WTF Bites
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare But that can be typed rather easily on a keyboard too: é by ´e.
That works on USintl-deadkeys too, although I don't know how anyone, at least of those who occasionally use a command line and didn't learn typing on a 1960s mechanical typewriter, puts up with having to type single quotes as 'SPACE.
Having a dedicated deadkey for it is one thing, but us-international co-opts the single quote which is horrible. I'll stick with compose.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
@Arantor whereas Polish laptops come with an Ąlt key.
I thought they came with a kurwa key?
Every key is the Kurwa key.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
@Arantor whereas Polish laptops come with an Ąlt key.
They also have the dreaded ISO keyboards which I always need to replace with normal (ANSI) ones. And some manufacturers won't sell you an American keyboard in the EU. I smell some "regulatory superpower" in this.
superpower more like. Fewer variants to stock. Our HP and Lenovo suppliers always had them.
Yep, laptop parts can be obtained. But if you want a fancy keyboard from Logitech, they simply won't sell you one. There's a whole market for "bootlegged" Cherry MX with ANSI layout, sold at higher prices.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
@Arantor whereas Polish laptops come with an Ąlt key.
They also have the dreaded ISO keyboards which I always need to replace with normal (ANSI) ones. And some manufacturers won't sell you an American keyboard in the EU. I smell some "regulatory superpower" in this.
superpower more like. Fewer variants to stock. Our HP and Lenovo suppliers always had them.
Yep, laptop parts can be obtained. But if you want a fancy keyboard from Logitech, they simply won't sell you one. There's a whole market for "bootlegged" Cherry MX with ANSI layout, sold at higher prices.
Prolly a Logitech problem—it should be harder for laptops because they either need more stock of a way more expensive item or they have to change the keyboard before shipping it. And if you enter "cherry mx us" on geizhals.de, the cheapest thing that's actually a keyboard has a US layout.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
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Who are you, and what happened to the real @Arantor? A true gentleman would rather die than use a French keyboard.
And iPads conveniently have the ability to type accented letters with a long press.
Though I am currently on a laptop, where my Ctrl and Alt kéys dó wórk fór ácúté áccénts.
Everything beyond ascii really was a mistake.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
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Who are you, and what happened to the real @Arantor? A true gentleman would rather die than use a French keyboard.
And iPads conveniently have the ability to type accented letters with a long press.
Though I am currently on a laptop, where my Ctrl and Alt kéys dó wórk fór ácúté áccénts.
Everything beyond ascii really was a mistake.
Ach teastaíonn cúpla litir aisteach don Ghaeilge.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
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Who are you, and what happened to the real @Arantor? A true gentleman would rather die than use a French keyboard.
And iPads conveniently have the ability to type accented letters with a long press.
Though I am currently on a laptop, where my Ctrl and Alt kéys dó wórk fór ácúté áccénts.
Everything beyond ascii really was a mistake.
Ach teastaíonn cúpla litir aisteach don Ghaeilge.
Weird letters are required for Irish, but is Irish really required?
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@loopback0 Aye, rich in spirit, Irish in name.
I’ll see myself to the puns thread.
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@Arantor Obligatory:
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@boomzilla very obligatory, but I to do the needful otherwise.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
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Who are you, and what happened to the real @Arantor? A true gentleman would rather die than use a French keyboard.
And iPads conveniently have the ability to type accented letters with a long press.
Though I am currently on a laptop, where my Ctrl and Alt kéys dó wórk fór ácúté áccénts.
Everything beyond ascii really was a mistake.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in starting to write with anything but a paintbrush. And some said that even the brushes had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have ditched the turtle shells and stone chisels.
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@LaoC something something coming down from the trees had been a mistake.
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@LaoC something something coming down from the trees had been a mistake.
If I wasn't sure I would fall out of them I'd go back up.
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Why the fuck does Windows Task Scheduler custom event filter textbox support rich text? Who the fuck wants the parts copied from Event Viewer in different font than the parts typed in manually? And what the fuck is the "paste without formatting" hotkey? Ctrl+Shift+V doesn't work.
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@Gustav paste it into Notepad, copy it from Notepad.
It still has uses until Copilot fucks it up.
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@Gustav Earlier today I copied a piece of text out of some software (I want to say this was powerpoint, but I'm not 100% sure). I tried pasting it into Discord, and it would end up as an image attachment(!) there.
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@Gustav Earlier today I copied a piece of text out of some software (I want to say this was powerpoint, but I'm not 100% sure). I tried pasting it into Discord, and it would end up as an image attachment(!) there.
So much fun when a program copies it in multiple formats to the clipboard. And the format you want in the destination is lower in the checking order... (I've hit that before - open notepad, paste in there, then select/copy, and continue. "No, I don't want rich text (or was it a metafile, CRS...), just give me the plain text!")
