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by pfranz 7y ago
It's pretty well studied that most teenagers stay up late. My freshman year of high school my school was under construction so I was bussed across town. Which meant I had to wake up close to 5am. I don't remember staying up espe
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm sure gaming and screen-time don't help, but it's fairly well known that younger people tend to stay up late and have difficulty waking up in the morning. In high school I never understood why they did certain things like
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by pfranz 7y ago
I haven't really paid much attention, but I'm pretty sure CentOS/RHEL only do kernel updates with distro updates. If so, it's about once or twice a year: https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078 In
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by pfranz 7y ago
I grew up with Windows. My jobs used Unix/Linux and I switched to Mac at home before Vista came out. I got a job using Windows during the Windows 8-10 transition. During that 10 year gap I'd help friends and family setup printe
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by pfranz 7y ago
And that's the problem. I imagine those Mac users chose it because they like the OS' conventions. Photoshop seems to have gone the other way from using OS conventions to doing their own thing the same on each platform. iTunes,
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm pretty sure the parent was talking about macOS exclusive apps. The ones I recognize there are all multi-platform, which have always had the problem of keeping their own conventions between platform or adopting the platforms--most
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by pfranz 7y ago
> has been proven kind of moot since most games have their own domain specific UI schemes and people love them anyway. I emphatically disagree. There are still jokes (from legitimate annoyance) that the main consoles have different conv
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by pfranz 7y ago
> Gitlab is the _only_ choice when your company prefers on-prem Is that literal or figurative? GitHub Enterprise is on premises. I used it at my last company which was on an air gapped network. It looks like it has been around since 2
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by pfranz 7y ago
I loved Flash for those things. However, a majority of my interactions were websites for things like restaurants where I couldn't copy/paste basic things like the address, didn't have progressive loading, search, bookmarks,
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by pfranz 7y ago
That's exactly the kluge I'm talking about. I use iOS and macOS and it /mostly/ works. Primarily Chrome on the desktop, but use Firefox for work related stuff and Safari as a contingency. It seems to break on things l
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by pfranz 7y ago
With the web and related technology comfortably 20+ years old I'm very surprised standards haven't developed where huge, annoying hacks have developed. I checked out via ApplePay on a website by random. What do you mean shipping,
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by pfranz 7y ago
I can't speak to actual performance impact. I saw people flame Safari, then Chrome about the change. I was waiting to see how everything settled out for my own use case and switch browsers as needed. > (and I still get tons of in-
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by pfranz 7y ago
I know Firefox is the one browser who isn't switching to the newer, more restrictive method of content blocking, but wasn't the (purported) motivation for Safari's change performance? For my use, I keep many many tabs and win
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by pfranz 7y ago
I agree that's a rather aggressive schedule for support, but I'm running Mojave 10.14.6 (18G103) and Safari Version 13.0.2 (14608.2.40.1.2) right now.
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by pfranz 7y ago
I just can't imagine Firefox will ever be performant as Safari. One is written for a single platform developed at the same company that develops the hardware and OS (I'm not trying to belittle the Safari team--it's kind of a
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by pfranz 7y ago
I don't really care what you call it. Sure, it's a lot like the sticker on the car window, but it's like business hours or a menu on a website--these are specific things to get me engaged and trivial things to let me kick th
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by pfranz 7y ago
Yeah, that works for changes at a physical location. What about founding of an LLC or other less tangible changes? Even with a physical sign it would be nice to have a searchable long term record. That seems to be what newspapers fulfill
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by pfranz 7y ago
Conversely, on my property tax they itemize where the money goes. Presumably showing what I'm getting for my tax money. Or maybe just making me angry how much local schools cost if I don't have kids? (that was the vibe I got whe
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by pfranz 7y ago
The technique is actually used a lot in diets and budgeting. Manually writing down everything you pay for helps you to notice that taxi you take every day or how often you "splurge" for coffee. Same with calories and that aftern
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by pfranz 7y ago
I understand where their coming from, but adding useless paperwork just inhibits business growth. I'm more sympathetic to writing a check, like you say, but people are horrible with budgeting--which is why you pre-pay quarterly instea
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by pfranz 7y ago
I've noticed a lot of "public notice" laws. Either a physical sign on the property or something published in the newspaper. I'm not quite sure what the digital equivalent would be--a government run "announce"
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by pfranz 7y ago
I haven't looked this up, but I'm pretty sure audits are way down. There was a recent an article saying the IRS was focusing on auditing poorer people because it's too expensive to audit rich people. Since their budget is c
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by pfranz 7y ago
I thought I heard Brazil had open source tax software. It would need to be sponsored and managed by the government in order to work. With open source software the liability is on the end user and a corrupted Word document is a bearable ri
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by pfranz 7y ago
It reminds me of the demonization of the IRS, they just carry out Congress' laws and funding. It's disingenuous when Congresspeople complain as they reduce their funding.
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by pfranz 7y ago
All of this /could/ be provided by the private market or by volunteers, but the things you're describing have a huge operational expense--especially in more rural areas. Something like tax software has more of a capital expe
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by pfranz 7y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I'm not sure if there was a specific incident where he changed, but he does seem well aware any company with millions in revenue isn't without blame. He also recognizes that preserving the environment is i
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by pfranz 7y ago
> In some, ways, it seems like Yvon's trying to undo the damage Patagonia did in its earlier days. Like... some sort of good act to absolve it and him of his "environmental sins". I don't know too much outside of read
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by pfranz 7y ago
> frozen apple pie sellers will tell folks to take the pie out of the aluminum tin and put it in a glass or ceramic baking dish to make the pie look homemade. What's even more ironic is doing that completely changes how the pie bake
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by pfranz 7y ago
Perhaps I just worded it poorly. I encourage people to make the long-term decision to live below their means so they're not put in that kind of a position. I'm sympathetic to their short-term position and very supportive of chan
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by pfranz 7y ago
It was mentioned more as long-term baggage because of the association. I honestly have no idea if relationships, like IBM's, were frowned upon at the time. I believe most of those close relationships were clandestine at the time and

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