Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.

[mendip_discovery]

The UK gives you!!!!   Blair-ite qualifications for everyone initiative.

Solution.  Invent acedemic subjects that didn't exist before and give people qualifications in them.  Make Britian more qualified!  Makes sense, no?  No, didn't think so.

"Media Studies".  This was taken too seriously by the media, who started hirering them!

Never understood the rabid hatred of vocational courses. Btw I did media studies at college. I wanted to be a sports photographer so I looking for a photography course at college, there wasnt enough students for it so I took media. There I learnt html(css), flash, director, graphic design, photography, ran a radio station (oddly I was the station engineer), we made short films. Of the students several have ended up in local radio as presenters, some went on to do film work. I did another two years at uni doing a dedicated photography course. It's just a sham that when you go to get a job all the want is cheap but with experience rather than training. The photography I wanted to get into ended up being a bit crap as it turns out that the industry is designed to keep new people out and its who you know rather than what you know.

[paulca]

The UK gives you!!!!   Blair-ite qualifications for everyone initiative.

Solution.  Invent acedemic subjects that didn't exist before and give people qualifications in them.  Make Britian more qualified!  Makes sense, no?  No, didn't think so.

"Media Studies".  This was taken too seriously by the media, who started hirering them!

Never understood the rabid hatred of vocational courses. Btw I did media studies at college. I wanted to be a sports photographer so I looking for a photography course at college, there wasnt enough students for it so I took media. There I learnt html(css), flash, director, graphic design, photography, ran a radio station (oddly I was the station engineer), we made short films. Of the students several have ended up in local radio as presenters, some went on to do film work. I did another two years at uni doing a dedicated photography course. It's just a sham that when you go to get a job all the want is cheap but with experience rather than training. The photography I wanted to get into ended up being a bit crap as it turns out that the industry is designed to keep new people out and its who you know rather than what you know.

Fair enough.  I think it's just that a lot of media studies students end up reporting for the BBC et. al. and are the source of poor research examples.

My brother did a similar course here in "Bangor" a few decades back.  He was in the performing arts course, which had it's own recording study and constantly producing live music events for the tech and wider social circle.  They also go the oppurtunity to run/manage/present on the temporary radio licenses they got every year for 3 or 4 months.

I even "performed" on live radio.  "performed", my job was running an Amiga 500 with an active sampler, bank of premade samples and an effects processor.  I had one channel on the desk which I was allowed to touch and much to my Brothers (running the rest of the live desk) discomfort I was doing absolutely mad stuff like routing the send to my sampler, then back to the desk and routing my effects return back to the sampler creating a feedback loop through teh sampler.  Shifting the delays and effects on that feedback started producing some seriously cool sounding electronic torture "music" as that was the genre at hand. 

Dropping key quotes out of Sci-Fi films or completely out of context movie lines over the top of the music was my main job.  Running 5 minutes of a Ren and Stimpy episode in the background with a pitch shifting delay was my idea too.  It's amazing how well Ren and Stimpy always seem to line up hilarious quotes right before the beat drop!

[Ed.Kloonk]

Veterinarians.

Just because my cat chooses to have a vegan diet like the rest of us isn't the reason why he's sick.

[IDEngineer]

Well, it turns out that the feline digestive system is that of an obligate carnivore. They must eat meat, period. If a cat only eats vegetables it will be malnourished.

[eti]

People who save screenshots, or convert them to... JPG!

Amateur hour. This ain't 1995! - it's PNG - any Apple pro knows this (Apple being the definition of high quality codecs, formats etc).

If you worked for me and I caught you doing such a thing, you'd get ONE warning, then OUT! 

[Ed.Kloonk]

People who save screenshots, or convert them to... JPG!

Amateur hour. This ain't 1995! - it's PNG - any Apple pro knows this (Apple being the definition of high quality codecs, formats etc).

If you worked for me and I caught you doing such a thing, you'd get ONE warning, then OUT! 

My flagship Android doesn't play nice with PNG.

[PlainName]

If you worked for me and I caught you doing such a thing, you'd get ONE warning, then OUT!

Highly unlikely, on both counts.

As a quick test I took an A4 jpg (an invoice, scanned from the paper version) which was 1.8MB in size, and converted it to png. That took many seconds (perhaps 10-15) which surprised me. The result was an 8MB png. So I took that and converted it to jpg which resulted in an instant (like no time for progress bars) 1.3MB copy.

