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Re:Please stop disabling zoom on Thursday May 05, 2022 @11:44AM (#31274835)
Thanks for including at the bottom of the article how to force your browser to enable zoom. Didn't know you could do this!
whoa this is awesome! thanks for making the source available too :) https://github.com/tvillarete/ipod-classic-js
I think the most useful feature is the damage fall off at range. It would be nice to visually see how far away a target is when you adjust the feet away/units away.
Sometimes all it takes is that one extra bullet
Re:Loading 180 tiled images with HTTP/2 vs. HTTP/1 on Thursday April 16, 2015 @01:39PM (#9389485)
CloudFlare supports SPDY!
Re:How We Did It: SNL Title Sequence on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @01:46PM (#8663933)
Yeah looks like their Wordpress box is having a tough time with the amount of requests HN is sending their way.
Maybe depression can't be 'fixed', but you can learn to understand it and find ways to ignore it. This helped me: http://youtu.be/drv3BP0Fdi8

It's different for everyone so it might not make a difference.

Re:An open source engine clone of Age of Empires II on Sunday October 26, 2014 @08:39PM (#8513185)
Picked up Age of Mythology: Extended Edition during the Steam Summer Sale. My friends and I used to play a ton against each other over LAN when we were kids. Now we're all in different states, but multiplayer works really well so that's not a problem!
Re:Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont. on Friday October 10, 2014 @05:03PM (#8440014)
Asking him to be brutally honest about himself. I like it.
Now you only have to plug it in one time instead of three!
Re:First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos on Sunday August 10, 2014 @05:44PM (#8160854)
It appears as if the mountains are loading in the background (like in a video game) as you get closer to them.

Awesome idea/execution!

Re:Elevator Hacking: From the Pit to the Penthouse [video] on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @02:04PM (#8075883)
Looks like the video was removed. Anyone have a mirror?
Re:The URL shortener situation is out of control on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @12:49PM (#7841282)
That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
Re:The URL shortener situation is out of control on Monday June 02, 2014 @06:49PM (#7836999)
I couldn't find anything that would output something similar to the redirects image shown in this post, so wrote a small script in node to do that. It looks like this: http://cl.ly/image/3T3e462G1C3d

Here's the script: https://gist.github.com/akenn/7ca7e99a51c3a4abc049

Speaking of, what software did this guy use? Is there a bash script that's better than what I wrote?

Re:Babun – A new Windows shell on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @07:41PM (#7741302)
My situation is I have a Windows machine I game on and don't like rebooting all the time to get into my arch partition. It'd be nice to have a good shell to do some dev work on if I wanted to fix something really quick without rebooting. Right now I just boot up a vm and work on that. Shells I've used in the past (ConEmu, Console 2, Cmder) have all been good, but not good enough.
Re:Why I Did Not Go To Jail on Thursday February 06, 2014 @03:43PM (#7192804)
It's all politics. It's phrased as a "mistake" because anything more would admit to being aware of the fraud, regardless of whether or not that's the case.
Re:Docker on Raspberry Pi on Monday November 11, 2013 @10:03PM (#6715599)
Yep, got stuck on that step :P

Decided to go with an Arch Vagrant box (Specifically Arch Linux x86_64 (2013-08) from http://www.vagrantbox.es/). Running into issues with make in Step 5:

drivers/thermal/bcm2835-thermal.c:21:23: fatal error: mach/vcio.h: No such file or directory

Has anyone here run into this issue?

Re:Docker on Raspberry Pi on Monday November 11, 2013 @01:04AM (#6710217)
If anyone is on a Mac trying to write the Arch image to an SD card, follow the steps on this site to find your SD card: http://www.embeddedarm.com/support/faqs.php?item=10

The command for me was: sudo dd if=$RPIDIR/archlinux-hf-2013-07-22.img of=/dev/disk1 bs=4m

It also took about 20 minutes to write.

Re:Cancer vaccine begins Phase I clinical trials on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @02:12PM (#6400851)
That's my cue to go get a puppy.
Re:Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line on Saturday August 17, 2013 @11:28AM (#6229330)
I was in the process of doing this myself and though "I wonder if it's already been posted in the comments". Thank you!
Re:What is Happening in Istanbul? on Sunday June 02, 2013 @11:46AM (#5808900)
It says Wikipedia in the link, don't get your panties in a bunch.
Took forever to find out what Jamendo actually is.

From their Facebook: "Jamendo is the world's #1 platform for free and legal music downloads under Creative Commons licenses. Available in eight languages, the site offers a catalog of over 350,000 tracks/ 60,000 albums/ 50,000 artists!"

And from G+: "The entire catalog is licensed under Creative Commons, allowing artists to publish their music and preserve their rights while providing users the freedom to download it for free."

Re:What It’s Like to Get Online After 25 Years in Prison on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @11:07AM (#5595547)
Thank you, came here to ask who the author was and why their name wasn't included.
Which particular plugin would you recommend?
Re:Twitter: music Page is Live. on Friday April 12, 2013 @04:25AM (#5537260)
I get a 403 error. Maybe certain users only?
Re:I'm not too happy about Sublime Text 3 on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @10:53AM (#5286276)
I would say this is more of the gist: creator of sublime has got his work cut out for him, give him a break.
Re:Leonardo's Notebook Digitized in All Its Befuddling Glory on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @02:39AM (#5205685)
Started poking around. Here's one chunk of one of the pages at one of the higher resolutions: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Proxy.ashx?view=arundel_ms_263_...

Looks like the format is:

  http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Proxy.ashx?view=arundel_ms_263_<page_number>_files/<resolution_level>/<column>_<row>.jpg
Pages work in this fashion: f001r, f001v, f002r, f002v, f003r, f003v, ... and ends at f283v.

At resolution 14, columns range from 0 to 33 and rows range from 0 to 24.

Edit: I hacked together a python script to download all images at resolution 14 https://gist.github.com/L1fescape/4761013

Now to figure out how to combine them all...

Re:Leonardo's Notebook Digitized in All Its Befuddling Glory on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @02:23AM (#5205647)
If the image viewer they chose wasn't garbage I'd be okay with only being able to browse online.
Re:This picture is worth a thousand pictures on Saturday October 06, 2012 @04:38AM (#4620111)
Found what I believe to be the source files for the Versailles picture: http://www.hyper-photo.com/hyperpano/versailles/panojfr.tile...

I think it's sorted by resolution levels. So for example all photos with l1_#_#.jpg are at the lowest resolution while photos with l5_#_#.jpg are at the highest. The higher the resolution, the more photos at that resolution there will be.

To get a high resolution background of the whole image, you'd take all the splices at a certain resolution and put them together.

Does anyone know if there's an easy way to do this? Thanks!