mfarris

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by mfarris 3y ago
That's a misconception. Prices are not the same across stores. I live in Los Angeles. Many times I've shopped at the TJ's in Silver Lake and one of the TJ's in Pasadena on the same day. Most prices are the same, but on m
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by mfarris 4y ago
Yes, good call on tabs.
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by mfarris 4y ago
I regularly use a 10.4 Tiger machine for music and graphic projects and it is a breath of fresh air compared to where MacOS is today. My daily drivers are Mavericks/Mojave/Mojave but recently got an M1 iMac with Monterey. Nothing
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by mfarris 5y ago
I'm extremely careful with my Macbook magsafe charging cables. But in ten years I've had three fray into uselessness. My current cable has black electrical tape at both the charger block and connector ends. No matter how carefully
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by mfarris 5y ago
J.K. Rowling has stated her love of transpeople and her wish to see them be fully accepted members of society. She has differences of opinion about the best political approach to achieving equality. Because she makes a rational, temperate a
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by mfarris 6y ago
I still use 10.4 on a 2005 PowerMac several times a week for various creative projects. The ease of use is so much higher than recent MacOS versions it's not even funny.
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by mfarris 6y ago
The poor vastly outnumber the rich, so what point are you making exactly?
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by mfarris 6y ago
HEIC was developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group as an open standard. Apple was early in supporting the standard. Windows, Android, others have followed. More to come. When venting one's spleen, it's best to be at least a ti
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by mfarris 6y ago
Unemployment benefits are taxable income.
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by mfarris 7y ago
You might find it useful to read articles before indulging your urge to sarcasm: one of the novels discussed is by Joanna Russ (female). Another is by Samuel Delaney (African-American). Oh, the name of the two-volume series is "America
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by mfarris 7y ago
The article isn't misleading at all. She is a company executive. Female executives getting fired for pregnancy is not unusual in the entertainment industry. It's disgusting, but not unusual. And HR is always eager to help the scum
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by mfarris 8y ago
Dozens if not hundreds of articles have been written about corruption around patent trolling in the Eastern District of Texas. You have everything you need to seek those articles out. Asking others to do simple tasks for you indicates a des
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by mfarris 8y ago
Here in Los Angeles your typical store has 6-10 varieties of apple, almost all of them painfully similar. Braeburn, Jazz, Fuji, Honeycrisp, Gala, Ambrosia, Jonagold, Envy... these are all the same basic apple: overly sweet, hard/dense,
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by mfarris 8y ago
I grew up in Michigan and love Cortlands above all others. I can't find them in Los Angeles.
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by mfarris 8y ago
"Fleet" is longstanding car industry lingo. Not something Tesla dreamed up to keep you under their boot. Source: Father worked in car industry. All of my neighbors, too. Pretty much everyone I knew and then, eventually, me... albe
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by mfarris 8y ago
No. US security agencies have been clear that Russian intelligence interfered in our election to support Trump. Putin admitted just two weeks ago that he wanted Trump to win. Generalized unrest was one goal. Electing Trump, however difficul
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by mfarris 8y ago
Ah, so "blockchain" is a Libertarian Trojan horse that will obviate government. Man, "blockchain" can do ANYTHING. "voluntary smart contracts"... more buzzwords that sound great but mean nothing. What's so
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by mfarris 8y ago
That is an awful lot of words to say "Hey anybody got any ideas how to make 'blockchain' useful to people not interested in bilking cryptocurrency speculators? Sure, we've got homeless on the streets but ALSO $200 millio
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by mfarris 9y ago
Mild to moderate inflation is usually considered useful in paying back debt, as the constant dollar value of the debt decreases. Even with the low inflation we've had over the last 20 years, if you borrowed $1000 in 1997 with 0% intere
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by mfarris 9y ago
YES. I grew up eating Cortlands in the midwest. Have never found one in the LA area.
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by mfarris 9y ago
Counterpoint: this tool pegged my 8-year-old as 13 (and she looks younger than her age) and me as 56... well into the double-digit error zone. Someone recently thought I was 30. People aren't any better than computers.
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by mfarris 10y ago
UX guy here. I've always kept performance in mind. One of my pet phrases is that speed is part of design. I've gotten a lot of blank stares. That's why more designers don't bother: decision makers usually respond only to
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by mfarris 10y ago
His personal feeling and experience of going to stores is "anecdotal evidence"? Where is your three-year, peer-reviewed study into the emotional motives of shoppers? After all, you flatly stated that "The overwhelming majorit
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by mfarris 10y ago
Here's one: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v514/n7521/abs/nature13... There's lots more, but your ability to google is every bit as good as mine. Folks skeptical of artificial sweete
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by mfarris 10y ago
One method: navigate to the file in the Mac OS Finder, right-click on the icon, choose "Show Package Contents" from the contextual menu.
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by mfarris 10y ago
Counterintuitive counterpoint from just a couple days ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/why-last-second-lane-me... Summary: last-second zipper merging is actually better in many circumstances.
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by mfarris 10y ago
FYI, the post was written by Tim Carmody, who is guest-blogging on Kottke.org this week.
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by mfarris 14y ago
The iPad doesn't come with a BT keyboard, but there are quite a few keyboard/cover combos available. It's not something that you have to "schlepp around inconveniently": http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31747_7-20091329-243/keyboardin...
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by mfarris 15y ago
You're getting two entirely different things mixed up. 192 kHz is the sample rate. 192,000 slices per second. It does not refer to the audible sound spectrum. 20 kHz in speakers refers to the cycles per second of the audible waveform. Norma
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by mfarris 15y ago
Have you been out in public lately? I don't think anybody is embarrassed by anything anymore. With a phone, voice control is a real improvement over thumbing a wee li'l keyboard. And exposing your personal affairs to everyone within earshot

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