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You know how films and TV show different, fake UIs when a character works on a computer? GUIs and their elements are copyrighted.


Around 2015, I authored my résumé in LibreOffice, and I sprinkled in an assortment of bullet points. Some were indented. I used open squares, filled squares, open and filled circles, right-arrows, stars, etc.

I brought it into an employment center for critique, and my mentor informed me that those shapes all had different meanings and functions. It was a wake-up call for me.

I am not a UX/UI designer, so my experience with the UI elements in applications had been intuitive, and moreover, disconnected from the activity of authoring a non-interactive document.

So I believe that these UI features were imitating paper-based forms. Those ovals or circles on Scantron sheets: you'd better not fill in more than one per line! And being named "radio buttons": yes, if you pressed "AM" then the "FM" button popped out. If you had six presets in a car--wait a minute, those were oblong...


> my mentor informed me that those shapes all had different meanings and functions.

I have never heard of this. It sounds dubious, like those “flower language” lists which are all different.


For removable media, I believe that finishing up with "eject" would be the safest way to ensure that all writes were committed to the hardware.


You can't "unmount the file system" because you're writing directly to the block device, the thumb drive isn't mounted.

("Eject" is macOS's term for "unmount filesystem")


Distrowatch.com is a site promoting use of Linux and BSD.

"eject" is a Linux command which attempts to safely disconnect removable media.

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/noble/en/man1/eject.1.h...

TFA doesn't mention filesystems at all, sort of jumps in where we find the block device. Things could become messy if the device were mounted while the copy is attempted.


Speaking of managing at scale and splitting well:

  the reverse lookup domain name corresponding to the address

       4321:0:1:2:3:4:567:89ab

   would be

   b.a.9.8.7.6.5.0.4.0.0.0.3.0.0.0.2.0.0.0.1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.2.3.4.IP6.
                                                                  ARPA.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3596#section-2.5


> Châteauneuf-du-Pape

That reads more like "[The] Pope's New Castle" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teauneuf-du-Pape_AOC

In fact, Avignon was the site of the Apostolic See and indeed, seven canonically-accepted Popes resided there, plus two antipopes. https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/avignon

This period also featured Italian antipopes! It was dramatic! https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/western-schism


It's actually a great example of how we just associate French names with 'fancy'. If you saw a bottle of an alcoholic drink for sale under the name "Pope's Newcastle" you'd be forgiven for assuming it was a down-to-earth real ale.

Newcastle United's goalkeeper is called Nick Pope. Perhaps he should go by the name Pape-du-Châteauneuf.


cf also the Frank Black song "New House of the Pope" which talks about a pub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsb0PSPhcbo


This is correct, thank you for clarifying! The information was relayed from an intoxicated man to an even more intoxicated man, so I didn't get quite all of it. Time to get reading!


Well, the headline promises A Wild Claim!


Sending SMS costs $$$, and the gateways are closely-guarded. There are bad actors hammering on logins to elicit SMS codes, and Zelle is charged for the service according to that volume.


There’s no separate Zelle login, and Wells Fargo proper hasn’t banned my phone number, so this explanation makes no sense whatsoever.


Zelle is a separate company that likely operates its SMS sending system separately from Wells Fargo.



Brahmic scripts such as devanāgarī, Gurmukhī, and Bengali are noted for joining glyphs with a long horizontal line across the top (shirorekhā). However, other examples such as Tamil use more curls and curves, and lack the shirorekhā.

I am told that one reason for this change was because manuscripts in certain regions used parchment or vellum, and in other regions used palm leaves. Writing on a palm leaf, if you made long, straight horizontal marks on it, you could split the fibers.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thiruvaymoli_palm_ma...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palm-leaf_manuscript...


Stopping at red lights can add 10-15 minutes to a motorist's cross-town journey. So does the Pythagorean Theorem. What can you do.


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