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@Bulb Or how about this crazy, if arguably too simple for modern "solutions", idea: using
monospace
for technical data such as identifiers?
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@Applied-Mediocrity stop making sense.
See also the thread about CSS being awful.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
@Bulb Or how this crazy, if arguably too simple for modern "solutions", idea: using
monospace
for technical data such as identifiers?But you have to plan the width for the widest of the fonts it can fall back to, while praying the customer left their browser's monospace font on default.
...Or maybe you can specify the width inem
?
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@Medinoc I vaguely recall there is one codepoint somewhere which actually represents an entire arabic phrase. Its glyph can be very wide, but its width can also vary a lot from font to font. Unfortunately, I am unable to locate it offhand.
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: ﷽"In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful "
Edit to add: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basmala
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@Applied-Mediocrity stop making sense.
Don't worry; it won't happen again.
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: ﷽…$ unicode -d 65021 U+FDFD ARABIC LIGATURE BISMILLAH AR-RAHMAN AR-RAHEEM UTF-8: ef b7 bd UTF-16BE: fdfd Decimal: ﷽ Octal: \0176775 ﷽ Category: So (Symbol, Other); East Asian width: N (neutral) Unicode block: FB50..FDFF; Arabic Presentation Forms-A Bidi: ON (Other Neutrals)
I am surprised it does not have a compatibility decomposition. I'd expect something that calls itself a ligature to have one.
But looking elsewhere in the Unicode database, some ligatures do have the decomposition defined, but a lot of them don't.
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I'd blame the web designer's hate for tables for this though.
Somehow "don't use tables for alignment" got taken to the extreme of "don't use tables for tabular data"
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From @Zecc's 🦞 feed:
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@topspin on the other hand years ago when I was actively making forum software, it would have been neat.
I had a user-discourage feature that would troll the bad users into leaving, it would disemvowel posts, scramble everything but the first/last letter, Zalgo would have been a nice option then.
But that was 2010-4 and I didn’t know about it.
til, smf was more interesting than I thought
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@sockpuppet7 this wasn’t SMF, this was a rebel fork called Wedge. Long-ass story there.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Guess nobody ever tried
Shirley there must be some method for which to avoid the elipsis?
No? Nothing?
Filed under: Pixels don't change size
Sometimes I have a tooltip on mousehover for things that truncate
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@dkf once upon a time, yes.
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@boomzilla said in UI Bites:
@topspin my cow-orkers stuck on Macs complain a lot more about Teams than anyone else.
Teams is just a page in my browser. What's the problem? (Why yes, I am on Ubuntu)
This also means I only run it when connecting to a meeting. (<looks> in 15 minutes)Same here, although it manages to crash Chromium more often than anything else. Good thing it's pretty much the only thing I use Chromium for.
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I had a user-discourage feature that would troll the bad users into leaving, it would disemvowel posts, scramble everything but the first/last letter, Zalgo would have been a nice option then.
There used to be a fairly popular mod for Counter-Strike 1.6 back in the day that checked chat messages for swear words and replaced the whole message with predefined text. I remember one server had it set to "I am rude and don't know how to speak in a civilized manner". Another had it set to "I'm welding train tracks". Not sure what that was supposed to mean but it sounded like an insult, which is good enough.
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What you get if you edit information on a Wikimedia Commons page and then decide you don’t want to commit the changes:
I’m sure there’s an English-language version that says much the same, but to trying to get that to appear just for a screenshot. Suffice to say, Annuleren translates as “Cancel”.
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@Gurth whatever you do, don't.
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@Gurth Do you pick Cancel, or Cancel (in red)?
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What you get if you edit information on a Wikimedia Commons page and then decide you don’t want to commit the changes:
I’m sure there’s an English-language version that says much the same, but to trying to get that to appear just for a screenshot. Suffice to say, Annuleren translates as “Cancel”.
I guess one means “cancel your edits, throw away your work”, the other is “cancel the operation (i.e. the other cancel), go back to the editing window”? Now just need to find out which is which.
Presumably the destructive one is red.
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Now just need to find out which is which.
Obviously, both will do the opposite of whatever you wanted
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Presumably the destructive one is red.
It was, yes. I picked that as the most likely one to prevent saving the changes I made, and got it right in one try.
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@Gurth You are a real connoisseur of Wikipedia!
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status: Chrome, I'm not sure, but I think that might be wrong...
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@Tsaukpaetra I don't know what I expected, but it definitely wasn't Christmas AD 1600.
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@Gustav Christmas is weird; the Windows epoch is January the 1st 1601.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
status: Chrome, I'm not sure, but I think that might be wrong...
Today we learned that you might be the second oldest member of WDTWTF (Hardwaregeek is still older for sure).
