Yes, it's a fully-functional date picker and also deviously, wildly, uncomfortably outside of aesthetic norms. Also, there's a lots of fun, invalid combinations of input outside of the usual "February 30th" shenanigans.

Why yes, that's my birthday: the 32nd of Septunepril. What's the problem?

wise_pancake@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y

This is a repost from last japril.

rustydrd@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Decoctorch sounds kind of cool though. Anyone up for some calendar reform?

k2r@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Napoleon intensifies

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y

God, always. Nothing about our current calendar is working for me.

UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I was bowm in Novemy :3

Fortatech@gregtech.eu · 2 pts · 1y

UwU

Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

What, you werent born on Mapril 0, 1901?

psud@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

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

paulbg@programming.dev · 9 pts · 1y

at least no bot will solve this

tetris11@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 1y (6 replies)

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

lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y (5 replies)

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

tetris11@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 1y (4 replies)

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

:::

UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Thanks for saving me time, my head was already spinning on the previous comment but you made it stop.

tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I'm really disappointed by June, April and August. Without these months, everything would be so neat and orderly

UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

Freaking romans with their gods and emperors, they couldn't go from unember to duodecember

tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y

Interestingly

Aprch
Maril

are the only two hallucinations, everything else is always a legit month

eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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.

tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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

lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y

To be clear, I don't think the choices are a coincidence; I think the general idea is one.

socrates@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Joctopril, novel ACE inhibitor, new and improved!

sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I saw decapril, thought the exact same thing

Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Funny month names are all well and good, but the only ones you can actually spell here are:

January, March, May, September, November, and December.

Otherwise, it's

Febranuary, Japril, Juney, Julyber, Maugust, and Moctober

lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 1y

I think you can use the white space so it's "[ ]april"

SnekZone@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Kinda true. If the whitespace from the top row doesn't get removed, you are left with "febr uary".

Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y

With white space you can make every month

zlatko@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y

It's 12, looks good to me.

ceenote@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Finally I can input my birthday of Jempril 0 without having to use a keyboard!

BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

"Lousy Smarch Weather"

'Do Not Touch -Willie'

"Hey, good advice!"

Brickhead92@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

I sure hope that 190 slider is also logarithmic

rosco385@lemmy.wtf · 7 pts · 1y

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

Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y

m'ugust

AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

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jaybone@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 1y

This is beautiful. Especially if it filters the available selections based on what is selected in the previous column.

BigDiction@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Joctober and Novemy sound fun!

Adalast@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Captchas are really getting out of hand.

dangercake@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Munepril babies always end up junkies and deculyuary babies as priests

squaresinger@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Every single one so far.

M137@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Septoctougust

Siethron@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

MOCTOUARY

LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y

Why yes I am a Jaber baby how did you know

ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I love the month of Jay

VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y

🎶Tell my girl I will be gone by Septuneugust🎶

rustyredox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

https://programming.dev/c/bad_ui_battles

gerryflap@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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.

Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y

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')

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 4 pts · 1y

any

MajinBlayze@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Febrauary?

psud@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

"Feb"+""+"uary"

MajinBlayze@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

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

victorz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

M' arch btw

a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y

deculyugust

match@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1y

disappointed that july is not split into ju/l/y (similarly, ju/ne

Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

septuneuary

CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Yeah baby I'm a scorpanceitarius

ramble81@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

What happens if you accidentally click something in the third box for July?

Edit: nm, I see the blanks as the first option

kamen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Julyuary

OmegaLemmy@discuss.online · 2 pts · 1y

this is how my apps look when I try optimising them, just to gut them of all its usability because 'why have an array of values if I can reuse this string or integer' like a fucking idiot

pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y

day 0

Zacryon@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y

Febrempril, sounds like a Tolkien character.

otter@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Why is the first part of October in the second box?

Now I want to see an infographic about the common parts of each of the months

Hoimo@ani.social · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

febr//uary skips the second box, so I think they aimed to have an equal number of options in each column.

jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

That's dumb... Why not separate both in 3, o-cto-ber and fe-bru-ary? This is bad, but in ways I find unacceptable.

dan@upvote.au · 4 pts · 1y