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Cakefool posted:Can you put it on a timer and have it turn itself on before you start work? I could do that! I've never bought something like that - would this be what I'd be looking for? http://amzn.com/B001BPOBTY
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EVG posted:I could do that! I've never bought something like that - would this be what I'd be looking for? http://amzn.com/B001BPOBTY That's perfect. Then you can set it to turn on at 7:45 every morning and off again at the end of the day, as well as leaving it off over the entire weekend (if that's your office schedule).
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Jul 14, 2015 15:22
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Beautiful. This thread is the best thing on the forums, I swear. 
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Jul 14, 2015 15:29
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dupersaurus posted:The exposure is set for the planet, not the significantly dimmer stars Ah, this makes sense and is pretty obvious! Thank you.
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Jul 14, 2015 16:12
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LP0 ON FIRE posted:Ah, this makes sense and is pretty obvious! Thank you. It's also the same reason you can't see stars in the background of photos from the Moon's surface!
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Thank you!
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In video games, why do higher textures require more processing power? I may be wrong but I've always understood textures as an image that lays on top of a model/object. Bad textures usually derive from poorly used images or stretched images. Is the difference between lovely textures and good textures basically image resolutions? For example, if a a game had a rock that used a 800x600 texture, it may look like poo poo because it could stretch out and not provide much detail. So if someone replaces it with a 1920x1280 texture, will it look better because its bigger and could provide more detail? So if that's the case, a game pulling 50 1902x1280 images instead of 50 800x600 images may require more processing power right?
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Jul 14, 2015 19:52
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Dr. Video Games 0089 posted:In video games, why do higher textures require more processing power? There is more processing, but it's more of a memory issue. That bigger images has five times as many pixels, for many more megabytes.
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it's not small resolution versus large resolution, it's vectors. With vector illustrations, you can scale infinitely. But it has to be re drawn a lot. Scaling doesn't take much processing power. Re-drawing from a set of vectors does. (But it looks way better.)
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Jul 14, 2015 20:05
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Dr. Video Games 0089 posted:In video games, why do higher textures require more processing power? You're working with more stuff. Just the same as how it's an issue if there's more polygons, or more lighting effects.
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For a typical electric vehicle (anywhere from the Nissan Leaf to the Tesla Model S), how much does running the air conditioner or heater damage its range on a full charge? When the lease on my current car runs out in 2017 I'm considering trying an EV, but I live in Las Vegas, a city of 110 fahrenheit summers, which basically means the AC is never not running at almost full blast.
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Jul 14, 2015 20:42
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Dr. Video Games 0089 posted:I may be wrong but I've always understood textures as an image that lays on top of a model/object.
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Jul 14, 2015 20:55
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Even at the basic level, higher res textures == more poo poo to shuffle in video memory, load from disk, decompress, or whatever; while that's fast, it's not infinitely fast.
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Jul 14, 2015 21:26
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If Dr. Video Games himself doesn't understand it, what hope do the rest of us have?
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Jul 14, 2015 21:32
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With the new-ish way Twitter's website does retweets, is there any way to open the retweet without leaving the main feed? I can't middle-click on the thing, and right-clicking on Firefox shows the image menu.
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Is there a thread for speakerchat/other audio equipment? I'm in the market for some sort of bluetooth speaker for listening to music and podcasts throughout an apartment and can't find a thread to get recommendations for that kind of thing in either SHSC or NMD.
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A friend had a tumblr account stretching back several years, but accidentally deleted it due to tumblr's shoddy interface and no confirmation of which blog is being deleted from the dashboard. Is there any resource that may have archived much of it and have it available for browsing/retrieving? Wayback Machine has very little, and Google's cache only has the most recent handful of pages.Heavy Lobster posted:Is there a thread for speakerchat/other audio equipment? I'm in the market for some sort of bluetooth speaker for listening to music and podcasts throughout an apartment and can't find a thread to get recommendations for that kind of thing in either SHSC or NMD. This appears to have become something of a general speaker chat in IYG: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3444077
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Nighthand posted:This appears to have become something of a general speaker chat in IYG: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3444077 I totally forgot IYG existed, thank you!
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CzarChasm posted:Is there any website or app that will check local sales ads and tell me if any local shops have something on sale? Like if I want to know if anyone is having a sale on Pepsi this week, rather than going to each store's website and checking through all of their ads, a service that will do it for me? I use an app called "Reebee" for this, and I love it. It even has the option to save items to a shopping list, and I've found that stores that do price-matching will accept it as proof of a sale price.
