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Nina Kalinina

Wikipedia:

Cargo cult programming. See also: GitHub Copilot

10 September at 18:19 | Open on tech.lgbt
Shane Celis

@nina_kali_nina Ha ha ha!

GOOGLE: We’ve automated your nightmares. You’re welcome.

10 September at 18:25 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Nina Kalinina

That's all you need to know about "standardization" IRL
11 July at 19:11 | Open on tech.lgbt
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xs4me2

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The good thing about standards is that there are so many that each can have his or her own ;)

11 July at 21:18 | Open on mastodon.social
Enara :potion_genderfluid:❔
Jan Niklas Fingerle

@nina_kali_nina
You won't believe it, but in German and French it's another two totally different words.

11 July at 22:30 | Open on social.saarland
Nina Kalinina

~Project Orihime: Windows~

Arguably, the most important abstraction of any windowing system is a window. And in most windowing systems, the most important part is the title bar.

Let's say we want to make a windowing system that will look nice and modern while working in 640x480 16 colours mode. It shouldn't be too much of a challenge, because modern windowing systems are all using simple flat colours instead of gradients or textures that used to be popular just a decade ago, right?

Let's start with drawing a window title bar like that, and then compare it with popular modern systems.

Huh! It is missing something... But what?

🧵 1/6

~Project Orihime: Windows~

Arguably, the most important abstraction of any windowing system is a window. And in most windowing systems, the most important part is the title bar.

Let's say we want to make a windowing system that will look nice and modern while working in 640x480 16 colours mode. It shouldn't be too much of a challenge, because modern windowing systems are all using simple flat colours instead of gradients or textures that used to be popular just a decade ago, right?
28 May at 12:00 | Open on tech.lgbt
🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈 :verified:

@nina_kali_nina wait, what’s project orihime?

28 May at 12:03 | Open on tech.lgbt
Nina Kalinina

The oomph that all the modern systems have and old systems don't is drop shadows.

Just take a look at this doctored screenshot of Windows 3.1 with drop shadows from each window. Just look at it, darn.

Simply drawing a rectangle and adding a drop shadow from it almost automatically makes us feel like this is a "window" and it is "floating" on top of other windows.

But 16 or 256 colour interfaces cannot afford this. Project Orihime _has_ to have a sharp boundary between the window frame and elements below. The screen resolution is too low, and the palette is too small to allow for that.

But it still looks noticeably more modern than Motif windows, due to 1-pixel window border (as opposed to 4-10 pixel wide borders), and rounded corners with a gradient. Wait, what, 10 pixel wide window borders? Who ever thought this was a good idea? Show me the designer of these interfaces!

🧵 2/6

The oomph that all the modern systems have and old systems don't is drop shadows.

Just take a look at this doctored screenshot of Windows 3.1 with drop shadows from each window. Just look at it, darn.

Simply drawing a rectangle and adding a drop shadow from it almost automatically makes us feel like this is a "window" and it is "floating" on top of other windows.
28 May at 12:08 | Open on tech.lgbt
Nina Kalinina

My eyes are full of tears and I don't know whether it's because I'm reading How Do We Relationship 10 or because I'm reading How Do We Relationship 10. It's so relatable 😭

15 March at 18:23 | Open on tech.lgbt
Nina Kalinina

I love semantic HTML. Each input field is so easy to describe in a sensible way. It can even be used by plugins and user-scripts.
8 March at 10:54 | Open on tech.lgbt
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RC2014

@nina_kali_nina
That's why I use ROFL emoji whenever I am asked for payment info 😂

8 March at 11:37 | Open on oldbytes.space
lime!
Laker Turner

@nina_kali_nina the amount of times i've almost accepted this on stream/screenshare is.... more than once
8 March at 12:09 | Open on social.lol
Nina Kalinina

What if I told you there is an immensely popular operating system that you likely used it at least once, but did not realise what it was?

In fact, it is so popular and important there is an IEEE standard based on it.

