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by pfranz 7y ago
Apple was a bit "late," iPhone 8 (2017) started it, but they still sold (and maybe still sell?) plenty of phones that don't support it. Earlier on things kind of coalesced around 2 separate charging standards; Qi and PMA. S
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by pfranz 7y ago
I haven't worked on large gaming projects, but I've worked on large CG feature films. I was a little horrified about how aggressively they adopted some technologies. The theory was that Pixar proved a lot of their technologies i
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by pfranz 7y ago
Are temporary closures automated? I feel like in Waze I gave them enough information when reporting about things like construction or flooding that they could be integrated almost immediately--similar to road hazards or stopped vehicles.
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by pfranz 7y ago
Other comments mentioned Apple had issues correcting streets/routes because they had to be corrected downstream (they licensed from places like TomTom). Part of the goal of this update is to bring it all in-house improving the turnaro
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by pfranz 7y ago
I hear Apple is pretty responsive about correcting reported errors. There's error reporting inside the app that includes a spot to attach a photo. Of course, this can be problematic when driving and I much prefer Waze's error re
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by pfranz 7y ago
Mirroring what the sibling comment said, studios often spend almost as much on advertising as they do production. I've often heard studios "borrowing" advertising budget to pay named actors for production. Disney's old
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by pfranz 7y ago
I didn't want to get into it, but I was going to make the YouTube/Google comparison to keynote streaming an Apple. When YouTube moved off of Flash and added hardware acceleration, Chrome got first and best support with codecs and
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by pfranz 7y ago
I use 1Password on both my phone and desktop for logging in. Saving a new password on the desktop is easy. For the phone it seems rather tedious. Especially when, even on the desktop, many sign up pages have me submit 2 or 3 times becaus
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by pfranz 7y ago
Maybe it's just me, but one bummer about this kind of system is that's is A+ top security for a lot of stuff I don't care about. To create some account on a random forum to give feedback about how I got a stuck oil filter of
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by pfranz 7y ago
For this and many examples I think it's more ignoring those use-cases than maliciously blocking them. > For the longest time you couldn't even preview songs on iTunes store without having iTunes. I'm confused what the use
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by pfranz 7y ago
Yep. I had this happen a few weeks ago (I'm not sure how much maintenance the server has had since it was set up 2-3 years previous). Thankfully, after seeing whatever the error was ("No space left on device" or something)
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by pfranz 7y ago
A bunch of people in this thread complain how integration has gotten way worse over the years. I'm pretty confident this is banks "fighting back" with 2-fa and other additional security measures--many seem to have the goal o
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by pfranz 7y ago
I thought Mint originally used a third party but transitioned to their own platform years ago? I remember reading about a rocky transition for users.
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by pfranz 7y ago
It sounds like you aren't looking for budgeting and just want to see categories over time (which is mostly what I want and seems like a lot of people here). However, if you are interested in budgeting, one solution is what YNAB does.
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by pfranz 7y ago
> The #1 thing that I need from Mint is 100% reliable integrations So Mint does it's own integrations instead of using something like Yodlee or Plaid. For me, Mint has been way more rock solid than sites that use the others. All o
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by pfranz 7y ago
I've had a Mint account almost since launch. I've tried multiple times over the years to pick up YNAB. Last week I started taking another stab at it. The two aren't quite equivalent. YNAB seems to pretty actively want you
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by pfranz 7y ago
> Which is why I would like to see the focus on migrating this functionality to their non-“computer” devices. Or add a separate device specifically to add this feature. I think that attempt was the AirPort Time Capsule (2008-2018). I&#x
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by pfranz 7y ago
In general, I think Apple's former ideology was "the computer was the hub" back when the iPod was popular. At least 10-15 years ago that's transitioned towards "the cloud is the hub" (I can imagine a bunch of
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by pfranz 7y ago
There are a few possible approaches. I figured they're using b2. I'm pretty sure Synology has builtin tools to mirror to it. Backblaze will backup external drives that are attached to the computer, but if they are disconnected
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by pfranz 7y ago
"2nd best" is rather ambitious, but I lived in LA for about a dozen years and I did see serious, sustained improvements to public transit. I'm pessimistic about any public transit project completing, let alone at the scale i
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by pfranz 7y ago
Other people have suggested noise cancelling may be a possible source of hearing damage...and I'm just some rando on the Internet, so I have no idea, but I do try and be aware of exposing myself to sustained loud noises. All I've
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by pfranz 7y ago
Another comment told you how to change this behavior, but I heard someone rationalize the default behavior as taking out one earbud can signal you're trying to talk to someone so it disables noise cancelation so you can hear them with
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Apple started recording audio exposure levels in Health. Using noise cancelling my normal dB level dropped noticeably.
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by pfranz 7y ago
But the web isn't static. Viral videos used to be emailed around and show up on sitcoms. There are a lot of sites that worked well on a desktop, but are frustrating or unusable on mobile. That's especially problematic if your a
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by pfranz 7y ago
It turns out you can go to https://applepaydemo.apple.com/ at the "Try it: ApplePayPaymentRequest" section and do a "Detailed Request" to try it for yourself. I think it's really actually nice that
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by pfranz 7y ago
https://github.com/luruke/browser-2020#payment-request-api I had almost exclusively made purchases through apps for digital goods, but I was really surprised when I did it for the first time on a website for a physical
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by pfranz 7y ago
What you're saying is true, but it's just the price floor and often not the actual sale price. It's more often "what the market will bear." "Professional" customers are often happy paying significant pre
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by pfranz 7y ago
Eh. I think that's a bit of oversimplification. I work in computer graphics. All of the "old school" companies (been around for 30+ years; Pixar, Blue Sky, DreamWorks) wrote their own renderer/compositor and other too
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by pfranz 7y ago
> I refuse to do business with any business that uses plaid and has no sane alternative to get bank account numbers (deposit two small amounts, three days later I tell you what they are) I'm a bit horrified this is still a thing, to
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by pfranz 7y ago
I think this weird thing happened with Python 2. I believe Python 2.6 (Oct-2008) was the last "feature release" and 2.7 (Jul-2010) was intended as a bridge. So since 2008, 2.x users have been shielded from most all of the normal

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