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  • Meron35@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•ratio theory of time perception
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    3 days ago

    Most things are logarithmically scaled, including our perceptions.

    Having 1 -> 5 apples is a large and easily comprehensible change, but most people probably rapidly lose interest having beyond more than 5 apple.

    Similarly the first few birthdays you experience are much more exciting, with the importance rapidly diminishing as you hit milestones. A lot of people start forgetting how old they are in their 20s; the ones that do are mostly due to dating apps.

  • Meron35@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing?
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    12 days ago

    The Gen Z stare is simply the rational response in dealing with customer facing situations where either 1. the customer is problematic, or 2. if the worker genuinely doesn’t know what what to do.

    Responding or engaging to problematic customers (racist, homophobic, misogynistic) can only lead to conflict, reprimand, or lawsuits.

    Responding with inaccurate information or simply saying leads to conflict, reprimand, or poor reviews.

    Both have worsened as people have become more polarised, and management cuts funding and hours for training.

  • Meron35@lemmy.worldtoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Typst: "as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use"
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    23 days ago

    Maths feels like a first class citizen in latex. The syntax is ugly, but there is some logic through the legacy jank.

    Typst makes fundamental design decisions that render it unsuitable beyond extremely simply equations. In LaTeX, curly braces are nearly always reserved for enclosing arguments, to avoid confusion with actual brackets.

    Typst uses normal brackets for both its scripting and actual maths.

    For example, \frac{n(n+1)}{2} in latex turns into (n(n + 1)) / 2 in typst. The typst code is incredibly unclear - the first set of brackets with the slash together actually form the fraction operator, so neither end up visible.

    You can see how this would start to struggle even with high school level maths, with bracketed terms and possibly fractional terms in exponents, integrals, etc.

    For example, it is very difficult for me to work out the difference between the following three in typst. That is specifically not what you want from a typesetting language.

    1/2(x + y)
1/x(x + y)
1/2^x(x + y)

    LaTeX ignores whitespace, so you can just use a formatter to space out your code and ensure the curly braces. This is not even an option in typst, which uses the space as an escape character.

  • Meron35@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Hamster IT
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    23 days ago

    Huh? Both hover to focus and click button in background work in macOS, though hover to focus usually requires an external application. There used to be a focus follows mouse that you could enable via a terminal command, but Apple removed it.

    The top menu bar kind of seems to be more of a result of historical happenstance, and maybe some different philosophies regarding Fitts law.

    Bill Atkinson, who designed the UX for the Apple Lisa recounts that part of the decision was to avoid the problem of menu items being possibly obscured. If the window of some application is near the bottom or partially off the desktop, the menu bar of individual windows can become obscured and inaccessible.

    Historically the menu bar would’ve been easier for normal people to learn due to consistency, and also helped with limited screen estate.

    Memories of Lisa - CHM - https://computerhistory.org/blog/memories-of-lisa/