What's something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?

I can't and wouldn't teach your kid to be gay. I can't get him to write his fucking name at the top of the page.
- That’s generally not what they’re really concerned about. “I don’t want teachers teaching my children to be gay” is just code for, “I don’t want teachers teaching my children that it’s ok to be gay.”
  
  Or just tolerating them in front of their kid. In fact, they'd probably prefer the teacher teach Timmy to hate like mom and dad do.
- I hate that more people don't understand this. It leads to a bunch of discussion and anxiety about nothing at all.
- Rough day, huh?
  Parents can be overprotective, (I.e. become shitty parents) and you can't really do anything about that, except hoping that the universe educate them.

Just because I'm an IT guy, it doesn't mean I know why your laptop is slow.
- Also, that software engineer and IT are not interchangeable terms
  
  "I'm a software engineer, not a printer whisperer"
  
  ^ This. So much this. I’m a software engineer, and people will ask me IT questions about software I have no clue how to use.
- "Can you hack my ex-girlfriends Instagram?"
  Or, "I have an amazing idea for an app..."
  
  “My app idea is that you can see where your girlfriend is at all times.”
  “So you’re telling me you want me to build an illegal stalking system? Have you really thought this through?”
  (Based on an actual conversation.)
  
  Clearly, if my years on the internet taught me anything, the killer app ID is an app that hack's ex's socials with bonus functionality for changing their school grades
  
  I can't hack insta. But I can probably hack your ex. Spearfishing is largely just a matter of time.
- Or how to fix your printer.
  
  Nobody knows how to fix a printer
- Eh, you probably do, you just don’t want to spend three hours wading through mountains of malware for free.
  
  I don't want to do it for money either.
- I mean, 90% chance it's because: still using a hard drive, old ass CPU/heat issues+throttling, OS and software bloat.
  
  And they need to download more RAM
  
  Bloat
- I mean if their hardride isn't full, and their task manager isn't showing a bunch of bloat, then it's 95% of the time a hardware issue.
- Yeah, but what could it be though?

Electronic voting is a terrible idea. Lil' bits of paper with representatives watching the vote counters is a pretty solid system. There's no problem there that needs to be fixed.
I say this as a Canadian who has volunteered as an observer in federal elections. I know Americans have their thing going on, but seriously. Paper ballots all the way.
- As a software development expert, I take issue with
  "our entire field is bad at what we do, and if you rely on us, everyone will die."
  That's way off base.
  She under-stated the hell out of that.
  Our average practitioner is bad at both their own job, and at the jobs of those whose lives their shoddy work complicates.
  Anyone trusting us with their lives or livelihood should be very very alarmed.
  We're also now producing artificial intelligence tools that allow us to do equally shoddy work, but now in dramatically greater quantity.
  Edit: Let's say this is 60/40 sarcasm and sincere, and I'm not sure which is the 60%...
  I work with some of the best, and I've worked with plenty of the worst. I've also been both, on different days.
  
  this Lemmite is, indeed, a software development expert
- I have never volunteered to count or observe elections. However I am a professional programmer, and I absolutely agree, electronic voting opens up tons of new attacks, whereas paper voting "security" is basically a solved problem at this point
- We don't have a unified thing. We definitely don't.
  
  oh it's a thing
- Brazilian elections continue to be fine for decades, this fear mongering is precisely what the right does whenever they lose.
  If code was impossible to make safe banks would still be doing manual labour and ATMs would've been phased out.
  
  If code was impossible to make safe banks would still be doing manual labour and ATMs would've been phased out.
  Financial transactions are logged and the logs maintained for a certain number of years. You can definitely use a similar system for voting when the stakes are low - local elections, for example. But an electronic voting system cannot be both secret and verifiable. In practice you make finding out how someone voted as hard as possible, and hope that a future government will not put in the effort to crack your system. All of which is completely unnecessary when paper ballots exist, and can be both secret and verifiable.
- Works fine in french election abroads.
  But yes vote by mail is best.
- I've been there too. It's works pretty good. Voting machines don't always for whatever reason, even though it's a simple problem.
  I don't really buy the conspiracy theories, but it should be waaay down the list of things that need automation, since elections are only occasional.
  