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
status: Chrome, I'm not sure, but I think that might be wrong...
Today we learned that you might be the second oldest member of WDTWTF (Hardwaregeek is still older for sure).
Doesn't @boomzilla have to be older than us all? Can an alt exist before the main?
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@Benjamin-Hall The Philosophical Question of the Day thread is
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@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
status: Chrome, I'm not sure, but I think that might be wrong...
Today we learned that you might be the second oldest member of WDTWTF (Hardwaregeek is still older for sure).
Doesn't @boomzilla have to be older than us all? Can an alt exist before the main?
It's a paradox. @boomzilla is all of us and yet @HardwareGeek is still older than all of us.
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
Hardwaregeek is still older for sure
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
status: Chrome, I'm not sure, but I think that might be wrong...
Today we learned that you might be the second oldest member of WDTWTF (Hardwaregeek is still older for sure).
Doesn't @boomzilla have to be older than us all? Can an alt exist before the main?
It's a paradox. @boomzilla is all of us and yet @HardwareGeek is still older than all of us.
From what I know, he's definitely older than me.
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@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
Hardwaregeek is still older for sure
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@boomzilla said in UI Bites:
@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
status: Chrome, I'm not sure, but I think that might be wrong...
Today we learned that you might be the second oldest member of WDTWTF (Hardwaregeek is still older for sure).
Doesn't @boomzilla have to be older than us all? Can an alt exist before the main?
It's a paradox. @boomzilla is all of us and yet @HardwareGeek is still older than all of us.
From what I know, he's definitely older than me.
Maybe, but from a picture you once posted (in ?), your hair is grayer than mine, so you look older.
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@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
Hardwaregeek is still older for sure
I remember correctly that you are far more than only one bit beyond 64.
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
Hardwaregeek is still older for sure
I remember correctly that you are far more than only one bit beyond 64.
64= 0x40: 7 bits
1 bit beyond 64 would be 8 bits, so 0x80–0xff, 128–255.
No.
Far more than that?
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@HardwareGeek OK, let's meet at a reasonable number. You surely won't need 64 bits.
OK?
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
You surely won't need 64 bits.
OK?8 bits is more than enough; 7 is adequate. Whether I need 7 bits already or expect to need that many in the future is none of your business.
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@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
You surely won't need 64 bits.
OK?8 bits is more than enough; 7 is adequate. Whether I need 7 bits already or expect to need that many in the future is none of your business.
He just needs to know if there's going to be a problem sending your age over a serial line, mm-kay?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
sending your age over a serial line
There are any number of encoding schemes that can send an arbitrarily large number of decimal digits over a serial line.
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@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
sending your age over a serial line
There are any number of encoding schemes that can send an arbitrarily large number of decimal digits over a serial line.
*now* there is.
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Today I was playing with the "labs" (i.e. practical training) of my azure course. Of course, some items on the mscertkit site were outdated again and could not be done.
Later on, I continued more labs on the godeploy site. Their performance was most greatest I have experienced upto now.
So many failures every now and then.
Did they select a "run on hardware" option when they created their resources?
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
Did they select a "run on hardware" option when they created their resources?
Most of the resources don't affect this, just the presumably VM you are working in.
It seems to be just Microsoft network having one of its days. Don't worry, it usually only has them on Tuesdays, Saturdays, Mondays, Wednesdays, Sundays, Fridays and sometimes Thursdays.
And of course web developers who heard TCP provides guaranteed session or something along the lines and ran with it.
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Another nice feature of godeploy's labs is that you cannot copy-paste into the virtual machine. But they have a fancy icon next to some longer texts which will just "type" it into the machine, i.e. where ever your cursor momentarily sits there.
Looks very useful, and is a little less effort than copy-paste. But when it comes to typing a class file into visual studio code (note thecode
version - not the real thing), it becomes :
Since VSCode adds indentation when you do a line break, and the original text of the class file already contains indentation, you get a few hundred (!) chars of indentation some where down.
Next, when you type a{
, VSCode automatically adds the]
afterwards and sets your cursor inbetween. The original text of the code file...
Same with"
,(
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And now enjoy the build errors in a file which looks fucking terrible!Edit:
Ah, I see: 8:13 AM.
They did not have their breakfast coffee yet.
How could I expect them to be able to perform great work then?
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@BernieTheBernie In
vim
I work around this (or at least the indentation part) by typing:set paste
first. I do not have vim set up to auto-add matching parenthesis. I have also in the past encountered editors which if I type, say,)
and there is an auto-inserted)
directly to the right of the cursor they will just move the cursor one space to the right.
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And of course web developers
who heard TCP provides guaranteed session or something along the lines and ran with it.