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by abanana 10mo ago
Indeed, part of me wants to not use imgur because we can't access it, but a bigger part of me fully supports imgur's decision to give the middle finger to the UK after our government's censorship overreach.
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by abanana 10mo ago
> one thing that I think was revolutionary about Jobs... No. Absolutely, unequivocally, no . You're talking about the difference between then and now in the way software was/is built, not the difference between Jobs and eve
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by abanana 10mo ago
In the late 1990s, Lego went the other way with those big single-purpose pieces, and were heavily criticised (particularly by older Lego fans) for "juniorisation" - over-simplifying sets so you just couldn't build anything di
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by abanana 10mo ago
Indeed, the title is the usual nonsense. Sales within a niche like this will always fluctuate. When someone spots a slight increase, they jump at the chance to wheel out this kind of headline. The article itself doesn't give hard numbe
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by abanana 11mo ago
This post explains it nicely, by showing the noticeboard they normally use to cover that camera hole (which looks like an unfinished window frame, missing its architrave): https://x.com/MattBaume/status/16617856000
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by abanana 11mo ago
I've just looked up the current price of 2x8GB DDR4 I bought from CCL back in June for a basic PC for my mother. Was £34, now £75. That's nuts. Interesting to know the old stuff currently has value though.
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by abanana 11mo ago
Overuse of bold markup, particularly to begin each bullet point. Overuse of "Here's..." to introduce or further every concept or idea. A few parts of this article particularly jump out, such as the 2 lists following the &quot
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by abanana 11mo ago
In the post you were replying to, perhaps inserting a paragraph break before "Since the game..." might help, more than selectively quoting from it. It might then be more clear that the phrase "the game" is referring to t
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by abanana 11mo ago
Indeed. We in "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" made an even bigger fuckup filling out our form, particularly when the Short Name field is populated with the generic-sounding "United Kingdom" ins
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by abanana 11mo ago
At school/college in the 90s, ring binders [1] were mandated by most subjects. Schools had piles of loose-leaf pre-punched A4 paper, but encouraged everyone to buy their own, which meant buying loosely-glued pads [2]. And dividers [3]
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by abanana 11mo ago
Yes, I totally agree. I've seen a few youngish graphic designers calling themselves "UX designers" even though they have zero learning, experience, or apparently knowledge in UX. They're just copying fashions they think
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by abanana 11mo ago
My mouth actually dropped open reading that first line. When I was at university around the year 2000, it was the way the majority of us made our lecture notes. (Another advantage: it makes it easy for someone to unclip a few pages to lend
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by abanana 11mo ago
> blame the individual seller, rather than the marketplace I'd have thought the fraud problems from "commingling" were well-enough known by now to avoid wanting to blame any specific Amazon Marketplace vendor, but perhap
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by abanana 11mo ago
They don't appear to have tested a dropdown for the month name, with text boxes for date and year. I've read elsewhere in UX research that the month name should be preferred, for clarity, over entering another number. So it's
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by abanana 11mo ago
I think your point is just emphasizing how bad these native datepickers are. They are specifically used by the browsers for <input type="date">. Their purpose is to enter a date . That's why their use in this way is ab
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by abanana 11mo ago
Could you explain what you mean? We're talking about the OS-native datepicker, which pops up when a user clicks on an HTML <input type="date">.
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by abanana 11mo ago
A few years ago I wrote a mobile app for use by patients of local doctors' surgeries. This meant a higher-than-average proportion of older, less tech-savvy users. There was a flood of complaints about the OS-native date pickers, along
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by abanana 1y ago
> I never need the sheet Often, just the act of making a cheat sheet somehow helps to fix the principles in the brain, so you rarely if ever need to refer to it afterwards. Something I've personally found multiple times anyway.
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by abanana 1y ago
Yes, but it's not readable because clicking the small image doesn't do anything (for me anyway, in Firefox on Windows), so it's not even obvious that was the intention. It does open the lightbox view in Chrome. An image doesn
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by abanana 1y ago
James Dyson drives me nuts. His modus operandi is to take something that has an inherent compromise, which exists for a specific reason, and to remove that compromise, thereby slightly improving one thing at the larger expense of something
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by abanana 1y ago
No, I recall once being surprised at seeing it in XP back in the day, on a particularly old PC that had had its OS upgraded from 9x. Older AT power supplies were entirely mechanically controlled using the power button. ATX power supplies ad
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by abanana 1y ago
Still got mine from my childhood. Just put a battery up his bum and tested him. Works perfectly! There was no money inside him though. My brother still has Mr DJ and Dingbot. This site's got me interested in whether they still work too
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by abanana 1y ago
"Please revert" is standard in South African and Indian English. A regional difference rather than an oddity from a point in history.
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by abanana 1y ago
Ah I see, thank you for the explanation. Regarding how quickly it was caught, bugs like this are a clear argument against the idea of "always update immediately" that's pushed down everyone's throat these days, and parro
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by abanana 1y ago
The apparent lack of testing is shocking for something this big. If I'm understanding correctly, this update will have caused issues across huge swathes of the web, including all Wordpress installations running on this version of Apach
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by abanana 1y ago
The simplest aspects of the concept of escaping are beyond the comprehension of some people. Several years ago, I showed a colleague that in the simple file-storage web app he'd written, just changing part of the URL from e.g. "
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by abanana 1y ago
Tracking website ads has become so normalised, it doesn't seem to even cross the minds of web-only marketing people to think: how has this always worked for advertising via TV, radio, billboards, newspapers/magazines, etc? Website
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by abanana 1y ago
> The fix back then was to bake your GPU in the oven for a while Oh that brings back bad memories! We were running a LAN centre, and our 7900GT graphics cards were failing left and right. We bought 23 8800GTS cards to replace/upgr
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by abanana 1y ago
Powerless, that's exactly it. I pushed back when asked to implement email-based "2FA" on a website account (nothing like as important as a bank though). I pointed out that the username is the email address, and password recov
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by abanana 1y ago
Exactly. Yes I understand the meaning behind it, but the line gets drummed into developers everywhere, the subtleties and real meaning are lost, and every optimisation- or efficiency-related question on Stack Overflow is met with cries of &

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