dream
I used AI to visualize my dream.
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Google/Google Photos
Google products seem to slowly become worse, examples:
- Gmail no longer recognizes flight itineraries.
- Google Photos:
- Removed the map view.
- Doesn’t let you easily delete all photos.
- Doesn’t offer a simple way to download everything.
- Takeout exports require dealing with messy JSON metadata.
- Google Search:
- Cluttered with ads.
- Results feel worse than they used to be.
- Android removed native phone call recording.
- YouTube is overloaded with ads.
Just moved away from Google Photos. For geeks, https://immich.app/ is a great alternative — they're amazing.
To fix the chaos from Google Takeout, I used this https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper.
Would definitely consider paying for Immich if they offered a hosted version.
escape!
Why is escaping a character called escaping a character?
When a C compiler (or any other compiler) encounters a " it thinks to it self "huh, this is the begninning or end of a string!".
Say you need " in your string?
You have to tell the compiler "do not process this character like you always do, I want you to ESCAPE the default processing". You do this with "dear compiler this \" will become a double quotation mark in my string".
Likewise if you want a new line you need to tell the compile "do not process this n as a "n", escape the default processing and process it as a new line \n".
Post25
1024 * 1024 - this many bytes is an mibibyte (MiB).
A megabyte like a megameter is 10^6 bytes.
We all frequently say megabyte meaning a mibibyte. Like wise a kilobyte != kibibyte
| Unit | Abbreviation | Size in Bytes |
|---|---|---|
| Kibibyte | KiB | 1,024 |
| Mebibyte | MiB | 1,048,576 |
| Gibibyte | GiB | 1,073,741,824 |
| Kilobyte | KB | 1,000 |
| Megabyte | MB | 1,000,000 |
| Gigabyte | GB | 1,000,000,000 |
Network speeds are measured in Mbps - that is mega bits per second - that is 1,000,000 bits per second.
MB - Megabyte (SI) MiB - Mibibyte (IEC) Mb - Megabit (SI)