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
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Who are you, and what happened to the real @Arantor? A true gentleman would rather die than use a French keyboard.
And iPads conveniently have the ability to type accented letters with a long press.
Now all you need to do is select the right accent for the spelling you were after :)
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@TimeBandit Hey, it's better than Teams. ()
But mainly it does video streaming in a way where what you get qualifies as actual video and not as a slideshow with lower resolution than your average desktop icon.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
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Who are you, and what happened to the real @Arantor? A true gentleman would rather die than use a French keyboard.
And iPads conveniently have the ability to type accented letters with a long press.
Now all you need to do is select the right accent for the spelling you were after :)
I find this easier than the number of times I fat-finger the wrong key entirely, e.g. every time I accidentally type wheh and don't notice. n/m is also pretty common.
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@Gustav paste it into Notepad, copy it from Notepad.
So, basically the same solution as Word or PowerPoint, which have Ctrl+Shift+V but it also doesn't work.
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$ python3 >>> import codecs >>> codecs.encode(b'bflmpsvz', 'base64') b'YmZsbXBzdno=\n'
An eFfing newline at the end? Warum, kurwa? Just, warum? Stop drinking that washing machine water, Python, you are drunk.
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Now all you need to do is select the right accent for the spelling you were after :)
I find this easier than the number of times I fat-finger the wrong key entirely, e.g. every time I accidentally type wheh and don't notice. n/m is also pretty common.
Not what I meant :) You typed
reachéd
but meantreachèd
. Acute accent (´) indicates the vowel is pronounced longer, grave accent (`) makes it shorter. The former would make it (approximately) /riːtʃˈed/ rather than the intended /riːtʃˈəd/ or /-ɛd/.
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Now all you need to do is select the right accent for the spelling you were after :)
I find this easier than the number of times I fat-finger the wrong key entirely, e.g. every time I accidentally type wheh and don't notice. n/m is also pretty common.
Not what I meant :) You typed
reachéd
but meantreachèd
. Acute accent (´) indicates the vowel is pronounced longer, grave accent (`) makes it shorter. The former would make it (approximately) /riːtʃˈed/ rather than the intended /riːtʃˈəd/ or /-ɛd/.Longer as going from "quiche" to "cliché"?
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Now all you need to do is select the right accent for the spelling you were after :)
I find this easier than the number of times I fat-finger the wrong key entirely, e.g. every time I accidentally type wheh and don't notice. n/m is also pretty common.
Not what I meant :) You typed
reachéd
but meantreachèd
. Acute accent (´) indicates the vowel is pronounced longer, grave accent (`) makes it shorter. The former would make it (approximately) /riːtʃˈed/ rather than the intended /riːtʃˈəd/ or /-ɛd/.And you forgot further variants, line reachêd, reachęd, reachěd, ...
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Now all you need to do is select the right accent for the spelling you were after :)
I find this easier than the number of times I fat-finger the wrong key entirely, e.g. every time I accidentally type wheh and don't notice. n/m is also pretty common.
Not what I meant :) You typed
reachéd
but meantreachèd
. Acute accent (´) indicates the vowel is pronounced longer, grave accent (`) makes it shorter. The former would make it (approximately) /riːtʃˈed/ rather than the intended /riːtʃˈəd/ or /-ɛd/.And you forgot further variants, line reachêd, reachęd, reachěd, ...
That reminds me of the time when we counted all the misspellings of a crêpes stand at the local fair. He had crépes, crèpes, crěpes, and of course crepes. Not sure if he also had the correct spelling somewhere, maybe did by chance. Crępes was missing, thankfully.
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Now all you need to do is select the right accent for the spelling you were after :)
I find this easier than the number of times I fat-finger the wrong key entirely, e.g. every time I accidentally type wheh and don't notice. n/m is also pretty common.
Not what I meant :) You typed
reachéd
but meantreachèd
. Acute accent (´) indicates the vowel is pronounced longer, grave accent (`) makes it shorter. The former would make it (approximately) /riːtʃˈed/ rather than the intended /riːtʃˈəd/ or /-ɛd/.And you forgot further variants, line reachêd, reachęd, reachěd, ...
That reminds me of the time when we counted all the misspellings of a crêpes stand at the local fair. He had crépes, crèpes, crěpes, and of course crepes. Not sure if he also had the correct spelling somewhere, maybe did by chance. Crępes was missing, thankfully.
No cre̸̡̛̛͉̹̦̼̹͖̫̯̓̎̓̑̈́́̾̆̽̈́͋͛͆̊̃̐͌͘͠͝pé̸̢̡̡̧̙͎̗̘̲̦͓͕͔͇͕̺͓̤̭̳͇̦̰̣̫̣̗̥͉̲̰̟̙͚̟̙͈̝̹̫̹̪͘͜͜ͅͅͅs?
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@loopback0 Carnies rarely visit summon-a-demon-with-unicode.com.
