Found it 
I will test that. My dropbox isnāt big enough to hold my own photos so Iāll see how that goes
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Oh, also if you click the āStorageā heading in the bottom left, it takes you to a āManage storageā page that could help to remove some photos before export.
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it may be worth paying for storage as a short term solution. or another photo service ā I havenāt investigated, but it wouldnāt surprise me if the competition had connectors to slurp data out of googleās cloud and into their own. Googleās business model is āsuck, but not quite so much that people will make the effort to leaveā, and making it hard to leave is a big part of that. the harder they make it to leave, the more they can suck. I used to put up with googleās other suckage because their search worked. But it sucks so bad these days the only service i actually use is maps.
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Outside the USA, and if you want anything other than drivable roads, Iāve found OpenStreetMap is reliably better. (It wonāt have as many business names, but theyāre more likely to be correct.) Granted it doesnāt do the traffic thing.
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the traffic thing is a huge part of what makes me put up with google maps. for instance, I live on the north side of Chicago, and most of my wifeās family live in the sw suburbs. there are two basic routes I could take that are pretty close in distance, plus a bunch of variations on when to get on or off the expressway and which set of surface streets to use. the traffic thing can easily save you from being stuck in an 45 minute delay because of traffic (or, sadly, let you know that despite being stuck in a 45 minute delay, the other way is worseā¦) Thereās a network effect there, if the service doesnāt have users telling them their current speed, traffic predictions donāt work as well, which appleās product suffers from. (Though I still havenāt forgiven them for directing me to a store that closed in 1998, and was torn down in 2003. IN 2013).
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Sad to see no Ada on there.
My experience with MATLAB, C# and C++ all sound about right though.
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I know itās a joke but I have to say JavaScript post ES6 really has risen above its reputation. You still can write it like PHP if you want to, but you can also write it like a real programming language, and in my speed tests itās the fastest interpreted language Iāve tried.
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About 15 years ago I was laughing with my colleagues at work over an anecdote about some executive at some company who was present at a technical meeting where a difficult server-side programming problem was being discussed, and who seemingly wanted to make it seem like there was a reason for him being there, and so interjected with the question āHave you tried using Javascript?ā (apparently because it was a word he knew).
(Subsequently, we would often ask one another that question when discussing difficult problems.)
Years later, nodejs was a thing, people were using Javascript to build complex server-side applications, and the ever-growing importance of the language for running client-side code in competing web browsers had led to significant ongoing efforts being directed at maximising the performance of its interpreters.
It sure is an unusual case amongst languages.
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Anyone who buts an hp printer made after about 2010 has made a serious mistake. (Some high end commercial stuff is still okay, but why support crap?)
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I got lucky and found my first Brother mono laser some time in the 1990s. Havenāt run anything else since.
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I used an hp laserjet 5 something until about 12 years ago, which was fine. It was slow, especially for stuff with complicated postscript. It was the version that could turn the fuser off, so it didnāt suck power waiting to print, but it took minutes to get ready.
suffered from the paper pickup rollers getting too hard to pick up paper. The available replacements were all old stock, so that was the end. (New manufacture replacements were available again, donāt know if they still are. )
I replaced it with a brother which is superior in every measure. Itās faster, higher resolution, smaller, takes a few seconds to start. I think the cost per page is a little higher, but not much, and I donāt print enough to care.
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Brother laser printers for about 15 years here (two, in total).
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Yeh, when I was looking to get a laser printer, Brother was the only brand anyone would recommend.
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Itās an iteration on the model weāve had for years. Iāve had to change the toner once.
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Bought a little Brother HL-1112 to print out a load of pdf rpg books Iād bought (mostly out of print GURPS 3e). Does really well, but after doing a 200 page book, needs to rest every 5 pages to cool down. And you can refill the toner cartridges!
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Things I bet most people donāt do when they get a new car: find out what format the navigation system uses for stored destinations, and amend the existing geopoint management system to be able to output in that format.
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Looks like the last update for my phone really messed up the way Discourse renders. The Like heart is not showing up, deleting test in a post I am writing is super slow, and various icons arenāt coming in. Yay for progressā¦?
Edit: Cleared the cache and it is doing better now.
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