The minor rants thread.
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@blakeyrat said in The minor rants thread.:
The "NY cut" my grocery store has is pretty quality meat.
A good NY Strip should look something like this:
https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Mf60393e458cad2700b7df958e823f98ao0&pid=15.1
A lot of them have a huge blob of fat in the middle, though, like this:
https://leslieblythemiller.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/new-york-strip-steak.jpg
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@FrostCat Yeah that's the same thing, but I've never seen the word "strip" on it. Ehwell.
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Scripted PDFs. Fuck them.
They look like this on non-Adobe readers:
My government uses them for online forms. You have to fill it, save it, and send it through their website. And they send you back another PDF with the "transaction code". What's wrong with HTML? Seriously, how is filling and sending a form not a perfect use case for a plain old HTML website? They can generate a PDF on their side if they really want the information in a pseudo-paper format. Fuck.
I'm thinking of putting in a formal complain for that. I don't think they are legally obligated to use open standards, but still.
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@anonymous234 But what if the html code to generate the form is licensed under GPL?
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My team has to work with another team that is constantly lying to us. They lie about release dates, required processes, their own code and their requirements (probably to make us look bad). And they try to make it look like our work is their work. (We actually do 90% of the work and they just plug into our framework.)
My manager has been sending multiple emails telling them that they "need to improve their communication". Because, of course, we need to be professional. I wish we could just say "stop fucking lying to our faces to get what you want, you motherfucking bastards"!
(Yeah, I might need my own rant thread. Still collecting material…)
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Imagine a roundabout. Now imagine a three lane roundabout. Now imagine a three lane roundabout where the outer lane forces you to exit at one point, with no previous indication whatsoever, so everyone has to change lanes at the last second to remain inside. Now imagine that roundabout, but all the ground lines are completely faded and invisible so you literally have no idea if you're getting out of your lane.
I hate that roundabout.
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@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
Imagine a roundabout. Now imagine a three lane roundabout. Now imagine a three lane roundabout where the outer lane forces you to exit at one point, with no previous indication whatsoever, so everyone has to change lanes at the last second to remain inside. Now imagine that roundabout, but all the ground lines are completely faded and invisible so you literally have no idea if you're getting out of your lane.
I hate that roundabout.
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
Imagine a roundabout. Now imagine a three lane roundabout. Now imagine a three lane roundabout where the outer lane forces you to exit at one point, with no previous indication whatsoever, so everyone has to change lanes at the last second to remain inside. Now imagine that roundabout, but all the ground lines are completely faded and invisible so you literally have no idea if you're getting out of your lane.
I hate that roundabout.
Because roundabouts help reduce traffic contention, right?
Edit: Higher-quality pic:
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@Tsaukpaetra What didn't register with my smaller picture: The bus drivers seem to be trolling the other drivers.
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
@Tsaukpaetra What didn't register with my smaller picture: The bus drivers seem to be trolling the other drivers.
Definitely, see how apparently nobody wants to go "north"? Well, it's not that nobody wants to, it's just that everyone who does can't because the line of busses are being dicks.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The minor rants thread.:
roundabouts help reduce traffic contention, right?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The minor rants thread.:
Because roundabouts help reduce traffic contention, right?
Multi-lane roundabouts: Just don't.
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@PleegWat said in The minor rants thread.:
Multi-lane roundabouts: Just don't.
We have loads of them. We often put traffic lights on them. I think I will say no more.
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@dkf I know of one large roundabout like that - 3 lanes and traffic lights. They added a bypass to it 10 years ago so it gets less traffic now.
https://www.google.nl/maps/@52.6147221,4.7408506,204m/data=!3m1!1e3
And from the satellite view it looks like they actually converted it to a real roundabout at some point - for the longest time it used to be a 'verkeersplein', meaning the entering traffic (from the right) has priority over the traffic already on the roundabout. Not that that was ever very relevant with the traffic lights always running.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The minor rants thread.:
Because roundabouts help reduce traffic contention, right?
Much like "Multithreading help solve all performance issue.", right?
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@cheong No, the 'we put a roundabout in your roundabout' roundabout is in England somewhere.
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@cheong said in The minor rants thread.:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The minor rants thread.:
Because roundabouts help reduce traffic contention, right?
Much like "Multithreading help solve all performance issue.", right?
Yeah, tell that to the DBAs I'm still trying to get to actually diagnose a "sudden" performance issue...
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Minor rant: You can get a VGA KVM for like $30, but an HDMI one costs at least $50. Some of these fuckers are $100 or more!
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@FrostCat said in The minor rants thread.:
Minor rant: You can get a VGA KVM for like $30, but an HDMI one costs at least $50. Some of these fuckers are $100 or more!
Yeah, that drives me up the wall, especially since I have an 8-port VGA KVM at my home desk loaded up with active HDMI-to-VGA adapters because that's still cheaper than a decent HDMI/DVI KVM.
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@mott555 Shit, I only need two computers, and i have a VGA KVM. Two adapters are probably tons cheaper. Hadn't even thought about that.
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@FrostCat said in The minor rants thread.:
Minor rant: You can get a VGA KVM for like $30, but an HDMI one costs at least $50. Some of these fuckers are $100 or more!
