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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
guess how I know!
because you're @Tsaukpaetra and this kind of shit always finds you?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
guess how I know!
because you're @Tsaukpaetra and this kind of shit always finds you?
I'm QA's wet dream...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
The control panel with some menus, controls for sound etc. ..
Wait until you discover that the little pop-up overlay for the webcams is actually a transparent window separate from the window it's visually a part of, and that yes, they can get desync from each other.
guess how I know!
That reminds me: yesterday I was watching Netflix with the paused overlay on top of the video.
Pausing and unpausing a couple of times didn't fix it. The overlay became invisible if I moved the mouse, causing the scrubber interface to come into view, but once I let the video play and the UI auto-hid, the paused overlay would come back on top of the playing video.
I had to refresh the page for it to go away.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
I'm QA's wet dream...
As someone who works in a QA-ish sort of role, NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!
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@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
I'm QA's wet dream...
As someone who works in a QA-ish sort of role, NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!
The wet isn't from pleasure output...
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VS, have you deleted your own temp files? Because the files in D:\Dev are definitely there.
This was happening for all changes, btw.Reopening the solution fixed it
I do like that on a superficial reading it's saying it can't open files in the comparison window because their contents are different.
Adding context: this was the result of double-clicking the changed files in the Git Changes tab.
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Pet peeve: when a font has a ligature for II but not for other Roman numerals.
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@Gąska You are supposed to write it as Ⅲ
Filed under: unicode, it even has lowercase version, ⅲ
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@Gąska You are supposed to write it as Ⅲ
No you aren't. To quote the standard (Unicode 13.0 section 22.3 Numerals, subsection Acrophonic Systems and Other Letter-based Numbers - p. 834):
For most purposes, it is preferable to compose the Roman numerals
from sequences of the appropriate Latin letters. However, the uppercase and lowercase
variants of the Roman numerals through 12, plus L, C, D, and M, have been encoded in the
Number Forms block (U+2150..U+218F) for compatibility with East Asian standards.
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@Gąska TIL that Unicode has precomposed Roman numeral characters. TIAL that you're not supposed to use them.
Not today that I learned that Unicode is all the way down.
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For most purposes, it is preferable to compose the Roman numerals from sequences of the appropriate Latin letters.
In a bout of realism, someone in Unicode realized nobody's gonna use the pre-composed versions anyway…
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@Gąska You are supposed to write it as Ⅲ
Filed under: unicode, it even has lowercase version, ⅲ
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Can you write it ııı?
Filed under: not reading the next post as it would spoil the joke.
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Can you write it ııı?
No, because Romans knew to dot their ‘i’s.
Filed under: no, they didn't; they didn't distinguish case yet and even when they wrote half-height they didn't seem to dot ‘i’s
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Filed under: no, they didn't; they didn't distinguish case yet and even when they wrote half-height they didn't seem to do ‘i’s
Preempting @HardwareGeek is not nice.
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Can you write it ııı?
No, because Romans knew to dot their ‘i’s.
Filed under: no, they didn't; they didn't distinguish case yet and even when they wrote half-height they didn't seem to dot ‘i’s
Also while lazily trying to find when dotting the 'i's started, TIL about "dotting the i" (SFW and probably of no interest to @error).
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@hungrier Also, saying “didn't distinguish case” is kinda anachronistic. The terms “upper case” and “lower case” come from the convention of typesetters working with movable type (i.e. piles of little metal stamps with one letter on each) to have two cases (segmented boxes), the lower one (closer to the worker) containing the minuscules and the upper one (further away, because needed less often) containing the majuscules (capitals)).
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@Bulb Less anachronistic would be to say that Romans "didn't distinguish majuscules and minuscules."
But then it would be wrong, as apparently they actually did (sometimes, not consistently or for a specific purpose, but they did have the distinction at least in latter scripts).
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@remi Well, yeah, because minuscules and majuscules are defined by how they look, not by whether they have distinct uses. For the uppercase, the correct term is probably capitals, but I don't know what the proper term for the non-capitals was before the case terminology (unicode uses ‘small’, but I am not too sure about that being used historically either).
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@remi … also that's why I wrote “half-height”. Because I did notice their cursive writing had minuscules — and the i was dotless.
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@Bulb I don't know if capitals is more or less "correct" (whatever that means...) than upper case. As far as I can tell from the wiki page, these two are exact synonyms (with even the same origin even though one is through latin).
As far as I can tell again, non-capital letters would properly be "cursive" whereas capitals were "uncial." Or maybe just "minuscule" (see "Carolingian minuscule")?
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..... At least it's not conversation about c++ I guess?
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@Tsaukpaetra Don't jinx it!
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The house I am renting is owned by a business, not an individual, and also managed by a professional property management company. The property manager requested that I provide them with proof of renter's insurance and proof that the policy is paid. No problem. I log into my insurance company's websites to get the documents.
I notice that the "interested party" on the insurance policy didn't get updated when I moved last year; it's still the landlord of my previous apartment. Not sure how that got missed, but I'll fix it now.
Enter the property owner's name. Partway through, what I'm typing stops appearing in the text field, and no, it's not a length limit.
The name of the company that owns the house contains a number; for the sake of this post, we'll call them Foo 1234 Inc. The field will not accept digits. The validation doesn't report an error; it simply blocks them from being typed in the first place. So, as far as the insurance company knows, the property is owned by Foo One Two Three Four Inc.
