Peak UI Design

[oldchicoale@lemmy.world]

Wake me up when Septempril ends

[diemartin@sh.itjust.works]

I use febr a rch btw

[eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I understand that bad ui is a fun meme and all, but how did this one even cross their mind as an idea for a bad UI? This is a new level of convoluted I would not have even considered.

[paulbg@programming.dev]

at least no bot will solve this

[codapine@lemmy.zip]

Sounds like a medicine I shouldn't take before asking my doctor if it's right for me.

[gerryflap@feddit.nl]

We can clearly see that this design is silly, because it allows for so many invalid states. Yet when we represent some type, let's say in Java, were so often forced to do this exact same thing. Have variables in a container of which only a certain combination is valid. And then have at most a comment saying "this number is only valid if X is also set" or "if the validity boolean is true". Luckily Java finally has some ability for the so-called sum types now, just like Haskell's data types or Rust's enum types. Imo any language should have this.

[genuineparts@infosec.pub]

Managust, the manliest of months.

[psud@aussie.zone]

The zeroth of March is not uncommonly used, to mean the last of February whether it's the 28th or 29th

[psud@aussie.zone]

"Feb"+""+"uary"

[tiredofsametab@fedia.io]

My guess: someone messed up trying to split an array and split a string from it and hilarity ensued.

[tetris11@feddit.uk]

Genuine Question:

if you could split the month names into 3, how would you split them to maximise their choice overlap?

• "em" is a good overlap for nov/sept/dec
• "uar" is good for jan/febr

[wieson@feddit.org]

october

j'octobe
tu octobes
il/elle/on octobe
nous octobons
vous octobez
ils/elles octobent

[majinblayze@lemmy.world]

For that matter, August has to use a blank in the first position as well

[rosco385@lemmy.wtf]

My wife and I always wanted a joctober baby...

[lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I assume the post is the maximum. I wonder if there is an algorithm for that

[lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

You know about neo-pronouns, get ready for neo-months

[lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

It's too unregular and too good to be a coincidence. Unless they threw an algorithm on it that was intended for whatever

[lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

How do you see that and this is your reaction?

[fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Having data dependent on each other in a type means that either you have redundant data (so one of the fields should be computed) or that your container tries to be too generic (you should in this case prefer an 'Apple' class over a 'Fruit' class with an enum field 'Type')

[tetris11@feddit.uk]

hierarchical letter clustering would be my guess, or graph-based clustering using ngrams of 2-4 as nodes and maximising for connections.

Or using an optimized Regex and printing out the DFA?

Edit: Quick N-gram analysis (min=3, max=num letters in that month)

:::spoiler R-code

library(ngram)

tmonths = c("january", "february", "march",
           "april", "may", "june", "july",
           "august", "september", "october",
           "november", "december")

zzz = lapply(tmonths, function(mon){
  ng = ngram::ngram_asweka(paste(unlist(strsplit(mon, split="")), collapse=" "), min=3, max=nchar(mon))
  return(gsub(" ", "", ng))
})
res = sort(table(unlist(zzz)))
res[res > 1]

:::

This gives the following 9 ngram frequencies greater than 1:

  ary   uar  uary   emb  embe ember   mbe  mber   ber 
    2     2     2     3     3     3     3     3     4 

As you can see two longest most common motifs are "em-ber" and "uar-y"

Using this I propose the following graph

::: spoiler Mermaid

stateDiagram
    direction LR
    sept --> em
    nov --> em
    dec --> em
    em --> ber
    oc --> to
    to --> ber
    feb --> uar
    uar --> y
    jan --> uar
    ju --> ne
    ju --> l
    l --> y
    ma --> r
    ma --> y
    r --> ch
    
    a --> p 
    p --> r
    r --> il
    a --> u
    u --> gust

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