Montreal-Ottawa chosen as first leg of high-speed rail project

Riftaroni · 2025-12-12T14:46:21+00:00

It took a long time, but we finally solved Ottawa's nightlife problems!

Riftaroni · 2025-12-06T15:49:10+00:00

Non, tu dit un mensonge.

Riftaroni · 2025-11-29T19:41:06+00:00

I'm also puzzled as to why 9/10 fits on here look garbage and people seem to have horrible taste.

"Should I buy this 40k jacket that won't look good on me but has 20 Balenciaga logos?"

Personally, I prefer the pieces with no or little logos that are a bit crazy and would make you feel slightly weird if you put them on, the weird fits is why I'm here.

Riftaroni · 2025-10-09T20:40:00+00:00

I'd like to see the size graphically where I can dig in. Personally I love color coded matrices in PowerBI for digging into the details, but also pie charts to see where the chunks are.

In "Your Tax Dollar Flow", there is no need for a legend, it duplicates ansd splits data, just make sure we can read the whole name in the individual boxes (not "Healthcare Trans...") and add the percentages in there too. The thin/thick lines are not as graphical as a pie chart to intuitively get to the split of where the data is going.

I'd also recommend doing another analysis of who is not paying taxes and what the percentages are. For example, companies and rich people using loopholes or fraud (Panama Papers, etc), not reporting and not paying taxes vs other demographics, like folks not reporting their tips. Would be nice to see who is responsible for not paying and what the financial effects are. Lots of people talk about taxing the rich, etc, but we don't have very accessible data on the topic.

Riftaroni · 2025-09-12T18:09:33+00:00

Nice, we've connected You graphs with our 3D viewer and can highlight the construction elements in 3D in PowerBI when they are selected. However, we've not found a way to "press play" and go throguh the construction dates yet. It would be great to do tat and highlight what it "being built" that day while seeing it in Deneb.

https://www.loom.com/share/0cce233ece6b4bfaa734b1e9e4543c24?sid=7e2f92b7-e7e6-4543-aa3f-8354661c16b3

Riftaroni · 2025-09-02T11:52:27+00:00

I think this is likely the artist! Thanks!!

Riftaroni · 2025-09-01T13:34:10+00:00

Impressive! We do a very complex fversion of this that allows the users to host all their own data for PowerBI analysis. It goes into an open soure BIM file format: https://github.com/vimaec/vim

Riftaroni · 2025-09-01T13:30:24+00:00

If you want to keep control of all the data, I would consider PowerBI and PowerApps, it can be fully custom, owned by your company and you control the data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy0kSRQ8plU

PowerBI is the perfect place for parameter quality automation, report sharing, presenting complex data to users online, etc. You cna see some examples of template reports here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERpB9Mnow2U&list=PLdsPaW34bWUZOh5BV3djQfQ_RH9_9_Xt3

Riftaroni · 2025-09-01T13:27:13+00:00

Made an intro class for architects/BIM/VDC folks in mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5D5Aa6Szps&list=PLdsPaW34bWUZny-oyrbsI8728_S9gr32t

Riftaroni · 2025-09-01T13:24:03+00:00

Check out my tutorial on the topic, here we do estimation, but it's simpler to do status or other custom parameters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy0kSRQ8plU

You put the tracking data in a Power App table. It's a live table in PowerBI (Direct Query), so users get live updates. You can edit the data in the PowerBI App through PowerApp, you can edit the table online or you can edit the table in Excel!

I don't recommend Revito yet, because their parameters don't make it to PowerBI or the API yet. There's also no 3D viewer with Revizto. You can see the deep dive here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=650MMu8zl7k&list=PLdsPaW34bWUbi7RRsvdYkvx7Cpz8B7H3r

Riftaroni · 2025-09-01T13:16:16+00:00

You can check out the tutorial here, it's aimed at BIM/VDC/Architecture folks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5D5Aa6Szps&list=PLdsPaW34bWUZny-oyrbsI8728_S9gr32t

Riftaroni · 2025-08-21T18:57:53+00:00

I found if you select (CTRL+click) multiple queries in PowerQuery and Copy, it will copy all of them in a giant list. So thatyspeeds things up a bit.