Then there's the address. The form wants a street address. I don't have a street address for the owner; all contact is through the property manager (which suspect may be the same people, but I don't know, because I've never had any contact whatsoever with the owner), and I have no &@#@#! clue how to contact the owner directly, so I put the property manager's address with c/o management company.
The address has the usual 2 lines, address1 and address2, plus city, state, zip. The property manager's address is really a mail drop that pretends to be an office building, "123 Main St, Suite 456". That should be two lines, but I need a line for the c/o, which I would put as part of the name, but I can't because it won't accept the punctuation. So c/o in address1 and address in address2. Except address2 has a length limit, and it's not long enough for the "suite" number. So I abbreviate everything I can reasonably can, but it's still one character too long. Finally, I resort to leaving off the last letter of the street name (it's long enough that the real name should be clear to a reasonably intelligent, English-speaking human), so of course the website complains that it can't find the address in the USPS database. The options are "Enter the correct address" (which I tried to do in the first place, but you wouldn't let me) or "The address is correct; STFU and use it anyway". Which option I selected is left as an exercise for the reader.
There is no downloadable document that shows my payment history. There are documents that show when "future" payments will be due, but not payments I have already made. It will display them on the page, and I can print the page to a PDF and send that to the property manager. However, it displays the payments in a scrolling box within the page, so I can only see about 6 months of payments at a time, and the manager asked for a document showing that it's been paid throughout the term of the lease. Screw that. I printed it showing the recent payments, which shows that payments are up to date. If they really need older payment history, I'll do the extra work to scroll the box and print again, scroll the box and print again, etc. But unless they actually insist. (And yeah, I might be able to go into dev tools and change the height of the box so it shows the full history, but again .)
And the cherry on top of the , the payment history rounds the payment amount. If, hypothetically, my monthly premium payment was $1.50, it would show the payments as $2.00. Why?
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@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
it can't find the address in the USPS database
You wait until you hit the that is an address that outright isn't in that database at all. A former colleague of mine had that when he bought a house; due to the developer having gone bust, it'd not been registered so he had to handle that all himself. At which point he discovered that there were many databases which needed the information put into them and which mightily disagreed over what that information should actually be. So when the water people, the power people, the tax people and the postman compare notes, they manage to not line up on anything at all. Nice.
Never underestimate the power of the real world to fuck data up.
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@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
and the manager asked for a document showing that it's been paid throughout the term of the lease.
Why the fuck should he care? Current is good enough.
You don't see officers asking for proof your vehicle is insured for the entire length of ownership when stopped, and that's arguably more potentially risky...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Why the fuck should he care? Current is good enough.
Dunno. They, too, should have noticed the wrong landlord on the insurance at the start of the lease a year and half ago, but they didn't. Maybe I failed to provide the proof of insurance when I was supposed to. If I didn't have valid insurance at any point, that would have been a breach of the lease, and I guess technically they could evict me even though the breach had since been cured. (But since I did have insurance, that's not a real issue.)
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Typically, ellipsis indicate that if the text could just be scrolled, you would see the rest of the text, right? I guess not...
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Status: Saved the current project in Cura. Saved over itself, because apparently just saving your own file as it is you're working on is a complicated thing to Cura.
Weird, that file I saved was just modified. I wonder by whom?
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@Tsaukpaetra Do you find that the user Anthony gets in your way quite a lot?
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Do you find that the user Anthony gets in your way quite a lot?
I'm not sure how to answer that without sounding weird....
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@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
without sounding weird....
Too late to worry about that.
Oh, I'm not worried....
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Website said I had 25 notifications. So I click it.
Useful!
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Hey Jude!
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Seems like I owe you guys. I'll sign a check and you check your sign, OK?
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
wanker
Didn't that guy actually practise coitus interruptus?
He randomized the seed with
sin
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Out of curiosity I had a quick look at the grocery delivery section of the Costco website.
It defaults the sort order to "Price - High to Low", so generally the first items it shows in each category are entire pallets of things.First option in paper products? 1440 rolls of toilet paper.
First couple of options in "Food Cupboard"? 120kg of pannetone.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
First option in paper products? 1440 rolls of toilet paper.
Now we know who caused the toilet paper shortage last year.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
Out of curiosity I had a quick look at the grocery delivery section of the Costco website.
It defaults the sort order to "Price - High to Low", so generally the first items it shows in each category are entire pallets of things.First option in paper products? 1440 rolls of toilet paper.
Buttcoin crashed.
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Someone forgot something.
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So someone spent time and effort to make sure that the message would look good by avoiding "1 day(s)", but then they picked for 0 a message that does not look good at all (nobody would ever say "due in 0 days" but rather "due today").
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So someone spent time and effort to make sure that the message would look good by avoiding "1 day(s)", but then they picked for 0 a message that does not look good at all (nobody would ever say "due in 0 days" but rather "due today").
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Yes, that too. But they also failed to make it work at all.
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@boomzilla Apple reacted and now included an option to simply put a black bar on top of the screen when using an app not designed for that notch.
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Well, that's the price of ecosystem convergence...
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@Rhywden in that video it's the OS that's not designed for the notch. It puts the status bar behind it.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@Rhywden in that video it's the OS that's not designed for the notch. It puts the status bar behind it.
You know Apple. The designers were holding it wrong.