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

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#2737969 2-Jul-2021 15:10

Handle9:

A number of pharmacies have dispensing robots. It's not putting a pharmacist to any hassle, it's their job.

That wouldn't work for me and our Pharmacist does not have a robot.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#2737974 2-Jul-2021 15:17

MikeB4:

I stopped watching most news on TV and never listen to broadcast radio except in an emergency. I read the news that is important. Bad news sells advertising column centimetres and time slots good news doesn't count. With all due respect I feel you are creating a false idea of the world in general and you could do with a break from viewing, reading and listening to all the media filtered stuff in order to generate profit at the cost of mental health (I mean society in general)

What makes us ‘unique’ (as far as we know), are qualities like our curiosity, creativity, and compassion. These are the things that give us value beyond just the mere fact of our existence. It is these qualities, not the human race itself, that matter in the cosmic scheme of things. They are the things we cite when we talk about what it means to be human.

If another vessel for these qualities exists, then there is no longer anything unique about us and nothing that justifies our continued existence as a species. We are just another ignorant, belching, rude race of simians. If aliens can do a better job of carrying these qualities forward, then we should hand over and retire from the scene. Evolution is about finding the best container to nourish and enhance these qualities, and we are just a step on the way. Even a machine may one day do a better job.

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#2737975 2-Jul-2021 15:20

Good grief

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#2738004 2-Jul-2021 16:24

MikeB4:
@neb @Geektastic I have thought about the bubble pack system but I would hate to put my pharmacist to all that hassle. I have medicines that I take once daily, twice daily, once a week, once every 10 days. I also self inject once weekly and once every 10 days. I also have as required medications in tablet, injection and liquid. I would have no idea

how a pharmacist could deal with that and the labour input would be huge. I have it loaded in Outlook so I remember when what how or it would all be a mess.

They don’t mind. There is a small charge ($5 I think) per month and honestly, the hassle it saves and the potential for error it avoids makes it a bargain in my view.

You should at least have a chat with them.

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#2738022 2-Jul-2021 17:07

MikeB4:

@neb @Geektastic I have thought about the bubble pack system but I would hate to put my pharmacist to all that hassle. I have medicines that I take once daily, twice daily, once a week, once every 10 days. I also self inject once weekly and once every 10 days. I also have as required medications in tablet, injection and liquid. I would have no idea

how a pharmacist could deal with that and the labour input would be huge. I have it loaded in Outlook so I remember when what how or it would all be a mess.

In 1999/2000 I worked on a project for Longs Drugs (western USA) to implement a robotic production line that dispensed these sorts of complex prescriptions and shipped them out from a centralised facility in Las Vegas. The pharmacist sat at the end of the line and checked that the dispensed packages matched the prescription; otherwise pretty much fully automated.

Ironically - the prescription showed up to the facility by fax, and had to be transcribed to the robot for fulfilment!

Just posted because of the memories!

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#2738023 2-Jul-2021 17:12

BlinkyBill:
In 1999/2000 I worked on a project for Longs Drugs (western USA) to implement a robotic production line that dispensed these sorts of complex prescriptions and shipped them out from a centralised facility in Las Vegas. The pharmacist sat at the end of the line and checked that the dispensed packages matched the prescription; otherwise pretty much fully automated.

Yup, it's fully automated, virtually no extra work for the pharmacist compared to sorting out a complex prescription by hand. Google "Pillpack" for an example of how it's done.

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#2738024 2-Jul-2021 17:16

Handsomedan:
That someone who has been found guilty of many, many crimes against others can then get off on a technicality and will spend the rest of his life a free man.

"Free man" -> "world-(in)famous pariah". I don't think he'll be getting much of his freedom, and I don't mean that in a veiled "will no-one rid me of this troublesome sex offender" sense but more that everyone knows who he is and what he's done, which means he'll be watching his back for the rest of his life and probably never be able to go out in public again.

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#2738033 2-Jul-2021 17:30

The fact that whenever something that should be really difficult and complex works out very easily, there'll be some step that's been missed or done wrong and you need to redo it all again from scratch. Case in point (suggested musical accompaniment while reading: DJ Blyatman and the Russian Village Boys), swapping out a sensor in a physically complex sensor array, which involves climbing up to an exposed position, dismantling the array with your teeth while holding on with your arms, swapping out the sensor, threading it onto a circle of extremely long bolts in a process that's about as simple as making a string go in a certain direction by pushing it, and testing the new sensor.

It took maybe quarter of an hour total, including having the bolts practically thread themselves onto the sensor array. Tested it, cleaned up, and then looked over the data sheet again to see that the new sensor has to be mounted upside down compared to the previous one. So climbed up again, disassembled everything using my teeth as before, reattached the sensor in the reverse orientation, mostly assembled it all... and noticed that the cable duct is about half a mm too low for the differently-oriented sensor.

So disassembled it a third time and routed the cable across a different portion of the sensor array, and now it's finally done, except for a recalibration. Total eventual time to do it three times over: About two hours

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#2738042 2-Jul-2021 18:06

^ Similarly,

When instructions aren't followed for printer maintenance kits. Yes, that alcohol wipe is in the box for a reason.

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#2738054 2-Jul-2021 18:40

neb: Tested it, cleaned up, and then looked over the data sheet again to see that the new sensor has to be mounted upside down compared to the previous one.

Just realised something else in that that really annoys me: It's a physically identical sensor, so some time between 2014 (mfg.date of the original) and now (mfg.date of the replacement) someone decided that it had to be mounted facing upwards rather than facing downwards. A bit like the (possibly apocryphal) story of someone redesigning the layout of a fighter cockpit in the middle of WWII so anything built after a certain date was unflyable by someone trained on one built before a certain date.

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#2738122 2-Jul-2021 20:07

Getting a letter from the UK version of IRD suggesting they’d like me to fill in a tax return because I have earned over £100,000!! In a country I’ve not set foot in since 2018!

In what parallel universe have I done that? (Hint - none). So now I will have to endure the tedium and frustration of engaging with idiots on the other side of the planet to correct their mistake whilst they are paid to deal with me and I am not paid to deal with them.

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#2738999 5-Jul-2021 08:07

Software that 'takes over' your PC. In this case, WinSCP, which every week or so decides to dump its icon on the desktop.

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#2739004 5-Jul-2021 09:02

Having a global policy that no internal meetings/emails should occur after 1pm on a Friday, so that you can either catch up on work not done, or if your workload permits, spend some time working on your personal wellbeing.

Having a boss in another timezone, I get many, many emails and quite often meeting requests in that supposedly sacred timeslot. It's annoying and also quite disrespectful. He's also one of those that likes to send multiple emails over the weekend, then harangue you for not jumping on these thing immediately.

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#2739114 5-Jul-2021 12:33

Apples beeping bouncing beach ball and my iMac taking 2.5 minutes to open Excel

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#2739283 5-Jul-2021 18:39

Listening (with one ear) to a tv1 news 'live cross' from a reporter in New York telling us all about the heat wave in the Pacific Northwest. Considering that the reporter in New York is not all that much closer to the Pacific Northwest than we here in New Zealand are, I have to wonder about the value of such a thing. Maybe they should just give him a ticket to Seattle or Vancouver. At least then he would be on the right side of the continental divide.

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