Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.

[paulca]

Yea I have endured a few of those kinds of books. 

I don't mind parallel stories and I enjoy the suspense on how they will all tie up in the end, but when those stories go on for half the book and seem not only distant to the story, but completely unrelated.

Ah.  An example.  Rama By Arthur. C. Clarke and Gentry Lee.  The issues with several of that series being from the later, gentry lee.  His sub stories in that book are horrendously boring and completely distant from actual science fiction, it's like the plot of a soap opra trying to run in parallel with 2001 A Space Odessy.   I literally started skipping all the Gentry Lee sections and the book was still digestable without them.

More tolerable but only just is KSR's Red, Green, Blue mars trilogy.  Wow.  That series has tangents that go on for hundreds of pages.  Like the whole swing into quadratic analysis of carbon / energy / effort economics that goes on for half of Green Mars.

[PlainName]

Sci-fi where the author bounces back and forth in time every other chapter.

You would lurve Memento, then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_(film)

[PlainName]

Here’s another:

This incredibly tedious modern trend that video editors (usually “YouTubers”) have of showing us a “triple replay” of some mundane aspect of the video from different angles (and we get to hear the audio 3x too, talk about grating) - it’s ALWAYS, ALWAYS done in threes.

“Here’s the ball falling! Did you miss it? Here’s the other angle!! Now the other angle!! And now fhe FINAL ANGLE!!!”

These young Dilbert “creators” all seem to blindly copy one another’s style, with barely any tangible original ideas. Did I NEED to see that shot of your ball falling, THREE TIMES? It’s always the SAME PATTERN.

Oh and the repeated “zoom—ZOOM—ZOOOOOOM—in—on—my—face—rapidly—as—I—feel—I’m—making—my—words—appear—more—profound” idiotic rapid fire zoom in and out jump cuts that younger people do on YouTube - likely the ones who’ve not yet developed the self-confidence to know how to articulate themselves in a subtle and meaningful, honest way, and so resort to cheap tricks like that.

Stop it. You insult your audience. I’ll be the one who decides if I agree with your sentiments or not, and that is NOT achieved with your silly iMovie editorial gimmicks.

I was reminded of this when I saw a recent post using multiple font sizes, colours and other attributes. Takes one to know one, I guess.

[shapirus]

Relative "human-friendly" timestamps in logs: commit history, events, whatever. Github being an example. Okay, github, when exactly were these two commits made? "2 hours ago" and "2 hours ago". And when exactly did the last few actions run, so that I can track down which of them caused this crash in production? "1 hour ago" and "1 hour ago". Thank you very much github, it sure doesn't get more useful than this!

The dickhead who decided that it would be a good idea to use this in interfaces for engineers must be fired. It's good for pornhub, but it's a disaster for github.

[paulca]

git log -p

[SiliconWizard]

The dickhead who decided that it would be a good idea to use this in interfaces for engineers must be fired.

Well, I'm pretty sure the "product owner" wrote a nice "user story" for this particular feature.

[eti]

Here’s a peeve:

THE CRAPPY UPS WEBSITE!!!!!

Why does it have to have 489,009 different menus, account widgets, codes, links, verification methods, ENDLESS bullshit.

Very likely cobbled together by “designers” of the same ilk that “designed” the hideous Android… (autistic engineers with ZERO idea about how humans work)

[IDEngineer]

I flew on Southwest today. Standing in line, I brought up my boarding pass so it would be ready on my phone and I'd just stream right through. Got up to the gate agent and my phone display had "slept" to save battery, so I clicked the button... and the Southwest app had discarded my boarding pass! It required me to re-enter ALL of my data, including confirmation number and name and password, then walk through every menu step to bring up my boarding pass again. Really embarrassing. I hadn't gone away from the app, the only thing that happened was the screen timed out. Terrible app design.

[eti]

I flew on Southwest today. Standing in line, I brought up my boarding pass so it would be ready on my phone and I'd just stream right through. Got up to the gate agent and my phone display had "slept" to save battery, so I clicked the button... and the Southwest app had discarded my boarding pass! It required me to re-enter ALL of my data, including confirmation number and name and password, then walk through every menu step to bring up my boarding pass again. Really embarrassing. I hadn't gone away from the app, the only thing that happened was the screen timed out. Terrible app design.

Take a screenshot in advance, next time; no internet or app needed.

https://maphappy.org/flight-basics-take-a-screenshot-of-the-boarding-pass/

[vk6zgo]

My pet peeve of the day is Icom ham radio schematics, or at least the one I'm currently working on.

They start out with one convention to designate their coaxial plugs on the leads between boards, then discard it on the next Interboard connection.

For instance, they designate one set of plugs as p2 & P3, which logically enough, plug into J2 & J3.

On the same board, however, we have p1 & p2 plugging into j5 & j4 respectively.

Looking more closely, they have j1 because it comes from the "1st LO", & re-use j2 for the "2nd LO"---fine, & quite logical, if they hadn't already established a standard nomenclature.

