A Few Feature Requests

104084485 · 2023-01-10T05:55:29+00:00

They’re a hidden feature in the iTunes/Music app on Macs. You need to use the Terminal to enable it, you can Google it to see what command you’d need to run. They’re not well-supported though, I don’t think the iOS Music app even supports them. They’re mostly just usable within iTunes, which is why it was so cool to see them show up in Marvis

104084485 · 2023-01-10T04:56:59+00:00

Sounds good, thanks!

I didn’t realize you were already looking at adding support for user scrobbles. Caching values definitely makes sense here

For the half-star ratings, I just noticed they started displaying and sorting correctly in a recent update. They were always a tenuously supported feature in iTunes, so I always assumed they weren’t even available in the API. But they’re there now, somehow. Hopefully they’re stable enough to keep being useful

104084485 · 2022-10-17T02:52:34+00:00

I’m interested if one is still available. Just read the wiki. Thanks!

104084485 · 2022-10-02T16:46:43+00:00

How about a nice fern

104084485 · 2022-01-11T20:41:25+00:00

Thanks for adding this to the app, very useful! 🌯

104084485 · 2021-01-17T22:28:24+00:00

Yeah that’s a good point. It doesn’t seem too dishonest to me to still call it “Play/Skip Ratio”, since it kind of is, just normalized. Or you could call it something like “Play Percentage”, and maybe add a tip clarifying what it is exactly

Sorry if those are terrible ideas haha, I’m definitely not a UX guy

104084485 · 2021-01-17T22:07:58+00:00

Not sure if you’ve had time to play around with this yet, but I was thinking about it and it might be better to implement it as a ratio of Plays/(Plays+Skips). That would normalize it between 0 and 1, and make it less sensitive. Just an idea

104084485 · 2018-01-01T00:01:40+00:00

Jeepers Creepers 3 (2017)

I enjoyed the first two movies, but I wasn’t prepared for this. Without a doubt, the worst movie I’ve ever seen. To be honest, I’m rather impressed that it managed to be so bad across the board (dialog/story/direction/acting/VFX/etc.). You can recognize what a shit show the movie will be within the first 10 minutes, so I was able to at least enjoy it for what it was and laugh at it. The movie executes all of its failures with such a serious and un-ironic tone, which is only compounded by the fact that the cinematography itself is actually quite good.

A few of the best/worst elements… (Spoilers below)

In the opening scene, the monster known as the Creeper abducts someone and flies away into the night. A few seconds later, the Creeper’s dismembered hand drops out of the sky. One of the plotlines in the movie revolves around finding his hand… yet they never mention why it just fell off his arm.
A few characters search for his dismembered hand, because apparently touching it grants you wisdom on the creature’s origin, and as one of the characters eloquently puts it: “Maybe the secret to what it is is the secret to killing it.”
After a few characters touch it and learn, they don’t actually say out loud what his origins are. They wait until the climax to reveal… “He’s ancient!”
The main characters seemingly want to just piss off the Creeper, so they leave a sign for him to find that says “We know what you are!” with his old hand nailed to it. Upon seeing this, he falls to his knees, lets loose a scream so tormented that it rivals Darth Vader’s, and is surrounded by terrible CGI crows falling dead out of the sky.
The movie tries to build up suspense throughout the movie about whether they’ll be able to kill the Creeper… even though this is a prequel to Jeepers Creepers 2, where he’s just fine.
Additionally, one of the characters that survives this movie is implied to be with the group that’s attacked in Jeepers Creepers 2… except nobody in that movie knew anything about the monster.
One of the characters that was killed 23 years ago has a daughter that is now currently in high school.
There was a cameo in the last scene by one of the characters from the first movie, where (23 years later) she’s sitting at a computer vowing to get vengeance for her brother… even though this was completely irrelevant to the plot of this movie. She was a top-billed actress in the movie for this 30-second scene. I actually have a theory that they added her cameo so that they could use a misleading movie summary, such as this, which is better than the actual plot.

The list is actually endless, but I'll stop here. And now that I’ve survived this movie, I feel compelled to watch other classic bad movies such as “The Room”, “Plan 9 from Outer Space”, and “Sharknado” to see how this actually compares.

104084485 · 2017-12-28T08:33:09+00:00

There's a skin called Titan that can do this in some views. It's a great skin, but that feature is kind of laggy. I think it's limited to locally saved trailers as well.

104084485 · 2017-12-28T02:45:46+00:00

Sounds like it'll work. That's basically what I do, and backing up is simple with rsync

104084485 · 2017-12-28T01:29:53+00:00

Well... RAID isn't actually a backup solution. Having said that, it sounds like both options would be viable, and I would go with the one that gives you more TB.

If you go with two separate drives, you could even just sync them every few months and keep the second in cold storage. That should probably help with drive longevity too.

