Minor things that please you

[vdeane]

Hazbin Hotel looks spectacular on BluRay.  Seriously, the shows that have DVD-only, or worse, streaming-only released should have BluRay releases.

But now that you mention TQ, I read the essay you quoted from, and I think I disagree with it and you with regards to that. TQ looks cleaner than LQ and any supposed confusion it makes can be resolved by observing the context. Then again, I'm approaching it from an academic context and not a journalistic context (which I suppose you are), so I see how it could be awkward in journalism.

I hate TQ because how how bizarre it is from a formatting perspective.  It makes no sense whatsoever!  But then I'm the type of person who would love to stamp out logical inconsistencies in all areas of life.

[formulanone]

For those of us dumbasses in the cheap seats, what does "TQ" mean? Google was all over the place.

[hotdogPi]

For those of us dumbasses in the cheap seats, what does "TQ" mean? Google was all over the place.

Typesetter's quotation, which is explained fully in the quoted article. Essentially, putting periods and commas inside quotation marks no matter what.

I provided a webpage in the "quote from" field, which is more than you can say for the last few pages of discussion.

[formulanone]

For those of us dumbasses in the cheap seats, what does "TQ" mean? Google was all over the place.

Typesetter's quotation, which is explained fully in the quoted article. Essentially, putting periods and commas inside quotation marks no matter what.

I provided a webpage in the "quote from" field, which is more than you can say for the last few pages of discussion.

My mind starts to wander off on Wiki Talk Pages when it doesn't get right to the point about something that requests precision in the first place. Put enough people together that want to quibble over little things, and I guess that's the result.

Some people forget it's a keyboard, not a CNC machine. Though I guess that works both ways...

[wxfree]

I finally found a good PDF reader.  For years I used version 2, because it did everything I wanted, and the newer versions sucked.  I want the scrolling to be continuous, not jumping from page to page, and I want the hand tool to be the default, and I want the document to have the whole screen.  Version 2 let me set it so that those behaviors were default.  Once documents started refusing to open in the old version I got the new one, and it was awful.  I had to click seven things to close the side panels and get it the way I wanted it.  (That may not sound like much, but it's a lot of pointless clicking when I open 10 proposed TxDOT minute orders for each month's TTC meeting.)  Nothing I wanted could be set as default behavior.  And the damned signature bar is the worst.  It would validate any signature on a document that has one, such as a TxDOT minute order, and there was no button saying "thank you for checking, now go away."  It would proudly proclaim that the signature was valid and never stop.  I went into the settings to turn off the validation, and it stopped checking, and instead gave me a notice that there were signatures that needed to be validated, a notice that couldn't be dismissed.

I looked for new PDF readers, and they all bragged about editing, comments, signature validation, and online storage, features I've never used and never wanted.  I searched and searched until I found a program that would just read the file, waste no space, and let me set the scrolling the way I want it by default, the Notepad of PDF readers.  It does still open the table of contents panel on a TxDOT minute order and I have to close it, but other documents such as online newspapers open perfectly.  Fancy features are, I suppose, nice to have if you need them, but give us the option to turn them off when they're just annoyances.  Don't be so proud of your accomplishments that you force them on every user all of the time.  Programming engineers don't seem to understand that.

[kphoger]

The ad blocker I use appears to have caught up to YouTube's recent anti-ad-blocking.

Before Christmas, I was getting annoyed while listening to a YouTube playlist because ads kept breaking through.  They were always skippable after just a few seconds, but it was still annoying.  At work, I run YouTube on the mostly-otherwise-unused desktop PC, so I'd keep having to switch inputs on my monitor in order to skip the ads.  At home, I was playing them through the TV via HDMI cable from a laptop;  but I was playing it while doing kitchen chores, so I'd have to keep walking into the other room and clicking to skip.

Today at work, though, I haven't had a single ad break through.  So either the ad blocker caught up, or else those specific ads were pre-Christmas only.

[mgk920]

I made frequent use of the speaker volume control this season.

Mike

[vdeane]

Whatever Scott did when he "creatively snipped" the "minor things that bother you" thread seems to have fixed the issue where the "new" button was skipping a couple posts.

[Beltway]

Whatever Scott did when he "creatively snipped" the "minor things that bother you" thread seems to have fixed the issue where the "new" button was skipping a couple posts.

??????????  Wha..?? 

[hotdogPi]

Whatever Scott did when he "creatively snipped" the "minor things that bother you" thread seems to have fixed the issue where the "new" button was skipping a couple posts.

??????????  Wha..?? 

Going to the most recent post in that thread would be offset by a few posts (I didn't realize it was more than one). This meant that, for example, if the most recent post was the last one on a page, it would instead send you to the beginning of the next, not yet existing, page.

[Scott5114]

Whatever Scott did when he "creatively snipped" the "minor things that bother you" thread seems to have fixed the issue where the "new" button was skipping a couple posts.

All I did was just split the thread and get rid of the bad one. (This is how we normally prune threads. Every once in a while someone will see the bad one before I can actually get rid of it. Even more rarely I'll accidentally generate one of those temporary "this thread has been moved!" thingys and have to get rid of that.)

I wonder if there was something wacky about one of the removed posts that was causing the problem you were having somehow. Alas, now we can't test it...

