Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.

[Analog Kid]

Just give 'em a fake number. That's what I do.

[Kasper]

Or maybe give them their number.

[paulca]

I disclosed in here, as an odd confidence, that I submitted my resignation in December.

I logged out today for the last time after nearly 10 years.

I signed off with a simple fairwell:
I hope our paths cross again, it's a small world.
I leave you with an 80s classic.

"Whitesnake, Here I go again."

I felt the balance of my emotion and the universal message aided far more than I cared to get involved in.

It was that or "Eric Idol - Always look on the bright side of life".

It wasn't until I hit "Shutdown" on the laptop that it hit me.  The emotion.  Powerful. 

The inner resolve was "Happiness".  I know I made the right decision and I haven't even started the new job.  A nice clean separation.  Inner trust.  The response from the company was of support and celebration, not burning bridges, lighting up the bridges and firing fireworks that it exists.

I know this an over share.  The message is, don't doubt yourself.  You are far more powerful than you think.  Always leave the bridge intact.  Your future self will respect you for and so will everyone else.

[Kasper]

Congratulations on the new job.  How'd you find it?

[paulca]

Congratulations on the new job.  How'd you find it?

I kinda just looked to see where those I respected went when they left.  Found half a dozen of them that went to the same place, so reached out to them through "networking".

[ebastler]

Congratulations on the new job.  How'd you find it?

I kinda just looked to see where those I respected went when they left.  Found half a dozen of them that went to the same place, so reached out to them through "networking".

Oh, so you are not going "on your own" as suggested by Whitesnake.  Anyway, all the best for the new place and job!

[MrMobodies]

Why do they make DC jacks with these stupid prongs in them compared to the one on the right where I never had any problems with.


I find these prongs which are on various power supplies even the decent ones I have used over the years seem to work their way out through the plastic a little and loosens contact with the center pin that I have to push them inwards with tweezers as on the slightest movement the appliance looses power.

What an incredibly stupid design I think in reliability when I thought the whole point of the inner surface area was to make as much contact as possible so instead they thinned the inner barrel to a two tiny bits of metal that sticks out, gets squeezed on insertion and ends up digging their way into the outer plastic and then don't make as good contact.

[paulca]

I think they are trying to support both the 1mm pin and the 1.5mm pins?

[MrMobodies]

I think they are trying to support both the 1mm pin and the 1.5mm pins?

Okay but what a lousy way to do it with just two prongs instead of a few more.

[shapirus]

Retardization in progress at youtube:



1.2 milliviews, yeah ok, alright.

They switched to this nonsense yesterday or today. There was the proper "M" suffix before.

[nomead]

Why do they make DC jacks with these stupid prongs in them compared to the one on the right where I never had any problems with.

Prongs are there to secure a decent contact with solid center pin. Otherwise you'd rely only on the spring load of the outer contact to push the plug against center pin. It's fine as long as there is room for the plug to move sideways. That's not always the case and I have had enough problems especially with lower tier connectors. Having two non-spring loaded contacts against each other is really wrong IMHO.

[ebastler]

Retardization in progress at youtube:

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1.2 milliviews, yeah ok, alright.

They switched to this nonsense yesterday or today. There was the proper "M" suffix before.

It's 1.2 meters, obviously. ;-)

[Kasper]

Congratulations on the new job.  How'd you find it?

I kinda just looked to see where those I respected went when they left.  Found half a dozen of them that went to the same place, so reached out to them through "networking".

Good strategy.  Benefit of working in decent sized companies.

[paulca]

Retardization in progress at youtube:

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1.2 milliviews, yeah ok, alright.

They switched to this nonsense yesterday or today. There was the proper "M" suffix before.

It's 1.2 meters, obviously. ;-)

Or "millies".  An advertising term for 1000 impressions.  It's what Google pay you add revenue on.

(unlikely, but it is a word)

[timenutgoblin]

Retardization in progress at youtube:

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1.2 milliviews, yeah ok, alright.

They switched to this nonsense yesterday or today. There was the proper "M" suffix before.

