My dream is for computers to be able to solve simple problems for themselves, instead of forcing me to do their job
Niki Tonsky
My dream is for computers to be able to solve simple problems for themselves, instead of forcing me to do their job
Niki Tonsky
I love that people were like ‘wahh, I never use all that power in my iPad Pro for anything!' so Apple designers + engineers went 'sick, that means we can render high-poly 3d tools with this new Apple Pencil Pro to cast dynamic shadows at 120fps’
Luke Dorny
@sdw freakin’ amazing. Must’ve been a passion project for an employee. Making it better for customers!
Kyle Aster
@sdw I love this, but also gotta admit this is extremely low poly in modern computing. Queue Biggie’s Things Done Changed.
Niki Tonsky
C++ continues to surprise me. You can define operator ""_km and then write stuff like 12_km
Niki Tonsky
People who bought these m4 threaded rods also frequently bought these m3 lock nuts these people were very disappointed
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Niki Tonsky
I think there’s a wildlife photographer somewhere in me, trying to get out
Niki Tonsky
Don’t talk to us until we had our first commit of the day
Niki Tonsky
Look kitty this is how you use recursion instead of loops
Niki Tonsky
Maybe this is how we can win! We shall all go and build ad free aggregators like @nikitonsky did for german cinemas. Websites, that are only designed to make all data accessible to users as quickly and easily as possible. "I don’t want to make a product out of it. We have enough products already. It’s time someone took a user’s side"
Niki Tonsky
Neil Gaiman wrote: "Everything good that happened in my writing career happened because someone, normally another writer, helped me. Suggested me for something, put in a good word, and so on. The idea was always that you help others and they help others in their turn. It's not a win or lose game." I'm not Gaiman, and probably neither are you (unless you are, in which case hi, Neil.) But this is true for me and true for most of us.
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kikebenlloch
@fatsam I've done that for people who have absolutely no clue 😅 I wish some did that for us 😆
Niki Tonsky
New blogpost: Going to the cinema is a data visualization problem
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Hans
@nikitonsky it is currently missing the city of Tübingen. When manually loading it via the URL, none of the movie theaters there show up, just surrounding ones.
alifeee
@nikitonsky this is cool! I think @nonnullish might like it as they've been doing similar things recently(?)
Florian Schulze
@nikitonsky where do you get the data from? I’m missing smaller cities like Fulda which has a cinemaxx or similar (not sure which chain) and even smaller cities with independent cinemas
Niki Tonsky
Say what you want, but there’s something immediately obvious about aqua-style controls. They stand out. You can see what’s interactive and what’s not in an instant. You can see what’s expected from you Compare to modern flat design, where you have to look very closely just to understand what’s what and which parts you are supposed to touch That’s not progress
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Tom Walker
@nikitonsky The modern one would be way more usable with the addition of some shadows, even the black-boxy kind
Niki Tonsky
What if blueprints but for spreadsheets? Exists? Last time I needed a spreadsheet it was very hard to get any derived data, even a simple map/filter, outside of trivialities like “sum this column”
Pär Björklund
@nikitonsky Excel has a good map/join/filter in their data importer. I believe it's called power query
Niki Tonsky
Content: fits on one screen Modern engagement-driven services are crazy
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@grumpy_website That can't be right. No one in their right mind would do something like that. It's inhumane.
Niki Tonsky
atof/strtof should really be locale-independent, and versions that ARE locale-dependent should accept it explicitly
Niki Tonsky
Expectation: AI helps solving the tasks
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@nikitonsky what if the version you specified was a typo though? My dream is for computers to not download huge SDK packages when not explicitly asked to do it :)
@nikitonsky Have you checked out mise yet?
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>Oracle Java
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Their licensing model is crazy. You pay for each company employee if you use Oracle Java.