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Now you want to drag it to a different monitor.
I've learned to use the +Shift+←/→. Much, much easier.
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Why? + a few times too hard for you?
Add a shift to it. Win+← will first resize it to left half, screwing the layout up. Win+Shift+← will simply move it to previous monitor, otherwise preserving the geometry.
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@Bulb ohhh, nice
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@jmp Even though Firefox does the same it at least leaves an area between the New Tab button and the window controls that can be used for grabbing the window. Also, hitting Alt to bring up the normal menu bar works to get even more grabbable area. Has Chrome disabled the normal menu bar completely?
Well, Alt merely focuses your cursor on the address bar, starting at the three-dots-menu. There is no "Main Menu Bar" to speak of in Chrome, hasn't been in ages. Like, I think, ever, actually...
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Now you want to drag it to a different monitor.
I've learned to use the +Shift+←/→. Much, much easier.
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Why? + a few times too hard for you?
Add a shift to it. Win+← will first resize it to left half, screwing the layout up. Win+Shift+← will simply move it to previous monitor, otherwise preserving the geometry.
Great find!
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Ummm...
FILE_NOT_FOUND
?I clicked yes, now it's updating
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will simply move it to previous monitor, otherwise preserving the geometry.
Just tried it. 200% to 100% monitor worked fine. The other way, not so much.
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will simply move it to previous monitor, otherwise preserving the geometry.
Just tried it. 200% to 100% monitor worked fine. The other way, not so much.
All my monitors are at 100%
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All of a sudden, Windows 10 came up with this notification:
I like how the caption contradicts the notification body text.
Another Windows 10 niggle, which is only noticable if you have your taskbar on the top of the screen. The Clock flyout thingamagic nowadays can also show you an agenda. It's hidden by default, but you can click it:
When your taskbar is on the bottom, the "Show agenda" thing is on top and the whole flyout expands upwards when you click the label (and the arrow next to it flips). If you have your taskbar on top, the order of items is inverted. However, the arrows aren't swapped.
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Ummm...
FILE_NOT_FOUND
?I clicked yes, now it's updating
I've never seen a console user interface do anything remotely like this extremely common thing for GUIs to do when they break.
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@ben_lubar Because they're better, or because their developers were too lazy to add in any kind of localization?
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@blakeyrat said in UI Bites:
@ben_lubar Because they're better, or because their developers were too lazy to add in any kind of localization?
When's the last time you saw a console user interface print some random string and wait for input?
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@ben_lubar said in UI Bites:
@blakeyrat said in UI Bites:
@ben_lubar Because they're better, or because their developers were too lazy to add in any kind of localization?
When's the last time you saw a console user interface print some random string and wait for input?
Microsoft's XBox connectivity test usually does this quite a lot, but usually it's a formatted number and perhaps not exactly random (because usually clicking "Ok" and trying again will result in the same text being displayed).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@ben_lubar said in UI Bites:
@blakeyrat said in UI Bites:
@ben_lubar Because they're better, or because their developers were too lazy to add in any kind of localization?
When's the last time you saw a console user interface print some random string and wait for input?
Microsoft's XBox connectivity test usually does this quite a lot, but usually it's a formatted number and perhaps not exactly random (because usually clicking "Ok" and trying again will result in the same text being displayed).
There's a command prompt on the XBox?
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@ben_lubar said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@ben_lubar said in UI Bites:
@blakeyrat said in UI Bites:
@ben_lubar Because they're better, or because their developers were too lazy to add in any kind of localization?
When's the last time you saw a console user interface print some random string and wait for input?
Microsoft's XBox connectivity test usually does this quite a lot, but usually it's a formatted number and perhaps not exactly random (because usually clicking "Ok" and trying again will result in the same text being displayed).
There's a command prompt on the XBox?
Whoever said anything about a command prompt on the XBox?
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@AlexMedia said in UI Bites:
The Clock flyout thingamagic nowadays can also show you an agenda. It's hidden by default, but you can click it:
The Clock flyout thingamagic has a hidden agenda! You heard it here first! :tinfoil_hat:
The word in English is "calendar".
