Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.

[ArdWar]

Who decides that this is:

• Good relation between resistor values and switching frequency.
• Good selection of resistor values even if we accept that the relation is arbitrary.
• What's with the wide gap in the selection of switching frequencies anyway.

[PlainName]

Resistance goes up, frequency goes up. And down.

A chart would have been so much better.

[Nominal Animal]

[ArdWar]

I like to plot resistor values in log since that's mostly what I expect the response will be. Higher values *looks* linear, but lower values are arbitrary.
I won't even try to interpolate since datasheet don't even guarantee operation besides 1% within specified values...

[RoGeorge]

I don't plot very often, but when I do, I copy/paste this in a terminal:

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echo -e " \
3.92 400 \n \
4.75 200 \n \
5.76 303 \n \
7.87 100 \n \
11 500 \n \
17.8 1818 \n \
42.2 2000 \n \
124 2222 \n" | \
gnuplot -p -e 'set logscale x; set grid; set grid mxtics; set xlabel "kOhm"; set ylabel "kHz"; plot "-" with linespoints linecolor "red" pointtype 15 notitle'


 

[MrMobodies]

When I hear the following words, "modern" "newer", "pretty", "trendy", "contemporary", used in such a way like below, I don't think I fully understand what they are trying to say other than what I think they think I am stupid and confused, don't know what I am doing and not mean't to understand other than to buy into it by the nicely sounding words they put together:

https://mountlighting.co.uk/led-lighting-vs-fluorescent-lighting/

The M-Line Range from Mount Lighting provides a smart  , modern  , aesthetically crisp  and clean luminaire system with the versatility  to incorporate endless  feature design concepts.

BUZZWORD BULLSHIT: Smart, modern, aesthetically crisp, clean luminaire, versatility
Sounds so meaningless to me.

Translated: "The M-Line Range from Mount Lightning provides lightning styles and fittings of the latest trends with lots of accessories and addons to choose from to help fit your application and lightning requirements. "

Does that sound clearer and accurate on what they are trying to say?

[rsjsouza]

MrMobodies, non-native english speaker here...

Despite I could understand both sentences, I personally think the separation of adjectives using commas brings me a clearer and better defined list of concepts/advantages/features to the product line.

Sure, it has buzz words, but the "trends" in your sentence seems also "buzzy" to me. :-D

[vk6zgo]

When I hear the following words, "modern" "newer", "pretty", "trendy", "contemporary", used in such a way like below, I don't think I fully understand what they are trying to say other than what I think they think I am stupid and confused, don't know what I am doing and not mean't to understand other than to buy into it by the nicely sounding words they put together:

https://mountlighting.co.uk/led-lighting-vs-fluorescent-lighting/

The M-Line Range from Mount Lighting provides a smart  , modern  , aesthetically crisp  and clean luminaire system with the versatility  to incorporate endless  feature design concepts.

BUZZWORD BULLSHIT: Smart, modern, aesthetically crisp, clean luminaire, versatility
Sounds so meaningless to me.

Translated: "The M-Line Range from Mount Lightning provides lightning styles and fittings of the latest trends with lots of accessories and addons to choose from to help fit your application and lightning requirements. "

Does that sound clearer and accurate on what they are trying to say?

Do they do ball lightning, or just the regular jagged stuff?

[MrMobodies]

Oops sorry, lighting not lightning.

Do they do ball lightning, or just the regular jagged stuff?

Maybe PhotonicInduction could fix something up.

[bookaboo]

PDF files that are named "aaeueijfj223132123.pdf" when downloaded instead of "widget_datasheet.pdf"

[bitwelder]

PDF files that are named "aaeueijfj223132123.pdf" when downloaded instead of "widget_datasheet.pdf"

Oh yes. And more generally, when you download a file for e.g. a driver or a firmware update, and the file name doesn't have any relationship with the product, the software and/or the version in question.

[vk6zgo]

PDF files that are named "aaeueijfj223132123.pdf" when downloaded instead of "widget_datasheet.pdf"

Oh yes. And more generally, when you download a file for e.g. a driver or a firmware update, and the file name doesn't have any relationship with the product, the software and/or the version in question.

And W10 goes & hides it somewhere other than the folder you downloaded it to.

[jonovid]

PDF files that are named "aaeueijfj223132123.pdf" when downloaded instead of "widget_datasheet.pdf"

Oh yes. And more generally, when you download a file for e.g. a driver or a firmware update, and the file name doesn't have any relationship with the product, the software and/or the version in question.

