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His Divine Shadow posted:I remember someone comparing an early 90s store / warehouse system that was keyboard only vs. a later mouse based GUI and his conclusion was the keyboard only software was superior, once you got over the initial hump of only using a mouse. Man I've tried to find that article again, I can't even remember if it was an article or a youtube video... Some of that old terminal software legitimately holds up today in terms of 'getting a task done quickly'. When the developer can't be distracted by The Aesthetic(tm), you can focus instead on actually making a functional piece of software. Most small-to-medium form-like software would probably be unironically better if you put it in the hands of some guy from the 80s. If you are building software where someone is filling out fields, and you don't support reasonable sectioning and thoughtful tab ordering + shift tab support, your software is literally worse then poo poo running on an AS/400.
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They can't use reflectors anywhere it snows because the plow would wreck it. When I first moved up I wondered why they dont use them in Canada.
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Outrail posted:They can't use reflectors anywhere it snows because the plow would wreck it. When I first moved up I wondered why they dont use them in Canada. The English style cat's eyes handle them fine, they depress into the ground.
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I’m looking for a cute dress for my birthday and Shein/Temu Delenda Est. Holy poo poo I try to look for anything and 80 percent of the results are either one or the other. I guess death to Google Shopping for allowing this.
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Some of that old terminal software legitimately holds up today in terms of 'getting a task done quickly'. When the developer can't be distracted by The Aesthetic(tm), you can focus instead on actually making a functional piece of software. Most small-to-medium form-like software would probably be unironically better if you put it in the hands of some guy from the 80s. If you are building software where someone is filling out fields, and you don't support reasonable sectioning and thoughtful tab ordering + shift tab support, your software is literally worse then poo poo running on an AS/400. Everytime our suppliers of our e-commerce system do an update it's like they've added more mouse clicks to do the same thing. So many loving mouse clicks and steps...
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His Divine Shadow posted:I remember someone comparing an early 90s store / warehouse system that was keyboard only vs. a later mouse based GUI and his conclusion was the keyboard only software was superior, once you got over the initial hump of only using a mouse. Man I've tried to find that article again, I can't even remember if it was an article or a youtube video... If the keyboard-only system was IBM’s RADS, I agree with this and there’s a 99% chance I blackout posted about it some time in the last 20 years.
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Apparently they've changed the system in the post office so when the cashier looks up the price for your letter it gives the most expensive one first, and the cheapest fare is now on a second page. At least she realised before I paid an extra 2 quid for postage.
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BigHead posted:Florida should spend an extra $0.14 /mile and significantly improve the road infrastructure. Florida is full of retired libertarians who get red-faced whenever their tax dollars are used to benefit other people. It's a miracle they still pave the roads.
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MikeJF posted:The English style cat's eyes handle them fine, they depress into the ground. I lived in Scotland for a winter and the snow barely needs to be plowed rather than multiple times a week every week for months on end. I think they'd get wrecked by Canadian style snow plows? Happy to be proven wrong tho Or north Americans just won't accept newfangled devil technology because of idiocy or lobbyists. Both equally likely.
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euphronius posted:In PA, at night in the rain I pretty much just follow the car in front of me and hope they can see this is what we do in wisconsin any time we drive anywhere
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Apr 2, 2024 14:34
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Methheads here would steal them anyway.
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Philthy posted:this is what we do in wisconsin any time we drive anywhere Wisconsin roads were scary at times. I spent most of my adult life there and grew up around Chicago so I'm just amazed anytime someone complains about the roads here in SC.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Everytime our suppliers of our e-commerce system do an update it's like they've added more mouse clicks to do the same thing.
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Dip Viscous posted:Methheads here would steal them anyway. Makes me wonder if there's some kind of step in the process that regulation can clamp down on in order to remove the monetary incentive from shady scrap people, which would then remove the main motive for theft. Maybe regulating the source of incoming materials to foundries similar to the fda and livestock? I get that the fda is poorly funded and has way too few inspectors, but that kind of reinforces the point - even though the example agency is vastly underfunded and underpowered, it still got the job done in improving the hell out of things. There's a long way to go, sure, but progress is progress. Why not the same for the metal industry?
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:I design and build desktop software. Specifically, I work on production-class software which informs a lot of my opinions about how UI should be built. I have so much to say about this, and I would love to turn this into a talk at some make believe software design conference. Also, if you have trouble with smaller elements, we have DPI settings nowadays. (Admittedly kinda poo poo on old things but the new stuff that loves to put padding everywhere is usually capable of properly dealing with DPI settings)
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Yeah that was awesome. They had very smooth (and well maintained) but black asphalt roads everywhere around that area. Those reflectors should be on every single road. Sorry your county exists to support a varsity football team, that is a non football expense
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Lol https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1775215997898698907?t=e6P4t226rF4Qj5WNEqF_mA&s=19
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who would have guessed it was mechanical turks all along?
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lmao i always wondered about that when i first got into doing devops/infra and got an aws cert the ai grocery stores were one of the big tech innovations used to hype up aws
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Some of that old terminal software legitimately holds up today in terms of 'getting a task done quickly'. When the developer can't be distracted by The Aesthetic(tm), you can focus instead on actually making a functional piece of software. Most small-to-medium form-like software would probably be unironically better if you put it in the hands of some guy from the 80s. If you are building software where someone is filling out fields, and you don't support reasonable sectioning and thoughtful tab ordering + shift tab support, your software is literally worse then poo poo running on an AS/400. Too many companies I've worked for (software tester) get so damned lost in their ui design that user workflows suffer. Thing you do 10 times is buried under 2 sub menus, which you have to navigate to EVERY time you do thing, complete with grids that have to be filtered each time and don't remember the last filter...because the menus look cool.
