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by pfranz 6y ago
TurboTax is preventing the government from offering a solution and I wouldn't be surprised if they promote complicating the tax code. It's incredibly common for companies to promote additional regulation to prevent competition. Re
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by pfranz 6y ago
99% of the time I use "Look Up" which is the top item in native macOS context menus (for selected text). It's really annoying when your browser is missing it. This is likely a separate ticket, but Firefox ignores macOS'
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by pfranz 6y ago
Thanks for bringing attention to this! That has bugged me a lot when debugging in different languages and I only stumbled over it recently when reading the Python docs.
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by pfranz 6y ago
Rewriting Finder is huge and risky! When they replaced mDNSResponder with discoveryd it caused problems they eventually reverted it when Vint Cerf called Tim Cook to complain. I might be misremembering, but I through I heard a story of some
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by pfranz 6y ago
Maybe it was just me, but there was a lot of talk and excitement that the desktop metaphor and WIMP had kind of plateaued and something new might happen. There were a lot of interesting things tried, but the new UIs for smartphones were the
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by pfranz 6y ago
I think the lack of scroll bar goes with an assumption of a trackpad. It also gets rid of most of the context clues that a page goes off the screen or how long a page is. Without a trackpad (ignoring search), it's really difficult to s
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by pfranz 6y ago
NO NEW FEATURES was totally marketing that just went along with not changing the UI. Like you said they added Grand Central Dispatch and Exchange support, they rewrote Finder in Cocoa, released QuickTime X, OpenCL support, and introduced th
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by pfranz 6y ago
That also means repair and troubleshooting for custom configurations really sucks. Either they have to keep a bunch of configurations on hand or the user is SOL waiting for basically a new computer.
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by pfranz 6y ago
Twitter's Fail Whale is an example of the last. I was surprised how long the good will lasted. Twitter started in 2006, the SXSW where it gained a lot of traction was in 2007, FailWhale looks like it was publicaly "named" in
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by pfranz 6y ago
Personally, I haven't noticed in the price of goods. I wouldn't be surprised if services increased their price since we're still in the middle of a pandemic. I imagine the flow of customers are down (I love restaurants but do
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by pfranz 6y ago
The thread doesn't mention "Pro" (I think they had only been out a month when the thread was created). A lot of the discussion here seems to be around the Pro and Max's ANC. So I imagine it's a similar, but differen
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by pfranz 6y ago
The original thread is about AirPods (non-Pro). There was a conspiracy theory (that's the best word I can think of but may not be the correct one) a year or two ago because a bunch of updates to Bose, Apple, and other noise canceling h
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by pfranz 6y ago
Similarly, I work in industries with fairly expensive software. Off and on they'll offer free, limited educational versions. When a new version comes out I'll often dabble with it at home if there's a free version available--
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by pfranz 6y ago
The use case I was thinking of for individuals is more like paying a nickel to read an article. I'm not really familiar with AML/KYC requirements, but I'm not sure I see the need. I would imagine most people would want a basi
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by pfranz 6y ago
I already think that has happened for companies and startups, but I don't think much progress at all has been made for individuals. I'm not seeing it. Newspapers and cable both heavily rely on ads. Credit card fees eat up way too
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by pfranz 6y ago
Doesn't the original AirPlay have a constant 2 second lag? Like pressing Pause will take 2 seconds to take effect. I remember hearing it was something addressed in AirPlay2.
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by pfranz 6y ago
> how does Apple “guarantees authenticity” of the opposite device, to ensure it doesn’t brick it or gets bricked by it? The same way they do it with webpages, Messages, and email. JailbreakMe.com used a TIFF exploit to jailbreak your pho
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by pfranz 6y ago
That's also the list price. There's an education discount and annual back-to-school sales offered in Germany and a bunch of other countries.
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by pfranz 6y ago
AR is also much, much harder. Refresh rate doesn't just have to fool your brain, it needs to "stick" to reality. Plus, you're adding environment tracking and integration. If you're using a glasses model, the only te
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by pfranz 6y ago
You could add that bin/ to your PATH, but you'd also need something else to load the venv before executing it. You could write a generic wrapper that would load the env and call the Python binary and put that in a more generic bin
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by pfranz 6y ago
I didn't use Windows for 10-15 years. Coming back I was amazed at how often and how long updates took (and how aggressive they got with them). Every few weeks I would have to reboot for an update and it took awhile. For macOS it's
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by pfranz 6y ago
I haven't used Poetry and most of my workplaces have done their own thing with versioning Python packages. So my virtualenv experience has been on my own or with toy projects. I really like writing one-off or sporadically used commandl
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by pfranz 6y ago
It seems easy enough to check the wick for moisture (check if the wick closes a circuit?) instead of using a float. Or using a float, but having a 10 minute lag after detecting an empty tank. I'm curious what the objections would be ou
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by pfranz 6y ago
Both articles say the command line tool asr (Apple Software Restore) is the only Apple-approved way to do make a bootable copy. CCC says they're using asr. Both articles also say asr currently won't make a bootable copy of an M1-b
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by pfranz 6y ago
I think a lot of people overvalue what they think they need--basically YAGNI. There is a bit of once burnt, twice shy. I learned when first moving out to go to the dollar store to fill my apartment; bathroom trash can, shower curtain rings,
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by pfranz 6y ago
> Manga Studio/Clip Studio Paint's file format is interesting as well: it's just an SQLite database, with raster data stored as blobs. Not going to implement that for Krita either. I'm curious why? I'm not trying
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by pfranz 6y ago
Ugg. I've seen that system used at other places and it's miserable. Devs had accounts but users and interns used a shared account. You get a vague ticket opened and they forgot to add their name. Also, would updates get blasted to
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by pfranz 6y ago
All of those pages I looked at cite specific things they intend to support (alt tags, text resize) and give a way to reach them. If something stops working, which is incredibly common over a 4-8 year span, a user knows they should be workin
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by pfranz 6y ago
I saw this a few years ago and thought it was cool at first, but I had huge problems when refactoring that code. I would miss variables used in strings when I would rename, move, or delete things. Have you had this issue? I imagine an IDE t
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by pfranz 6y ago
Here are some benchmarks and a discussion about using f-strings in logging I remember reading a few years ago: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/2395

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