Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.

[CatalinaWOW]

I wonder if anyone has analyzed actual sales as a function of clicks?  Sure it is an easy metric to generate (and exploit), but does it really generate ad views that then generate sales?  It seems unlikely that all of these click bait opportunities really do any sales work.

[themadhippy]

why is it when the job is  paid by the hour it takes 5 minutes but when its job n knock it takes 5 hours?

[TimFox]

Fundamental law:  "Work expands to fit the time allotted for it."
Parkinson's Law  (q.v.)

[ArdWar]

I don't particularly care how you name your company, but I'd appreciate if your company name either reflect what it does, or unique enough to be distinct.

I was wondering why there's this new "Same Sky" manufacturer in my supplier list. Who's that? Another weirdly named Chinese company?
Turns out it was CUI Devices. (also TIL CUI Devices was separate from CUI Inc)

Who thought naming a company "Same Sky" was a good idea?

[Circlotron]

Fundamental law:  "Work expands to fit the time allotted for it."
Parkinson's Law  (q.v.)

Circlotron’s Law: “Junk expands to fit the space available”. And then some.

[ftg]

ST SM15T36CA marking code: BEV
Littelfuse SMCJ20CA marking code: BEV

Same case.
Same marking.
 

[RJSV]

   2024:   Latest trend, approx the last 2 years or so,  asking for a survey or feedback,  but on every last tiny thing you, or they did.
I mean, I have doctors requesting feedback,  BEFORE some checkup or whatever...(You would normally have to actually SEE the doctor, before they would take a 'survey'.

   Surveys,  now they even want feedback on a simple phone call,  like a call just to make an appointment.   Now that I think about it;   the surveys of performance only seem to be for when you've been speaking with a human!

(I'm gonna check on that)

[Bryn]

My next pet peeve with tech is some companies and their unhealthy obsession with AI. Google and most definitely Microsoft are guilty of this...

[RJSV]

   Yes,  Bryn;   We are stuck in the AI hype thing,  although the fundamentals are good.

   A similar situation parallel, is when, approx 1979 many schoolteachers and especially education consultants,  who actually lacked any significant Engineering or basic electrical training,   getting word off the grapevine,  that the whole Apple Computer home computer was not just a fad.
   So,  that being similar to the AI popularity,  as folks were responding, before they had a detailed grasp of the reality (of the new thing).
They would say, (late 1970's),  "I've been hearing about this new, computer thing...now we might have to teach that, as affordable computers are going to be common...(They say)".

   Folks making those comments had no idea what software was,   what a 'Computer Game' was.

[paulca]

Thankfully managing to just stay quiet and observe in work these days....

This morning, we had a half hour meeting which turned into an hour long meeting.

In it the management folks and the tech-lead "invented" the concept of....  wait for it....   Release notes.

They were so proud.  Still a little confused on the gravity of what they had invented.  Maybe some of them should seek to patent it.

I stayed quiet and later IM'd the test manager and asked, "Did we just invent release notes?" and thankfully she responded with "Shh, don't tell them" basically.

[andersblur]

You asked... Internet connected lightbulbs, with music. I mean, come on. The ransomware possibilities are endless. Pay us crypto or you'll be hearing Abba under a magenta light source endlessly.

[mendip_discovery]

   2024:   Latest trend, approx the last 2 years or so,  asking for a survey or feedback,  but on every last tiny thing you, or they did.
I mean, I have doctors requesting feedback,  BEFORE some checkup or whatever...(You would normally have to actually SEE the doctor, before they would take a 'survey'.

   Surveys,  now they even want feedback on a simple phone call,  like a call just to make an appointment.   Now that I think about it;   the surveys of performance only seem to be for when you've been speaking with a human!

(I'm gonna check on that)

You will have to blame the ISO 9001 for a good part of that as many places are heavily being pushed to get customer feedback. No longer can you just say if they don't like it they will go somewhere else.

[RJSV]

Thanks for the reference (ISO 9001) !
   I had no idea,  that there are those particular standards.

[jonovid]

the loss of physical media. rise of streaming services. the internet replaces everything. then the quality starts to drop as the cost increases.