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@AlexMedia said in UI Bites:
The Clock flyout thingamagic nowadays can also show you an agenda. It's hidden by default, but you can click it:
The Clock flyout thingamagic has a hidden agenda! You heard it here first! :tinfoil_hat:
The word in English is "calendar".
In American English, maybe.
In English it's Chronicle .
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
In American English, maybe.
In English it's Chronicle .Is it?
No idea. I'm not English. I'm poking.
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@AlexMedia said in UI Bites:
The Clock flyout thingamagic nowadays can also show you an agenda. It's hidden by default, but you can click it:
The word in English is "calendar".
And here I was confusedly trying to figure out if it grabs the next meeting from outlook or something like that...
Calendar, yeah, that makes more sense.
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The agenda view uses the built in Calendar app to show your upcoming appointments. Which can be useful if you use that app.
I don't, though.
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@AlexMedia said in UI Bites:
The Clock flyout thingamagic nowadays can also show you an agenda. It's hidden by default, but you can click it:
The word in English is "calendar".
Not quite.
A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial or administrative purposes. An agenda is a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to, based on what's on your calendar.
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@AlexMedia said in UI Bites:
@AlexMedia said in UI Bites:
The Clock flyout thingamagic nowadays can also show you an agenda. It's hidden by default, but you can click it:
The word in English is "calendar".
Not quite.
A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial or administrative purposes. An agenda is a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to, based on what's on your calendar.
And a schedule is a prearranged sequence of events?
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@AlexMedia said in UI Bites:
@AlexMedia said in UI Bites:
The Clock flyout thingamagic nowadays can also show you an agenda. It's hidden by default, but you can click it:
The word in English is "calendar".
Not quite.
A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial or administrative purposes. An agenda is a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to, based on what's on your calendar.
True. I wasn't quite sure if it was also an agenda, based on the screenshot alone, so I took a gamble.
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The Clock flyout thingamagic has a hidden agenda!
Rats, I was going to say that. But whose agenda is it, feminist, marxist, alt-right? Do you get to choose?
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@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
The Clock flyout thingamagic has a hidden agenda!
Rats, I was going to say that. But whose agenda is it, feminist, marxist, alt-right? Do you get to choose?
Windows says no.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
In English it's Chronicle
Hmm, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle sounds a lot different to Anglo-Saxon Agenda…
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@Luhmann Don't be silly.
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Now you want to drag it to a different monitor.
I've learned to use the +Shift+←/→. Much, much easier.
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Why? + a few times too hard for you?
Add a shift to it. Win+← will first resize it to left half, screwing the layout up. Win+Shift+← will simply move it to previous monitor, otherwise preserving the geometry.
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I think Amazon really wants me to sign up for Prime...
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I think Amazon really wants me to sign up for Prime...
Amazon has a weird concept of "hey, this user probably wants to buy this other thing" where someone who buys a replacement toilet seat is probably a toilet seat enthusiast and someone who buys parts to build a computer definitely wants two or three more processors.
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@ben_lubar said in UI Bites:
Amazon has a weird concept of "hey, this user probably wants to buy this other thing" where someone who buys a replacement toilet seat is probably a toilet seat enthusiast and someone who buys parts to build a computer definitely wants two or three more processors.
Yeah, it works well for entertainment products - if you buy one book, you'll probably be interested in a similar book; when you buy music you'll likely be interested in other music by the same artist, or by similar artists. But they really need to distinguish between products like that which you can buy many of with no particular limit, and devices or other non-consumable products that you buy to do a job, and once you buy one you don't need or want to revisit that entire category.
"I see you bought a Kindle recently. Now have a look at all the other Kindle models, you might like to buy them too!"
An Amazon real estate agent would see you through to settlement on one property, and then try to drag you around to viewings on all the other properties in the area that you looked at before deciding on the one you wanted.
Though some aspects of their recommendation engine could be useful (People who bought a house also bought: [furniture, whitegoods, insurance, etc]).
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in UI Bites:
Yeah, it works well for entertainment products
It mostly depends on how fast the product is "used up".
Someone who buys cleaning products or food is likely to buy those things again. Someone who buys a gaming console or a refrigerator is much less likely to still be in the market for those things because they don't really get "used up" until the hardware fails.
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True, but even for consumables, you're not likely to buy them again immediately.
