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by pfranz 5y ago
Years ago, I remember someone talking about working in film. Ideally, you work on three movies a year; one for the pay, one for the script, and one for the people you work with. I've tried to keep this in mind when looking for full-tim
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by pfranz 5y ago
> I think the problem with APP fraud is a lack of user education (and maybe consequences - users expect the bank to always make them whole and so don't take security seriously) as well as insufficient enforcement on the other side W
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by pfranz 5y ago
US credit card companies aren't any better. I recently had a similar "fraud alert." The company ditched travel notices in 2016 claiming their AI was good enough to replace it. A few weeks after traveling I had a very small pu
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by pfranz 5y ago
That might work for a bus out in the open, but GPS doesn't work well with a lot of nearby tall buildings, or for subways underground. Maybe they are using GPS and silently failing in all other situations? My point is that it's nic
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by pfranz 5y ago
It's a very nice feature. I'm not quite sure of what metric they're using. Some busses can show real-time locations, others they obviously dont have that info. Sometimes it will ping me a stop early (if the stops are close
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by pfranz 5y ago
In my experience, Covid has screwed up everybody's data. Apple seems to pull from Foursquare or Yelp or something, but I've seen Google, Apple, Foursquare and Yelp all of the different, incorrect hours. I think some of them have a
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by pfranz 5y ago
I guess I use it often enough that I have their iPhone app to flag items I want to pick up. Their store maps are great (I doubt that's available on their mobile site) for finding the right shelf. Although, I don't remember having
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by pfranz 5y ago
I wonder what the long term hit is to their brand? I have to think that's brought up because it happens all the time to declining brands and I don't see that digging them out of their problems. I tend to avoid those sites mentione
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by pfranz 5y ago
I imagine there was an investment in updating the local inventory. For internal tools, it seems to be fine to have more approximate data. People seem to offer to "check in the back" (whether that exists or not). For public facing
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by pfranz 5y ago
Practical options? Apple rotates Mac addresses to avoid tracking[1]. If you're broadcasting a mac address you have to assume someone is logging it and correlating it with a location. Wardriving was a thing long before smart phones were
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by pfranz 5y ago
A lot of these kinds of projects render out an image and send that to the display. If you did it on a server, cut up the images, and had each kindle pull their image it should be pretty trivial. The only immediate issue that comes to mind i
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by pfranz 5y ago
I found an article that specifies phone models and explains why[1]. It's iPhone 11 and 12 because it requires a UWB/U1 chip. This thread (via Craig Federighi)[2] asserts UWB isn't the part that's used, but those phones h
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by pfranz 5y ago
> I would expect tapping the power button would turn most devices with a power button on. I believe I was thinking of my older phone. Tapping the home button, perhaps even the volume buttons, would turn it back on. On my Xs, I have to ho
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by pfranz 5y ago
I think there's a hardware component required. Unless it's only in a beta OS, I have and Xs and I see a different wording for that setting. Mine omits "and powered off."
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by pfranz 5y ago
I've found iPhones way too fickle to trust them to stay off. If you plug in a charger or tap the power button they power back on. If you don't want to be tracked turn off your phone and put it in a faraday bag.
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by pfranz 5y ago
If you're battery constrained and not expecting a signal most of the day I imagine you could put the radio to sleep for 5-30m. I kinda understand a weak signal getting boosted and draining a battery, but when there's none at all?
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by pfranz 5y ago
In my experience, subway connectivity got markedly better when the city hosted the Olympics and spent time/money attracting tourists. This was in line with more open wifi access or sim card availability.
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by pfranz 5y ago
My understanding is when a cellphone has weak service it boosts the signal to try and reach a tower. In my experience, it feels like it drains the battery incredibly fast. Are there OSes or phones that accommodate this?
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by pfranz 5y ago
I guess it's good to know, but I never had any illusions of using it for privacy. It was mostly to see when I get added to a mailing list, where it might have come from. Another reason I abandoned it so quickly is, if someone sold my e
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by pfranz 5y ago
Where I got bit was email was used as login. I was trying to log in but couldn't remember the specific email I had used even though I generally had a fairly specific schema.
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by pfranz 5y ago
I did this with even less setup. accountname+extratext@gmail.com has worked forever and you can do the same with a custom domain. I gave up fairly quickly because unless you keep meticulous records, there's no way to figure out the exa
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by pfranz 5y ago
I agree that before I had kids it was easy to be blind to how different life is even when having those close to me with them. But people have kids in cities without cars and inclimate weather all over the world. I moved from a car-centric c
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by pfranz 5y ago
I've been told opening multiple locations is the most feasible way to be profitable so you can amortize many costs and get better deals ordering in bulk. Restaurants are also a notoriously tough business with thin margins.
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by pfranz 5y ago
I may not be representative, but I tend to keep it to a page or maybe two. You can fit a lot of info into a page and the 3+ page resumes I've seen have been way too dense. For me it's not an exhaustive list of work history and tas
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by pfranz 5y ago
I use LinkedIn as a memory dump for job history and to keep tabs on old co-workers, but I actively try to avoid it otherwise. I didn't know they had a resume builder and wouldn't have looked, but it makes sense to have one. Even k
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by pfranz 5y ago
I'm not sure how many authors are aware when writing books, but it changes how you read it. With physical books I often peek a few pages ahead to the end of the chapter or just by the weight of the book know when I'm near the end.
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by pfranz 5y ago
I think e-readers are awesome for linear, text-based material. I don't think they're great for reference or things that need specific formatting or have a lot of visual data; like textbooks, something with code snippets, cookbooks
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by pfranz 5y ago
That is true, but even with a US card in the US, there are vague scenarios where ApplePay requires a signature[1]. So it's problematic using it for unmanned terminals when traveling. I've had trouble traveling internationally and
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by pfranz 5y ago
I'm from the US and haven't had great luck in Europe. One card ditched "travel alerts" in 2016, the other I swore added one when it saw I purchased plane tickets, but it didn't. Both got flagged causing problems. On
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by pfranz 5y ago
I have 2 Mastercards and 1 Visa. Only one of the Mastercards support contactless. The one without foreign transaction fees doesn't. It's also been vary hard to find a chip+pin card (without an annual fee) instead of a chip+signatu

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