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

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#3154606 1-Nov-2023 18:01

Sodium hydroxide, aka caustic soda. Available in a pure-ish form (may include an anti-caking agent) from your local hardware store and in high concentrations in the supermarket in the form of drain unblocker. It's also used in oven cleaner.

Surely, a warning label is all that is needed here? Or are we all desensitised to warnings now that many of them are so ridiculous?

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#3154607 1-Nov-2023 18:07

SirHumphreyAppleby:

Sodium hydroxide, aka caustic soda. Available in a pure-ish form (may include an anti-caking agent) from your local hardware store and in high concentrations in the supermarket in the form of drain unblocker. It's also used in oven cleaner.

Surely, a warning label is all that is needed here? Or are we all desensitised to warnings now that many of them are so ridiculous?

it just goes to show you cant regulate stupidity

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#3154617 1-Nov-2023 18:36

Water, aka dihydrogen momoxide, can cause burns if heated, burns if cooled, terminal lack of oxygen if immersed in same, dangerous conductor of electricity...

you might have heard this before.

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#3154731 1-Nov-2023 20:43

That the latest Win11 Update has broken "sticky" sort by date in File Explorer!

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#3154733 1-Nov-2023 20:45

Journeyman:

Since we're moaning about AI... I gave ChatGPT a few pages of text from an OCR output and asked it to "remove any unnecessary line breaks" which it did a fairly reasonable job of. But on proof-reading it, I found that it was changing some of the wording. I submitted the request again along with an instruction to not make any other changes. It didn't help. It was still making wording changes that it thought were a good idea but were nonetheless not requested and not accurate to the document that had been scanned.

I have been working with chatGPT to automate a lot of tedious text processing work, with varying success.
Using the exact same prompt, it will provide dramatically different results on similar text, sometimes formatting it differently, sometimes blatantly ignoring my explicit instructions.
It sometimes feels like I am dealing with a hyped-up 10-year-old who is also watching a gaming video at the same time while trying to get them to do something.
I need to scold it, telling it to check the instructions, and not make stuff up, whereupon it apologizes and promises to do better. Whether it does or not seems to be a roll of the dice.

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#3154734 1-Nov-2023 20:49

Gurezaemon:I need to scold it, telling it to check the instructions, and not make stuff up, whereupon it apologizes and promises to do better. Whether it does or not seems to be a roll of the dice.

Just like an infant! I guess it is one, after all it is in it's "infancy"!

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#3154762 1-Nov-2023 23:22

Journeyman:

Since we're moaning about AI... I gave ChatGPT a few pages of text from an OCR output and asked it to "remove any unnecessary line breaks" which it did a fairly reasonable job of. But on proof-reading it, I found that it was changing some of the wording. I submitted the request again along with an instruction to not make any other changes. It didn't help. It was still making wording changes that it thought were a good idea but were nonetheless not requested and not accurate to the document that had been scanned.

This is everything you need to know as to why you shouldn't trust AI. It can be a useful complementary service, but it shouldn't ever be used without someone checking everything it's done.

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#3154777 2-Nov-2023 07:11

Bingo. I saw a thing yesterday where a human had written an article about someone who had died, and the publisher (Microsoft) added an AI-generated poll that invited readers to vote on how they thought the death occurred. Apparently nobody had reviewed it before publishing, and predictably people thought it was in very bad taste.

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#3154807 2-Nov-2023 10:13

Ordered a watch band from Apple.
Was being delivered today. I am not at my own home, but decided to have it delivered there anyway, as I am back and forth often enough while the building work is being done.
Driveway camera picked up the courier arriving with my package and then after a brief pause at the gate, leaving again.

Update on the shipping website, "Customer Moved".

No phone call, no text, no email, no other attempt to contact me. Just not delivered.
I understand that he would have looked in the window and seen that the house looks like nobody lives there, but it was only ordered a day ago - it's not like I could have moved out that quickly. Just leave the package. I didn't ask for signature. The front door is not visible from the road, so it's not in much danger of being stolen.

Now I have no idea where the package will end up - will it be the distribution centre? Will it just get returned to Apple? No correspondence, so no idea.

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#3154855 2-Nov-2023 13:02

When someone takes the rubbish bag out of the bin, BUT then doesn't put another one in.

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#3154860 2-Nov-2023 13:24

Handsomedan:

Ordered a watch band from Apple.
Was being delivered today. I am not at my own home, but decided to have it delivered there anyway, as I am back and forth often enough while the building work is being done.
Driveway camera picked up the courier arriving with my package and then after a brief pause at the gate, leaving again.

Update on the shipping website, "Customer Moved".

No phone call, no text, no email, no other attempt to contact me. Just not delivered.
I understand that he would have looked in the window and seen that the house looks like nobody lives there, but it was only ordered a day ago - it's not like I could have moved out that quickly. Just leave the package. I didn't ask for signature. The front door is not visible from the road, so it's not in much danger of being stolen.

Now I have no idea where the package will end up - will it be the distribution centre? Will it just get returned to Apple? No correspondence, so no idea.

Are there thousands of warehouses with packages that couriers couldn't be bothered to deliver? Like the planet that has all those unmatched socks?

Seriously what happens to this stuff?

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#3154873 2-Nov-2023 14:50

Bored. Typed Ford in Firefox. Clicked on Cars at Ford. Gives grand total of two, Focus and Mustang. No Fiesta, no Mondeo. How can a car company have such a pathetic range of cars.

SUVs / double cabs don't count as cars.

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#3154882 2-Nov-2023 15:18

frankv:
When someone takes the rubbish bag out of the bin, BUT then doesn't put another one in.

I +1 this because it annoys me too but I am also the worst perpetrator in our house and feel bad, but not bad enough to do it 😂

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#3154883 2-Nov-2023 15:26

tstone:

Are there thousands of warehouses with packages that couriers couldn't be bothered to deliver? Like the planet that has all those unmatched socks?

Seriously what happens to this stuff?

I have often wondered that myself.

Luckily I was able to find a number for DHL and get them to send the courier back when he was passing by an hour later.

There must be some absolute treasure tucked away in these distribution centres where stuff hasn't been delivered.

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#3154982 2-Nov-2023 15:37

tstone:

Are there thousands of warehouses with packages that couriers couldn't be bothered to deliver? Like the planet that has all those unmatched socks?

Seriously what happens to this stuff?

YouShop still has one of my packages from 2021 "ready for dispatch"... after querying it I did receive one email promising they would follow up and find out what happened, but then they went silent.

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