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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021 Entry: The Lightning Bolt Quiz

« Last post by wraith808 on December 23, 2020, 05:16 PM »

I had the same thought process LOL

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021 Entry: The Lightning Bolt Quiz

« Last post by wraith808 on December 23, 2020, 10:47 AM »

Meh, Hell has always been where the fun is ...

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-4wd (December 23, 2020, 06:27 AM)

How did you do that?  Even maxing everything out, I only got 20,012,580 lightning bolts.  I feel cheated!

Update: And I noticed something.  If you redo it with the same answers over and over, the bolt count keeps going down.  There's a lesson there somewhere, but I don't think it was intentional...

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on December 21, 2020, 01:12 PM »

Musicians like this make my guitar tell me "I think we should see other people..."

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on December 21, 2020, 12:01 PM »

Nice use of piano and looper.  Dude is talented!

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021 Entry: Free Movies (website)

« Last post by wraith808 on December 19, 2020, 07:20 AM »

Very nicely done!  How long have you been working on this... it looks like a massive project!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: GOG "Spot the Difference" Discounts Winter Sale 2020

« Last post by wraith808 on December 17, 2020, 09:53 AM »

  thanks for doing all the hard work! 

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on December 17, 2020, 09:20 AM »

From the comments: "a jazz guitarist plays 100,000 chords for 3 people, whereas a popular rock guitarist plays 3 chords for 100,000 people"

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by wraith808 on December 12, 2020, 10:35 PM »

I'd have to say I agree with the reviewers. Why make a big deal about redirecting the GPIO to enable access and then screw it up by making it non-standard? I'm also really confused about why a big company like Cooler Master would need a Kickstarter to fundraise a project like this.

-Deozaan (December 12, 2020, 09:57 PM)

Kickstarter isn't always about need... it's a business strategy now.  Many companies use Kickstarter as a way to judge interest and defray risks.  It's just how it is, for better or for worse.  They shift a large part of the risk that they would have to bear and the cash flow that they would need to invest to the consumers in this fashion.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Lightweight App that displays files in folders/subfolders & allows launching

« Last post by wraith808 on December 11, 2020, 07:30 AM »

My quick solution was going to be to use AppLocker (https://docs.microso...windows-10-applocker) and Fences (https://www.stardock...com/products/fences/).

Fences allows you to set a region of a desktop to point to a folder on your machine and launch applications from there.  Lock down the machine so that you can't launch explorer, have that fence on the desktop, and can launch items that are of the desired extensions and you should be set.

This shows how I have part of my desktop set up:




Each one of those different areas are fences that are showing the contents of a folder.  If there were other folders in those folders, it would allow you to navigate them, right in the fence.  It has a UI to allow you to navigate up and down folders, and stay within the same fence.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Lightweight App that displays files in folders/subfolders & allows launching

« Last post by wraith808 on December 10, 2020, 07:14 AM »

What version of Windows will you be running?  Windows 10 Enterprise and Educational (and maybe Pro) already have this in the OS.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Lightweight App that displays files in folders/subfolders & allows launching

« Last post by wraith808 on December 09, 2020, 09:55 PM »

So you want a kiosk app that displays the files and folders in a directory and allows you to launch them... is that pretty much it?

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Living Room / Re: How do you get melted rubber out of carpeting???

« Last post by wraith808 on December 07, 2020, 11:04 PM »

Boy, this escalated quickly...

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Living Room / Re: How do you get melted rubber out of carpeting???

« Last post by wraith808 on December 06, 2020, 07:36 PM »

No one is saying the obvious answer.  You don't. 

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Living Room / Re: Natural robotics, or: The Uncanny Valley Revisited

« Last post by wraith808 on December 04, 2020, 08:47 AM »

Made me wonder if it was cosplay...

Update: It's not a robot.  It's a girl wearing a kigurumi.


