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[Dimi 🛠️ @dimitarvp]

@lemire @jd5786 Can you, really? At a first glance it looks like a system with a closed bootloader and requiring a bunch of driver quirks. I really hope I'm wrong though; I'd like a machine like that for Linux.

[Kry.exe @ PMT 【Gungnir Fracture】 @KryDotExe]

Twitch continues to deteriorate as a platform because what do you mean I can't TAB OUT TO MY SECOND MONITOR DURING THE AD BREAK

I NEED TO FOCUS THE TAB AND THE WINDOW FOR THE AD TO PLAY??????

@TwitchSupport @Twitch what the actual fuck is wrong with you

[Dimi 🛠️ @dimitarvp]

Unpopular take: "Blade Runner" movies and the book "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" are at shallow teenager level of philosophy that aged badly and has absolutely zero profound things to say. Probably half the book is a guy wanting to have an organic goat pet, come on.

[Emmanuel Shiu @emanshiu]

BLUE PILL

#Matrix

[Dimi 🛠️ @dimitarvp]

@elixirforum The forum has been down for a few hours. Everything okay? Can we expect it back Soon™?

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

Act on press

This is a UI design hill I will die on, and it dismays me how often and hard I have had to fight for it.

Almost all interaction methods have a “press” and “release” event associated with them. Whenever possible, you should “do the thing” when you get the press event instead of waiting for the release event, because it makes the interaction feel substantially more responsive, and it reduces user errors by not allowing the focus to slide out of the hot box between press and release.

Even a “ballistic tap”, where your finger is intentionally bouncing off the button or touch surface, involves several tens of milliseconds delay between the press and release, and most button presses have well over a hundred ms dwell time. There is a delight in interfaces that feel like they respond instantly to your wishes, and the benefit to every single user is often more important than additional niche features.

Game developers, with simple UI toolkits, tend to get this right more often, but “sophisticated” app designers will often fight hard against it because it is mostly incompatible with options like interactive touch scrolling views, long press menus, and drag and drop.

Being able to drag scroll a web page or view with interactive controls in it is here to stay, and nets out way better than having to use a separate scroll bar, but there are still tons of fixed position controls that should act on press, and it is good UI design to favor them when possible.

In the early days of mobile VR, the system keyboard was a dedicated little OpenGL app that responded instantly. With full internationalization it became prudent to turn it into a conventional Android app, but the default act-on-release button behavior made it feel noticeably crappier. The design team resisted a push to change it, and insisted on commissioning a user study, which is a corporate politics ploy to bury something. I was irritated at how they tried to use leading questions and tasks, but It still came back one of the clearest slam-dunks I have seen for user testing – objectively less typos, expressed preference, and interview comments about the act-on-press version feeling “crisper” and “more responsive”.

So, I won that one, but the remaining times I brought it up for other interfaces, I did not, and you still see act-on-release throughout the Meta VR system interfaces.

[Dimi 🛠️ @dimitarvp]

@thorstenball @luccahuguet I am DEFINITELY trying this. I have the Steelcase Gesture and I recently bought a thin but firm pillow for my butt because I literally get numb left leg if I sit on it for 2+ hours.

Hopefully the exercise helps. I dislike putting a pillow on that otherwise fantastic chair.

[Dimi 🛠️ @dimitarvp]

Hot damn @tumblr how low will you go? Are you now a pyramid scheme shilling for your own service? If you want money, just say so. Disallow free users and be done with it. "Discouraging" people will only kill your already pretty shaky business.

#tumblr

[Dimi 🛠️ @dimitarvp]

That #ChatGPT enabled 0.2% of product managers or small business bootstrappers to cobble together a set of 10 #Python files that will collapse at the first gust of wind really says nothing about the wider state of the industry.

#Programmers are quite safe, stop panicking.

[Dimi 🛠️ @dimitarvp]

People think #programmers get high salaries because they can write code.

Not true.

The real reason is that we have to always keep current. Our knowledge does not last. We have to constantly learn. This is stressful. Most people can't handle that. Hence: our high salaries.

[Dimi 🛠️ @dimitarvp]

When you're going through hard times, your 1st priority should be to stop the bleeding.

When we hurt, we act self-destructively. Stop that and only that, & at least you will not make your life worse in the meantime, even if your healing is slow and difficult.

Stop the bleeding.

[Dimi 🛠️ @dimitarvp]

@puff_paff Сложи си Revo Uninstaller и опитай през него.

[marc niclas @niclas_hermann]

Programmers when GitHub is down

[Dimi 🛠️ @dimitarvp]

Can somebody recommend me a good note-taking app? I am looking for:

- Notes are browse-able by date (ranges);
- Notes are share-able on an opt-in / invite link basis;
- Free or a one-time payment. No subscriptions;
- Syncs between 2+ devices.

#notetaking #app

[Dimi 🛠️ @dimitarvp]

@MileenaUltra As a start, artificial intelligence doesn't exist. Glorified statisticians hijacked the term.

[Dimi 🛠️ @dimitarvp]

Most rich people are not fit to be rich. They get rich too quickly or too easily and then realize they have no purpose, no hobbies, no goals, no struggles, so they spend the rest of their lives desperately trying to fill the internal void with material items.

[Dimi 🛠️ @dimitarvp]

@puff_paff Какъв е този ужас 😱

[Dimi 🛠️ @dimitarvp]

@ChaskinSaroff @fchollet I'm curious about these use cases, as a programmer myself.

[Dimi 🛠️ @dimitarvp]

So far in 2022 I found that:

- I am a biased dumbass;
- I am legitimately sick and have to go to doctors;
- Eating just meat and veggies helps to drop weight temporarily but you feel starved all the time so it's a not good long-term strategy;
- I hate cooking but will learn it.