Discourse quirks
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Figure out this "quirk" for me.
"Open in new tab/window" is Doing it Wrong™. That's why pissforce overrides the browser to stop you from doing it. Indeed, it's only possible to do this using advanced javascript techniques, beyond even the capabilities of the highly talented pissforce developers. Therefore, pissforce is safe, and this isn't a bug.
ASDESIGNEDDOINGITWRONGWONTFIX
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I guess it's too bad we're using discourse rather than pissforce. Pissforce at least sounds consistent.
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6) Get sent to wherever the fuck you first entered the topic
Have you got this checked?
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AKA the "don't spam my fucking history with a trillion entries as I scroll, you incompetent twats" checkbox?
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Yeah, I'm not checking that box. Literally every other site on the internet preserves where you were browsing without doing anything special. It's literally default browser behavior in chrome.
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I have this suspicion...
BRB, firing up my code editor.
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… drums fingers …
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Bah... well, fail in the general sense. Thought I saw something in the docs that wasn't there. I do have another idea but it's too late now for such shennanigans, it will have to wait until tomorrow.
In any case, I think I have the solution that can stop the history spam while not breaking the navigation. Will try to knock out a script tomorrow, but testing requires more fiddling than I'm currently able to muster.
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@Intercourse said:
Let's start a degree program where people only learn about scripting languages and browser functionality. Let's not teach them anything about how the fucking computer works. They can just assume the rest of it is magic.
Umm... that IS how most of Comp Sci tracks work currently, so far as I can tell.
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Umm... that IS how most of Comp Sci tracks work currently, so far as I can tell.
The stack of “how these computer things work” is now quite deep, quite often referred to as Computer Engineering, though you would also need a lot about telecommunications to do the job properly these days. CS is more about the concepts driving things, and is a lot less technology-dependant (the theoretical end of CS runs deep into pure mathematics territory, as it is intimately connected with the limits of what it is possible to rigorously understand). There's also Software Engineering, which is very different again, with fairly strong connections to psychology and business, and Informatics which is really a type of applied CS/SE and builds out links to many other disciplines.
You're not going to learn everything in a 3- or 4-year course. There's not enough time (or caffeine).
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My CPE (Computer Engineering) degree required more pure mathematics courses than my CS degree.
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My CPE (Computer Engineering) degree required more pure mathematics courses than my CS degree.
The quality of the tuition at your institution isn't my problem. ;-)
It's entirely possible to avoid a lot of pure math when doing CS, perhaps by being a specialist in human-computer interfaces (very psych heavy, with a fair chunk of physics and physiology too) though the whole businesses of parsing and algorithmic analysis are very closely allied to some parts of mathematics (and this only becomes more obvious if you study them at postgraduate level). It is however important to note that CS doesn't have that much to do with the topics that usually dominate undergraduate mathematics teaching (e.g., analysis, number theory) but there's far more to both CS and math than that.
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It's entirely possible to avoid a lot of pure math when doing CS
I didn't say there wasn't a lot of pure math required for the CS degree, just that the CPE degree involved more. CS major with a Math minor is a common enough path. I just recall the CPE degree required an extra level of calculus, physics, chemistry (yes, not quite pure math on those last 2), along with signals and systems (which might as well be pure math) but those were all also optional classes for the CS curriculum as well. Come to think of it though, there was a discrete math class for the CS degree that wasn't required for CPE, so I suppose it came out about even.
There was a lot of overlap between the two programs which essentially resulted in every optional class for one filling the requirements of the other to the point that you could get both degrees without having to take on any more hours than you would for a major + minor instead.
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You're not going to learn everything in a 3- or 4-year course. There's not enough time (or caffeine)
I was required to take a circuit class, a linear algebra class, a logic class, and a "statistics for science and engineering" course. Just to make sure
@Intercourse said:
They can just assume the rest of it is magic.
wasn't operative. Of course my average class load was 18-20 credits per semester ( tried 24 once… it was very bad for the GPA )...
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I was required to take a circuit class, a linear algebra class, a logic class, and a "statistics for science and engineering" course.
