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Brawnfire posted:I hate when I pick up a word and accidentally use it too often. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lStcwT_RGrQ
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Tiggum posted:The three "lock" keys have occasional, niche uses, but for most people most of the time they're far more likely to cause problems than solve them. Aside from Scroll Lock, which is so pointless in modern systems that it literally does nothing unless you go out of your way to assign it a customised function. We'd be better off if Caps Lock and Num Lock were software settings rather than buttons. You aren’t wrong, but I’d like to go in another direction with taking caps lock etc of the keyboard: Some kind of clutch and gearbox system that lets me shift into caps lock, then into several tiers of larger and more emphatic text.
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Jul 22, 2021 13:06
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Iron Crowned posted:I work in engineering, and capital letters are standard on drawings, so I end up sending a lot of caps locked messages, when I just need to respond quickly to someone.  I've "yelled" at many coworkers over IM while I'm in the middle of drafting.
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Vindolanda posted:You aren’t wrong, but I’d like to go in another direction with taking caps lock etc of the keyboard: Some kind of clutch and gearbox system that lets me shift into caps lock, then into several tiers of larger and more emphatic text.
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Jul 22, 2021 13:12
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I HATE programs that act like they're smarter than you, particularly when they insist on formatting things a certain way when you tell them REPEATEDLY not to loving do that. Excel in particular. I am having white hot steaming RAGE at Excel right now because I need dates in a specific format for bureaucratic bullshit and Excel keeps. loving. changing them! I HATE THIS.
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Jul 22, 2021 18:16
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Silver Falcon posted:I HATE programs that act like they're smarter than you, particularly when they insist on formatting things a certain way when you tell them REPEATEDLY not to loving do that. excel and incels are alike in that they feel entitled to do as they wish wrt dates
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Jul 22, 2021 18:28
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One exclamation point or question mark is normal. Two looks alarmed. Three? Four or more?? Why are you typing like this in a professional context. You look like a goddamn maniac
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Silver Falcon posted:I HATE programs that act like they're smarter than you, particularly when they insist on formatting things a certain way when you tell them REPEATEDLY not to loving do that. I have this problem in word/teams all the time at work. Me pressing enter and a space does not mean I want a numbered list, it means l want a line break and a space! Me selecting some text and pressing ctrl-c does not mean I want to copy the entire message with name and timestamp, it means I want to copy the text I selected! This seems obvious to me but apparently it's not.
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Killingyouguy! posted:One exclamation point or question mark is normal. Two looks alarmed. Three? Four or more?? Why are you typing like this in a professional context. You look like a goddamn maniac One of my coworkers has a way of bringing emails to my attention by responding to it, maybe adding a couple of managers for good measure, and just writing DOCBEARD?!?!? (except my actual name obv) Often when it's something I've already responded to and everything's fine.
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Silver Falcon posted:I HATE programs that act like they're smarter than you, particularly when they insist on formatting things a certain way when you tell them REPEATEDLY not to loving do that. I am currently suffering from this problem as well, Excel just keeps cheerfully changing ISBN numbers into scientific notation or a bunch of hash symbols and I have to manually change them back to "number". I feel like there must be a way to make it not do this but I haven't been able to find out what it is  anyway, gently caress spreadsheets
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docbeard posted:One of my coworkers has a way of bringing emails to my attention by responding to it, maybe adding a couple of managers for good measure, and just writing DOCBEARD?!?!? (except my actual name obv) Listen - sometimes, murder is justified
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Tiggum posted:The three "lock" keys have occasional, niche uses, but for most people most of the time they're far more likely to cause problems than solve them. Aside from Scroll Lock, which is so pointless in modern systems that it literally does nothing unless you go out of your way to assign it a customised function. We'd be better off if Caps Lock and Num Lock were software settings rather than buttons.
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Jul 23, 2021 03:57
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Tiggum posted:You could probably set this up with one of those specialised controllers for racing games and something like JoyToKey. Tiggum, you magnificent antipodean madman, you’ve gone and tempted me to make my joke a reality.
