The minor rants thread.
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@RaceProUK You forgot the 'skbt' inbetween for the specific project.
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@RaceProUK I'm amazed there are any vowels in there at all. Not, say,
bn
,dst
andrs
(or maybersc
)...?
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@Arantor Nonono,
dst
isdestination
. Obviously.
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@PleegWat On your distro maybe. On mine,
dst
are the files you place indst
to make it go.
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@Arantor said in The minor rants thread.:
@PleegWat On your distro maybe. On mine,
dst
are the files you place indst
to make it go.In Portuguese, DST stands for Doença Sexualmente Transmissível, aka "Sexually Transmitted Disease".
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@da-Doctah It's like you have the measure of this whole ecosystem.
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@da-Doctah In Dutch that's SOA.
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So I decided to try out the mobile app for one of the larger chains of supermarkets. This app enables you to create a shopping list and sort it according to the layout of your nearest store, and I wanted to be efficient when elbowing my way through the X-mas rush.
It works fairly well, I don't have to type the full name of the groceries since it has a decent autocomplete. So there I am, happily adding items to my shopping list when:
Suddently all my entered items disappear. It turns out that there are two views to the list. One "main view", and one other view where you add one or more items. If you go back to the main view, the next time you enter the "add items" view, it starts from scratch. It took some trial and error to figure out that my already entered items had not disappeared for good.
I wanted to buy more of some items. Setting the quantity on an item injects a scroll-selector-thingie (if you've tried to set a time or a date on an iPhone/iPad you know what I mean) below the item. Well and good, unless you are trying to set the quantity on the last item of your list (which you are, since you are still in the "add items" view). Because then the selector-scroll-thingie is injected below the screen and there is no way to scroll down to it.
(and this is the ) When I am done I can view my shopping list nicely sorted by the order of appearance in the store. This is going to be a breeze, I think. Now just print the list so I don't have to lug my iPad through the store. Print preview shows all my entered items.
- as courier-formatted text
- without the quantities
- in the order I entered them. NOT in the order of the store.
Eventually, the only way I could find to actually get my list out in the "order of appearance" was to take screenshots, one page at a time, crop the images, and then print the list as a series of images, one per page.
Grr. Neat idea, completely botched implementation. Will never use app again.
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I've been writing many variations of this lately
$datetime->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('UTC'));
(Hint: look at which letters are in uppercase. Also,
setTimezone
is a standard function of the builtinDateTime
class)
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The minor rants thread.:
Now just print the list so I don't have to lug my iPad through the store.
;)
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@Mikael_Svahnberg My local supermarket chain (Albert Heyn) has an app like that as well. When I tried it, going into 'store-ordered' mode it assumed you were going shopping. Leaving that mode discarded the entire list.
If I remember correctly it did also support barcode scanning, so you didn't have to search on text at all if you still had the empty container.
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@Onyx How's that road coming along?
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@PleegWat said in The minor rants thread.:
@Mikael_Svahnberg My local supermarket chain (Albert Heyn) has an app like that as well. When I tried it, going into 'store-ordered' mode it assumed you were going shopping. Leaving that mode discarded the entire list.
If I remember correctly it did also support barcode scanning, so you didn't have to search on text at all if you still had the empty container.
Given how often we get around to the recycling station, I might still have the packaging from last years Christmas ham, but I'll be damned if I am going to go out and look for it.
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@Dreikin said in The minor rants thread.:
@Jaloopa said in The minor rants thread.:
@asdf said in The minor rants thread.:
programming projects
The linux way would be to call that
prj
Nah, it'd be called
src
.It's be called something more esoteric and indecipherable along the lines of
etc
.Or they'll be douchtards and name in
bin
for binary but pronounce it "bin" like "pin" instead of like "pine" which is what BINE-ary sounds like.
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@da-Doctah said in The minor rants thread.:
@Arantor said in The minor rants thread.:
@PleegWat On your distro maybe. On mine,
dst
are the files you place indst
to make it go.In Portuguese, DST stands for Doença Sexualmente Transmissível, aka "Sexually Transmitted Disease".
@PleegWat said in The minor rants thread.:
@da-Doctah In Dutch that's SOA.
In English, that's @lucas1
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@Lorne-Kates said in The minor rants thread.:
@Dreikin said in The minor rants thread.:
@Jaloopa said in The minor rants thread.:
@asdf said in The minor rants thread.:
programming projects
The linux way would be to call that
prj
Nah, it'd be called
src
.It's be called something more esoteric and indecipherable along the lines of
etc
.Or they'll be douchtards and name in
bin
for binary but pronounce it "bin" like "pin" instead of like "pine" which is what BINE-ary sounds like.I'm so going to say "Recycle Bine" from now on!
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@Lorne-Kates said in The minor rants thread.:
@Dreikin said in The minor rants thread.:
@Jaloopa said in The minor rants thread.:
@asdf said in The minor rants thread.:
programming projects
The linux way would be to call that
prj
Nah, it'd be called
src
.It's be called something more esoteric and indecipherable along the lines of
etc
.Or they'll be douchtards and name in
bin
for binary but pronounce it "bin" like "pin" instead of like "pine" which is what BINE-ary sounds like.Or
usr
. Because anyone who reads that asuser
is a fool who's unworthy of the secret Linux knowledge
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Today's . A recent decision decreed that all education plans must be translated to english, and that they were going to hire a professional translator for this.
