RajBhai

Whenever I've seen an explanation of UX (to differentiate it from UI), one classic example was Tesla's supercharger network.

We all remember Steve Balmer's comments about the iPhone when it was launched. That, without a physical keyboard, it wouldn't appeal to business users.

Yet, you can see the night and day difference between using the native keyboard and using a simulated one in games like Wordle. Whatever tricks they pulled to make the keyboard work like magic speak to the execution of the smartphone that Apple excelled at.

And that separated the iPhone from whatever came before it.

NAFTA bad. USMCA good.

I have a couple of thoughts about this.

Firstly, I thought sans-serif typefaces were encouraged for digital media because they read better than serif fonts. But now that high pixel density displays have permeated the market, this might be a moot point.

On another note, I wonder how much of the hate TNR gets stems from its ubiquity for having been installed on almost all personal computers for the past n decades.

Paganis are beautifully designed cars, but the labelling of buttons and toggles inside the center console look cheap (IMO) because their font seems straight out of a quickly made flyer designed by bored teacher who just discovered Word Art.

I don't even care that much if they want to handle the 2FA with their proprietary methods. There are Android APIs that broker the OTP SMS delivery to the app without the app needing full access to the phone's messages.

If they can't do it on iPhone, they don't need to do it on Android.

All the banks I have an account with here in India require SMS permission to use their apps, along with . The last straw was HDFC with their latest app revamp.

I've resorted to using the online web app.

If I recall, Watson was fed the whole text of the answer as soon as the other contestants could see it. Personally, I thought it would be fairer to have it do speech-to-text and/or OCR to level the playing field.

But I suppose these constraints are just targeting the machine's input mechanism and not its actual reasoning ability once the answer is read. I'm curious how Watson at the time could handle a particular category that Ken dominated: "Initials to Roman Numerals to Numbers" [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/PsQ_mT5YSvg?si=8L9uKJj1hpYU_kuf

It would be cool if the Macbook can figure out the relative position of a newly connected external monitor. It would help in setting up the monitor with little manual adjustments.

Since covid, we no longer have assigned desks at work --- it's first come, first served. And while most are respectful of the desks we have "chosen" for ourselves, every once in a while, I'll have to sit at some other, often new desk. And that means my laptop will not recognize the monitor and that I'll have to configure it (scaling, relative position, etc).

And Windows being the mediocre OS that it is, will always select to duplicate the screens even though the logical choice is to extend. My laptop screen and the external monitor aren't even the same aspect ratio. SMH.

At least Macs have the sense to extend screens by default. Though, if I could place a Macbook on the desk, plug in the external monitor, tilt the screen back until the camera can see the monitor, the hinge sensor and cameras can work together to figure out where the monitor is relative to the laptop, and automatically determine the right settings for the monitor instead of requiring my intervention.

I'm thinking of closing my ICICI bank account because the app requires granting SMS permissions.

I remember hotmail before gmail. Attachments had a 2 MB limit. I couldn't even share HQ photos using hotmail. And the whole inbox had a 25 MB capacity. I do believe there were paid alternatives with more storage.

Gmail came in with 1 GB storage and grouping emails as conversations. To me, both of these aspects were revolutionary, and other email providers shortly followed suit.

I said that this implicit use of 10 or some other number shouldn't be allowed. So log, ln, lg (i.e base 2) shouldn't be allowed, but log_b(x) where b and x are states is OK, just as 10^x, e^x, and 2^x require you to explicitly expose the base (and for this puzzle, disallow 10 and e since neither is a 2).

Successor is essentially s(n) = n + 1, so that shouldn't be allowed either.

I would say that any function that implicitly favors a single number must be explicitly stated, and thus, if used for this game, be the number 2. So all uses of the radical must state which root (2). Dirac's solution then wouldn't work because the use of 2 is O(n).

Logs would also need to state the base. No implicit use of e or 10, and lg wouldn't be allowed in place of log2.

I haven't said much other than logs and roots are binary operators with one of the operands usually implicit in the notation, so if we don't have special notation for powers and exponentiation, then we shouldn't allow the same for their inverse operations.

I didn't say it was. Browsers display an alert when full-screen mode is activated. Full-screen mode isn't a security feature, but the browser does something the website developer can't control so that users can conclude that something fishy isn't going on. I think the ability for one website to hide that they've redirected to another is a vulnerability.

Sounds like a security flaw that browsers honor this.

Parties should be able to place age restrictions on the candidates.

That can't stop an elderly candidate from running third party to spite the eligibility rules, but that's already the case.

How about the login service send the code encrypted in the SMS such that it can only be decrypted on the phone of the actual user? Still vulnerable to phishing attempts, but better than relying on deficiencies of SMS technology .

When exporting an Excel doc, for example to CSV, the app makes the new file (CSV) the active document.

This has serious consequences if I continue to make changes in the new doc when I think I'm still in the native doc (xlsx).

I find myself exporting to CSV, and then closing this CSV file, and finally reopening the original Excel doc.

If I recall, the automatic download didn't work. I had to click the manual download link.

The pop-up said Edge was based on Chrome with the added trust of MS.

I really wish I could get others to use Firefox, but they're too used to Chrome.

The other day I tried to install Chrome on a new laptop. (Insert joke about what Edge is good for.) However, Edge wasn't letting me actually download the Chrome installer. When I clicked the download button on the Chrome website, instead of any indication of its progress or completion, Edge instead displayed a pop-up that kept reassuring me that Edge was just as good.

So it turns out, Edge isn't even good enough to fulfill its meme.

Can they just not turn the active document into the file I just exported the workbook as?

I think most people were just used to the old UI and resistant to change, so they complained about it. Yet, if you asked someone completely new to computing which UI they'd prefer, they would choose the ribbon.

If anything, placing the Styles menu front and center in the Home tab with live preview has made document formatting very discoverable. I used to receive so many Word docs with manually adjusted fonts and line spacing. Not so much after the ribbon was introduced.

Perhaps if people were more literate in programming, they could demand more from software vendors. Think spotting BS/over-promising by vendors.

I think too many managers/execs sign off on software that's of such low quality because everything is magic to them and they don't know to dream bigger.

Probably not the right forum for this, but does anyone know if it's possible to mail merge into separate Word docs, one for each recipient in the data source? I can only ever get a single document with all the outputs concatenated.

My workflow requires that I send out actual mail, in which case the concatenated result doesn't matter once printed, but I'd like to keep a copy of the individual docs for record keeping.

Ah, the Stack Overflow gambit.

Android hasn't needed any printer plugin to be manually installed for a while now. Since Oreo I believe.

I've printed from my phone to my pi CUPS server. Even Windows 10 understands IPP.

Looks like the desktop site, but somehow being responsive to the mobile screen.

Try m.reddit.com

And conversation view. Hiding the quoted email being responded to.

Email before always looked like how Twitter threads do today.

If cars were cheaper due to less taxes, people would just pocket the savings instead of spending on safety features. Seatbelts are standard in all modern cars, yet many don't even wear them. Imagine if they were optional too.

You need regulation --- and more importantly enforcement --- to improve any road safety culture here.

I've long thought that U2F should be incorporated into phones, since everyone has one of those. Even not well off people in third world countries. In order for U2F to proliferate, everyone should have access to it. A $10 FIDO key probably won't be given a consideration if they think a free password is good enough.