The Official Good Ideas Thread™
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I knew someone would take my question non-rhetorically.
Technically, I didn't say what it was. I just found a picture I liked. The discourji version is more WTFy, but looks a bit like some of the things GIS found.
“Japan. ”
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"Recent" implied "Capaldi" since the next-most-recent was a year ago.
How are you watching them? I rewatched most of Seven via DailyMotion, but their window size sucks.
I recommend goldtardis.com. Decent vid quality, and they tend to have episodes up within a few days of original broadcast.
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Technically, I didn't say what it was. I just found a picture I liked.
That was actually what I was expecting to be done--or else a link to wikipedia.
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I recommend goldtardis.com. D
"this site has been removed for copyright infringement".
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TIL some of my code is in use by one of the biggest Dota 2 websites.
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get thee over to yonder celebration thread so that we might partake of cakes most tiny!
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TIL some of my code is in use by one of the biggest Dota 2 websites.
What does that code do?
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"this site has been removed for copyright infringement".
And I was just on there a couple weeks ago. Damn.
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It now redirects you to a place that will sell you videos. Why they think anyone would pay (IIRC) $10 for 4 episodes of any tv show is beyond me.
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I'm going to assume VPK extraction so it can use the current hero and item icons from the game instead of having to manually update them any time an icon is changed.
EDIT: Yeah, seems like it gets you files from the VPK
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It reads Valve's VPK archive format.
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And then I had to explain the
joketrope over on scifi.se but I didn't get the checkmark because I got ninja'd by Moffet :(
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Why they think anyone would pay (IIRC) $10 for 4 episodes of any tv show is beyond me.
I'm fairly certain that if you set up a website with nothing but a PayPal link and publicized it widely enough, then a certain class of people would start throwing money at it...
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That sounds like a good idea. I'll have to try it out.
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Do ensure that it's stated in no uncertain terms on the site that there's nothing for sale and the money is not for any legitimate good cause.
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not for any good cause.
Well, I think that depends on your point of view, don't you? Giving me money is, prima facie[1], a good cause.
[1] @boomzilla or some other pedant please come along and give me the right word if that isn't it.
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[1] @boomzilla or some other pedant please come along and give me the right word if that isn't it.
The right word is Happy Dude.
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Very well, I made an edit to address this concern.
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Very well, I made an edit to address this concern.
Giving me money is legitimately a good cause!
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It's DOTA2, so I'm guessing it calls people a faggot in Russian.
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I would have guessed that it replaced the animated graphics with a simple character based display.
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cyka blyat, puta madre, these are the phrases you learn playing on US East
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Can't really think of anywhere to post this, so it's now a "good idea"†.
##Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
It's a bit Windowsy, but worth having a look over. Highlight for me so far is f.lux, which I've now installed on any machine I interact with (home/work/Windows/Linux/kitchen/sink). It makes your screen go orange during the night. It's nice.
(†. Please do move it somewhere better, person reading this with the authority and motivation so to do.)
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Yeah, I use redshift on Linux, which does the same thing as f.lux, and it's nice.
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Nice! redshift can adjust the second monitor hanging off my Ubuntu laptop as well as the main screen, so it beats f.lux here!
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Looking at this page:
http://io9.com/watch-anthony-hopkins-try-on-creepy-bite-masks-for-sile-1675793613
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My next dishwasher:
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I want.
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It makes your screen go orange during the night. It's nice.
I got myself yellow-tinted glasses a la Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for that reason, but they're really more annoying than helpful. It just doesn't make much of a difference to me.
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Ok I'm trying this f.lux thing. The default setting is to do the color temp adjustment in 20 seconds, which just makes your monitor look broken. Much more tolerable if you set it to gradually adjust the temp over 1 hour. (Minor WTF: a setting which has two possibilities: 20 seconds, or 1 hour, and absolutely nothing inbetween.)
The problem is my house lights are, of course, on, so... I'm guessing on my desktop this isn't going to do anything except make my monitor look orange-y at night. When I'm using my laptop with the lights off, it might help a lot more. I'll give it a few days.
Other than it's obviously Flash-based UI it seems to be a pretty decently-written piece of software.
EDIT: WTF. Whatever it's using to adjust my monitor doesn't seem to affect the mouse pointer... I have no idea if that's on purpose or accident, but it's certainly odd. (At least the pointer's easy to find! It stands out like a firework!)