[vk6zgo]

   2024:   Latest trend, approx the last 2 years or so,  asking for a survey or feedback,  but on every last tiny thing you, or they did.
I mean, I have doctors requesting feedback,  BEFORE some checkup or whatever...(You would normally have to actually SEE the doctor, before they would take a 'survey'.

   Surveys,  now they even want feedback on a simple phone call,  like a call just to make an appointment.   Now that I think about it;   the surveys of performance only seem to be for when you've been speaking with a human!

(I'm gonna check on that)

You will have to blame the ISO 9001 for a good part of that as many places are heavily being pushed to get customer feedback. No longer can you just say if they don't like it they will go somewhere else.

It seems with ISO 9001 that you can do a really shit job, but all is OK if you document every step of that shit job & always repeat it!
One place I worked had really horrific failures in their procedures, materials, & just about everything else, but thought that if their documentation was all good that they would be a "shoo-in" for ISO 9001 certification.

[pcmad]

playing whack a mole where you been doing something for years it works and and someone invents a rule which stops it working because they want the power

 examples 
google chrome  engine and you tube recently blocking  ad blockers    ( they will never win)
 big companies wanting more of your data so they can profit of it
 big companies handling software updates  which remove useful features slow software down or increase memory usage or processor usage
 big software making software easier yet it's harder and  and slower to make the mass market usability more usable for the idiots
 planned obsolescence of software for instance windows xp windows 7  where these systems can still be used in industry for embedded systems
 forcing you to update software libraries be just because there's a new version out even though it works perfectly fine you must have the new version
 planned obsolescence of hardware because of software updates take windows eleven majority of computers can run windows eleven bought windows doesn't  want you to use old tech
 new  computer hardware is shit and tacky compared to the old stuff where more robust

[Bryn]

google chrome  engine and you tube recently blocking  ad blockers    ( they will never win)

Well, I hate to inform you that Chrome had somewhat "won" against uBlock Origin, by means of outright killing it off because of Manifest V3...

Also, I've been hearing that they may be after ad-blockers for those on their phones and tablets...

[mendip_discovery]

Thanks for the reference (ISO 9001) !
   I had no idea,  that there are those particular standards.

10.3 Continual Improvements
https://www.iso-9001-checklist.co.uk/10.3-continual-improvement.htm

ISO 9001 is really just a basic way to lay out a business. It is not rocket science. Though sadly it's being meddled with to adhere to current p*litics[1], with the latest much needed update
"The organisation shall determine whether climate change is a relevant issue"

So my pet peeve is the need to force climate change stuff onto everyone.


[1] Apologies for swearing.

[Ranayna]

google chrome  engine and you tube recently blocking  ad blockers    ( they will never win)

Well, I hate to inform you that Chrome had somewhat "won" against uBlock Origin, by means of outright killing it off because of Manifest V3...

Also, I've been hearing that they may be after ad-blockers for those on their phones and tablets...

There *are* still other Browsers that are not Chrome based.
Even on Apple iOS Devices you can now install one of those, with better Adblocks.

[Bryn]

Hold on a minute... given that Edge is Chrome-based, would uBlock Origin be gone from that as well? Or am I just being a bit too paranoid? 😐

[TimFox]

Another peeve:
Packaging engineers have designed simple yet effective ways to add easy opening tabs, rip-strips, etc. to shipping envelopes and boxes for small shipments.
Shippers invariably defeat those features by applying the shipping label directly over them, rather than on the opposite side of the box.

[mendip_discovery]

I was watching YT last night and D*g*key adverts really got to me. How is it that Americans can pronounce Soldering and make it sound soddering? It is like they take pride in butchering the pronunciation of words.

All I have to do is look at an electronic parts website and YT gives me this advert every other advert.

[paulca]

As has been explained before.  The emigrants to the new lands didn't bring a dictionary, because there wasn't one.  English was standardised after they left.  Before soldering was standardised with the pronounced L it was used as borrowed from the French word pronounced soddering.

[PlainName]

Why don't they spell it that way then? They mis-spell enough other words, after all.

[Circlotron]

Well then, why don't they at least say sodering, not sardering.