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TrashMammal posted:who would have guessed it was mechanical turks all along? The artificial intelligence is actually 3 slaves in a trench coat
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Woolie Wool posted:Sorry your county exists to support a varsity football team, that is a non football expense They didn't even win this year! 
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On the UI stuff, I just moved to a new floor at our office, and it's got a newer/fancier copier/printer model. Which means that the "one touch" button I sent up to scan stuff to my e-mail involves at least four additional button presses and two short loading screens AFTER I hit the button with my name. EDIT: Oh, and it doesn't stay set on my e-mail address, so I've got to do it every time unless I send every document through it in one go.
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But think of how much more convenient it is to send a
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One thing I've noticed being slightly less lovely lately is menus on blu rays. Most things I've bought in the last few years have really simple menus that (after the inevitable company ident and copyright notice) transition to whatever you're trying to look at more or less instantly. Compared to most DVDs and older blu rays I've owned, where there were unskippable trailers and lengthy animated menu transitions it's kinda nice. Special shout out to the loving awful 'In Bruges' blu ray where, if your blu ray player is connected to the internet for any reason (like, if it's a playstation) it not only has unskippable trailers but it actually forces you to wait while it downloads trailers and then makes you watch them. I'm not sure if the 'BD-Live' feature ever got used for anything other than this kinda poo poo. I remember magazines talking about how you'd be able to sync up watching a film with other people over the internet, and I thought that was a great idea (I still do, I regularly watch films with friends and family using watch parties on prime), but I don't know if that ever actually materialised on actual discs. Anyway, thankfully you can disable all BD-Live bullshit on most modern players.
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Ikea now requires an email address for you to buy tall, narrow furniture like dressers. They pinkie promise they won't use it for anything other than to send safety information, but if that were the case it'd come in the box like it has for the last twenty years. I've had way, way too much experience with companies gathering my data on false pretenses to use for commercial means to be fooled by this, and while I expect this from an American company, I went out of my way to go to IKEA specifically because this sort of brazen bullshit doesn't happen there. Well, didn't. Does now, though! Good news is they don't validate (yet).
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Your email address or an email address?
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I’ve mostly given up on the idea of printing things. Way too complicated
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euphronius posted:I’ve mostly given up on the idea of printing things. Way too complicated Kind of in the same boat. Just too much trouble right now. I want the fidelity of resin printing, with extremely low failure rates, and no cleanup or post-curing. If they get to the point where you can load a model, hit print, and it spits out a ready to go model, with no further input or post care needed, I might jump in then. But regular paper printing? Ugh, never.
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euphronius posted:I’ve mostly given up on the idea of printing things. Way too complicated I had to print out my tax returns and take them into an IRS Office, because I didn't receive the letter to confirm my identity in the mail (which is its own enshittification, because apparently filing fake tax returns with other peoples SSNs is a thing) It cost me 7.50 to print out 30-odd pages in black and white. For a stack of paper the IRS absolutely demanded to have in full, and which the IRS agent looked at the top two pages, and then I had this big stack of paper with a bunch of PII for literally no reason whatsoever
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euphronius posted:I’ve mostly given up on the idea of printing things. Way too complicated It's amazing that even the giant network printers at my work cannot manage to print without some kind of fuckup or error or time out, on the daily. Those things look like they cost a lot of money plus whatever monthly maintenance contract. And it's still just flaming garbage. PC load letter? Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged. Things are not meant to be printed. They have taken us for utter fools.
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I don’t think my it department cares if I print or not. There is no reasonable avenue for me to connect a printer to my computer It’s just like how they replaced the perfectly working landlines with internet phones ?? That have since never worked . There is no way to call me at work at my old business office phone number . I guess that is ok
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TotalLossBrain posted:It's amazing that even the giant network printers at my work cannot manage to print without some kind of fuckup or error or time out, on the daily. We had a wide format printer error out and refuse to print because one of the parts was at the end of it's rated life. It wasn't broken. It just printed exactly 10,000 feet or whatever and then crossed its arms and stopped until we paid for a professional service plan.
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euphronius posted:I don’t think my it department cares if I print or not. There is no reasonable avenue for me to connect a printer to my computer That's not a case of them not caring, it's a case of them deciding its not needed for your job. Why are you trying to add a printer when work doesn't already have one set up?
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euphronius posted:I got a new computer sucks for you
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So that's when you go to your boss and say "IT hosed up and i can't do my job until they fix it. Do you have a different computer that works?" If you're not paid specifically to be a computer janitor, then don't budge an inch. At work you admit that you know how to use a computer, but you tell them that know absolutely nothing about configuring them and if they press you say "I'm not comfortable taking on that liability"
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Outrail posted:They can't use reflectors anywhere it snows because the plow would wreck it. When I first moved up I wondered why they dont use them in Canada. They dig out a little dip out of the asphalt and they work just fine.
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Yeah don't be an IT scab Printers such because places don't pay for printer people anymore
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