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Computer vision is very imperfect due to the lack if common sense
Sounds like it needs more IA ... and possibly a subscription service
Just remember, if you're late paying for that, the car will stop working.
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@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
Because a lower city-wide speed limit can exist, and it takes precedence.
In Quebec, the last posted speed limit is enforceable until there is another speed limit sign.
There is no "Fin de zone", only speed limit signs.
This is true in (all? most? of — everywhere I've driven, anyway) in the US, too.
Edit: Almost. There are "End ... Zone" signs for some temporary restrictions, like school zones and construction zones, but these are usually (maybe not always?) accompanied by signs explicitly restating the normal speed limit.
Out in the country, you see them. Like leaving a town, there are "End 30 MPH" and no new speed limit sign. Typically, it's going back to 55.
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
Better don't drive thru
They may be expensive, but surely they don't hold a candle to highway tolls?
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@boomzilla You still have that info also displayed in the dashboard, right?
(My car does that. And gets it thoroughly wrong sometimes. Computer vision is very imperfect due to the lack if common sense.)
My car has a CD player!
Anyway, the city decided to change the speed limit on city streets to 25, down from 30. Since it's different than the state's default, however, they have to post signs on the edge of town saying "The default speed limit is 25!" to warn everyone. I don't really like it, but it's not like I have much of a say in it.
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surely they don't hold a candle to highway tolls?
Don't get me started. Publicly-funded highway system, the tolls were supposed to be temporary to recoup the construction costs.
Except once it got to that point, the government had the bright idea of... selling the highways to private operators. Of course, those companies kept the tolls and keep raising their prices every year.
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@boomzilla said in UI Bites:
Waze now hides the speedometer in landscape mode. Someone decided to center it vertically instead of putting it at the bottom, so the "next turn" overlay often covers it.
Brillant!
Aaaaand they've fixed it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
the absence of signs means the speed limit changes.
Wat
As mentioned above, these are side roads which implicitly cancel any speed restrictions, since traffic joining from that road won't have seen the sign. But that doesn't apply to driveways, which can look pretty similar at times. Also start/end of city limits, which it definitely doesn't pick up, and start/end of motorway/highway (which I'm unsure on).
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Computer vision is very imperfect due to the lack if common sense
Sounds like it needs more IA ... and possibly a subscription service
Just remember, if you're late paying for that, the car will
stop workingdrive to the junkyard... with you in it
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
the tolls were supposed to be temporary to recoup the construction costs
New York state ran a similar scam with the Thruway, an expressway that runs east-west from one end of the state to the other. The tolls were supposed to end in 1996, roughly forty years after the highway opened, but naturally the state gummint got addicted to the revenue.
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Yes, the "temporary" part is a classic bait-and-switch.
What is extra-stupid is selling something that generates a guaranteed revenue stream as soon as it starts being profitable.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
Yes, the "temporary" part is a classic bait-and-switch.
What is extra-stupid is selling something that generates a guaranteed revenue stream as soon as it starts being profitable.Socialize losses and privatize profit is a very classic approach, too.
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@Zerosquare Hey now, you dirty communist. If the roads had remained a state property, they would just be mooching money from taxes and tolls. But if they sell it to their private sector cronies, they can then mooch monies from taxes, tolls and kickbacks
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Alas, it does not seem LibreOffice would use Gtk. Rather it looks like they are just doing it their own way.
So, instead of Gtk they came up with .... something worse.
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The tolls were supposed to end in 1996
Before WW I, Germany (ruled by Kaiser Wilhelm back in those days) invested in submarines. Because that costs money, a new tax was needed.
A tax was imposed on sparkling wine.
The submarines are all sunk since more than 100 years.
The tax lives on.
Of course!
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@hungrier Looks more like than like ... Either way, it's right
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Quick quiz: What's the issue with these files?
Yup, they haven't been added to source control yet. They're just fine (code wise), just untracked.
Stupid Android Studio....
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@Benjamin-Hall How did you get … two files with the same name side by side? I thought IDEA already left that moronic idea of not following the filesystem layout in the project tree.
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@Benjamin-Hall How did you get … two files with the same name side by side? I thought IDEA already left that moronic idea of not following the filesystem layout in the project tree.
Those are in different subprojects/libraries. But that particular view shows all those files at the same level. This is Android Studio FYI.
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@Benjamin-Hall Isn't Android Studio based on IDEA?
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@Zecc Yes, it is.
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@Benjamin-Hall Isn't Android Studio based on IDEA?
Dunno. But it's a in a lot of ways. Especially on mac. I did clip the parts of it that say "hey, this is in that project, not the main one" while screenshotting it (for pseudo-anonymity)
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Technically it is masked but I suspect not in the way intended.
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TIL when a man kneels it's not for praying ( ?)
Bonus WTF: WebMCam captured the video with the wrong offset.
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How did you get … two files with the same name side by side?
Non-Latin letters could do the trick … and also make it fun for people to quickly navigate to the files by typing the start of the name.
