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tontonius

2,741 karma · joined March 15, 2017

UX designer turned frontend developer

co-founder https://getjumper.io

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tontonius··on Show HN: I made a deceptively simple but hard sliding puzzle
solved medium and on to hard now!
tontonius··on Show HN: I made a deceptively simple but hard sliding puzzle
Nice little game! Took me a few minutes to figure it out (I think having played with Rubiks cube helped somewhat)
tontonius··on Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type for numbers (2020)
this was on just a while ago..?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22433654

I hereby coin the term "pseudo déjà vu" – when something feels like a déjà vu but its actually for real.

tontonius··on Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister for Immigration
Many people find value in watching great tennis players compete in a live tournament.
tontonius··on Did a Cuttlefish Write This?
Betteridges Law of Headlines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...)
tontonius··on Art Vote
Maybe its part of the research methodology but I can't help but feel they cut the "art" a bit short here.

What if the generated art was more something like this?

http://color-wander.surge.sh/

tontonius··on Has AI found a new foundation?
Does Betteridge's law of headlines apply here?
tontonius··on The logic behind three random words
Thanks for sharing this little anecdote:)
tontonius··on The PinePhone could bring the Linux mobile ecosystem to life
FWIW, I just overheard a colleague the other day saying that “2021 could be the year of the Linux smartphone”
tontonius··on 'An Empty Bliss ' Turns 10: How the Haunted Ballroom Defined a Generation
At first I thought this was a well written review. Then I got an eerie feeling that it was one of those GPT-3 gotchas.. now I’m just not sure of anything anymore
tontonius··on Tesla's net profit comes from selling regulatory credits, not cars
It's okay to hate the game, without hating the player.
tontonius··on Tesla's net profit comes from selling regulatory credits, not cars
Automotive gross margin excluding regulatory credits: 20.7% (ir.tesla.com)
tontonius··on Tuxedo Book BA15: AMD-only and Linux-preinstalled laptop
2020 might be The Year of the linux desktop
tontonius··on Arrest Of U.S. Citizen For Assisting North Korea In Evading Sanctions
”An Ethereum staff” ?
tontonius··on Tesla Cybertruck
Marketing and advertisement are two different things
tontonius··on Sweden's 100 explosions this year: what's going on?
How come organized criminals use bombs in Sweden but rarely anywhere else? IMO bombs are more like the M.O of terrorists. If a gang wanted to scare or take out a rival, there must be more efficient ways. A bomb not only draws unwanted attention from the public and authorities, you also run the risk of hurting the wrong people.

(Edit: Am a Swede, and live nearby the Linköping bomb site that hurt 25 this June..)

tontonius··on Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
Cool! Will bookmark this
tontonius··on My transition to an Ubuntu workstation
Is 2019 the year of the Linux desktop?
tontonius··on Ask HN: Slack Alternatives?
Odd to see that no one recommended ERC the emacs IRC extension
tontonius··on Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
I like http://zombo.com/

You can do anything at zombocom

tontonius··on Stop Infinite Scrolling
Sorry, not a US citizen here so no experience of Comcast, although I've heard they're not very popular in that regard.

What I meant was that some of the worlds most popular sites employ "infinite" scrolling, and it kind of makes sense on those sites.

If they have a great user experience? That's highly subjective. I guess they had a lot better user experience than their failed competitors.

tontonius··on Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet
After reading Liu Cixin's Three body Problem, let's just say I'm less super interested in communicating :)
tontonius··on Stop Infinite Scrolling
infinite scrolling of a limited set of items wouldn't be very true to the name ;-)

I agree with the problem of finding something again in a long, cryptically ordered list of several hundreds or thousands of items. Not sure a paginated facebook feed would solve that issue though

tontonius··on Stop Infinite Scrolling
The article puts forth 10 reasons to think twice before implementing infinite scrolling, but many of them are just a variation of the final reason: Terrible user experience.

For the sake of argument, there are several very successful websites that use infinite scrolling in one way or another. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit just to name a few. Is infinite scrolling on these sites disorienting the user? hard to navigate? rendering a "terrible user experience"? One could certainly argue that the data says otherwise.

The article doesn't even suggest that there might be situations where infinite scrolling might befit the site. I'm not a big fan of infinite scroll but black-and-white rants like this often leave out the vital context and nuances in the topic they aim to analyze.

tontonius··on S0lly's Cellivization – Civ 1 Clone in Excel
is 2019 the year of the Linux desktop?
tontonius··on Google Tries to Corral Its Staff After Ugly Internal Debates
Forgive my ignorance but why was this flagged? Is there a rule against articles about Google/tech culture that I'm unaware of?
tontonius··on Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon
This sentence has only one interpretations.
tontonius··on Mapped: The world’s coal power plants
Let's see...

2024100 MW (2018) of coal power would translate to roughly 1,76 Gt of CO2 emissions (ballparking an average of 870g CO2 / kW produced). That's 1,76 billion tonnes of CO2 - a hefty environmental price for electricity.

If the same power was produced in nuclear power plants that figure would be something like 0,02 Gt of CO2 (calculating at 0,012 kg CO2/kW) a 98.6% reduction of emissions.

Sure nuclear is more expensive, but what is a global ecosystem worth?

Food for thought.

tontonius··on The We Company S-1
If you wanna put those financials in perspective...

We Company financials chart: https://imgur.com/a/Xky1NNh

tontonius··on ‘Deepfakes’ Trigger a Race to Fight Manipulated Photos and Videos
To understand what makes something real, we first have to understand what makes something fake.
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