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by pfranz 6y ago
My understanding is that while ZFS might be a great fit on the desktop, but it's way too RAM hungry for phones/ipads. Maybe with Apple contribution it could work better on mobile? Maybe I'm just ignorant of different tuning o
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by pfranz 6y ago
I've hit this on other filesystems and I think I ended up doing: echo "" > largefile Then you can delete your files. Not sure if it'll work on APFS.
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by pfranz 6y ago
Personally, I have a network Time Machine backup and use Backblaze. I also keep a USB drive handy and clone a bootable backup via SuperDuper periodically--especially before large changes like an OS update. I've had to dig into the nitt
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by pfranz 6y ago
I have a nightly snapshot and do the same if there's an issue. To be fair, I've only ever hit these "verification" errors when I manually mounted and mucked around with the backup and a backup started at the same time--a
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by pfranz 6y ago
DaisyDisk is another example. They even blur the line by having the standalone app detect if you purchased via the App Store and will issue you a serial number if requested: "DaisyDisk has detected and applied your Mac App Store purcha
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by pfranz 6y ago
That's a specific (I think over represented) use-case. When I had my first kid I considered something large. Looking around I saw people buy large cars after having their first kid and by the time they needed it (driving around friends
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by pfranz 6y ago
Within the last 5 years I know some other studios were focusing on single-player experience at ship time knowing people may only have the disk to play, for exmaple service members serving overseas.
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by pfranz 6y ago
I think it's been easy to miss a lot of Valve's recent work since they haven't been cranking out games. Here are a few things since 2013 when DOTA2 was released: * SteamOS, Steam Machine, Steam Controller, Steam Link (2015) h
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by pfranz 6y ago
I can see what you're saying in principle, but what if a bug is opened with "this stopped working for me" but evolves into a very specific issue? Should the maintainer open a new bug, link to it and close the old one? In prac
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by pfranz 6y ago
I often wish there were more direct citations in journalistic articles. I hate to say this, but often when trying to find sources it is cluttered up by news articles.
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by pfranz 6y ago
> So which is better: having no Fortnite at all or having no Fortnite in the App Store with the option to sideload It's too simplistic and disingenuous to present it that way. Last month there was Fornite in the App Store and no opt
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by pfranz 6y ago
I think the two are a bit orthogonal--but do have some overlap. I recently had a job where I helped out with a bunch of sysadmin stuff. A bunch of the computers had local users and dns entries set locally. The rest of the network used NIS.
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by pfranz 6y ago
I really think they're very different applications. I think in nodes and much prefer Nuke, but AE being timeline based gives it very different strengths. Nuke also doesn't manage video and synced audio and is better optimized arou
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by pfranz 6y ago
The rub with all of these services is that your account is burned in addition to your credit card. You can walk away from the remaining 11 months of Lightroom as long as you don't need to continue using Premiere for a project or rely o
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by pfranz 6y ago
Apple got over having a "camera bump" on their phones years ago. On laptops they have way more options--the most straightforward would be to put a matching notch in the bottom-case for when it closes. Finally higher quality buil
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by pfranz 6y ago
(I don't have any professional background in this) I believe in general above-ground lines are "less durable", but they're much easier to install and repair. Below-ground cost significantly more for both. They're al
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by pfranz 6y ago
I don't think the real world works very well for these metaphors (like the parent's OEM metaphor). What if Walmart required you to generate a username and password, confirm your email, and store your payment info before you shoppe
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by pfranz 6y ago
I was doing Unreal Engine development on an airgapped machine. I was annoyed to find out it requires the Epic store. There's also no offline install option. I hate updating the app each time I run it, only then checking for an update t
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by pfranz 6y ago
I don't think it's that clear-cut. Specifically because this is coming from Epic. I've avoided some of the Assassin's Creed games on PC because I don't want to create a Uplay account, app launcher, or whatever. I&#x
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by pfranz 6y ago
Just look at the PC platform Epic is coming from. It used to be just buying retail boxes, then Steam came along. Now it's Steam, Epic, Origin, Uplay. Personally, I hate keeping track of the separate apps and which games were purchased
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by pfranz 6y ago
I believe random videos are too low of a quality. Like this, most of the stuff I've seen uses constrained videos. I have seen random still images used for this kind of thing: https://nerf-w.github.io/ I haven't he
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by pfranz 6y ago
Sure, my frustration is that it a) required Adobe's notoriously terrible software and b) wasn't obvious the implications of what I was doing and c) wasn't reversable/undoable. I think the concept is great and was just pa
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by pfranz 6y ago
I think it's been around since the early 2000s, but a few months ago I got very tripped up by this for the first time. I got a PDF I needed to sign and send back (I usually drop and image of my signature and fax or reply). I actually n
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by pfranz 6y ago
Phil Schiller tells the backstory here: https://atp.fm/317 (28:00)
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by pfranz 6y ago
There are a few products that clear that up. I remember my mechanic doing it for me and it does make a noticeable difference. I would think any auto parts store would offer it to anyone buying bulbs as an up-sell.
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by pfranz 6y ago
I haven't used 3ds Max much. My impression is that it is more heavily used in games and maybe TV/commercial work. I have over a decade of experience with Maya, which was purchased by Autodesk in 2005 and looks to have been used on
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by pfranz 6y ago
I think there's a place for both, but env vars can make things really annoying to troubleshoot. Already, I often print all env vars before running automated commands and it can be a mess to dig through. Culling down environment variabl
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by pfranz 6y ago
Why are random users allowed to attach USB drives? Is that normal? I would think any data going in or out should go through some centralized process? Sure, the Internet can be a loophole, but locking down physical access seems like an easy
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by pfranz 6y ago
I haven't looked too closely, but I've bought Duracell / Energizer batteries from Amazon and I suspect they're counterfeit because they die suspiciously quickly. I thought my hardware was broken, but Amazon's batter
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by pfranz 6y ago
Do you have one that's not a counterfeit to recommend? ;)

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