It sorts the entire word. 4 is after 5 because FO is after FI.

Yes, it has been observed that IMDb sometimes get a lot of new “single post users” putting in 10/10 ratings on Disney movies that otherwise scored badly.

It appears that the colours are not on a fixed scale. The season averages and individual episodes are coloured using different ranges.

It ranges from lowest to highest regardless of the value. Like conditional formatting in Excel does if you don’t specify the scale.

The seasons average ratings range from 6.1-8.4, so it goes red to green in the span of 2.3 points.

The episodes range from 3.9 to 9.3, so it goes red to green in the span of 5.4 points.

The full IMDb ratings range from 1-10. This should have been used as a basis for the colouring instead. The overall average on IMDb is somewhere around 7, so it would be fine to skew the colours so the middle/yellow was at 7, but it should be able to represent any possible ratings.

Of course it’s brief. Lots of stuff happened, but saying that XP was the first is also wrong. Adobe Audition used to be a freeware program for Win95 called CoolEdit… in the 30+years that Adobe has owned it, they have only added VST effects…

As of today, you can make music on any kind of hardware, even obscure handheld devices from before smartphones, and they’ll perform better than the original Logic. There’s nothing technical setting Apple’s “industry standard” apart from freeware these days.

What he said is that he does the majority of his hobby on a Mac, but also installed music apps on Linux.

Apple managed to grab a good chunk of the market by making some well-functioning creative apps early on, but I’m not sure if they really have any advantage over Windows anymore.

Music production on Linux is still somewhat behind, due to limited software. People get paid for making that stuff on other platforms, so Linux developers are scarce.

Some of it is also moving to tablets and phones these days, so the kind of person to buy a Mac only for easy music production will probably just get a dongle for their iPad.

You’ll still need a pc/mac for the full studio experience. Not because of software, but because its difficult to rig an entire music studio into a touchscreen with a single usb port. I mean, sure it’s possible, but you don’t want to. Latency, multiple monitors and a removed load of controllers make it physically impossible unreliable.

On the bright side for Linux, music production is actually very low demanding, so it makes perfect sense to run an old laptop with a low spec distro and still have the same options as the state-of-the-art rig. Young starving artists will probably go that way instead of buying Mac.

I bet they snoop on a lot more than just Snapchat.

Yeah, but what are the pictures? Are they supposed to show the geographical globe or are they pixels of each day of that year or something?

Sure, the overall point is very clear, but it’s generally good practice to label everything. It’s not that I don’t believe the data, it’s just… What am I even looking at?

I’ll complain even further. What is even pictures of ? And what is the horizontal axis?

It has to be, otherwise most of Europe would be along the y-axis.

Maybe the solution is more on the client side. An app should be able to let the user add communities from different instances and present them as one, maybe even merge comments from identical posts etc. Then if the user gets fed up with some instance not moderating or spamming, the user could then just remove that from his multi list.

Technically there’s no way to please everyone on this, but there’s also no reason why the apps couldn’t present a meta-view of what is actually happening across instances, if that’s what the user prefers. Most users don’t want to see the gears turn.

In addition to the user experience it would also minimize any “damages” from any instance going down, because the multi list would remain active as long as any of the instances are up.

I think it went really well. Better than I expected.

As always, there was something new to think about, so even if I wasted a lot of time I still feel that I learned something from the experience.

Hexagon pixels. (Or weirdly shaped areas to be filled). It would force more creativity and get rid of all designs from previous rounds.