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rowild / gist:5a23d15d268448139c695c0fc5d0dc62
Last active March 6, 2023 10:23 — forked from rbanffy/gist:9c806ba406dba9a5afa324d0be3b8f13
Find out more about your CPU
open http://www.google.com/?q=$(sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string | awk '{FS=" " ; print $1 "+" $3 "+" $3}')+site:ark.intel.com
# or, on a Linux machine
xdg-open http://www.google.com/?q=$(fgrep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo | head -n 1 | awk '{FS=" " ; print $5 "+" $6}')+site:ark.intel.com
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rowild / MKV_and_MP4_video_conversion_notes.md
Last active January 31, 2023 13:09 — forked from pjobson/MKVToolNix_notes.md
Notes for creating, editing, and extracting MKV files.

MKVToolNix Notes

Various notes for using MKVToolNix.

Probe a Video

mkvinfo lists all elements contained in an MKV container file.

mkvinfo container.mkv
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rowild / install_gui_application_darwin.sh
Created July 15, 2018 21:38 — forked from lambdalisue/install_gui_application_darwin.sh
Install Mac OS X Gui Application via Homebrew Cask
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#==============================================================================
# Install Mac OS X GUI Application via brew cask
#==============================================================================
brew cask install google-chrome
brew cask install thunderbird
brew cask install dropbox
brew cask install copy
brew cask install slack
brew cask install the-unarchiver
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rowild / js-array__better-handling-of-contain.js
Last active February 15, 2017 11:01 — forked from fat/gist:956180
better contains
var ALEX = ['foo', 'bar'];
//n00bs write:
if (ALEX.indexOf('foo') > -1) {
//ALEX contains foo
}
//pros write:
if (~ALEX.indexOf('foo')) {
//ALEX contains foo
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rowild / gist:3d6072d02287125d7ade
Created February 24, 2016 11:30 — forked from talltyler/gist:5345894
This code gives the HTML canvas element JavaScript support for letter spacing. Don't confuse letter spacing with kerning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning This code is basically from http://stackoverflow.com/a/15509006
(function(){
var _fillText,
__slice = [].slice;
_fillText = CanvasRenderingContext2D.prototype.fillText;
CanvasRenderingContext2D.prototype.fillText = function() {
var args, offset, previousLetter, str, x, y,
_this = this;
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rowild / Web Audio API - Sound Fading
Created October 27, 2015 15:26 — forked from ichabodcole/Web Audio API - Sound Fading
Reference for fading in and out sounds with the Web Audio API
fadeTo: (value, fadeLength)->
fadeLength = fadeLength || @defaultfadeLength
currentTime = @ctx.currentTime
#time the fade should complete
fadeTime = currentTime + fadeLength
#set the start time
@masterGain.gain.setValueAtTime(@userVolume, currentTime)
@masterGain.gain.linearRampToValueAtTime(value, fadeTime)
fadeOut: (fadeLength)->
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rowild / Local Fallback for jQuery and Modernizr
Created October 16, 2015 09:08 — forked from benjamincharity/Local Fallback for jQuery and Modernizr
Include jQuery and Modernizr from a CDN and add local fallbacks in case the CDN fails. Versions written in HTML and HAML.
HTML
=====
<script type='text/javascript'>
window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="js/jquery-1.7.1.js">\x3C/script>')
</script>
<script src='http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/modernizr/2.0.6/modernizr.min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
window.Modernizr || document.write('<script src="js/modernizr-2.0.6.js">\x3C/script>')
</script>
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rowild / flatten.php
Last active August 30, 2015 06:55 — forked from kohnmd/flatten.php
Function to recursively flatten multidimensional PHP array.
<?php
// Requires PHP 5.3+
// Found here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1320156
function flatten_array(array $array) {
$flattened_array = array();
array_walk_recursive($array, function($a) use (&$flattened_array) { $flattened_array[] = $a; });
return $flattened_array;
}