Just a guess, but might that be due to HDCP compliance which might make it more complicated, wiring-wise?
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@Rhywden Maybe? I wouldn't be using this for protected content, though--just so I don't have to keep turning to switch computers, and having an extra monitor, keyboard, and mouse in my office.
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@FrostCat said in The minor rants thread.:
@Rhywden Maybe? I wouldn't be using this for protected content, though--just so I don't have to keep turning to switch computers, and having an extra monitor, keyboard, and mouse in my office.
Yes, but they probably didn't want to have to stick big labels on the box stating: "Won't work with BluRays!" because of a) two versions making things more complicated and b) the usual numbnuts who don't read such labels and then complaining anyway.
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
@FrostCat said in The minor rants thread.:
Minor rant: You can get a VGA KVM for like $30, but an HDMI one costs at least $50. Some of these fuckers are $100 or more!
Just a guess, but might that be due to HDCP compliance which might make it more complicated, wiring-wise?
INB4 early HDMI splitters actually bypassed HDCP...
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@PleegWat said in The minor rants thread.:
@dkf I know of one large roundabout like that - 3 lanes and traffic lights. They added a bypass to it 10 years ago so it gets less traffic now.
We have plenty like that. I know of one which has several bypasses stacked over it and which is still utterly choked with traffic. :(
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GOD FUCKING DAMMIT YOUTUBE I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THIS CRAP. STOP FUCKING "RECOMMENDING" IT TO ME ON EVERY. SINGLE. VIDEO.
I mean, this is my watch history
So clearly I must be very interested in what I assume is the video version of this?
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@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT YOUTUBE I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THIS CRAP. STOP FUCKING "RECOMMENDING" IT TO ME ON EVERY. SINGLE. VIDEO.
Facebook is equally crap at this. I mean, I have looked at some postings of people against racism and stuff (not even liked it or somesuch).
And they promptly recommend the sites of about the worst people and groups on earth.
It's like: "Oh, you don't like Nazis? Then we recommend to you: 'The Holocaust is a Lie!'"
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@Rhywden something something hungry hungry caterpillar something something human centipede something...
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@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT YOUTUBE I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THIS CRAP. STOP FUCKING "RECOMMENDING" IT TO ME ON EVERY. SINGLE. VIDEO.
Youtube appears to know nothing about me except that I have an Android, since all ads I see are for Android Pay
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There is a point on my morning commute where I pass less than 50m from the front door of my building; I could get out of my car and be sitting at my desk in less than a minute without rushing. However, to get from there to where I can legally park my car, rather than abandoning it by the side of the road, I have to drive over 1.5km, which at that time of day can take as much as 15 minutes.
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@HardwareGeek I have yet to get a traffic ticket, but when it happens it will be because I'm sick up things like you just described and decided to make my own shortcut via dirt bike.
I have a "no left turn curse." Anywhere I go, the road is divided with a median so I can't turn left. Driving a few hundred yards requires an extra mile or two (depending on traffic patterns) to turn right and find a suitable location to U-turn. Or, if nobody is looking, I'll just drive over the median and turn left anyway.
The worst such instance made me drive an extra ten miles round-trip because I couldn't turn left due to a median, and turning right put me on a street that disallowed U-turns, disallowed left turns, and had too much traffic that wouldn't let me get into the right lane and turn off.
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@mott555 said in The minor rants thread.:
make my own shortcut via dirt bike.
Wouldn't work here because concrete wall, but I've sure thought of that.
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Robotics is advancing waay too slowly. Like, it doesn't feel like it's advancing at all. Sure, Boston Dynamics keeps making cool animal prototypes but nothing ever reaches the "end user".
Roomba was introduced in 2002, and in those 14 years the biggest advance we've had is slightly more intelligent roombas. What happened to the idea of "small helper robot that can do simple tasks like fetch you a beer or mow the lawn"?
Or look at telepresence robots. The prices range from $200 to $30,000 and yet, they're all just an iPad on wheels. Why not add a simple robotic arm or a 360º camera for VR? Nope, maybe in 2026.
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@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
Robotics is advancing waay too slowly. Like, it doesn't feel like it's advancing at all. Sure, Boston Dynamics keeps making cool animal prototypes but nothing ever reaches the "end user".
Roomba was introduced in 2002, and in those 14 years the biggest advance we've had is slightly more intelligent roombas. What happened to the idea of "small helper robot that can do simple tasks like fetch you a beer or mow the lawn"?
Or look at telepresence robots. The prices range from $200 to $30,000 and yet, they're all just an iPad on wheels. Why not add a simple robotic arm or a 360º camera for VR? Nope, maybe in 2026.
Yeah. This is kinda the career field I'm trying to push into, but it's amazingly difficult to find places that are trying to do this. :(
Let me know if you know anything, I'm still on the job hunt. :D
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
(30 km from where I live)
Is 18 or so miles really that far to you to drive? I understand it's annoying but doesn't seem that bad.