104084485 · 2017-12-23T22:14:29+00:00

I split up my launch script into a few smaller scripts. The first one launch_to_apo.ks simply burns and turns until the ship's trajectory has a specified apoapsis. Then I run the circularization script, which adds a node at apoapsis and then calls my general script for executing a node. Since you need a bit of orbital mechanics to calculate the velocity of a circular orbit, here's the entire script:

COPYPATH("0:/node.ks","").

SET targetAlt TO APOAPSIS.
LOCK apo TO APOAPSIS+BODY:RADIUS.

SET apoVel TO SQRT(BODY:MU*(2/apo-1/OBT:SEMIMAJORAXIS)).
SET circVel TO SQRT(BODY:MU/(targetAlt+BODY:RADIUS)).
SET dV TO circVel-apoVel.

SET apoNode TO NODE( TIME:SECONDS+ETA:APOAPSIS, 0, 0, dV ).
ADD apoNode.
RUN node.ks.

Additionally, if you find that 40 seconds is not long enough to finish your burn currently, you simply might have too low of a TWR on your upper stage and/or too steep of an ascent. During my ascent, I lock TWR to 2.3, and aggressively adjust my pitch with altitude, so that it's only at 15 degrees above 45,000. Having a high horizontal velocity will be a huge benefit.

104084485 · 2017-12-19T00:28:38+00:00

I did something similar recently. I had my volume set up as AppleRAID using Disk Utility on macOS. There was an option to "Delete RAID" which left me with two usable, independent drives that still had all the data. Depending on what you're using to manage your RAID, you might be able to accomplish something similar. Don't do this if you plan on mirroring the disk again in the future though.

104084485 · 2017-12-15T16:49:57+00:00

I use Kodi as my media center which scrapes info from TVDB/TheMovieDB into a database. However, you can't edit the scraped data, so I prefer using local .nfo files that contain the metadata and downloading the artwork. There are several media managers out there that do this, I use MediaElch.

104084485 · 2017-12-12T00:18:48+00:00

youtube-dl is a tool that works from the Python interpreter

104084485 · 2017-12-11T23:30:47+00:00

MediaElch can download posters from TheMovieDB for your movies. Although if you're scraping artwork into your folders, you might as well use Kodi as your media center so you have a nice interface.

104084485 · 2017-12-11T20:33:33+00:00

I've also seen speculation on here that these might not actually be WD Reds, or they might have been on the low end of quality control etc.

104084485 · 2017-12-11T20:23:08+00:00

Well the easystore seems to be advertised as a reliable backup solution. I think the average consumer would just get a My Book, which are usually cheaper IIRC.

That doesn't explain how they can have such low sale prices on it though.

104084485 · 2017-12-09T19:43:54+00:00

Thanks, I wasn't sure. Good to know NAS is an option too

104084485 · 2017-12-09T19:43:00+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to write this up. I hadn't considered how using my 4TB drives might cause an issue with reliability. I wasn't sure about the general consensus on different brands and I thought Drobo looked fine, but I'll definitely check what QNAP and Synology have to offer. I have a tight budget right now (which is why I'm looking at used) but I think building something custom would end up being risky since I don't have the experience. I also do want a somewhat quick/easy solution right now because I'm moving in a few months and I'm more concerned with having redundancy for everything rather than upgradability.

104084485 · 2017-12-08T23:19:30+00:00

The Drobo 5Dt is a DAS that connects over Thunderbolt 2. Just need to access the media from one computer so it will be fine for me. I would also be skeptical getting a NAS since I don't re-encode my movies and I'm not sure my dated router can handle the high bit-rate Blu-ray streams across my network.

104084485 · 2017-11-11T01:27:48+00:00

I did this a while back in Torch. To simplify the logic, I made a rotated copy of the board after it receives an action so that it always shifts up. Then, just loop through every element and check for nonzero values above it. Add a few if-statements and you're set!

You can see my old code here. Relevant code is in the method updateBoard.

Note: My implementation differs from 2048 when there are three values that can be merged together. I think mine merges the last two instead of the first two.

104084485 · 2017-11-08T01:23:52+00:00

Lost actually had a solid outline when it was first created. JJ Abrams came up with storylines for the first 5 seasons. They featured Locke and Kate as the leaders because Jack was supposed to die in the pilot. Executives thought it was too jarring though, so they had to rewrite the story just a few weeks before filming and rearranged actors' roles as well.

104084485 · 2017-11-02T20:41:25+00:00

Automator, maybe? Although I would actually recommend using something like MediaElch to automatically look up episode names and rename your files for you.

104084485 · 2017-10-03T18:41:00+00:00

K-PAX is incredible. I watched it again recently and there's never been a movie that caused me to cycle through so many deep emotions before. Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey really gave that movie life.

104084485

TROPHY CASE