[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#2957363 21-Aug-2022 17:47

Journeyman:

Those stupid SUVs and Crossovers that people like to buy. Are they too big for standard parking spaces or are parking spaces not keeping up with what people like to buy? Either way, my VW Golf only just fits between the lines at the Pak n Save. So the challenge then is trying to find an empty space that isn't bordered by two overgrown hunks of metal. This reminds me why I prefer to do Click and Collect. That, and supermarket people in general.

Parks are too small now, they decided on the size when things made by Morris were around and the honda civic was a small cheap car. Remember how something like a falcon or commodore used to be considered to big to be practical - now they are dwarfed by most things available.

There is no incentive for a place to remove parks and make them bigger. Plus if its a mall the columns were put in with a certain size park in mind and they cant do anything about that.

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#2957364 21-Aug-2022 17:49

That since we joined the food recycling programme, we get so much put into one bag that regular shopping is limited to only the most exotic and drinks once a week. It may be dirt cheap for us, but it annoys me to no end that so much is produced and thrown away before it is sold.

Yesterday I went into the city centre to buy some shirts. My favourite brand was on sale there for half price and when I later picked up a food bag for the first time at a high-traffic bistro in the posh mall, they put 10 snacks and cakes worth about $30 in the bag straight from the counter. However, only a ridiculous fraction of this amount had been retrieved via PayPal beforehand.

Also, the 24/7 delivery service 200 steps away had already given us a full bag for $4 on Tuesday with a shelf life of another week. Milk, butter, cheese, cooked ham, minced meat, salmon, all organic. Chicken salami, fish salad, gnocci, skyr, soy yoghurt, apples, limes, cheesecake desserts. Folks, all original packaging and refrigerated a week before the expiry date! The only thing is, you can't choose it. But who can't do something with a selection like the one above?

The food supply at the inevitable almost zero price is quite nice, but where is it all going? I'm starting to worry more than I should be happy.

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#2957371 21-Aug-2022 18:36

Years ago I worked at the catering of Schiphol airport. The amount of food that came off the planes and went straight into the rubbish was astounding. Especially the first class meals were a tragic waste. We who worked there were allowed to take what we wanted, and we did, but we couldn't begin to eat it all. Even in those days I could not understand why a better way of disposing of the excess food could not be found. It was a horrible waste.

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#2957376 21-Aug-2022 19:07

Annoyed when technology fails at the wrong moment.

Took a flight out of town yesterday morning and returned late this morning. When I got to my car at the airport carpark, I noticed blue paint scuffs on my car on the left hand side of rear bumper and up around left side tail light.

Have both front and rear dashcams so reviewed footage when I got home.

For some reason there were no recordings from rear camera from around 1.30pm on Friday; which is when I got to work, until 11am today; which is when I left the airport carpark. Only front camera recordings were present in this time period for my drive home from work on Friday night and my drive to the airport yesterday.

Both cameras seem to have recorded fine for all my drives on Wednesday and Thursday.

Parking mode is also enabled. Some recordings from front camera are present but nothing from rear camera. It didn't detect/record me opening the boot and putting my bags in the car at the airport or any of my movements around back of car inspecting the scuffs.

On my way home I had stopped to visit a friend and stayed there for about 1 hour. Rear camera detected me when I left his place. It recorded me showing him the scuffs.

Weird.

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#2957383 21-Aug-2022 19:32

Rikkitic:

Even in those days I could not understand why a better way of disposing of the excess food could not be found. It was a horrible waste.

I almost have the impression that they would rather throw things away than tell the customer that an item is completely sold out that day. Apparently, the customer cannot be expected to switch from apple pie to cherry pie (or vice versa) - instead, too much of the whole range and throw it away. This must somehow be factored into the ever-increasing (normal) prices.

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#2957385 21-Aug-2022 19:36

richms:
There will usually be a big long line as well about how it fixes some random edge case that noone would ever encounter unless doing something stupid with it. Looking at unifi for notes like that...

Having experienced this from the other side, it is sometimes quite difficult to actually list anything other than "stability improvements" when there are dozens of tiny tweaks, each of which would require a very low-level understanding of the internals of the software to explain, and none of which would be interesting to anyone other than the developers.

Some years ago I was at a talk given by the SQLite developers where they mentioned that they don't take code contributions from the public, not so much because they refuse to but because you need to know so much about an SQL database engine's internals before you could even begin to change things that virtually no-one does.

And then there's things you don't actually want to document, like "Fixed xyz. I can't for the life of me figure out how this code ever worked until now, but somehow it did even though it was wrong. Well, it's no longer wrong, but I still can't figure out how it worked previously".

