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@LaoC note however, that Perl is no-one's friend. It plots against you even now.
If you're scared of Perl's evil plots, you should see HP/GL.
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@LaoC University senior project ~35 years ago involved, in part, translating output of chip design software in CIF to HP/GL so that I could plot it on B-size (11"x17") paper for the project report.
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Perl is no-one's friend. It plots against you even now.
Don't call it plotting. Call it enforcement of Hubris for those insufficiently careful.
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The real problem is that you can't just go back one character at a time until things fit because you can have multiple characters per glyph .
What's a character anyway?
Since utf-16 became a variable-length encoding, it does not really matter which variable-length unit you work with, so you can just do the right thing and work in grapheme clusters.
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Fortunately the IE6 misery that I alluded to earlier could only be in ASCII because the API it got data from would shit all over anything extended. It also had some other hilarious bugs like it had the concept of a “Money” type (I,e. This numeric data is monetary, do be sure to whack a currency symbol on it) but it would routinely crash the server component if the money amount was ever more than 999.99, or if it was ever negative.
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@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
HP/GL so that I could plot
@Laoc Now I see what you did there. Well played!
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Status: Sigh...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Sigh...
I'd be more worried if things actually worked properly for you.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Sigh...
I'd be more worried if things actually worked properly for you.
Yeah, I rapped it from the %temp% folder it unpacked to and just write the image myself.
Now to see if it lives up to the hype.
Kinda leery at the "4Gb RAM minimum" requirement, but what can you do?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Kinda leery at the "4Gb RAM minimum" requirement, but what can you do?
Oh, it also requires a 64-bit processor. Whelp, there go those plans...
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those insufficiently careful.
Wall?
Perl is +Wall, -Wall is gcc.
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Who thought this color scheme was sane?
Naming and shaming: https://hackernoon.com/idempotency-apis-and-retries-34b161f64cb4
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@Benjamin-Hall
Not their fault you're using an unapproved browser extension to hijack sites to dark mode like some angsty teenager
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MDN has changed its theme. They've chosen purple of all colors for links. Now everything looks like a visited link.
Wonderful new logo as well.
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@Zecc Never mind purple links. The color varies by category.
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@Zecc That at least makes some sort of sense.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Status: Sigh...
That's great. When it has completed, you will be able recover twice from the same image.
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@Zecc So he should not wait to long: otherwise, he won't be able to recover once fully.
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
@Zecc So he should not wait to long: otherwise, he won't be able to recover once fully.
Thence it will revert into unrecovery!
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@Tsaukpaetra that's a question. What is the opposite of a recovery?
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@Tsaukpaetra that's a question. What is the opposite of a recovery?
Windows Update?
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@Tsaukpaetra that's a question. What is the opposite of a recovery?
Causality.
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What is the opposite of a recovery?
A
relapse
, if considered about its own axis. Anincident
, otherwise, excluding the vocal minority forgreat victory
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I ask because 'recovery' implies 'covery' is a thing, and that also implies that decovery could be a thing because linguistics is hard.
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I ask because 'recovery' implies 'covery' is a thing, and that also implies that decovery could be a thing because linguistics is hard.
Dediscovery (presumably involving losing something), uncovery, undercovery (clearly being that which is done by someone undercover and not to be confused with undecovery), bedcovery (duvets and the like)...
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I ask because 'recovery' implies 'covery' is a thing, and that also implies that decovery could be a thing because linguistics is hard.
ITYM "uncovery"
Edit: Failing to reach the end before submitting strikes again...
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If the opposite of revolution is evolution, then the opposite of recovery must be ecovery.
Very eco.
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Wonderful. Those buzzwords-driven websites look the same in every language, don't they?
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If random domains from shitholistan count: covery.com seems to be an Aussie escort agency
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@LaoC nope, it's just a weirdly customized parked domain with an ad for Aussie escort agency.
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I ask because 'recovery' implies 'covery' is a thing,
Ality ain't.
But yet it very nearly impt. It almost indicates which of cardin, ordin, (the aforementioned) re, caus, etc. an object or type can reasonably be evaluated for. Similar to arity but counting a different kind of axis. Pretty sure there's no case for rearity, tho.
Also there's no asonably.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
Wonderful. Those buzzwords-driven websites look the same in every language, don't they?
If not for your comment I would have thought the site is in English.
"Smart Event Management" was the extent of what I had read.
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@LaoC nope, it's just a weirdly customized parked domain with an ad for Aussie escort agency.
Made you look.
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Also there's no asonably.
"Reasinine" should be a word though, to describe typical style reasoning.
I'm still not sure about the pronunciation.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
@LaoC nope, it's just a weirdly customized parked domain with an ad for Aussie escort agency.
Made you look.
They're very fine escorts.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
Wonderful. Those buzzwords-driven websites look the same in every language, don't they?
I'm kind of missing the psychological "popular choice" badge draped over the middle one.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
Wonderful. Those buzzwords-driven websites look the same in every language, don't they?
r/cheatingatbingo
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I'm sorry, but light grey text on a white background is not a good way to get me to read your website.
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Why can't people just display a date anymore?
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Why can't people just display a date anymore?
Because
6 years, 1 month, 1 days ago
is too confusing?
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Why can't people just display a date anymore?
At least there it gives you a number of days so you can figure out that it's 22 metric years old. I've run into way too many blog posts that just have month and day, without any clue how old it is beyond that
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22 metric years
This gives me the barest excuse, by extension, to complain about possibly the biggest UI flaw in existence - the extra damn days in the year beyond 360. We need to orbit faster, or spin down faster, one or the other. This is currently bullshit.
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22 metric years
the extra damn days in the year beyond 360.
Just do what the Egyptians did and pretend they're not there.
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@Watson If you're going to go
metricdecimal, the obvious answer is that they are "Days without pants."What? That's what "sans-culotte" means, if you want to be very literal and ignorant of history.
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the obvious answer is that they are "Days without pants."