations, you can guarantee that executives are getting free drinks, lunches, etc. as part of the perks. I've seen it happen. No soda, no food. But the executive assistant will do a lunc
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by HollywoodZero 4y ago
You do bring up a valid point. One of the tricky issues is when you have other office locations based outside of the US. There's TONS of hoops you have to follow to offer comparable benefits for employees in other locations around the
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by HollywoodZero 4y ago
I used to be in a management role a number of years back and faced this same issue. Thankfully I was able to convince executive management that for our several hundred employee company, running a Coke soda machine was basically the cost of
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What is this Facebook post with 1.1M comments?(facebook.com)
1 points by HollywoodZero 4y ago|2 comments
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by HollywoodZero 4y ago
I've noticed now several random pages on Facebook that have been offering some BIG PRIZE to a random person who comments. All of the comments get followed up with a request to "sign up" at the top of the page. It looks like a
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by HollywoodZero 4y ago
+1. My oldest is in high school now and even in her honors classes there's the ability to turn on some things late and even some re-takes are allowed. I don't know where these ZERO mistakes-type of mentality is coming from.
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by HollywoodZero 4y ago
I'm not a developer, but a PM. I wonder if in the age of GitHub, if this node to root process still exists the same fragmented state. Any devs with insight? Doesn't, the modern git approach make it MUCH easier for developers to ge
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by HollywoodZero 5y ago
> The fact that keeping infrastructure safe is "political suicide" Is this a good reason why politics should always include term limits? It would prevent anyone from NOT doing something that is in the good for the constituents,
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by HollywoodZero 5y ago
I got the context. But can someone explain how this is funny?
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by HollywoodZero 5y ago
I love these commercials that at the end everyone is sitting at their desks with their suit jackets still on. Who does this?
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by HollywoodZero 5y ago
Just like Oracle. No one talks about Oracle. But they're still around. We did a major tech project to migrate off of Oracle after an acquisition of a large org that was running it. It was a year-long effort to migrate. But it was worth
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by HollywoodZero 5y ago
Isn't this the typical corporate acquisition process? * Bring in Deloitte, McKenzie, or other consulting group. * Gut the acquired company to reduce costs. * Fold newly acquired divisions into existing mediocre division. * Service gets
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by HollywoodZero 5y ago
As soon as many of us went to remote work, suddenly there's this rise of making the "perfect" home office. Why? why do I need to buy more stuff, take on the extra work of making my home office LOOK like a pristine zen room? D
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by HollywoodZero 5y ago
Another, maybe even more simple approach is: the art of saying no. Corporate life today has this idea that we should always be doing more. Side hassles, taking on more. Putting in extra hours, etc. There's beauty in knowing when enough