pfranz

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by pfranz 7y ago
I wish to see more research on stuff like this. I believe I've seen similar studies showing different learning styles were more effective depending on the topic, not the person. In my experience, a lot of learning is a back and forth
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by pfranz 7y ago
https://www.connectedhomeip.com/ Last month Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance which includes IKEA, Samsung SmartThings, Signify (Philips Lighting) announced a new working group. Like you, I hope these things a
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm skeptical of adopting for adoption sake, but I've dipped my toes in where other solutions wouldn't work. I've kept in mind the failure mode (or hacker exposure). I also like monitoring/reducing consumption as
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by pfranz 7y ago
I was trying to find the last time I commented on this story (wasn't sure if it was done here or elsewhere). I remember reading an article a few years prior to the Bloomberg story where Apple had talked about photographing their serve
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by pfranz 7y ago
It's been over a decade ago, but I've been without power for about a week after a natural disaster. Most places won't open if they don't have power (just because I didn't have power, didn't mean others were wi
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by pfranz 7y ago
My public library offers O'Reilly digital access. Unfortunately, it was some limited subset of what O'Reilly's own subscription service offers. How does ACM compare?
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by pfranz 7y ago
I do think these kinds of things are worth remembering, but looking them over it just reminded me of the quote, "it took me 10 years to become an overnight success"
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by pfranz 7y ago
AHA? You mean the ACA? The US pays more for healthcare for a whole host of reasons split between different categories. The ACA only took on a very small aspect. The idea that getting close to 100% coverage means incentives like jacking
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by pfranz 7y ago
I definitely think the frugality can get baked in for a bunch of reasons. Also, I'll often do stuff myself because the "administrative overhead" is worse than just doing it. I had a problem with my oven and called 5 places.
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by pfranz 7y ago
I really really don't like software subscriptions, but for a password manager there is obvious ongoing work just to keep it functioning. It's one thing to use a standalone app like MS Money for 20 years with various hacks and comp
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by pfranz 7y ago
USB is kind of a physical standard. I have a few things like an alarm clock that uses USB, but I feel like the lower build quality is way more obvious than if it just had a wall wart. The problem with calling USB a DC power standard is tha
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by pfranz 7y ago
I wanted to add to your comment. When I've looked to volunteer in the past I've seen places that ask for a 6+ month commitment because bringing someone up to speed sucks up resources (not unlike training a new employee). Other t
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by pfranz 7y ago
I completely agree it's not necessarily a good thing, but from a government overseeing an economy perspective it's desirable. It's something Japan and a lot of other countries are trying to address. Managing population decl
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by pfranz 7y ago
I've had the car roll when I thought the handbrake was engaged. The pull-levers aren't binary, so sometimes people don't pull them enough (I sometimes get others complaining I pulled it too far and it's difficult for th
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by pfranz 7y ago
I always imagined it was a sustained load on a few teeth of the gear instead of constantly distributed as the gears turn.
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by pfranz 7y ago
> Why would you be OK with any kind of disincentive to parents staying home with their children? I'm just recognizing the realities of incentivizing anything. There's a difference between a work requirement for both parents an
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by pfranz 7y ago
I think those are two separate ideas. I agree we shouldn't have a culture of "farming out" childrearing, but I disagree offering childcare options has to encourage that. I think in any case, we need work environments more s
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by pfranz 7y ago
Do you care if the country's population drops dramatically? I'm sure many people are fine with that, but if you're a country looking to stay strong economically the math says you'll need to incentivize childrearing some
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm a bit torn and often err on the side of installing into --user or virtualenv. What often happened is I would toy around with a project, install a few libraries, then abandon it. Months/years later I would hit an incompatibil
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by pfranz 7y ago
I agree, but it reduces the scope of the project incredibly. Freeing up resources that can be spent elsewhere. Much like how Homebrew doesn't seem to support multiple users on the same box. It addresses 80-90% of people's need.
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by pfranz 7y ago
It just depends on where and how you want to spend your time. I've "micro-managed" myself to prove the point. I gave them that estimate up front--told them this was assuming I had dedicated time to work. After a week or tw
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by pfranz 7y ago
I thought the article broke down those things rather well. It talks about how detrimental context shifting is, shifting priorities. In the part about how poor time estimates are, "No time is put in for meetings to go over requirement
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by pfranz 7y ago
I do think that is worth noting, but it is (mostly) separate from the original point. It doesn't matter if the copyright is open if the content disappears. At least in the U.S., I don't think it's that relevant to the use-ca
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by pfranz 7y ago
A few years ago I heard people talking about Apple over-metric-ing. I think even Tim Cook was touting how few kernel panics and crashes there were in modern macOS. They had been tracking crashes and putting effort to reduce them. However
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by pfranz 7y ago
What would you have expected them to do? Would you point to the user if Stack Overflow stopped hosting content? Or GitHub? Before places like imgur, I'd see forum postings linking to broken images hosted on personal sites--so self h
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by pfranz 7y ago
I work with a bunch of non-tech people. I get what they're doing. The techy people are the only ones who bother using ` for anything. I have no idea if non-techies will start now that there's a button for it, but typing it is n
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by pfranz 7y ago
> Presumably if the sites wanted to operate under that model they would be already. Not if the economics don't work out. I earnestly thing the Internet would be vastly different if microtransactions were feasible 20 years ago. I w
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by pfranz 7y ago
I imagine "the market" would correct for that profit. The $10k for each car comes from their insurance premiums. If they don't need the full payout, it make sense to want to pay less in premiums.
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by pfranz 7y ago
I think that's partially correct. If you follow https://vfxplatform.com/ it says Python3 was pushed from 2019 to 2020 to allow everyone to upgrade Qt and PySide (which are prerequisites). The reason it was deprioriti
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by pfranz 7y ago
I think it's key you have 4 ports. I think the very small number of ports and requirement of dongles in order to get enough ports (and lack of USB-C hub) perpetuates USB. If you have 1 or 2 USB-C ports odds are you'll need a dong

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