Oops, I did it again. Can I undo a like in forums?

[shelleycat1]

I’ve just found that likes are in my forum history. I see that my thumb must have brushed against many, many, likes without noticing.

Can I undo them?
Can there be a confirmation?

Luckily I seem to have liked random posters without discrimination.

 

[Jim1855]

>Can I undo them?
Yes simply hit 'like' again for the post in question.
Unfortunately there is seemingly no way to bulk do this.

>Can there be a confirmation?
When will the great 'confirmation' wars end?

 

[shelleycat1]

Thank you

 

[yano2mch]

Feels like the basic manual for half the stuff we use is lacking. so many times i stumble through a program or site, and then find some feature that i could have been using the whole time to simplify things, like RegEx. Think of all the hours i could have saved...

 

[liqueur]

Feels like the basic manual for half the stuff we use is lacking. so many times i stumble through a program or site, and then find some feature that i could have been using the whole time to simplify things, like RegEx. Think of all the hours i could have saved...

Huh what's RegEx?

 

[yano2mch]

Huh what's RegEx?

RegEx is Regular Expressions. A way of describing a type of text without being exact. Example a phone number may be \d{3}-\d{4} which will match 555-1234 or anything similar.

You can also use it to fix minor problems in text by capturing and then rebuilding the text. Find duplicate words in a row? Heh got you covered. s: '(\b\w+\b) \1' will find a word, and then the identical word if it immediately follows. telling it to replace with the original word will then fix it. (though finding one through formatting or if there's a line separation is a little more complicated)

 

[Britva415]

Huh what's RegEx?

It's got basically nothing to do with what we're talking about, except as a comparison to some other technology that's difficult to use without documentation.

 

[yano2mch]

It's got basically nothing to do with what we're talking about, except as a comparison to some other technology that's difficult to use without documentation.

Or just being aware it exists can greatly help IF the tool is supported. Basic search usually doesn't include it, but a lot of tools (Calibre, Notepad++, most programming tools) includes PCRE. You can live without it. But an hour of basic RE can help writers.

What is relevant (at least to writing and writers) is if you did name/word replacements you can ensure it matches only whole words and not partials. More than once I've seen a name like ted replace and then random words with that name combo cause obvious errors due to bulk replacements where regex would have limited those matches.

 

[ToPleaseHim]

 

[liqueur]

RegEx is Regular Expressions. A way of describing a type of text without being exact. Example a phone number may be \d{3}-\d{4} which will match 555-1234 or anything similar.

You can also use it to fix minor problems in text by capturing and then rebuilding the text. Find duplicate words in a row? Heh got you covered. s: '(\b\w+\b) \1' will find a word, and then the identical word if it immediately follows. telling it to replace with the original word will then fix it. (though finding one through formatting or if there's a line separation is a little more complicated)

Methinks this will not work so well on my Kindle fire tablet— which is the closest thing to a computer I've got now. Life on social security

 

[yano2mch]

Methinks this will not work so well on my Kindle fire tablet— which is the closest thing to a computer I've got now. Life on social security

I for the life of me, can't understand why people are going towards phones and tablets, rather than a full computer... For reading and having access in your pocket sure, but it's too small, and too unwieldy, and too computationally weak. Especially since there's SOC's (Systems on a chip) and SOB's (System on a board) now making tiny mini computers possible that are good for emulating older games and basic desktop purposes for the cost or lower of a tablet or phone.

 

[liqueur]

I for the life of me, can't understand why people are going towards phones and tablets, rather than a full computer... For reading and having access in your pocket sure, but it's too small, and too unwieldy, and too computationally weak.

Perhaps you didn't read. It's a little thing called “money.”
I repeat: Life on social security

 

[yano2mch]

Perhaps you didn't read. It's a little thing called “money.”
I repeat: Life on social security

The most expensive part of a phone or tablet is the battery. You can spend $200 and get a decent basic desktop miniPC system, that's less than most tablets, phones, and certainly less than an iPhone. Hell you can probably get halfway decent setups second hand and somewhat used monitors TV's keyboards and mice for free or cheap. On NewEgg I've gotten multiple refurbished Chromebooks for $50/each, and other than a few hardware simplifications and minor inconveniences (getting audio driver and sleep doesn't work quite right) it's a decent laptop with a big screen.

So my question still stands.

