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by pfranz 6y ago
> What makes it good at media creation? Technically, probably nothing unless you're tied to something like Final Cut. I like little things like obj (geometry), abc (geometry), and exr (image/textures) files can be previewed in
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by pfranz 6y ago
It was rumored for like a decade. The last 32-bit computers were sold in something like 2007-2008? High Sierra started throwing warnings when you launched 32-bit apps. In 2018, they announced Mojave would be the last version to support them
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by pfranz 6y ago
My understanding is that many countries, like some in Europe, have a law saying you must be able to cancel using the same medium you used to subscribe. So if you signed up online, you can cancel online. Same with phone, etc. I think I'
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by pfranz 6y ago
Ugg. The App Store Guidelines disallowed using notifications for ads...even though Apple itself violated this. Apparently, they changed this policy last March. https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/4/21165087/i
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by pfranz 6y ago
I think you grossly underestimate how many Republicans live in California. There are more registered Republicans in CA than any other state and they get representation in the state legislator, just like there are a bunch of noteworthy Repub
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by pfranz 6y ago
If you only need to swap it out once every few years it seems like a huge waste to have a removable plastic door and separate housing taking up space. It's not too difficult to swap an iPhone battery yourself. iFixit has detailed instr
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by pfranz 6y ago
I know people have ragged on non-removable batteries for a decade now--and I'm not saying there shouldn't be any phones with that option--but it was terrible in practice. I've tried juggling batteries and it was super annoyin
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by pfranz 6y ago
Eek, the thought of that makes me cringe. I guess it would be passable in some circumstances, but I can imagine a bunch of reasons why it would be miserable or useless: * the quality drop; recompressing, non-matching frame rates, non-matchi
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by pfranz 6y ago
It depends on your paranoia about attack vectors. From photo EXIF data you can figure out what phones and cameras you use, where you took the pictures, and dates and times you've traveled. With AI or looking at the photos you can ID pe
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by pfranz 6y ago
Like you, most people I know took many years of a foreign language and can speak little if any of it. But I'm curious if that's even the goal of it? When I took ASL I remember them saying the reason ASL was accepted as a foreign l
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by pfranz 6y ago
A lot of game studios release a final patch removing DRM. That would have been nice.
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by pfranz 6y ago
That's kind of the problem Photoshop has been painted into. As things were added they were kind of shoved into the spots in the UI that existed early on. Old-timers have muscle memory, but it's hard for newcomers to hunt for thing
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by pfranz 6y ago
> K has no tech experience I mean, I'm not sure exactly how much credit to give him, but DreamWorks Animation had a lot of tech and he oversaw it for 20+ years. He stood up a brand new animation studio while the industry was digitiz
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by pfranz 6y ago
It's kind of a surprising amount of money, don't watch any of the exclusive content or other services, but I pay for YouTube because I don't want my kid watching ads. I cringe when he has a teacher that plays a video and pre-
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by pfranz 6y ago
I can't imagine Katzenberg doing this (I don't think his interests are actually animation or anything "traditional"), but hand drawn animation is just "out of fashion" and the business people don't think t
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by pfranz 6y ago
I think the problem is it becomes a way to bribe/exploit poorer people. I've always liked the idea of mandatory civil service; one option being the military. Having family in the military and being exposed elsewhere, it's int
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by pfranz 6y ago
Anecdotally, after some of the recent updates I've noticed like a 10% match instead of 0%. It was really nice when they pushed an update to recognize a mask and fail quickly to a pin since that's what happens most often when shopp
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by pfranz 6y ago
While not necessarily a store like Macy's themselves, I know I've reached out to manufacturers when I needed a replacement handle or foot that was lost or broken. Heck, often right inside the package you'll see a piece of pap
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by pfranz 6y ago
It's nice they offer screws and washers. I've definitely taken them up on that. I'm pretty sure the parent is referring to parts. When moving a couch one time I had to remove the feet to fit it through a doorway and lost one
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by pfranz 6y ago
Particle board and assemble-yourself were around way before IKEA made it to my town. I don't remember visiting IKEA until the early 2000s in the US. IKEA was nice because things were flat-packed, with simpler assembly instructions, and
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by pfranz 6y ago
I feel like I've had two experiences with it. Probably 10 years ago I was at a medium sized facility and we migrated 10 different ticketing systems to Jira hosted on-site. It was a little awkward, not quite lightweight, but served all
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by pfranz 6y ago
The theory is the wacky designs are to discourage you from stacking it or putting it at the top of a stack. I have no idea why they push vertical orientations. I imagine the size is to disperse heat, manage dust, and keep noise down. I don&
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by pfranz 6y ago
Is it cellular? I hear that can kill battery when not near a phone or wifi--especially when hiking where cell service is spare phones tend to use a lot of power trying to get a signal.
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by pfranz 6y ago
Missing ANT+ was mentioned above. I was recently looking at the Apple Watch and rowing machines. Ignoring that a wrist-based heart monitor isn't great for things like boxing or rowing, you can't really get the heart rate monitor t
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by pfranz 6y ago
The last two dryers I had ignored what you set and used their "dryness detection." It works ok for most things, but larger things like towels and sheets are still damp. Run the dryer a second time and it auto shuts off within lite
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by pfranz 6y ago
> That's quite the strawman of the argument. I wasn't trying to make an argument or refute anything you said. I liked that you brought up Maslow and was hoping to steer the conversation back to what the parent was saying. The U
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by pfranz 6y ago
> just throw UBI money at them and warehouse them in apartments like cattle I think this is how the bottom portion of Maslow's hierarchy is often dismissed. What I think the parent is talking about is higher up in the hierarchy--est
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by pfranz 6y ago
Apple has historically be very stingy about RAM in iPhones. It looks like modern RaspberryPis today have 2, 4, or 8gb. The current-gen iPhone SE has 3gb, 11 standard/pro/max have 4gb. They're in the same ballpark. So it is p
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by pfranz 6y ago
> * Does it do the verification every time, or 1 in 10? If the latter, going back to the most recent snapshot isn't enough. And if you do say 3 backups then get rid of #3, can it take incremental #4 on top of #2, or will it complain
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by pfranz 6y ago
> In my case, the NAS is a Synology server. Same here. I'm also using BTRFS (I've not had a problem and my understanding is Synology doesn't use the flakier features of BTRFS). I can't remember if I'm using AFP o

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