(I find the second conversion being smaller not relevant - the original was scanned using 100% quality, whereas the conversion would use 95%. None of them - jpg1, png, jpg2 - were distinguishable when comparing to each other.)

[mendip_discovery]

People who save screenshots, or convert them to... JPG!

Amateur hour. This ain't 1995! - it's PNG - any Apple pro knows this (Apple being the definition of high quality codecs, formats etc).

If you worked for me and I caught you doing such a thing, you'd get ONE warning, then OUT! 

PNG isnt the best thing for every image. I have had it generate quite large files. Even on screenshots. It's just a posh gif image.

Jpg has it uses and I was amused to find that a progressive loading jpg has a smaller file size than a normal one. Same quality settings.

I have been known to go gif and drop the pallet down until the file is as small as I can get it. I learnt web design during the 56k era.

At least it's not that google image format. The least said about that the better.

[shapirus]

Not sure what this discussion is about. Of course every image format has its use. Screenshots, or at least those where important information is text or UI elements, must be saved in a format with lossless compression, essentially meaning PNG.

[Circlotron]

When the print screen has a reduced color pallet, with big areas of the exact same color, PNG works better.

TIFF works pretty well for that situation too.

[Bud]

Just do not save chart/graph screenshots in JPG please 

[james_s]

IIRC .png showed up primarily because of licensing fees required by .jpg, I don't remember the exact details but it was something that came up with a product I worked on ~20 years ago.

[shapirus]

IIRC .png showed up primarily because of licensing feeds required by .jpg, I don't remember the exact details but it was something that came up with a product I worked on ~20 years ago.

by GIF.

[tiggerlator]

For me it's the terms Pal or bro, I find pal an intimidating term, and i am not your bro.

[eti]

For me it's the terms Pal or bro, I find pal an intimidating term, and i am not your bro.

"Pal" is condescending, cold, sounds like someone wants to start a fight. Unless I am a tin of dog food, I ain't "Pal" to you.
"Bro" is cringey yank slang (not ALL their slang is bad) - I am not your "bro", you assume too much 

[SiliconWizard]

'sup bro
 

[TimFox]

M D Headley, in her 2020 translation of Beowulf, used "Bro!" for the untranslatable Old English word "Hwæt" in the first line.

[Sredni]

M D Headley, in her 2020 translation of Beowulf, used "Bro!" for the untranslatable Old English word "Hwæt" in the first line.

Ignorant me thought Beowulf was a German poem. 

But... "Bro!"? I mean... bro...

Anyway, out of curiosity I found this: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/listen-beowulf-opening-line-misinterpreted-for-200-years-8921027.html

[Circlotron]

"Bro" is cringey yank slang (not ALL their slang is bad)

Indeed.
I think the expression “goofing off” is a real gem. 

[TimFox]

Headley spends a few pages in the introduction to her published translation about "Bro!" in the first line.
She imagines a competitive conversation at a bar between a male group, where "bro" can be either friend or foe, while at least feigning friendship.
The first three lines of the original poem:
Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
(Spell-check rejects each word, except for "We" and "in".)

[eti]

'sup bro
 

There’s always that one ain’t there 😂

[eti]

"Bro" is cringey yank slang (not ALL their slang is bad)

Indeed.
I think the expression “goofing off” is a real gem. 

So did he:

[shapirus]

Organizations like NASA bending to stupid whims of noisy schmucks in the fear of being publicly bullied. Things like this must never happen. A bunch of madmen must not affect the actions of sane people.

A new NASA policy makes it unlikely future missions will be named after individuals in response to the controversy surrounding the naming of the James Webb Space Telescope.

[paulca]

For me it's the terms Pal or bro, I find pal an intimidating term, and i am not your bro.

"Pal" is condescending, cold, sounds like someone wants to start a fight. Unless I am a tin of dog food, I ain't "Pal" to you.
"Bro" is cringey yank slang (not ALL their slang is bad) - I am not your "bro", you assume too much 

[RJSV]

Reminds me:
   In Europe, people seem to work, study fairly seriously, but, alas here in the U.S.A. folks are more like talking in broken English:
   "...Do he code ? ".      Followed by laughter, as they think technology is some nerdy joke pursuit.