feelix

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by feelix 9y ago
I was initially planning on a complete rewrite in order to start supporting snapshots in a different way (by using the ones saved by APFS). Going into that was outside the scope of the article.
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by feelix 9y ago
All of those, bar one, are from previous versions (not the latest GM) of High Sierra, and then it's not certain that that was what they were using. So granted, you have managed to find up to one case of what you were saying.
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by feelix 9y ago
I just answered this in another response (and in addition the answer, you could answer a lot of the questions yourself by actually trying the app. It has animations built into it for example, it's clear at a glance that it's far b
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by feelix 9y ago
It's also not just a GUI. There is loads of code in there that does stuff. For example: • Scheduling for scheduled backups • A background daemon that looks for events to launch the UI for scheduled backups • Manipulation of disks owner
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by feelix 9y ago
That's the way it looks until you actually try to make a commercial piece of software by doing that. As it mentions in the blog post I come from a background of low level system programming (data recovery, even some kernel extensions,
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by feelix 9y ago
I finished up the APFS compatible version of the software way quicker than I thought I would, and was so happy and energized that as part of my release I whipped up a quick blog post about the experience. Indeed it's pretty light on co
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by feelix 9y ago
It cares about those metadata a lot. Backups wont be bootable without it. And there is also disastrous data loss without it, a lot of files have their actual file data embedded in the metadata (resource forks et al). It's nuts because
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by feelix 9y ago
rsync has a ton of HFS+ specific code. Making a faithful duplicate of a file (specifically its metadata) is a feat on its own: http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/05/the-state-of-backu...
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by feelix 9y ago
It's the metadata that's really important. Just copying a file, while faithfully preserving metadata, is actually a feat on HFS+. That is why popular tools such as BackupBouncer (to test the integrity of backups) came to be.
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by feelix 9y ago
What about TenX? They have a debit card you can order now
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by feelix 9y ago
I'm just reading your blog now. The first article has this statement in it: >The fundamentals are broken and whatever happens to the price in the short term, the long term trend should probably be downwards. I will no longer be taki
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by feelix 9y ago
I'm curious as to why you consider brilliant, production ready code. I also read through the original codebase and I came to a different conclusion. To me it looks like something that was hacked at for a year or so, and was all just gl
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by feelix 9y ago
Are you qualified to make these criticisms?
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by feelix 9y ago
I'd really appreciate something that takes my hacked-together code and cleans it up and makes it presentable. That's usually the second phase of the job anyway, which could be automated.
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by feelix 9y ago
can you elaborate on that?
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by feelix 9y ago
I have heard that in BitShares all the transactions occur on-chain and it can be HFT'd.
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by feelix 9y ago
Do you have any links or a succinct explanation of how it works, then?
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by feelix 9y ago
> The remote machine must have a running SSH service and carry its own copy of rsync Really the machine should just have to be running SSH. The UI could then take care of spooling up an instance of rsync on the target machine under the h
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by feelix 9y ago
That's awesome, well done. Can I ask how much it made out of curiosity?
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by feelix 9y ago
Buying drugs is arguably the most efficient use of money. Considering that the only reason we purchase things is to ultimately get more endorphins released by our brains. Drugs can directly hack that system.
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by feelix 9y ago
The answer to that what if is you probably would have sold 80% of them at $30 each, and then most of the rest at $100 each like most people who got them early. Getting back 10x profit is hard to turn up when you have no idea of the future.
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by feelix 9y ago
You can easily do it in an hour or two by copying and pasting some code off the ethereum site. They encourage it. I like to think of ethereum as a ponzi scheme which spawns ponzi schemes (some of which themselves are intending to be a new p
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by feelix 9y ago
That's alright. I see a lot of these posts saying "the bitcoin I lost would be worth $X Million dollars now", but the thing that people overlook is that it would not be worth that now, because they would have sold it a lot ea
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by feelix 9y ago
do you have any spinning disks around that once may have had the unencrypted keys on it? I could modify the commercial data recovery software I wrote ( https://macosxfilerecovery.com/ ) to scan your drive for the private keys
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by feelix 9y ago
This is an awesome opportunity (aside from the disappointment) to go traveling, and reset, develop as an individual, and get re-inspired for whatever you do next in life.
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by feelix 9y ago
Why didn't you report it anonymously then?
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by feelix 9y ago
Indeed. And the thing I linked to (the odin) does allow you to do CRISPR in your living room for $150, as I said in my original comment.
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by feelix 9y ago
Couldn't you just start with the odin (that I linked to above), and change loads of the non-coding DNA in the bacteria that comes with the getting started kit, and see if it survives or has any different characteristics?
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by feelix 9y ago
Most of the DNA that suffers random mutations is non-coding DNA. It's completely unknown what effects, if any, modifying non-coding DNA might have as its use is unknown. I find it interesting that although anyone can experiment with CR
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by feelix 9y ago
It's not like a car that just needs more gas to keep going. It takes a lot of refurbishment to make it so it fly again after it's taken off into space.

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