In fairness, they aren't the only company that does things like that, even the revered Tektronix have been known to slip up from time to time.

[shapirus]

git log -p

Yes, but it's a separate tool. I was talking about online interfaces.

(besides, CLI git doesn't work with GHA.)

[jonovid]

The hatred for phones with a notch springs to mind...

phones with a notch , is that something to do with identifying the top from the bottom. lest we hold it upside down.
developing the monkey brain


going to a public movie theater in 2023 with the sound of others munching on food, the fragrance of flatulence! Why? when we have theaters at home

[paulca]

git log -p

Yes, but it's a separate tool. I was talking about online interfaces.

(besides, CLI git doesn't work with GHA.)

No.  "git" is the tool.  You are complaining about the management UI.

[shapirus]

No.  "git" is the tool.  You are complaining about the management UI.

(this) UI is also a tool.

[paulca]

No.  "git" is the tool.  You are complaining about the management UI.

(this) UI is also a tool.

Yes, but it's like using a multi-meter when you needed a scope.

I don't use github much.  That might surprise you.  I use git everyday.  I use it from within eclipse, within bitbucket, within all manor of other intergrations.  However.  One thing is true.  UIs and integrations while handy are also a source of issues, confusion and "hidden operations". 

The latter, "hidden operations" is why in the day job I have a clear policy.  If you want my help with a git problem you created with a GUI, we solve it in the CLI.  I will NOT support git GUIs without corresponding confirmation from the command line.  Watching a college explain his problem to me, whereby two branchs from different lineage would not merge and had got him stuck in a partial merge state he couldn't get back out of.... I watched the git integration logs.  Each time my college did an operation with the GUI the GUI ran half a dozen different git operations.  Things like stashing, rebasing, stash apply, tagging, manifest checking, manifest updating.  I put it to my college that if he doesn't understand what all of those operations being carried out by the GUI do, then he should not be using the GUI, period end of.  So I won't support their use.  People can use them, but when they start wasting time and require a senior engineer to come and fix the mess, they need to get out of the picture before I arrive.

[DimitriP]

A) Windows S freaking mode   and
B) the instructions to switch the  machine out of S freaking mode and
) Best Buy  laptops that most of them are sold with S freaking mode enabled!

Does S stand for Satan or Satya ?

Clearly worded instructions example :   
(https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of-s-mode-in-windows-4f56d9be-99ec-6983-119f-031bfb28a307#WindowsVersion=Windows_11)
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Switching out of S mode in Windows

Windows 11 in S mode is designed for security and performance, exclusively running apps from the Microsoft Store. If you want to install an app that isn't available in the Microsoft Store, you'll need to switch out of S mode.

Windows 11 in S mode is only available in the Windows 11 Home edition.  If you have the Pro, Enterprise, or Education editions of Windows 10 in S mode, Windows Update will not offer Windows 11 because S mode is not available in those editions of Windows 11.  Therefore, if you have the Pro, Enterprise or Education editions of Windows 10 in S mode, you'll need to switch out of S mode to upgrade to Windows 11.

Switching out of S mode is one-way. If you make the switch, you won't be able to go back to Windows 10 or Windows 11 in S mode. There's no charge to switch out of S mode.

    On your PC running Windows 11 in S mode, open Settings  > System  > Activation.

    In the Switch to Windows 11 Pro section, select Go to the Store. (If you also see an "Upgrade your edition of Windows" section, be careful not to click the "Go to the Store" link that appears there.)

    On the Switch out of S mode (or similar) page that appears in the Microsoft Store, select the Get button. After you see a confirmation message on the page, you'll be able to install apps from outside of the Microsoft Store.
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[SiliconWizard]

Does S stand for Satan or Satya ?

Isn't that the same?

[vk6zgo]

A) Windows S freaking mode   and
B) the instructions to switch the  machine out of S freaking mode and
) Best Buy  laptops that most of them are sold with S freaking mode enabled!

Does S stand for Satan or Satya ?

Clearly worded instructions example :   
(https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of-s-mode-in-windows-4f56d9be-99ec-6983-119f-031bfb28a307#WindowsVersion=Windows_11)
------------
Switching out of S mode in Windows

Windows 11 in S mode is designed for security and performance, exclusively running apps from the Microsoft Store. If you want to install an app that isn't available in the Microsoft Store, you'll need to switch out of S mode.

Windows 11 in S mode is only available in the Windows 11 Home edition.  If you have the Pro, Enterprise, or Education editions of Windows 10 in S mode, Windows Update will not offer Windows 11 because S mode is not available in those editions of Windows 11.  Therefore, if you have the Pro, Enterprise or Education editions of Windows 10 in S mode, you'll need to switch out of S mode to upgrade to Windows 11.

Switching out of S mode is one-way. If you make the switch, you won't be able to go back to Windows 10 or Windows 11 in S mode. There's no charge to switch out of S mode.

