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by pfranz 4y ago
Honestly, I think Apple just forgets people use a mouse. The default trackpad scroll direction matches iPads and touchscreens. Their oversight was coupling trackpad and mouse wheel scroll direction. Until I had a job where I needed both I d
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by pfranz 4y ago
At a previous job we had certain email lists that were archived and searchable. But I think today everyone would just use Slack.
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by pfranz 5y ago
I'm a bit surprised the credit card companies or banks haven't come up with a system to manage reoccurring payments. They have to mediate these issues and are in a place where they can be a neutral-ish party to set standard rules.
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by pfranz 5y ago
I feel like they've been trying to do this with wifi. Right now (in macOS) I see "Personal hotspot" "Preferred Networks" and "Other Networks" (which requires clicking to show). One AirPlay solution I'
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by pfranz 5y ago
I have the opposite experience with subscriptions. Have you ever tried to cancel a gym membership? Famously, companies make it easy to sign up online, but require a phone call (likely with a wait) to cancel. Many places have passed explicit
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by pfranz 5y ago
This might be the flak you're expecting, but when I see locals() used in production code I've had problems refactoring it. I don't see how it's different from "from foo import *" I appreciate the terseness but
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by pfranz 5y ago
From what I've seen there has been a recent rise in the murder rate. In some places it was at historical highs--but the cities are also much, much larger now. When looking at per-capita data its still historically low. You're righ
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by pfranz 5y ago
It's good to check in with other countries. Quality and quantity of alternative transportation is influenced by gas prices. Development of the US highway system changed how towns and transportation were organized just like I'm sur
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by pfranz 5y ago
I always heard things were almost always on a need to know basis. Designing a keyboard kind of requires an approximate form-factor. Like the sibling comment says, "Wallabies" were a touchscreen in a housing. It sounds like other d
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by pfranz 5y ago
I don't mean to understate the accomplishment, but the pedigree of OS X was NeXTSTEP. That was released in 1989. I'm sure a lot of bloat was added over the decades, but the underpinnings were running on hardware almost 20 years ol
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by pfranz 5y ago
So how ready is Ink/Stitch for an average consumer? My mom is recently retired and embroiders occasionally. I don't think she does anything more custom than a monogram. It was only a few years ago I pulled off old designs from flo
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by pfranz 5y ago
From what I've seen and experienced the act of exercising suppresses my appetite. I can't eat a big meal and immediately work out. If I'm a little hungry a few minutes into working out I'm not. But hours later or the nex
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by pfranz 5y ago
That reminds me of a Wired article from 5 or 6 years ago: https://www.wired.com/2016/04/can-draw-bikes-memory-definite...
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by pfranz 5y ago
I guess if you include future crimes? The article says the DNA was collected years ago and the crime was recent.
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by pfranz 5y ago
That sounds a lot like, "If you don't have anything to hide, why do you need privacy?" I'm not trying to put words in your mouth (feel free to clarify if you feel its needed), but I feel like I hear the kind of thing you
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by pfranz 5y ago
> If she did why do we have a problem with the way we got to the truth? Do you think in the future people will decline rape exams knowing their info will be put into a database that could be used against them indefinitely?
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by pfranz 5y ago
I actually think either a new PEP-8 or an opinionated linter would be one way to test the waters. Black[1] seems to be gaining popularity by enforcing strong opinions. I remember reading large companies' (like Google's) coding sty
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by pfranz 5y ago
> they don't want the competition because it will have a negative effect on its members' incomes. Is it the perception that increased competition will have negative effects on members' incomes or is that actually true? I
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by pfranz 5y ago
> I wonder what it would be like to work on something that takes 5 years to make The active departments and the size scale a lot along those 5 years. The first few are usually a very small group of people. The weirdest part is that if yo
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by pfranz 5y ago
Airports are aware of that and in Houston they changed it so you will walk longer making you wait less for your bags at baggage claim. Sadly, people who didn't check bags also get penalized. https://www.nytimes.com/2012
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by pfranz 5y ago
No date on the page and its excluded from archive.org, but the main page says it's from Oct 2016.
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by pfranz 5y ago
I think the reason most word problems suck is that they're manufactured abstractions on the same problems elsewhere on the worksheet--which seems to be your critique. In real life, a lot of those situations are hidden, but there are of
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by pfranz 5y ago
I feel like I have a different perspective than this article. I don't see any problem with how the cottage cheese problem was solved. I feel like most learning is part building a mental model, part rote memorization, and part practicin
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by pfranz 5y ago
Its hard to say with just anecdotes, but this random person says it's not just Los Angeles. Another commenter mentioned a conductor-friend out of Louisiana is seeing similar things. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics&#x
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by pfranz 5y ago
As a peon, I push for open source because I'm tired of doing the same thing at multiple jobs that have nothing to do with our competitive advantage. That goes for a lot of industry collaboration. So much money is quietly wasted on labo
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by pfranz 5y ago
I have no experience in this field. The article wants a hard-copy behind the sun visor of each car. I would think having a digital copy could be grabbed from the VIN number with minimal coordination. In practice, it could be pulled up bef
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by pfranz 5y ago
Your own links show that likely isn't parent's issue. It only sends a hash on the first run of an executable. I'm not saying the problem you're talking about isn't a problem or concerning, but it's very likely
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by pfranz 5y ago
I'm pretty sure Gmail is where I first noticed this years and years ago. I've been with Fastmail for the past many years, but remember the dialog from Gmail. Maybe it was an experiment you had to enable and are opted out of? A qui
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by pfranz 5y ago
Eh. I feel like that diminishes why hurtful names fall out of favor. I also think while it's interesting slang, I wouldn't lose sleep if it was replaced. To your point, afaik it hasn't really been used as hurtful slang since
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by pfranz 5y ago
Honestly, I tend to rely on the "brand" of where I'm getting the recipe. Ratings are only useful if you trust the site to have good ratings (either an active audience with similar taste or editors filtering and publishing wit

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