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Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

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

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Post by raffraffraff »

lupire wrote: post #224
webignition wrote: post #64

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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?

How do you feel about writing in general, left to right, with your left hand?

I used to smudge the hell out of the text so I adopted a really weird way of positioning my hand. Could never use fountain pens.

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

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Post by raffraffraff »

arrrg wrote: post #82
vasco wrote: post #55

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What matters is the hand you use your mouse with, I'm left handed for writing and most things but use the right hand for the mouse and it doesn't feel strange.

Why do you use your mouse with the right hand? I’m also left handed and use the mouse with my right hand, I think mostly because my parents bought a computer table with our first computer that had the spot for the mouse fixed on the right side (keyboard drawer with just enough space for the keyboard alone and below that a little extra drawer to the right to create space for the mousepad and mouse when the keyboard dr…

WASD

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

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Post by indymike »

speff wrote: post #123
Stratoscope wrote: post #44

It's a bit scary to see that one of the highest-voted answers to this question (188 points) is completely wrong. It says that the (0,0) hotspot simplified the calculations for a cursor position update, because you didn't have to add any (X,Y) offset. https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/52349/43259 The problem with this idea is that the arrow pointer was never the only cursor. On the first Macintosh, there were many others…

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 not scary - it's typical.

It's no surprise that people who lack expertise will downvote and actual expert. I see it happen every day when people try to be the smartest person in the meeting or just simply cannot allow anyone to think they are wrong.

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

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Post by loeg »

bombcar wrote: post #305
loeg wrote: post #177

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It is not interest free. E.g., I was paid $480 in interest on overpayments last year.

You pay tax on those overpayments. But they only pay that if they don’t return it that year (for normal W-2 employees).

Yes, I got a 1099-INT from the IRS.

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

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Post by account-5 »

wruza wrote: post #292
account-5 wrote: post #75

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I was replying with a flippant joke to what I took to be a flippant remark/joke about the windows pointer not being "perfect" like Apple's pointer supposedly is. The fact the post I replied to garnered no similar criticism to my flippant remark shows more about the culture on HN than anything else. That seemingly being: critise everything but Apple, Apple is off limits unless you're hear to fawn over them. This is cu…

Can’t tell if your other jokes are on the same level, but if they are, why do you expect them to not be downvoted? It’s basically disinformation. Maybe the difference is not Apple vs others, but just whether you were called out by someone or not. It doesn’t take a fanboy to downvote such thing. I’d surely do, being an anti-fanboy of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Meta, if I knew the truth about the case.

Good for you, downvote away, don't feel the need in the future to justify it. I've no issue losing internet points if you're butthurt about jokes.

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

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Post by bombcar »

loeg wrote: post #314
bombcar wrote: post #305

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You pay tax on those overpayments. But they only pay that if they don’t return it that year (for normal W-2 employees).

Yes, I got a 1099-INT from the IRS.

In some cases (depending on your tax situation) other forms of bonds (municipal/state) may be better because of how or if they get taxed.

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

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Post by anonymouskimmer »

wolverine876 wrote: post #293
anonymouskimmer wrote: post #279

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I'm the kind of person who is completely disinterested in biographies.

Fine, but then why talk about Newton if you are aware you know nothing about them? Talk about what you know.

It's not as if I haven't been exposed to his laws of motion in physics courses. I just think of them as more math (or heck, even philosophy) than science.

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

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Post by anonymouskimmer »

fennecfoxy wrote: post #300
anonymouskimmer wrote: post #263

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> Humans are nearly all mimics, at least 98%+. They are LLMs. We are GIs, at least 98%+, LLM like behavior may exist in our cognitive repertoire, but we certainly aren't limited to it. Can an LLM drive locomotion? I never understood AGI as generating sui generis ideas as a requirement. I thought that AGIs could also be uncreative mimics.

>Can an LLM drive locomotion If it's been trained to, but I'm not sure that's been the focus recently, though I think some research has been done into it. Turns out prediction engines with attention are useful for more than just predicting text; our bodies and brains work on learned assumptions and behaviours. But certainly I imagine transformer + attention can = learning to walk/perform task. LLM specifically no...b…

It's basically the question of Turing machines and universal calculation. As a lay person I just wouldn't expect an LLM to be good at intelligences using other than sequential symbols.

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

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Post by kbelder »

raffraffraff wrote: post #311
lupire wrote: post #224

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How do you feel about writing in general, left to right, with your left hand?

I used to smudge the hell out of the text so I adopted a really weird way of positioning my hand. Could never use fountain pens.

Huh. I wonder if there was some (superficially) valid reasoning there for forcing lefthanders to learn write with their right hand. Due to the left-to-right nature of English, and the technology of fountain pens, it really was more objectively difficult to write with your left hand.

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

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Post by wruza »

account-5 wrote: post #315
wruza wrote: post #292

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can’t tell if your other jokes are on the same level, but if they are, why do you expect them to not be downvoted? It’s basically disinformation. Maybe the difference is not Apple vs others, but just whether you were called out by someone or not. It doesn’t take a fanboy to downvote such thing. I’d surely do, being an anti-fanboy of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Meta, if I knew the truth about the case.

Good for you, downvote away, don't feel the need in the future to justify it. I've no issue losing internet points if you're butthurt about jokes.

I’m actually butthurt about being misinformed or getting tired by debunking a repeated nonsense that lacks the “joke” tag. Not by the jokes themselves. So yes, I think it’s a good thing there’s a way for users to signal that without explaining. And it’s frustrating that some people will miss the point even when pointed clearly at the reason, or see internet points as something expendable rather than just a feedback.
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