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by pfranz 6y ago
I have mixed feelings about just grabbing variables inside strings. Prior to this I had a coworker that really liked using the convention: "{value}".format(**locals()) I thought it was clever at first, but this made refacto
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Look Up "[selection]" constantly bugs me. I constantly use it to define words. I feel like there are others that come up periodically. It sounds pedantic, but it's enough of a pain point that I'm itching to switch browse
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It depends on your audience. To be fair, I have no idea the breakdown of audience for modern console games. As a young kid, my parents and grandparents would be between me and getting a game (I had no money). So having a store in a mall whe
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by pfranz 6y ago
I think there's a bit of bias in the games you played. There have been externalities affecting game design since the NES. Early NES games were modeled (or ported) after arcades, which incentivized you to put in a quarter, play a handfu
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by pfranz 6y ago
What's your preferred outcome? Staying private? I'm not sure any of these companies are set up with this intent. The goals seem to be IPO or to be acquired. My understanding is that the barriers to IPO usually means acquisition is
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I'm very enthusiastic about keeping systems up to date, but I've had Windows unexpectedly reboot in order to push an update. This part isn't new, but updates require a reboot almost monthly. Compared to Linux and macOS that&#
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I have no idea what Apple will do, but Microsoft Surface has a magsafe-like charging port (that also can do proprietary data stuff?) but can also be charged via USB-C. Amazon has a bunch of USB-C magsafe-ish adapters. I'm not sure how
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I can't imagine anyone would notice. For example, Walt Disney World's Main Street USA has 45-star flags on top of each building [1]. I've heard two reasons for this; that was the flag used in the early 1900's (the period
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by pfranz 6y ago
> In practice if you don't run MacOS yourself, there's just no reasonable way to support MacOS at all. I think this is the key insight. I tried to do a similar thing with Windows. The free VM expired every 30 days or so and boo
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While I think WSL is an option worth investigating, it is not the answer for everyone. I jumped from XP to Windows 10 with WSL1 and had used Linux and macOS in between. It took me a few days to come across a bunch of pain points I was surpr
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by pfranz 6y ago
Maybe. Real time and production often has special needs general purpose tools don't cover. A lot of delivery codecs focus on things like lossy compression and buffering. I know from video production and computer graphics, delivery code
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Importing greatly depends how well your bank/credit card plays ball. Most banks don't have any incentive to participate and newer security features like 2fa have made it harder/impossible. I do have one bank that grants appli
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> I wish tech reporting is written by technical folks, or at least proof read by tech experts. This comes up for journalism of every single industry. “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to
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by pfranz 6y ago
I believe that's already an option, but few/none have chosen it. Currently, the two legal options federally are no DST or DST half the year. There are a couple states that have passed laws for permanent DST but are waiting on a fe
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This is often posted as a response: https://qntm.org/abolish I'd actually be curious to hear what a nation wide timezone would solve?
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I think the characterization is what's surprising. I would imagine there's a major supplier for petri dishes out there that everyone in the medical field knows of, but I've never heard of them and wouldn't call them &quo
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That's still terrible reporting. Would it be fair to call Salesforce or PeopleSoft obscure? I've worked in tech for over a decade and I barely know what they are--only that they're giant. I'm confident most people have n
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by pfranz 6y ago
Literally decades ago we had a simple version of this. I think it was only for our pool pump...maybe the water heater. My understanding is my parents got some sort of fixed discount if the power company had the ability to periodically cut p
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by pfranz 6y ago
This quote is over 100 years old, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.” To more specifically answer your question; I imagine they have some sort of strategy with advertising. A billb
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by pfranz 6y ago
I'm pretty sure this is an incredibly common subject during voir dire. While this is probably more on the benign side of questioning, I remember being asked if anyone had negative interactions with law enforcement. I'm less confid
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I worked at a creative studio that used Linux during that time. For many periods of time there literally was no solution for doing something as trivial as watching YouTube videos (a huge need for reference) because of trying to pin down the
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I believe that's a simplification. I think people tend to respond with alternatives--hopefully allowing discussion of comparisons. There's a bias towards free things because of barrier to entry and aversion to spending money. I se
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Usually graphics APIs abstract away these core concepts, but there's a lot of shifting responsibility between what you do and what the API/GPU does. It's good to have an idea what they're doing so you can better utilize
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by pfranz 6y ago
To be fair, Handmade Hero is for a complete game with sound, effects, input, etc. This course looks to be focused on a realtime software renderer with the ability to read/write geometry and textures. HH is also a bit overwhelming. I th
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by pfranz 6y ago
I have notes from when I was researching around 2018. I had the Razer Blade Stealth in the running, but I was reading about support and longevity issues with them. Maybe they've been better recently? It's difficult to build a trac
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by pfranz 6y ago
Isn't individual rotation speed how most cars detect underinflated tires? I imagine this problem would also happen if the tires had different tire pressures.
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> Don't the M1 Macs come with some performant-enough emulation system (that most people didn't consider possible) that allows you to run x86 apps? I feel like this is key to avoiding the chicken-and-egg effect. My understanding
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I think another problem is the accuracy of the info and ability to dispute it. I noticed my FitBit (and I'm told with many other wrist-based heart rate monitors) don't do well with sports like boxing and rowing. My chest strap is
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by pfranz 6y ago
At most places I've been if there is something like Jenkins at all a single person sets up and troubleshoots the jobs. The average dev just looks at red/green, logs, and emails but only interacts with the code--maybe they manually
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I remember it getting popular years before macOS switched. I believe Oh My Zsh (a zsh framework) being popular when I first tested it out and that looks to be 10 years old. The things that got me to try it was being mostly compatible with B

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