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#2957387 21-Aug-2022 19:44

The sum total of information is below:

Current version: 20220209-092750/v1.11.8-g8c7bb8d
New version: 20220809-123240/v1.12-g99f7e0b

If I throw the full version into google, there are no results. Everything after the slash currently gets four results - one a youtube video about an independent virologist, the other three are at least related to the device, but are in German / French and don't specifically talk about the patch.

Needless to say, I'll be holding off.

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#2957391 21-Aug-2022 20:02

Ge0rge:
The sum total of information is below:

Current version: 20220209-092750/v1.11.8-g8c7bb8d
New version: 20220809-123240/v1.12-g99f7e0b

Is that a Bitcoin address?

I must admit that, having experienced plenty of oddball version numbering schemes, that one deserves some kind of special prize.

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#2957397 21-Aug-2022 20:23

It's Date-Time/vVersion-SourceControlID, which makes sense if you know how to read it, but I agree that it's probably overkill!

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#2957417 21-Aug-2022 22:57

richms:
Journeyman:

Those stupid SUVs and Crossovers that people like to buy. Are they too big for standard parking spaces or are parking spaces not keeping up with what people like to buy? Either way, my VW Golf only just fits between the lines at the Pak n Save. So the challenge then is trying to find an empty space that isn't bordered by two overgrown hunks of metal. This reminds me why I prefer to do Click and Collect. That, and supermarket people in general.

Parks are too small now, they decided on the size when things made by Morris were around and the honda civic was a small cheap car. Remember how something like a falcon or commodore used to be considered to big to be practical - now they are dwarfed by most things available.

There is no incentive for a place to remove parks and make them bigger. Plus if its a mall the columns were put in with a certain size park in mind and they cant do anything about that.

The worst place for tiny carparks is Victoria St carpark, Auckland. Most of the spaces are so small even a Mini would have difficulty getting into, let alone trying to extricate oneself from the car without major contortions..

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#2957695 22-Aug-2022 10:43

geoffwnz:

I still do repair and service my own bikes. Spent way too much updating the brakes and drivetrain on my 24 year old Mongoose downhill bike that was converted to be effectively an enduro bike. Finally bit the bullet and upgraded to a current spec bike then spent the first week swapping parts since some of the recently upgraded parts were higher spec than the ones the bike came with.

Now I have two functional bikes. :-)

Yeah, they are more complex in some ways, but about the same in others. They've always required special tools for a lot of things so that's not really anything new. I just treated it as an excuse to update my toolbox as well. :-)

Plus, there isn't much about them that you can't find multiple youtube tutorials on and so much information on setup etc.

Yeah we do a lot of the work on our fleet of bikes. The tools are excruciatingly expensive - especially if you go down the "Park Tools" rabbit hole.

Agree that there's a youtube tutorial for just about everything. It's just annoying that to buy parts, you have to mortgage your soul.

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#2957885 22-Aug-2022 16:12

Handsomedan:
Agree that there's a youtube tutorial for just about everything.

And that's a different annoy: Youtube tutorials follow approximately this format: "Blah blah blah problem blah blah more problem blah blah manufacturers don't want you to know this blah blah secret trick to fix it blah blah save so much money blah blah anyone can do this blah blah blah Kneecap Hill blah blah blah top secret blah blah blah kidnapped boy blah blah blah atom bomb blah blah blah so you reach in and push this [click] and you're done blah blah blah".

So for every little thing you want to fix you have to scroll through fifteen minutes of bollocks to find the fifteen seconds that actually tell you want to do. And it has to be at least ten minutes to increase watch time and therefore ranking, and to give more time to place the ads.

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#2958111 23-Aug-2022 10:40

The shrinking display area on my HDMI monitor. Black holes and rainbow stripes are marching up the screen as I wait on a new T-con board from Aliexpress. I have to keep reducing page sizes to keep things manageable. Soon there will be nothing left. I do have other monitors but it is too much trouble to change it just now.

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#2958116 23-Aug-2022 11:04

neb:
Handsomedan:

Agree that there's a youtube tutorial for just about everything.

And that's a different annoy: Youtube tutorials follow approximately this format: "Blah blah blah problem blah blah more problem blah blah manufacturers don't want you to know this blah blah secret trick to fix it blah blah save so much money blah blah anyone can do this blah blah blah Kneecap Hill blah blah blah top secret blah blah blah kidnapped boy blah blah blah atom bomb blah blah blah so you reach in and push this [click] and you're done blah blah blah". So for every little thing you want to fix you have to scroll through fifteen minutes of bollocks to find the fifteen seconds that actually tell you want to do. And it has to be at least ten minutes to increase watch time and therefore ranking, and to give more time to place the ads.

It also often starts with it's about blah blah blah me.

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#2958117 23-Aug-2022 11:06

Technofreak:

You forgot the two most important items, Click the "Subscribe" button and click the "Like" button.

Don't forget to ring that bell along with the same overused animation of someone clicking a bell.. ding ding.

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