And W10 goes & hides it somewhere other than the folder you downloaded it to.

My win11 has been beaten into submission & runs mostly ok most of the time.
I re-name files and work the folders manually

[vk6zgo]

PDF files that are named "aaeueijfj223132123.pdf" when downloaded instead of "widget_datasheet.pdf"

Oh yes. And more generally, when you download a file for e.g. a driver or a firmware update, and the file name doesn't have any relationship with the product, the software and/or the version in question.

And W10 goes & hides it somewhere other than the folder you downloaded it to.

My win11 has been beaten into submission & runs mostly ok most of the time.
I re-name files and work the folders manually

That's what I mainly do, now.
The annoying thing is that sometimes it works properly!

[paulca]

Computer mice whose button is low enough such that every time you bump into the keyboard it clicks and holds down the left button!!!!

[mendip_discovery]

Computer mice whose button is low enough such that every time you bump into the keyboard it clicks and holds down the left button!!!!

How about every surface has to be clickable so if you grab the mouse a little bit to quickly you end up changing a setting or some other annoying thing.

People at work are always confused when they watch me on a computer as I do a fair amount if stuff using the keyboard. The mouse is only used when I need it.

[rdl]

Well, there can be the opposite problem where there are so many keyboard short cuts that it doesn't take much in the way of mistyping to do something you had no idea you did.

[PlainName]

Not to mention typing a whole ream of stuff into some window that grabbed focus when you didn't notice.

But while we're on this, I loathe the web page full of clickable, hoverable images (think shopping site, or TV schedule) so there's no space to click to set focus without activating something.

[rsjsouza]

Not to mention typing a whole ream of stuff into some window that grabbed focus when you didn't notice.

Especially when you are typing your enterprise password but the focus is stolen to an internal group chat window. 😡

[coppice]

Not to mention typing a whole ream of stuff into some window that grabbed focus when you didn't notice.

Especially when you are typing your enterprise password but the focus is stolen to an internal group chat window. 😡

Enterprise password? That's nothing. Try doing that with your on-line banking.

[mendip_discovery]

Not to mention typing a whole ream of stuff into some window that grabbed focus when you didn't notice.

Especially when you are typing your enterprise password but the focus is stolen to an internal group chat window. 😡

Enterprise password? That's nothing. Try doing that with your on-line banking.

But yours isn't that hard to guess,

[rsjsouza]

Not to mention typing a whole ream of stuff into some window that grabbed focus when you didn't notice.

Especially when you are typing your enterprise password but the focus is stolen to an internal group chat window. 😡

Enterprise password? That's nothing. Try doing that with your on-line banking.

Indeed that would be even worse. However for online banking I isolate the host: no chats or other online activities other than the banking application or web application itself... Somewhat easy to do with a VM, although with the massive drawback of the extra disk space.

[AlbertL]

One of my pet peeves: After a serious accident or crime, the company or government agency responsible for the location that puts out a press release saying "The safety of our customers, employees and the public is our highest priority".

[mendip_discovery]

One of my pet peeves: After a serious accident or crime, the company or government agency responsible for the location that puts out a press release saying "The safety of our customers, employees and the public is our highest priority".

You mean the prearranged responses designed to appease the public while at the same time avoiding any sort of legal issues. Sadly it is what they are expected to say to avoid the press making a big thing that they didn't say anything. It is much like "Our hearts go out to those affected". With the quote you mentioned, I wonder what their 9001 auditors would say as it should be a clear statement in the manual that this is the company policy and above things like making massive profits.

Often the bit that peeves me when something goes wrong is even though the emergency services work 24/7 and do what they can but if you need anyone from the council emergency planning departments or the highways departments good luck as these people work 9-5 mon-fri. It was noticeable when there was flooding or snow that people I would be dealing with would fail to respond, this meant getting access to the sandbags they have in stock was almost impossible so houses flooded and other issues. It took two days to reopen the road near me the other week after flooding dragged a ton of mud and gravel onto the roads because it happened at 4pm then when they got in the next day the office wasn't geared up to deal with an issue on the rural roads and not the motorways.

[armandine2]

I watched Dave's Fluke Volt Alert video today - and of course it prompted me to check my batteries in my volt alert -- aagh getting into this was a pain, I eventually substituted my inferior finger strength with a vice (rubber protected jaws  - Energiser Max OK