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by mceachen 6y ago
The problem with any chrome extension is that there's no guarantee that the git repo matches the bag of bits that you're installing. No-prompt auto-updates exacerbate the issue. Installation of software will always require a leap
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by mceachen 6y ago
I've been really happy with my Ryzen 9 3900X on a ASUS X570-PLUS AM4 TUF motherboard [0], with 64GB of RAM and a reused GeForce GTW 970 (built this Feb). No-drama install on Ubuntu 19.10 (18.04 didn't boot due to drivers?). No ker
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by mceachen 6y ago
Thanks for assembling and sharing that report. Did FERC do anything with it, or was it ignored?
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by mceachen 6y ago
You're correct, I've only tested it on Android. I edited the post to clarify.
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by mceachen 6y ago
The project name is the answer to your question: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexure From https://openflexure.org/projects/microscope/ > Optomechanics is a crucial part of any microsco
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by mceachen 6y ago
I've tested Resilio Sync on my iOS devices and SyncThing on my Android devices to get my photos and videos to my home NAS. PhotoStructure (running in a docker image, but there are other ways to install it) then imports the new files an
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by mceachen 6y ago
HQ audio quality (over 4G) is markedly better than land lines, and the fax protocol has had error correction since digital formats were adopted in the 60s and 70s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax My Palm Pilot (wit
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by mceachen 6y ago
Get an external hard drive or NAS (Synology makes well-supported devices), go to takeout.google.com, request an archive of your photos, wait a couple days, and then download the archive. Note that the takeout archive will most likely not co
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by mceachen 6y ago
If you've cloned your repos you've already got your most important data (except issues, wiki, and releases, which may be unused or non-critical).
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by mceachen 6y ago
It seems like bloom filters of geohashes, salted with a secret key, would work for this. Has it already been proposed and shot down?
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Cryptography Could Protect Privacy in Covid-19 Contact-Tracing Apps(wired.com)
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by mceachen 7y ago
After having n photo startups (paid and free) disappear into the mist, along with my photos and videos, I decided self-hosting was the only thing I could trust. I couldn't find any software that would reliably scale to my library and f
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by mceachen 7y ago
What worked for me: - Use the .tgz option, not .zip - I had to manually create several large albums by year, and then created a takeout archive with just that album. Then created another archive with the next album, ... You may not need to
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by mceachen 7y ago
They were 1080p/24, last time I checked when I was adding support for them for PhotoStructure. Picking a different frame doesn't impact visual quality on a mobile screen, but it was quite a noticeable IQ drop on a 4k/5k displ
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by mceachen 7y ago
At least in CA, if you opt out of COBRA, you can't opt back in later.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Creative is the actual text and graphics (or video) in an advertisement. In media circles, a "creative" might reference an artist, though, not their result of their efforts.
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by mceachen 7y ago
CPA is cost per action, not acquisition. Action is defined by you. This bidding mode means you're taking less risk per auction, as you don't pay for impressions or clicks. You pay (sometimes 10x more) to reduce that risk, though,
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by mceachen 7y ago
Wouldn't it be more "future proof" to use something like cat7 rather than coax?
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by mceachen 7y ago
Submodules don't allow for atomic commits that span repos, though. Atomic cross-project commits are the most compelling selling feature for monorepos IMHO. (A common case for this is changing a function's API, and fixing all downs
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by mceachen 7y ago
On more handy set of emacs-derived keystrokes: Ctrl-a ctrl-k to clear the current command, or redo a hidden password prompt if you know you fat-fingered it. ctrl-a jumps the cursor to the beginning of the line, and ctrl-k deletes from curre
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by mceachen 7y ago
Note that CDPATH can break shell scripts that assume `cd` hasn't been adulterated. A huge block of "unalias" calls at the beginning of shell scripts used to be a common practice, but they don't seem to be found in more w
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by mceachen 7y ago
Snaps run out of a squashfs partition, but the app may save app config in the user's home directory (if they request the HOME interface, I believe). After fighting with node, vlc and ffmpeg snaps not working reliably, I had to add a wa
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by mceachen 7y ago
TIL: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aflatoxin
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by mceachen 7y ago
> snapd itself is distributed as a snap, which seems like a very poor idea to me I took this as a "vote of confidence" that snap could self-host snapd. Hosting via snap means they can push updates and not have to wait for users
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by mceachen 7y ago
Just to add to the anecdata, my MBP would kernel panic ~25% of the time it was plugged into a 4k displayport 1.1 monitor. I'm glad your system is stable, though!
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by mceachen 7y ago
FWIW, Windows laptops (that you can then install Linux on) have had hidpi screens for more than 15 years (!!), and Ubuntu's fractional scaling works really well right out of the box now.
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by mceachen 7y ago
You mean Android One? Those only have 3 years of "guaranteed" monthly security updates since first release of phone. In practice, though, Nokia's delivery is delayed and much less frequent than monthly (I've got a Nokia
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by mceachen 7y ago
It not only depends on the image content, but how you send the image to the printer. Print engines can apply nearest-neighbor interpolation which results in visible, blocky pixels. If they'd upsampled the image with lanczos or anothe
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by mceachen 7y ago
Hi, author of PhotoStructure here. If you've signed up for beta access, know that I'm sending out invites in batches, and hope to send out another this week, with the release of v0.8.0 : https://photostructure.com/
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by mceachen 7y ago
Wow, we're both right. Double tap on Android 10 in both Chrome and Firefox will select a word in mobile-friendly websites (I tried on https://PhotoStructure.com ) and will do the iOS-zoom-to-fit-bounding-box on websites tha

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