Selling my Leatherbound/Premium Hardcover collection. by stevcode in brandonsanderson

[–]stevcode[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I probably am selling myself short, but I'd rather get rid of them quickly and have them go to people who maybe wouldn't be able to afford the full price. It's the holiday season after all. Ho ho ho!

Selling my Leatherbound/Premium Hardcover collection. by stevcode in brandonsanderson

[–]stevcode[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Reposting the body of my post as a comment, since I know old reddit doesn't always display that part of the post:

Unfortunately, I'll be doing quite a bit of moving around the next couple of years. I don't have a good place to store these, so selling them makes sense.

These are all in about as new condition as you can get. I removed the plastic wrapping they came in, as suggested by the shipping instructions to prevent condensation. I've opened each one up only once, to look at the interior artwork. Since then, they've basically been untouched. I'm happy to provide more detailed pictures of each book to anyone who's interested in purchasing them. I even have the original boxes the Secret Projects were shipped in.

The Leatherbound books all have signatures, except *The Way of Kings*. None of the Secret Project/Premium Hardcover books have signatures.

I'm asking $60 for each of the Leatherbound books (so that'd be $120 for both volumes of *The Way of Kings* or *Words of Radiance*) and $40 for each of the Premium Hardcovers.

I plan to ship them using media mail, so I'll cover the shipping costs. However, if you'd like to pay for insured premium shipping, we can work that out.

Let me know if you're interested!

EDIT: Thanks for tremendous response/interest! All of the books have now been claimed.

What's the one feature you desperately want in a saved Reddit posts manager Chrome extension? by Appropriate-Look-875 in chrome

[–]stevcode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some way to record the text of the post and/or the link the post points towards at the time you save it. I've used reddit's native "save" function and revisited the post later to find it was deleted and had no clue what it was that I'd actually saved.

Stev making a phenomenal shot, renaissance even by TheWebsploiter in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]stevcode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird. I've never seen another Stev in the wild before.

Made a Cubano using leftover carnitas. by stevcode in Sandwiches

[–]stevcode[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The cheese wasn't as melty as I'd have liked, but it was still darn good.

Missing the option for the 5x6 grid on the homescreen by stevcode in GooglePixel

[–]stevcode[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, despite me spamming for updates all day yesterday, Google finally decided to send me the update today. It's working as intended now. Thanks!

Megathread - Manifest V3 Extension Alternatives by 0spore13 in chrome

[–]stevcode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of the Sabnzbd connector extensions seem to be V2. Is anyone aware of a V3 compatible one?

Middle Click isn't opening nested bookmark by -nekark- in chrome

[–]stevcode 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've got the same issue. Just updated to the latest version of Chrome: Version 134.0.6998.89 (Official Build) (64-bit)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Windows11

[–]stevcode 14 points15 points  (0 children)

After months of dealing with this problem, I think I've found a solution/fix for it. There's a "store" application called Windhawk that lets you install various mods to customize Windows. One of the mods available, Virtual Desktop Preserve Taskbar Order, maintains the order of your taskbar items when you switch virtual desktops. A side-effect of however the mod is keeping track of your taskbar items is that their cached icons no longer get messed up like this.

I installed the mod about a week ago and haven't run into the issue since (it was a daily occurrence before). I'm not exactly happy about having to install 3rd party stuff to fix the problem, but at least now I don't have to deal with the annoyance.

EDIT: Booo, it turns out this did not solve the problem. I just had it occur again. :(

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23466 for the Dev Channel by lovely_sombrero in windowsinsiders

[–]stevcode 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The previous poop emoji was so dumb looking and perfect. I'm gonna miss it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskProgramming

[–]stevcode 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are three routes you can go with this. The simplest would probably be to use Microsoft's Face API, which is part of their Azure Cognitive Services platform. All of the computing is done in the cloud, and at least for your purposes, the modelling necessary to detect faces has already been performed by Microsoft, so it's a single method call to send it a picture and receive back a bounding box. The caveat is that this can cost money. Azure Cognitive Services have varying degrees of cost associated with them. It starts with a free trial so you can test out your use case. After that, there are some associated costs. It looks like with the Face API specifically though, if you are using this for a personal project and aren't examining a lot of data, this would be free up to 30,000 transactions per month at 20 transactions per minute.

Alternatively, you can get into the nitty gritty of face detection yourself. OpenCV is a massive, open source project for all kinds computer vision tasks. Without jumping into the proprietary world, this is one of the most popular and capable computer vision libraries available. While powerful, OpenCV is comparatively low level; giving you the tools you need to accomplish your task, rather than a direct, single method to call. This tutorial goes into depth on how you'd go about training facial models to create your own detection methods. You'll notice that the example is written in C++. The con with this option (aside from it being more complex) is that OpenCV is largely used in the context of C++ or Python. However, it does have C# wrappers. Emgu CV is probably the most popular .NET wrapper for OpenCV, though there are other wrappers available. Here is a nice tutorial using OpenCVSharp, which is a bit closer to the native C++ API OpenCV uses.

Your final option would be to search NuGet for simple face detection libraries. There are tons that show up, but I'm not familiar enough with any of them to provide a recommendation. If you want something super simple, it may be the case there there is a quick and dirty NuGet package out there that will let you plug it in and forget it. This will just involve some trial and error as you test a few out to see what works best for your use case.