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Now all you need to do is select the right accent for the spelling you were after :)
I find this easier than the number of times I fat-finger the wrong key entirely, e.g. every time I accidentally type wheh and don't notice. n/m is also pretty common.
Not what I meant :) You typed
reachéd
but meantreachèd
. Acute accent (´) indicates the vowel is pronounced longer, grave accent (`) makes it shorter. The former would make it (approximately) /riːtʃˈed/ rather than the intended /riːtʃˈəd/ or /-ɛd/.And you forgot further variants, line reachêd, reachęd, reachěd, ...
ITYM ríčd
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Now all you need to do is select the right accent for the spelling you were after :)
I find this easier than the number of times I fat-finger the wrong key entirely, e.g. every time I accidentally type wheh and don't notice. n/m is also pretty common.
Not what I meant :) You typed
reachéd
but meantreachèd
. Acute accent (´) indicates the vowel is pronounced longer, grave accent (`) makes it shorter. The former would make it (approximately) /riːtʃˈed/ rather than the intended /riːtʃˈəd/ or /-ɛd/.I’m English, I have no idea legitimately how to put accents on anything. Not even ye olden timey English which is what I was going for.
Even loan words that are supposed to have accents (rôle comes to mind) I usually can’t get it right because using accents is not the English way! *slams table*
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Now all you need to do is select the right accent for the spelling you were after :)
I find this easier than the number of times I fat-finger the wrong key entirely, e.g. every time I accidentally type wheh and don't notice. n/m is also pretty common.
Not what I meant :) You typed
reachéd
but meantreachèd
. Acute accent (´) indicates the vowel is pronounced longer, grave accent (`) makes it shorter. The former would make it (approximately) /riːtʃˈed/ rather than the intended /riːtʃˈəd/ or /-ɛd/.And you forgot further variants, line reachêd, reachęd, reachěd, ...
Well, "reachëd" would be a more likely variant in English, even if it would sound weird.
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I’m English, I have no idea legitimately how to put accents on anything
I seem to recall you folks had that language professor guy, I forget the name, who wrote stuff like Númenor, Khazad-dûm and Namárië
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@Applied-Mediocrity it was much easier back when you could write everything by hand!
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@Gustav though Tolkien was very happy with a typewriter for writing LOTR, as it happens.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
I’m English, I have no idea legitimately how to put accents on anything
I seem to recall you folks had that language professor guy, I forget the name, who wrote stuff like Númenor, Khazad-dûm and Namárië
And to this day everyone thinks he was pretty weird. Cool, but weird.
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@Applied-Mediocrity it was much easier back when you could write everything by hand!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
I’m English, I have no idea legitimately how to put accents on anything
I seem to recall you folks had that language professor guy, I forget the name, who wrote stuff like Númenor, Khazad-dûm and Namárië
Born in South Africa. Which reminds of another man from that land...
Tolkien at least spared his children.
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Now all you need to do is select the right accent for the spelling you were after :)
I find this easier than the number of times I fat-finger the wrong key entirely, e.g. every time I accidentally type wheh and don't notice. n/m is also pretty common.
Not what I meant :) You typed
reachéd
but meantreachèd
. Acute accent (´) indicates the vowel is pronounced longer, grave accent (`) makes it shorter. The former would make it (approximately) /riːtʃˈed/ rather than the intended /riːtʃˈəd/ or /-ɛd/.And you forgot further variants, line reachêd, reachęd, reachěd, ...
That reminds me of the time when we counted all the misspellings of a crêpes stand at the local fair. He had crépes, crèpes, crěpes, and of course crepes. Not sure if he also had the correct spelling somewhere, maybe did by chance. Crępes was missing, thankfully.
Seems pretty crap[es] to me.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
I’m English, I have no idea legitimately how to put accents on anything
I seem to recall you folks had that language professor guy, I forget the name, who wrote stuff like Númenor, Khazad-dûm and Namárië
Right, and how do you make a written language look foreign? Stick a load of accents on it!
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Sometimes, whether it's due to waking up from "Modern Standby" or the phase of the moon, my laptop forgets how to deactivate its own screen when docked with the lid closed
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Sometimes, whether it's due to waking up from "Modern Standby" or the phase of the moon, my laptop forgets how to deactivate its own screen when docked with the lid closed
Is it a Dell, by chance?
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@Tsaukpaetra Asus
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What a bargain!
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Status: Mildly terrified.
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@Tsaukpaetra Our development environment has a status page (served by the same apache instance which is also handling TLS for the backend services) and that status page is completely implemented in bash.
To protect my sanity, I kept the HTML to a bare minimum and do a lot of heavy lifting in CSS.
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@Tsaukpaetra Would something like PHP or JavaScript be any better?
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To protect my sanity, I kept the HTML to a bare minimum and do a lot of heavy lifting in CSS.