I did a lot more on logic then, but then I specialized in computability and concurrency theory. (That has turned out to be a very useful course.) I then worked for years on temporal logic reasoners, and I also know a fair bit about semantic reasoning engines (temporal logic and multi-modal-K logic are very close). But don't neglect the other disciplines: most of what I do these days is software engineering, with some informatics thrown in.
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- New quirk
- Apparently, a post that starts with a bullet-list
- Gets nested because the starting whitespace gets removed
- This was supposed to be a single-level list and looks that way in the preview
- New quirk
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Ill look into it sometime. And probably increase the depth a bit...
Underline and nested elements restriction copied over to the preview window.
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So I just noticed I can't flag something and then like it.
It's not possible for a user to like an off-topic or spam post?
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No, because This! Is! DISCOOUURSE!
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I sort of get the logic there. If you've just flagged it, why would you like it?
On the flip side, can you like it then flag it? Does it remove the like? (Too busy to check properly, sorry)
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Here's what I got when I tried it (I've undone the like and flag since):
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I sort of get the logic there. If you've just flagged it, why would you like it?
On the flip side, can you like it then flag it? Does it remove the like? (Too busy to check properly, sorry)
We flag for pedantry here. You can like pedantry. The two actions are mutually exclusive.
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I love Discourse's consistency.
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I think we should request a change so that we can flag posts for being on topic.
EDIT- I can flag my own posts?! Why would I possibly need to do that?!
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And the flag icon doesn't change colour (like the heart) to indicate I've done it - the only indication is the text. Oh, and if you flag your own post it disappears.Nevermind, figured that out.
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I think we should request a change so that we can flag posts for being on topic.
Let's request that they hide the flag. It's kind of offensive, because nationalism.
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It's ok, the flag is gray.
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Let's request that they hide the flag. It's kind of offensive
Can we request that they just hide Discourse and/or Jeff on the same basis?
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We flag for pedantry here. You can like pedantry. The two actions are mutually exclusive.
No issue if you just notify the moderators. That flag doesn't interfere with liking, so flagging for pedantry shouldn't be an issue.
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That flag doesn't interfere with liking, so flagging for pedantry shouldn't be an issue.
The bottom two options aren't technically flags anyway.
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We flag for pedantry here. You can like pedantry. The two actions are mutually
exinclusive
FTFY?
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You can like it, book mark it, flag it then flag it again.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtdWHFwmd2o
If I had any talent, I'd make a Discourse version of this. But while I think that I could do lyrics decently well, I suck at audio editing.
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Not available to usa
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Fucking hell...
Ok, it was Daft Punk - Technologic. If you don't know it, find a video on YT that IS available.
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Hah! That song went through my head when I read @Matches' post, too.
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Lol its been a while since I've heard that song.
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Wait, what? I thought Germany was the place with the stupid GEMA-problem making it impossible to enjoy music on youtube. And I can watch the video just fine.
What is preventing american people from watching yt-vids nowadays?Filed Under: Because blocking videos on a video-platform based on your location is fun!
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Probably a dmca complaint, I could watch the official one just fine.
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I could watch the official one just fine.
Which was nowhere near my top results. And I had enough scrolling here.
What gives?
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If you start and end a line with a quote, the paragraph gets turned into a quote block. If you add a space before that line, it doesn't.
"Starts with quote"
"Starts with space"
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If you start and end a line with a quote, the paragraph gets turned into a quote block. If you add a space before that line, it doesn't.
"Starts with quote"
"Starts with space"
This is normal markdown behavior. Move along.
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This is normal markdown behavior. Move along.
No it isn't. It's the special Discoursedown variant.
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I tried to reproduce and when I zoomed my browser crashed instead.
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Why is Discourse showing me ancient topics in the topics list? I'm not deliberately necroing, I just don't think to check timestamps. Discourse makes the easy things difficult.
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And the WTF things easy.
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I tried to reproduce
There's your problem.
Why is Discourse showing me ancient topics in the topics list?
Yeah, that's impossibly annoying, especially when you're catching up with unread posts after a while. I can't even count the times I've almost dug out a centuries-old topic just because I had an unread post in it.
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. I can't even count the times I've almost dug out a centuries-old topic just because I had an unread post in it.
Hipster/ironic necro!
That's what you get, Discurse, for putting old threads in my sight.