frontier | 1 year ago | on: Dell L502X BIOS Update installer patching
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frontier | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time
frontier | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time
frontier | 2 years ago | on: Western Digital NAS drives flash ‘warning’ after 3 years even if nothing’s wrong
frontier | 3 years ago | on: Bumble releases open-source A.I. feature to help combat unsolicited nudes
frontier | 4 years ago | on: New WebKit features in Safari 15.4
frontier | 4 years ago | on: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android
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 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
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 | 7 years ago | on: Synergy-core: Open source core of Synergy, the keyboard and mouse sharing tool
frontier | 9 years ago | on: Reducing power consumption for background tabs
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 | 10 years ago | on: Cairo Mural Spanning 50 Buildings Is Only Fully Visible from One Spot
frontier | 10 years ago | on: Cairo Mural Spanning 50 Buildings Is Only Fully Visible from One Spot
frontier | 10 years ago | on: Australian Geocoded national address data to be made openly available
Can't believe how expensive this data was.. at some point we discovered that the suburb boundary polygons could be hacked out of the census reports though!
frontier | 10 years ago | on: Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download
frontier | 10 years ago | on: Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download
frontier | 11 years ago | on: Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
frontier | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the best 4K computer display available on the market?
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 | 12 years ago | on: What Games Are: Virtual Reality, We Hardly Knew You
frontier | 13 years ago | on: The Hobbit: Why 48FPS Makes Film Less Magical