Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.

[MathWizard]

I'm really bothered by fonts that have capital I and L look the same, and sometimes they look like ones.

[jonovid]

No problemo.
Just one question, though: Shouldn't your handle be "Mr. Nobodies"? Looks like you misspled it when you signed up.

It was just a random word I thought off at the time in looking for words that I think nobody has ever used before by seeing if they don't show up on the search engines.

coining a new word 

[TimFox]

I'm really bothered by fonts that have capital I and L look the same, and sometimes they look like ones.

That's related to my preference (for almost all applications) for serif fonts (not sans-serif).

[Analog Kid]

I'm really bothered by fonts that have capital I and L look the same, and sometimes they look like ones.

Same goes for lack of distinction between O ("oh") and 0 (zero).

[shapirus]

Same goes for lack of distinction between O ("oh") and 0 (zero).

Such fonts must be legally banned, at least for use in digital interfaces, forever and ever.

[TimFox]

When I first learned Fortran back in the mid-1960s, we always drew a slash through the zero to distinguish it from majuscule O on our Hollerith cards.
I rarely see that anymore.

[Analog Kid]

When I first learned Fortran back in the mid-1960s, we always drew a slash through the zero to distinguish it from majuscule O on our Hollerith cards.
I rarely see that anymore.

That's good, but how would that work out for those Scandinavians whose alphabets include a slashed "Oh" (Ø) (forget exactly which languages)?

[TimFox]

Hollerith cards did support some of those diacritics or additional alphabetic characters for those languages. but 0 (with the slash) was encoded specifically along with the other decimal digits as a number.
Wikipedia's article on Hollerith cards includes the codes for various standard Hollerith formats, but I found the writing confusing.

[Analog Kid]

Wikipedia's article on Hollerith cards includes the codes for various standard Hollerith formats, but I found the writing confusing.

That's the main reason I avoid Wikipedia* altogether.
Even if the article is accurate, it's usually poorly written.

* The "encyclopedia" any snot-nosed junior-high-school student can edit.

[Analog Kid]

OK, here's another one:
Do we really have to put the letter "R" after resistance values that are less than 100 ohms?
What's wrong with just "47"? or "33"? How in the world could those possibly be misunderstood?
The measurement unit, unless modified by a "K" or "M" (or "m") is simply ohms.
This seems totally needless to me.

[themadhippy]

clarity,how do we know if you mean 47 ohms or forgot the K

[Analog Kid]

clarity,how do we know if you mean 47 ohms or forgot the K

"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.

"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."

[mwb1100]

When I first learned Fortran back in the mid-1960s, we always drew a slash through the zero to distinguish it from majuscule O on our Hollerith cards.
I rarely see that anymore.

Back when I was in college one of my computer science profs was really a member of the math department and grudgingly handled a class on logic (I forget the precise class).  As far as he was concerned, "computer science" was a bogus discipline. He'd mark answers incorrect if there was a slash through what should be a zero digit because that character meant "null" as in "null set" - it wasn't a zero as far as he was concerned.

He also graded strictly on a curve - top one or two scores got an A, bottom one or two scores got an F, everything else in between according to something close to a normal curve.  I remember now that there was one quiz where most everyone's score was bunched together in the nineties.  He wasn't too pleased and promised that the next quiz would be much harder.

Which reminds me of an English teacher I had who claimed to grade on a "curve".  As he described it, he marked the stairs in his house with "A" through "F" (skipping "E" as that wasn't used for grades in the US back then - no idea what they use now).  He would go to the top of the stairs and throw the papers in the air.  The step your paper landed on was your grade.

[Circlotron]

OK, here's another one:
Do we really have to put the letter "R" after resistance values that are less than 100 ohms?
What's wrong with just "47"? or "33"? How in the world could those possibly be misunderstood?
The measurement unit, unless modified by a "K" or "M" (or "m") is simply ohms.
This seems totally needless to me.

Leaving off the R would be as peeve inducing as the United States not having a .us after their website URLs.

[Circlotron]

I'm really bothered by fonts that have capital I and L look the same, and sometimes they look like ones.

Same goes for lack of distinction between O ("oh") and 0 (zero).

Having O and 0 right next to each other on the keyboard doesn't help.

[nctnico]

Wikipedia's article on Hollerith cards includes the codes for various standard Hollerith formats, but I found the writing confusing.

That's the main reason I avoid Wikipedia* altogether.
Even if the article is accurate, it's usually poorly written.

* The "encyclopedia" any snot-nosed junior-high-school student can edit.

Have you ever tried editing Wikipedia? Wikinazi is a 'thing'

[Analog Kid]

Wikipedia's article on Hollerith cards includes the codes for various standard Hollerith formats, but I found the writing confusing.

That's the main reason I avoid Wikipedia* altogether.
Even if the article is accurate, it's usually poorly written.

* The "encyclopedia" any snot-nosed junior-high-school student can edit.

Have you ever tried editing Wikipedia? Wikinazi is a 'thing'

Yes I have. It was years ago that I quit, and I regret all those dozens of hours of my life that I can never get back.

Not sure exactly what is meant by "wikinazi", as the term can apparently mean a lot of different things.

I hate Wikipedia; does that make me a Wikinazi?

[CatalinaWOW]

Wikipedia is kind of like a democratic republic.  It sucks, but is better than the alternatives.

[shapirus]

Wikipedia is to be treated as a collection of references categorized by articles. That's what it is for and what it is decent at. Anything in it without a linked reference is junk until proven otherwise.

[Analog Kid]

Wikipedia is to be treated as a collection of references categorized by articles. That's what it is for and what it is decent at. Anything in it without a linked reference is junk until proven otherwise.

Yeah, yeah, "no original research". I know all about that.

It's still a piece of shit overall.

[shapirus]

Yeah, yeah, "no original research".

that thing is kinda weird though. I think it's not exactly that, but they don't allow self-referencing, like, no primary sources. original research is fine, but it must be referenced by someone else to be cited. that's kinda the way it generally works in the academic world.

[calzap]

I'm really bothered by fonts that have capital I and L look the same, and sometimes they look like ones.

Same goes for lack of distinction between O ("oh") and 0 (zero).

I see this all the time for confirmation "numbers" when doing online commerce.  Would not be that hard for programmers to eliminate both  O ("oh") and 0 (zero) in their confirmation number generators.   They probably use a curse word dictionary to make sure no offensive words appear in generated confirmation numbers  ... but maybe not.    I still hope for GPL987DAMN1YOU7 to appear as a confirmation number.

Mike

[PlainName]

I was recently caught out with 2FA being case sensitive. Just about everyone that does it will accept any case (easier to type), but this one place required exact case, and it was all upper case too so there was no point to it (other than to piss off users that don't habitually leave capslock on).

[Analog Kid]

I'm really bothered by fonts that have capital I and L look the same, and sometimes they look like ones.

Same goes for lack of distinction between O ("oh") and 0 (zero).

I see this all the time for confirmation "numbers" when doing online commerce.  Would not be that hard for programmers to eliminate both  O ("oh") and 0 (zero) in their confirmation number generators.

But aren't those "numbers" generally just copied and pasted from one place to another, so no need to figure out what chars are what?
(I guess not if, say, the confirmation # comes in a text message and you have to then type it into a browser field, in which case your peeve is 100% justified.)

[shapirus]

I'm really bothered by fonts that have capital I and L look the same, and sometimes they look like ones.

And sometimes it's getting really ridiculous