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Puzzle #722
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Puzzle #721
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Really fun one today.

Ah interesting.

Unfortunately yeah there’s a lot of inconsistency with how different Lemmy clients display markdown. Even on the first-party platforms, ^multiple words of superscript^ or ~multiple words of subscript~ works some (Jerboa) but not others (lemmy-ui web interface).

The problem with this specifically though is with neither the Connections site nor with any of the Lemmy clients…it’s with the interplay between Connections and the basic markdown specification. The markdown spec very specifically allows you to break one paragraph down into multiple lines, so that you can write like I am right now, and keep individual lines small while having it all display as a single paragraph. If your client is showing this as separate lines, it is misapplying the markdown spec.

If you want a new line in markdown, you can add a blank line in between (like I did just before this sentence), to create a whole new paragraph.
Or you can end your line with two spaces (like I did the line before this)
or with a backslash, to escape the newline and tell the markdown parser “treat this newline as an actual newline”. Both the double space and the backslash methods insert a “line break”.

Here’s how this comment should display (apart from the superscript and subscript parts):

And how its script looks:

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Puzzle #720
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Puzzle #719
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Here’s what it looks like from the default web interface.

Jerboa, the first-party Android app, shows the same. Not sure which app you’re using, but it displays markdown incorrectly. Out of interest, how does it handle _subscript and

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Damn that’s a really tough decision.

Gotta add two spaces at the end of every line if you want it to display correctly.

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Puzzle #718
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I found today’s very fun, even if it was pretty easy. Had no idea about the link with purple until it was revealed. But it’s a very clever one.

The description says “psychological thriller”, but the cinematography is giving me “Netflix romcom”.

if you’re an excel power user, you’ll need to learn Libreoffice Calc

Let’s be honest…most people who are Excel power users probably need to interact with other users. Sending and receiving documents and templates, etc. Simply learning Calc yourself isn’t going to suffice, you’d have to convince your entire business to switch.

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Puzzle #717
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Fun one today.

Vice President. She was the Vice Presidential candidate all the way to November.

I found it just now in <5 minutes of searching.

The page existed for 3 hours in 2021, and again for 20 minutes in 2023. Looks like it may have been created especially for this screenshot.

I never actually put any serious effort into using MuseScore myself before the changes, so I can’t comment from extensive personal experience.

But as a musician, I did use scores written by someone in MuseScore, as well as ones written in Sibelius. And I could always tell when it was MuseScore. I’m sure it was possible to write good looking scores in MuseScore 2, but it clearly did not make it easy. The scores were obviously inferior in terms of layout and design compared to those produced in Sibelius. Basic things like spaces between notes not being the right proportion, or dynamic markings appearing as plain italic text instead of the usual bold dynamics would be wrong in MuseScore far more often than in Sibelius.

As a general rule, a good UX should:

1. Make it very, very easy to do (or discover how to do) the most common basic things, and should result in them being done in the way a user expects
2. Not slow down a power user from accomplishing basic tasks at speed
3. Allow easy discovery of and access to less common tasks

A lot of designed-by-software-engineer FOSS applications do a good job of 2 and an ok job of 3, but fail at 1.

Interesting. That would make his survey of rather limited value, in my opinion, because just by doing notes (including rests), durations (just from semiquaver to semibreve, including tie and dot), and accidentals, you get 18, right off the bat. Considering the ranges offered in the poll he made were 1–5, 5–10, 10–20, and 20+ (never mind the overlap if you happened to use exactly 5 or 10…), that makes it very hard for anyone who types their note input instead of hunting around slowly with the mouse to get into anything other than the top bucket. Especially since he quite explicitly said “including typical ones (like Ctrl+S, Ctrl+Z, etc.)”

2020 VP election

But the expression is “look what the cat dragged in”?

Quoi de neuf ?

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Puzzle #716
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actually found them in order: purple, yellow, blue, green

tried to guess what would be a reverse rainbow