It is uncanny how immensely popular AND immensely obscure this system is.

It is scary that until today I have never even heard of its reference desktop implementation.

The system is called "TRON".

🧵 thread~

p.s. thanks @fkinoshita for the pointer!
6 February at 14:07 | Open on tech.lgbt
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Kirtai

@nina_kali_nina I knew about TRON but didn't know there was a desktop version.

Also, the kitties and wait cursor are adorable.

6 February at 15:36 | Open on tech.lgbt
sadmac356
lproven

@nina_kali_nina @fkinoshita @thomholwerda

There was a video demo at the Chaos Computer Congress a couple of years ago:

media.ccc.de/v/rc3-525180-what

It was widely discussed at the time, e.g.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3

I knew of TRON and iTRON but this was the first time I saw video.

Although I know a few words of Nihongo, I can't read worth a damn, so I can't try it for myself. This makes me sad.

8 February at 10:33 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
Nina Kalinina

Logographic languages seem to encourage understanding of words' etymology more than alphabetic or syllabic languages, at least to me. Beyond obvious things (三for 3), there's cute things like 鳥 bird and 烏 crow as a bird whose eyes you can't see. And beyond cute things, there are great cultural things, like 大金星 -"big golden planet" meaning "surprising stunning victory". I have no idea whether young Japanese people know why the word is what it is, but older generation probably understands the reference. In sumo matches, the table of games is originally written as ◯◯◯. Losses then are marked as ●●. Thus, victories are "white planets" and defeats are "black planets". If you want to specify that someone had an impressive victory, you'd mark the planet with gold - 🪙. Only wrestlers from lower ranks could get "golden planet". If a low ranking newbie fought a legendary sumoist and won, that'd be "big golden planet". It is even an official term in sumo! 😍

Logographic languages seem to encourage understanding of words' etymology more than alphabetic or syllabic languages, at least to me. Beyond obvious things (三for 3), there's cute things like 鳥 bird and 烏 crow as a bird whose eyes you can't see. And beyond cute things, there are great cultural things, like 大金星 -"big golden planet" meaning "surprising stunning victory". I have no idea whether young Japanese people know why the word is what it is, but older generation probably understands the reference....

16 January at 21:57 | Open on tech.lgbt
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Thankful Machine

@nina_kali_nina I wonder if most people just think “dot”. In English we have “stars” and “asterisks”, gold stars, etc... I don’t know if I think about celestial bodies much when I see these usages but maybe I should!

Great job on the exam you get an iridescent supernova

16 January at 23:20 | Open on oldbytes.space
gábor ugray

@nina_kali_nina Tiniest of tiny nits to pick (and sorry!). It's not the language that's logographic, "just" the writing system. Eg Chinese can be written in Pinyin and it stays the same language. But it's true that the writing system adds a whole layer of parallel semantics for the speakers of C&J who are literate, and this is deeply culturally embedded!

16 January at 23:59 | Open on genart.social
Joel Wirāmu, Pauling

@nina_kali_nina
My favourite is Hotel which is Rice + Sleep

17 January at 0:01 | Open on cloudisland.nz
Nina Kalinina

In the aftermath of CollapseOS email list drama, I wrote a note about healthy conversations in diverse communities:
ninakalinina.com/notes/conv.ht

I tried to summarise the things about the topic that I've learned in the last few years. Maybe they will be helpful for you, too.

12 May 2023 at 21:11 | Open on tech.lgbt
Nina Kalinina

IPCC and the countries that kill us all in this Twitter thread: twitter.com/NiranjanAjit/statu

23 Mar 2023 at 3:23 | Open on tech.lgbt
linkert
ben🎃ui

@nina_kali_nina very surprised Canada didn't have their hands in trying to obfuscate the problem

23 Mar 2023 at 4:02 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
:gay: zetta :transknife:

@nina_kali_nina this is so depressing. i'm not really looking forward to updating plaintextipcc.com 😞

23 Mar 2023 at 4:12 | Open on mspsocial.net
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