pfranz

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by pfranz 7y ago
Adults don't need to watch TV, either. I think society at large undervalues appropriate use of TV for kids. Kids crave structure, repetition, and music. With proper restrictions, TV offers all of that without requiring adults to put
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm not following you but maybe I wasn't clear. Yes, producers and distributors are separate, but distributor's main clients are the few large producers. Small guys have trouble getting distribution either because it's
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by pfranz 7y ago
I kind of agree with you on that. People don't seem to have much sympathy about multiple subscriptions services. The mantra is to cancel subscriptions to whatever you're not watching ATM, but with young children that's unte
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by pfranz 7y ago
> the three tier system (production, distribution, and retailing) has numerous advantages Do you see cable tv as a successful implementation of this? Every few years I'll see news articles and billboards about "Fox couldn&#x27
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by pfranz 7y ago
> The craft beer boom, for example, would never have happened in the absence of a legally-mandated 3 tier system. Really? I'm not intimately familiar with it, but I've heard the exact opposite. Big distributors are already pa
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by pfranz 7y ago
What's new between Soulver 2 and 3? I can't seem to find out any info. This type of app seems like it would be useful, and I know I'm basically asking for free candy, but I don't find 30 day trials that useful. I'
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm a little surprised so much of your 8gb went away using Safari if you don't keep too much open. Safari is generally great, but I've had to deal with abysmally large Google Sheets and had it reload every time I switched aw
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by pfranz 7y ago
I have similar concerns as you, but my current approach of copy/pasting from notepad (so I can label things) to a calculator is very prone to error or being outdated. I think the tight feedback loop in an app like this makes things di
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm very confused by your rationale. Many systems are fine with calling the plurality the winner--I don't see why the EC gives any more weight to the results. Other systems have runoffs instead. I think it's very unfortunat
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by pfranz 7y ago
> I found google docs and other web apps quickly consumed my 8gb memory. But, if you don't mind closing tabs and being mindful of running programs you can get by with 8. I gather you're using Chrome? Safari seems to "do t
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by pfranz 7y ago
In hindsight he can say it was a mistake, but it was glaringly obvious back then that Django, Python 2, or Python 3 wouldn't give you a situation where you would have minimal maintenance for the next 10 years because of the volatility
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by pfranz 7y ago
But that's why you have to look at the maturity of the tech when first building it--sometimes you just don't know. Python 3 was first released in 2008. Python 2 EOL is 2020. If I built an app in 2010 using a Python 2 stack you
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by pfranz 7y ago
You call out healthcare and education as going up in cost. My understanding is the reason certain industries are becoming "more expensive" (relatively) is because while automation reduces the cost of things like TVs or raw materi
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by pfranz 7y ago
But big changes do happen. In 1948, the west coast changed their power standard from 50Hz to 60Hz[1]. Or changes don't happen, Japan still has two standards[2]. Or, like metric in the US, it slowly changes but likely will never comp
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by pfranz 7y ago
Funny how the opposite can also be true. In 1985, Disney Animation was moved off the Burbank lot to a cluster of buildings about 2 miles away. After the success of Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and the Lion King they
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by pfranz 7y ago
https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/26/us/pentagon-floppy-disks-nucl... It was a popular tech story a few years ago.
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by pfranz 7y ago
Thank you for pulling a source and some specifics! I also remember Apple talking about expertise. The number of people experienced in running a large factory exist in the US, but at a much smaller number. Which means they're harder t
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm not surprised. I figured when they announced the Mac Pro would be produced in the US it was a test with a low volume product with high margins. That experiment failed (on many fronts), so they're reverting back to what they
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by pfranz 7y ago
I think a lot my nimbleness comes from avoiding the mouse...which can also be done fairly well in most GUIs. In the case you mention, I'd reach for vimdiff. Maybe it's a career thing, but I've been shifted to enough differen
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by pfranz 7y ago
Personally, I agree. I think that's a food culture and logistics situation. Most of these kinds of efforts are on reducing food waste, which is in line with shelf-stable, unbrusable food. I have suspicions that because of the young a
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by pfranz 7y ago
I get that it's a problem that farmers breed pretty and durable produce at the expense of flavor, but my understanding is that "imperfect produce" is generally sorted and used for juicing and other processed ingredients. The
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by pfranz 7y ago
Sadly, it's infeasible to predict costs in the US. When my wife was pregnant I pulled up our insurance's "example pregnancy out of pocket cost* (*not expected to reflect actual costs)" PDF. It showed something like $65
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by pfranz 7y ago
`.` is still needed if I'm pipeing in json--but only when I'm piping out. Otherwise help goes to stderr and nothing goes to stdout. I do honestly think jq is a cool and powerful tool. I also appreciate little things like auto-co
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by pfranz 7y ago
What you're saying is true, but I think a big problem in general is that while bespoke problems often require bespoke solutions, there's a lot of common problems out there and using a common solution goes a long way. They make th
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by pfranz 7y ago
It does look like neither are needed if you pipe a file in jq, but `jq . file.json` requires the `.` and if you're pipeing into a pager, like less, you need both `.` and `-C` to get colored output (that was the case with the alias I ha
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by pfranz 7y ago
jq seems very powerful. I don't deal with json all that often and my most common use case (by far) is `jq '.' -C` and it took a few tries for me to remember that syntax. The idea of flattening, grepping, then reverting sound
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by pfranz 7y ago
I don't think the increased difficulty in changing the oil is malicious intent. Just much less space under the hood. I'm not a big car guy, but for every car I've seen it has been recommended to hand-tighten, but you often
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by pfranz 7y ago
Some runs of Apple hardware (well, any hardware) tends to have good and bad models. I tend to avoid any major hardware changes for the first 6mo and I've heard that advice for years. I've seen similar "bad luck" in firs
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by pfranz 7y ago
I feel like that's the standard language they've used on these pages previously. I imagine that's just room for them to deny you in case you had swapped out the battery yourself or otherwise disqualified yourself. But I&#x2
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by pfranz 7y ago
I had my keyboard replaced a few months ago on my MBP--it sounds like a similar process since they replaced my battery, too. It was going to be like a week to make an Apple Store appointment. I was able to walk into a local Mac shop on App

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