Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update
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1903's here, and you can finally name files starting with a dot and uninstall Groove Music.
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Starting with version 1903, Windows 10 is adding an acrylic effect, part of Fluent Design, to the sign-in background. The translucent texture helps you focus on the login task by moving the actionable controls up in the visual hierarchy while maintaining their accessibility.
... ... BUZZWORD BINGO!
As part of a continuous effort to improve File Explorer, you’ll now find a new default date format, which is called “friendly dates” that shows dates in a conversational format. For instance, “5 hours ago,” instead of “4/12/2019 1:15 PM.”
I wonder if "1 minute from now" will also exist there.
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@JBert said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
As part of a continuous effort to improve File Explorer, you’ll now find a new default date format, which is called “friendly dates” that shows dates in a conversational format. For instance, “5 hours ago,” instead of “4/12/2019 1:15 PM.”
I wonder if "1 minute from now" will also exist there.
Sorry, while I see the point in an online context (where timezones are an uncertain variable), on local machines I want to see "13-3-2019 13:45" or "Today 13:45" but not "25 minutes ago".
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@JBert said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
As part of a continuous effort to improve File Explorer, you’ll now find a new default date format, which is called “friendly dates” that shows dates in a conversational format. For instance, “5 hours ago,” instead of “4/12/2019 1:15 PM.”
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@hungrier said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@JBert said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
As part of a continuous effort to improve File Explorer, you’ll now find a new default date format, which is called “friendly dates” that shows dates in a conversational format. For instance, “5 hours ago,” instead of “4/12/2019 1:15 PM.”
Remember that we, the readers of this fine site, are hardly "typical" users. For Mr and Mrs Joe Public, "5 hours ago" is a reasonable way to express the timestamp of a file, provided that it updates if you leave the window open.
That said, I'll definitely be turning it off, because for my purposes the actual time is more useful than a conversational description of the time.
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@pie_flavor said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
1903's here, and you can finally name files starting with a dot and uninstall Groove Music.
More specifically, you can use File Explorer to name files starting with a dot. Win32 always allowed it in the "long name" part of the file system (even Win95's long names allowed it), but Explorer gives error messages if you try it, which is being fixed.
I'm amused by this article, in that my machines have only just picked up Win 10 1809, like as in yesterday...
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
I'm amused by this article, in that my machines have only just picked up Win 10 1809, like as in yesterday...
Haven't read the article, but just yesterday I got the first fast track build that didn't have the version number in the corner. So I don't think 1903 is quite here...
Ah yes...
and while we’re still weeks away from the final release
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@pie_flavor said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
1903's here, and you can finally name files starting with a dot and uninstall Groove Music.
I am amazed at all the advanced features coming to Windows soon
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@pie_flavor said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Microsoft Will Automatically Uninstall Windows 10 Updates That Fail Due to Incompatibility Issues. They'll Also Be Blocked for Next 30 Days.
30 days later, Windows Update will re-install it so you can enjoy incompatibility issues again
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@pie_flavor said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
1903's here, and you can finally name files starting with a dot and uninstall Groove Music.
More specifically, you can use File Explorer to name files starting with a dot. Win32 always allowed it in the "long name" part of the file system (even Win95's long names allowed it), but Explorer gives error messages if you try it, which is being fixed.
I'm amused by this article, in that my machines have only just picked up Win 10 1809, like as in yesterday...
You can already use file explorer to name a file starting with a dot. What you cannot do is create a file which has nothing before the last dot, or create a file which ends in a dot.
Naming a file
.htaccess.
is accepted by file explorer and results in a file named.htaccess
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I see Windows restarting for updates is such an important feature there will be a dedicated icon now.
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The “Downloads” folder now shows the most recent downloaded files at the top to help users to find content faster as most people never spacify a new name of internet files, and then they get lost in the folder.
I assume they mean by default.
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@Zecc said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
I see Windows restarting for updates is such an important feature there will be a dedicated icon now.
"Press Start to Stop..."
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@JBert said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
The translucent texture helps you focus on the login task by moving the actionable controls up in the visual hierarchy while maintaining their accessibility.
People are distracted by controls while trying to login
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@JBert said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Starting with version 1903, Windows 10 is adding an acrylic effect, part of Fluent Design, to the sign-in background. The translucent texture helps you focus on the login task by moving the actionable controls up in the visual hierarchy while maintaining their accessibility.
Finally! I always get distracted when logging in. This will greatly improve my performance.
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@TimeBandit said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@JBert said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
The translucent texture helps you focus on the login task by moving the actionable controls up in the visual hierarchy while maintaining their accessibility.
