rythie

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by rythie 6y ago
I tried the same test on a different system with spinning drives, it took 1 minute 43 seconds. The resulting file is 12kb (all inserts, no deletes or updates). It’s sync writes that are slow.
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by rythie 6y ago
Sqlite is in loads of things, Firefox, VSCode etc., if you have NFS home directories you can have issues. KDE’s akonadi uses MySQL via localhost, though it can’t handle you being logged in more than one place. My view is that a JSON or XML
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by rythie 6y ago
It’s very slow at writing over NFS. I wrote a simple python script writing 1000 entries, committing after each one, in WAL mode. In Fedora 22 VMs, NFS4.2 default settings, no security, SSD on host machine. - local speed = 2 seconds -
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by rythie 6y ago
Photo mechanic is great, you can import from a card and put the files on any mounted drive. You can set the import from a card to rename the files by date or other Exif info and into directories in the same way. It can browse directories wi
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by rythie 7y ago
I didn’t spot that one, though it was almost 10 years ago and I don’t see more recent examples. My point was that a large number of users don’t actually have hyper-threading on the desktop.
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by rythie 7y ago
Intel i5 desktop chips don’t have hyper-threading (SMT) and haven’t for the 10 years they’ve been available. Typically the i7 variant of the same CPU has been about £100 more (roughly 50%). The point about only 5% extra die space makes no d
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by rythie 7y ago
Blackberry's stock price went up 10x in the year after the first iPhone was released.
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by rythie 7y ago
New drives already had the updated firmware back in May when I bought some.
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by rythie 7y ago
I tend to assume anyone who reports a bug is likely about the 10th person to experience the issue if it’s a big issue. Probably 100th or more if it’s a more minor bug. You can sometimes see this for yourself if you have logs that report 404
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by rythie 7y ago
Not just bad reputation, it's against the law in many countries. It's given as example of the False imprisonment wikipedia page [1]: "The detention of a customer by a business owner (e.g., hotel operator, apartment owner, cre
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by rythie 7y ago
Apple stuff lasts, this is not an Apple issue, any of those phones would have been good for several years. I'm only my 3rd iPhone in 9 years (soon to replace it though). Also 3rd iPad in 9 years. My Macbook Air is from 2012. Apple do s
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by rythie 7y ago
The ultrawide lens and night mode are significant in my view, if you don't already have them.
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by rythie 7y ago
The main reason is probably that 1080p30 is 1580 MBits and USB2 is only 480 MBits, so it has to do decompression.
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by rythie 7y ago
That’s a ridiculous solution. Many of those products can’t go online by themselves, that $13,000 lens can’t and most the cameras talk to a phone only, not the internet, and that’s even if people use that feature. I don’t why Sony, Canon or
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by rythie 7y ago
I’m not sure the bad publicity is worth it. People will who read the press about it, will doubt the real deals are real and not order them (e.g. 50% off, which is big saving, but still happens). Amazon is big company with a lot of good engi
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by rythie 7y ago
It's still very fast. Less than 2 minutes to read the entire drive of the base model. It's more than twice as fast as any SATA SSD. Similar to 2017 Macbook Air for read speed and much better write [1] I'm sure for almost all
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by rythie 7y ago
Memcache was released in 2003, we didn't start to see server SSDs until 2008. For many places, if you put the database on SSDs, it's fast enough.
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by rythie 7y ago
I've mostly had older cars 5-10 years old and I rarely had issues with anything in the engine. It was typically suspension, brakes, lights, the starter battery etc. Tesla make it's difficult to fix their cars by restricting parts
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by rythie 7y ago
They've got 6 years to work it out.
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by rythie 7y ago
That’s not the same thing. Advertising a product involves using someone’s likeness to endorse a product, which is strictly controlled in many countries. It’s not the same as having adverts in the feed next to your content. I’m sure facebook
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by rythie 7y ago
I can’t see how this would be legal. As a amateur photographer myself, I know that to do a commercial photo like this, to advertise a product, I’d need model releases and a potentially a property release. Neither of these are needed for edi
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by rythie 8y ago
This site tracks both of them: https://brexit-petitions-count.now.sh/
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by rythie 8y ago
I think it's something to do with extended attributes - though why they need them now, after all these years, I don't know.
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by rythie 8y ago
Your second point is just re-enforcing what he said. If MacBooks move ARM, they will have solved developer piece. Since so many developers use Apple stuff, ARM will be native and servers would follow. In the 90s you could see a shift from p
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by rythie 8y ago
I'm sure it is for most people. I've always taken pictures of my niece and nephew on a decent camera, I'm pretty sure they'll last the test of time. Every new phone claims to have a good camera, when to me it's stil
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by rythie 8y ago
I totally agree with this and on top, for me personally, I don’t care about the obsession with better cameras in these phones (now multiple modules adding to the cost). I always carry at least a compact camera (RX100m3), and often a full fr
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by rythie 8y ago
Apple lets me select which apps can access to both the microphone and the GPS. Of course you have to trust Apple, though they've made a big thing about privacy, as the biggest public company in the world, I don't think they'd
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by rythie 8y ago
My dad died a few years ago, he was a keen flickr user and member of many groups, so we kept his account alive. Fortunately, it looks like he just over the 1000 limit, so we just have to prune 100 or so photos.
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by rythie 8y ago
Why wouldn't they just put a TLS1.2 reverse proxy infront of whatever legacy system is there? or use cloudflare? that'd be way easier than telling people to reconfigure their browsers to be insecure everywhere on the web.
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by rythie 8y ago
If you have 500 customers and your competitor has 500 customers. You are in a market of over 10,000 potential users. What do you do? go after your competitor's 500 customers, many of which are only going to consider switching if their

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