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HOLY gently caress posted:I am currently suffering from this problem as well, Excel just keeps cheerfully changing ISBN numbers into scientific notation or a bunch of hash symbols and I have to manually change them back to "number". I feel like there must be a way to make it not do this but I haven't been able to find out what it is For these, add a leading space and it should display as a number. And you'll always have the green corner, saying NUMBER STORED INCORRECTLY, but you'll know deep inside, no. You display incorrectly. Wait no I just tried this and it trims it down. If you put it in between numbers it works but also sucks I am sorry for the misinformation Fingerless Gloves has a new favorite as of 15:50 on Jul 23, 2021 |
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Jul 23, 2021 15:32
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docbeard posted:One of my coworkers has a way of bringing emails to my attention by responding to it, maybe adding a couple of managers for good measure, and just writing DOCBEARD?!?!? (except my actual name obv) I've got one who will find a question I failed to answer a month ago (out of the dozens they send me), CC our supervisor, and just write "Pending..." Motherfucker. We work in the same office. We have Google chat, email, and phones. Stop getting dad involved because one thing fell through the cracks while I was on sick leave. And this person wonders why no one wants anything to do with them.
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My Excel gripe is that it doesn't like 16 digit numbers. I have to put a lot of 16 digit numbers into spreadsheets, and it always wants to show them as like, 4.56e15, and then also often changes the last digit in the actual data field to a 0. So I have to use special formatting to make them both display and store properly.
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Fingerless Gloves posted:For these, add a leading space and it should display as a number. And you'll always have the green corner, saying NUMBER STORED INCORRECTLY, but you'll know deep inside, no. You display incorrectly. It's okay, I appreciate the effort anyway 
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When people insist on using the more formal/full version of your first name despite everyone else using the shorter form that I always introduce myself as. It's even more annoying when they always used to call me the shorter name but when I became their boss they always use the full version. It's the kind of thing that I know means nothing because it's still my name, but it bothers me to an irrational degree. Even worse for me is when people just decide they're going to call you by your last name instead.
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Tiggum posted:The three "lock" keys have occasional, niche uses, but for most people most of the time they're far more likely to cause problems than solve them. Aside from Scroll Lock, which is so pointless in modern systems that it literally does nothing unless you go out of your way to assign it a customised function. We'd be better off if Caps Lock and Num Lock were software settings rather than buttons. I use Caps Lock all the time. For some reason, I have to type things in all caps often. Scroll Lock's purpose is basically for old school KVMs where you would tap "Scroll Lock, Scroll Lock, up, or down" to switch devices. Used to use 6 or so computers at the same time and I'd use that key more than any normal human. Num lock can kiss my rear end. It's the stupidest key ever in the world. If you have 10 key, you have arrows. I know there are a couple keyboards out there somewhere with no arrow keys and 10 key but those are ridiculous tiny keyboards that no-one uses daily unless they have a very specific job. I think Apple used to make one.
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mostlygray posted:I use Caps Lock all the time. For some reason, I have to type things in all caps often. Scroll Lock's purpose is basically for old school KVMs where you would tap "Scroll Lock, Scroll Lock, up, or down" to switch devices. Used to use 6 or so computers at the same time and I'd use that key more than any normal human. Yeah, if you have keypad you also have numerals over the letters and should just use those, numlock can burn. More seriously, I feel like anybody who used that style of KVM should also be used to wanting 8-direction arrows and/or down being farther down than left is? I like those positions for home/end/pgup/pgdn also. Just turn on numlock when you need to spreadsheet and the regular numerals aren't cutting it. Also I don't think Alley Cat and Ninja can be rebound away from the numpad.