They show 'bn' for billion, but not 'mn' for million. The lower case style shows up on my phone, but not on my desktop PC.

[Analog Kid]

Or "millies".  An advertising term for 1000 impressions.  It's what Google pay you add revenue on.

Does Google use the term "impressions" here?
In the printing industry an impression is one trip through a printing press (so a 4-color piece will have at least 4 impressions, possibly more if it has overprint varnish, for example).

When people sell printing presses they usually state how many impressions are on its counter, usually in the hundreds of thousands or more.

[free_electron]

People making suggestions that are completely wrong and showing total lack of understanding.
I saw an ad for Solidworks. Someone posted "Solidworks is crap". So i asked : Any thing that is better (preferrably same price or cheaper) ?, hoping to learn something.

Answer: Blender

Yeah, no. Not only do you not understand what solidworks is, you also have no clue what it is used for. Don't post such comments.

[coppercone2]

how come shit breaks in threes for me.

anyone notice that? its a pet peeve because statistically its true but its superstitious

appliance, beloved test equipment and car. the car seems to be a constant.   

synchronized gremlins. and the ones I am talking about always require like big parts replacements and alot of work.


Oh another one, its nice looking dead boards. I repaired more power things then anything, and usually its pretty beat up, stuff is burned, and it looks like it at least took some damage. Not saying that its easy to fix or that visible damage helps in the repair (sometimes it does, and its more work), but at least you feel like at least you are on the right board and it has some history. Now when a signal board gets damaged, it looks pristine. And that creeps me out. How is it damaged when it looks so nice? Nothing gets hot, it looks perfect but it does not work. Damaged RF signal boards are the worst. It has a 'killer in the wax museum' or "one of the suits of armor in the armory is alive" vibe. I hate it. I wish transistors and chips were all light emitting, with little windows, so you can at least see something happening, even if it does nothing, to give it a bit of life.

[MrMobodies]

https://www.segen.co.uk/product/solaredge-6000w-single-phase-home-wave-inverter-no-display/

SolarEdge single phase inverters *have not display. They use a smart new commissioning method directly through a smartphone using the intuitive SetApp mobile application.

Utter bullshit.
*They don't work out of the box.
They make it sound positive that it doesn't work outside of the box and require a whole load of things to work.

Something is made deficient.... oh lets stick "smmmaarrrt all over it and other similar fancy words, newer, modern., pretty trendy, contemporary, intuitive.

I saw the installers in 2022 "directly" "commissioning" the Foxess inverter in 2022 by simply wiring it up and switching it on out of the box as I was watching them work.

Should not need to be "commissioned" through a stupid "app" on a smart phone, wifi/bluetooth and availability of getting this stupid "app" just to get it working.

A new "commissioning method" should not be an excuse to void existing or manual methods in getting it to just come on, work and do the most basic things it was designed for new out of the box... the stupidity!

[PlainName]

Should not need to be "commissioned" through a stupid "app" on a smart phone, wifi/bluetooth and availability of getting this stupid "app" just to get it working.

Completely agree. What's worse is if you check the permissions it demands on your phone, and as if that isn't enough it won't work if it can't do a Play license check. IoT at its worst.

[soldar]

"AI" has become a buzzword but is nothing new. They were already calling "AI" anything computer-based that would remotely have some automated decision-making. If you look back at old books and magazines, you'll find it fun what they used to call "AI". While the technology has progressed, it's still fun.

I am old enough to remember when, in the 1960s, mainframe computers, the only kind at the time, were called "electronic brains".

[KE5FX]

Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM, but they did get dusted. 

[TimFox]

At that time, the blurbs about electronic brains discussed how much they could do per hour in terms of how many mathematicians in a year.
In elementary school (1960), we went on a field trip to the local IBM sales office:  I was so excited to see an electronic brain like the ones in a Donald Duck comic book.  To my disappointment, the models on display were “business machines” like typewriters and check-writing machines.

[eutectique]

Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM, but they did get dusted. 

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