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Re: Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

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Post by fortran77 »

Sakos wrote: post #128
Cockbrand wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the point here is > wasn't always done with as much thought While Apple cared a lot about perfecting UX, Microsoft had other priorities.

What's with this myth that Microsoft never cared about UI/UX design? It's simply not true. They're especially not any better at it now than in the 90s and 00s. Modern designers don't put even a fraction of research into UI design than what Microsoft used to do.

Windows 3.1 had a beautiful revolutionary design. I remember closely examining all the buttons and icons when I first saw it.

Re: Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

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Post by demondemidi »

loeg wrote: post #172
demondemidi wrote: post #157

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I have income from multiple sources and they are not aware of each other. For example, they will all keep paying social security even when I’ve exceeded the max deduction. It is far too complicated to correct the finance departments of multiple companies. I just reconcile it all at the end of the year and get a refund. Got a better strategy I can use?

You can file a W-4 with exemptions and avoid overwithholding! This is a fixable problem.

How do I use a w4 to fix the social security problem without incurring underpayment of state and federal? Exemptions apply to all the taxes, no?

Re: Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

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Post by eropple »

NamTaf wrote: post #87
martopix wrote: post #80

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I'm also left handed and don't usually have a problem with scissors, unless they're bad quality scissors. I also use the mouse with my right hand and I'm always surprised by how many left-handers actually ended up using the mouse with the right. It's quite strange. Even stranger, was a right-handed colleague who decided to use the mouse with her left.

Bad quality scissors will invariably suck for lefties because the grip of a left hand pushes the blades apart, vs. with a right it pulls them together. Scissors are my #1 gripe as a leftie too. I use the mouse with my right because the rest of my family is right-handed so it was on the right and I just learnt by copying. I don't mind it, as I can type fairly reasonably one-handed with my left hand - much better than…

Funny - I’m right-handed, but my left hand also works most of the keyboard. I think it’s more because the modifier keys on the right are more natural for me to hit.

On thumb keyboards, it’s pretty similar too. My left thumb types as far to the right as U/G/B.

Re: Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

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Post by datavirtue »

isleyaardvark wrote: post #180
speff wrote: post #123

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It's only scary at the beginning. Then you get used to it. Every single social media site - including HN - has uninformed people agreeing that a correct-sounding answer must be right. My friend the tax accountant gets downvoted for clarifying how taxes actually work. My wife the linguist gets downvotes for explaining no that's not how language works. It's not scary - it's typical.

It's amazing how far that can take you. I saw a post on another social media site about something being wrong, and a comment said it's not wrong, it was just missing a "not". Which was the exact reason it was entirely wrong. So people can state absolute absurdities and have people agree.

"So people can state absolute absurdities and have people agree"

That Reddit mission statement.

Re: Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

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Post by datavirtue »

sgerenser wrote: post #149
PopAlongKid wrote: post #145

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I think the basic thing about taxes that is least understood is the difference between gross income and taxable income (the latter is the amount that tax brackets apply to). A close second is the difference between tax liability, and refund/balance due on the tax return.

Just try to convince the average person that “getting a big refund” is a bad thing, since it means you gave the U.S. government an interest free loan.

The average person is a financial train wreck of dumpster fires.

Re: Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

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Post by loeg »

demondemidi wrote: post #182
loeg wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can file a W-4 with exemptions and avoid overwithholding! This is a fixable problem.

How do I use a w4 to fix the social security problem without incurring underpayment of state and federal? Exemptions apply to all the taxes, no?

https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-w-4

Fill it out correctly and your employers will do the right thing.

Re: Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

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Post by phonon »

sgerenser wrote: post #149
PopAlongKid wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the basic thing about taxes that is least understood is the difference between gross income and taxable income (the latter is the amount that tax brackets apply to). A close second is the difference between tax liability, and refund/balance due on the tax return.

Just try to convince the average person that “getting a big refund” is a bad thing, since it means you gave the U.S. government an interest free loan.

That's not how the Earned Income Tax Credit works....

Re: Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

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Post by phonon »

demondemidi wrote: post #157
MenhirMike wrote: post #153

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Oh yes, that's another fun one! Your yearly tax return should be as close to 0 as possible, otherwise you're either over- or under-withholding. Then again, I met some people that use it as a kind of piggy bank because they wouldn't be disciplined enough to save up for bigger purchases otherwise and... well, I can't even, but if it works for them, there are worse things to spend money on.

I have income from multiple sources and they are not aware of each other. For example, they will all keep paying social security even when I’ve exceeded the max deduction. It is far too complicated to correct the finance departments of multiple companies. I just reconcile it all at the end of the year and get a refund. Got a better strategy I can use?

FICA cap is per employer, not total. Is that what you're referring to?

Re: Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

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Post by kevindamm »

xattt wrote: post #160
ant6n wrote: post #144

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Arguably, the last date of the "times of single-digit Windows" would be one day before the release of Win 10, which was on 2015-07-29. Didn't Win 8 have fewer options for adapting the UI compared to previous versions of Windows?

I was indeed referring to Windows 3/3.1/3.11/NT 3.5. Wasn’t sure of another term that would capture that era in one word. Decimalized? Rational number Windows?

early 90s Windows?

Re: Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

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Post by crazygringo »

webignition wrote: post #64
raffraffraff wrote: post #39

Without reading everything there is on the subject, I'd guess it's tilted for the same reason it's tilted to the left . Humans are tool makers and tool users. After enough time the tool becomes an extension of the body, even if the tip of the tool is mechanically or virtually detached from the hand that is controlling it. The tool maker designed this as a right-handed tool, coming into the frame in the right hand. If…

I'm left handed and have always used the mouse with my left hand. The tilt on the cursor has never seemed odd or wrong or strange to me in any way. I've been using computer mice in one way or another for more than 30 years and perhaps a lack of oddness comes from having so very much gotten used to it. Maybe newer left-handed mouse users would find the cursor tilt strange?

For a month or two I decided to start using the mouse with my left hand just for fun, to see how ambidextrous I could be.

The "wrong"-pointed cursor annoyed me so much I had to find a utility to flip it. (On a Mac, which doesn't support custom cursors like Windows has since forever.) It seriously drove me nuts otherwise.

So it's really interesting to hear that if it was always that way for you, it doesn't bother you!

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