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[–] addiks@feddit.org 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Using tabs for document management (f.e. Browsers, Text-Editors, ...) was a mistake. It would be way better if every document (website, text-file, image, console, ..) was in its own window, centrally managed by an intelligent window manager of the OS that allows quick and easy search between all documents like with a full-text searchable exposè-like view.

Using tabs for document-management was a bad but necessary workaround because Windows is a horrible window manager (despite its name, ironically).

Tabs work best when there is a fixed amount of them (Like with game settings: Controls, Audio, Video, Gameplay).

I could go on for quite a while on this, but I think this is where I stop.

[–] teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago

linux has tiling windows managers that allow you to do this

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[–] Juliebones@lemmy.ca 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pineapple on pizza is delicious, that is all

[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

As long as it's small chunks, not whole rings

[–] chaosCruiser 29 points 4 days ago (19 children)

Time units are just as cursed as American units.

Conversion between days, hours, minutes and seconds is a total mess. If you never have to do anything with those numbers, you don’t need to worry about it. The moment you need to do calculations or compare devices you run into completely unnecessary problems that would have been easy to avoid. Just think of pumps and fans with units given in l/min or m^3/h.

Just pick the standard time unit and stick with it. Use prefixes to deal with big or small numbers.

[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is why I kinda wish we had metric time as standard, but absolutely nobody would adopt it now unless they actually find t useful

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[–] Sal@mander.xyz 18 points 3 days ago (14 children)

The split between "Today" and "Tomorrow" is at midnight, not when one sleeps/wakes up.

This comes up often after midnight when my girlfriend asks me about "tomorrow". Why discuss breakfast for tomorrow when we still haven't had breakfast today??

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

I guess my hill is to fight you on this.

They current day isnt over until you wake up, or the sun comes up

[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

In the same breath, I hate when people tell you they want to meet in the morning, or call you, and then wait until 1130 hours. Fuck that shit. We need terms to describe portions of the morning just like we do for afternoon, evening, and night.

I do get my evil grins on when they do that to me and then I call them at 0530 hours the next time we're scheduled for 'morning.'

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