  This is naive me, but having a robust, online voting system would make it a lot easier for direct democracy.
  But we would also have to pressure politicians into using that system.

The cloud is just someone else's computer
- But someone who is better at managing computers than 99% of people.
  
  But that someone will have their own priorities that will most likely not always coindice with yours.
  
  Debatable.
  
  Yes, but just by being a conscious that a screen turned off doesn't mean that the computer is unresponsive, and you still should have care to not smash keys blindly, already puts you on one of the higher branches.
- Next you’ll be telling me Serverless is just code on servers!
- Not if I’m Jeff Bezos.

The more users you have, the more expensive it is to run.
Like, compute, storage, bandwidth, none of that is free. If you’re providing a free service, like Wikipedia, and you have many millions of users, like Wikipedia, your expenses will be enormous. You can either accept donations, like Wikipedia, require payment, or sell your users.
If there’s something you like that’s free online, support them. If they don’t accept donations, well, I hate to tell you, you’re the product.
- Also when “you’re the product” that doesn’t just mean that your data is the product. A user is a person whom you can influence. “You’re the product” means this company can direct you, influence you, change your behavior. They can offer your behavioral changes, as a service to their other stakeholders.
  
  Marketing can be such an immoral, insidious process.
  And it takes thousands of people pushing this shit mindlessly, because hey... "It's just a job, right? Nine to five".
  
  Shit. People think they collect all that data just for fun, don't they? Time to change how I talk about this...
  
  This ☝️✅
- If they don’t accept donations, well, I hate to tell you, you’re the product.
  A statement has never been truer than this

I'm a welder, and the general public doesn't seem to understand why we charge so much for our services. Like, 80% of my work is fit-up, alignment, math, measurements, and pork piece prep.
All the public sees is "durr, me hot glue metal! All done!" That's exactly what you get with Jim Bob who owns a welder yet has never trained for it. He's cheap, his welds are flimsy, and they're likely to fail in the near future.
- Also do trades. People seem to have no perception that quality varies. They assume it's busy work, it's either done or not done, works or don't work. All as if you flip a couple magical switches and everything's finished.
  Always frustrating to explain how the electrician that's 15$ an hour is gonna get you killed, and that wiring isn't just snaking cords through a conduit.
- Just show them some of my work as an amateur just sticking metal together and surely they'll pay for your work.
  Like I try to at least measure, do some math, clean it up, and be steady but anybody looking at can know its my day job lol
- A huge, HUGE amount of a welder’s value - nay, almost any skilled worker’s value - is in the years you’ve spent gettin’ good.
- Yeah I don’t hire tradesfolk thinking I’m getting something cheap. I hire tradesfolk thinking I’m getting something that’s gonna fucking work when I need it to for as long as it can be expected to. That weld ain’t the cheapest part of the bridge by any means but it cannot unexpected fail without catastrophe, so if trained and reputable welders are expensive then welds on that bridge is expensive.
  I can run my own wires when the wife lets me. But I won’t because that expensive electrician will do it safely and in a way that doesn’t cause even more expensive problems in the future
  Good labor isn’t cheap and cheap labor is rarely good.

Turning your computer off and back on again will solve 90% of your problems.
Of the other 10% an additional reboot while on the phone with the IT person solves those.
- Yep, I turn off my devices when I'm done with them. I'll restart my phone from time to time.
  Most software isn't made for patchwork while running. Sometimes even if it's on a server lol. The stuff that is gets tested quite a bit.
  
  Turning off and back on is not the same as restarting. If you want to force a restart like turn off, hold shift while clicking shutdown.

Read the error message. The whole thing.
This comes up even with coworkers who are allegedly senior software developers.
"It's just a white page it's not working"
"Ok well what does the console say? Network requests?"
"403?"
"Ok now what's in the response body?"
"The what?"
"Click on it. Then response "
"It says I don't have permission to view this page "
"Do you have permission to view this page?"
"...no."
- "What does the error message say?"
  "I already closed it. Those things are always gibberish"
  
  Yep, so many clients: I have this problem and an error pops up, I need immediate help.
  Me: Ok send me the data and the error log, and a description of what it is telling you on screen.
  Client: I forget what it said, i didn't save the log, And i needed to keep working so I deleted the file and started again.
  OR
  Client: My set of files is doing this, and giving me this specific error.
  Me: Ah OK, that is a known issue, close all the fikes and open the top level only, open each sub fike one by one till the error pops up, that will be the culprit so run this clean up tool on that file only.
  Crickets
  Week later, Client : Im having that same error again, can you help?
  Me: That cleanup tool should have fixed it.
  Client: I didn't have time to do those steps so I just kept working as is.
  me: hopefully a gangster shoots me in a drive by crossfire on the way home.
  
