Possibly the noise EVs are required to put out when moving at low speeds? I've found that to be a bit grating.
The mild annoyances thread!
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Possibly the noise EVs are required to put out when moving at low speeds? I've found that to be a bit grating.
Our neighbor's new Honda sounds like a choir in a modern classical piece when she backs into her driveway. Think Arvo Pärt on wheels. I like it, better that the other neighbor's car lock HORN BEEP, nappus interruptus - agh.
I had two Ubuntu Desktop systems harmed by an update to an "EXIF manipulation ..." something-or-other. Those words in quotes were the only words I managed to actually see as updates were running. I didn't realize until later that it caused gimp to fail to open image files. (I could paste in an image, just not open one as a file.) It seems also to have crippled gthumb and who knows what else. Haven't dug deeper yet, so no fix to offer
Same. Supposedly these "white noise" ones are easier to locate audibly because they're multispectrum, but JFC there has to be a less annoying multispectrum noise to use.
Then again I have family members who can't stand the "dying angels" sound of low speed EVs so maybe there's just no good solution.
How can you just leave me standing
Alone on a street that's so cold? (So cold)
Maybe I'm just too demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father, too bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied (she's never satisfied)
Maybe it's like when my car it backs up
This is what it sounds like
Like when doves cry
I guess we'll see the road rise up to meet us.
Standard practice in small planes is to shout "CLEAR PROP DUMBASS" before starting it up. None of this fancy noisemaker bullshit.
Which reminds me, I need to get a train horn for my little Acura.
That they annoy you and force you to pay attention is rather the point.
The bin trucks around here have a novel PAY ATTENTION TO ME one that has a voice saying: "This vehicle is reversing"
But the emphasis and tone on the words is completely wrong for normal speech, and it really, really makes your brain itch to hear it. Like it was spoken in reverse and flipped about or something.
Aaaand - they fixed it! A day later, I got another update: "EXIF/IPCT/XMP metadata mainipulation"
I've been reading Snopes since the 1990s, and they have been in my RSS feed since the Google Reader days. I often see their statement before I encounter a rumor in the wild, and I find it helpful to be forearmed.
Today the site asked me to create an account before I read their story. So I am deleting the feed from my RSS subscription list.
It feels like a shame. Snopes will be missed.
Today the site asked me to create an account before I read their story. So I am deleting the feed from my RSS subscription list.
It feels like a shame. Snopes will be missed.
Seems cromulent if DoorDash's search knows as much about food to be delivered as the average delivery driver.
I hate how uses of words like that are continually being born but there's no way to definitively identify them as trash, take them out to the landfill, and bury them for five or six eons.
SPLASH! SQWEEEEEEEP! goowaaagh!
(don't ask me how I know)
My latest mild annoyance is people who back into a parking spot in a parking lot. When the lot is busy you hold up other people in the aisles while you carefully back into the spot. And for what? And even with the advent of backup cameras a lot of people can't back into a spot straight on the first try, oftentimes it takes them 1-2 more tries, holding up people even longer.
I was being witty at work and answered a question with the infamous Chinatown quote.
But I got it wrong.
Instead of "Forget it, (name), it's (place)," I said "Don't ask, (name), it's (place)."
But I got it wrong.
Instead of "Forget it, (name), it's (place)," I said "Don't ask, (name), it's (place)."
Fuck. Now Doordash drivers are being used to feed the AI machine. The app gives them task to complete, which generate data to be analyzed, digested, and shat back out.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/d...t-pays-couriers-to-submit-videos-to-train-ai/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/d...t-pays-couriers-to-submit-videos-to-train-ai/
I'm with you.
Backing into a spot is a fairly precision move. Backing out into the aisle is much more forgiving. Why do the harder one?
This is exactly backwards based on whether the wheels that steer are all the way into the space or not. Backing into a perpendicular space is exponentially easier and takes no more time than backing out of the space would. It also improves my visibility when pulling out, rather than having to rely on mirrors and cameras to avoid hitting idiots walking through my blind spots.
What I'm thinking here, is that a parking spot is nine feet wide, or so, with potentially expensive cars to hit on either side. The aisle is more like 30 feet wide, so much more forgiving a "target".
