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by pfranz 5y ago
With Covid, I've noticed Yelp, Google, and Apple all have untrustworthy business hours. In some cases all of them were wrong with different times. They all provide ways to submit new hours; some ask for a picture, others let you type i
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by pfranz 5y ago
From what I hear from other parents, the PBS Kids app is a great space where parents can trust kids and has decent content. YouTube Kids is a garbage wasteland and regular YouTube needs diligent monitoring for young kids. I find the app sil
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by pfranz 5y ago
I only read about it when it was happening. From Googling around this seems to be a rough timeline: some 2011 Macbook Pros were affected, lawsuit filed Oct 2014[1], February 2015 Apple launches a repair program, May 2017 it seems to end tha
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I'm not sure if they were part of the settlement from a class action suit, but often I've seen recall/repair programs and extended warranties instead of the coupons or meager checks I often see from class action cases. It suc
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by pfranz 5y ago
"What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."[1] was a joke in the 90s and some people said the trend was obvious by the late 80s[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law [2] https://en.
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I remember hearing with the rise of regional airlines starting in the 90s the number of flight cycles (takeoffs/landings) went way up for some types of planes...and I assume for the "average flight." An increase in the number
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by pfranz 5y ago
> My understanding based upon reading the article, an the comments here, is that Apple's proprietary Time Machine format is to blame here for this corruption. How did you get that? From reading the article it sounded like they just
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Which part is innovative? The business model of random people using their own vehicle and taxiing others or the app to coordinate dispatching? I wholeheartedly agree the system wasn't great in many cities before Uber, but it's jus
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by pfranz 5y ago
There are a lot of hotels that offer kitchenettes. Generally, they're long term rentals, but you can get them for a few nights, as well. I'm guessing the large common spaces and more laid back environment are a big draws as well.
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I wonder what specifically Bezos meant? Similarly, I often search for something specific and see "sponsored" results that are what I was searching for, with the same item right below it as part of the organic search results. Or, I
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by pfranz 5y ago
Ehh. I'd argue Apple has a mixed record. It's well known that iCloud backups are unencrypted and often handed over to authorities. In Jan 2020[1], it was reported they planned to encrypt backups, but dropped the rollout due to pre
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I kind of understand what this article is getting at, but the drama over masks isn't because it's the only thing schools and medical professionals are pushing for, the drama is because of the push back. That push back is focused o
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by pfranz 5y ago
The rule of thumb at a previous job was if the shell script is longer than about a page then consider if another language is more appropriate. That seemed to serve me well and I had dozens and dozens of personal shell scripts to smooth over
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I found the clip from the 2010 keynote [1]. Steve Jobs said, "We’re going to take it all the way. We’re going to the standards bodies tomorrow and we’re going to make FaceTime an open industry standard." I didn't watch the wh
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This wasn't focusing on 1:1 calls, but a couple years ago we tested all the video chat services we could access. We had offices spread across India, Malaysia, and the US with varying qualities of connection and many people working from
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> Why didn’t they compete with each other to bring costs down? I remember that happening in the 90s due to deregulation and breakup of at&t. 10-10-321 had a lot of commercials in the 90s[1]. I'm sure they're on YouTube. Mo
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The presentation said something like they planned for it to be "open" or something. I believe that was the first the dev team had heard of it. People have guess that patents prevented it from actually being an open standard. Coinc
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The only number I've heard from Apple is, "the likelihood that the system would incorrectly identify any given account is less than one in one trillion per year."[1] Which I read as enough false hits to flag an account that y
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I've seen videos about recycling where they call it "wishcycling" and point to things like lamps and umbrellas tossed in their city's curbside recycling bin. I think the wish is that someone will find a use for it and it
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by pfranz 5y ago
I think you're conflating animation and VFX. They both have different stories than the Japanese anime industry this article is about. These [1] are the kinds of studios I think of for VFX and none of them are in the Animation Guild. Th
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I think you're talking about a few different concerns and not all should be ignored. Resume driven development is something that should be avoided, but there are good reasons to update your tech stack even if the old one is working fin
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I'm confused why you're confused. Making it more adversarial when it's obvious the company is in the wrong and has been negligent for so long is a great way to continue to burn your talent and reputation and doesn't soun
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There are a bunch of techniques to see the heating pattern of a pan and to show how poor cast iron is in that regard. I remember someone using parchment paper (maybe Harold McGee?). In looking I found someone suggesting a light dusting of f
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by pfranz 5y ago
Like another commenter mentioned, it would be nice if there was a detail page showing what no, partial, or full support means. I plugged a few of these into https://ipv6-test.com/validate.php (a random site I found) and sto
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> Open doesn't handle file paths, only directories, and doesn't work if I've got the File Open dialog going. It opens as if you had clicked it in Finder. Are you wanting something like `open $(dirname ${file})`? File Open
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> How do you copy-paste file or folder paths between terminal and Finder? Cmd-C the file in Finder and Cmd-V in Terminal pastes the escaped path. You can also drag and drop the file. To go the other way I used the `open` command (which a
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I think another thing they've built is a brand and trust around security. If half of those companies that make up FAANG bought them I would switch the next day.
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> they just have some weird hangup about buying a $10 antenna and connecting it to their television. A few years ago I tried to get OTA to watch the Oscars. This was after the 2009 digital switchover. I did some research and bought a cou
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I think you raise a good point that often gets forgotten. When you switch from a general purpose tool to something specific, you lose visibility and introspection tools. I see people move from a filesystem based workflow to a database and w
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It varies and how you're outgrowing it. I heavily use spreadsheets, but if I start to hit some limits or need to formalize a process I'll switch to something like Python. As a data store I may still query the spreadsheet, or use c

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