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How would it know?

• Zopieux 7mo ago
  Have you heard of machine learning?
  • unselect5917 7mo ago
    If you put machine learning into the loading of a right click menu, I want you to step on a Lego barefoot immediately afterward. Right click menus should be instant. No fade in. No animation. No spinner. And certainly not any machine learning calls.
    • eviks 7mo ago
      Have you heard of async? You can get instant menu with a delayed menu item
      • VVertigo 7mo ago
        That is a recipe for pain too: menus shouldn't be morphing as the user is trying to choose an option.
        • eviks 7mo ago
          Sure, but this also has an easy solution - don't morph, have an inactive menu in place (with an indicator of wort work in progress) that activates when the work is done
          • unselect5917 7mo ago
            Thank you. There are sane, good ways to build UIs, and after 30 years of programming, my main complaint hasn't changed: "Stop doing what you're doing, and do what I want." Be like TRON, fight for the user. Not the developer. Not the developer's politics or opinions, and certainly not for the computer itself. The user's wants are the #1 priority in a human-computer interaction.
  • kps 7mo ago
    Sure. If I select the word “Gift”, how much work does it need to decide whether it's English? How much more context does it need, and where does it get it? What if it guesses wrong and doesn't show the translation button?