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Cyykratahk

359 karma · joined March 21, 2013

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Cyykratahk··on From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth
Interestingly, the moon's tidal lock is not perfect, resulting in a wobble that can be seen in time lapses: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4236
Cyykratahk··on MTA Responds Citing Lack of “Infinite Change” for MetroCards
What exactly is the problem with the prices? Because the issue here seems to be only for a very small set of users who have purchased a new card (starting with zero balance) and do not intend on topping up later on (do they just throw the card away?). What's the difference between a leftover of $0.01 and $2.49? You're still not going to make that train. And after topping up even once, the remainder will be some other random amount less than a whole fare.

The public transport where I live in QLD, Australia, (TransLink) has pricing based on distance (zones) travelled, so you'll almost never have a perfect leftover amount. Even so, the auto top-up system removes the need to even think about how much money is left.

Cyykratahk··on A breath reveals a hidden image in anti-counterfeit drug labels
Slightly off-topic, but I hope the credit card they showed in the video was cancelled, because you can see the last 12 digits as well as the expiry. And using the logos and text displayed on the back it would be trivial to work out the first four digits.
Cyykratahk··on The Invisible Interface
Windows explorer has "visible keyboard shortcuts". Press Alt and a bunch of little tooltips display beside each button on the ribbon, showing the letter to press. Some are even chained shortcuts.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/gNDZ5YK.png

Cyykratahk··on CubeSlam
It works fantastically well on mobile; buttery smooth controls, and vibration when a point is scored. Feels like a native app.
Cyykratahk··on Two computer screens aren't better than one
Discussion on the original New York Times article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7432908
Cyykratahk··on Why Does Backspace Go Back A Page?
I agree that backspace is useful as a back button (I use it that way), and also that there should be an option to change the setting (although, on which the default should be, I cannot decide).

But wasn't StickyKeys (and other assistance-related settings) created to fix the keyboard modifier problem for users with low mobility?

Cyykratahk··on How does Facebook disable Developer Tools?
Both FireFox and Chrome have been preventing that since around 2011; the pasted url is stripped of the "javascript:" part. But now the malicious instructions tell users to press "j" before pasting the url (which is missing the "j" at the start), which prevents the browsers from detecting and stripping the protocol, thus allowing the script execution.
Cyykratahk··on Show HN: My Windows Phone Homescreen-Concept with Customizable Backgrounds
Maybe add background parallax on the horizontal movement as well?
Cyykratahk··on Dell Wasn't Joking About That 28-Inch Sub-$1000 4K Monitor; It's Only $699
The AMD W600 [1] has six mDP ports that each support 4K. Also it's half-length and single-width.

[1] http://www.amd.com/us/products/workstation/graphics/firepro-...

Cyykratahk··on DivX Now Installs Malware
http://portableapps.com/apps is a pretty good resource.

The apps are portable versions (made with permission of the original developers) that are meant to be installed on flash drives, but you can click through to the official project pages of each one to find the desktop versions.

Cyykratahk··on Bootstrap-switch
It's better to have the labels outside the control itself:

ON [--O] OFF

But that kind of defeats the purpose of the design in the first place.

Cyykratahk··on The slippery slope
That would be the 300px radius inner box-shadow set to 5% opacity on the body tag, which happens to be over 40,000px tall.
Cyykratahk··on Unicode Character 'Slice of Pizza'
Segoe UI Symbol has quite a few, not sure if it covers all of them though.
Cyykratahk··on Just Use Sublime Text
Ctrl+D to select the next instance of the current selection.
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