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Jul 15, 2015 10:47
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Oxford/serial comma: yay or nay?
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VagueRant posted:Oxford/serial comma: yay or nay? Yes.
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VagueRant posted:Oxford/serial comma: yay or nay? People who don't use the Oxford comma are brutes.
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Carbon Thief posted:I use an app called "Reebee" for this, and I love it. It even has the option to save items to a shopping list, and I've found that stores that do price-matching will accept it as proof of a sale price. Awesome, that looks like exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks so much. EDIT: Says it's incompatible with my phone. But I can find a work around. At least the technology is there, so possibly some other version will work. VagueRant posted:Oxford/serial comma: yay or nay? I'm in the yes category.
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Consult your house style guide.
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I like using R F G and D to move in video games, freeing up the left side of the keyboard for more binds, and giving me more of the right side for my index finger to use, is there a way to auto set this up in video games?
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Turtlicious posted:I like using R F G and D to move in video games, freeing up the left side of the keyboard for more binds, and giving me more of the right side for my index finger to use, is there a way to auto set this up in video games? You could make a custom keymap for Windows where WASD were shifted over to where RFGD are and vice versa, but you'd have to remember to switch it back when you went to type stuff normally.
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Jul 15, 2015 18:12
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Could Autohotkey transpose them maybe?
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I'm trying to get internet from my dining room (where my modem and wifi router are) to my living room, but I'm wanting a wired connection and don't want to run a bunch of ethernet cable between the two rooms. Is there some sort of device to achieve this?
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Jul 15, 2015 18:37
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Slimy Hog posted:I'm trying to get internet from my dining room (where my modem and wifi router are) to my living room, but I'm wanting a wired connection and don't want to run a bunch of ethernet cable between the two rooms. Is there some sort of device to achieve this? You could get a wireless router, set it to bridge mode and put it in your living room where you could plug into it, but the signal would still be going through the air at one point. I'd look into channel raceways if I were you. They can allow you to run a cable between two rooms without looking super terrible (as long as you do a really good job placing them).
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Turtlicious posted:Could Autohotkey transpose them maybe? I don't know, but this is the official Microsoft tool for constructing keymaps to use: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665.aspx Basically you'd work off the standard QWERTY one, and realign the letters so that it sends W when you press the R on your keyboard.
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Nintendo Kid posted:I don't know, but this is the official Microsoft tool for constructing keymaps to use: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665.aspx That sounds pretty interesting, I'll see what I can cook up! Thanks! Question: What is / was helldump? I've read the SAlopedia, and it doesn't seem to convey the idea properly to me. What makes it super cool / bad? IT seems very polarizing, it was just for calling people out right?
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Turtlicious posted:That sounds pretty interesting, I'll see what I can cook up! Thanks! It ranged from legitimate callouts to high-level doxxing; digging up people's personal photos and posting them in a thread without their knowledge, personal info, etc. All with questionable justification depending on the poster targeted, sometimes it was as dumb as "lol this faget didnt make fun of this other poster like everyone else did, ruin his life guys". It was a relic of a bygone era and the forums are better off without it.
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Slimy Hog posted:I'm trying to get internet from my dining room (where my modem and wifi router are) to my living room, but I'm wanting a wired connection and don't want to run a bunch of ethernet cable between the two rooms. Is there some sort of device to achieve this? Powerline ethernet adapter is probably the easiest. http://www.amazon.com/b?node=1194444
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Where is the "/w(hisper)" command for messaging a single person in a chat room originally from? It's kind of strange terminology to be so widespread.
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Jul 15, 2015 23:45
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How is it strange? It seems perfectly natural English, and conveys the idea it represents perfectly.
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Jul 15, 2015 23:58
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It might come from MUDs, where in an RP context the term makes sense.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Powerline ethernet adapter is probably the easiest. I was wary of how good these would be, but I got some for free with my cable TV box, so I tried them out. They work flawlessly. With a speedtest check, I can't tell the difference between plugging straight into the modem and plugging into one of these from the other side of the house. We have this set which I can't find on Amazon, but I'm sure they're all about the same.
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The Moon Monster posted:Where is the "/w(hisper)" command for messaging a single person in a chat room originally from? It's kind of strange terminology to be so widespread. It's either from this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD2 or the previous version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1
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There used to be a site where you could plug in your home airport and some generic dates, and it would tell you where and when airfare deals were for those dates. I can't find that now. Anyone remember this, and can find it?
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Is there a way to search Ebay for two items to see if one seller has both, in an attempt to combine shipping costs?
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