I will grant that for good drivers like yourself it's probably a wash, but the above post was talking about the average driver that has to make two or three attempts at backing in.
It's not a wash, it's vastly easier to back in due to the geometry of steering. As for average drivers, I have to take the truck to the body shop next week because an average driver tried to pull in headfirst and dragged his bumper 2/3 of the way down the side. I'd rather he'd have tried backing in.
Found out today that Ctrl-Shift-I is what is accidentally making my messages send as Important in Teams.
Then I found out while fooling around that when you send an Urgent message there is no way that I can see to stop it from sending notifications. Luckily it was just a two person chat!
Then I found out while fooling around that when you send an Urgent message there is no way that I can see to stop it from sending notifications. Luckily it was just a two person chat!
I've taught (or I should say failed to teach) too many people to drive forklifts to believe that true. Logically, yes, but practically, nope.
Probably has to do with spatial awareness and mental capability to have that model in your head. The modern all-around cameras and backup cameras can help a lot, but still might have people missing the intuitive sense of where/how to position and turn the wheel/have clearance and need to keep adjusting.
I am annoyed that my auto insurance company sits on my payment check until the very last day before renewal. I can mail it in 3 weeks early and it doesn't matter, they won't cash it. None of their support mechanisms like the web site, app, or people who answer the phone can tell me whether they have received payment or not. So if the check gets lost in the mail, I don't find out about it until my auto insurance is suddenly canceled for non-payment. Possibly they would give me a grace period, but I don't want to rely on that, I want them to cash the check so I can check this off my list of bills to deal with and not worry about getting canceled.
My theory is that they used to accept payments in a timely manner, but maybe they had a couple of cases where they wanted to cancel someone's upcoming renewal for let's say a last minute DUI but they'd already cashed the check and the upcoming (post-DUI) policy was in force. I assume there was wording in the actual insurance agreement allowing them an out, but an injured party (i.e. in a subsequent incident) can sue regardless and that overrides a lot of policy verbiage.
Just my auto insurance company, or is this normal?
My theory is that they used to accept payments in a timely manner, but maybe they had a couple of cases where they wanted to cancel someone's upcoming renewal for let's say a last minute DUI but they'd already cashed the check and the upcoming (post-DUI) policy was in force. I assume there was wording in the actual insurance agreement allowing them an out, but an injured party (i.e. in a subsequent incident) can sue regardless and that overrides a lot of policy verbiage.
Just my auto insurance company, or is this normal?
My car - I'll go either way. For my 2500HD GMC, it's either pull through or back in. If I try to back out in that thing, I'm far more likely to hit something, or have to do a 7 point turn and take even longer. Also, while there are many things I'm terrible at, backing in (or parallel parking) is something I'm actually good at.
Edit: fixed grammar. 3rd annoyance for today, seems like fixing grammar is an every post thing these days.
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My mile annoyance. I've become one of the old geezers that tells work "war" stories. That annoys me.
Is your auto insurance company large enough to be included in your bank's electronic billpay database? If so, I'd use bank billpay as your payment method as I assume they can't stall an electronic payment.
Leadership at my organization is pushing AI use hard, which mean supervisors/leadership above me is just blanket using LLMs to write out various documents/text information in the work we do, which means I'm having to spend twice the amount of time fixing their work with the slop and hallucinations that get left in. You all could have just written this from scratch and saved everyone (but especially me, currently) a ton of work so that I could just review this for the stuff I'm actually supposed to be doing.
I am paying through billpay, but it's not fully electronic. My bank sends them a check through the mail with my insurance account number on it.
The insurance company has a pay by credit card/debit card feature. I should try that and see if it clears or they put a hold on that too.
Do recording of "time used to fix X doc" for tracking to help when they put you on a PIP because you aren't using LLMs because you spend all your time fixing theirs?
Another aspect that affects parking direction is whether the space is against a curb adjacent to a walkway or storefront. Often there are posts or planters set back a certain distance from the curb based on the front overhang of a vehicle. I've seen several cases where drivers didn't have a camera or misread it and damaged their vehicle and the post/planter because they assumed they could roll their tires up to the curb, forgetting that their rear overhang (especially on pickups) is longer than the front overhang.