If they were a bit more clever, they'd associate an average renewal delay with each kind of product they sell, and suggest buying some again when that delay is up. For some reason they don't do that, even though it wouldn't be difficult to implement, and people have been commenting for years how stupid their current strategy is.
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I predict that when Amazon implements these clever recommendation algorithms and consequentially earns loads more money, some of the same people that criticized their recommendations out of sheer annoyance will be the ones crying about how too big Amazon has gotten.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
For some reason they don't do that, even though it wouldn't be difficult to implement, and people have been commenting for years how stupid their current strategy is.
That's really the part I don't get. They're huge, they've introduced (invented!) many new ideas to the online retail business in the past so it's not like they don't know how to test/implement/roll-out an idea. But for years and years they've been stuck with a recommendation system that anyone can see doesn't work (out of their original market for entertainment), and with many kind of obvious ways to improve.
There must be a good reason, I can't believe it's just "oh we never thought about it", but I really struggle to find it.
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@remi I think it's because the cost of getting it wrong in these cases is negligible. OK, if you've just bought a fridge you probably are going to think it's a bit silly that Amazon thinks you'll probably want to buy another one, but it's not intrusive or annoying enough to make you not want to use Amazon the next time you do want to buy something. So there's no real downside to it from Amazon's point of view.
Heck, for all I know they've concluded that the brief feeling of superiority you get from mocking it works out better for them in the long run than a correctly functioning recommendation engine would.
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There must be a good reason, I can't believe it's just "oh we never thought about it", but I really struggle to find it.
It is a big corporation now. There may be hundreds of people in it who thought about it, but in a big corporation, getting useful information to a manager who can actually act on it is hard.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in UI Bites:
@remi I think it's because the cost of getting it wrong in these cases is negligible.
Maybe, yes. But on the other hand, given the huge mass of transaction they're seeing, even a tiny increase in efficiency in their ads should be worth the effort.
Heck, for all I know they've concluded that the brief feeling of superiority you get from mocking it works out better for them in the long run than a correctly functioning recommendation engine would.
You know what, that is so devious and counter-intuitive that I would actually believe that more than the "sheer laziness" argument!
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As much as I like mocking big corporations for their inefficiencies, I'm not convinced that's the case here. Bad recommendations are a lost opportunity for sales: the space wasted on displaying that fridge could have been used to show you something you'd actually consider buying. And if there's something Amazon understands, it's optimizing everything to make money.
So there must be another explanation, but like Rémi, I can't see it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
In American English, maybe.
In English it's Chronicle .Is it?
No idea. I'm not English. I'm poking.
Never heard of that country. Maybe you meant Polish or Pokémon?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
In American English, maybe.
In English it's Chronicle .Is it?
No idea. I'm not English. I'm poking.
Never heard of that country. Maybe you meant Polish or Pokémon?
No idea. Because my keyboard works through fuzzy typing, the number of letters is probably within one of the intended word, but it may be something different. After all, my keyboard looks like this:
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@Tsaukpaetra Is that... intentional?!
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Wait, I have two instances of
git
open? And for some reason, Visual Studio can't update while they're open?TO THE PROCESS EXPLORER!
Why are there two suspended
git
processes that aren't actually doing anything?I unsuspended them and they both immediately exited.
Also, why do I have multiple parentless
conhost.exe
processes?
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@Tsaukpaetra Is that... intentional?!
Is what intentional? The width of the keyboard? That part is. Usually I have it slightly larger.
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@Tsaukpaetra It looks like the whole keyboards is 2x4 inches. How can you type on that?
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Select Continue to save their current state, close them, and restart them when the installation is done.
How did VS intend to save the git processes' current state, and what would actually happen when you click Continue?
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@Tsaukpaetra It looks like the whole keyboards is 2x4 inches. How can you type on that?
My phone is a 5.5" screen (I think) so definitely not 2"x4" keyboard. Normally (in portrait mode) the keyboard spans the width of the screen, so perhaps 2.2", and the keyboard height is about 1".
Before the recent data-loss event, I typed fine. But since the database is now starting from scratch, many links in the markov dictionary are no longer present, so problems happen on occasion. It will get better though.
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and what would actually happen when you click Continue?
Obviously reboot when the install is done.