    On your PC running Windows 11 in S mode, open Settings  > System  > Activation.

    In the Switch to Windows 11 Pro section, select Go to the Store. (If you also see an "Upgrade your edition of Windows" section, be careful not to click the "Go to the Store" link that appears there.)

    On the Switch out of S mode (or similar) page that appears in the Microsoft Store, select the Get button. After you see a confirmation message on the page, you'll be able to install apps from outside of the Microsoft Store.
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It stands for "stupid" or more precisely "Let's be just like an iPad, so we won't miss out on all that lovely money!"

My problem used to be with the "dumbed down" versions of Windows loaded by OEM manufacturers, where most of the clever tricks on the 'Net to fix problems didn't work----now Microsoft do the dumbing down themselves!

[eti]

Sweeping claims from YouTubers and click bait articles that “<insert thing> WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING!” (Mark Rober has just done this)

See also “THIS IS REVOLUTIONARY!!” & “THIS IS GROUND-BREAKING!” or “THIS IS THE FUTURE!” (How it is that anyone can know what the future will be, until the future becomes the present, is beyond me!)

The problem is that this excessive hyperbole is used SO OFTEN about almost any technology subject imaginable, that it just shows little, if any discernment or critical thinking on the part of the person making the bold claims of such.

[paulca]

It's because people are morons.  Sorry, but if you think the "average joe" is a bit thick, most of them are even thicker.

They use YouTube.  They fall for click bait, because, you know drooling and dragging knuckles.  The YouTube Algorithm likes that.  So it starts favouring click bait titles.  So content creates have to march along to the algorhythms tune, because people are morons.   It's going to go the same way it always does.  Moron's make more money.  Content becomes made exclusively for morons.

[SiliconWizard]

Yes, Youtubers do this because, whether we like it or not, it works.

[xrunner]

Sweeping claims from YouTubers and click bait articles that “<insert thing> WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING!” (Mark Rober has just done this)

See also “THIS IS REVOLUTIONARY!!” & “THIS IS GROUND-BREAKING!” or “THIS IS THE FUTURE!” (How it is that anyone can know what the future will be, until the future becomes the present, is beyond me!)

The problem is that this excessive hyperbole is used SO OFTEN about almost any technology subject imaginable, that it just shows little, if any discernment or critical thinking on the part of the person making the bold claims of such.

THE FOLLOWING POST I'M MAKING WILL SHOCK EVERYONE HERE



Hey, I hardly ever do this so cut me some slack! 

[eti]

Here’s one. The internet is RAMMED FULL of people who do this, since they can’t BEAR the notion that maybe they don’t know the answer to a question being asked, so they say any old thing in the hope it’ll be accepted:

I just saw someone ask how much space macOS installer takes (the USB drive upon which the installation media resides), on quora:

Someone answers “The full install occupies <blah blah>GB disk space”

Yeah? The person asking, asked how much disk space THE INSTALLER occupies - the flat, packed away airbed, not the volume it occupies WHEN INFLATED (installed).

I think a problem when people answering overestimate their technical knowledge.


I’ve learnt from decades of internet usage that sitting for hours or days, trying things out and Googling, is vastly preferable than engaging in trap loops of circular discussion and misunderstanding with people who you get a gut feeling are winging it, but want to convince you they’re right (insecurity).

I rarely ask for help, interactively; I’m only asking questions here when I’ve spent weeks, months or years (on the back burner) exhausting all other avenues, and asking us TRULY the last resort. I’m a strong lateral thinker which helps; becoming self-sufficient in technical domains is very valuable.

[Sredni]

Sweeping claims from YouTubers and click bait articles that “<insert thing> WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING!” (Mark Rober has just done this)

See also “THIS IS REVOLUTIONARY!!” & “THIS IS GROUND-BREAKING!” or “THIS IS THE FUTURE!” (How it is that anyone can know what the future will be, until the future becomes the present, is beyond me!)

The problem is that this excessive hyperbole is used SO OFTEN about almost any technology subject imaginable, that it just shows little, if any discernment or critical thinking on the part of the person making the bold claims of such.

THE FOLLOWING POST I'M MAKING WILL SHOCK EVERYONE HERE

I wrote a reply to this post. YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I WROTE.

THE BEST TUTORIAL EVER on writing replies to message boards!

THIS IS THE ONLY REPLY YOU NEED TO READ!



Yes, definitely irritating. I tend to skip that kind of "information".
And I wish I could go inside the houses of Amazon customers who answer questions on the site with "I'm sorry, it was a gift" or "I have no idea how to do that", and break their router with a 5kg sledge hammer.

[eti]

Another: tabloid chimpanzees who LITERALLY have television industry inside contacts, and yet are too lazy and stupid to get tv programme names CORRECT.

Attached: the correct title from ”Channel 5” (UK) and the hideously incorrect one from tvguide.co.uk (absolute chimps!)

HOW CAN YOU BE SO THICK AS TO MESS THIS UP?!