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by mceachen 7y ago
> Call your cellphone carrier and ask to set up a password/PIN Note that, at least for TMobile, AT&T, and Verizon, the password/PIN is presented to the CSR in plaintext (as they verify the pin over the phone verbally). I&#x
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by mceachen 7y ago
Thanks for the reminder--I've done it several times in the past, but it wasn't a scheduled thing at all. There's a new checkbox in takeout that lets you schedule a backup every 2 months (and then presumably you'll get an
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by mceachen 7y ago
When I had to renew my Apple developer account for PhotoStructure to sign binaries, I tried to log in on my Linux desktop and was getting back http 500 server errors. On a whim, I tried on my Mac and the same URL stream worked. Realize they
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by mceachen 7y ago
Or spending afternoons typing in some game that was printed on the back of a magazine in assembly, and then poke 32768 and poof, game. Magic when you're 9 years old.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Oh, also: I made fun of my friend who got a 1200 baud modem. I mean, obviously, why do you need more than 300? You can't read text faster than 300 baud.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Oh, also: personal computers in the 80s booted into a BASIC prompt. It was a terrible language to cut your teeth on, but it was there, right in front of you, and there were magazines and books (at the library and local book store, on dead
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by mceachen 7y ago
> Sorry for calling you old. Whippersnappers these days are so gosh darn polite. Writing C code on a SPARCstation and Green Hills compiler/debugger as an undergrad in 1989, I got used to step-forward, and step-back , in a GUI envir
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by mceachen 7y ago
Huh, I could have sworn there was, but I don't see it there, either. On iOS I've only used Resilio Sync, fwiw.
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by mceachen 7y ago
I'd tried to make iCloud work in a shared setup and gave up after several libraries decided to corrupt themselves. PhotoStructure is designed exactly with this sort of heterogenous family setup in mind. My wife uses a Chromebook and MB
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by mceachen 7y ago
Having the physical photos still didn't mean we saved the context and relevance surrounding those images. I've got boxes of photos from my Mom and Dad and Grandparents. For the most part, they don't have dates or captions. If
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by mceachen 7y ago
It looks like timeliner requires your phone's files to be uploaded to a third party cloud beforehand. If you want to directly backup files from your phone to your home computer or NAS, https://syncthing.net/ and https
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by mceachen 7y ago
They got access to her iCloud account.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Tell me about it! I've used so many photo services (that then very reliably go out of business) that I wrote PhotoStructure to sweep my mess of disorganized and duplicated photos and videos into order and self-host them with a UI that&
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by mceachen 7y ago
I initially built PhotoStructure on nights and weekends for my family. I work on it full time now. https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/ <plug> If you don't have your photos and videos
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by mceachen 7y ago
This is surely debatable, but the best code is readable by Engineers of Tomorrow with the least amount of effort. Getting code reviews from other people that understand this, or pair programming with them, is the best way to practice empath
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by mceachen 7y ago
Can I ask what you're doing with that home lab, what your electric bill is, and how loud your racks are?
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by mceachen 7y ago
you meant s/visual add/visual ad/, right?
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by mceachen 7y ago
Dang, you're good. Thank you.
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by mceachen 7y ago
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf for the uninitiated
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by mceachen 7y ago
uBlock origin's lede is "Finally, an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory." Ad blocking, pre-ublock, could take noticeable resources.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Presumably because an adblocker, like virus detection, consumes potentially non-trivial CPU, and may introduce race conditions of extensions applying deltas to a DOM which results in rendering and behavior bugs.
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by mceachen 7y ago
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=158753 meant PhotoStructure had to do user agent sniffing. If it's Firefox, I can stream the original image directly, and the correct thing happens.
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by mceachen 7y ago
TS 3.4 has known performance regressions. 3.5 helps, but it's still slower than 3.3. I don't really notice it, though, because I've got `tsc --watch` running in a terminal continuously as I edit code. When tsc sees edits, rec
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by mceachen 7y ago
Nice product! I agree, TFA's author doesn't seem to grasp that some tasks, with constrained inputs and outputs, might be better served with a well-designed visual tool. ETL (like Yahoo Pipes and your project) seems well-fitted. De
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by mceachen 7y ago
Sorry. The Fine Article. I didn't mean it in the disparaging connotation. It's a reference to RTFM, Read The Fine Manual. TIL: RTFM was a phrase from the 40s : "Read the field manual."
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by mceachen 7y ago
Every company I've founded or worked for has struggled with flaky tests. Twitter had a comprehensive browser and system test suite that took about an hour to run (and they had a large CI worker cluster). Flaky tests could and did scutt
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by mceachen 7y ago
I think it's important that engineers can distinguish between testing code in isolation versus "integration" or "system" testing, but I've seen a sophomoric stigma around integration tests that lead to mocking
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by mceachen 7y ago
> good reliable open-source and cross-platform incremental backup software is hard to find I've been using rsnapshot for at least a decade, and it's available wherever perl and hard links are available (which isn't windows
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by mceachen 7y ago
That is dramatically incorrect. A company (and person!) can sue whoever they want, whenever they want, for whatever reason they want. The claim doesn't need to be truthful. Frivolousness of the claims doesn't mean it's free f
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by mceachen 7y ago
Applying an existing, trained model (like what you described) is computationally cheap. Training new models takes many, many orders of magnitude more time and memory space to complete.

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