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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Conveniently enter your phone number with a single input

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Conveniently enter your phone number with a single input

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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    If you haven’t seen it there are others in the worst telephone entry fields. https://imgur.com/a/4f3XB

    There’s also a collection of terrible volume controls out there. https://imgur.com/gallery/5BFynxT

    Terrible gender controls: https://imgur.com/gallery/HdFhJZE

    Edit: added some imgur folders, some Google sites have a more complete collection

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      Hi, I’m the creator of /r/baduibattles, and one of the mods of [email protected] if anyome here would like to submit terrible UI here

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        I don’t have an example, but I would like to see a rotary phone dial ui as input method for a phone number.

        Edit: I see there’s mentions and a gif in another comment.

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      7 Dimensional Gender Coordinates got me

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        Poe’s Law moment. I can’t tell whether the terms are made up for the sake of the meme or actually used by gender theorists.

        • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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          Those look like names of medicines tbh.

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        The compressed installer for doom was about 2MB if you wanted to use that as a gender.

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        My favourite is the “upload your genitals as jpeg”

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      So simple. So dumb.

      Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the video file instead.

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      “Is your phone ringing y/n” is my absolute favourite, but they’re all so good!

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      Somewhat more controversially there was a recent attempt at “improving” gender input fields.

      https://imgur.com/gallery/HdFhJZE

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        to be fair, the first colour picker isn’t too bad, it it?

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          My amusement comes from the fact that in most cases a gender input field is just an invasion of privacy, juxtaposed against these ridiculous over implementations. My favourite is the gender fluid one.

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        What bugs me is: why in the fuck are they asking for people’s gender? Other than medical questions (where you specify your birth gender), I think for the vast majority of cases the question should not be relevant.

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          Yeah pretty much, medical and dating information maybe. Anything else is just an invasion of privacy.

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      Hahaha I hadn’t seen the volume one before. I love it!

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      That second catapulting volume is cool

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        There are some pretty good gamified ones for the phone number.

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      I rarely laugh out loud and my coworkers are suspicious.

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        It’s not in the collection but I recall a phone entry where the slider would move along the digits of pi until you found your phone number.

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          That one was my favourite.

          Especially when it makes someone stop and think about it.

          Hang on… would that work?

          An infinite, non repeating sequence of digits?

          Yeah, that would contain all possible sequences of arbitrary length.

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            Found it https://i.imgur.com/rh0mDnK.gifv there is a discussion about this https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3495590/proof-of-the-existence-of-all-phone-numbers-in-pi

            Apparently all combinations of 10 digits appear in the first 241641121048 digits of pi.

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      I appreciate the imgur links and not direct images.

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      What a terrible day to have eyes

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        Thank you for reminding me of this: https://youtube.com/shorts/XqNrO33bxmw

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      I love those so much.

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      twitch

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      Those volume controls are fucking incredible.

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        The creativity of the awfulness amuses and disturbs me.

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      Is it bad that I kind of like the rotary phone input?

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      And don’t forget the mother of all bad interfaces game: http://userinyerface.com

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      I swear I saw this guy posting his community’s submissions for the worst UI/best UI jokes and this was one of them

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