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"Type ENTER to exit:"
Poor user, doesn't know whether he's coming or going.
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£6.75 for 250g is 27000/kg if they accidentally recorded the weight of 0.25kg as 0.25g.
goes to Amazon
confirms theory
feels smug
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That's OK, my keyboard doesn't have an Enter key. It has a "bent arrow" key on the main keyboard, which I guess is Return, and it has ENTRÉE on the numeric keypad.
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Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Anyway, if you hae a return key only, you simply type "ENTER" and press return, so easy.
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So Verizon sells candy now?
https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html
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Funny if you had to type "E","N","T","E","R" to terminate, but typing "E","X","I","T" revealed an Easter egg...
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Typical. One of the shops here has a very nice search, with lots of filters. For example, they are the only one domestic shop I've found to allow filtering TVs on external dimensions - great, when you have to fit it in a tight spot with a width such that TVs with the same diagonal fit or don't depending on frame width.
Unfortunately next to useless, since the results are littered with the huge 60"+ TVs. Why? You guessed it - the field is in mm, many vendors give the dimensions in cm, the data entry guys couldn't care less. And so you end up with a 70" TV with less than 16 cm width. Must be wider on the inside...
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So how much for a kilo of chocolatey warnungs?
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Not gonna lie, I had to look at that first one for a good minute before I noticed what subreddit the ad was in...
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and highly modern Python just installed to C:\Python39, as with Windows 95.
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"The operation completed successfully" is sadly all too common. When applications detect an error, they'll try to call GetLastError() and pass the result to FormatMessage() to localize and log it (good!). But often in between the API call where the error occurred and when they call GetLastError(), they'll often call some other Windows API that succeeds resets the last error code to 0 (aka ERROR_SUCCESS).
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"Type Enter" is probably a mistranslation. In Portuguese, for example, you use the same verb "digitar" for typing or pressing a key on a typewriter. As for the name of the key, there is some historical background surrounding return / enter, but they are almost synonymous today.
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I always chuckle to ponder that pressing the "cancel" button "cancels the cancel" I was contemplating.
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Well, stop holding your entree above the keyboard, then, no wonder it's not working properly with all those crumbs that have gotten into it.
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Correcting the domain name on an email address is not as crazy as it seems. I recently looked at a million+ file of user entered email addresses and there are lots @gmail.com but there are also ones @gmall.com, @gmal.com, @gmill.com, etc. And all these misspellings are actual registered domains - probably registered to trap careless typers and steal their credentials. None that I checked had a running server.
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Someone pointed out the other day that I used the door marked "Exit" to go from the street into the building. I simply mentioned I used the correct the door - I was "Exit"ing the street thus should use that door in order to inhabit the building.
It didn't help that the door order was reversed - usually people use the rightmost door in a pair of doors just out of convention (you drive on the right, you walk on the right, the escalator you take to go up or down is to the right of the ones that bringing people from another floor. This is reversed in countries that drive on the left side of the road (walk on left, escalator is on left side of the other escalator bringing people to the floor), etc).
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Am I the only one who didn't notice the WTF in the first picture (specifically, the subreddit in which it appeared) until looking at it about a dozen times?
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It's worse than ice to a snowman--the ad is directing them to do something they actively do not want, not merely something of no value.
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Yes, block-oriented terminals such as the IBM 3270 had separate "Return" and "Enter" keys, as described at://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal#Modes.
"Return" simply moved the cursor to the next line, without sending anything upstream; "enter" sent a block of data upstream.
It would have been useful to keep this distinction on Web forms and GUI dialogs, so that multi-line text could be written without accidentally submitting the form or OK'ing the dialog when one wants a line break. Too late now. (And anyway, "OK" or "Submit" buttons are so last decade, we prefer your stupid choices to have immediate effect...)
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Yes, more like trying to sell meat to a vegetarian. Or an Android to an iPhone user.
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Really wish we could upvote comments in this system.
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The escalator is not always true.
In Stockholm commuter traffic most escalators are so that you use the left most even though we use right hand traffic.
But on the other hand, pedestrians sharing a road with cars or bicycles should keep to the left side with the intention that you will be facing the traffic closest to you instead of having the closest coming from behind and out of sight.