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@ben_lubar Sum up your power usage when everything's going all-out, add 200 watts, and see if the number is greater than or less than your PSU's rating.
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I would expect (especially given the information that it only happens when GW2 is grinding on your computer) that the tone is the battery's "near overload" warning. For devices in that range, they'll generally operate in a sort of pass-through mode when overdrawn, but it's not really a great idea to run that way for an extended period (not least of which is because you probably have little to no runtime in case of a brownout, and will probably be getting abrupt shutdowns even for power blips of a few seconds).
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@izzion said in Help Bites:
that the tone is the battery's "near overload" warning
The documentation I linked says that the UPS will act differently in that situation:
• Constant, Solid Tone (the red Overload LED will be illuminated)
And indeed, the other identical one did act differently (matching the description I quoted) when my dad overloaded it.
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@ben_lubar I'd check output voltage, and see if it fluctuates under stress.
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@ben_lubar Have you tried contacting support with a "Can't find this beeping on your page" message?
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@rhywden said in Help Bites:
Have you tried contacting support with a "Can't find this *bleeping* beeping on your page" message?
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@ben_lubar Even if your load is not constant? Maybe the beep pattern matches your overload pattern.
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@pleegwat said in Help Bites:
Maybe the beep pattern matches your overload pattern.
So ... it should be possible to get a tune out of it by playing with the load?
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@luhmann You might be able to generate the load by rendering a model whose complexity is modulated by the tune you want to get, even. Please videographotape this and resulting fire.
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Does anyone know a good user interface design HOWTO? We have a (probably unique at this point) apparatus in the lab and a LabVIEW VI to drive it. Its interface has been naturally evolving since 2010. There are lots of settings, all of them very important, and it's a mess. People forget to check a checkbox and have to redo the measurements. What can I do to make it better?
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@aitap said in Help Bites:
LabVIEW
it's a messI've never seen one that isn't vying to be the worst UX on the planet. Hopefully yours is the first then!
Microsoft do a thing that's quite good:
Otherwise I tend to try to copy software that does whatever it is I want to do well. Visual Studio is good for examples of how to do complicated settings well etc..
If you're having problems with flow then programs like handbrake might give you some ideas as video transcoding is a very linear process?Edit: I don't think that's the right Microsoft one unless they've deleted most of the content. I'll try to find the right one...
Looks like it's still there if you Google, but the links have gone. This was the one that might be most handy: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/uxguide/experiences
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@Cursorkeys said in Help Bites:
Otherwise I tend to try to copy software that does whatever it is I want to do well.
The problem is that most other software to drive cameras coupled to lasers and diffraction gratings is written by people who don't know much about UX. Anyway, thanks for the tips about VS and Handbrake, I'll try to find anything matching and steal it.
This was the one that might be most handy: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/uxguide/experiences
If someone else stumbles upon this question, another useful link is https://docs.microsoft.com/ru-ru/windows/desktop/uxguide/guidelines.
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@aitap said in Help Bites:
Does anyone know a good user interface design HOWTO?
If you can find a copy of About Face, that's dated (we've learned some improved ways of doing things) but still pretty good and full of good sense.
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@dkf said in Help Bites:
@aitap said in Help Bites:
Does anyone know a good user interface design HOWTO?
If you can find a copy of About Face, that's dated (we've learned some improved ways of doing things) but still pretty good and full of good sense.
Looks pretty good, there's a fourth edition now from 2014 (ISBN 1118766571). Amazon has it with a 'look inside'.
Edit: I like it already:
I'll see if work will buy me a copy tomorrow.
Edit 2: Narrator: They did not. I'll have to get my own!
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@Luhmann said in Help Bites:
@pleegwat said in Help Bites:
Maybe the beep pattern matches your overload pattern.
So ... it should be possible to get a tune out of it by playing with the load?
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I keep finding myself opening Desmos every time I want to do homework, not because I need graphing, but because it's a quick and easy place to type formatted math equations - I end up just writing the progressive algebraic steps where simultaneously drawn equations are supposed to go.
Does anyone know of a good math scratchpad, either online or in a program, that's as well-behaved as Desmos's equation editor?
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@pie_flavor Is there something you need besides just displaying typeset equations, like putting them in a document? If the latter, MS Word has a new equation editor (well, as new as the ribbon interface) with nearly the same input behavior as Desmos, the main difference being Word waits until you hit the space bar to actually format x^2 to x2.
