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Changing the order of street/number in addresses depending on user's locale in Google Street View is the dumbest bit of localization I've ever seen. No, Google, just because I moved my ass across the ocean doesn't mean 36 Legnicka, Wrocław, Poland is a valid address now!
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36 Legnicka, Wrocław, Poland
There's nothing funny or interesting at that address. I feel disappointed.
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@Gąska IIRC the maps (though, Google maintains their own maps, they could add it) don't say what the address order is in that country, but the locale data do. … shouldn't be hard to find which locale is used in given country, shouldn't it?
I am, however, wondering, whether there is any country that uses different order depending on the language of the person writing the address…
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@Gąska IIRC the maps (though, Google maintains their own maps, they could add it) don't say what the address order is in that country, but the locale data do. … shouldn't be hard to find which locale is used in given country, shouldn't it?
They have all the data they need, they're just misapplying it. If you open Google Maps in Czechia on a Czech computer logged into Czech Google account, you'll see Legnicka 36. If you open Google Maps in USA on a US computer logged into a US account, you'll see 36 Legnicka.
I am, however, wondering, whether there is any country that uses different order depending on the language of the person writing the address…
If there's any, my bet is on Quebec.
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I am, however, wondering, whether there is any country that uses different order depending on the language of the person writing the address…
South Africa. If my address was "123 Church Street" in English, in Afrikaans it would be "Kerkstraat 123"
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Just a little shout-out to Microsoft for deciding that most people don't actually want to easily know where a window ends and the neighboring one begins, a making that an optional feature disabled by default.
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@Medinoc Just have everything run full screen. CLOSED WORKSASDESIGNED.
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Just a little shout-out to Microsoft for deciding that most people don't actually want to easily know where a window ends and the neighboring one begins, a making that an optional feature disabled by default.
Ok, what is the option, where is it, and how do I change it? (Since I'm not running Win11 yet, I need to record all the little shitty things that need tweaking)
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Just a little shout-out to Microsoft for deciding that most people don't actually want to easily know where a window ends and the neighboring one begins, a making that an optional feature disabled by default.
Ok, what is the option, where is it, and how do I change it? (Since I'm not running Win11 yet, I need to record all the little shitty things that need tweaking)
Settings -> Personalization -> Colors -> Show accent color on the following surfaces -> Title bars and window borders
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Just a little shout-out to Microsoft for deciding that most people don't actually want to easily know where a window ends and the neighboring one begins, a making that an optional feature disabled by default.
Ok, what is the option, where is it, and how do I change it? (Since I'm not running Win11 yet, I need to record all the little shitty things that need tweaking)
Doing Registry modding still works.
Probably adjust the Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics\BorderWidth to something like -22 or something.
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Gotdamn Google Maps and it's stupid "2D" satellite view that's just the 3D satellite view from directly above.
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@loopback0 what's a-wrong with that?
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@Bulb ignoring the fact it's not actually 2D, whatever Google does to make satellite view 3D looks like shit in a lot of areas and sometimes loses detail that's there in normal flat satellite view.
Sometimes the 3D view is useful, but the ability to turn it off without needing to use Google Earth would be good.
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@loopback0 That's more about the mapping onto height map being broken. Granted, doing it in 2D is superfluous, because it should end up having no effect there anyway, but if it wasn't broken, it wouldn't be making anything worse either.
Also, if by “normal” satellite images you mean those at another map provider, well, they can be different ones with different level of detail.
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Also, if by “normal” satellite images you mean those at another map provider
No I mean Google but where they don't fuck around turning it 3D.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
Gotdamn Google Maps and it's stupid "2D" satellite view that's just the 3D satellite view from directly above.
Is it?
How can you tell?
Edit: Or maybe you're talking about "Globe view" mode?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Edit: Or maybe you're talking about "Globe view" mode?
Yes
Thanks. I've disabled that - much better.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Edit: Or maybe you're talking about "Globe view" mode?
Ok, that's a Confusing™ name for the option. Because while that might be part of what it does, it is a tiny teeny part. Without it, the orthophoto images are just mapped onto the screen directly, with it, they are converted to textures for a fairly detailed 3D terrain map. Which allows seeing the globe, but it more importantly allows the tilting of the view at the low scales. So it should really be labelled “3D view” mode.
… of course it's also rather well hidden.
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… of course it's also rather well hidden.
Well deserving in this thread.
Also how the control interface is not discoverable at all.
Did you know you can hold a modifier key (any, apparently) while dragging to tilt the camera? TIL...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Did you know you can hold a modifier key (any, apparently) while dragging to tilt the camera? TIL...
It probably has to be any because figuring out what the particular modifier in use is from the drag event (and what it should be for a particular OS) is a bit of a pain and why distinguish when you don't have to?
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@dkf Also when the map is embedded, some modifiers may be repurposed or needed for other purposes. E.g. scroll wheel zooms, but on embedded map it only does so with Ctrl.
