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Niki Tonsky

Look what just dropped! Store large DataScript DBs efficiently and incrementally to disk/SQLite/PostgreSQL/RocksDB/whatever and instantly lazy-load them back as you use your DB.

Almost like in Datomic! (not quite, no history/time travel. Yet)

github.com/tonsky/datascript/b

Niki Tonsky

Damn, birthday paradox is tough. To get collision on 32 bits you need just 50k ints

Григорий Клюшников

программисты на лиспе такие: ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Niki Tonsky

I like how, when you request your data archive from Twitter, they package it into JSON, almost. Almost! Just with a single assignment in front, so it can’t be interpreted as data, but only as a code. Why? Didn’t they hear Rich Hickey preaching for data-first development?

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mikesub

@nikitonsky en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP It doesn't mean that there is a real reason to do so in that case

Max Oblezin

@nikitonsky I once imported photos from Google photos and while all photos had meta-data it was in a separate json files 🤷

Niki Tonsky

Mastodon can hurt you in other ways

Niki Tonsky

This man is truly afraid of nothing

Niki Tonsky

Why, mister Anderson. Why do you keep putting dashes like that

iliazeus

@nikitonsky maybe it once was a non-breaking space? And then it was deleted as not "file path-safe".

Niki Tonsky

On that note, I have a question. What the hell is the thing on the left? Red-yellow-green-two more? What do they do?

Niki Tonsky

Come on Apple, checkboxes are square. You should know better

Niki Tonsky

When you put too much AI into your search. Reaching Spotlight-level of reliability

Niki Tonsky

How to blur correctly. Colors outside must leak into the blur, even if they are positioned 100% outside. This makes blur continuous on e.g. scroll

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Dimitri

@nikitonsky this issue is also the bane of "Screen Space" effects in games. Like Screen Space reflections disappearing from the water surface when the actual object is outside of the screen, and then reappearing back when the object itself is back.

Jan

@nikitonsky My name is Blurry Face
and I care what you think.

🎶

Niki Tonsky

“In my version Einstein would stop the bombs”

Christian

@nikitonsky Can you share the source? Would love to read the full piece!

James Conroy-Finn

@nikitonsky that’s new to me!

I vaguely remember having an Open in Terminal item in the toolbar years ago; may be the same magic.

Rafal

@nikitonsky tried doing what you did and discovered this

Данила Горелко

There are lots of actions with cmd or fn combinations. People are still discovering ones. Nobody knows them all, and I guess will never know

Niki Tonsky

Suddenly realized that if computers worked as reliably as they do in Cyberpunk 2077, I would like that! Everything connects, no bugs, fast, compatible, solutions are logical and nobody needs to Google anything. Like, would you be able to partition a disk on Linux without Google? I wouldn’t

James Conroy-Finn

@nikitonsky I wonder, would you trade working computers for bugs in nature?

Cars clipping through the road, people’s face not loading in, bonkers edge detection launching from kilometres up in the air…

But all your tech works perfectly. No bugs, ubiquitous connectivity, lightning fast performance…

youtu.be/RXLohSvTKpg

Sergey Bugaev

@nikitonsky как раз диск-то разбить несложно, особенно если можно пользоваться GParted

constpetrov

@nikitonsky I mean, even fallout2 level of connectivity and IoT (transfer fuel around San Francisco with few keystrokes) would be nice.

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