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forevercrashing · on Aug 25, 2021

Here’s another one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-reader-v...

forevercrashing · on March 13, 2018

This plugin fixes that: https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA

forevercrashing · on March 9, 2018

I used Linux (mostly Ubuntu) for somewhere around 10 years on my personal laptops. After using Macs at work for a few years and being frustrated with the music making and photography apps on Linux I made the switch about 3 years ago. There just wasn't anything on Linux that had the polish and ease-of-use of Photos.app and GarageBand/Logic and when I want to engage in creative hobbies, I want my technology to just work. Has Linux made any progress on alternatives to those?

forevercrashing · on July 21, 2017

Surprised to see no mention of Tab Center (https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center) in the comments. I've gotten so used to it that now I find it hard to use a browser with tabs on top. Being able to see more of the page title when tabs are displayed horizontally is extremely useful. There's a search field too. This combined with the "browser.ctrlTab.previews" set to true in about:config (enables MRU tab switching with ctrl-tab) makes managing tabs awesome for me.

Manishearth · on July 22, 2017

Note that Tab Center will stop working by the end of this year, but I have found https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-center-re... to be an adequate replacement!

6ak74rfy · on July 22, 2017

How is this different from Tree Tabs?

Manishearth · on July 23, 2017

There's no tree, it's flat. I find it works better than Tree Tabs at the moment unless you need the tree.

idlewan · on July 23, 2017

Shameless plug: the current lack of a WebExtension for vertical tabs bothered me, so I wrote one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vertigo-tabs/

forevercrashing · on Feb 28, 2017

the article on Arrival/Story of your Life not being a time-travel story was a recent fail

Loved the book / movie but haven't read that article. Do you have the link? Thanks.

terminus · on Feb 28, 2017

Probably this one: https://www.gwern.net/Story%20Of%20Your%20Life

forevercrashing · on Dec 29, 2016

> Free societies have a method for knowing how much of something to use or not use; it is called the signaling system of prices.

Ugh. There is no way I would entrust the protection of our environment to "the signaling system of prices".

forevercrashing · on Dec 16, 2016

> And they should publish the BeatOven source, would love to play around with it.

Seconded! Though I could see something like this being quite valuable if integrated into a DAW like Ableton Live. Maybe plugins that do something like this already exist...does anyone know?

errozero · on Dec 16, 2016

FL Studio has some really good randomize options with lots of different settings built into the piano roll.

forevercrashing · on Dec 13, 2016

This sort of happens already in NBA games. There's a system called SportVU that tracks XY positioning of players and XYZ positioning of the ball in real-time. Here's a decent article that describes it in more detail: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670059/moneyball-20-how-missile... . Unfortunately, the data is proprietary.

clairity · on Dec 13, 2016

my impression, from having talked with people who analyze the data from sportVU, is that the raw data is fairly useless and most of the useful data crunching happens overnight after each game.

with that said, bluetooth beacons, along with 3 bluetooth receivers for triangulation, could be used for inexpensive player tracking, but the data would be noisy and not as accurate (probably ~1 ft resolution or so). i've actually been wanting to put such a system together to determine how good it might be.