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When someone's writing about a topic where the correct word is imperative and the contrary would be confusing [can vs. can't, was vs. wasn't, etc] so of course they keep writing the wrong one over and over again
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Jul 24, 2021 13:56
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weary and wary: two different words, utterly unrelated meanings, not always easy to tell from context, minor but consistent peeve
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Silver Falcon posted:I HATE programs that act like they're smarter than you, particularly when they insist on formatting things a certain way when you tell them REPEATEDLY not to loving do that. Hulu refuses to believe that I don't want Fear the Walking Dead to autoplay after whatever I'm watching finishes no matter how many times I remove it from "my stuff" yeah I eat rear end posted:When people insist on using the more formal/full version of your first name despite everyone else using the shorter form that I always introduce myself as. It's even more annoying when they always used to call me the shorter name but when I became their boss they always use the full version. It's the kind of thing that I know means nothing because it's still my name, but it bothers me to an irrational degree. Even worse for me is when people just decide they're going to call you by your last name instead. Sorry, we will just call you rear end from now on. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 14:23 on Jul 24, 2021 |
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Please, Mr. Analingus is my father's name.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:When people insist on using the more formal/full version of your first name despite everyone else using the shorter form that I always introduce myself as. It's even more annoying when they always used to call me the shorter name but when I became their boss they always use the full version. It's the kind of thing that I know means nothing because it's still my name, but it bothers me to an irrational degree. Even worse for me is when people just decide they're going to call you by your last name instead. honestly, i don't think this is an irrational thing to be annoyed by, everyone should be called what they want. names are important! I have the opposite of this problem because there are already several people in my department who go by the shorter version of my name and that's one of the reasons I've never used it. I have always introduced myself with the long version of my name but people keep shortening it to a nickname and after awhile I just gave up correcting them  like drat, call people what they want to be called, it's not that hard.InediblePenguin posted:weary and wary: two different words, utterly unrelated meanings, not always easy to tell from context, minor but consistent peeve also loose/lose, taut/taunt 
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HOLY gently caress posted:also loose/lose, taut/taunt rouge instead of rogue too
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the newscasters and meteorologists all say "the noon hour" instead of "noon" , what the gently caress is wrong with you, nobody here talks like that
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For a long time time in the UK the football commentators when talking about players have said "he's only 21 year of age" as if without "years of age" we wouldn't know what they mean - What like hes 21 ducks stacked in height?
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Dysgenesis posted:For a long time time in the UK the football commentators when talking about players have said "he's only 21 year of age" as if without "years of age" we wouldn't know what they mean - "And here we have Dean Anderson, 26, 24, 26 appearance!" is confusing to me. And that's a direct quote from a game I watched recently.
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fizzymercury posted:"And here we have Dean Anderson, 26, 24, 26 appearance!"
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Dysgenesis posted:For a long time time in the UK the football commentators when talking about players have said "he's only 21 year of age" as if without "years of age" we wouldn't know what they mean - Commentators are there to fill time with blather for people at home, not to communicate anything important.
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People who let everyone go ahead of them when two lanes of traffic (walking or driving) when there are other people behind them. Especially annoying when they do it getting off buses or planes.
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Dip Viscous posted:the newscasters and meteorologists all say "the noon hour" instead of "noon" , what the gently caress is wrong with you, nobody here talks like that
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Three things vegetarians and vegans hear every day that you really do not need to say: 1. I would just eat vegetarian dishes instead of a veggie burger. (We grew up eating burgers and sometimes just want a protein chunk with pickles and mustard, gently caress off didn't ask you) 2. That's not technically vegetarian/vegan because... (gently caress off don't care, I'll scoop the broccoli out of the buffet's broccoli and beef if I drat well please) 3. Technically there is no such thing as vegan macaroni and cheese because cheese by definition... (gently caress off you know exactly what is meant by vegan mac and cheese) Seriously if you say any of those things you're as annoying as the guy going "heheh guess it's free!" to the cashier when something doesn't scan. It is so far from an original thought.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
This has always been obviously fine, from my perspective, at least. None of the usual reasons to abstain from meat really prevent you from eating that buffet broccoli in good conscience. You're still not eating the meat, plus the animal's already been killed and avoiding the vegetable cooked alongside it isn't saving it or reducing demand. Works for me.
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Brawnfire posted:This has always been obviously fine, from my perspective, at least. None of the usual reasons to abstain from meat really prevent you from eating that buffet broccoli in good conscience. You're still not eating the meat, plus the animal's already been killed and avoiding the vegetable cooked alongside it isn't saving it or reducing demand. Works for me. Plus the next person who comes along gets a better beef-brocc ratio.
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Yeah, just do what you can and "gotcha!" carnists who are insecure about people acting more ethically than them and gatekeeping, purity testing vegans can both broil together in Satan's BBQ pit
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OPAONI posted:Plus the next person who comes along gets a better beef-brocc ratio. We look insane when we eat at buffets and I'm kinda glad we can't go to them now.
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