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@MZH I really, really don't like Word's. I can never get the typesetting to work properly. Right now it doesn't work at all - I can only add superscript and etc with the buttons, not by typing. And no, I don't need a document, just temporary scratch space while I work on problems.
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@pie_flavor This seems similar to Desmos, but with more features and slightly worse input handling in my opinion.
I'm a bit surprised at your trouble with Word's equations. Getting an exponent expression like x2 should just be x^Space2. Same with fractions: /Space then the numerator, down arrow, denominator.
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@pie_flavor back when I was in university I used one of these
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@MZH said in Help Bites:
MS Word has a new equation editor (well, as new as the ribbon interface)
I'm pretty sure the equation editor didn't change at all between 2003 and 2007. So it must be either older or newer than Ribbon.
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@Jaloopa said in Help Bites:
@pie_flavor back when I was in university I used one of these
I still do. Whether it's taking notes, writing equations, making scorecards for card games, or sketching UML diagrams - nothing beats the versatility and ease of use of pen and paper.
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@MZH said in Help Bites:
@pie_flavor This seems similar to Desmos, but with more features and slightly worse input handling in my opinion.
I'm a bit surprised at your trouble with Word's equations. Getting an exponent expression like x2 should just be x^Space2. Same with fractions: /Space then the numerator, down arrow, denominator.
Oh. Space after the operator, not after the expression.
Which leads me to go at the functionality, because if I press 2^space, it makes the superscript box, and then puts the cursor past it. So if I want to actually put an exponent there, I have to reach over and hit the back button.
What the fuck for?
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@Jaloopa said in Help Bites:
@pie_flavor back when I was in university I used one of these
Scribbling 'a + b/c' - five seconds; typing 'a+b/c' - one and a half seconds.
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@pie_flavor how fucking slowly do you write.?
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@pie_flavor said in Help Bites:
Scribbling 'a + b/c' - five seconds;
Your pencil has terrible input lag. I suggest updating firmware and uninstalling some apps (like Facebook) that may be contributing to the issue.
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My desk drawer is full of notebooks and A4 sheets with all sorts of scribbles, charts and diagrams. I find that because it's not feasible to do major corrections (apart from crumpling the page and doing it all over), paper forces me to think rather than go with "let's see what this does". Mind you, that doesn't guarantee correct results.
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@Gąska the good equation editor is in 2016.
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@pie_flavor said in Help Bites:
@Jaloopa said in Help Bites:
@pie_flavor back when I was in university I used one of these
Scribbling 'a + b/c' - 0.five seconds; typing 'a+b/c' - one and a half seconds.
Fixed.
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@pie_flavor said in Help Bites:
@Jaloopa said in Help Bites:
@pie_flavor back when I was in university I used one of these
Scribbling 'a + b/c' - five seconds; typing 'a+b/c' - one and a half seconds.
44 seconds. With mouse. How fast can you and your fancy ass software type that?
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@Gąska said in Help Bites:
@pie_flavor said in Help Bites:
@Jaloopa said in Help Bites:
@pie_flavor back when I was in university I used one of these
Scribbling 'a + b/c' - five seconds; typing 'a+b/c' - one and a half seconds.
44 seconds. With mouse. How fast can you and your fancy ass software type that?
I'm having trouble OCR'ing that...
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@Gąska said in Help Bites:
@pie_flavor said in Help Bites:
@Jaloopa said in Help Bites:
@pie_flavor back when I was in university I used one of these
Scribbling 'a + b/c' - five seconds; typing 'a+b/c' - one and a half seconds.
44 seconds. With mouse. How fast can you and your fancy ass software type that?
\integral\frac{dx}{x^2-a^2}=\frac{1}{2a}ln|\frac{x-a}{x+a}|+C
Probably imperfect; my LaTeX is rusty.
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@Gąska 16.32 seconds, including backspaces.
I can't believe I'm actually arguing with someone who thinks scribbling is faster than typing.
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@pie_flavor ...wow, that's quite fast. A whole second faster than my writing! I'm honestly impressed. Especially since my own experience with equation editors was quite awful.
What's the trick for fractions? Obviously it couldn't be menu clicking - that would take too long.
