_lce0's comments

On: Wolfram Alpha: {y = Re(sqrt(abs(x)(1-abs(x)))), y ...

[_lce0]

Thanks for sharing!

I turned those functions into an area: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/ya8gxv1hzo

[netcraft → _lce0]

well done! I didn't know you could do that.

On: A PHP Compiler, a.k.a. the FFI Rabbit Hole

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Not sure how long .. but the chain can be quite long!!

    $x = 'y';
    $y = 'x';
    echo $$$$$$$$$$$$$y;

I've tested with 1500 `$` and it still works :)

[maxxxxx → _lce0]

Good to know that this method scales well ;).

On: Social networks are no longer social

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> I can’t see people wanting to manage their own homepage. But then again, I remember we all did in high school for MySpace... maybe we will again.

The keyboard was what allowed such interaction.. How are nowadays' teens to manage such designs if their main device is a touchscreen?

On: Domain Registrar Can Be Held Liable for Pirate Sit...

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> The case in question was filed by Universal Music over Robin Thicke's album Blurred Lines.

Incredible. The same guys that were found guilty of copying that song ..

> Robin Thicke has lost the "Blurred Lines" lawsuit he has been engaged in with the Marvin Gaye estate. Robin Thicke, Pharrell to Pay $7.2 Million in 'Blurred Lines'

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robin-thicke-p...

[close04 → _lce0]

Not that it matters but I have 0 respect for any ruling (or the court giving it) that doesn’t follow up with applying the same harsh decision in case it turns out the complaint is bogus. Especially when the party making the claim had no right to do it in the first place.

[oh_sigh → _lce0]

They still need to pay the Gaye estate though

On: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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ahh was about to publish something in BC just to see what happens ;)

[Cyphase → _lce0]

The Wheel: A More Efficient Method for the Production of Round Ceramic Wares (3500 B.C.)

[Cyphase → Cyphase]

But more seriously, I remembered the complaint tablet to Ea-nasir[1], which was on HN a few months ago[2]. Written in 1750 BCE.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15669759

On: 5 months of /r/place at my elementary school (One ...

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It is really interesting how the following order seems to naturally follow itself:

1. disorder and chaos

2. patterns and backgrounds start to appear

3. the battle for the main background, spreading

4. totally background pattern, the war is over

5. group art creations start to appear

[ekianjo → _lce0]

I was sad to see the chaos and individuality go away.

[userbinator → _lce0]

...and if it continued, it would probably repeat in a continuous cycle of order and chaos.

On: Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF

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Also volume control on mobile is completely broken.

You cannot easily control the volume until the video starts playing; not even when the video is still loading.

https://xkcd.com/1884/

[jessriedel → _lce0]

Yea, it is such weird behavior. I can count the number of times I've ever wanted to adjust the volume of the ringer, rather than just turn it on/off, on one hand.

Luckily on newer version of Android there is always an option to quickly access the media volume after you press the volume button once, but it's still unintuitive.

[mtpn → jessriedel]

Windows phone nailed this. As you change volume, a panel comes in with two sliders: one media, one ringer, so if you were in the wrong context and changed the wrong volume, you right away have access to the other one. I find (on iOS now) I fiddle with the ringer volume a lot throughout the day. Loudest possible is waaaay too loud for me, unless I’m in a noisy place.

[pflats → _lce0]

Good news: iOS changed the default behavior of the side buttons: they always control system/media volume now. (Unless you flip a switch in settings.)

On: Cortana is really bad

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oh my, I'm not alone! ;)

Anybody knows how to get that "calc" thing working as expected?

[staz → _lce0]

Have the same problem all the time, one time it was too much and I just uninstalled Libreoffice (of course in the end I just had to reinstall it)

[Taniwha → staz]

surely that's a reason to turn off the stupid microsoft search, not to get rid of libreoffice

[nerflad → Taniwha]

We're talking about searching in the Activities view of GNOME 3. I don't think it can be turned off (usually it's great if there isn't a name collision)

[FeepingCreature → nerflad]

Have you considered installing KCalc? It should come first. :)

On: Firefox 57.0 Released

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The TagGroups is so part of my daily basis that I went back to the v56.0

I cannot stress enough how it helps me to switch between contexts. It's one of those things that you just did not know that you needed so much.

What options do we have?

[piyush_soni → _lce0]

None that I know of. What helped me the most about Tab Groups was not just the tabs organization, but the face that I could create regular expressions so that a new page would automatically open in its own tab group (and everything else in one 'Default' tab group). That was a killer feature!

On: Slack is offline

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Why CPU goes like crazy every time slack loses connectivity?

You can easily test this by disconnecting from wifi. As soon as you're offline the fan starts spinning until you get your connection back.

[scott_karana → _lce0]

I'm pretty sure that "refresh" tries to bootstrap the whole world. Eg, it'll reload all JS assets in addition to just restarting WebSockets