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Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by Bluestein »

fouc wrote: post #265
aresant wrote: post #42

This is awesomely reminiscent of the old school 68k macintosh era - dogcow, oscar the grouch in the trash can, etc I miss that simplicity / playfulness / aesthic of that era (yes I am old, please get off my lawn)

I feel like the constant upgrade cycle of OSes with API breaking changes around the OS's GUI layer has a tendency to kill off most of these playful apps. TL;DR: playfulness is killed by the arms race of constantly upgrading to the latest version of everything.

You very well could be right. On a "systemic" sense, in order to devote effort to these whimsical things, you needed stability "everywhere else" ...

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by mentos »

pomian wrote: post #107

This reminds me of a Lara Croft desktop(?) Screensaver? She climbed onto the window's edges -that were open on your windows screen, rolled, jumped, etc. Sometimes made a comment about you not having cleaned up your desktop. It was a small executable, than ran with or without sound. It wasn't very random, but it made for an interactive mind distraction on a rough day. She also walked across the bottom of the screen, o…

Would love to have an AI character on my desktop that would flip me shit for having clutter and ask if they can ‘clean up around here’ and carry files into folders

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by mFixman »

greenpresident wrote: post #244
Bluestein wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heavy command line user, eh?

Not OP but for everyone I know the desktop is mostly either empty or a messy “temp” folder.

I use it as a Downloads folder.

I always know where my recently downloaded files are, and I have visual feedback of when I should delete them.

I also use it as a temporary launchpad for sorting uploads.

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by indoordin0saur »

barryrandall wrote: post #269
jb1991 wrote: post #201

We’ve been using this in production for the last three months and I can report it has been fairly smooth overall. Only very minor downtime, and we’ve received a lot of communication from our customers about it, they like it quite a bit. So that’s been nice.

It needs write-ahead logging and better transaction isolation before it can be taken seriously for high transaction volume environments. Neat concept, though.

We initially had this issue as well. So we put a small team of developers to work on the problem and were able to implement our own version of the metastore that supported optimistic concurrency and hidden partitioning. It has significantly improved reliability in stress tests (variable velocity ball bouncing in a hyper-dimensional click-cube environment). however, the larger size of our object store is increasing our monthly S3 costs.

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by Bluestein »

indoordin0saur wrote: post #274
barryrandall wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It needs write-ahead logging and better transaction isolation before it can be taken seriously for high transaction volume environments. Neat concept, though.

We initially had this issue as well. So we put a small team of developers to work on the problem and were able to implement our own version of the metastore that supported optimistic concurrency and hidden partitioning. It has significantly improved reliability in stress tests (variable velocity ball bouncing in a hyper-dimensional click-cube environment). however, the larger size of our object store is increasing ou…

> however, the larger size of our object store is increasing our monthly S3 costs.

Classic, am affraid.-

Tried R2?

:)

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by KineticLensman »

marionauta wrote: post #247
Bluestein wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heavy command line user, eh?

Not the OP but I use all the programs full screen / maximized. I change windows with alt+tab or maybe I reach down to the dock to select the app icon quicker. I only see my wallpaper when changing workspaces, because the animation shows it a split second. I do use the command line but it's not the only way to not show the wallpaper. This is true whether I'm on Linux or macOS.

Also me but on Windows 10. I only see the wall paper just after I've booted the machine and within a few seconds at least one window is maximised (typically a tabbed browser), started from the task bar. alt+tab after that

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by markgoho »

toddmorey wrote: post #227
jb1991 wrote: post #201

We’ve been using this in production for the last three months and I can report it has been fairly smooth overall. Only very minor downtime, and we’ve received a lot of communication from our customers about it, they like it quite a bit. So that’s been nice.

This has been a complete show stopper for my organization: https://github.com/nate-parrott/ball/issues/10 We've submitted numerous GH issues and even tried to chase the developer down on LinkedIn. But he treats the project like a fun, novelty "gift" to the community and doesn't respect the SLAs that any repo maintainer needs to adhere to for my org to put their free code in production.

any update on this?

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by Bluestein »

madhato wrote: post #268
DustinBrett wrote: post #83

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I added this to my website a while ago. You can open a terminal and summon as many as your computer can handle with something like `sheep 100`. https://dustinbrett.com/

The right click menu on the site is quite the trick. It took me way too long to figure out it wasn't the native Firefox menu.

(Also, among other things, all the posts are "editable" texts within a "text editor" in the simulated desktop. The whole site is bonkers ...)
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