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by pfranz 6y ago
> Did apple bring any actual innovation that I missed? I guess it depends on what you think of as innovation. Their marketing pointed to "scalloped" batteries instead of square so they can take up more empty space (plus the spa
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by pfranz 6y ago
I remember creating a moderately large spreadsheet in Google Docs last year. Safari unloaded the page and forced a refresh every time I switched away. Firefox would hang recomputing formulas and only Chrome scaled well. I'm looking to
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by pfranz 6y ago
From my experience a buyer doesn't pay if there's already a seller's agent. The standard contract is usually something like 6% is set aside for agents and is split among the buyer and seller's agent if each exist (you do
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by pfranz 6y ago
Is that true generally? I know my old (2008?) Macbook Pro supported Linux well, but I think that took a few years to get things like good trackpad, bluetooth, and wifi support. I remember getting a new one and it couldn't boot into the
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by pfranz 6y ago
Maybe not a single reference device, but there are fairly standard devices that are advertised, ship with, and offer support for Linux. The HP Z8 claims "Ubuntu. Certified and pre-installed." I've always run RHEL or CentOS on
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by pfranz 6y ago
So I think there are two aspects about this. They said the same about previous generations with music and TV. I really do think they are shared experiences of a specific generation. Referencing the Simpsons is a quick way to bond with new p
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by pfranz 6y ago
That's exactly what I did. My kid loves live music like NPR tiny desk concerts. It also allows me to censor the few that had some bad words. I'd still prefer if I could whitelist regular YouTube videos I explicitly approve of...
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by pfranz 6y ago
I recently heard someone describe it as an echo of the three-fifths compromise. I also hadn't realized HR1 and other bills look to be making progress at getting rid of the practice: https://www.congress.gov/amendment&#x
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by pfranz 6y ago
I haven't heard of or experienced those issues directly =/ The only issue I've hit myself is lint getting packed into the port which is fairly easily cleaned but annoying if you don't have a tool handy. I have heard lots
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by pfranz 6y ago
It did predate it by over 5 years. If you're talking about tech features the 30-pin supported (at various points) Firewire, USB, play controls, line-level analog audio and video--for example there was a 30-pin to VGA. AFAIK USB isn&#x2
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by pfranz 6y ago
This article has an odd, simplified, and biased description of history. Apple pushed USB hard and early. The article carefully never made the claim Apple owned Firewire exclusively--it was a partnership with Sony and Panasonic that had cert
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by pfranz 6y ago
They've been around for over a decade and every time a service shuts down and pulls their content there's always a mention of ArchiveTeam trying to coordinate an archive (negotiating end dates, any limiting or throttling with back
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by pfranz 6y ago
I was talking to a dev this weekend about i18n and said he used German to test page layouts.
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by pfranz 6y ago
Right, but the parent's point is that this aspect skews representation quite a bit. (I'm not sure of the constitutionality) but one option would be to not count prisoners or non-voters when tallying up representatives. My understa
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by pfranz 6y ago
One edge-case I've noticed with Apple's subscription billing and heard other people talk about when implementing billing systems is changing currencies/countries. Apple, in line with most people's expectations, when you
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by pfranz 6y ago
I'm sure Gimp has its fans, but do people just not know about Krita? I'm not saying it's as fast/easy at small changes in Preview, but it's cross platform and mostly a drop-in for people who are familiar with Photos
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by pfranz 6y ago
I basically did that for the first WSL. I occasionally helped friends install drivers or find their printer, but mostly didn't touch Windows from XP until I got a job using Win10. I used macOS at home Linux at work during that period.
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by pfranz 6y ago
The nice thing about FileZilla is that you don't have to qualify which OS you're using. Now it's "Grab WinSCP if you're using Windows, X if Linux, Y if macOS. Now here are 3 separate pages we probably didn't ke
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by pfranz 6y ago
As a company that's technically true. As an individual engineer they would probably have been sneaking time to work on it and have to be a pet project of someone senior enough to get it merged and released.
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by pfranz 6y ago
Downloading rarely makes sense for a full restore, but is perfect for smaller restores or tests. Even if it didn't blow away your quota they only keep the packaged restores around for 7 days and I've found that difficult to restor
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by pfranz 6y ago
> Restoring costs money and laptop users don't have good ways of doing complete restores just for test as it's a lot of downtime. At least for the standard Backblaze service you can download for free. For a USB drive you float
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by pfranz 6y ago
I don't have any stigma against medication, but I do think our current understanding of treating things like ADHD is primitive. I have a kid that's too young for a formal diagnosis, but has a genetic predisposition for it and has
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by pfranz 6y ago
This was what I was going to suggest. This is what the Nix package manager does where folders are hashes of the build dependencies. In v2 they suffixed the package name and version number. I've noticed that people tend to build systems
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by pfranz 6y ago
I haven't read the article (yet) but skimmed it. I do think you're right, but I also think the average person's tools to observe it are lacking. Like Plato's Allegory of the Cave. If someone had never experienced somethi
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by pfranz 6y ago
I 100% share your concerns. What you and I hate is the predatory, indenturing nature of for-profit colleges that don't provide marketable skills--what currently exists. The certificate from UoP, Coursera, or the receipt from a Ruby on
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by pfranz 6y ago
I believe TurboTax gets a lot of mileage out of stoking that fear.
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As part of the public/private partnership that started e-filing in the early 2000s, one stipulation is that the government couldn't compete. There was a lot of noise made last year when a law almost made that permanent. I'm n
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by pfranz 6y ago
That's very similar to what's described in other countries. The government provides you with prefilled forms. In the basic scenario you sign and return. In a more complex scenario you amend it, sign it and return. As a bonus, they
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In the early 2000s the US noticed most other countries started having an e-file option. President Bush thought the best way to "catch up" was to have a public/private partnership and created a system where "blessed"
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by pfranz 6y ago
Grover Norquist has had Republicans sign "the Pledge" opposing tax increase since 1986. Reportedly, he also wants filing taxes to be painful so you hate the government and he opposes these measures. In 2005, California had a pilot

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