I suspect that it will soon become a marker of my age that I have a feeling of great satisfaction and immense relief every time I center something with CSS correctly.
Christian, husband, dad, coder, trainer, speaker, rpg geek, adhd
@[email protected] I did too until a blond friend of mind took objection, which... with hindsight I get actually.
I now tend to have moments of being away with the fairies instead, on the basis that I haven't yet met any fairies to offend with the saying and I'm not sure they'd find being distracting offensive anyway!
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@[email protected] Oh, right; from the direction of the conversation I'd thought you wanted something to automate that process rather than requiring a manual action on either end.
So... yeah. Reading fail 😁 . That said, I still think it might be a snazzy extra feature, especially in those situations where you're not sure at point of contact reception what an appropriate nickname might be!
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@[email protected] I think I'm trying to solve the same issue? If José and José are both in your contacts, and neither have assigned a picture or surname, at the moment you're a bit stuffed telling who is who. But your contact list knows they're different, so there must be some unique identifier under the hood.
I was wondering if in the absence of a user chosen picture you could generate an image from that unique identifier to allow you to see which José is which.
@[email protected] Or, you know, maybe I've just failed at basic reading comprehension in which case I'll leave you to it! It's been known to happen...
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@[email protected] I think I'm trying to solve the same issue? If José and José are both in your contacts, and neither have assigned a picture or surname, at the moment you're a bit stuffed telling who is who. But your contact list knows they're different, so there must be some unique identifier under the hood.
I was wondering if in the absence of a user chosen picture you could generate an image from that unique identifier to allow you to see which José is which.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] I was more thinking something like the console library that generates an ascii art for an ssh host when it asks you if you trust it, given it's much easier to see if the image is the same than eyeballing 20+ character hash.
Let me see if I can track one down to link to, my mind is blanking on names at the moment.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] There's a few ways of generating abstract patterns from hashes; would that give a way of adding something visually distinctive without requiring user effort or giving away any identifiable info?
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My uncle died about a year ago now, and one thing my aunt is gearing up to get rid of is his music collection. He had *hundreds* of CDs of classical music, many of them near-duplicates, because he may have already had a piece but wanted a particular conductor's version, or a performance by a particular orchestra.
Is there anyone here who might be interested in such a collection as a whole, or knows of someone who might? I feel it'd be good to find a home for it as a whole rather than selling every disc off separately.
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“One of the misconceptions about autistic people is we take things literally” #KiwiPyCon
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Many are the people I have confused over the years by proclaiming "red warrior needs food badly" as I grab something to eat. None of them displayed the classical education and fine tradition you have instilled in your family @[email protected]
I think it was Socrates who said, “Don’t wait on anyone else to do epic shit.”
Or was that Shakespeare?
@[email protected] to be fair, I suspect with a sufficiently loose interpretation of 'translation' nearly every good mentor who's ever lived including many parents have said that.
@elricofmelnibone @matthewskelton <pedant>
https://latrespace.com/poetry-olympics/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_rap
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) was well known for wowing people at parties by “spontaneously” reciting poetry that in fact he had carefully composed beforehand. I think of that as a status move (that is, adversarial).
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] the Welsh have a good few centuries on that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisted... (depending if we assume competitive implies adverserial)
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@[email protected] I'm genuinely curious: what would be the rationale for it not being OK?
Also, my mum doesn't bother reverse engineering; if it's a small restaurant she just asks how things are made! Most chefs seem to enjoy talking about it. (Large or chain restaurants are obviously a bit different)
@[email protected] @[email protected] i do not like capsules.
@[email protected] I find them horrific on quite a number of levels, I have to admit.
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Visicalc is a single 28KB binary; with a 180 page manual. We have strayed so far from the light.
Me, looking at student's screen: that's great, but we'll need to replace the character image with one that's yours before we punish your game
Ten year old: But that is my image!
Me: It... has a watermark logo from a well know YouTuber?
Tyo, proudly: I took the screenshot myself!
Me: ...pass the pain killers, I'm going to be here some time...
@cstross @dryak @whybird yeah I find it shocking how little someone of my younger relatives know about how computers actually work in spite of sometimes using them since they were toddlers like I had to spend half an hour explaining to my cousins oldest how to copy a video from her phone to her laptop without using the cloud she didn't even understand that her phone keeps the video as a file on her SD card let alone what folder it was in it doesn't help that MTP is a piece of shit
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] this stuff really isn't obvious any more! My son is dysgraphic and uses a keyboard at school, and had to have a long discussion with a teacher explaining why he couldn't turn off his Internet connection while completing an assessment in Google Classroom. The teacher hadn't realised that he wasn't writing on his own device, and you know what? I don't blame them! How are you supposed to tell where things are anymore from within the 'user experience'?
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