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Arrath posted:Mine is the fact that modern computers are sci fi level supercomputers compared to the devices of 30 years ago, yet all those monumental performance gains are totally wasted in layers of libraries and abstractions and this and that, and a Pentium II running some ancient flavor of Windows is more responsive to input than a 24 core 48 thread monstrosity with more RAM than god.  My phone is a better computer than my first computer, and yet it's somehow worse at doing computer stuff - and worse at doing phone stuff than my first mobile phone was too. We can watch high-definition videos though, so I guess my phone and computer are both better than my old TV was. Actually, my current TV is also a computer, and it's better than any of my older TVs at being a TV. So TVs have improved. Every other computer though, somehow worse than ever.
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Pomme de Terror posted:One I've been dealing with more recently than normal: my hearing is a little wonky sometimes so I'll ask someone to either repeat a sentence I missed or the last few words of said sentence. I have to repeat myself constantly because phones are apparently way more interesting than me, which I get. I'd love to not repeat myself but part of communicating is trying to get the other person to understand something! If one can't even get past a mild hearing comprehension barrier without giving up then they have no right to attempt to share their ideas in the first place. gently caress 'em. I'd love to see them trying to handle ASL interpretation or ESL education. WHY YOU NO UNDERSTAND, I LEAVE  Anyhow, you know what sucks? Fruit flies. Just go away. If you're here for the fruit, go eat the loving fruit! Stop floating between my eyes and the monitor while I'm trying to loving POST
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my new apartment is so cold and dry all the time that i've been waking up with dry eyes
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My overnight shift had 2 new guys added to it, bringing the total to 4 guys. It sounds good having extra help, but the new guy I'm stuck working with is super socially awkward and doesn't pick up on subtle clues on when to stop talking. We're also trying out equipment upgrades and he's still training so I have to be directly next to him at almost all times. He is my pet peeve.
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Steamed florets of broccoli and cauliflower are so drat good But gently caress, the house smells like a crypt of farts all night
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SubNat posted:It's something a lot of programs do: Instantly execute with the input of a field, every time it updates. Bring back the Apply button.
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PCP: We sent the referral to the specialist. Specialist: We never got the referral so we're not going to see you. PCP: Well we think we sent it so we're not going to do it again. Okay guess I'll die 
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dear random motherfuckers on the bus: note the giant noise cancelling obnoxious headphones and the book i am looking at i am not trying to be mean, but i am also not trying to be asked how my day is, where i'm going, nice tattoo where did you get it, and worst most disgusting godawful question random strangers can possibly ask, what book i'm reading notice i am specifically giving one word nothing answers, making no eye contact, and looking repeatedly back at the book i am trying to read hell, perhaps look at the fuckin cover of the book i hate feeling this way because i do not want to be mean to friendly bus people, but also, like, how is it not obvious that i'm doing my own vibes right then and not wanting to chat
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:dear random motherfuckers on the bus: Seriously! I don't know what it is about reading specifically that makes people think oh this person must be bored/lonely! Better chat them up! They don't bother you if you're loving around on your phone or even staring blankly out the window but the minute you whip out a book suddenly it's conversation time?!
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I asked that once because I thought it was the Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, which I've read, so I thought maybe this dude and I might like, have a conversation about it, but actually he was reading some biography of a fuckin baseball player and he went on to talk to me about it for twenty loving minutes
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Jul 11, 2023 22:59
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You asked a dude about the book he was reading and got mad when he talked about it
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I guess this must be an American thing? Initiating any kind of conversation on public transport in England is one of the grossest breaches of etiquette imaginable , just complete social suicide.
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Walking away from a pleasant chat feeling like we'd poo poo each others' pants.
