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Post by anaix3l on Jan 28, 2017 18:10:08 GMT -5
I'll personally take music with a political message as long as it's not too specific. Music should be made to outlast politics. What annoys me more is when entertainers in general show up in the media talking about things they're not qualified to talk about. Politics being a very frequent one, no matter what or who they support or oppose. While I can understand the financial and human motivations (publications need inflammatory headlines and people's buttons can be easily pushed to feel like they're taken seriously when they talk about their "pet" causes), it's embarrassing to watch. It's just like when random people on the bus can't keep their mouths shut and only come across as ignorant and ridiculous, but at least you don't see their rants mentioned in the media after they happen.
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Another one: people tying morality to religious belief. Someone asked me "if you don't believe in God, how can I trust you won't come from the back, hit me with a brick right in the head and steal my money?". Needless to say, I was shocked. You have to be seriously fucked up to need to fear supernatural punishment in order to act like a decent human being.
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Post by AeroCooper on Jan 29, 2017 17:43:06 GMT -5
When I give a new brand of wine a chance and it tastes like watery kool-aid.
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Post by anaix3l on Feb 1, 2017 19:56:09 GMT -5
People using the word "diamond" to describe a rhombus. It confuses and annoys me to no end.
Yes, I've been told, card. But cards aren't a thing for every normal person, while everyone studies Geometry in school.
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Post by black911 on Feb 1, 2017 20:11:41 GMT -5
People using the word "diamond" to describe a rhombus. It confuses and annoys me to no end. Yes, I've been told, card. But cards aren't a thing for every normal person, while everyone studies Geometry in school. When i was in 3th grade a friend and I were looking in the window of a class while we were on the playground. That class was 6th grade and a math test was being given. The teacher pulled us into the room and gave us the test, telling us we had better get 100% correct on it since it seemed we wanted to be in the class. I remember reading the test and whatever was on it I didn't know a thing. I have a finance degree and it amazes me I have no clue what your pet peeve is, ,with the exception of it being about math, and that is my pet peeve today.
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Post by anaix3l on Feb 1, 2017 20:26:49 GMT -5
People using the word "diamond" to describe a rhombus. It confuses and annoys me to no end. Yes, I've been told, card. But cards aren't a thing for every normal person, while everyone studies Geometry in school. When i was in 3th grade a friend and I were looking in the window of a class while we were on the playground. That class was 6th grade and a math test was being given. The teacher pulled us into the room and gave us the test, telling us we had better get 100% correct on it since it seemed we wanted to be in the class. I remember reading the test and whatever was on it I didn't know a thing. I have a finance degree and it amazes me I have no clue what your pet peeve is, ,with the exception of it being about math, and that is my pet peeve today. Okay, to clear things... Rhombus. I found this image doing an image search for the word "rhombus". Yet almost everyone else seems to call it a "diamond", even though an image search for the word "diamond"... I used to think I was just annoyed by people putting the "diamond" label on the image of a rhombus. But it turns out that if someone just describes a rhombus calling it a diamond and I don't see an image, I'm seriously confused. It literally took me a few minutes. Which is why I posted about this. Disclaimer: I did 5 years of electronics, telecommunications & computer science and have a degree in Mathematics. And have never owned a pack of cards or learned to play any game. And loved going through my dad's glossy mineralogy album as a kid (no, he's not working in the field). And took geology in high school. So yeah...
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Post by black911 on Feb 1, 2017 20:52:22 GMT -5
THANK YOU ANA.
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Post by AeroCooper on Feb 1, 2017 21:09:41 GMT -5
And have never owned a pack of cards I am not a big card fan, but I have owned and/or played cards since I was old enough to hold one. On the other hand (no pun intended), even though I also have a degree in Applied Computer Science, I've only vaguely heard of the word rhombus. Since I love to learn though, I appreciate the lesson, but to me, this... ...will always be a diamond.
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Post by anaix3l on Feb 7, 2017 17:58:54 GMT -5
Just remembered a couple more. One. When people call "chocolate" stuff that's made with cocoa powder (not cocoa butter or cocoa liqueur, but the cheap processed powder that may be mixed with potato powder, sugar and stuff) and palm oil. Like Nutella. Or Mars bars. Or a lot of stuff that's sold in the "chocolate" section of most stores. This really pisses me off to no end because it feels like robbery - how dare they charge so much for crap fakes? Nutella isn't chocolate cream. This is chocolate cream! Seriously, it's orgasmic! Yes, seriously boozy too. Two. Using makeup "to hide imperfections and look good" when people are actually going to be able to see your skin. I've never seen makeup done with that purpose look good in reality (not in pictures or on a screen), in decent lighting on anyone in my entire life. It looks dirty at best. Creepy and disgusting more often. To clear a bit, I'm talking about layers of "paint" all over the face, mascara, painted eyebrows and stuff like that. A bit of lip gloss or skin glitter or black on the waterline can look good anyway.
