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frontier | 1 year ago | on: Dell L502X BIOS Update installer patching

The L502X had the best keyboard and speakers of any laptop I've ever owned. It still has plenty of horsepower under Window 7 too, but everything has deprecated support for that OS. Maybe one day will install a flavour of Linux on it. It's too good to let go to e-waste!

frontier | 3 years ago | on: Bumble releases open-source A.I. feature to help combat unsolicited nudes

You are 100% correct, unsuccessful guys need to seek help and there are paid services out there. Or speak to a few women on these platforms (chicken-egg I know) and you will be told what others are doing that is turning them off. You need to treat this for what it is, marketing. You don't just put up your first attempt and say women aren't into me. You need to iterate and experiment. I know, it's hard work, 90% of guys won't put in the effort, they will just complain they aren't in the top 0.1% in attractiveness.

frontier | 4 years ago | on: New WebKit features in Safari 15.4

Unfortunately if you want to rank these days you have to implement these kind of things, or Google marks you site down as having poor performance. At least with a standard <img> attribute there is now a chance for a simple browser setting to turn the behaviour on/off/auto depending on connection type/etc.. unlike all of the various javascript solutions.

frontier | 4 years ago | on: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

> Now if only there was an easy way to block the god damn "WE USE COOKIES!" alerts.

The Chrome extension store has you covered!

I am using one called "I don't care about cookies" and I rarely see them these days.

frontier | 7 years ago | on: Archiving web sites

I was surprised to not find any product that could create a perfect static clone of the original, as far as maintaining the incoming link structure.

I know there would be a tonne of edge cases and obviously it would need to be targeted to a particular platform, but I think we came pretty close with this simple technique.

frontier | 7 years ago | on: Archiving web sites

I recently had to do this and after a lot of frustration with wget, httrack and some other commercial ones too, I ended up settling on the results of this free product, WebCopy.

https://www.cyotek.com/cyotek-webcopy

Background: We couldn't keep the existing platform running, so had to transition to static html files.

I used the WebCopy scan log to create the apache rewrite rules to preserve the existing link structure.

Where I say WebCopy was better, it was this simple log, but also the file structure it was producing was much cleaner with less junk pages and duplicates. (the site was an absolute inconsistent mess to begin with)

frontier | 9 years ago | on: Reducing power consumption for background tabs

I have switched to The Great Discarder, by the same developer.

Advantages over The Great Suspender: - More memory savings - Compatible with chrome tab syncing - Super lightweight extension that uses no content scripts or persistent background scripts

Disadvantages over The Great Suspender: - No visibility on which tabs have been suspended - Unable to prevent a tab from reloading when it gains focus

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-discarde...

frontier | 11 years ago | on: Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free

Back when UE4 was first released I asked that question in relation to training simulations within larger courses and the answer was that, as no software was being sold, then no royalties would apply! (just the $20/mo subscription cost at the time) Definitely contact EPIC and get a ruling on your specific case, but I was blown away! In the end we didn't go ahead with those simulations as the html5 support wasn't quite ready at the time.

frontier | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the best 4K computer display available on the market?

I have the Dell UP2414Q and it is the best display I have ever used!

The colors are fantastic as each unit is individually calibrated and checked at the factory.

The size of the screen at 24 inches is just right - any bigger and I don't think it would be comfortable for me to use. (for coding primarily) This was the smallest 4k display I could find available at the time.

There is only 1 slight problem, the monitor needs to be in DisplayPort 1.2 mode in order to run at 60 hz @ 4k resolution - and 60 hz is required, otherwise the mouse will feel jerky, even though I have a i7 4790 CPU and GTX 780 TI graphics card.

The problem is when in DP 1.2 mode and you run a game that uses a lower resolution, the image won't scale to fill the screen. It took a long time (and a lot of frustration) to figure it out, but you need to drop down to DP 1.1 mode - which drops your 4k Windows desktop refresh rate to 30 hz - and then the lower res will scale to fit the screen.

It is annoying that you need to do this, but at least it can be done on the fly, ie. about to play a game, then go into the monitor menu and disable DP 1.2, then run the game, no need to reset the computer.

Once you are in DP 1.1 mode, games will run full screen at lower resolutions up to 60 hz. Obviously this monitor isn't targeted at gamers.

frontier | 13 years ago | on: The Hobbit: Why 48FPS Makes Film Less Magical

I haven't seen the movie, but I had a very similar experience going from 25fps PAL CRT to full hd LED 100hz - all TV shows just looked amateurish and home made! That's how I would describe it. Eventually after a few months my eyes adjusted and now everything is back to normal.
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