EDIT EDIT: if the super-bright mouse pointer is distracting, there's a quick registry setting to fix it. Turning on Mouse Trails (but setting the number of echos to zero) renders the mouse in software which is affected by the color profile, instead of the video card's "hardware rendering" (which is not.)
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The problem is my house lights are, of course, on, so... I'm guessing on my desktop this isn't going to do anything except make my monitor look orange-y at night. When I'm using my laptop with the lights off, it might help a lot more. I'll give it a few days.
Yah, it definitely looks better when you're in low-lighting conditions. I'm using it on my tablet, and enjoying that I now have two independent dimensions of screen dimming—the built-in one, and the f.lux one via Alt+PgUp/PgDn. I couldn't quite get the screen dark enough for bedtime reading just using the built in.
(At least the pointer's easy to find! It stands out like a firework!)
Not sure what's going on there? Video drivers maybe? I had so much trouble actually seeing the now-orange mouse pointer that I switched over to the black pointer scheme to compensate!
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Not sure what's going on there?
Hardware cursor is an old feature (on both Macs and Windows) left over from cooperative multitasking OSes to keep mouse movements smooth no matter how busy the CPU is. I'm honestly surprised Windows still uses it by default, at least if you have the nvidia drivers.
Now the problem is the "fix" for that problem turns the cursor reddish when it's being moved around the screen. That's mentioned in the FAQ, but I guess oh well. I'll cope with it.
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EDIT: WTF. Whatever it's using to adjust my monitor doesn't seem to affect the mouse pointer... I have no idea if that's on purpose or accident, but it's certainly odd. (At least the pointer's easy to find! It stands out like a firework!)
Same happens with redshift on my laptop, for the same reason (different rendering paths).The problem is my house lights are, of course, on, so... I'm guessing on my desktop this isn't going to do anything except make my monitor look orange-y at night.
My lampshades are yellow and the lights aren't very bright to start with, so I notice some difference. But yeah, my screen looks like it's gone through a blood orange bath.I couldn't quite get the screen dark enough for bedtime reading just using the built in.
Same here. Sometimes I turn the built-in brightness up now.
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The kindle reading app on my phone has a brightness slider so you can adjust the thing for night reading. I've noticed today I only ever use two settings: I check "use system brightness" during the day, and uncheck it at night, leaving the slider permanently on super-dim.
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The kindle reading app on my phone has a brightness slider so you can adjust the thing for night reading.
My phone uses front camera (I think, maybe there's another sensor I can't see) to adjust the brightness based on the surroundings. Which is, surprisingly, on topic in this thread.
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An always-on camera? Does it also have an ?
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My phone uses front camera (I think, maybe there's another sensor I can't see) to adjust the brightness based on the surroundings. Which is, surprisingly, on topic in this thread.
Usually there's a photo-sensor of some sort. Generally positioned close to the front camera.
An always-on camera? Does it also have an ?
Who cares if a speaker is always on? Now if a microphone was always on ...
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Who cares if a speaker is always on?
you know one can turn a speaker into a microphone? with clever programming and a lot of patience you can even have it work in both directions simultaneously 9so long as you know the exact waveform being sent to the speaker at any time and can accurately measure the impedance changes of the speaker coil.... it's very very tricky but it is doable.
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Who cares if a speaker is always on?
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Building on f.lux for Windows, and redshift for Linux, I found Twilight for Android, so my phone can also crash the sunset/orange party!
Although, now I'm starting to wonder if my I'm not seeing everything with an orange tint, even when I'm away from a computer...
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Our sun has that functionality turned on by default.
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I didn't know that Solaris had such cool GUI features.
Dang.
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Big fan of f.lux and twilight. I think I get an extra half hour of sleep a night now I can read without all that blue light
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Request: a WTDWTF theme that eliminates blue light.
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body { background-color: black; } body * { display: none; }
There ya go.
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Return to old style letter writing skills in emails.
Like this mail I just noticed floating by:
City, 19 January 2015
Dear madam,
Dear sir,Would it be possible to ...
Thanks in advance.
Miss. NeverGotMarried
in name of Doctor WhatsHisName.
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How to sneak chocolate into an American movie theatre cinema.
Ah a good old flame war about gun control ... at least it isn't religion ...