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@pie_flavor I see. I mean, I don't see anything at all because you recorded the effect and not the actions, but whatever. I accept that formula editor might be faster than doing it by hand.
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@Gąska One action = one keypress. To do the big fraction, for instance, I just push /, and it inserts an empty fraction and selects the top. If I started writing a parenthesized expression and push /, it removes them when it converts to a fraction, or I can highlight an unparenthesized expression and push /.
Desmos is really good.
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@PleegWat said in Help Bites:
\int
egral
\frac{dx}{x^2-a^2}=\frac{1}{2a}ln|\frac{x-a}{x+a}|+C
Probably imperfect; my LaTeX is rusty.
Yeah, for actual typesetting I'd put in a lot more shit. The d in dx should be upright IMO (although few people do that), as well as the ln. I'm surprised the | actually works without needing a \mid or something, but it should be surrounded by \left and \right.
\int\!\frac{\mathrm{d}x}{x^2-a^2}=\frac{1}{2a}\ln\left|\frac{x-a}{x+a}\right|+C
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@pie_flavor said in Help Bites:
including backspaces.
Yeah, those are easier to type on a US layout than on a German one. Which, in turn, is still a lot easier than the retarded Apple version of German layout, for which you need at least twelve fingers to type a backspace.
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@topspin twelve fingers for just backspace? I wonder how many fingers you need to actually type words!
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@Gąska Fewer, those can be typed just like on a normal keyboard. But backspace, braces, and brackets are hell. And those idiots don't even print those on the labels of their snowflake keyboards, because something something design.
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@topspin said in Help Bites:
@PleegWat said in Help Bites:
\int
egral
\frac{dx}{x^2-a^2}=\frac{1}{2a}ln|\frac{x-a}{x+a}|+C
Probably imperfect; my LaTeX is rusty.
Yeah, for actual typesetting I'd put in a lot more shit. The d in dx should be upright IMO (although few people do that), as well as the ln. I'm surprised the | actually works without needing a \mid or something, but it should be surrounded by \left and \right.
\int\!\frac{\mathrm{d}x}{x^2-a^2}=\frac{1}{2a}\ln\left|\frac{x-a}{x+a}\right|+C
Dammit....
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@topspin I was pretty sure the
|
needed extra work, and I wasn't sure on the correct invocation for the integral sign, but I'd completely forgot about\ln
, and I don't recall if we diddx
special. To my defence, it's been over 10 years.
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Paint: 44 seconds (with mouse)
Specialized equation editor: 16 seconds
LaTeX: it's second day and they're still figuring out the best way to do it.
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@dkf said in Help Bites:
If you can find a copy of About Face, that's dated (we've learned some improved ways of doing things) but still pretty good and full of good sense.
Thank you! I only had time to skim it, but I already made some improvements in another tool I'm responsible for: disabled the controls that should be disabled when no input is possible, provided a list of possible choices where it's possible to ask the OS for them, and tried to cut down on the error
MessageBox
es that would result from errors the user didn't deliberately cause.Also, nice screenshots (even if car analogy is not right):
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@aitap said in Help Bites:
@dkf said in Help Bites:
If you can find a copy of About Face, that's dated (we've learned some improved ways of doing things) but still pretty good and full of good sense.
Thank you! I only had time to skim it, but I already made some improvements in another tool I'm responsible for: disabled the controls that should be disabled when no input is possible, provided a list of possible choices where it's possible to ask the OS for them, and tried to cut down on the error
MessageBox
es that would result from errors the user didn't deliberately cause.Also, nice screenshots (even if car analogy is not right):
I mean, at least those buttons are in an order. And it appears to default to "straight" which makes sense.
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@aitap Toyata?
Is that some stupid attempt to avoid a trademark dispute or was this image made by a moron?
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It's that time of year. The extreme lag on my phone I can deal with; the constant ghost touches I can't. Can anyone give a good phone recommendation? I'm looking for good battery life, a headphone jack, waterproofing, and Verizon compatibility (i.e. not the OnePlus). I don't really give a shit about notches, camera quality, or speaker quality, and would be perfectly content with an Android N or O phone as long as Google Assistant works.
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@pie_flavor Your requirement for waterproofing makes that a bit harder.
Otherwise I've heard good things about the new Nokia Android phones.