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The Perfect Element posted:I guess this must be an American thing? Initiating any kind of conversation on public transport in England is one of the grossest breaches of etiquette imaginable , just complete social suicide. It’s a North American thing. Im visiting in Japan and from my observations, you do not talk to anybody on the bus/train or even just out in the street unless there’s a specific reason to do so (for business, for example). I have pretty much NEVER seen anybody strike up a convo. Even to give up seats to someone else on a train you just make hand gestures to others. When back home (In Canada) and I’m out walking with big rear end headphones and someone will just start randomly speaking to me, and I have to make a show of moving my headphones and it will just be a “WOW SURE IS HOT OUT.” Hm yes I sure needed to be stopped for you to give me this piece of information I am acutely aware of. While I do like where I live, I absolutely love certain aspects of other cultures and “don’t chat with strangers about stupid crap” is one I sure am on board with.
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If you never talk to a stranger, how can you make a friend?
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If the fast casual place you're at has a lot of customization i.e. burritos, poke bowls, etc you need to have that poo poo figured out before you get to the front of the line. You get one 10 second internal debate while the spotlight is on you limit one per customer per meal. you cannot redeem that courtesy for every single goddamn ingredient or else the guy behind the counter can legally start throwing hands
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I suspect that if I wrote a short, reasonably priced book called "Mind Your Own Fuckin' Business" it would be a best seller regardless of content.
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Manager Hoyden posted:PCP: We sent the referral to the specialist. A while back I took way too much excedrin while doing web work for a job and ended up rupturing my stomach lining and nearly pooping blood to death. Had to spend three nights in the ICU and get tons of transfusions. But at least I figured I had pretty good insurance. But then the insurance agency called and said "Your visit was not coded as an emergency, which is a type E-1, but as a visit to a hospital. We will only cover like 10% of that, so you owe us 85,000 dollars." So I call the hospital, and they say "Yeah, we listed it as an emergency, which is a type E. That's an emergency visit. No we won't change the code to type E-1, that doesn't mean anything to us." I went back and forth for about three phone calls each, and then eventually locked myself in a meeting room at my job, put them both on speaker, and listened to them argue with each other for 40 minutes over whether either side would break and either allow an E to mean an E-1, or just add "-1" to the paperwork and fax it over again.
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oldpainless posted:If you never talk to a stranger, how can you make a friend? I can barely manage the friends I do have. I don’t need more.
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Changing the start time of an event on google calendar automatically changes the end time by a corresponding amount. I almost never want this. It's very rare that an event is moved like that rather than just having its start time altered or delayed. It would make sense if you moved the start time past the original end time, but if I change an event from 17:00-20:00 to now start at 17:30 then it's probably still going to end at 20:00, not 20:30.
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The internal logic is almost certainly based on meetings, which generally do have a specific amount of time they're supposed to last.
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Pomme de Terror posted:USE YOUR GODDAMN TURN SIGNALS
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a strange fowl posted:i once saw a car with a passive aggressive bumper sticker next to the indicator that said THE BLINKY LIGHTS MEAN I'M TURNING, the only reason i noticed it was because i almost ran up their rear end when they did a sharp left turn without indicating Putting the "rear end" into "passive aggressive"
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Riatsala posted:If the fast casual place you're at has a lot of customization i.e. burritos, poke bowls, etc you need to have that poo poo figured out before you get to the front of the line. You get one 10 second internal debate while the spotlight is on you limit one per customer per meal. you cannot redeem that courtesy for every single goddamn ingredient or else the guy behind the counter can legally start throwing hands Makes me go absolutely loving feral when I'm on lunch and the person in front of me has apparently never encountered beans, cheese, lettuce, money, lines, or touchscreens before.
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I have found that with most free-with-ads streaming services have a real "problem" with the movie "having difficulties" after every ad, requiring me to refresh the page and watch the ad again. e: since I'm listening to a podcast about Scott Adams, you know what else is annoying, is people who are so afraid to acknowledge the qualities of a lovely person or they immediately follow it up with a barrage of negative things, just so you know they're not in support of said lovely person. If you tell me Hitler was a charismatic leader I'm not going to just start swingin credburn has a new favorite as of 15:43 on Jul 12, 2023 |
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Pomme de Terror posted:USE YOUR GODDAMN TURN SIGNALS My favourite is when they indicate only as they actually begin turning. Like they know they're supposed to do it but don't know why, so they're like "I'll save some effort and do the turn and the signal at the same time!  "
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I know you shouldn't believe what any credit score monitoring site says (credit karma, etc) because no lender uses those scores. But for some reason it bothers me that my bank doesn't use the credit score they show on their customers' account page. I'm not even looking for a loan and I still feel tricked.
