lukasgraf

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by lukasgraf 5mo ago
> TM heavily throttles disk I/O used for backing up That makes sense, and I usually quite like that behavior. I barely ever notice an impact when backups are running. However, this is happening every time on one machine (Intel iMac)
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by lukasgraf 5mo ago
I can't remember the exact phrasing, but are you talking about the error message that essentially says: "The Tardis is broken. Your backup has diverged into an entirely separate timeline, and I have no way of reconciling it. You m
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by lukasgraf 6mo ago
The best people I've worked with tended to go out of their way to make it as easy for me as possible to critique their ideas or implementations. They spelled out exactly their assumptions, the gaps in their knowledge, what they have st
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by lukasgraf 8mo ago
I never understood this argument. The checks in those pre-commit hooks would need to be very fast - otherwise they'd be too slow to run on every commit. Then why would it save time and money if they only get run at the pipeline stage?
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by lukasgraf 1y ago
This is outside the context the "Open File" dialog from your original question, but here's another tip about "navigating up": In many application windows you can navigate the hierarchical directory structure that co
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by lukasgraf 1y ago
Install it using an enterprise profile and enable the ExtensionManifestV2Availability flag: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340358 Still works for me to this day, but this option might get axed come June 2025.
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by lukasgraf 2y ago
On macOS: # defaults write com.google.Chrome.plist ExtensionManifestV2Availability -int 2 This will continue to allow MV2 extensions for your Chrome instance. Confirm the policy has been set by checking chrome://policy. See
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by lukasgraf 2y ago
When mentoring a junior, I noticed he had an alias `gpf`, which he apparently picked up from another developer. I had a serious conversation with him, explaining that I'm not in the habit of telling him how to configure his shell, edit
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by lukasgraf 2y ago
> Genuine question, how do you find DxO PhotoLab lacking when compared to LR? It's mostly their "no catalog" approach that irks me. From what I understand they use a model that doesn't use a catalog, and requires you
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by lukasgraf 2y ago
Thank you for the recommendation! RAW Power is one that I actually didn't have on my radar, and it certainly looks very interesting. Maybe not as feature-rich as some of the heavy hitters, but it looks to be very focused in both its fe
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by lukasgraf 2y ago
I am, intentionally so ;-) Because this mix is where Lightroom excels, and competing products just fall short. As an enthusiast or professional photographer you really need both, preferrably in the same application, or at least in tightly i
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by lukasgraf 2y ago
The big issue with Affinity Photo is that it doesn't support non-destructive editing / a non-linear workflow like Lightroom does. It's not exactly a fair comparison, since AP directly competes with Photoshop, not Lightroom, b
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by lukasgraf 3y ago
I agree. A 30% overlap allows be to basically never have an automatic pano merge fail in LR. Though I rarely shoot panos full handheld, usually still from a tripod with at least a ballhead. Even better, LR allows you to merge a HDR pano in
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by lukasgraf 3y ago
It depends. For some applications, sure. But especially when you're doing multi-row panoramas with long exposure times, preparation is key, and so is execution time. I often do multi-row HDR panos. With brackets of 3 exposures each, th
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by lukasgraf 3y ago
Fellow map nerds might also enjoy these: The new "Light Base Map": https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/web-maps-light-base-map Demo (Light Base Map): https://cms.geo.admin.ch/fmc/lbm.html
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by lukasgraf 3y ago
It's actually open data: https://shop.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/free-geodata > New conditions of use apply to swisstopo's official geodata. > The geodata may be used free of charge, in particular also
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by lukasgraf 3y ago
This is a 30min talk that I keep coming back to: Python, Linkers, and Virtual Memory by Brandon Rhodes (Python core dev) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQKAoq2OPE (Most of the content is not actually specific to Python) H
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by lukasgraf 3y ago
I saw David Weinberger's talk at Google [1] some 15 years ago, where he presented the ideas from his book (and bought the book afterwards). This is one of those videos I rewatch regularly, because the ideas hold up so well, even today.
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by lukasgraf 3y ago
CityEngine [1] does that. It's a procedural city generation engine first presented at SIGGRAPH 2001, by Procedural Inc., an ETH Zürich spinoff that was later acquired by ESRI (ArcGIS). At its core is a shape grammar based on L-Systems
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by lukasgraf 3y ago
Not a podcast, but a Stanford MOOC (massive open online course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Fyn_h6LKU&list=PLGvhNIiu1u... The basic operation of a GNSS with ~30m accuracy is literally explained on one slide in le
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by lukasgraf 4y ago
Version control can be a big help. Look through closed tickets in the issue tracker, and try to find a change (bugfix or new feature) that must have , given its nature, touched the functionality you're looking for. Then try to find th
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by lukasgraf 4y ago
Still worked for me yesterday. Temporarily "switched" to a yearly (paid monthly) InCopy subscription, and was able to cancel that about 5min later. If you don't get the "do you want to switch instead of cancelling?"
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by lukasgraf 10y ago
I tend to agree. Obviously automatic normalisation is the correct thing to do when doing arithmetic that crosses DST-rollover boundaries (this is what the Python stdlib gets wrong), but I don't think it should be done (by default) upon