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You can load the IPhone’s pictures on Linux using the folders namespace and then rsync from the loaded namespace to /local…

But does it work for Live Photos which is the main premise of this app?

I use a usb cable and a Linux laptop to copy to a couple of external hard drives (which I store separately). It’s all manual but not too orrenous although i ought backup more often. The biggest hassle is accessing the new heic format on pretty much everything.

Could it all be made into a sd card image for a pi zero perhaps? Even with a web ui accessible over Wi-Fi? A basic cheap sync-cable-appliance that non-techies can easily use?


I think I heard that the latest 'rclone' now, finally, support iCloud ... but I think there is an issue there because you can't sync full quality / RAW photos to icloud, can you ?

rclone has support for iCloud Drive, but it sounds like you are talking about iCloud Photos, which is a different service.

This project lets you download from the latter: https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...


I’d prefer a meme of Wilfred The Dog JD Vance…the bald one is creepy!

It’s nice to see what a little bitwise manipulation can do(XOR)! Low level programming is always fun!


Awesome technology! Nice to see Dead Reckoning being used with computer vision and offline maps! Something college students have been doing in robotics competitions here in the USA ;)


Great wiki page! It even mentions Boltzmann Brains! “ This infinite future could allow for the occurrence of massively improbable events, such as the formation of Boltzmann brains.”


Boltzmann Brains usually mean something is wrong in your cosmology


But taking this the other way around : it's also interesting that some cosmologies are known to be incorrect, because they would enable alternative forms of consciousness.


Or with our philosophy around anthropic reasoning. Or both.


Simple and elegant!


It’s pretty amazing to know that the golden necklace around my neck came from the tremendous force of a star dying!


And for that matter, so did a lot of you.


Mexico is just a small portion of Latin America; A few places I can think of is Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil which have huge stockyards…


Electrical schematics can be represented with linear algebra and Boolean logic… Maybe their being able to “understand” such schematics is just a matter of them becoming better at mathematical logic…which is pretty objective.


This paper works because it explicitly is a problem domain that was intentionally constrained to ensure safety in the Amateur high-power rocket hobby. Specifically with constraints and standards that were developed for teenagers of various skill to do with paper and pen well before they had access to containers. While modern applications have added more functions, those core constrains remain.

It works explicitly because it doesn't hit the often counter-intuitive limitations with generalization in pure math.

Remember that Boolean circuit satisfiability is NP-complete, and is beyond UHAT's + poly length CoT expressibility, which is capped at PTIME.

Even int logic with boolean circuits is in PSPACE.

When you start to deal with values, you are going to have to add in heuristics and/or find reductions that will cost your generalizability.

Even if you model analog circuits as finite labelled directed graphs with labelled vertices, similar to what Shannon used; removing some of the real world electrical impacts and focus on them as computational units, the complexity can get crazy fast.

Those circuits, with specific constraints (IIRC local feedback, etc..) can be simulated by a Turing machine, but require ELEMENTARY space or time, and despite it's name ELEMENTARY is iterated exponential: 2^2^2^2^2^...^n with k n's.

Also note that P/poly, viewed as problems that can be solved by small circuits is not a practical class and in fact contains all of the unary languages that we know are unsolvable by real computers in the general case.

That apparent paradox that P/poly, which has small bool circuits, also contains all of those undecidable unary languages is a good starter into that rat hole.

While we will have tools and models that are better at math logic, the constrains are actually limits on computation in the general case. Generalization often has these types of costs, and the RL benefits in this case relate to demonstrating that IMHO.


Not entirely true. Routing is a very important part of electrical schematics.


Is it? Isn’t that more like PCB design? The schematic is just the abstract connection of components, right?


I would consider a PCB schematic to be part of an electrical schematic. Even if you don’t, you still have to consider final layout because some lines will need EMF protection. The linear equations and boolean algebra are just a (extremely useful) model after all.


That’s even worse! :)


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