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DragonLord

02:12

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Q: Please give me code for AHK volume animation

Codes I've searched in AHK forums are so many and complex for me. This is my volume code. I just want to give it an animation. But I don't know how. ~shift::SoundSet +.3 ~ctrl::SoundSet -.3

autohotkey

PLZ GIVE ME TEH CODEZ

Psycogeek

superuser.com/questions/942461/… I thought they had some usable answer for that already?

Could be it didnot work or work as desired

" If the tilde prefix is attached to a custom modifier key which is also used as its own hotkey, that hotkey will fire when the key is pressed instead of being delayed until the key is released. For example, the ~RButton hotkey above is fired as soon as the button is pressed."

I see no reason based on the information to assume that it would cause the key to repeat, only to trigger the event at the Key_dn instead of the key_up event.

Sean Duggan

02:32

@JourneymanGeek: Ah. I finally wound up getting it onto a USB key. :) Thank you for thinking of me, though.

Journeyman Geek

@SeanDuggan: That's what I was about to suggest

Psycogeek

Beyond that AHK is certannly not the answer to many questions, you can even see that in the lesser accepted answers , as in my own experience , the stuff doesnt work as planned. You gotta be a real dang expert at it , much like trying to code something the first time, stuff doesnt go as planned, or by the book.

I completly dropped that method for sound control myself , it was just one problem after another.

Journeyman Geek

lol. I'd use macros and maybe nircmd there myself

especially since volume control is actually a standard key so... I'd just use macros for whatever keyboard or mouse I have... hmm

Psycogeek

I do not doubt that the person knows what they are trying to accomplish for themselves, but for "most" people it would be simply insane to have the volume start changing everytime you pressed shift or ctrl.

Even for them, they will find it will backfire on them, and they would choose a different method anyway.

Journeyman Geek

03:31

XY problem ;p

(Also, I am pretty sure volume control scripts are the hello world of autoahk)

XKCD

04:02

I guess I should be signing stuff, but I've never been sure what to sign. Maybe if I post my private key, I can crowdsource my decisions about what to sign.

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Psycogeek

05:50

@JourneymanGeek so how is the dog doing?

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Oliver Salzburg

07:25

Sourceforge being down is pretty shitty right now

I have 5 tabs open that say "Maintenance Mode" now :P

Bob

@OliverSalzburg s/being down//

Journeyman Geek

07:54

@Psycogeek: Much better

He's a bit oddly food focused tho

Oliver Salzburg

08:16

@Bob True

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Boris_yo

11:28

@Psycogeek Do you measure water PSI before showerhead or after?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo i never measure it

never had any problem with water pressure in this town, to high or to low. many of the faucets and showerheads have water saving restrictors on them, which i may adjust slightly :-) but only to get a balance between dripping and drowning.

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Journeyman Geek

13:21

linux.slashdot.org/story/15/07/20/1233229/…

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Oh god the dumbass comments come along.

> But then wouldn't it be better to let the end user choose whether something is optimized in a certain direction?

Sure, your "end user" is gonna be perfectly happy tuning what might well be dozens or hundreds (or thousands) of parameters.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob:On the other hand, it smacks a little of benchmark tuning

Bob

Including a profiling (+ auto-adjust) tool might help but you'd still need someone willing to invest the time into running through the whole thing over and over.

@JourneymanGeek Yea, I was just typing that :P

It's just these "give the user more control!" people.

Yes, I want more control.

No, I don't think a hundred sliders of obscure optimisations is the kind of control I want.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: What nvidia and (maybe AMD) do, and having something that sets sane settings for you is nice

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Eh, that's still based on preexisting profiles.

To automate what this guy is suggesting, you'd literally have to run the game many many times with slightly different settings.

Journeyman Geek

13:33

But its not as opaque ;p

Bob

To do it manually... you might finish in a decade.

@JourneymanGeek The visible settings changed (little things like AA level) are the tip of the iceburg.

Journeyman Geek

I suppose

Bob

The real performance boosts (without the heavy-handed sacrifice of visuals) are rather different.

Sometimes, they might even take a completely different codepath.

(Some paths might be optimised for more vertices, others for more edges, etc., to use a simple graph-theory example.)

Also a reason for graphics drivers containing hundreds of megabytes of code.

That's scary just thinking about it.

Bob

13:50

wat

Journeyman Geek

lol

I'm sure she has eggs and spam spam spam for breakfast

allquixotic

14:54

@Bob Give me her email address. [string]I'll follow up with her and see if there might be a spark. Goodbye,

allquixotic.

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DragonLord

20:27

Verizon does not disclose standard (non-promotional) rates for FiOS.

There must be a good business reason for this.

This is unlike Time Warner Cable, where they are available (timewarnercable.com/en/support/account-and-billing/topics/…)

Verizon likely considers the regular rate list confidential information because consumers would be less likely to select them with this information.

Nor does Verizon state that POTS cabling will be removed upon installation of FiOS, or that said removal is required for said installation.

We're strongly considering dropping Verizon in favor of TWC for Internet service.

Verizon's refusal to disclose critical service information is a dealbreaker.

(We have their DSL service, not their fibre-based FiOS)

TWC Internet service may not be as fast or reliable as FiOS, but honesty matters more than anything else.

I'm not saying TWC is 100% honest, but they haven't fallen as far as Verizon, and that's a good thing considering the pressure in today's market.

The whole market is moving downhill, though, with the Charter/TWC merger

At least this isn't going to be as harmful as Comcast acquiring TWC.

There's even a shot this could lead to lower rates.

@allquixotic: Your opinion?

Hopefully, Charter will stick to its promise of not charging to interconnect to Netflix or other services.

This promise is good for three years (to end of 2018). This isn't perfect, but it's much better than other major ISPs demanding payment for interconnection with no room for negotiation otherwise.

arstechnica.com/business/2015/07/…

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Michael Frank

22:13

@Bob [string]

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DragonLord

23:20

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