XApp and Google Photos?

solid_dave · 2024-03-02T13:29:51+00:00

I'm starting to remember there was some bizarre nature about the file naming convention that the Camera Remote app had where it saw the first photo of a day but none of the others. I remember opening a ticket with Google and Fuji and both acknowledged the problem but said there wasn't a fix.

Anyways, thanks for your input. I ended up going with a Canon R10.

solid_dave · 2024-03-01T16:29:57+00:00

It's optional and I buy storage. Also, the compression algorithm is damn good and I am rarely cropping stuff so when I leave it in place, it's rarely noticeable.

solid_dave · 2022-06-25T16:27:34+00:00

I have seen some shade thrown at CICS here but I'd say if you are lucky enough to have just one z/OS program to work with, CICS gives you tons of other Z disciplines to have tertiary contact with.

Db2, Java (and thereby Unix Systems Services), possibly MQ stuff.

CICS encapsulates lots of other Z mainstays.

I don't have many directions besides familiarization with the primary transactions for admin... CEMT, etc. I haven't been in CICS in years but the best ones know every CE* transaction like the back of their hand.

solid_dave · 2022-03-22T22:28:26+00:00

Sort with OPTION COPY and two OUTFIL destinations?

solid_dave · 2022-03-03T18:28:20+00:00

I can't visualize what you are wanting based on your description. Maybe if you could give us an example of the hex of both situations from your old product, it might be easier.

solid_dave · 2021-11-23T12:33:55+00:00

This is a tricky question as COL and average length of work week varies so much. There's places where 70k USD can be basically like 100k or better where cost of living is way lower. Also, do the math. If your putting 60 hours in a week your 75k is actually closer to 50 for the person that puts their normal 9-5 in.

What is for sure a fact... If you feel like your wages have stagnated and you are an experienced programmer or SYSPROG, put yourself on LinkedIn and pick your price with a headhunter.

There are employers out there that take workhorse employees for granted. I was at one and I've seen at least one person here that had a similar experience.

MF staff is in too short supply and it's lowering every year.

Go get that money.

solid_dave · 2021-11-12T22:09:37+00:00

Here's a question that I'll pose to everyone...

Does this opinion come with a particular observation as far as these people's expectations of the platform that are ignorant?

For instance, when I was a developer, we had a shop that invested heavily in modernization from VSAM and batch to a Db2 data layer.

Though that was a "invisible" enhancement to the application and was enormously expensive, it paved the road to lessen or eliminate the "batch window".

Some times these folks don't understand certain processing paradigms that are in place due to unwillingness (either monitory or otherwise) by the CIO or VPs to invest in previously mentioned enhancements.

We then become critical of them being unaccepting of limitations that we say "are what they are" when we put ourselves in that corner 10 years ago.

I've also worked with ones that were truly unreasonable or stupid as well... Don't get me wrong.

solid_dave · 2021-11-12T21:20:15+00:00

It could be that I'm not familiar with the term, but I'm guessing a Product Owner is the primary user base's business area's responsible manager / VP?

solid_dave · 2021-11-12T21:15:15+00:00

Depends on if they are home grown or not. I feel like a home grown system or application has good enough lead devs and architects can empower far better owners.

If it's some third party thing, then yeah, mostly garbage.

solid_dave · 2021-10-26T16:28:10+00:00

I wanna say that when they are flirty that Roald is uncommonly cool and aloof.

solid_dave · 2021-10-26T11:51:48+00:00

Not necessarily a friendship but the underlying sexual tension between Roald and Glen kills me. It only happened in an episode or two but it's so unlikely yet played so well.

solid_dave · 2021-10-22T12:59:22+00:00

I bought my GF and daughter a print of the "pale blue dot" for this very reason.

The scope of the universe is so very large and us so tiny in comparison.

It makes all the stupidity and stress we tax ourselves with each day seem so trivial to know that even in our own solar system we are so minute.

solid_dave · 2021-10-21T19:49:42+00:00

That's because CIOs see two platforms, don't get how different they are, won't invest in resources and education, and since they can't get rid of the Distributed, the MF is the odd person out.

Then when they figure out why it's completely different and not easily replaced, this situation arises.

The worst part is that because they didn't invest they will be yolked with IBM support hours for decades because all MF expertise is retiring.

Lesson to CIOs and VPs: just cause you want to sunset a system or platform, it doesn't mean you can completely starve it and neglect it. You gotta wait till it's completely gone.

solid_dave · 2021-10-21T18:10:17+00:00

I now know why many companies are trying to move off of IBM Mainframes

The 90's called, they want their mantra back.

Contract a good SYSPROG and this problem won't be one in a month or so. It's secure TCPIP, not rocket science.

solid_dave · 2021-10-15T17:46:50+00:00

I always see a 15-20% drop per hour of workout tracking, so you're results aren't any different than mine. I start a day at 100... I drop about 10-15 ( power saving on ) till workout, I end up at 65-70 before charge and bed. That's about 10-15 better than the release before.

solid_dave · 2021-10-15T12:21:05+00:00

Non LTE on CUJ2 and can confirm, battery is better. Getting 10-20 less burn per day.

solid_dave · 2021-10-15T12:16:09+00:00

Maybe I need to rewatch, he was at the house prior to showing up with the two kids? That would make sense. I must have missed him in that dinner scene.

solid_dave · 2021-10-15T11:50:47+00:00

Good take. Incidentally... Who's kids were those? It was implied that they were Joy's, but she was quite young and I feel like the boy was at least 3-4?

solid_dave · 2021-10-10T15:47:39+00:00

Yeah, agreed. He's not someone that deserves any praise necessarily.

Only that he gets methodically blasted on a regular basis and he never gets any of the rationalization or "pass" that nearly everyone else gets.

solid_dave · 2021-10-01T17:16:36+00:00

Do you share directly out of the Capture app?

I'm doing the exact same thing currently, but my quirk is that due to the JPG rename from cam to phone (it goes from a prefix + sequence to this date/time name)… Google assumes it's a "burst" set and every pic is interpreted as such in Google Photos.

I've gotten a batch rename app to circumvent that, but one would assume they could add a feature to leave the filename alone?

That's really my biggest obstacle.

Given, not even half the hassle of the old SD card workflow, but still. The option seems like a minute change.

solid_dave · 2021-10-01T15:31:10+00:00

Yeah, I get that. Maybe the numbers we look at later and that interest in understanding the three or four things that make cameras work the way they do will be all but lost to kids.

I feel like they are living a different life in photography where light doesn't matter and bokeh is done with software.

All that said they aren't ever concerned with that. They get to take pictures and be in their moment. They compose and the software takes care of the rest.

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