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Cake day: December 20th, 2021

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  • From the rules:

    All posts must be news articles.
    

    From the post:

    abcnews.go.com
    

    QED

    Just because the post complies with one rule doesn’t mean that it is now exempt from all other rules. I already posted the part of the rules which it violates: “No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed.”

    I’m not sure where you went wrong, but maybe take a few minutes before coming in so hot next time

    What does “coming in so hot” mean? Posting something that you disagree with?







  • This is great! Some feedback on UI:

    • The first thing I did was click ⇩ on a post and it prompted me to log-in. This is confusing because I thought I could train the recommender without having to log-in. It took me a minute to find the “Like/Dislike” buttons because they require an extra click to open the post menu. Maybe make the Like/Dislike a bit more prominent and accessible, and find a way to differentiate between the controls for training the recommender and the upvote/downvote actions on the post itself. Or even better, make them the same thing so there’s only one pair of controls and if you’re not logged-in then upvoting just boosts the recommendation but doesn’t actually send the upvote action to the post.
    • Please use actual links (<a href=""></a>) for post navigation so that I can tell my browser to open a link in a new tab. Usually I middle-click to do this (in Firefox) but since the post title and content only respond to javascript events, I can’t middle click to open in a new tab. Clicking the post opens it in the same window.
    • Add text content of posts, or at least a button to expand the text content. Right now text posts are just the post title and I have to click through to read the content.
    • Add alt-text (tooltips) to your buttons. I know what the standard share/bookmark icons look like but it helps to have tooltips to be sure.
    • Add a link to open the original post (on the origin server). Every fediverse UI has this. If you have it too, I couldn’t find it.
    • Allow me to see (and drag) the scrollbar of the main content frame.
    • Add a refresh button (maybe at the top of the feed) so that I can generate more recommended content without having to actually reload the page in the browser.
    • When clicking a community name, I get the community page but I can’t press the back button to go back to the feed.
    • If I “dislike” a post, I don’t expect to see it again after a refresh, or ever.

    Also, it’s a bit late to change it now, but the name is very 2009-internet-startup.


  • It was more than just a special icon for a folder, it had special behaviour too. Without looking it up (in the spirit of the meme), I seem to remember that it would automatically sync the files any time that you insert the floppy disk, kind of like having Dropbox but without the internet. The idea being that you would have files on your computer that you could take with you somewhere else (in your briefcase, on a floppy disk) and all instances of that briefcase would automatically sync the latest updates of the files without you having to manually copy them and work out which was the latest version of a file.


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    8 months ago

    Correct. A piece of paper with the golden (aspect) ratio would have the property that if you remove the large square (with side length equal to the shortest side of the rectangle) then the remaining rectangle has the same (golden) aspect ratio.

    The ISO216 ratio of 1:sqrt(2) has the property that if you cut the paper in half then both halves have the same aspect ratio as the original larger piece.

    People tend to confuse these two properties as they both involve the remaining rectangle having the same aspect ratio as the original piece, but the process to bisect the sheet is different.





  • The Saturn cartridge slot can be very temperamental. The things I would try, in this order:

    • Push the cartridge in all the way and then back it out just 1mm and see if that makes better contact
    • Put a thin card behind the cartridge so it is pushed forward just slightly and see if that makes better contact
    • Disassemble the console and use some contact cleaner on the slot. Be careful not to bend the pins.
    • Loosen the screws that hold in the connector just slightly

    When you find the right position to get a cart working, it’s best to leave it inserted. This is why many people use the multi-functions carts, so that they don’t have to constantly swap carts and go through the process of trying to get a good contact every time.