Glorious photos
How do you restore old photos? Both Affinity and ACDSee offer functionality to do it. But there are no tutorials to back it up, and my attempts have been less than successful. Ask Google Gemini? Yes, what you need is PhotoGlory. Oh. I had never heard of it. Out to take a look, and yes, it seems to offer just what I want. Download the trial version, which at least allowed me to rotate images and change their exposure. But to use the features for which it's intended, I have to buy the product! OK, it's only (US) $39.20 for a lifetime license for the PRO version.
Living with SMS
Another pain is SMS. It should no longer exist. It grew up in the early days of digital phones, where phones and Internet had nothing to do with each other, and to enter text you had to use the numeric (only) keypad with multiple presses per letter. Now every phone has Internet standard email, but not only do people not use it, there seems to be an insurmountable barrier between the two. Of course, neither SMS nor email are appropriate when you want to contact somebody quickly and be sure that they get the message. There phone calls are more appropriate, as would have been this morning when Brett contacted me.
Modern security
Security is important of course, especially on the Internet where so few people really understand what's going on. But current methods are just plain ridiculous. I hate CAPTCHAs with a vengeance, and I suspect that my refusal to fill one out confused The Good Guys' computer system, and maybe that's why I haven't received a single email from them during the entire fiasco. But is it necessary? Yesterday I went in to the Ballarat shop and had to pick up an invoice that they could more easily have sent to me by email. And the only identification they wanted was a phone number.
My First GenAI Code
At the moment, we have no idea what the impact of genAI on software development is going to be. The impact of anything on coding is hard to measure systematically, so we rely on anecdata and the community?s eventual consensus. So, here?s my anecdata. Tl;dr: The AI was not useless. The problem My current work on Quamina involves dealing with collections of finite-automata states, which, in the Go programming language, are represented as slices of pointers to state instances: []*faState The problem I was facing was deduping them, so that there would be only one instance corresponding to any particular collection.
Dishwasher, day 6
Reading my news this morning, discovered this SMS message, sent yesterday at 9:20: Hi Greg, Unfortunately, there was a technical glitch with your Web Order: 162882951, your order has since been cancelled and a refund is in progress. Please allow up to 3-5 business days for the funds to reflect back into your original payment method. We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause. What's wrong with this? This was the first time I had seen the order number.