I suggested that there are approximately 50% that are common to all education plans and should be professionally translated, an additional 30% are automatically generated (list of courses, etc.), ca 10% are previously decided (english translation of entry requirements), and the remainder can be translated by each programme manager.
I was overruled, and the entire text was sent to a translator. We just got it back, and it is horrible. I've spent two hours correcting the english of it just to make it passable. Essentially it is word-by-word translated rather than even trying to understand the gist of the text. Common terms are mistranslated, and I've been forced to refer them to both RFC2119 (for the olde must/shall/may distinction) and Oxford Guide to Style (for proper capitalisation), plus OED for the distinction between "which" and "that".
Even the automatically generated text is badly translated.
As usual, we are probably paying premium for this shite as well.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg
Clearly, you need to move to India and become a professional English translator, get those premium
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@Arantor said in The minor rants thread.:
@PleegWat On your distro maybe. On mine,
dst
are the files you place indst
to make it go.But, but, but... Daylight Savings Time ended over a month ago!
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@Lorne-Kates said in The minor rants thread.:
@da-Doctah said in The minor rants thread.:
@Arantor said in The minor rants thread.:
@PleegWat On your distro maybe. On mine,
dst
are the files you place indst
to make it go.In Portuguese, DST stands for Doença Sexualmente Transmissível, aka "Sexually Transmitted Disease".
@PleegWat said in The minor rants thread.:
@da-Doctah In Dutch that's SOA.
In English, that's @lucas1
No; STD != alcoholism.
Though come to think of it, the combination of DTs and tertiary syphilis would explain things about his posts that pink elephants alone would not. You may be on to something after all.
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@Jaloopa said in The minor rants thread.:
@Lorne-Kates said in The minor rants thread.:
@Dreikin said in The minor rants thread.:
@Jaloopa said in The minor rants thread.:
@asdf said in The minor rants thread.:
programming projects
The linux way would be to call that
prj
Nah, it'd be called
src
.It's be called something more esoteric and indecipherable along the lines of
etc
.Or they'll be douchtards and name in
bin
for binary but pronounce it "bin" like "pin" instead of like "pine" which is what BINE-ary sounds like.Or
usr
. Because anyone who reads that asuser
is a fool who's unworthy of the secret Linux knowledgeIt is user:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html
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QR codes have been existed for a long time. They're an open standard. They have many valid uses (like sharing a long wi-fi password). They work pretty well. They're in many places today, including many of Google's own services.
So WHY THE FUCK do Android, iOS or Windows Phone still not have a built-in reader for them?
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@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
Windows Phone
WP8.1 has a built-in way, but for some reason, MS didn't include it with WP10
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@RaceProUK Microsoft can't stay consistent for more than 3 years. It's impossible. Even when their entire strategy is "let's make our products more consistent".
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@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
QR codes have been existed for a long time. They're an open standard. They have many valid uses (like sharing a long wi-fi password). They work pretty well. They're in many places today, including many of Google's own services.
So WHY THE FUCK do Android, iOS or Windows Phone still not have a built-in reader for them?
They're working on getting NFC working.
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@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
QR codes have been existed for a long time. They're an open standard. They have many valid uses (like sharing a long wi-fi password). They work pretty well. They're in many places today, including many of Google's own services.
So WHY THE FUCK do Android, iOS or Windows Phone still not have a built-in reader for them?
And in Android's case, why doesn't it have a built-in file browser? Basic stuff there, but nooo - if want to read a pdf on my phone, I either have to go through the app's crappy system (Adobe Acrobat just lists everything in a flat list, for example) or download a file manager to get to it.
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@Dreikin said in The minor rants thread.:
And in Android's case, why doesn't it have a built-in file browser?
It does, as of 5.0.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The minor rants thread.:
@Dreikin said in The minor rants thread.:
And in Android's case, why doesn't it have a built-in file browser?
It does, as of 5.0.
I've got a Pixel and couldn't find one.
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@Dreikin said in The minor rants thread.:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The minor rants thread.:
@Dreikin said in The minor rants thread.:
And in Android's case, why doesn't it have a built-in file browser?
It does, as of 5.0.
I've got a Pixel and couldn't find one.
Maybe it was 6.0
http://www.howtogeek.com/231401/how-to-use-android-6.0’s-built-in-file-manager/
It's not a good file manager, mind you.
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@Dreikin said in The minor rants thread.:
And in Android's case, why doesn't it have a built-in file browser?
Or even a basic "text file input and display" app? (For that matter, why does Windows still make you drill down through three levels of menu to find Notepad, forcing me to make it the first shortcut I add to every new machine I own?)
