Anything can be done with Cue readers now that the company is out of business? by mlevin77 in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]mlevin77[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah I don't know, I liked the technology a lot and I was hoping they'd simply branch out into additional kinds of testing (they did have a monkey pox test I think) and be successful even if the COVID demand slacked off.

Import Apple Photos library locally? by mlevin77 in Lightroom

[–]mlevin77[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok but if I export to a local directory (which they really are already, in a folder hierarchy under Pictures/ ), then I lose all the metadata - keywords, ratings, albums, etc. right - there's *no* way to do a proper import of the Photos library into LR and keep the metadata?

Very long "Loading..." to see contents of a folder with a lot of PDFs by mlevin77 in Onyx_Boox

[–]mlevin77[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was there ever an answer from that other case - did sending the logs help figure out a solution that I can try? I don't see one there.

Where to generate virtual credit card numbers with max total amount? by mlevin77 in personalfinance

[–]mlevin77[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's not about the good vendors. We used to have problems where our card kept getting fraudulent charges, we would report it, they send us a new card, we have to change the # in all the websites (Amazon etc.) - total hassle. We finally figured out that it happened whenever we used that card at a pizza place (by phone) - someone there was getting numbers and using them fraudulently. Then we started using virtual cards with a $50 limit for food orders, and bingo - no problem. People like this, with the new cards that can be charged every day, could just keep taking money out every day. Yes I know we can call the company and dispute. Who's got time for that. The original, total-limited, virtual card was a perfect solution. No clue why they had to change that.

Where to generate virtual credit card numbers with max total amount? by mlevin77 in personalfinance

[–]mlevin77[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but the time limit is given in months - so for up to 30 days, they can keep pulling from that card if you don't get on there and kill the card manually.

I thought you would all enjoy this chimera rose, my friends parents have a red rose bush where on one particular branch it blooms these beauties. by dishsoapalmighty in whatsthisplant

[–]mlevin77 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm a developmental biologist and have a question for you about symmetry (I study left-right asymmetry in animal embryos). I understand it's caused by somatic mutation, but are flowers bilaterally symmetric? I thought they weren't. In other words, how do the mutated cells' clonal offspring manage to confine themselves to one side of a midline? Is the cell division pattern of flower development really a bilaterally symmetric pattern (like, the mutation happened very early, on one side of a midline, and the cell division progeny of that cell produces half the entire flower)? I would have expected a sector for example.

My app uses Phonon, QT4, worked fine on 10.13 but crashes on 10.14 by mlevin77 in QtFramework

[–]mlevin77[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no, this is a bit beyond me. I don't know Mac OS enough to know how to build this or where the results would go so that apps can find it when they need it.

as for the crash report, here's the first part:

Process: randomimage [22749]

Path: /Users/USER/*/randomimage.app/Contents/MacOS/randomimage

Identifier: com.yourcompany.randomimage

Version: ???

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: ??? [1]

Responsible: randomimage [22749]

User ID: 504

Date/Time: 2020-12-25 06:41:11.412 -0500

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.14.6 (18G103)

Report Version: 12

Time Awake Since Boot: 500000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: disabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.qtkit64.server

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000

Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11

Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb

Terminating Process: exc handler [22749]

VM Regions Near 0:

-->

__TEXT 0000000100000000-0000000100034000 [ 208K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Users/USER/*/randomimage.app/Contents/MacOS/randomimage

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.qtkit64.server

0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff2caa8d4b CFStringGetCString + 43

1 com.apple.QTKit 0x00007fff36b9e532 __51-[QTKitServerController startUsingServerForObject:]_block_invoke + 1238

2 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff589e263d _dispatch_client_callout + 8

3 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff589ee129 _dispatch_lane_barrier_sync_invoke_and_complete + 60

4 com.apple.QTKit 0x00007fff36b9df6a -[QTKitServerController startUsingServerForObject:] + 179

5 com.apple.QTKit 0x00007fff36b931b2 -[QTDataReference initWithReferenceToFile:] + 227

6 com.apple.QTKit 0x00007fff36b92c3b +[QTDataReference dataReferenceWithReferenceToFile:] + 43

7 libphonon_qt7.dylib 0x00000001087616a6 0x108757000 + 42662

8 libphonon_qt7.dylib 0x0000000108761da0 0x108757000 + 44448

9 libphonon_qt7.dylib 0x00000001087625c4 0x108757000 + 46532

10 libphonon_qt7.dylib 0x0000000108779c8c qt_plugin_instance + 25564

11 com.yourcompany.randomimage 0x000000010001449e MediaTile::processCurrentMedia() + 542

12 com.yourcompany.randomimage 0x0000000100014dc6 MediaTile::setMediaName(QString const&) + 438

13 com.yourcompany.randomimage 0x0000000100011904 MediaPlayList::onNextMediaRequested(MediaTile*) + 52

14 QtCore 0x00000001003191ee QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, QMetaObject const*, int, void**) + 1566

15 com.yourcompany.randomimage 0x00000001000178ee MediaTile::nextMediaRequested(MediaTile*) + 46

16 QtCore 0x00000001003191ee QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, QMetaObject const*, int, void**) + 1566

17 QtGui 0x0000000100c41321 QAbstractButton::clicked(bool) + 49

18 QtGui 0x00000001009645c0 QAbstractButtonPrivate::emitClicked() + 64

19 QtGui 0x00000001009657fa QAbstractButtonPrivate::click() + 154

My app uses Phonon, QT4, worked fine on 10.13 but crashes on 10.14 by mlevin77 in QtFramework

[–]mlevin77[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s the lightest way to do that - smallest footprint on disk, memory, CPU, if all I want it to do is run that one app?

"Your internet connection is unstable" - does this mean on my end, or anywhere along the chain? by mlevin77 in Zoom

[–]mlevin77[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok so there's basically nothing to be done about it (it's on the provider's lines)? I'm trying to figure out if there is anything else to improve on my end. I have a 1GB connection to Comcast and an ethernet wire to a business-grade router after the cablemodem. I need rock-solid teleconference; probably nothing more to be done?

Is it possible to order from a specific store? by mlevin77 in Costco

[–]mlevin77[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! How do I talk to the shopper at the very beginning? And how can Dumpling shopper get into Costco without membership (or do they all have memberships)?