People are distracted by controls while trying to login
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@PleegWat said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
You can already use file explorer to name a file starting with a dot. What you cannot do is create a file which has nothing before the last dot, or create a file which ends in a dot.
Naming a file
.htaccess.
is accepted by file explorer and results in a file named.htaccess
.Oh. TIL. That's how you get around that damn restriction. (I've just opened
cmd
and named the file there)
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@TimeBandit said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@pie_flavor said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Microsoft Will Automatically Uninstall Windows 10 Updates That Fail Due to Incompatibility Issues. They'll Also Be Blocked for Next 30 Days.
30 days later, Windows Update will re-install it so you can enjoy incompatibility issues again
It will just realize that all of this is and uninstall the update that allows to automatically uninstall updates.
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Microsoft Will Automatically Uninstall Windows 10 Updates That Fail Due to Incompatibility Issues.
Soon enough, Windows Update will become enlighted and it will uninstall Windows 10
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@TimeBandit said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Soon enough, Windows Update will become enlighted
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In the Focus assist settings page, Windows 10 is adding a new automatic rule to let remove distractions while you’re working on anything in full screen.
The biggest freaking distraction is the whole taskbar not going away when watching a movie or playing a game. I dare them to remove it.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Remember that we, the readers of this fine site, are hardly "typical" users. For Mr and Mrs Joe Public, "5 hours ago" is a reasonable way to express the timestamp of a file, provided that it updates if you leave the window open.
That said, I'll definitely be turning it off, because for my purposes the actual time is more useful than a conversational description of the time.
Mr and Mrs Joe Public rarely (if ever) care about the timestamp on a file, so this change is meaningless to them. They get zero benefit from it because it's something that they were never paying attention to in the first place.
For those of us who actually do care about timestamps and consider them important, this is just another stupid, pointless change that produces zero benefit and just adds one more annoyance to the constantly growing pile of Dumbass Shit That I Have to Disable®.
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@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Mr and Mrs Joe Public rarely (if ever) care about the timestamp on a file, so this change is meaningless to them. They get zero benefit from it because it's something that they were never paying attention to in the first place.
Is that because the default timestamp format is unfriendly and not what Joe Public wants when looking at when a file was last modified
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@pie_flavor The infinite magic of Earth-73
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@pie_flavor said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Your computer is correct?
Yeah, yeah, I know what it is really.
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@NeighborhoodButcher said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
In the Focus assist settings page, Windows 10 is adding a new automatic rule to let remove distractions while you’re working on anything in full screen.
The biggest freaking distraction is the whole taskbar not going away when watching a movie or playing a game. I dare them to remove it.
Try pushing the "Full Screen" button.
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@Jaloopa said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Mr and Mrs Joe Public rarely (if ever) care about the timestamp on a file, so this change is meaningless to them. They get zero benefit from it because it's something that they were never paying attention to in the first place.
Is that because the default timestamp format is unfriendly and not what Joe Public wants when looking at when a file was last modified
No, it's not because the timestamp format that they've had their whole life to get used to on every document, paper form, TV station, website, newspaper, clocks on buildings, their wristwatches, their phones, and literally everywhere else where there's any kind of date or time, is unfriendly. It's because they just don't have any use of the information that modification time provides.
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@loopback0 said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@pie_flavor said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Your computer is correct?
Shoot! I need to change my password now! 44 bits entropy my ass.
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@Gąska said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@loopback0 said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@pie_flavor said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Your computer is correct?
Shoot! I need to change my password now! 44 bits entropy my ass.
Hopefully you didn’t shoot the horse.
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@topspin yeah, I hate both basketball and heroin.
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@loopback0 said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@pie_flavor said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Your computer is correct?
Yeah, yeah, I know what it is really.It's hard to represent such abstract concepts... perhaps a tick on the screen instead? With a set of gears?
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@Jaloopa said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Mr and Mrs Joe Public rarely (if ever) care about the timestamp on a file, so this change is meaningless to them. They get zero benefit from it because it's something that they were never paying attention to in the first place.
Is that because the default timestamp format is unfriendly and not what Joe Public wants when looking at when a file was last modified
What part of that do they not understand?
https://i.imgur.com/8lCGl9r.png
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@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
What part of that do they not understand?
I can't math. How long ago did I modify that? I want the file I changed 13 minutes ago.
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@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@Jaloopa said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Mr and Mrs Joe Public rarely (if ever) care about the timestamp on a file, so this change is meaningless to them. They get zero benefit from it because it's something that they were never paying attention to in the first place.
