Hacker News: NTripleOne

New comment by NTripleOne in "Show HN: Turn a low res image to high res with ML"

NTripleOne — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:33:40 +0000

Neat, but this'll be far more usable once someone sets it up as a nice web service ala waifu2x

New comment by NTripleOne in "Riot, Blizzard, Twitch and others are teaming up to fight toxic gaming behavior"

NTripleOne — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:24:46 +0000

>I hope they don't lose their way and try to overextend their influence by silencing non-"progressive" behavior or "wrongthink"

Blizzard already do.

New comment by NTripleOne in "Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music"

NTripleOne — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 16:22:34 +0000

This is a great idea tbh, most people actually know far more classical music than they think they do - but they couldn't tell you the name of a piece or its composer for the life of them.

New comment by NTripleOne in "Sloyd"

NTripleOne — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 09:37:35 +0000

Man, looking back I kinda wish I'd taken DT over some other subject as one of my GCSEs. Probably music.

New comment by NTripleOne in "Too much fructose can damage your liver, just like too much alcohol"

NTripleOne — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:55:20 +0000

I don't know if it has a term of not, but it sounds like the pretty fuckin' opposite of science to me - adjusting the results to fit your wanted view instead of adjusting your view to fit the results.

New comment by NTripleOne in "Vimeo acquires Livestream"

NTripleOne — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:36:28 +0000

I'm honestly surprised that's still going.

New comment by NTripleOne in "Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner"

NTripleOne — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:18:40 +0000

Or maybe just some great computers filling the hallowed halls.

New comment by NTripleOne in "Blender 2.79 released"

NTripleOne — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:11:09 +0000

Yup, both max and maya have such a 'traditional' (for lack of a better term) kind of UI - it's (for the most part) intuitive, whereas blender's just appears to be spread out all around the sides of the screen and it just feels like a mess. Even the basic aspect of interacting with the viewports is weird, why is there a crosshair, why can't I drag things around; what the hell is this weird lasso thing?

New comment by NTripleOne in "Avogadr.io – Molecular Wallpaper Generator"

NTripleOne — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:03:04 +0000

Ah, interesting - thanks. I'll be honest chemistry never really was my strong point (I much preferred the more practical aspect of physics in school) - I try to pick up what I can from creators such as codyslab, nilered, nurdrage, etc, but I guess my attention to it falls in the "interesting but not interested" category, for lack of a better term.

New comment by NTripleOne in "iPhone X"

NTripleOne — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 12:59:46 +0000

Why are you arguing completely different points then?

New comment by NTripleOne in "Avogadr.io – Molecular Wallpaper Generator"

NTripleOne — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 06:50:43 +0000

Since you mentioned it, THC and tetrahydrocannabinol are the same... but different. I don't know enough about these kinds of diagrams to know what the differences are - but surely they should be the same?

New comment by NTripleOne in "The End of ProTube 2"

NTripleOne — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 13:50:27 +0000

> Well duh, but those policies only exist because YT is trying to sell those features.

See, I could get behind this argument if I could actually buy those features - but because I'm not in the US, I can't. YouTube Red has looked like the same speck on the horizon as it has for the past 3 years in the UK now, and as far as I know, absolutely nothing has been said about when it'll arrive here.

I would like nothing more than to pay for this functionality, after being given a trial of YouTube Music Key (back before it was called Red) well over 3 years ago at this point, I want reasonably priced access to Red original content, I want background and audio-only play on my phone. Hell, I might even use the download video feature, who knows? Well it's sure as hell not me, because I don't even have access to it.

New comment by NTripleOne in "Roamer: A Plain-Text File Manager"

NTripleOne — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:39:45 +0000

Ah, fair enough. I wasn't sure it emphasis as part of the whole "editor vs ide" dealio.

New comment by NTripleOne in "Roamer: A Plain-Text File Manager"

NTripleOne — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:40:06 +0000

Out of curiosity, why did you capitalise editor?

New comment by NTripleOne in "Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices"

NTripleOne — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:29:33 +0000

Yup, you can get Sonic 1, 2 and CD on the amazon store, IIRC you'll have to sideload kodi though, not a massively difficult task. It's as simple as turning on developer mode in the settings and then using an app on your phone to adb install the kodi APK to the fire stick. You can also just use adb in a terminal on your PC or whatever, up to you - but there's some apps on the play store that make it super easy.

New comment by NTripleOne in "Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices"

NTripleOne — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 07:03:19 +0000

Yup. I have a fire stick, it's fantastic. It does everything, and if there's something it doesn't do then I can likely make it do it somehow, because it's just an android device that I'm free to sideload regular APKs on to.

I love the damn thing, best £30 I've spent in a long long time. It does Prime video, it does netflix, it does spotify, it does plex, kodi, it does sonic 2 for fuck's sake.

New comment by NTripleOne in "HackerNews Grid"

NTripleOne — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 08:59:54 +0000

Actually fuck sites that have a modal popup on window mouseout. Great way to get me to not return.

New comment by NTripleOne in "Exploring bump mapping with WebGL"

NTripleOne — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 07:10:49 +0000

Yes, you're entirely correct - that is precisely why it's concave - as Parallax mapping is purely the illusion of depth, instead of adding any actual depth or height, this means that the perceived depth effect is constrained to the surface of the object.

If the pyramid shape were to extend past the surface of the texture, it would look fantastic up until the point that the viewing angle of the surface would cause the pyramid to visibly protrude past the edge, at which point anything extending beyond those boundaries would be lost.

Here's a terrible mspaint example, please ignore my awful consistency, it's early and I've not had any caffeine yet.

http://i.imgur.com/iC7czF5.png

New comment by NTripleOne in "Why PS4 downloads are so slow"

NTripleOne — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 07:35:12 +0000

Yup, this was my first experience with my brief stint owning a bloodborne machine.

Put in game, 20GB update. Cool, guess I'm not playing that today then.

Sold that thing a couple of months later, what a waste of money the whole rigmarole was. Bloodborne wasn't even that good imo either.

New comment by NTripleOne in "Why the Brain Needs More Downtime (2013)"

NTripleOne — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 10:30:10 +0000

And then you leave the meeting room, thinking "Well at least that killed a good amount of time" and you see you were actually only in there for 20 minutes.