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by pfranz 7y ago
The tricky part about teaching is that it's unbounded. I've never taught, but I remember transitioning from school to a job and it was a huge thing for me that I could keep work at work and I could start focusing on things outside
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by pfranz 7y ago
That's right. It is GNOME. KDE takes you right to recent logins and a login/password prompt (without a transition). I primarily work via VNC or ssh, but get questions constantly from new users. Wiggling the mouse is universall
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by pfranz 7y ago
Oh, that's what that is supposed to be! The same thing is in CentOS. You literally click and drag the mouse upward to get the login screen. New users often think the computer is broken.
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by pfranz 7y ago
Historically, it's been an awesome app. I just launched this new version and it pulled up all of my old feeds and refreshed them very quickly (I have no idea the last version I had installed). For those, like me, who remember the app
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by pfranz 7y ago
Insurance companies already give away FitBits, have "health fairs," I remember getting a $50 Visa gift card for participating in some health thing at work. These are all in exchange for lower premiums your employer is likely nego
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by pfranz 7y ago
It's still a problem for me in macOS and it wasn't 10+ years ago. I think it's the frequency of releases, not the naming.
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by pfranz 7y ago
I think it's tough when it's an annual thing. One comment in this thread is, "Do you have Oreo?" "Don't know, let me check", but in Settings/About/Version it would show "7.0". Then
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by pfranz 7y ago
I don't use Spotify, and maybe I'm just old, but I hate every platform having their own way to communicate. Especially when I want to look up something later I have to search in 4 different places and hope their search isn't
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm surprised by a lot of those kinds of products. I figured they're "art projects" and promotional. Other examples seem to be veblen goods. I think other A/B comparisons are looking at the product the wrong way,
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by pfranz 7y ago
It's an evolution. In the 50s white bread was considered modern, sanitary, more shelf stable, and futuristic. Now rustic and artisanal bread is considered nutritious with higher quality ingredients because we have fewer worries about
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by pfranz 7y ago
Yep. It's not like "scaling" is a 1 dimensional thing, either. On one project it'll be 1000s or millions of space ships, on another it'll be 1-5 photo real creatures with closeups, on another it'll be an envi
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by pfranz 7y ago
Yeah, it sucks (dealing with licensing sucks from the producer and tech side). But Houdini has had that structure for awhile: https://www.sidefx.com/buy/#houdini-indie
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by pfranz 7y ago
Really? For like a decade they had a PLE (similar to Houdini's Apprentice). As a tech guy in vfx it was awesome that I could fire up a new version at home so I could quickly see if they fixed some long-standing bug or evaluate a new
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by pfranz 7y ago
Maya is a huge program. So any frustrations will probably be around which parts you use. There's a quippy quote about programming languages, "There are two types of programming languages. Those people always complain about and
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by pfranz 7y ago
> I'm glad many big studios realized this in that they either build their own tools (Pixar/Dreamworks) or they adapt Open Source (Blender) and help improving it. Places like Pixar/DreamWorks developed proprietary tools bec
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by pfranz 7y ago
Not that I'm confident or knowledgable enough to put money on any of this, but I believe it's assumed that the US has a privileged position in the world because of its relative stability (the US infrastructure wasn't ravaged
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by pfranz 7y ago
Awhile ago I heard they wouldn't enforce it between specific destinations where it's legal (even though federally it's still illegal). More recently they've decided it's best to spend their resources elsewhere and
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by pfranz 7y ago
I haven't read through everything yet, but in the examples video[1] it's stated that they can only read a portion of the sensor to keep a high frame rate and that the camera returns one row at a time. A square image requires read
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by pfranz 7y ago
I do think dogfooding in general is a good thing but I feel like it can hold you back if you're dogmatic--especially with a large company. Sure, people snicker when people found out MS uses Linux for some services. Same with Apple us
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by pfranz 7y ago
The problem is the shutter value, which is another artistic choice that differentiates "film" from video and will contribute to the choppiness. Standard for film is a 180degree shutter (half open half closed when capturing). Orig
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by pfranz 7y ago
People don't automatically trust the most expensive daycare. They research, talk to their peers, interview, and tour. I'd be curious to see if parents switch daycares more often because of rate hikes or for other issues. I&#x27
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by pfranz 7y ago
> Dont want Motion Smoothing? Start shooting in 60Hz. A few like James Cameron and Peter Jackson have tried. Nobody liked it because it looked like a soap opera. I'm not against higher fps, but film has some historical limitations
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by pfranz 7y ago
> Panning shots in movies now look absolutely terrible and some shots have become basically unwatchable, looking jerky and unrefined. I feel like I'm missing a lot of information such as reading signs. Like you were implying, they w
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by pfranz 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_control_(Unix) I haven't used many esoteric environments, but wikipedia says it "exists in most modern Unix shells" and the timeline for first adding it was the late 70s
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by pfranz 7y ago
Recent Windows seems especially horrible about this. Personally, my workstation seems to forget which output to send video to and fails to properly wake up my USB wifi adapter. A tech I recently spoke to said, "Windows 10? Yeah, it
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm not really sure what you're getting at. You and I are both emphasizing a different behavior for different classes of applications. I feel like my comment and the article were pretty clear about that. I've had the oppos
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by pfranz 7y ago
> If I have enough RAM why do I want things to swap to begin with? The author never explained why putting rarely used pages in swap will improve performance if I have adequate RAM. One thing I think the author was getting at, but never e
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by pfranz 7y ago
I feel like that's being addressed as body cams get rolled out. I've heard about procedures to address faking damaged equipment and other excuses for "missing" footage. Cruisers have had video for awhile now, so it&#x27
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by pfranz 7y ago
My guess is that requests 3 is in development
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by pfranz 7y ago
I wish I had more concrete information, but I remember hearing about one police department treating bodycam recordings in public and in private places differently for this reason. I imagine the officer would tag it when they left their shi

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