[-] oneiros 11 points 4 months ago

Anyone else remember mysqlgame?

[-] oneiros 10 points 1 year ago

What if we

At the department of

[-] oneiros 12 points 1 year ago

just being silly :D

this image is a screenshot of a Blender viewport; you can see the object origin (orange dot, left) and the 3D cursor (red and white circle, bottom left)

[-] oneiros 18 points 1 year ago

Along these lines, I recently learned:

Painstakingly is pains + takingly (as in "took great pains"), not pain + stakingly.

Helicopter is helico + pter ("spiral wing"), not heli + copter.

In linguistics, this phenomenon is called rebracketing.

[-] oneiros 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a mock search engine results page.

Click on the link with the text "then it shows me something" to continue.

[-] oneiros 14 points 2 years ago

Omit the "and", and you've got it; otherwise, a regular old comma would be the right punctuation there.

[-] oneiros 15 points 2 years ago

Yes, you get it. Speaking as a software engineer, users need to adapt their behavior to accommodate the product, not the other way around.

It's impossible to account for every fanciful scenario or ethical edge case - remember, software exists in a vacuum of pure logic. So if a braindead algorithm dredges up a painful memory of yours every year and tactlessly features it alongside a lighthearted quip from the marketing team, it's nobody's fault.

Well, it's your fault for not avoiding Facebook on that day. What I mean is, it's not my fault and it's not Facebook's fault, whatever that means. It's just the computer doing its thing.

Just kidding!!! I am using sarcasm to express my contempt for this mentality! It is correct to criticize tech companies for catastrophic UX failures! I believe it is in very poor taste to offer workarounds in reply to an anecdote like this!

[-] oneiros 9 points 2 years ago

I was nerd sniped by this post for like an hour, and "false dichotomy" was the closest I could find, lol. You could say that the argument has an unstated co-premise ("the harm is necessary"), to which you are raising an "inference objection".

[-] oneiros 9 points 2 years ago

Also, make sure to ask "Fancy a cup of?" with extra emphasis on "of". It is a classic British phrase

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