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People that have annoyed me recently. 1)People who cross busy roads wherever the hell they feel like because they're too lazy to walk 50 extra feet to the light. 2) People who do 1) at night. 3) People who do 2) while dressed all in black, darting out from behind a tree. Are you trying to get yourself run over, dumbass? Buy a loving reflective jacket/armband and use the crossing at the traffic light.
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Tiggum posted:Like they know they're supposed to do it but don't know why This describes 95% of road users I think. Just blindly following protocols without ever questioning why. Also, fuckin middle lane drivers, man. Sometimes the slow lane is literally completely empty for miles, and you just have a line of people in the middle lane, and then the fast lane is backing up cos everyone has to overtake them and OH MY GOD how can none of you see how dumb this is. You are literally creating traffic and making everything less safe for everyone else!
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Talking heads on cable news. Center left? Center right? Doesn't matter; I despise them, and their endless  equally. Corporate news loving sucks. e: Weird formatting because I was on mobile. F_Shit_Fitzgerald has a new favorite as of 19:44 on Jul 12, 2023 |
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Tiggum posted:My favourite is when they indicate only as they actually begin turning. Like they know they're supposed to do it but don't know why, so they're like "I'll save some effort and do the turn and the signal at the same time! The variation of this where someone is planning to turn into the road you're about to pull out of. But they're not indicating so as far as you know, they're going straight. So they seem to wonder why you're not pulling out because they know they're turning, and have a brief come-to-jesus moment where they realise that indicators provide important information about your driving intentions to other drivers, and turn on their indicators. At the last loving second, as they're turning.
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Hispanic! At The Disco posted:I suspect that if I wrote a short, reasonably priced book called "Mind Your Own Fuckin' Business" it would be a best seller regardless of content.
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People who stop in the middle of a busy walkway. Yes, I realize you’re trying to find out information or figure out where you’re going, but then move to the side where people are not walking. I’m getting so upset when I’m walking and all of the sudden I’m about the ram into someone. It’s the worst when they do it because they’re going to take a photo of something. Which leads me to a secondary peeve, people taking photos of the dumbest poo poo. I’ve seen people taking photos of random alleys in Japan. It’s an alley. There isn’t even anything interesting about it. There’s no cool building or something happening, why is an alley all of the sudden exciting when you’re in a foreign country? People are so obsessed with cataloguing every minute detail that they whip out their phones in the stupidest of places. Back to walking thing. If you’re in a group of more than 2 people, you cannot walk side by side. Start to form lines. I had to swerve around a group of 4 people taking up most of a sidewalk with that poo poo. Stop it, it is very crowded and I almost had nowhere to go. People just being completely unaware of walking habits in busy places just pisses me off, really.
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Amusement Parks that don’t have containers right by the ride to place your stuff, and try and make you rent an extremely overpriced locker to hold your drink or anything that doesn’t fit into a pocket
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bobjr posted:Amusement Parks I like a good roller coaster, but MAN, amusement parks can be a SLOG. So much waiting in line, in the hot loving sun, overpriced everything. Best amusement park experience I had was Six Flags NJ, impromptu stop on the way back from a college road trip, because it was just slightly a bit of a drizzle, not even all tghe time, really more like a bit of misting every now and then...the park was loving empty. Five minute or less line for drat near every ride.
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Motherfuckers that still haven't figured out they should mute themselves when joining a zoom/teams/conference call. Yes the room wants to hear the background melange from your corner of the cube farm.
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I hate when I try to practice a piano piece that I'm getting the hang of, but am so tired from work that I keep making stupid mistakes. It's so frustrating. Generally if I'm too tired to focus on a main piece but still want to play I'll just look through my other sheet music books to find something interesting to try out, but it's still annoying when I can't focus enough to seriously practice.
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