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How nice it'd be to search for image based on their dimensions in Spotlight.
Hello! …ello! …ello! …ello!
Hello! …ello! …ello! …ello!
MacOS can't do that? In Windows, you can open up a folder full of images, specify a type search and then use width and height to find images. If you display the folder as detailed items, you can go even further with the preset sort methods or add additional sorting column types.
Windows 7 and newer search is fairly powerful if you know how to use it. Puzzles me OSX/macOS doesn't have something as good if not better. For day to day searching, I use a third party indexer that indexes file names, whereas Windows does full-text indexing. I use it if I know what I want. I'll use Windows search if I remember a phrase or an entire sentence of text in a file and want to pull that file up but don't remember where I put it.
My father.
He would have been 90 years old today, had he lived.
He would have been 90 years old today, had he lived.
Had the procedure on my knee yesterday. Everything went great, and now it's time for the part that annoys me the most: physically rehabilitating the knee. That basically means correcting about ten years of mistakes, and learning to actually use the whole leg again, train the muscles etc. It's going to suck, but it'll be worth it to have two, hopefully, fully functioning legs again.
One thing that really amazed me was the anesthesia. I wasn't asleep during the operation (the surgery was arthroscopic, not open), but received a local anesthetic injected into the spine. Or thereabouts, at least. It's a strange feeling, when being wheeled out of the OR that if someone were to tell you "sorry, we forgot the lower part of your body in the OR" you would have no problem believing them since it's just not there. First time for me, definitely a nice experience.
Also very enjoyable was the glass of Cognac the nurses served with the coffee after the anesthetic had worn off.
One thing that really amazed me was the anesthesia. I wasn't asleep during the operation (the surgery was arthroscopic, not open), but received a local anesthetic injected into the spine. Or thereabouts, at least. It's a strange feeling, when being wheeled out of the OR that if someone were to tell you "sorry, we forgot the lower part of your body in the OR" you would have no problem believing them since it's just not there. First time for me, definitely a nice experience.
Also very enjoyable was the glass of Cognac the nurses served with the coffee after the anesthetic had worn off.
That sounds wonderful - in a bizarre way.
Best of wishes for a speedy and healthy recovery.
I'm trying to figure out what is up with all the moon pictures in profile pics ...
Do I live under a large rock? No, the moon doesn't count ...
Do I live under a large rock? No, the moon doesn't count ...
A good question.
Perhaps a historic event.
Or something like that.
Looking back at an anniversary..
Lots of possibilities.
Or maybe I'm misremembering.
Are you related to @Gutwrench?3pm and two hours to go.
Happy to have my 2015 15” MBP back home again! First she had to make a trip to the Genius Bar and then to Houston, Texas for a battery transplant, as she was among the ones involved in the recall Apple issued recently. I happily welcomed her home again only to realize that somewhere along the line, probably in transit, she had picked up signs of the dreaded delamination (she was FINE before she left home!). So another trip to the Apple store and Genius Bar and another trip to Houston.....sigh. Now she is back home again and looking good and working well so far! Hoping that this is the end of trips to Houston.......
Fiftieth anniversary of Apollo XI is coming soon.
Neural networks. Found an app that modifies aspects of photos using AI (I guess it applies an image convolution kernel generated by neural networks trained on different photos of models), so of course I sent it a series of photos. The results:
tl;dr: I found a quick photo filter that removes acne with minimal side effects.
tl;dr: I found a quick photo filter that removes acne with minimal side effects.
Forgive this stupid question, but I trust this community.
Can any of the new laptops be safely used in a vertical stand for long periods?
I have an HP G5 ZBook which is always connected to external monitors. When home I don’t use the laptop’s screen. May I safely use it in a vertical laptop stand to save desk real estate?
Edit: Calm down everyone this is solved!
Can any of the new laptops be safely used in a vertical stand for long periods?
I have an HP G5 ZBook which is always connected to external monitors. When home I don’t use the laptop’s screen. May I safely use it in a vertical laptop stand to save desk real estate?
Edit: Calm down everyone this is solved!
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That does sound like a weird feeling.
