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by pfranz 5y ago
I always see this as a stated reason, but I'm skeptical unless it's cargo-culting like "no copyright intended" on YouTube videos (but this is a lot more work). I can't see Adam and Joanne [1] or Holly [2] suing
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by pfranz 5y ago
That sounds like a fun challenge. If you're constraining yourself to use as few libraries as possible, I'd go with OBJ [1] for the 3d mesh and PPM [2] for writing images. It's easy to implement a bare bones reader/writer
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by pfranz 5y ago
I'd be curious to hear others chime in, but I feel like the situation is very similar to this article talking about games. Do you want to get pixels to the screen/file? Shaders and materials (authoring or implementing)? How commer
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by pfranz 5y ago
Maybe I've always worked at larger employers than most, but a one year surprise to reevaluate and transition your operating system sounds incredibly disruptive when the original promise was support through 2029 and the "successor&
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by pfranz 5y ago
The mentality in Los Angeles is that nobody is from LA--it can be surprisingly true within a lot of social circles. My suspicion is that coastal elitism comes from people who chose to leave those center states. There seems to be waves of co
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by pfranz 5y ago
Apple stopped selling "Apple Computers" decades ago. They sell Macs. If someone is talking about Beats and Apple, it doesn't get confused with the computer. Apple is the parent company and Beats sells audio hardware. In 2007,
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by pfranz 5y ago
Who cares if the company is called Google or Alphabet? Consumers know the website is google.com. People they want to hire know enough that the company is Alphabet even if consumers don't. I think these new names are silly (even after 6
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by pfranz 5y ago
For years I've heard people recommend https://www.rtings.com for reviews. More recently, people pointed to this page showing which TVs don't serve ads: https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/ads-in-s
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by pfranz 5y ago
I think you can have affiliate links, you just run the risk of ruining your credibility. I also think it might be difficult if that's your only source of income. I wonder if anyone has tried giving their top picks away for free, but ch
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by pfranz 5y ago
I wasn't trying to undermine their hard work! I think both have a chance of being successful in their own domains. I only meant to call them out as exceptions. All I was saying is that if a new package manager addresses all of the issu
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by pfranz 5y ago
Right. Windows support is a feature outside of the scope of Linux package managers. If they weren't tethered to specific distros I don't see why one couldn't support multiple platforms. It hasn't historically, but Window
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by pfranz 5y ago
You should point the finger at package managers. They never really addressed needs outside of system administration (to be fair, that's the problem they were trying to solve). Scripting languages came up with their own package system
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by pfranz 5y ago
Thanks for that! I quickly poked around at my Firefox install on MacOS. Firefox.app is 353M. The largest single file in there is Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/XUL (binary) and that's 258M. Of that, lipo says 136165680 is x8
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by pfranz 5y ago
Thanks for taking the time to share! That's sounds like the general approach I take for "projects" even toy projects. My day jobs have never fit the virtualenv use-case. So at home I often have to look up how to use it. It&#x
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by pfranz 5y ago
This was 10+ years ago, but I remember something like the installed Python package had a caching bug that was affecting production. The update wasn't compatible with some OS scripts so the machine would no longer boot using the updated
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by pfranz 5y ago
So you're suggesting always using virtualenv? I used to just use pip to install to the system. Months/years later I would try to untangle the mess of packages I was just playing with, what the OS wanted/needed, I got those co
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by pfranz 5y ago
What happens if your project needs an update, but it will hose the OS? Do you expect someone working in Python in Windows who wants to distribute a datetime package should package for RPM and APT? I used to think OS package managers should
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by pfranz 5y ago
> And even if you dont use it much the battery will still deteriorate after 2 years. I bought some Sony over-the-ear noise cancelling headphones 3-4 years ago. I only tend to use them when flying (only a few times a year). I have an old
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by pfranz 5y ago
You're right in theory. In practice that either means a battery in the headphones and/or a new audio cable. I'm sure this has been tried before. It seems like something Sony would try--maybe Lighting headphones would count? I
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by pfranz 5y ago
I had a kid a few years ago when I switched. Wearing headphones and holding a child sucks because they will probably get pulled out of your ears. I always hated cords tangling in my pocket and I'd often have the wires snag on a doorkno
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by pfranz 5y ago
I hear this repeated a lot. In practice, at least in the cities I've lived in, I've only seen housing go downmarket when there's an explicit exodus. The reason is that housing is built for a specific living space size. Los An
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by pfranz 5y ago
> So for the past few years it turns out plenty of people are willing to sell their watching habits for a cheaper TV. The problem is that when it's endemic and not clearly labeled is that paying more may not do any good. Companies a
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by pfranz 5y ago
With signatures and details about the user who posted, vBulletin and phpBB use up so much white space for shorter comments (which is most of them). Personally, I love that Discourse allows j/k for keyboard navigation. I get the hate
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by pfranz 5y ago
Right, the newer games will likely get updated. I wonder if they'll just drop DRM? I know a lot of AAA games have it to get sales during the window of first release. I think I'm still just surprised how the 32-bit thing played out
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by pfranz 5y ago
Some may, but I doubt most will for the same reason a bunch of 32-bit games were never fixed for macOS even though there was like a decade of opportunity. I'm surprised the article didn't say if Denuvo had a fix yet. It also sound
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by pfranz 5y ago
I believe that tradition was started in 2006 when Microsoft send Firefox dev team a cake https://news.softpedia.com/news/why-microsoft-google-and-moz... Like others mentioned, this story seems to be reference to Gitpod
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by pfranz 5y ago
I think that's a huge factor generally between cities and not. If you shop every 10 days you also need a large amount of space to store it. I've also noticed if I can shop every day I'm less sensitive to inventory issues. If
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by pfranz 5y ago
Am I doing something different than most? Admittedly, I don't use a 4k monitor. I would think you'd need to boost acceleration or scroll multiple times to get across the screen no matter the input. This also seems like an argument
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by pfranz 5y ago
I did a very rudimentary google search and see that the federal government requires a bunch of vaccines including influenza and Covid-19[1] for obtaining a visa. The CDC publishes a "menu" of state hospital vaccination laws[2]. Th
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by pfranz 5y ago
But they also weren't a large contributor. In California over 3 months wildfires released more than 75 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. That number is larger than any year in the past 20, but it's also never expected to be 0

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