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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2016, 10:27 AM »
One of the greatest songs, Hang on Sloopy, by the McCoys:


Song was originally by the Vibrations:


And a really slow version by Little Caesar and the Consuls:
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DesktopCoral / Re: Hi, Why can't i drag anything to the spllited area?
« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2016, 12:32 AM »
That's weird that it works on windows 10 -- it must be something they changed about windows 10 that let's it work.  Could we have a screenshot?
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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project
« Last post by mouser on February 17, 2016, 10:15 PM »
Just a screenshot showing how well auto clustering (sometimes) works.  Given 159 images, it properly identified front face label, and then autonomously grouped them into equivalent clusters with no mistakes:

Screenshot - 2_17_2016 , 10_13_05 PM.png

No guidance was provided by the user other than to say this was a D20 die; there was no pre-training of labels (i.e. this was a pure unsupervised clustering task).
Note that the class numbers listed have no meaning at all.



Notice that it separated the 6s from the 9s, which differ only in the occurrence of a very small dot at the baseline of the 6s.  These classes can be hard for the algorithm to separate sometimes depending on how clear the dot is on a given die (for example if the camera isn't in good focus).



The 159 source camera images being processed look like this (after they've been cropped and focused to hide extraneous background):
image_01_cam.jpg
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General Software Discussion / MOVED: ALT GR Key
« Last post by mouser on February 17, 2016, 04:08 PM »
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Screenshot Captor / Re: It makes me crazy ... SC zoom while i'm screening
« Last post by mouser on February 16, 2016, 12:10 PM »
I think i know this bug.  Can i just confirm -- the problem happens only when you trigger a "Selected Region" capture, right?
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When trying to capture a region using Surface Pro 4, the screen zooms 200% on the built-in monitor (i.e. 400% of original image). The same zooming carries to the external monitor.

so this bug only happens when you do a selected-region capture?

if so, i know this bug, and SC fixed it a while ago, but i may have ended up disabling the thing that is responsible for the fix.  i will try to get up a beta this week.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR and Windows apps
« Last post by mouser on February 15, 2016, 08:25 PM »
I apologize for missing this originally. Can you elaborate a little bit on this, or can anyone else provide some guidance about what kinds of apps we are talking about?
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Living Room / Re: In-Car Emergency Kit - Your Recommendations
« Last post by mouser on February 14, 2016, 10:17 PM »
Make sure you have a window scraper in case your windshield ices over.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project
« Last post by mouser on February 14, 2016, 12:42 PM »
Software running on rpi:
rpdicer.png


ps. for what it's worth, using this software as a benchmark, my desktop pc is about 20x faster than the RPI2.
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Living Room / Make a custom 20 key keypad for $10
« Last post by mouser on February 14, 2016, 10:59 AM »
Nice little tutorial on how you can make a custom usb keypad with 20 custom keys to do whatever you want for $10.

The trick is to use a generic cheap external usb numpad but then use some clever software that can be told to only respond to certain keys pressed on a certain keyboard.

Neat stuff.



from http://lifehacker.co...less-than-1757411793
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ProcessTamer / Re: To ignore a process - when?
« Last post by mouser on February 13, 2016, 12:29 PM »
Just let PT do it's thing then.  No need to ignore anything.

It should be said that if you have a modern fast pc, then Process Tamer is not going to do anything useful for you (it won't hurt you either).

Process Tamer really is useful for people who have slower older pcs, where certain applications noticeably slow their computer annoyingly.
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ProcessTamer / Re: To ignore a process - when?
« Last post by mouser on February 13, 2016, 11:48 AM »
A good rule of thumb is to ignore anything where you won't be doing anything else while they are running, and where you care about them running as fast as possible.
So, full screen games definitely have PT ignore.

The reason to let PT tame a process is if you want to be using ANOTHER program while the tamed program is running.
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Living Room / What are you doing for your/with significant other on valentines day?
« Last post by mouser on February 12, 2016, 02:15 PM »
Anyone got any nice plans for valentine's day?
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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project
« Last post by mouser on February 12, 2016, 01:25 PM »
Thanks for saying so, Ath.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project
« Last post by mouser on February 12, 2016, 11:49 AM »
My Raspberry Pi Die Analyzer Test Bench:

rpidiceh_ver001.jpg
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I think you were probably on the right track -- it's probably a plugin that is crashing, and your process of moving the plugins out and in resulted in FARR disabling one or more of them.
If you go into the plugin options in FARR it will show you a list of enabled/disabled plugins.
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2016, 11:14 PM »
Decided to try to refresh some of my high-school and college math skills.  Read a couple of very lightweight intro books on statistics.. next up is some calculus.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project
« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2016, 10:47 PM »
Parts have arrived, I'm installing the libraries I need on the Raspberry Pi, and i have sketched out my wooden machine "box", which will be 15" long by 7.5" wide by 4" deep.
As absurd as it sounds, the best justification in my head for going through with this build is as an (absurdly) expensive (in terms of money and time) art project, and as a learning experience... Trying to justify it in any other way is even harder.

And in the back of my mind i'm hoping i come up with a better way to re-use these parts at some point..

I will post photos next week I hope.
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Living Room / Re: More good web comics you've discovered
« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2016, 09:34 AM »
This series is so cute, tessandlion, Important Cat Jobs:
Screenshot - 2_11_2016 , 9_34_54 AM.png

http://lastlemon.com...s-and-lion/cat-jobs/
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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread
« Last post by mouser on February 10, 2016, 11:51 PM »
cat and baby monkey playing:
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fSekrit / Re: Open-sourcing fSekrit
« Last post by mouser on February 08, 2016, 05:38 PM »
Cool!!
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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project
« Last post by mouser on February 08, 2016, 04:42 PM »
I have ordered raspberry pi and motor control hat and touchscreen.. Gothic (dc member who helped set up servers and lives nearby and is a hardware guy) is going to come by to help me try to get things wired up in a couple of weeks.  if all goes well might have a prototype by march..
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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project
« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2016, 09:49 PM »
Considering beaglebone instead of raspberry pi..

Though i do like the easy availability of camera and touchscreen for the raspberry pi, so i think probably that's still the best way to go.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project
« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2016, 01:46 PM »
So, the $10 dice rolling machine ordered from amazon arrived today, made in china, shipped from germany (i will never understand the economics of this stuff).

At first glance it seems to work pretty well at creating a random die roll.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to copy command line output in an alias?
« Last post by mouser on February 03, 2016, 01:17 PM »
You'll find all these weird special commands in the help page under "Special/Virtual Launch Strings/Commands"
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