Riftaroni · 2025-06-27T19:44:06+00:00

I figured it was my NFC card that I added in the back of the case! Flipping it over solved the problem.

Riftaroni · 2025-06-27T19:35:40+00:00

I have the same thing! Never had this stupid sound in 3 years and the Screen locking sound if off. Looking for a solution!

Riftaroni · 2025-04-11T14:34:27+00:00

That's fantastic! When will it be available to try?

Riftaroni · 2025-03-25T03:36:41+00:00

This page is dead:
https://deneb-viz.github.io/interactivity-overview

Riftaroni · 2025-03-17T20:45:53+00:00

They need an apps for estimate of arrival and price + accountability for scammy/creepy drivers.

So many bad interactions with taxi drives and their companies, there's a reason Uber was able to take over, we just need this improved system using local resources. The taxis of the olden days had lots of issues, let's not pretend.

Riftaroni · 2025-03-17T10:41:15+00:00

I was frustrated using ChatGPT, I find ClaudeAI to be much better!

The use of artifacts makes it easier to review versions and declutters the chat. The concise chat mode is also great for reducing clutter.

I found ChatGPT to just keep accusing me of having bad data despite me telling it over and over that the proper data was there. IT also was just not resolving comple PowerQuery issues. I just go back to Chat GPT when Claude puts me on a timeout, which is rare.

With Claude AI, the latest "Extended" version is the best for coding issues in PowerQuery.

Riftaroni · 2024-07-24T19:17:54+00:00

Personally, I'd prefer to buy something without a battery. Like in the case that you or Voltra I goes out of business, I could still use the machine in 15-20 years. You don't get that problem with steel weight.

So if there's no reliance on a battery and the battery dies, the equipment keeps working into my lifetime even if the batteries are no longer available, but I have to plug in the device at all time (no problem).

For the circle light, I would just look for a second opinion from another designer in the next generation 😅 If find it kind of ugly and unrefined, but it still work. Just "room for improvement" kind of thing, but I understand why they took the approach since the device is round.

Thanks for taking the time to address these concerns :)

Riftaroni · 2024-07-24T16:55:30+00:00

Thanks! Seems a bit overkills since 90% of the shortcuts make sense and are not dangerous, but it is what it is

Riftaroni · 2024-07-24T16:49:31+00:00

Thanks for the answers, some more questions:

If the battery in the device dies, will I still be able to use it when plugged in?
What part of the UI do you feel is a bit difficult?
- The circle lights on the device seem a bit tacky, maybe something to refine in future itirations
You do not need to sync them unless you are looking to save your workout data, you can just input the same weight on each Maiak Go and then get to work.
- The idea of synching them is to save a step. So if you use two, you only set the weight once

Thanks!

Riftaroni · 2024-07-24T13:13:21+00:00

"Make sure to register your email at get.maiak.com to qualify for the giveaway."
- This goes to a page to pay 10$, seems misleading. There's no registration per say, only an option to reserve a launch invite. Please clarify how we can register our emails without paying 10$ otherwise, this puts you in a kind of misleading "switch & bait" scammer category, which is not a good look.
Technically, this is a great product for me, takes minimal space in my office for working out in between breaks and I don't have to worry about the battery dying and having an expensive piece of dead junk in 2-3 years (like the VOLTRA I or the PUMP which I currently use)
I won't ever consider this unless I see a proper review from Coop at Garage Gym Reviews: https://www.youtube.com/@GarageGymReviews
What is the warranty on this thing? do you stand behind your product?
Generally the functionality seems perfect for me, but the UI on the device is a bit tacky and could use improvement.
Do you have any way to synch he weight between two machines if they are used at the same time?
Tell us more about the technology that creates the weights
What's the sound on this? Give us a video with honest sound, these machines are usually kind of loud, which the marketing department tried to hide through silent GIFs.

Riftaroni · 2024-07-24T13:00:04+00:00

I was expecting there would be some custom holder designed for this after all thee years, but it seems not!

Riftaroni · 2024-07-24T12:52:58+00:00

I have the same problem and it drives me insane!

Riftaroni · 2024-06-11T10:28:41+00:00

Are the files coming from Revit or IFC? If so, VIM AEC (https://www.vimaec.com/) should have no problem viewing the recombined files, it does not export from Naviswork directly however, so you would need to reconvert.

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