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by pfranz 6y ago
I've wished I worked at places that saw this as a more serious problem. Ideally, we would know there's a cron that stopped working and we'd have to figure out which machine and which user it was on...then try and access it. E
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by pfranz 6y ago
I've heard design patterns described as "missing language features" and when you look at the GoF book, many don't make sense in languages other than C++ because they're already built-in or unnecessary. If you'r
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by pfranz 6y ago
I can't remember the source (maybe just a pet theory) but I believe Disney stopped using Mickey because there was so much contention over "Mickey would never do that" among fans so he just became a mascot instead of having hi
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by pfranz 6y ago
Disney Animation uses a Steamboat Willie clip as their logo. It's at the front of all of their movies. Technically, its branding and completely separate from copyright.
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by pfranz 6y ago
This comes up every time secret information is dropped and applies equally when it's more covertly released. The obvious reason is they get to choose what information, when, and how its disclosed. For example, hack both sides, release
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by pfranz 6y ago
A similar thing happened to me years ago. I was a monthly contributor to This American Life. I switched credit cards and wanted to update my payment, but they had changed their website or something and there was, as far as I could tell, no
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by pfranz 6y ago
I believe they're referring to loss of publishing control often cited as a reason for the video game crash of 1983 that the NES helped carry the industry out of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_19
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by pfranz 6y ago
It's not a unique opinion. It also depends on your role. I'm not quite sure how much Apple shared publicly, but there was an iOS version that caused huge performance hit for older phones (honestly, it's kind of common with ne
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by pfranz 6y ago
Browsers seem to be one of the few apps where they compete on speed. I remember Firefox was peeled out from the Mozilla browser and liking it because it was much faster and lighter. Similar to the quote about Chrome in the article, speed ca
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by pfranz 6y ago
I heard recently that there's a surprising amount of our DNA that's made up of old viruses from our ancestors. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160322100714.h...
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by pfranz 6y ago
I wouldn't focus too much on that--at least for yourself. You won't necessarily get an mRNA vaccine. The first two vaccines are mRNA based, but there are a bunch of others right behind it that aren't. The Oxford vaccine isn&#
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by pfranz 6y ago
I remembered seeing an article a few days ago where Dr Fauci was saying people who have had coronavirus should still get vaccinated. I've also heard elsewhere the immune response from the vaccine is much higher than the body's nat
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by pfranz 6y ago
> Well for starters, it would be stupid to pipeline the process so that nobody could start reviewing the code until after it was done. I imagine the expedited process also means summaries and overviews that would normally be presented we
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by pfranz 6y ago
I'm curious for an actual expert to answer, but when I've heard this question presented they would point out that the risk of long-term side effects from a vaccine must be compared relative to the unknown, long-term side effects o
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by pfranz 6y ago
I'm not surprised. I remember hearing NAFTA really screwed with the price of corn and tortillas for Mexicans around 2007. Distorting corn and corn syrup prices is kind of obvious. The surprising part is incorrect labeling and poor enfo
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by pfranz 6y ago
Apple still plans on releasing new Intel macs. I don't even think buying one of those is out of the question for some people. If you look back at the Intel transition, if I remember correctly they released the MacBook Pro with a Core D
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by pfranz 6y ago
Assuming you prefer Apple's keyboards, I'm pretty sure the Magic Keyboard with Bluetooth works with iPads. The downside is you'd have to manage charging the keyboard and the iPad, but on the bright side you could choose to ge
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by pfranz 6y ago
At least in the US, my understanding is a 1975 law, the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act, protects warranties on modified products as long as the modification didn't cause the issue. It comes up all the time with cars since there's an
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by pfranz 6y ago
Nobody actually knows, but I remember Apple saying something like a 2 year transition (which includes new Intel products). So if you're not in a rush that's likely the longest you'll wait.
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by pfranz 6y ago
If you have the context of being a geeky Mac user about 10 years ago you likely would. Growl was an open source notification system that many apps supported. Like it said in the article, in 2012 macOS started shipping their own. So the usef
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by pfranz 6y ago
> It is solely so that people can include a shortcut to /Applications and style the dmg window background with a bitmap that alludes to dragging to install? I believe so. The first app I checked, DaisyDisk, distributes as a zip file
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by pfranz 6y ago
It depends on the context. I like one-liners because it's much easier to iterate over a command line and building them is a bit of a personal challenge since it's not worth writing a script or saving to a file. I don't know a
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by pfranz 6y ago
I'm skeptical what the parent said will come to fruition, but when I was doing some advertising work in VR I was surprised how great it was at conveying things like scale and reach when messing with cars. Things you would have to go to
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by pfranz 6y ago
Call me skeptical. It's like trying to show how good Blu-ray is on a DVD. Headphones are even more different than speakers because there's the ergonomics of wearing them, how they sound when covering your ears, and things like dur
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by pfranz 6y ago
Yeah, it was sad to see all the Longhorn tech get scaled back or dropped.
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by pfranz 6y ago
I haven't really used Blender (but know Maya, Houdini, Nuke very well). I think "pro" software (a wiggly term) tends to require a non-standard UI (however, I do miss when Photoshop used the base OS' UI). Pro tools end up
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by pfranz 6y ago
What about: Glimpse https://glimpse-editor.github.io/ (a GIMP reskin) or Krita https://krita.org/ ? I don't believe Photopea https://www.photopea.com/ is Open Source, but it's a f
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by pfranz 6y ago
> > - Monitor support was typically bad and caused problems, connecting to monitor, multiple monitors, resolution issues on wake, etc. > Only issue I had with this was one TV wouldn't take HDMI output at the same time as displ
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by pfranz 6y ago
Depending on how you feel that sounds like a reason to look for another job. I greatly prefer not using Windows and macOS is rarely an option for my line of work. OS comes up very early in my job seeking process.
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by pfranz 6y ago
I don't maintain software, but I've heard from multiple others that since betas are just dumped and things are quietly added, changed, and removed, it's difficult to trust a beta for development.

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