I'm moving to the Bay Area - Tell me what I need to know
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Blakey (jokingly) complaining about the horrible weather in Seattle?
He's really sensitive about how Costco started in San Diego.
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I've never complained about Seattle weather. Where do you people get this shit?
ISTR you complaining about the size of rain droplets in a common sort of rain that you get not playing nice with your automatic wipers. Can't find the post right now.
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I intentionally overlooked the
FTFY. While the comment directed at Californians has a touch of sarcasm, overall it strikes me as more facetious than sarcastic — humorous, rather than cutting and hurtful.sarcasmfacetiae in it.Seriously, I'm pretty sure I complain about the weather here more than @blakeyrat does. I've only lived here about four years, so I still notice how dreary and miserable it. I think1 Blakey grew up here, so he doesn't know any better. ;)
1I could be wrong. I'm not sure why I think this — whether he mentioned it some time, or it's just my shoulder aliens, and I'm too lazy to search all his posts for a statement that may not exist.
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I've never complained about Seattle weather.
Nor should you. It's dry, sunny and warm by comparison with some parts of the world…
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How to demoralise employees was front pagified, someone in the comments looked at the EXIF and pinpointed his workplace, to the building IIRC
Yeah, someone PMed me. I also don't think I realized previously that that topic was front-paged.
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Seriously this all great info. I only have one child, my son, who is too young for school. Its going to be a few more years before school is an issue.
Our current plan is to rent for a year and get to know the area before looking at buying a home
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Our current plan is to rent for a year and get to know the area before looking at buying a home
Good plan.
Seriously this all great info.
You're welcome. If you have any specific questions, just ask. I grew up in SoCal and now live in the State of Perpetual Drizzle, but I lived in the Bay Area for >20 years in between, so I know the area pretty well (especially the south bay and peninsula).
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I grew up in Pacifica, which is right near San Francisco. But I left :/ I could definitely not afford to move back, though given the flooding recently has made reality out of some of my childhood nightmares, I probably wouldn't if I could. San Jose is nice though, I hear.
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How to demoralise employees was front pagified, someone in the comments looked at the EXIF and pinpointed his workplace, to the building IIRC
That was Discourse's fault. I checked the EXIF on the image before I approved it for publication. Discourse actually did something right and stripped it. Yay.
Turns out, no, Discourse makes a copy of an uploaded image, strips EXIF on the copy, but keep the EXIF on the original. The original you had no idea even exists. What an incredible clever and subtle way to kick me in the groin.
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He's really sensitive about how Costco started in San Diego.
Feh. Everybody knows it started in Memphis.
Egypt.
ISTR you complaining about the size of rain droplets in a common sort of rain that you get not playing nice with your automatic wipers.
That's a complaint about the car, not the weather.
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I checked the EXIF on the image before I approved it for publication.
I'm not going to fault you for that, but at the same time, that's why, as I said above, I disable my camera from even adding the stuff there in the first place. That way I don't have to remember to strip it, or make sure anything else does it.
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Cloud server maintenance?
Yes, especially continuous delivery to cloud servers of the opposing gender. They get really whiny if they haven't had the opportunity to deploy a package into a server in more than a couple weeks.
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Yes, especially continuous delivery to cloud servers of the opposing gender. They get really whiny if they haven't had the opportunity to deploy a package into a server in more than a couple weeks
I am never letting you fix any of my machines. Ever.
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I want it on 99.5% of the photos I take. The only problem here is Discourse, it should either strip the EXIF from all its copies of the image, or none of them. (Or, even more radical: only store one copy in the first place!!!)
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I want it on 99.5% of the photos I take.
Ah.
I guess, lesson learned, if you're going to upload a picture here, strip the EXIF data yourself, first.
Explorer's supposed to do it, but it has never worked for me, just errors when I try to do it.
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EXIF data gets stripped on pictures with
_optimized
in the URL.
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EXIF data gets stripped on pictures with _optimized in the URL.
ISTM that it should probably get stripped on all of them unless the user checks a flag or something, to avoid just that situation. Blakey's hardly the only person it's happened to (I don't mean just here, of course)
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EXIF data gets stripped on pictures with _optimized in the URL.
Thanks Doctor Factoid, but that doesn't change the fact that Discourse's behavior here is obviously stupid and wrong.
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EXIF data gets stripped on pictures with _optimized in the URL.
In-band data dictates system behavior?
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I'm not going to fault you for that, but at the same time, that's why, as I said above, I disable my camera from even adding the stuff there in the first place. That way I don't have to remember to strip it, or make sure anything else does it.
Now I'm possibly in the wrong thread, but none of my devices that have cameras (OK, my wife just got a smart phone) have any sort of GPS information available.
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that you know about...
Tinfoil hats, get your tinfoil hats here
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Tinfoil hats
Where's the tinfoil vs. aluminum foil debate thread? Also, cue aluminum vs. aluminium debate. (Surprised. Chrome speelchuck accepts both spellings, even in en-us.)
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Now I'm possibly in the wrong thread, but none of my devices that have cameras (OK, my wife just got a smart phone) have any sort of GPS information available.
You'd be surprised. Your laptop has a pretty good idea of where it is based on what wifi networks it can see. Unless you're really in the boonies. Phones use the same techniques, which they use as a stop-gap while the GPS chip is "registering". Cameras usually would have a GPS chip only.
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Cameras usually would have a GPS chip only.
I checked the EXIF coming from my digital camera -- no location info to be had there. Phones, OTOH, do have a semi-decent idea of where they are at, even when they aren't getting a good fix from GPS.
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I don't know what camera you own, but a lot of models do have GPS chips.
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Your laptop has a pretty good idea of where it is based on what wifi networks it can see.
I don't currently have a laptop. Gave my last one (that did have a camera) to my daughter.
Phones use the same techniques, which they use as a stop-gap while the GPS chip is "registering".
Hmm...apparently my phone does have a GPS mode, though I have it set to E911 only. Which I guess I set several years ago and forgot about.
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apparently my phone does have a GPS mode, though I have it set to E911 only
saves battery that way.
of course also means you can't use the phone for navigation, but that's a tradeoff.
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of course also means you can't use the phone for navigation, but that's a tradeoff.
This phone couldn't be used for that.
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oh. then no reason to leave the GPS on. keep it in E911 and save das battery
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Now I'm possibly in the wrong thread, but none of my devices that have cameras (OK, my wife just got a smart phone) have any sort of GPS information available.
Every Android phone I've ever had has done it, but I started making sure it's disabled after the Adam Savage EXIF incident. I don't know about other mobile OSes. My last dumbphone didn't do it, and I don't think the last WinMo phone I had did it, even though both of those had GPSes.
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Phones use the same techniques, which they use as a stop-gap while the GPS chip is "registering".
AGPS allows the use of cell towers as well as wifi networks, but in a city there's a good chance wifi will give more accurate results.
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saves battery that way.
of course also means you can't use the phone for navigation, but that's a tradeoff.
Hardly.
GPS uses practically nothing unless you're actually using something which needs to know where you are constantly like Sat Nav. And then, the screen will be using much much more than the GPS is anyway.
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The spelling of aluminum is consistent with other metals like lithum, sodum and magnesum, at least.
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Regarding EXIF, if I open my photo in Paint, and then PrtScn it, then I shouldn't have EXIF data in my screenshot?
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not any from the original photo anyway. your computer might embed some.
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Depends on what you save the screenshot as.