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… while the discovery dialog (the pop-up that tells you to press Ctrl to scroll) preventing it from continuing the original function of scrolling the embedding page, therefore still resulting in a wacky user experience.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
(any, apparently)
My keyboard doesn't have an any key.
The Any Modifier key is pretty useful when you can't touch the screen. Or something.
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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.
Or do like the Hebrews and have 12 months of alternating 29 and 30 days, but 7 out of every 19 years has an extra month to keep the seasons and months mostly aligned.
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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.
Or do like the Hebrews and have 12 months of alternating 29 and 30 days, but 7 out of every 19 years has an extra month to keep the seasons and months mostly aligned.
AKA the "I hate programmers and wish them all to have aneurisms" calendar.
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@Benjamin-Hall As opposed to the common calendar, which is so much better?
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@Benjamin-Hall As opposed to the common calendar, which is so much better?
At least the common calendar's rules make a decent rhyme.
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Thirty days has September,
April, June, and November.
Most others have thirty-one,
Which already grinds my gears,
But wait, we're not done:
'Cause you see in most years
February has twenty-eight,
Except in some other years it has twenty-nine,
I can't even be bothered to encode the rules for that in a rhyme.
Seriously, who came up with this shit?
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@Zecc
Whoever he was, he was on the GOOOOOD stuff.
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Seriously, who came up with this shit?
I wanted to make the most convoluted of puns, but apparently Kakeru Daichi was only renamed for the German dub, not the English one. So now you only get the requiem for a shitpost not made.
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Except in some other years it has twenty-nine,
I can't even be bothered to encode the rules for that in a rhyme.In 'most all years divisible by four,
February has one added day more.
Those dividing the year by one hundred,
Find the twenty-ninth day to be sundered.
Yet if four hundred shows neat division,
This month counts the twenty-ninth addition.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
22 metric years
the extra damn days in the year beyond 360.
Just do what the Egyptians did and pretend they're not there.
Or do like the Hebrews and have 12 months of alternating 29 and 30 days, but 7 out of every 19 years has an extra month to keep the seasons and months mostly aligned.
AKA the "I hate programmers and wish them all to have aneurisms" calendar.
Learn some astronomical formulas. Then you can "easily" write an algorithm for the old jewish calaendar.
Imagine: those guys could create it without modern computers, more than 2000 years ago.Anyway, I'd prefer the old Persian calendar. That aligns much better with "solar" events.
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@Zecc looks infinitesimal
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WARNING: If you import more than 400 portraits into the Portraits folder, the scroll bar on the selection screen will get too small to be comfortably usable by dragging, and if you import more than 500, it will disappear completely. HOWEVER, you can still use the mouse wheel to scroll through.
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YouTube is basically recreating Idiocracy.
Ow, my balls.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
WARNING: If you import more than 400 portraits into the Portraits folder, the scroll bar on the selection screen will get too small to be comfortably usable by dragging, and if you import more than 500, it will disappear completely. HOWEVER, you can still use the mouse wheel to scroll through.Reminds me of the “fill whole column” in Excel.
See, often you have one sheet of some data, and then some sheets with formulas that do some ad-hoc processing on it. The problem is that as you update the data sheet, you have to extend the formula ones to have enough rows of them, otherwise things end up not getting found. So you think, hey, I can select whole columns, and I can paste or fill down into them. So let's do that and not bother with the right number of rows. Except what it really does is simply fill all the rows down to the maximum, so it is
- Horribly slow. In some cases it even did not finish the paste in time I was willing to wait and I had to kill it.
- The scroll-bar becomes unusable, because a one-pixel move scrolls a couple thousand lines.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
22 metric years
the extra damn days in the year beyond 360.
Just do what the Egyptians did and pretend they're not there.
Or do like the Hebrews and have 12 months of alternating 29 and 30 days, but 7 out of every 19 years has an extra month to keep the seasons and months mostly aligned.
AKA the "I hate programmers and wish them all to have aneurisms" calendar.
First Hebrews, then hedrinks.
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I'm sorting out a quote with a removals company. Their website lets you provide an inventory of what you need moving.
If you select one of the bed & mattress options like this one:
Then it adds it fine, but if you later go back to the inventory to add/view/amend whatever, it'll no longer be included.
Instead, at the bottom of the list, is this:
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@loopback0 And if you do that again, do you get
Double Bed &Amp;Amp; Mattress
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@loopback0 And if you do that again, do you get
Double Bed &Amp;Amp; Mattress
?And if you do it enough, does that one go to 11?
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*sigh*... Valve time.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Idgi plz eli6
Remaining time 2:60.
It showed 3:00 before that, too.Rounding is a bitch!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Idgi plz eli6
Remaining time 2:60.
It showed 3:00 before that, too.Leap seconds?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Idgi plz eli6
Remaining time 2:60.
It showed 3:00 before that, too.Leap seconds?
According to some of my pupils, that's a perfectly cromulent amount of time.