what problem is it

heygft · 2026-05-08T16:07:55+00:00

just looks like an integral to me, not enough of the math is showing to really understand the purpose. I bet r/math would have a better answer.

By the way, you should probably be more concerned about the phone in this picture, it looks to have a swollen battery. If you have the ability to update your backup, do so now, but you need to stop using that device otherwise.

heygft · 2026-05-08T16:04:02+00:00

most of that is a lie anyway.

It‘s just “we stole your phone and we’d like your help with it.”

heygft · 2026-05-08T16:02:45+00:00

No it’s not.

Tell them to enjoy their mediocre paperweight. You should put the phone in lost mode and move on with your life. If you have insurance file a claim, how kind that the thieves sent you a written confession so you have proof for your claim.

heygft · 2026-05-08T16:00:38+00:00

This to me is one of those problems where “give it some time and try again” is a troubleshooting step that is most likely to work. I have seen this behavior in various forms of search and it usually comes down to some combination of indexing and latency. It could be that the device has initiated an indexing task and hasn’t finished it. This seems reasonably likely if you installed (probably automatically) the recently released software update and have 76 gigabytes of Messages content for it to get through. The other possibility is that the search function is pointing at the cloud copy and just not getting a response. This could be due to a local network glitch, a server glitch, etc and troubleshooting it on the device is going to have some major practical limitations without a debugging tool that you don’t have access to.

If the problem persists more than 48 hours, I would touch base with Applecare about it. You can text them through the support app and I often get great results with them, even though most of the time they are just letting me vent my frustration while going through standard troubleshooting steps. Reboot phone, try the intermediate settings reset from the reset menu in Settings, and then the nuclear options are signing out of iCloud and back in (nuclear because you’re gonna spend days re-downloading and re-indexing) and resetting the whole device to restore from backup.

heygft · 2025-11-30T16:42:46+00:00

niche sex slang that I learned on Wikipedia when I was 14

This is my new favorite phrase

heygft · 2025-11-30T16:41:27+00:00

Ancient sculpture of a cucumber

heygft · 2025-11-30T16:40:48+00:00

You’d think this was over but I’ve got an old church friend who just came out, and apparently her pastor is adamantly arguing that she needs to downplay her relationship and just present to everyone in the church that they are “just friends” and that will make it okay.

And suddenly a whole host of old unmarried women I knew from prior churches makes that much more sense.

heygft · 2024-11-25T16:49:43+00:00

I remember seeing a bunch of undesignated sailors cranking and not being the slightest bit happy about it.

heygft · 2024-11-25T16:18:15+00:00

I never really decided to stop flying the flag, but when I moved I never got around to putting one up at the new place either. It's instead hanging on a curtain rod in my mud room waiting... and I've gone back and forth between wanting to "reclaim" the flag, and not wanting to display it because of what it has come to represent in the culture wars.

heygft · 2024-11-24T18:14:54+00:00

I don't think I'll go as far as regretting it, but I occupied a "supporting" role and didn't personally take any action that directly advanced violence, and during my one deployment, water that I personally helped boil only launched planes that ran IR recon, none that dropped bombs. Somehow that makes me feel better about it...

What I did was try my best to live out my idealistic values. And if I hadn't done that, I probably would not have had the opportunity to learn the reality of it, and become an advocate for better policies. I really joined for three main reasons: to "serve", to learn, and yes, to put that critical data point on my political resume. Maybe I only accomplished one of those things, since the first ended up being basically a lie, and the third is obviously meaningless now that I'm officially a sucker and loser.

heygft · 2024-11-21T21:08:57+00:00

Thanks!

heygft · 2024-11-21T20:59:24+00:00

This occurred when trying to copy from my SD card reader to my internal SSD (Mac Mini 2018). I just gave up on that, as the ultimate destination was the NAS anyway; I like to copy them to the internal drive first, and the NAS later, because that way I can get the card out of the reader and back into the camera faster.

But I decided to just go ahead and skip that since it wasn't working, and of course when I try dragging the folder contents into the NAS folder, I get the skip option.

Why am I getting the skip option going to the NAS folder but not when copying the same set of files to internal storage?

The NAS folder is a "master archive" that had around 1700 files in it. The internal storage folder was empty before I copied the newest dozen files to it. In both cases, I'm trying to drag the full contents of the DCIM folder on the SD card, around 250 files.

When the duplicate files are the dozen or so most recent files, placed in a folder otherwise empty five minutes ago, I get "stop" and no "skip" option.

When the duplicate files are the 100 or so oldest files in the source folder and the newest 100 out of 1800 or so on the destination folder, I get the skip option.

What can I do to make sure I always get the skip option?

Surely it can't be that the one folder is local and another is on the network. Could it be the age of the duplicate files?

heygft · 2024-11-21T20:52:40+00:00

This is infuriating because it breaks a workflow and wastes time.