 

[ToPleaseHim]

The most expensive part of a phone or tablet is the battery. You can spend $200 and get a decent basic desktop miniPC system, that's less than most tablets, phones, and certainly less than an iPhone. Hell you can probably get halfway decent setups second hand and somewhat used monitors TV's keyboards and mice for free or cheap. On NewEgg I've gotten multiple refurbished Chromebooks for $50/each, and other than a few hardware simplifications and minor inconveniences (getting audio driver and sleep doesn't work quite right) it's a decent laptop with a big screen.

So my question still stands.

Not everyone uses devices the same. I have a laptop at home, but outside of working hours I can use my phone for everything I need a device for. I clearly don’t use my devices like you, so I certainly don’t need the same features. For many, many people, a smart phone or tablet has all the capabilities they require for regular use.

 

[yano2mch]

Not everyone uses devices the same. I have a laptop at home, but outside of working hours I can use my phone for everything I need a device for. I clearly don’t use my devices like you, so I certainly don’t need the same features. For many, many people, a smart phone or tablet has all the capabilities they require for regular use.

I can easily respect that. But phone screens are too damn small, and touch controls is too imprecise, and makes typing or anything needing precision a pain. For organizing i half wish i had a wall-sized touch screen and have large icons and could move files into the right folders rather than having such a limited screenspace to organize photos and files with... But beyond that...

 

[LittleMissLandmine]

phone screens are too damn small, and touch controls is too imprecise, and makes typing or anything needing precision a pain.

not for me, not for a lot of us.

 

[ToPleaseHim]

I can easily respect that. But phone screens are too damn small, and touch controls is too imprecise, and makes typing or anything needing precision a pain. For organizing i half wish i had a wall-sized touch screen and have large icons and could move files into the right folders rather than having such a limited screenspace to organize photos and files with... But beyond that...

Again. Your experience does not match everyone’s experience. Anecdotally, I am no spring chicken and wear bifocals to read. My phone screen is more than adequate for me. It even offers extremely easy to use zoom. And it does everything that I personally need it to do. Yano, it’s really weird to tell other people they are wrong regarding their own preferences…

 

[yano2mch]

Again. Your experience does not match everyone’s experience. Anecdotally, I am no spring chicken and wear bifocals to read. My phone screen is more than adequate for me. It even offers extremely easy to use zoom. And it does everything that I personally need it to do. Yano, it’s really weird to tell other people they are wrong regarding their own preferences…

I didn't say they were wrong, nor did i rebuke them. I said i couldn't understand why, especially if you wanted to input a lot of text or something. And going off price was not a good excuse as i gave alternate options well within the price range of a tablet or phone.

Touch controls ARE imprecise, that's why they have to have such large buttons for the GUI displays, otherwise you'll easily tap the wrong things. Emulators for phones take up like a third or half the screen.

Most touch controls are based on electromagnetic detection rather than pressure. And we all generate a field (if very weak). And you are touching probably an area of 15x9 pixel area that lights up to the system, compared to a 2x2 for a mouse pointer.

As for reading, i'm glad you can read enough on a phone. But fitting 1 paragraph on a phone and turning pages every 10-20 seconds i hardly call optimal reading. It's a reason the DS and handhelds never did well for me, they are just too damn small in my opinion. Although maybe my expectations and hands are just too big.

 

[Britva415]

I said i couldn't understand why

I don't know if you're going to.

Everybody's different.
Clearly when people explain "why" it doesn't help the matter, so...

 

[yano2mch]

I don't know if you're going to.
Everybody's different.
Clearly when people explain "why" it doesn't help the matter, so...

I didn't suggest people shouldn't have phones or tablets. I only was commenting on the seemingly total abandonment of desktop computers. If all you need is a phone or tablet then fine. But they are often the wrong tool for most jobs. Not to mention phones and tablets have the shortest lifespan of electronics I've seen.

 

[barefootgirl69]

All this because someone asked how to undo something.

 

[shelleycat1]

I was using an ipad, and did not realise that hitting the "like" area would give an action since THERE WAS NO FEEDBACK whatever. I much prefer using a computer+keyboard+mouse, except when I don't. I don't like using a phone unless I find myself reading a book on it in a coffee shop. So, the old YMMV.

This thread has been more entertaining than I expected.

As for regex, I love them. However, google Regex XKCD. They are a really powerful hammer. Sometimes you just need a fork.

 

[yano2mch]

All this because someone asked how to undo something.

Could be worse.

We could be arguing over important matters, like if two scoops of icecream is better than one...

 

[MissyDaddyGirl]

Could be worse.

We could be arguing over important matters, like if two scoops of icecream is better than one...

Two please!!

 

[Toro1886]

Two please!!

but is that two the same flavour ?