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Post by softfalcon »

chiefgeek wrote: post #312
CharlesW wrote: post #272

"I don’t know if this is a problem that is specific to OM System cameras, and I’m not particularly interested in investing in a new camera system just to find out." A better way to have further narrowed down the problem down to Actually iPhoto would've been to do the same tests with a USB-C card reader plugged directly into the Mac, which would've eliminated cables, hubs, and camera hardware/software/firmware as poss…

This. I work as a professional photographer. Nikon shooter. I only ever import directly from my camera in very rare cases. And when I have a problem importing directly from card to Lightroom, first step is to copy everything to the hard drive and import from there.

Yeah, seconded. For all cameras of all brands, pop the SD card out and into a reliable reader (I recommend Lexar and Sony hubs).

Never use the camera over USB, the experience is terrible on everything from Canon to Sony to Panasonic to Fuji.

Don't fight it, just buy that $30 USB hub and get on with your day.

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Post by dmd »

mmmlinux wrote: post #320
dmd wrote: post #74

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Maybe you can help bump FB13400242, a bug that is _literally_ going to kill people. (The bug is that to make an emergency call, even from lock screen, you're supposed to be able to squeeze buttons on either side of the phone. But it only works with the volume buttons on the left - the Action button didn't get supported, when that button was added. So now the rule for teaching a small child isn't just "squeeze both si…

well you're already starting off assuming that the kid is holding an iPhone. so its already an "oh but not that one" situation.

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Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by softfalcon »

doodaddy wrote: post #84

As an Olympus shooter this is good to know. But good gravy that troubleshooting path got expensive real fast. Replacing the laptop and the camera? Why not start by trying something other than Photos? It doesn’t even need to be a paid product; the Olympus software is free not to mention a good baseline since it - of all the applications - should be able to import photos without corrupting them. Edit to add: delete on…

As a photographer, I agree. Make multiple copies of the files onto the main editing computer, followed by then also backing up direct from SD to the NAS. Never format or delete your cards (the originals) before you are dead sure you have several backups visibly uncorrupted.

I may be paranoid because I used to handle footage for VFX pipelines and you just do not mess around with those kinds of files. If you lose footage, you are in big trouble.

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Post by PaulHoule »

devmor wrote: post #204
ryandrake wrote: post #129

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Unless one's title is going to be "VP" or "SVP", the chance that someone joins BigTech and gets to "improve the process" is usually miniscule. You're being hired as cog #21 on team #54 and there is a large backlog of JIRA (well, in this case, Radar) tickets to grind through. There will be people who tell you what the processes are, and to not deviate from them. And you shouldn't get mad at those people, either--they'…

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More than once I've had a chance to interview (brief) somebody who was about to take a job at a "big tech" company and interview them again (debrief) after they left.

Frequently they were excited to start work at a place where they could "make a difference" and within a year they came to the conclusion that there's wasn't any possibility they could make a difference.

Organizations of that sort have no interest at all in hiring people who aren't going to cooperate on their process.

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Post by devmor »

ryandrake wrote: post #216
devmor wrote: post #204

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It’s not a matter of ambition or lack-of. Nobody is going into a 100k+ company and just changing the entire corporate culture around something as broad as bug fixing. These companies have hundreds of teams, and decades of entrenched culture. Sure, go in and improve what you can in your own lane, but be realistic about your scope and reach.

Nobody ever changes anything and new hires should have no aspirations or goals but to be code monkeys.

Your outlook on career growth is nihilistic, not realistic.

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Post by devmor »

PaulHoule wrote: post #324
devmor wrote: post #204

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More than once I've had a chance to interview (brief) somebody who was about to take a job at a "big tech" company and interview them again (debrief) after they left. Frequently they were excited to start work at a place where they could "make a difference" and within a year they came to the conclusion that there's wasn't any possibility they could make a difference. Organizations of that sort have no interest at all…

If they were excited to make a difference at a big tech company and gave up in a year, it sounds like they didn't understand what they were getting into at all. Goals take time.

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Post by sixothree »

deviation wrote: post #12

It seems to be an import pipeline bug. Photos does a lot of extra work on import (merging RAW+JPEG pairs, generating previews, database indexing, optional deletion), so my guess is a concurrency bug where a buffer gets reused or a file handle is closed before the copy finishes. Rare, nondeterministic corruption fits the profile.

I have a few corrupted photos in iCloud that were taken with my iPhone. Maybe there's something larger going on here.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by PaulHoule »

devmor wrote: post #326
PaulHoule wrote: post #324

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More than once I've had a chance to interview (brief) somebody who was about to take a job at a "big tech" company and interview them again (debrief) after they left. Frequently they were excited to start work at a place where they could "make a difference" and within a year they came to the conclusion that there's wasn't any possibility they could make a difference. Organizations of that sort have no interest at all…

If they were excited to make a difference at a big tech company and gave up in a year, it sounds like they didn't understand what they were getting into at all. Goals take time.

To be fair, people have a lot of fear of wasting time, being co-opted, losing their values, etc. I agree that a lot of people lack patience, but a bad situation can be more patient than you can be.

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Post by jiveturkey »

dmd wrote: post #113
pants2 wrote: post #108

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I think a faster / easier approach is to just press the biggest button repeatedly until it makes an emergency call for you.

A five year old is going to find "just squeeze" easier than doing that.

five year olds shouldn't have a phone, and should be supervised. even if they have a phone, they are unlikely to handle it with the care it requires.
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