[kphoger]

I've actually noticed a quirk on multiple threads, where [NEW] will take me to, say, the second or third post with a [NEW] tag, so I have to scroll down to actually find the first one—where I left off in the conversation.  (I have my settings to display the newest at the top, which is why scrolling down finds older posts.)

I haven't noticed it today, though.

[vdeane]

I wonder if there was something wacky about one of the removed posts that was causing the problem you were having somehow. Alas, now we can't test it...

It's been going on for a while, so I doubt it.  It seems almost like the forum database was unclear on how many posts the thread had - maybe something got reset?

I've actually noticed a quirk on multiple threads, where [NEW] will take me to, say, the second or third post with a [NEW] tag, so I have to scroll down to actually find the first one—where I left off in the conversation.  (I have my settings to display the newest at the top, which is why scrolling down finds older posts.)

I haven't noticed it today, though.

Yes, I had noticed it on a couple of others as well.

EDIT: Indiana Notes was one of those threads, and it still does it.

[gonealookin]

So on flights from the mainland to Hawaii, you can now fill out the agricultural declaration in advance online:  https://akamaiarrival.hawaii.gov/

Apparently this started in 2025; an upcoming trip is my first trip over there since this started.  It means, no more being one of the few people on the plane with a pen in my pocket and having to pass the pen to multiple passengers.

[Max Rockatansky]

On occasion I like to work early days on the weekend so I can see what people are up to in locations I don't visit much.  During my tour this morning one of the location managers tried a Vanilla Ice song reference with an employee in her early 20s.  This manager doesn't really have much of a sense of humor and the joke fell amusing flat since the employee she was speaking didn't know who Vanilla Ice is.

[1995hoo]

On occasion I like to work early days on the weekend so I can see what people are up to in locations I don't visit much.  During my tour this morning one of the location managers tried a Vanilla Ice song reference with an employee in her early 20s.  This manager doesn't really have much of a sense of humor and the joke fell amusing flat since the employee she was speaking didn't know who Vanilla Ice is.

Heh. A few years ago, we got a cover letter from a job applicant that contained a reference to a Jedi and his Padawan. I understood it. The fellow whose opinion was the most important, however, had no clue what it meant and prefers Star Trek (exclusively the original series) to Star Wars. Application sent to shredder. I was somewhat tempted to e-mail the applicant to recommend that he remove that sentence from his cover letter, but I ultimately decided it wasn't my place to do so.

[Max Rockatansky]

My wife is getting too reliant on voice to text.  It is often making things difficult to interpret.  This is the conversation we just had:

Her:  I got distracted by the team, but I just need to take out the trash and then I'll start heading out

Me:  What team?  The dogs?

Her:  My head was hurting. The TV.

I was halfway thinking she might have been referring to the Rams playing the Panthers.  That game did just start and her family is all fans of the Rams.

[SSOWorld]

Going to a McDonalds somewhere in France to relive and reference the Pulp Fiction act. I didn't go to a Burger King there though I had the opportunity to.

[kphoger]

My friend in Mexico was helping someone move to another town today.  He was driving a borrowed pickup and trailer.  The pickup was on its last leg and, partway there, it started spewing both oil and water.  The break-down happened here.  So he was able to simply coast the whole way down that long road, with no working engine, to the village in the valley.

[Max Rockatansky]

Finding out that the Deathclaw in the Fallout TV show was a puppet and not CG.

[LilianaUwU]

I can now proudly say that Réseau de transport de la Capitale, the local bus authority, has directly funded my Dr Pepper addiction, thanks to the $42 refund on the bus titles due to the mechanics' strikes.

[TheCatalyst31]

I can now proudly say that Réseau de transport de la Capitale, the local bus authority, has directly funded my Dr Pepper addiction, thanks to the $42 refund on the bus titles due to the mechanics' strikes.

And for all you complained about the bus strikes, they brought you free Dr Pepper. See, unions can lead to good things.

[vdeane]

It turns out that my camera does actually know what 2026 is.  I just can't tell it that it's 2026.  So as long as the date and time never need to be set, I'm good.

I do have a plan B for if/when I do someday need to set the date and time again (most likely if the battery voltage gets too low and it loses power for too long), but I'm really hoping to stretch that as long as possible.  exiftool isn't exactly fast, even if I figured out the exact command I need to bump the date by 20 years (since before I figured this out I assumed the camera would think it was 2006).

[CtrlAltDel]

I looked for new PDF readers, and they all bragged about editing, comments, signature validation, and online storage, features I've never used and never wanted.

I hear you here. I've been looking for a calendar app for my phone that is only a calendar, not a schedule app or an agenda app or a notification app or anything like that, so far without success.

[The_Ginger]

It turns out that my camera does actually know what 2026 is.  I just can't tell it that it's 2026.  So as long as the date and time never need to be set, I'm good.

I do have a plan B for if/when I do someday need to set the date and time again (most likely if the battery voltage gets too low and it loses power for too long), but I'm really hoping to stretch that as long as possible.  exiftool isn't exactly fast, even if I figured out the exact command I need to bump the date by 20 years (since before I figured this out I assumed the camera would think it was 2006).

Might I inquire the name of your camera?