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by pfranz 3y ago
I was kind of expecting some magic button combination, too, but was told there wasn't one. The car was actually a manual transmission and the thought did occur to me. My worry was something like steering lock or some other issue while
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by pfranz 3y ago
It's odd you go straight to a trope about a cult. If I'm happy with something I don't always have the time, energy, or interest to seek out something better. It's completely unsurprising to expect the first generation of
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by pfranz 3y ago
I don't think Zelle is the same thing at all. > The initial release of the FedNow Service provides baseline functionality supporting market needs for a range of use cases, including those growing in demand such as account-to-account
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by pfranz 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if branded partnerships have minimal profit and are mostly intended to keep a premium market perception. Lego was pretty famous for doing branded partnerships and still struggling [1]. This lead them to come up
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by pfranz 3y ago
> I watched a number of developers do that and it was about as much work to go from SVN to either Git or Mercurial, and if they learned the other DVCS it was always easier since they were mapping concepts rather than learning them for th
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by pfranz 3y ago
> I'll try to set a keyboard shortcut (not a global one mind you) in iTerm2 and suddenly I need to enable iTerm2 to have accessibility access? Maybe this could be more clear in iTerm's UI, but the reason it needs accessibility
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by pfranz 3y ago
I had the same issue with crock pot meals and instant pot meals. The biggest culprit for me is a homogeneous texture (I have the same annoyance with making stuff in higher end blenders). You'll notice "high end" recipes sugge
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by pfranz 3y ago
If doubling the labor force halved wages why would productivity increases have a different effect?
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by pfranz 3y ago
If you're rich and still working long hours you're not working because of the money. If you can be the CEO of multiple companies, those companies are not getting a full-time workweek and that person very likely isn't doing it
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by pfranz 3y ago
Just think of how fast you'll be with a1z26 ciphers!
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by pfranz 3y ago
Yeah, you should be careful when picking a brand, but I don't see muesli with loaded sugar at those places. Are you looking at granola? First off, I haven't seen them in my local stores (outside of Bob's Red Mill[1]). Walmart
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by pfranz 3y ago
It's ridiculously annoying you have to make an appointment, but you can get a replacement case. I haven't checked with how compatible the models are between earbuds and cases. The USB-C replacement case is quoted at $99. The same
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by pfranz 3y ago
I get where you're coming from, but those lines aren't equivalent (which may be why its confusing). "as" changes the name and can be used for both: import mpmath as mpmath_module from mpmath import mp as mp_con
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by pfranz 3y ago
How is a minimum age not ageism? > There are great advantages to age, and people age differently. The problem is the health of elected officials can't be trusted--their medical staff explicitly mislead or omit issues. "A pharma
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by pfranz 3y ago
Most cuisine-based cookbooks have a bunch of chapters on ingredients, technique, equipment, and storage that easily get overlooked. Since it's difficult to share those things in a recipe format (but often come up in videos of preparati
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by pfranz 3y ago
> I wonder if this might backfire. In the age of ai when animated characters can be almost created wholly by ai, actors can be replaced by AI, the age of the movie star might be over. From what I've seen the conversation is a lot mo
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by pfranz 3y ago
https://airportpianos.org/pianos/ Searching by airport code only seems to work in a few airports (perhaps by coincidence?). I see airports like Salt Lake City International Airport, Chicago O'Hare International Ai
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by pfranz 3y ago
Especially since I think they botched the whole splitting up of iTunes (which should have happened years earlier). I want to buy a digital movie from Apple. It does not occur to me to open the TV.app then click on Store and look for it ther
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by pfranz 3y ago
You see convenience jump and quality (temporarily) regress over and over in the short time photography has been around. Black & white film and photos look amazing. When color started coming around you needed more light and the quality d
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by pfranz 3y ago
I've always heard that Lorne is famously against improvisation while shooting. There have been numerous examples over the years of people getting in trouble for doing it. Here's one article [1]. There are very minor changes that d
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by pfranz 3y ago
I believe the traditional resource is Dinosaur book (OS Concepts by Silberschatz). I've also seen Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ come up. Another common recommend
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by pfranz 3y ago
Here's a HN thread asking the same question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29169143 Anecdotally, I've heard the same thing. Lots of articles will say things like, "ILM increased the resolution of Stage
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by pfranz 3y ago
Wikipedia has a pretty good description, sources, and recent US-based examples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft
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by pfranz 3y ago
If it's easy to prevent, why is it so much more of a problem than for wine? Budweiser had a “born on date” and later switched it to a "freshest before" date. Other breweries insist on cold shipping--that's quite expensiv
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by pfranz 3y ago
Beer is incredibly difficult to keep shelf-stable. International beers, unless very specific efforts are taken, will taste off. I heard a story that Austrian beer enthusiasts just assumed American beers tasted "skunky" because tha
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by pfranz 3y ago
I completely agree. I've been asked to stay on an extra week or two and I think it was a terrible decision. Nobody really cared or paid attention in hand off meetings (I'd like to think careful documentation was later appreciated
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by pfranz 4y ago
You're right about not getting much equity (unless the market keeps going up!) The videos says, "Hardly anybody stays in a house 30-40 years anymore. In fact, the average is 7 years before sell and move on." After 7 years you
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by pfranz 4y ago
I think for building anything (art, code, furniture) the tools help you find the result. Building it a second time is much easier and requires a lot less sophistication.
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by pfranz 4y ago
So many countries already have it figured out. My understanding is by law income already needs to be reported to the IRS (from your employer or by you). I would imagine that's all you'd be legally signing off on. That's all I
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by pfranz 4y ago
> Nothing special happened in 2010. Beginning 2018 there was a temporary change (TJCA) that increased the standard deduction, but that ends in 3 years unless extended by Congress. My understanding was that the personal exemption was temp

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