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by pfranz 5y ago
My guess is they've exhausted the local supply of labor for the price they're willing to pay, but I've been in situation where I don't think they crunched the numbers (or they didn't care). In my situation, which I
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by pfranz 5y ago
I've never used the app or extension, but someone in this thread mentioned they have a web version: https://www.fakespot.com/product/garagemate-open-your-garage... It gives an A rating.
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by pfranz 5y ago
This may not be directly related to your workflow, but in macOS there's a preference to delete items that have been in Trash after 30 days. If you're more proactive about putting stuff in the Trash (and less proactive about emptyi
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by pfranz 5y ago
I haven't done serious photography in years, but my guess is that the market isn't quite as big as the parent suspects (the people who want it aren't willing the pay). There's a giant graveyard of push-button photo backu
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by pfranz 5y ago
I'm not sure of the name for what you're talking about, but the most prominent example I've heard is from people who work with kids (teachers, life guards, etc). Instead of saying, "don't run!" you say, "w
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by pfranz 5y ago
Last time I heard this discussed the number of closures over the past few years were in line with their national average.
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by pfranz 5y ago
I'd be curious to know more about the development of Super Mario All-Stars. I've been playing both the original and All-Stars (on the Switch--if that matters) and the acceleration of Mario in SMB1 feels different. The original SMB
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by pfranz 5y ago
It's been fairly reliable in practice, but it's based on crowd sourcing. It'll ask you to confirm if you see one someone else has flagged. Sometimes you're the first to see it, sometimes the alert is out of date and ther
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by pfranz 5y ago
> Apple doesn't support multi-point itineraries I've never tried multi-point itineraries with Google Maps, but the new iOS beta has an "add stop" feature. It's not exactly what I was hoping for because it only ha
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by pfranz 5y ago
I don't know if that's entirely true. I wouldn't say I lean on business hours in the app often, but things have gotten weird with Covid. In the last month I found a bunch of hours wrong in both Yelp and Apple Maps--they each
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by pfranz 5y ago
You make it sound like Apple's efforts stop after announcing at WWDC. They do seem to be following through. The "new maps" were announced in 2018. They finished the continental US in January 2020 and since expanded to Canada,
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by pfranz 5y ago
I really think the "0 new features" was a fluke of history that elided with marketing. Wikipedia better describes it as, "no new major visual changes." [1] - Finder was completely rewritten in Cocoa - Microsoft Exchange
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by pfranz 5y ago
Similar story. I contributed to This American Life monthly for awhile. I had set it up online. I wanted to switch credit cards and could find no way to do it (they had redesigned their website). I couldn't even find a number to call. S
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by pfranz 5y ago
You said, "This changes nothing for people like you while giving more opportunities for others." I'm just pointing out that's completely untrue.
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by pfranz 5y ago
I think 30% is absurd, but that would definitely change things for every user. I don't want to install Adobe's store because I need to use their PDF reader. I don't want to install Microsoft's store because I need to use
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by pfranz 5y ago
I doubt this actually matters, but it looks like almost all those patents expire very soon. US7418504B2 - 2021-08-05 US6839759B2 - 2019-10-29 (expired) US7490151B2 - 2022-01-24 I'm guessing rearchitecting to circumvent the patents mean
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by pfranz 5y ago
I have a few suggestions: - Dash, the macOS app for language and library documentation is really nice. This is the first thing I go for. - Chrome notices when you visit a page with a "Search" box. Next time you start typing python
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by pfranz 5y ago
This was brought up as a major issue about 10 years ago: https://slate.com/technology/2012/07/kate-middleton-s-weddin...
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by pfranz 5y ago
Wikipedia has both dates and the delay for each version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#CentOS_releases 6.0 had a 242 day delay--I never really paid attention to why, but that was a very noticeable lag compared t
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by pfranz 5y ago
How is that any weirder than WASD for FPS games? That was only codified a few decades ago on modern qwerty keyboards.
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by pfranz 5y ago
Where I grew up it wasn't required for a HS diploma, but necessary for college admission--or something like that. Under their criteria, ASL (American Sign Language) qualified as a foreign language. The reasoning being that a distinct c
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by pfranz 5y ago
> we always found it mildly annoying that upgrading a system (Linux, FreeBSD) would [...] bring along the danger of the new version not having a package for the "old" version of Puppet or Ansible that we were using. If this is
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by pfranz 5y ago
I've never used things like Ansible or Puppet in a professional environment, but I can appreciate how difficult my recommendation is. If you're using a technology for a significant part of your business, decouple it from the OS. W
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by pfranz 5y ago
I'm gathering you're not against telemetry, just against over relying on it? Would the AMEX issue have been found without telemetry drawing attention to it?
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by pfranz 5y ago
> And whatever happened to Apple who refused to work with FBI on the San Bernardino shooter but here is only happy to comply in a much less interesting case? For a bunch of years Apple was slowly moving in a direction where they couldn&#
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by pfranz 5y ago
Most of the places I've ended up working used tcsh (holdovers from Unix days). Both interactively and a large pile of small scripts. A few of us who were willing to troubleshoot ourselves would use Bash, Fish, or another shell interact
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by pfranz 5y ago
Doesn't the CDC (and many other organizations) recommend getting vaccinated even if you previously had Covid? Immunization from the vaccines are stronger than from natural immunity and the effect against other strains is better known.
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by pfranz 5y ago
Oh, I'd be ecstatic if that's how it worked. Instead, I have to go through 2FA every time I want to update with some providers. Others say "Apologies, we're working with the provider to restore support" and have sto
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by pfranz 5y ago
I actually think the opposite is happening. Yes, a few are adding OAuth flow-equivalent, but even more are adding 2-factor and other security measures that prevent a third party. Maybe Plaid has enough clout to prevent it, but other service
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by pfranz 5y ago
> Unless you physically hand your taxes in, isn't any solution technically vulnerable to being compromised? If that's all there is to it, then why do people use other solutions? > Also, wouldn't encryption fix this pro

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