top 5 unsolved problems in computer science

Android in general is trash.

There's ALT text.

Would be cool, if we could cross-post Mastodon posts...

Nice, a relevant xkcd that I didn't guess before clicking the link! Well done!

Another quick fix is to set up a "Note to Self" group in Signal (make a group with 2 people then remove the other member). Nice tidy way to move things around, with a history of things you moved earlier

I have this experience with a certain type of pedestrian traffic light "button".

I quote button, because nothing physically moves when you press it. I'm not sure if it registers pressure or heat, but you don't even feel anything move when you press it.

Usually when you press the button, a red text lights up on the button, telling you to wait. This text gives you feedback that the button registered your press, and the traffic light will schedule a green light for you.

However, sometimes you didn't press hard enough, and the text doesn't light up. Simple solution: press harder.

But there is a scenario where it doesn't matter how hard you press, the button won't light up. You keep staring at it, while slamming the damn thing with the fury of a Hulk wealding Mjolnir. Still, nothing lights up. The reason: the light instantly went green, so it never needed to light up the text telling you to wait. And all that time slamming your fist on the button, could have been spend crossing the intersection. Instead you have been standing there, looking like a drunk person having a fistfight with an inanimate object.

I've actually noticed this exact thing with elevators before... I was kind of amazed the beep and light were hooked up completely independently from the actual floor selection logic.
It sort of makes sense that the light in the button would just be hooked directly up to the button contacts. The computer would then be polling the buttons separately and it's possible to miss a button press... These sorts of buttons shouldn't need a debounce period since pressing any of them a second time doesn't do anything. If the buttons were interrupt based, this probably wouldn't happen.

Steam does as well.

I found out recently that KDE has a "Focus stealing prevention" in their settings and it has been glorious.

Printers are solved now, you just don't have one.

Printers are a fucking gawd damn scam

I love it so much when reddit lemmy clients think they are smarter and they renumber points 5 to 1 as 5 to 9..

edit: oops, still sometimes writing reddit instead of lemmy after almost 2 years..

Don't most browsers support this?

but not all web servers. often it's disabled

Firefox does that out of the box.

Wow, getright! That's a throwback. I used that in the 90s.

On linux I use aria2c for similar tasks. It can resume http downloads, as well as split them up into multiple threads for faster downloading.

It's cli-based and powerful (therefore perhaps a bit confusing at first), but there are UIs for it as well for a more get-rightty experience.

I think jdownloader also has some application here, though it's mostly for getting things from those ad-filled file hosting sites frequently used by those on the high seas

https://aria2.github.io/

Have you tried JDownloader?

is it right that both of these only work on LAN?

I think it'd be nice if there was an OS-app version of the web browser middle-click. I never feel confused about whether an opened link is or is not taking focus because I shared my intent by which mouse button I used (left: open and switch, middle: just open).

Until its a popup and you're entering a password.

Or it took several seconds to load.