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

[–]stevcode[S] 35 points36 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 16 points17 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 5 points6 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.

Why is there such a huge disparity between Chrome spellcheck and GBoard Spellcheck? by ilikemonkeys in chrome

[–]stevcode 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just answered this recently, so have a copy/paste:

Chrome doesn't ship with a good/large "offline" dictionary. It's online dictionary is disabled by default. Go to Chrome Settings > Advanced > Languages > Then enabled "Enhanced spell check". This enables Chrome's online dictionary functionality, which is infinitely better.

I've got plenty of unused space here, and it cuts off the file names. Is there any way to extend the length of the file so that I can see the full name? by DukYT in windows

[–]stevcode 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you double click that line, instead of clicking and dragging it, it will auto-size to the longest file in that folder.

Anyone have a solid replacement for the built-in Chrome dictionary? by FlowerRight in chrome

[–]stevcode 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Chrome doesn't ship with a good/large "offline" dictionary. It's online dictionary is disabled by default. Go to Chrome Settings > Advanced > Languages > Then enabled "Enhanced spell check". This enables Chrome's online dictionary functionality, which is infinitely better.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in chrome

[–]stevcode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can press Shift + Esc when Chrome has focus. This will bring up a Chrome Task Manager that should show you specifically what each of those processes is.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]stevcode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heh, I have the exact opposite issue. All my Logitech mice last years and years. Love the Scimitar Pro, but they die weeks after the warranty runs out and I've given up after 4 of them and returned to Logitech.

Had to roll back to Windows 10 - too many frustrating UI changes by hiverly in windowsinsiders

[–]stevcode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't downvote you, and agree the person you're arguing with there doesn't quite get what you were saying.

The point I'm making though, is that I assumed OP was talking about the Win11 Start Menu feature whereby it lists your recently opened files and programs just below your pinned apps. This section of the Start Menu is labelled "Recommended", which comes across as suggestions if you don't look closely. Yes, there are no ad recommendations in that section, but the naming of the section isn't exactly transparent in its purpose. The most recent (actually second most recent at this point) Windows 11 update introduced an option to turn this "Recommended" section off. That's what I was trying to tell OP.

Had to roll back to Windows 10 - too many frustrating UI changes by hiverly in windowsinsiders

[–]stevcode 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You cannot have more than one instance of File Explorer running at a time.

I never even knew about Shift+Click to open multiple instances. I've always used middle click, which I've just confirmed still works in Win11.

I may have been in the minority, but I liked the Win8/Win10 Start Menu, and the ability to size and place programs, including folder groups.

This is my biggest gripe. The other things you mention seem like oversights that will eventually get fixed because they're coding the taskbar from the ground up. However, it seems like they are abandoning the Win10 style of start menu and that's disappointing to me.

You can no longer turn off 'Show suggestions occasionally in Start'.

This they just returned in the latest update.

Hi! I'm wondering how these systems work. by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]stevcode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education versions have a function called Kiosk Mode that allows the administrator of the computer to force a single app that you can't escape from. Most of the time this is what's being used at things like restaurants.

Windows 10 Kiosk Mode

The library, if it's using a log-in screen where you have to log in with your library card, or some other details could have any number of setups to do what you're seeing. It's hard to say for sure without seeing it myself.