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   by pfranz 6y ago

   Thanks for taking the time to reply. I generally prefer title text to previews (I find it annoying browsers seem to be phasing titles out when possible). The only context I've ever used live previews is with VMs when I'm waiting f
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   by pfranz 6y ago

   I never found Prometheus that difficult. I would say I've spent a moderate amount of time over the past few years reading and using it (almost exclusively just reading the docs and blog). I haven't used Datadog. The places I'
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   by pfranz 6y ago

   > window management and taskbar UI is the best of any OS I've ever seen I /really/ missed in Linux where MMB-drag and RMB-drag to move resize windows without grabbing small UI dressing. The taskbar fills too quickly (you c
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   by pfranz 6y ago

   I had the opposite experience. Similar background, Used Windows heavily from DOS through XP. Started a job as Windows 10 had some major incremental releases and was eager to learn PowerShell and see what Windows had done in 10 years. I earn
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   by pfranz 6y ago

   I see it all around, like "housing should be around 30% if income" or a budgeting system like 50/30/20 (needs/wants/savings&debt). I just think the concept of decoupling them isn't something people qui
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   by pfranz 6y ago

   This is something I wish was talked about more in personal finance. Salary and spending don't have to be coupled.
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   by pfranz 6y ago

   Don't forget taxes! Both on contribution and withdraw. Those under 50 are capped at $19k /year for 401k and $7k /year for IRA. Keep in mind you can't start withdrawing until age 59 1/2. So any money accrued above th
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   by pfranz 6y ago

   Someone already mentioned cache invalidation. To extend that, I don't think it's all that different from an old paper system. If you want to delete your file it's probably kept in a cabinet in some department, but the billing
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   by pfranz 6y ago

   I few months ago I tried really hard to get smooth-scrolling on a Macbook pro running Windows/Linux vms. I was testing against VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion, and native boot. I never got a satisfying result. Windows on hardware with specif
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    I did a similar comparison a few years ago and had a very similar list and came to the same conclusion (about $500 more for the Apple, but it was probably worth it in known reliability and resale). The only thing I would have added was that
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    > apple hardware has bad support under anything but macOS and I can't think of any hardware which is supported under mac but not on windows I had to read this a few times. You mean third-party hardware and peripherals, right? I firs
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    I'd love for someone to chime in with specific details. I looked quickly at the French and US sites to compare. France does offer AppleCare+ for 299,00 € on a random MacBook I chose. The US page is pretty clear that it extends a 1-year
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    I'm guessing you have MagSafe2. I only had MagSafe1 laptops and thought they were great. I might be mistaken, but I thought I had heard of Apple tweaking the magnets on different models. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    I haven't had an incident yet, but I'm way more careful with a young kid (or myself). Leaving one charging on a couch, for example, isn't something I'm comfortable with both because of it sliding a foot or two on to the
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    I agree and I wish there was a better solution. In the US you're paying sales tax with new cars as well as used so at least it's apples-to-apples in this conversation. And with cars it can vary sometimes where you purchase or wher
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    I realize a lot of people are big fans of hiding their dock. I find it annoying because there are too many moves instead of darting your eyes. When walking up to a random computer it's worse because I often find those people have moved
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    I do use vi, but I think it's more important that ESC is used to non-destructively dismiss a dialog. Like exiting fullscreen mode, backing out, or dismissing a warning--but not exiting without saving.
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    I think the parent was a bit tongue-in-cheek. It's in reference to the keyboard layout vi was developed with and the fact many vi users are obsessed with keeping their fingers on/near the home row (much like, "a /real&#x
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    Linux has often had the same issue. The problem is the OS relies on system installed Python and package versions. If you, as a user, upgrade Python or those packages the OS may not gracefully handle them. In Linux you can end up with an unb
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    I really hate the dealer game, but if you're stubborn and persistent you can often get what you want. It sounds like the best approach is to email multiple dealerships and make it clear you're only coming in after you commit to a
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    I haven't needed to look in years, but I'm pretty confident it was around that back then. This site [1] says the average is $596 for collision and $192 for comprehensive. So for a brand new car for someone in their 20s I don'
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    I haven't needed to look in years, but I'm pretty confident it was around that back then. This site [1] says the average is $596 for collision and $192 for comprehensive. So for a brand new car for someone in their 20s I don'
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    I realize a surprising number of people are paid close to minimum wage (I believe the number is close to 30% in the US) a brand new Honda Fit is $16k. Federal minimum wage is close to that annually and some state's minimum wage can dou
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    This article implies it's based on the dealer location in California https://www.caranddriver.com/research/a31548432/california-c... I seem to remember tax based on the purchase location when I bought a car a
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    It's basically a 10-year plan, but you start by saving for an ~10 year old car for a few thousand and try to pay cash. Any potential car payment can now go into a fund towards your next car, which could just be a newer used car. If you
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    I /used/ to prefer stuff built into the browser, but after years of pain I greatly prefer standalone software for a/v stuff. When Firefox transitioned their plugin format they dropped support for over a year (after receiving
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    Of course. The fixes weren't unique to systemd. Upstart addressed those issues too. The problem, either branding or adoption, is that after literally decades it hadn't been widely adopted on sysv-style systems. `/etc/rc.
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    Specifically in those circumstances it's more important than normal; intranet, government, and PDF documents. Intranet: bespoke documentation to internal processes verses generic documents used for reference. Government: external refer
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    I see it often in intranets, wikis, and PDF documentation. It's an additional context clue that you're leaving a closed website. The most egregious examples give you a separate click-through screen when leaving the website. Govern
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    by pfranz 6y ago

    Over the years I've hit issues where the daemon using traditional init will inherit the environment it gets launched from. So on boot it works as expected, but if a user restarts the daemon it can get subtle behaviors because of that u