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Sander Rossel wrote: But what's that weird save icon?
Someone one here (I'm sure he/she'll jump in) said his kid saw a floppy disk, and asked him, "why did you print a Save icon with your 3D printer?"...
I'm surely misremembering details...but you get the idea.
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haha! that's a good one 
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There are technologically inclined kids out there who have never seen a floppy disk, so that reaction makes sense...
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They could have used a grave stone, to represent permanent storage.
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Marc Clifton wrote: still calls it a "Hyperlink"
I guess I did not get the memo that they are called something different now. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: I guess I did not get the memo that they are called something different now.
It's just that, as far as I can tell, every other app calls them "links" now.
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Marc Clifton wrote: every other app calls them "links" now.
app = application so it makes sense we should shorten hyperlinks to just links, I suppose. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Links is highly ambigious, hyperlinks less so. Links may be any sort of reference or asocciation. It may be "backwards" screws/nuts. It may be a radio beam. It may be a fragment of a chain.
There are thousands of ambiguous terms that we still manage to handle. In most cases, we get the right understanding from context. In some contexts, two or more interpretations are equally valid. There is the classical example:
"You are right" - "right" is unambiguous in this context, right? But the statement was made at a tennis court, with two couples. So the complete statement is "You are right. I am left". Is the understanding of "right" still the same?
Now at this tennis court, there are actually three couples who play around. So the statement uttered is not yet complete - it could either be: "You are right. I am left. She is middle." The second meaning of "right" prevails. Or they may be taking a brief rest, and one of the guys tells "You are right. I am left. She is gone!". The last word in the third sentence completely reverses the meaning of the two preceding sentences.
Hooray for ambiguous terms!
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Proof Positive that AI will ultimately fail
( OR
AI interpretations will rule and we will be assimilated into the data)
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Let's not forget that a significant part of jokes are based on ambiguity. I don't want to loose that!
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"Thought of the Day" posts ca. 11:00 EST. In the lounge yet all the way from Whales.
. . . . be there . . .
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I'm happy you did not go on with "play around" as being ambiguous.
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I would have liked "hypers" instead of links.
much cooler.
hey, click on the hyper.
I'd rather be phishing!
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No hipster, we will not be using that lingo here. 
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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how about
extralink? external to current document/context
or
intralink? internal to current document/context. e.g., bookmark
but then you would need two different menu options!
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Competition fraud is painful (9)
Contender = Competition
Con = Fraud (e.g. Scam, etc.)
tender = is painful
I figured "competition" would throw a few people and it looks like it did. See here[^] if you still don't get it.
Pretty sure Randor got the answer though, so you can have tomorrow if you want it?
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musefan wrote: you want it?
nope
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Ok, I have made one already anyway so I don't mind going again. Deffo much easier than today.
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I just created a new project in Android Studio from one of the templates and while the template project was being generated and built for the first time I saw this popup in the bottom right corner of Android Studio:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/wb0Zh.png[^]
"Would you like to install a shell script formatter?" [install] [No, thanks]
Well...uh...erm....??? 
There is a little circle i icon but there is no hovertext or any additional information that appears on that icon. There's no additional info. Just that question.
Some (many) devs are not great at providing context.
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pretty tame, if you want to properly get people to do something:
Would you like to XXXXX [Yes] [Later]
- android itself, and more than a few apps are getting that way.
- winduds of course even more blunt take's that to the next level, they enforce a limit on "later"
- can't say for apple but I'm pretty sure it's gonna be the same.
wait till the auto manufacturers bring that on, hopefully not in my time
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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lopatir wrote: [Later]
Good point, because I felt like saying [no, thanks] was making me miss out on something.
Seriously, because I was like, well, if I say no then can I ever try it later?
It's kind of cool though because FOMO is very popular right now. 
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So does it beautify your shell scripts, by formatting them nicely, or does it wipe all your shell scripts, like a drive formatter?
There's only one way to find out.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Competition fraud is painful (9)
Sorry for the delay, 3 hours of stand still traffic this morning.
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musefan wrote: 3 hours of stand still traffic this morning.
Brings back memories of the Winchester bypass, M3 and M25. And no, I don't miss it.
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