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Febranber. Those who know, remember.
Ask your doctor if Moctopril™ is right for you!
I’ll take “le tits now” for 300, Trebek
HEHHEH
I think of this moment probably once a month and I don't know how to make it stop.
Jocktober
Wake me up when Septempril ends
I use febr a rch btw
I unironically love this. Of course it isn't practical in the least, but I love it.
12 options as 21. At least it counts as lines of code for a performance review
Hmm. A bit redundant.
[ j ] [ uly ] [ y ]
Shoulda just been [ ul ].
Decoctorch sounds kind of cool though. Anyone up for some calendar reform?
Novemy showers bring Septanugust flowers.
At least that's what my grandma would say.
It's basically the UI equivalent of this:

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?
For a truly peak UI make the text very light gray on a white background, in the thinnest font possible.
I was bowm in Novemy :3
What, you werent born on Mapril 0, 1901?
Joctopril, novel ACE inhibitor, new and improved!
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
I assume the post is the maximum. I wonder if there is an algorithm for that
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)
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
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

Interestingly
- Aprch
- Maril
are the only two hallucinations, everything else is always a legit month
Thanks for saving me time, my head was already spinning on the previous comment but you made it stop.
I'm really disappointed by June, April and August. Without these months, everything would be so neat and orderly
Finally I can input my birthday of Jempril 0 without having to use a keyboard!
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.
My guess: someone messed up trying to split an array and split a string from it and hilarity ensued.
It's too unregular and too good to be a coincidence. Unless they threw an algorithm on it that was intended for whatever
This is beautiful. Especially if it filters the available selections based on what is selected in the previous column.
Munepril babies always end up junkies and deculyuary babies as priests
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
Kinda true. If the whitespace from the top row doesn't get removed, you are left with "febr uary".
Febrauary?
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
What happens if you accidentally click something in the third box for July?
Edit: nm, I see the blanks as the first option
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
febr//uary skips the second box, so I think they aimed to have an equal number of options in each column.


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