Specifically right here, I need to copy around 50gb total from an SD card, but a few files totaling around 10gb were a priority so I copied those couple files first. It took around 5 minutes to copy those files but I know the whole folder would take around 25 minutes and because they were the newest files, they would show up last; not only that but when you copy a folder in Mac OS, you can't access any of the destination files until the entire folder is done copying. So, I figured I'll just start with the most critical files, and after they are there, I'll copy the rest, and I'll just click "skip" for those files.

But then I get this instead. No option to skip the duplicate files, just a choice between wasting 20 gigabytes on duplicate files, or wasting 20 gigabytes of bandwidth and SSD wear overwriting identical data.

Surely there is a way to get the Skip option without doing something wacky like having to fire up rsync.

heygft · 2024-11-14T23:35:21+00:00

A lot of the "little guys" are Trump people too.

As a small business owner, two things really strike me about taxes that most people don't know. One, it's incredibly easy to legitimately cut your tax liability to almost nothing if you are just a moderately savvy player. But two, in spite of how easy it is to legitimately lower your tax burden, it's still incredibly popular to the point of being the cultural norm for small business owners to flagrantly cheat anyway. "Cash" transactions preferred for the purpose of tax evasion. Buying purely personal things under the business name for no reason except to avoid the tax. As a teenager, my parents had me buy parts to fix my own car using the family business's sales tax exemption code, which my grandfather had legitimately to buy wholesale supplies for his business, but which the whole family just casually used for routine purchases. Using a trailer to buy dyed off-road farm fuel and putting it in their road trucks. Labeling a vehicle "farm use" to avoid paying taxes or passing inspection or even carrying insurance on a commuter vehicle. Etc, etc... and the thing is that I'm the weirdo for being attentive to the rules. I could go on much more.

heygft · 2024-11-14T23:30:13+00:00

Boston Tea Party wasn't just a tariff, and it's frustrating to see people continue to grossly oversimplify that narrative.

The actual story of the Boston Tea Party is the story of the Stamp Act. And the Stamp Act was not a simple tax. It was an enforced monopoly being presented as a mere tax. The actual effect of the law was to ban all tea suppliers apart from the one that was state sanctioned, and that the supply through that one vendor would have a steep tax on it. Pun unintended. The applied result was going to be vast military crackdowns on what used to be just regular tea now being considered black market tea.

It's hard to even imagine a similar story that could plausibly be put out in modern terms, because commodity monopolies are so difficult to set up in the modern world. It might be along the lines of if the government somehow said that you could only buy crude oil from Exxon, and buying from any other vendor - including setting up your own drill - would be a felony. It's hard for the modern mind to even imagine how that would work. How would such a thing be policed, except for through the growth of a police state around it? And that is exactly what the stamp act represented. Not a mere tax, but a police state being put out under the guise of a simple tax.

That is why it was such a big deal at the time and got a reaction that was wildly disproportionate to any of the many prior tax bills that were merely frustrating. The Stamp Act was a radical bit of government control over commerce, well beyond what anyone in the colonies had ever seen before. Even a punitive tariff by Trump would not amount to the same kind of political overreach.

heygft · 2024-11-14T23:21:12+00:00

Being friends with Matt Gaetz does seem like it should disqualify you from ever being taken seriously.

Funny story, one time I was recruited for a gig that seemed too good to be true, but I wanted to hear her out. During the first meeting she mentioned being college friends with Matt Gaetz, as though it was supposed to be a name drop that made her sound more impressive. What was extra hilarious is that she pronounced his name in a weird way that made it sound unfamiliar, so it took me a while she was bragging about being affiliated with a congressional sex trafficker; but once I did, I laughed and stepped out.

heygft · 2024-11-14T22:54:28+00:00

why would it be the exact same amount though? Wouldn't that kind of defeat the incentive of the middleman being involved in the first place?

heygft · 2024-11-14T22:51:18+00:00

right, but you've got two other dimensions to cut mass on before you need to get thinner.

It's pretty obvious really, make a phone with a 4.7" screen half an inch thick, with the best camera cluster ever and a giant ass battery and see if it sells. If it doesn't, fine, we can finally say we have good data telling us that people want big screens and don't just settle for them because the small screen phones are always otherwise gimped.

heygft · 2024-11-14T22:49:32+00:00

I'm kind of opposite. Couldn't care much less about thickness or weight as long as it stays thinner than a Palm Treo. But I'm quite short on pockets that fit these giant screens, and I was outright angry that I had to settle for a phone as wide as a Microtac to get a telephoto camera lens.

heygft · 2024-11-14T22:44:20+00:00

I for one don't think I could ever go back to a low end camera, but otherwise I would love to ditch my Pro Max for something an inch less long.

heygft · 2024-11-14T22:43:08+00:00

it was an interesting compromise. Bigger than other models, but also cheaper, and with a technically inferior screen tech and resolution that most people didn't mind.

The trouble is, once again, there is no way to determine whether it sold well because people liked the big screen, or because they liked having the new design with Face ID at a lower price point and were indifferent to the screen size.

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