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@anonymous234 Robotics are huge in industry, but that's about it so far. Industrial use is easy because tasks are repetitive and can be easily programmed. There are new robots made by another division in my company that can be programmed by simply physically moving its parts by hand. It tracks its movement and then repeats them later, kind of like a mouse macro recorder.
I think we're a long ways off from having viable consumer robotics, and when they do show up I expect them to remain a novelty for quite a while.
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@mott555 said in The minor rants thread.:
I think we're a long ways off from having viable consumer robotics, and when they do show up I expect them to remain a novelty for quite a while.
I think I found my new tagline!
Tsaukpaetra Corp.: Turning Novelty into Normality!
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@mott555 said in The minor rants thread.:
Industrial use is easy because tasks are repetitive and can be easily programmed
Also because it's easier to reduce the risk to humans. An industrial robot arm on a telepresence robot is a disaster waiting to happen.
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@Dreikin said in The minor rants thread.:
@mott555 said in The minor rants thread.:
Industrial use is easy because tasks are repetitive and can be easily programmed
Also because it's easier to reduce the risk to humans. An industrial robot arm on a telepresence robot is a disaster waiting to happen.
On the other hand, that would make a great YouTube channel. It would be right up there with crushing random objects with a hydraulic press, microwaving anything and everything, and pouring molten aluminum into whatever you find. Bonus points if the telepresence robot with the industrial robot arm is controlled by Twitch commenters!
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@mott555 said in The minor rants thread.:
Bonus points if the telepresence robot with the industrial robot arm is controlled by Twitch commenters!
Evil ideas thread is
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@mikehurley said in The minor rants thread.:
@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
(30 km from where I live)
Is 18 or so miles really that far to you to drive? I understand it's annoying but doesn't seem that bad.
As I told @FrostCat two threads further to the one you quoted, it's 30 km driving under a massive river using a tunnel which has rather spectacular traffic jams on a regular basis.
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@mott555 Look at what Disney made recently though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY4bfnHMdtk
With movements that fluid, you can actually do lots of stuff. Of course, you still need a human somewhere since it has no AI, so the applications are limited, but if nothing else it would be cool to walk around on a real environment with VR glasses and be able to manipulate stuff.
I was thinking you could set up a booth on a convention somewhere and let people "drive" it around the same convention.
I suppose the big limitation is AI... though we have advanced a lot in machine vision (thanks to Google's constant attempts to conquer the world), grabbing an object off a white table is still probably about the most complex task we can do.
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@anonymous234 Reminds me of that movie based on Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. I can't remember the title but I think the guy who played Wolverine was in it.
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@mott555 said in The minor rants thread.:
@anonymous234 Reminds me of that movie based on Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. I can't remember the title but I think the guy who played Wolverine was in it.
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OneNote is a piece of shit.
It is not acceptable to take 2 minutes to download some PLAIN TEXT files.
And that's the best case, because more often it takes ∞ minutes i.e. just hangs forever, or worse, gives messages about corrupted files.
And it makes you store the "notebooks" in OneDrive as if they were files, but as I discovered today you can't download a copy of them.
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@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
I was thinking you could set up a booth on a convention somewhere and let people "drive" it around the same convention.
The input device and robot need to be connected with water pipes, so the range is rather limited.
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
So, then another guy turned up who looked at all the gas stuff. But he wasn't the guy responsible for certification. Didn't matter because this guy noticed that the main gas valve was becoming uncomfortably hot. Which meant: a) no certification and b) some construction works because they now would have to create an air flow to cool the valve down.
Small update to that one: They finally managed to fix and certify the gas lines after a mere 8 months.
Now, in addition to the control panel in front of class, we have another panel in an adjacent room which controls the gas flow as well and has to be turned on first.
This panel has six interaction possibilities: An on/off turnkey switch, an "on" button for the class, an "off" button for class, an "on" button for a single gas line (e.g. for a teacher) which doesn't do anything because there's no such line, an "off" button for the single non-existant gas line and a "settings" button which turns on the settings and info display (which you then manipulate through the other buttons).
The instructions for turning on said panel are a perfect example for the term "cargo cult".
- You turn the key and wait for the self-test to succeed (takes 10 seconds)
- You press the "on" button for the class gas lines and wait for the self-test to succeed (takes 30 seconds)
- You press the "settings" button five times, waiting 10 seconds between each press, thus changing no settings (the 5th press will return you to the main display)
- You press the "on" button for the single (non-existant) gas line and wait for the self-test to instantly succeed
After the guy had gone (I was careful not to show a face while he was telling me this), I was able to reduce the steps to 1) and 2).
3 ) and 4) are completely uneccessary (who'd have thought).
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@Rhywden 2 simple physical knobs was too complicated for them?
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@PleegWat said in The minor rants thread.:
@Rhywden 2 simple physical knobs was too complicated for them?
KNOBS AREN'T DIGITAL! These days students live in a DIGITAL world, and unless we engage them using DIGITAL means, you can't truly be an effective teacher.
Didn't you listen to the highly paid consultant AT ALL?
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@PleegWat said in The minor rants thread.:
@Rhywden 2 simple physical knobs was too complicated for them?
That's actually what we had in our original control panel. I'm also not quite sure what warranted this rather complicated "solution".