Her instagram - https://www.instagra...com/luluidoll/?hl=en

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General Software Discussion / Re: Etcher on Linux?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 04, 2020, 07:41 AM »

Although I do know that Electron is a bit bloated, it's not the worst in terms of unified platforms, and the user experience being uniform across platforms is a big win.  It's also much faster time to market because of removing a lot of the normal development considerations of web applications.  It's not the best, but in my opinion, it's no where near as bad as what you're saying.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on December 03, 2020, 10:05 AM »

Really adheres to the less is more aesthetic.  Just sublime...

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on December 03, 2020, 09:46 AM »

Tone to die for: Dave Ryan Harris with studio legend Sean Hurley on bass.

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Tech note for bass players: notice how Sean is tuned to E-flat rather than E? Consider giving it a try next time you’re rocking a Fender Precision. It’s an old trick many studio cats swear by. The improvement in tone and response can (depending on the instrument) sometimes be quite remarkable. 

-40hz (December 03, 2020, 06:00 AM)

Nice... I really missed your music recommendations  

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General Software Discussion / Re: ZeroTier - a Global Area Network

« Last post by wraith808 on November 30, 2020, 05:19 PM »

This looks really useful! Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

-Deozaan (November 30, 2020, 02:55 PM)

Agreed!  Not quite sure how I'll integrate this yet, but it's nice to have it as an option.

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Living Room / Re: Free eBooks

« Last post by wraith808 on November 30, 2020, 08:55 AM »

Your Facebook Friends Are Wrong About The Lockdown:
http://www.wrongaboutlockdown.com/

-panzer (November 29, 2020, 06:48 AM)

I'll take my pandemic advice from qualified Virologists and other scientists, rather than a historian with delusions of grandeur.

-Stephen66515 (November 30, 2020, 06:57 AM)

Agreed, but that moves this to the basement, so I refrained from commenting.  It might be better to nip this here- or transfer the whole thing to the Basement.

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DC Gamer Club / Story Synth - web tool for card-driven roleplaying

« Last post by wraith808 on November 25, 2020, 10:16 AM »

One of this year's Golden Cobra winners was a web-based tool enabling remote play & card driven setups. This would work great for rapid-prototyping deck & oracle based games (first example off the top of my head would be The Quiet Year). Setup is done by dropping a list of cards into a google doc and then passing a link to the doc into the website; this also creates a persistent link for everyone, bypassing the need for a screenshare.

Some fancier formatting in the sheet can display different prompts as time passes (including different prompts to different players - already thinking how this could be used for a Murder Mystery Dinner Party),

I'm sure there would be all sorts of other uses, including perhaps prototyping board games, so passing it along!

https://storysynth.org/#/

Demo game https://monster.diegeticgames.com/#/ & spreadsheet

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on November 22, 2020, 04:37 PM »

I suspect it could be adequately handled by XML

-40hz (November 21, 2020, 09:56 AM)

If XML were a contender markdown et freres would never have been invented.

The number of commands most people need is small, it's just that markdown doesn't include them all, and some of its choices are distinctly odd and hard to use. Apart from other features which presumably fitted Gruber's original idea of purpose and target users, but aren't wanted by most WP users.

-Dormouse (November 22, 2020, 04:08 PM)

Yeah, that was my thought too.  The few that do use a plain text format other than markdown (and sometimes in conjunction with markdown) use json or protobuf that I've seen.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on November 20, 2020, 06:46 PM »

With any particular outcome in mind?

-Dormouse (November 20, 2020, 04:41 PM)

I was thinking that it would help you to know where you stand, and if you were covering all your bases with your approach. But if they are less than helpful, I can see why you'd not do that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on November 19, 2020, 05:38 PM »

Could you perhaps post your thoughts on some Obsidian forum to see if someone can validate your approach?

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on November 19, 2020, 03:11 PM »

Why do we write and write and curate and write?

-superboyac (November 19, 2020, 12:04 PM)

Virtually all the money I've ever earned has depended on my writing. Curating too.

-Dormouse (November 19, 2020, 02:37 PM)

I'm not in that position, but I've made quite the bit of side hustle money with my writing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Apple's latest macOS release allows its own apps to bypass firewalls and VPNs

« Last post by wraith808 on November 19, 2020, 08:08 AM »

That was my process also.  I'm still thinkning about pre-ordering one, though.