For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”
“Roguelike” has become overused to the point that it’s basically meaningless. Nobody’s even played Rogue so it just means “a game that’s like other games that are described as roguelike,” which is like, any game. There’s a set of games where the term originated where it actually made sense, games like Angband, ADOM, Castle of the Winds, etc, that are all closely related where the term makes sense. Cogmind and Pixel Dungeon are more recent examples.
Some of it gets resolved by describing those as “traditional roguelikes,” and using other descriptors like “action rougelike” for Hades or “rougelike deckbuilder” for Slay the Spire, but like at that point why not just use “Hadeslike” or “Spirelike” instead of constantly harking back to this 40 year old game?
The phrase “design language” is overstated and pretentious. Anywhere design language is used the word design, by itself works. Design encompasses all the elements that unite an object into a cohesive work.
The phrase design language started with internet articles needing to pad their word count.
(not a designer myself btw)
Isn’t design language mainly used to describe general things about how a design should work?
Take Material for example. Material itself is a design language, telling you how far apart certain click targets should be, how big text should be, stuff like that, to make a generally useable UI. It doesn’t tell you what shape or what colour your button should be, that’s up to the implementation, like Material UI, to decide, which is what I would call the general design.
“Material is a design, telling you how far apart certain click targets should be.”
See, the sentence works without “language”. Its addition makes it overstated and pretentious.
If you follow a design, you are following the guidelines of how something should look.
No, design and design language are two different things. A design language is a set of design rules that define a common look and feel across a product line. There’s usually a manual put together by a designer and their team defining what these commonalities are.
Look up “Apple Snow White design language“ for example.
But it’s a design for designs - it tells you how to design your own UIs, it doesn’t dictate what for example a calculator app should look like. You can follow Material Design and still end up with a terrible UI design.
Surely that’s enough for some distinction, right?
They’re trying to solve one of the hardest problems in Computer Science: Naming things.
What do you call the framework, or design system—that thing that’s not quite a glossary of the terms—we’re going to use to describe the meta conversations around design?
“Design language” encompasses the colors, spacing, tokens, typography ramps, general rules, and all the other fiddly bits to unify on so that the more interesting parts of design and user experience can happen.
Naming things is hard :/
Sure the sentence works, but now you’ve lost the distinction between more of an abstract concept and a concrete implementation. It wouldn’t be wrong to call both material and mui a design, but in conversation it can just be useful to have a little more distinction between the two without having to go into the details explaining it.
(also damn i should have chosen a better example than material, their naming is pretty confusing)
Brioche is an inferior burger bun.
I can recline my seat. And you can recline yours.
It’s pronounced niche, not niche, damn it.
Not sure what counts as “petty”, but there’s one that is relevant to a recent discussion I had. If you say something considered “offensive”, it is arguably equally so no matter who says it and/or who it is towards. I run a few groups and people have a hard enough time here that it almost seems like it’s a matter of a vote now.
Loose and lose bother me. When I see these words used incorrectly, I become mildly irritated.
I figuratively would of had fewer of a reaction if less persons made that missed steak… literally.
The miss use of the term “billet”. As in “Made from Billet Aluminum to military specs” I have literally sourced metals from all over the world. Ain’t no one ever tried to sell me “billet” anything.
A billet is an old term that was used when iron and steels were smelted and then poured in to either kind of a bread loaf mold or a round shape called a bloom. It would then be reheated at a later time and then formed into the final shape. No one would use “billet” or a “bloom” to make anything from it. It would have been “sponge” like and to soft to be useful for anything.
Fecking sales trying to market to ignorant people with a term that doesn’t mean what anyone thinks it means.
Slackware is still an important and useful distro.
It doesn’t make any assumptions about how you want to use your computer.
Do you want a system that’s more stable than Debian or as bleeding edge as Arch?
Do you want a minimal system that runs on an old 486 or a full-featured KDE desktop?
Do you want to compile from source, download tarballs from Github, install .deb packages, .rpm packages or FlatPaks?
Are you running a web server or a laptop?
Slackware don’t care. There’s no “Debian way”, no “partial upgrades are unsupported”, no “don’t mix in other repos”, no “don’t edit this file, it will be overwritten”. Do whatever the fuck you want, it’s your PC.People say “I’m just gonna go try and do it”
No.
Say “I’m just gonna go try to do it.”
really stupid, really pointless, I’ve never corrected anyone on it, but oh, how I want to
I live in a high altitude area. It gets very hot. People will say that it’s because we’re “closer to the sun” as if the 6000ft/1800m difference is what matters vs the 93,000,000mi/150,000,000km distance to the sun is affected by something so small.
The difference is the lack of atmosphere to soften the various types of light from the sun.
Skydive terminology. Its not a chute, dammit, it’s a canopy or a wing.
envy and jealousy are supposed to have different meanings, but idiots always use jealous when they mean envious. Annoys the fuck out of me.
Canon is important to science fiction and comic book adaptations because the rules of those universes operate so wildly different from our own that it is important to put more work in keeping things consistent.
i don’t record or watch vertical videos
