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timc3

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British guy living in Sweden, I am SVP and founder of iconik.io building intelligent media asset management systems.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/timchild; my proof: https://keybase.io/timchild/sigs/1G_1ylOlBiwERzFp9FLyK33erxfO4TXl1iFr4HCozOQ ]

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timc3··on Maestral – open-source Dropbox client
I do the same but with Google Drive and it’s been working fine.

I don’t sync nearly as much content as you though.

timc3··on AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks
I do dev work that involves the Adobe creative suite so I need to run that plus a full development environment. I also need a lot of storage, because I work with video, I care a lot about the display because I am staring at it all day - but also I want to check visual artifacts. What works for you does not work for me.

I also have a M1 Macbook Air, and it’s s great laptop but far from the best programmers laptop for all use cases.

timc3··on AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks
Not a lot of music producers do use that much RAM (speaking as someone that has run multi-machine music making setup before). Its only the large sample libraries that do and you need multiple instances running to really eat it up.

All our devs need than my current music making setup, and I am thinking of going to 128Gb because I do dev work around video.

timc3··on Mac Studio M1 Ultra Teardown [video]
Yeah Maxtech videos are quite unwatchable/unlistenable but their click bait titles show up often in my YouTube results much to my annoyance
timc3··on The case for induction cooking
Ceramic is terrible. Every kitchen I have had with ceramic has it thrown out immediately since induction has been available.
timc3··on The case for induction cooking
I don’t miss that at all
timc3··on Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
Linus tech tips are not exactly professionals though they have learnt a bit over the years, but it is why they mess up all the time. It makes it amusing for me, but their advice is often worst practice.

NAS is fine if you know what you are doing, cloud storage (S3, GCS, B2) is probably best though.

timc3··on What does it mean to listen on a port?
Still doesn’t explain it. I guess it would take a book to get through exactly what is happening.
timc3··on Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
For me twitter is a terrible source of information because there is just too much noise. I rarely read anything on Twitter anymore
timc3··on BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to chip shortage
Thanks. That was hilarious. Wrong in so many ways, but hilarious.
timc3··on The unbearable fussiness of the smart home
I have two hue bridges ( because I have over 60 lights) that have been working for a long time now and I have never seen this problem. It’s worked flawlessly.

I also have another zigbee dongle with zigbee2mqtt and zigbee2mqtt is what gives me problems particularly if the power goes out over the house.

timc3··on Mini-ITX Seaberry Adds 11 PCIe Slots to a Raspberry Pi
There are other platforms that are maybe better suited to that role though. I am not very up to date with the hardware but I remember PCengines being one.
timc3··on How will MIDI 2.0 change music? (2020)
You hit the nail 100% on the head there. I Couldn’t agree more with what you have said hence the comment and not just an upvote.
timc3··on FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly
Could you point me to some examples or perhaps share some? I totally believe you, but we depend on ffmpeg (and we license the relative codecs) and I wanted understand what kind of problems we should be looking out for.
timc3··on In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical Renaissance
I had both a computer and a piano “dumped on me”. I learnt the computer by reading the book that came with it, going to the library to get more books and occasional buying a magazine.

The piano I started off with by trying to play along to TV theme tunes and songs i heard on the radio, then I started making my own music up. That was 40 years ago and I still make music just about every week if not everyday.

timc3··on Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and Infuse
I disagree actually when compared to something like the vero 4k+ Running osmc & kodi.
timc3··on What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour
It sounds like this would be on top of other costs.
timc3··on Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
It is not false, just books never had such a problem and so the license wasn't deemed necessary to put anywhere. You own the paper that it's printed on, but you don't own the pictures or the words in the order they are written down.

The protection that a book has against being copied is that the format makes it more difficult to copy it quickly/cost-effectively for most people. You can do what you are saying with a DVD such as inherit it, though it's terrible for killing flies.

But the fact is that you are not allowed distribute a "copy you made" at all of a book without agreement from the copyright holders/owners or to the extent the law dictates.

timc3··on Svalbard's Alcohol Quotas
Well either its has changed since I lived there or your friends are not big drinkers. Regular drinking was not seen as anything out of the ordinary in the west country and London.

Editing to add - it is a good thing if it has changed.

timc3··on Seagate's Roadmap: The Path to 120 TB Hard Drives
Changes in form factor/standardisation can have enormous others costs associated. For example shipping, enclosures, re-tooling etc..
timc3··on Rupert Neve, Grammy-Winning Audio Industry Icon, Dies at 94
He will be missed. The 1073 is awesome, I agree.
timc3··on The Queen has more power over British law than we thought
It is a great show that I agree on, but, as I pointed out in another comment is not totally accurate and some parts are likely to be just fiction (thinking in particular of certain conversations).

I think the only way to get a better picture is to read a lot of different books on the subject.

timc3··on The Queen has more power over British law than we thought
I don’t think you should be using that TV show as a guide, parts of it are fictional. For examples, take a look at the wikipedia section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crown_(TV_series)#Historic...
timc3··on Ten years without Elixir
I totally agree with you. I started learning Python about 14-15 years ago before its current popularity and its seemed to have a focus on clarity and ease of getting started. The Elixir docs less so but still ok. Ecto docs was where it started to really annoy me though.

However, after a year of developing and learning elixir I am dropping it. Just did not like it in the end, I prefer other languages and everything I like about Elixir was basically Erlang.

timc3··on 75% of the original Disney+ executive team is no longer at Disney
Is isn't all high quality Blockbuster content in the Disney back catalog and that is reflected on Disney+.

However I would agree it's seems better so far than Netflix which aims somewhat more on quantity over quality.

Regions probably vary.

timc3··on Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died
Ask a doctor. They are qualified to give you the right answer based upon symptoms and medical history.
timc3··on New UK police speed gun can read license plates from half a mile away at night
Its a fair point though. They couldn’t even be bothered to look into my Dads stolen boat engine because it was only worth £10,000 - even though he had a pretty good lead about the organized outfit that did it.
timc3··on New UK police speed gun can read license plates from half a mile away at night
They will make it back in fines. Unfortunately some Police in some areas seem addicted to the revenue. Its a drop in the ocean.
timc3··on I created an alternative to the YouTube algorithm to stop me wasting time
That doesn’t help across multiple devices
timc3··on Nvidia Announces A100 80GB GPU for AI
Definitely not dead in certain areas - video, 3D, audio, CAD, certain research. And there is more of that work being done than ever.
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