tniemi

8 ms·

1.
by tniemi 12d ago
Things are kind of under construction... We would like to publish our stories in book-on-demand format. This is one of our early translation tests. I publish it here for a while for you: https://media.nimbus.fi/tero/for
2.
by tniemi 13d ago
Me and my wife (then my girlfriend) have written "realistic" space sci-fi in Finnish for over 20 years. Now with AI we are finally able to translate our stories to English. The quality starts to be there. There are a lot of small
3.
by tniemi 10mo ago
Historical reference: https://jargondb.org/glossary/dwim
4.
by tniemi 1y ago
I used to use EDLIN on my MS/DOS days... .
5.
by tniemi 3y ago
The self portrait was a bit... pompous. https://x.com/karinanguyen_/status/1764789887071580657?s=20 > The entire structure would be in constant flux, rotating, morphing, and rearranging itself into novel patter
6.
by tniemi 3y ago
Now, create a similar page for XPath...
7.
by tniemi 3y ago
No. I use GNU Units, because it will alert me if I screw up with units in my calculations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Units
8.
by tniemi 3y ago
Here's my personal finger exercise: https://pypi.org/project/talamus-relatable/ It allows references to another data structures.
9.
by tniemi 4y ago
Mentioned here: UNIX: A History and a Memoir https://www.rulit.me/data/programs/resources/pdf/UNIX-A-Hist... 5.3 Early Formatters The problem was that there was no interactive computer system like CTSS a
10.
by tniemi 4y ago
You can teach the AI a new item/character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Mcuh38wyM
11.
by tniemi 4y ago
My absolute favourite is the "Beauty in the Beast" album. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_in_the_Beast Even if you do not know anything about music theory you will still feel the power of those strange a
12.
by tniemi 5y ago
We have the family password database in Google Drive. It works suprisingly well, and it haves file versioning.
13.
by tniemi 5y ago
This could explain the Mars methane mystery. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/first-you-see-it-t... https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex... >Methane o
14.
by tniemi 6y ago
Does this compete with the "units" definition format? https://fossies.org/linux/units/definitions.units
15.
by tniemi 7y ago
Like "Mail order CRISPR kits for everyone"? The scary part is that there actually already is a web site that sells those...
16.
by tniemi 8y ago
Isn't Erlang the language that you can edit/patch while it is executing? I think hard typing would be extremely difficult in that kind of environment.
17.
by tniemi 8y ago
I would probably watch that. At least it would be better than most of the things on the telly. Semi-oblig-xkcd: https://xkcd.com/284/
18.
by tniemi 8y ago
Don't use "gonad" javascript, or just use semicolons. With dangling balls: `(function(){})()` No dangling balls: `(function(){}())` https://gist.github.com/newswim/4668aef8a1f1bc0dabe8
19.
by tniemi 8y ago
I think that is mainly because of content control. Plain hotlinking is technologically simple, but a bad business practice.
20.
by tniemi 8y ago
Hopefully they have read the Jargon File: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html > Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling errors, so it was somewhat idiosyncratic to his
21.
by tniemi 8y ago
Or, you could say "Don't make me think": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Make_Me_Think Unfortunately UX people seem to hate boring and/or simple stuff...
22.
by tniemi 8y ago
And Infocom's Z-machine is from 1979: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine
23.
by tniemi 8y ago
For me the main problem with NTFS is the file locking. With Unix you can pretty much delete any file at any time (sudo ftw!) but not with WSL. Opening a file in an editor on the Windows side is often enough to lock things up. (The case sens
24.
by tniemi 8y ago
1) Open inspector 2) Go to <body> tag 3) Uncheck "font-weight: 300;" But why I have to do this...
25.
by tniemi 8y ago
I think BASIC is something that everyone has to write at least once in their lifetime. My personal take is here (over 7 year old code, beware): http://tech.nimbus.fi/minibasic/ And I wrote that just to make this functi
26.
by tniemi 8y ago
This reminds me of the description texts in heraldry. For example, the coat of arms of Finland: "Gules, semy of roses argent, a lion rampant crowned Or trampling a sabre in base proper, his dexter foreleg in the form of a man's ar
27.
by tniemi 8y ago
Ugly colors, no form. 1/5
28.
by tniemi 8y ago
How is this different than Unix `units`? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Units
29.
by tniemi 8y ago
I think the intermediate step is quite interesting too. "There is a program that turns the image into a list of objects and positions. Then an another program takes that list and draws a new image using it."
30.
by tniemi 8y ago
Because that would be cheating. ;) People like to create things from scratch. Also, I like that quote: > Ask the internet how to do something and you’re likely to get a bunch of digital shrugs and maybe—if you’re lucky—a passive aggress

More ›