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Non-Latin letters could do the trick
I know, but this didn't look like a deliberate trick of that kind (instead it's that moronic idea of some IDEs and editors that filenames are sufficiently informative without mentioning the directory they are in—because quite often they are not (cue a project with couple dozens
main.tf
,variables.tf
andoutputs.tf
files each).
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instead it's that moronic idea of some IDEs and editors that filenames are sufficiently informative without mentioning the directory they are in
I can't imagine anyone who's had to create individual files for CRUD definitions would EVER think this is a good idea...
I really should replace these with psuedo classes but
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it's that moronic idea of some IDEs and editors that filenames are sufficiently informative without mentioning the directory they are in
In that same area: the way Windows truncates filenames etc. when there’s not enough room to show the full length. I remember a review of Windows 95 pointing out how handy it was to have a whole bunch of taskbar buttons all reading
Microso…
if you opened a bunch of Microsoft Office applications and/or documents at the same time. I don’t think this has been fixed in the intervening 28 years …
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@Gurth It wasn't fixed on Windows side, but most applications learned to put the document name first so at least the more useful part gets shown when the title is truncated. The more reasonable ones even learned to put the information in order document-name – path – application, but I don't think msoffice includes the path part (not have any running right now for quick check).
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@Tsaukpaetra Yes, they do. Well, first few letters only, because I have the taskbar moved to the right edge. One can squeeze in a few more letters by flipping the “Use small taskbar buttons” option.
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@Tsaukpaetra No, not the latest and shittiest, no.
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@Tsaukpaetra No, not the latest and shittiest, no.
Can wait for your inevitability...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Can wait for your inevitability...
Ackshelly, some time ago it was reported it might be coming back
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@Gurth It wasn't fixed on Windows side, but most applications learned to put the document name first so at least the more useful part gets shown when the title is truncated.
TBH, I was more thinking of Explorer windows, open/save dialogs etc., but couldn’t find any examples on a quick search. Instead, here’s an example of how Windows doesn’t do it:
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TBH, I was more thinking of Explorer windows, open/save dialogs etc., but couldn’t find any examples on a quick search.
Don't ask and you will eventually receive!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Don't ask and you will eventually receive!
Yay! This is the first time in my life that that approach has worked!
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@Gurth With @Tsaukpaetra, I often ask that I not get , but receive anyway.
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EnglishFrench is hard, let's go shopping!There is one relatively recent trend that I hate in French websites. For some reason this seems to be mostly a French trend, I haven't seen that much of it in English, maybe because there is less variation in verbs' conjugation.
What I hate is that many websites are now written in the first person, as if the user is reading aloud the text as a monologue. "I log in," "I change my password" etc.
What I hate even more is when websites are confused and mix various persons speaking:
"For your security you are disconnected..."
"to connect to my account"
"to remember my login"
The button is again the infinitive (se connecter), the "forgotten password" link weasels around the issue by using an impersonal passive voice, and the final link to "create your online page" (whatever that means) is again "your."
Bonus! The green box at the top saying you've been disconnected ends with "please reconnect" except that "SVP vous reconnecter" is just... wrong.
It should be "reconnectez-vous SVP" (though using SVP in this setting doesn't quite ring true) or "merci de vous reconnecter" but not this weird incorrect thing.
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What I hate is that many websites are now written in the first person, as if the user is reading aloud the text as a monologue.
Btw, the worst instance of it that I saw was a website that also had a chat bot. The chat bot area looked as if the bot was speaking, something like "hello, ask me any question..." but the rest of the page was in the first person. So it was "I fill in my information" and "ask me a question."
Not only horrible to read (IMO) but horribly confusing as well.
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@remi OTOH, OVH just plays it safe and shows you
Sorry, the selected language is not supported for this country. Please choose another one. Thank you."
in their "OVHcloud Chat" window if you use their
.com
domain. Of course there is no way to choose any language or country or whatever, other than implicitly by logging intoovh.fr
As a bonus, their background scripts also produce a mix of English and French messages, in UTF-8, assumed by whatever middleware to be 8bit, so you get L'opération est terminée if you're lucky and everything worked.
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"to connect to my account"
Yeah, noticed that, too. Every time I see it, my inner voice goes "It's not your fucking account, it's mine!!! "
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As a bonus, their background scripts also produce a mix of English and French messages, in UTF-8, assumed by whatever middleware to be 8bit, so you get L'opération est terminée if you're lucky and everything worked.
This sounds like a good opportunity to harvest a bit more votes to one of my top posts.
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@ixvedeusi I am even more when they write full first person sentences. "Connect to my account" is bad enough, but "I connect to my account" is even worse, it sounds to me as if I'm dumb enough to read aloud what's written and then act on what I just said.
But weirdly when I bring that up to other people, they either say they didn't notice, or it doesn't bother them. Even with people who can out- me on French grammar (which says a lot!). So I guess I'm weird in this way also...
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I am Jack's account.