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3 days agoI’ve never heard it called “ice rain” before. Only “freezing rain”. Are you and OP making this up?
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Those are some queer exclamation marks.
1·19 days agoTesting automation:
https://github.com/LinkSheet/nightly
Well, that’s not very useful. The “open” automation option just opens the URL in the top item in the dropdown, which for chase.com turns out to be the ticket master app…? That’s just one example, but the behavior is just not predictable. There doesn’t seem to be a way to use a particular browser to open the specified URL.
People should use the nightly builds since the stable builds are like two years old. They can be installed with Obtanium.
Oh, interesting. I have that installed, but didn’t realize it could be your default browser. 😅 I had been sharing links to it manually like you have to do with Léon the URL Cleaner. Using it as your default browser is really cool.
Turns out, you can also add automations to URLCheck.
Maybe it can be programmed to open OP’s bank links in a certain browser with zero interaction, and then open every other link in their normal browser, again, with zero interaction.EDIT: This doesn’t seem possible. See my comment reply.
Alternatively, someone in this thread recommended LinkSheet, which seems nice since it is similar to the standard “choose and app” UI in Android, and lets you choose a specific browser. Some people might prefer the familiar UI, although it seems to require a double tap to choose a browser, not a single tap.
Here’s Linksheet’s UI:
This next screenshot is URLCheck, for those who haven’t used it, with my own modifications by turning certain modules off and changing others. For one, you can make the Cleaner module auto-apply instead of having to tap it manually. This is great for removing YouTube tracking tokens and such. Now that I figured out you can set it to auto-apply, I’m going to probably stop using Léon and just use URLCheck.
It’s nice that it supports opening links in apps that are set to handle such links instead of only showing general web browsers. I’m gonna start using URLCheck more, and try it as my default browser for a while, and maybe set up some automations. I learned a lot while writing this comment!
2·19 days agoMy musket says otherwise!
Brits who say “Microsoft are doing a thing” are poking knitting needles into my ears every time!
It’s not plural. Microsoft is a company. A. One!
It doesn’t matter that it’s a company of individuals. Next your going to tell me my person is plural because I’m made from many cells. “CrayonRosary are mistaken about language!” No!
Bonus: Math is singular, too, because mathematics is singular. It’s not the plural of mathematic!
We overthrew your rule specifically because of this one language issue!
But there is a smallest unit, which is called a bit. Data can be broken down into smaller, countable units.
That’s not a particularly compelling argument. There’s a smallest unit of sand, too, but we still use a mass noun for it.
Besides, dictionary researchers agree it’s both a mass noun and a plural noun. People use it both ways. Here’s what Merriam Webster says about it. (I’m going to rework it to reduce the wordiness because it was so dense!)
Data leads a life of its own quite independent of datum, of which it was originally the plural. It occurs in two constructions:
- as a plural noun (like earnings)
- taking a plural verb and plural modifiers (such as these, many, a few), but not cardinal numbers
- serving as a referent for plural pronouns (such as they, them)
- as an abstract mass noun (like information)
- taking a singular verb and singular modifiers (such as this, much, little)
- being referred to by a singular pronoun (it).
Both constructions are standard. The plural construction is more common in print, evidently because the house style of several publishers mandates it.
So OP’s post is only half right, if even that much. In common speech, data is a mass noun, but many scientists and publishers still treat it as a plural noun. I would even venture most do.
Working as a programmer, most people I’ve interacted with use it as a mass noun, but not all. Language evolves, and the mass noun version is just as acceptable in most circles, but it certainly isn’t worthy of a “you should know” or “today I learned it’s actually a mass noun.”
- as a plural noun (like earnings)
What’s a tree?
It’s not about being normal. This data is for scientists. The denomination was a deliberate choice given the various sizes of the data. It might be as low as single digits in some cases.
We use decimals all the time. We’re not dumb. But when making direct comparisons of values, it’s a simple fact that comparing 5 to 20 is easier than comparing 0.05 to 0.2. This is a scientific fact. It’s easier for your brain to parse. You can’t deny that. Go ask a psychologist. In addition, the data is cleaner. It’s easier to print “5” than “0.05”, and then you mention the denominator under the graph or table of data.
Every engineer and scientist in the US uses metric, and it doesn’t matter what the average person uses. Proper home cooks find bread recipes with metric weights for ingredients, for example. Woodworkers use feet and inches. People who use the Imperial system are just people using what they know. It’s entirely moot to this conversation. I don’t know why you keep bringing up fractions and the Imperial system as if that adds any weight to your argument about the actual topic at hand. The topic being scientists using a deliberate unit of measure to make it easy to print values and compare them at a glance.
I wear size 15 XX-Wide (6E) shoes and buy them online. It’s not really a problem for me. There are plenty to choose from, and sites let you filter by size.
Who said anything about fractions? Whole numbers are easier than decimals and fractions.
And no, this isn’t just a US thing. I’m certain your country uses things like “parts per million”.
Because it makes the numerator whole numbers for all data for easy comparisons by human minds. Comparing 300 to 5 is easier for people than comparing 30 to 0.5. It’s the same reason machinists use inches per minute over inches per second. It’s so values are between 1 and 600 and not between 0.0176 and 10. It’s easier to reason about whole numbers than decimals.
I just wish there were a keyboard that let me set a custom key layout. I would put huge padding between Space and the letters, and also between M and backspace. I can’t count how many times I wrote a word and hit backspace instead of M and got some garbage word in my message. Like turning “take my” into Takey. WTF is Takey? And why did FUTO capiliaze it for me? I’m surprised Takey was an actual word. I was trying to find an example where it autocorrected into something entirely different.
If they could stop capitalizing every word that could even remotely be a name, that’d be swell. It capitalizes shit like “mark” in the middle of a sentence, for example. So often. And many, many other words, too. It’s maddening!
I switched to FUTO, and it does the same thing since it’s based on the same core code. FUTO has pretty good on-device speech-to-text which is nice.
However, FUTO is much worse at detecting the accidental press of “n” instead of spacebar. Gboard usually figures it out. FUTO usually corrects it to random words. Or not at all.
3·27 days agoNative Windows UI controls for a game. Classic.
“Ice rain” is ambiguous and I’ve never heard it before yesterday. It sounds more like it would mean sleet.