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Post by anaix3l on Feb 14, 2017 10:59:43 GMT -5
Another one because I saw this. It just feels so stupid and lazy to spend so much money to get in shape, but avoid doing a lot of free and maybe even useful stuff that would achieve just the same. Like running up the stairs. Like cleaning up the pigsty they live in. Like helping a friend who moves carry the furniture. Or picking up the damn shovel and getting the snow and ice out of the way so that people don't risk breaking their necks.
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Post by anaix3l on Feb 15, 2017 15:08:08 GMT -5
Password restrictions.
So I just picked a password a bit earlier. About ~25 characters long, non-matchable against any dictionary, containing multiple numbers and special characters in addition to letters. Should take more than a lifetime to crack using brute force. Should be good enough for anyone. Well, I get this gem:
Turns out their rules are at least 8 characters in total, out of which at least 1 capital letter, at least 1 number and at least 1 special character. Which means a password like JohnD0E* gets accepted. This password is 3 times shorter than the password I had chosen and you can crack it fast enough using brute force. Are you fucking kidding me?
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Post by bartman2001 on Feb 15, 2017 17:00:47 GMT -5
^^ At the risk of being an ass JohnD0E* doesn't contain a number.
edit: unless your 0 is an 0 and not an O.
I personally am getting sick of all this security shit. I have 9000 passwords from work(most of them) to Facebook, to twitter, to emails to whatever. I personally am 99.9999% sure NOBODY wants to steal anything from me (want my identity have fun with all of those promissory notes).
I understand the need for security but IMO it goes to outlandish lengths these days and the 9000 security questions to boot. I don't know why this gives so many such a false sense of security. And how frightened the world at large seems to be getting over the past 25 years. A whole lot of fear very little living. The people good enough to hack and get identity and financial information are going to be using those skills towards someone with a piss ton more money than most of us have.
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Post by anaix3l on Feb 15, 2017 18:06:16 GMT -5
It was a 0, not an O. Maybe I should have used a font that could have made it more clear. Though I don't see any options that would cross the zero in the font dropdown.
Security is important and it's not just about protecting yourself from direct and immediate theft. I don't have much that's worth stealing either. But someone could use your data to do something illegal and let you take the blame. Someone whose business is real estate wants to know how you're doing financially, how much you can afford to wait before selling. A company where you want to get a job wants to know how much you made previously and how bad you need a source of income. These are predatory tactics, the kind that target precisely the kind of people who don't have the financial means to fight back. It's just like when carnivores hunt. They don't normally go for the biggest kill, but for the easiest. It's a lot more convenient to get a little bit from a lot of desperate people without many resources, people who won't be able to do anything against you, than to risk stealing a lot from someone who has the means to fry you. There's good money to be made at the expense of the poor, the uninformed and the vulnerable.
That being said, you're right to be pissed at all the stupid security tricks. They're the mark of lazy and incompetent software engineers who shift their burden onto the user. Instead of doing their job right, a job for which they're usually very well paid, they do this kind of shit that only annoys people. No, you don't need a capital letter. No, you don't need a number. No you don't need a special character. No, you don't need to answer a fuckin' quiz. No, you don't need to select all images that contain fuck knows what. But a lot of developers need to start doing their fuckin' jobs right. Security isn't done by pissing off the user.
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Post by AeroCooper on Feb 26, 2017 7:16:40 GMT -5
This isn't a 'pet peeve', but it irritated me when I heard it... They were giving away Styx tickets on the radio and callers had to answer a series of questions, then other callers would call in if they didn't like the answers and see if they could convince the station to not give the tickets to the first caller. Ok, all of that was interesting enough, but the guy I didn't like was asked who his favorite band was, and in an attempt to get favor from the other listeners answered "The Sticks" I mean, come on, if you're going to try for free tickets over other people, at least know the name of the band who you are going to see.
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Post by bartman2001 on Feb 26, 2017 13:32:24 GMT -5
People... I just cannot stand any of these fuckers any more.
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Post by anaix3l on Feb 27, 2017 10:57:56 GMT -5
I hate it when people say "it shows" regarding my having a Mathematics degree. It always makes me cringe because they make that judgement based on my demos. Over 90% of my demos only make use of elementary school level stuff and absolutely none require anything that you would only find in a Maths curriculum.
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