Is that because the default timestamp format is unfriendly and not what Joe Public wants when looking at when a file was last modified
What part of that do they not understand?
https://i.imgur.com/8lCGl9r.pngIs going to be way better
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@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@Jaloopa said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Mr and Mrs Joe Public rarely (if ever) care about the timestamp on a file, so this change is meaningless to them. They get zero benefit from it because it's something that they were never paying attention to in the first place.
Is that because the default timestamp format is unfriendly and not what Joe Public wants when looking at when a file was last modified
What part of that do they not understand?
https://i.imgur.com/8lCGl9r.pngI can see the confusion. I don't expect to see dates in Undecimber in non-humourous contexts.
@dcon said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
What part of that do they not understand?
I can't math. How long ago did I modify that? I want the file I changed 13 minutes ago.
Won't be that one it was modified at half past six in the morning. Must've been something automated.
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@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@Jaloopa said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Mr and Mrs Joe Public rarely (if ever) care about the timestamp on a file, so this change is meaningless to them. They get zero benefit from it because it's something that they were never paying attention to in the first place.
Is that because the default timestamp format is unfriendly and not what Joe Public wants when looking at when a file was last modified
What part of that do they not understand?
The part where they added a month after December.
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@kazitor said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@Jaloopa said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Mr and Mrs Joe Public rarely (if ever) care about the timestamp on a file, so this change is meaningless to them. They get zero benefit from it because it's something that they were never paying attention to in the first place.
Is that because the default timestamp format is unfriendly and not what Joe Public wants when looking at when a file was last modified
What part of that do they not understand?
The part where they added a month after December.
Oh, I see. Another one of those who writes dates incorrectly
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@Cursorkeys said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Is going to be way better
Bummer. I just created a file like that. Test case covered. It displays just the time. And then changes to "Just now"
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@Rhywden said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@NeighborhoodButcher said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
In the Focus assist settings page, Windows 10 is adding a new automatic rule to let remove distractions while you’re working on anything in full screen.
The biggest freaking distraction is the whole taskbar not going away when watching a movie or playing a game. I dare them to remove it.
Try pushing the "Full Screen" button.
You kid, but....
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@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
What part of that do they not understand?
https://i.imgur.com/8lCGl9r.pngThe part I don't understand is why people still write mm/dd — or dd/mm for that matter — when they could write a month's name abbreviation and remove ambiguity.
(even if you're tying yourself to a given language then, that's a battle already lost since you need to pick between mm/dd and dd/mm. You need to pick a locale anyway)
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@Zecc Because
format!("{}/{}/{}", month.parse::<i32>(), day.parse::<i32>(), year.parse::<i32>())
. Laziness trumps all.
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@Zecc said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
The part I don't understand is why people still write mm/dd — or dd/mm for that matter — when they could write a month's name abbreviation and remove ambiguity.
I think it's simpler to parse numeric dates, place them on a mental timeline, and compare different months, when they're written as numbers and not symbols.
I also don't like semester formatting. I struggle with sorting "Spring 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019". Eventually I found out that placing the date first is easier to parse (much like ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD), and now I name my folders (18sp, 18fa, 19sp...) instead of sp2018...
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I gave up on reading the article because it kept calling everything "experience". The straw that broke the camel's back was "clipboard experience". It's a freaking tool, it doesn't have to be an experience!
So, the update consists of nothing but fucking with the design, in which case I don't care, or this website is a horrible source of info I cannot stomach.
4/10, would not experience again.
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@kazitor said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
I think it would make more sense for the shed to be blue and the bike red in this icon.
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@pie_flavor said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@Zecc Because
format!("{}/{}/{}", month.parse::<i32>(), day.parse::<i32>(), year.parse::<i32>())
. Laziness trumps all.May you burn in hell for writing that code. Even in jest.
format!("{}/{}/{}", year.parse::<i32>(), month.parse::<i32>(), day.parse::<i32>())
is much better!
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@dkf Not that it'd compile, since I forgot to unwrap the parse result. Anyway, if you're smart enough to use ISO, you're smart enough to use
chrono::format::strftime
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@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@kazitor said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@Jaloopa said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Mr and Mrs Joe Public rarely (if ever) care about the timestamp on a file, so this change is meaningless to them. They get zero benefit from it because it's something that they were never paying attention to in the first place.
Is that because the default timestamp format is unfriendly and not what Joe Public wants when looking at when a file was last modified
What part of that do they not understand?
The part where they added a month after December.
Oh, I see. Another one of those who writes dates incorrectly
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@levicki No love for Julian Days or Unix Timestamps?