What minor thing grinds your gears atm?

[Legend]

I almost want to catalog reading comprehension issues somehow.

Like I've seen people argue, despite the fact that they are saying the exact same thing in a different way, and yet they don't recognize it.

"Sally is taller than Jake"

"no you idiot, Jake is shorter than Sally."



If someone were to say "smoke as much as is healthy", I would bet at least a few people would assume that the person meant that it was somehow okay to smoke, and argue with that person "because smoking isn't healthy". Even if that person clearly meant that not smoking was what was healthy.  

Speaking of language and comprehension issues: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1crriib/i_just_tested_the_gpt4o_gpt4_turbo_and_claude_3/

"Tom currently has 8 apples, he ate 3 of them yesterday. How many apples does Tom currently have?"

So many people think this sentence is an impossible paradox because it says 3 "of them" instead of 3 "apples." They think AIs should refuse to answer and instead call out the user because you can't eat 3 of 8 apples and still have 8.


"Them" just refers to apples in general and stuff like that is common in English like: "I got to pet a dog today, I just love them."

[the-pi-guy]

I don't know if this even minor.

There's a woman who ran a marathon and her husband kind of pushed the kids in her direction just before she crossed the finish line.

This is like a 5 second video.  

There are tons of articles and tons of people are mad at the guy, about how he's a giant a-hole undermining her accomplishments.

>While the video garnered a lot of attention on TikTok, currently boasting over 12 million views, it went viral across all corners of the internet after X.com user Virginia Brasch reshared the video to her account, accusing the man of intentionally using the children to "derail" his wife's success.

No, 'Marathon Mom' Did Not Ignore Her Kids—Her Partner Set Her Up to Fail


The runner posted a video on Instagram today about how she agreed with her husband that she would cross the finish line with her daughters, and changed her mind because of how close the race was. So like she was involved in the decision.


But of course the story about how he's unfathomably big a-hole has been seen by millions and it's doubtful her side of the story will go as far.

[Legend]

It's fudged up how the internet takes random people and uses them like national celebrities to attack.

[the-pi-guy]

There's a dismissive argument based on something being rare.

Like people will dismiss any conversation about intersex people on the basis that they're rare. Only 1 in a few hundred people are in that category.

It's a meaningless argument on its own.

Like if there are only two options with bad side effect where one of them is rare and the other one is common, that argument can hold up.

But if the options are "do nothing" and "kill everyone named Sally", you can't argue "it's okay because Sally is an uncommon name and only affects 1 in 20,000 people"

[the-pi-guy]

Arguments where something is technically correct but massively missing the point.  

Someone wrote a story about how their mom told them they named them after David in the David and Goliath story.

And someone posted that David and Goliath is the origin of the name, so everyone named David is named after that David.

Which misses the point that people don't usually pick names based on it's origin.


I'll be honest though, I'm sure I've made technically correct and yet dumb posts myself.

[kitler53]

i'm just going to reply to every thread i missed while on vacation even if i have nothing to contribute.

...expect for those really boring space threads.

[Legend]

i'm just going to reply to every thread i missed while on vacation even if i have nothing to contribute.

...expect for those really boring space threads.

[the-pi-guy]

What grinds my gears at the moment, those people that don't have anything to contribute to space threads.  

[kitler53]

What grinds my gears at the moment, those people that don't have anything to contribute to space threads.  

self loathing much...

[the-pi-guy]

self loathing much...

Always.

I keep myself humble by having high standards that I can't reach.  

[the-pi-guy]

When you buy something at a pretty good price, and then like two weeks later it goes down to it's lowest price ever.  

Groundhog Day 4k at $14

[Legend]

It's crazy how the internet never learns that Canada has its own money.

Been at least a decade of people complaining online when the price is just a direct conversion from usd.

[the-pi-guy]

Sometimes Era has a topic about the "gamer" label.

And there's frequently people who are wondering why labels matter at all. "We don't label people who read books or watch movies".

It's funny because there are words to describe those people, and probably multiple words each. Cinephile, bookworm.

People often do get labeled by their hobbies, especially if they're passionate about it. Gamer isn't particularly special in that regard.

[Legend]

It's just Era being ashamed as usual. I don't know of another hobby where some of the people who obsess over it also try to distance themselves from it.

[the-pi-guy]

When something is practically correct, but not necessarily correct.


Something that is usually true, but doesn't have to be true.  


Like its usually true that higher resolution is more GPU intensive than CPU intensive. That will probably be true for every game out there, relatively speaking.

But it doesn't have to be true.

You could make some weird design decisions where graphics get simpler at higher resolutions and NPCs multiply and be harder on the CPU.

You wouldn't ever actually do that, but it's possible.