I'm glad it went well, and that you'll have a good walking gait for the first time in a decade. Rehab will probably be a pain in the butt, but keep up with it. You bet it'll be worth it!I saw my podiatrist about my foot pain, and after a few questions she said, "Sure sounds like gout to me." (Diagnosis and x-ray at a same day center had pointed to arthritis.) So she sent me for blood work. Got it back on my phone the next day. All tested levels within normal parameters, so I guess we're back to arthritis. Whatever it is, it hasn't gone completely away but I am walking better.
On the positive side, before I started getting better I went grocery shopping for the first time in my life using one of those electric carts and managed to not knock over anything.
What's on my mind today is seeing a neighbor (and friend) on a gurney being tucked into an ambulance for transport to a local hospital. Due to various circumstances which I won't go into here, I have the uneasy feeling that she may not be returning home but instead will be eventually going to a nursing home or an assisted living facility. It's sad, as she loved this place so much and was one of the original owners to move into this lakeside condominium development when it was first built. I can certainly relate to not wanting to leave here as I sit out on my deck tonight enjoying the sparkle of reflected lights in the water.....
Beyond that, once again I am reminded of my own age and my own mortality and health and wondering about that and once again being nudged that yes, I need to be doing something concrete, putting something in writing, updating my will, expressing my wishes, being clear with whoever I appoint as the person responsible for my well-being if I am no longer able to be so.....NOW, rather than putting it off to some distant day....which, as I have too often seen, may at that point may be too late. Growing old sucks. It just does!
Beyond that, once again I am reminded of my own age and my own mortality and health and wondering about that and once again being nudged that yes, I need to be doing something concrete, putting something in writing, updating my will, expressing my wishes, being clear with whoever I appoint as the person responsible for my well-being if I am no longer able to be so.....NOW, rather than putting it off to some distant day....which, as I have too often seen, may at that point may be too late. Growing old sucks. It just does!
Same thing happened to my 2015 MBP (down to the de-lamination) - glad yours made it back home as well.
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I'm curious what the effects would be on the fans. I love those HP mobile workstations, though. Quite power hungry, but if you need a mobile with desktop processing power, it's what you get. Is yours with the i7 or Xeon?
Up to now and not really counting,
I don't think old age sucks all that much, although I have an elbow that would sometimes gainsay that when the weather turns nasty unless I exercise consistently. I wouldn't want to have to redo entire prior phases of my working life (even if having liked selected stretches a whole lot). There are things I might do physically now if I still could, like still use firewood for my preferred heating mode. But it's too much for me and I don't miss the work of the stacking and splitting and so forth. So I guess I'm easing into laziness and more than half-enjoying it. I do have to work out to make up for some lowered exercise values during winter when I don't walk much outdoors any more. Anyway for me right now seems like a fine time on balance. Sure I'd like to have physical agility of a 30-yo but I was never particularly active then and I probably work out more now than I did even when I was in my mid 40s and started paying more attention to fitness and wellness checks and so forth. It's easier to keep that stuff from getting shoved off my calendar in retirement, that's for sure.
Still my liking for my how my life works for me now could change in the blink of an eye at my age. And that should be really be considered normal as we get older. So it's good not to leave stuff that matters like wills and proxy instructions and so forth to some mythical "tomorrow" that never does arrive.
I find it shocking that guys who are in their 40s with a wife and kids may not have wills... so that goes double and triple for anyone of any age or marital status who's in their 70s or 80s.
Living forever and in great shape is a nice idea. So far it seems to work out best in science fiction.
The only day on which we get to do something is the day we're in, plans or no. It makes people in family and circles of friends nervous if we keep postponing making decisions that they do hope we'll make for ourselves, or that they need us to have taken care of while we can manage to do those tasks properly.
About the only thing I really dislike so far about advancing age is that I'm less good about getting to bed on time than I used to be. I think it's pure self-indulgence. I'm no more capable of organized thought or behavior after 11pm or so than I ever was, and I think I do need at least seven hours of sleep. Still it bothers me less that I won't be a brilliant thinker the next morning if I go to bed late and still wake up with the light.
Must say though that I'm fortunate in not experiencing insomnia. When I head upstairs, I'm about 45 seconds past useful second thoughts about whether it's really bedtime... and not more than five or ten minutes from being out cold. At least I quit drinking coffee past mid afternoon. I did discover that caffeine affects me more than it used to do.