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@da-Doctah said in The minor rants thread.:
For that matter, why does Windows still make you drill down through three levels of menu to find Notepad, forcing me to make it the first shortcut I add to every new machine I own?
n Enter works on my machine ;)
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@RaceProUK said in The minor rants thread.:
@da-Doctah said in The minor rants thread.:
For that matter, why does Windows still make you drill down through three levels of menu to find Notepad, forcing me to make it the first shortcut I add to every new machine I own?
n Enter works on my machine ;)
Until you have an app that has an
n
in the name, or someone makes a website just calledn
...
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@RaceProUK said in The minor rants thread.:
@da-Doctah said in The minor rants thread.:
For that matter, why does Windows still make you drill down through three levels of menu to find Notepad, forcing me to make it the first shortcut I add to every new machine I own?
n Enter works on my machine ;)
No repro
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@RaceProUK so you haven't found all the rootkits yet?
I have to say, your Windows password is in pretty bad taste, you should probably change it.
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@Jaloopa Must need Win10. WOM.
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@Dreikin said in The minor rants thread.:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The minor rants thread.:
@Dreikin said in The minor rants thread.:
And in Android's case, why doesn't it have a built-in file browser?
It does, as of 5.0.
I've got a Pixel and couldn't find one.
Apropos Pixel, you guys may remember that I accused the Google Assistant of being stupid?
It seems to have become even stupider.
This is the result of asking: "Create an appointment for Friday at 6:30 o'clock in the morning." Yes, I added in the morning because the first entry went just like this one.
Title is "o'clock o'clock in the morning", time is indeed Friday but in the evening.
I then tried military: "Create an appointment for Friday at oh six thirty."
Yes. The title is "Friday", the day is tomorrow at noon.
Okay, maybe the leading zero confused it?
Seems I'll be typing a bit in the foreseeable future.
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
@Dreikin said in The minor rants thread.:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The minor rants thread.:
@Dreikin said in The minor rants thread.:
And in Android's case, why doesn't it have a built-in file browser?
It does, as of 5.0.
I've got a Pixel and couldn't find one.
Apropos Pixel, you guys may remember that I accused the Google Assistant of being stupid?
It seems to have become even stupider.
This is the result of asking: "Create an appointment for Friday at 6:30 o'clock in the morning." Yes, I added in the morning because the first entry went just like this one.
Title is "o'clock o'clock in the morning", time is indeed Friday but in the evening.
I then tried military: "Create an appointment for Friday at oh six thirty."
Yes. The title is "Friday", the day is tomorrow at noon.
That's the power of German Engineering.
Oh wait...
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@Rhywden How about 'six thirty in the morning' (also for experimental purposes, six o'clock in the morning), because while I agree it ought to be understandable, at least in English 'H:mm o'clock' isn't a recognised usage.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The minor rants thread.:
That's the power of German Engineering.
i'm thinking it's language speciffic, yeah. i use AEnglish and have never had an issue.
well i have, but the fact that it ordered 100 bullet vibes instead of the one i actually wanted was just getting ahead of the curve.
for some reason the motors in those never last all that long, but the longer lasting ones are a lot bigger and so are harder to use discretely.
..... or is that one of those things that should have been said only in my head?
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@CarrieVS said in The minor rants thread.:
@Rhywden How about 'six thirty in the morning' (also for experimental purposes, six o'clock in the morning), because while I agree it ought to be understandable, at least in English 'H:mm o'clock' isn't a recognised usage.
I merely used the "o'clock" to describe how it gets parsed. I did use valid German, of course.
But I think that's the core of the issue here: While the "Spoken language to written language" parser gets it correct every time, the "Written language to Relevant Snippets" parser obviously is still set to English. Someone might consider taking a clue bat to those morons that different languages may also have different syntax.
Also: No one obviously actually tested this feature.
And, just to underscore the lack of testing: Cortana manages the same task flawlessly.
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@Jaloopa said in The minor rants thread.:
Or
usr
. Because anyone who reads that asuser
is a fool who's unworthy of the secret Linux knowledge...?
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html
The name hasn't changed, but it's meaning has narrowed and lengthened from "everything user related" to "user usable programs and data". As such, some people may now refer to this directory as meaning 'User System Resources' and not 'user' as was originally intended.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The minor rants thread.:
As usual, we are probably paying premium for this shite as well.
I'm sure the translator isn't a friend of the administrator (either directly or by at most 1 degree of separation), NOT AT ALL!
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@da-Doctah said in The minor rants thread.:
Or even a basic "text file input and display" app? (For that matter, why does Windows still make you drill down through three levels of menu to find Notepad, forcing me to make it the first shortcut I add to every new machine I own?)
+R
notepad
ENTERI can launch Notepad faster that it would take me to move the cursor to the Start orb.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The minor rants thread.:
@da-Doctah said in The minor rants thread.:
Or even a basic "text file input and display" app? (For that matter, why does Windows still make you drill down through three levels of menu to find Notepad, forcing me to make it the first shortcut I add to every new machine I own?)
+R
notepad
ENTERI can launch Notepad faster that it would take me to move the cursor to the Start orb.
not
ENTER
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@accalia said in The minor rants thread.:
for some reason the motors in those never last all that long
Bullets are basically disposable. They're always made cheaply IME