  "Sorry, I cannot help you without the message."
  Close ticket.
- I literally once got an email from another engineer using our internal tool at the big tech company I used to work for which said something like, “the page isn’t working. Please help. Attached screenshot of error.” The attached screenshot showed the error message, “Your authentication token has expired. Please refresh the page.”
  I emailed him back, “oh yeah, that happens when your authentication token expires. Try refreshing the page.”
  He emailed me back, “that worked, thanks!”
  (For anyone wondering, no, we can’t refresh the page for the user, because they might have unsaved data on it.)
- I've had this and similar conversations far too many times, I keep professional but holy shit, and then when they do get a call going with a screen share they zoom past the error every. Single. Time.

Building genuinely secure computer systems is incredibly difficult. You might even be in systems/software and be thinking "yeah it is hard", but to be really secure it's 1000x harder than that. So everything you use off the shelf from any vendor is a massive compromise and has holes in it. But on the other hand most people don't need really secure systems.
- Isn't a true air gap pretty solid though? Aside from someone actually coming into your house and interfacing directly it would be pretty hard to bypass, or am I on Mt. Dunning-Kruger over here this time?
  
  You are correct.
  The uncomfortable part is what I've learned about the challenges to gain physical access.
  Most physical security is equally appalling to most Cybersecurity.
  Edit: Incredibly unfun exercise: pick a physical security device you rely on, personally, and do a YouTube search for "device name break in test". I've rarely been able to find a video more than 3 minutes long, for any product, at all. And the actual breaking is usually mere seconds in the middle bit.
  
  Most online services would struggle to provide their service to their users if all of their servers were air gapped.
  
  Air gap is a useful strategy. But what is that system? You don't really know anything about its origin or what any of its processors actually do. You know really nothing about any of the firmware or software you run on it. Just getting software on to it securely is a huge challenge to prove its origin and the whole supply chain. And then getting data out is a whole other problem. A general purpose computer is not a great choice if you want the best in security. And having it just in your house isn't that secure. Obviously as I say, most people don't need the best security.
  
  Allow me to drop a bunch of innocuous looking storage devices in the area, maybe some power cables with hidden microchips, or perform another supply chain attack. What if your computer is probing for wireless devices without your knowledge? Can one be snuck in?
  It’s a good step, a major one, but even an air gapped computer can be infected if you have a well-funded, advanced, and persistent adversary.
  
  Aside from someone actually coming into your house and interfacing directly
  If any state entity is in your threat model then this would be major concern. If you're of any interest to the state, first thing they'll do is raid your home and seize your electronics. Your threat model shouldn't depend on assuming an attacker can't physically access your device (I know you never said an air gap should be the only defence, I'm just saying in general).
- Yeah just think about BIOS and drivers, and again some vulnerability in SSH...

It's at least mostly going away nowadays, but....pulling a fire alarm will not make your school fire sprinklers go off. Getting one sprinkler to go off is just that. One sprinkler. None of the rest will go off.
Also, fires in a building are never a spot here, a spot there, over there a spot, and just randomly burning patches all over the place. It just grows out and up from its origin point, for the most part. It doesn't magically plant little patches all over the place. It's also often times so smoky and so thick with smoke that you quite literally couldn't see a big portion of fire if it were ten feet in front of you. You feel the heat and maybe see a faint bit of orange glow. Sometimes you don't even get to see that.
- Learned something today. Thank you
- Does this affect any fire evacuation procedures? For example, would it be likely that the nearest exit stairwell happens to be the source of the fire? If so, how would that change the plan?
  
  Not OP, but that's why fire codes specify multiple escape routes - for example, a window on a bedroom.

That current "AI" is not turning into Skynet any time soon.
- It might turn into dumb skynet though. Like a version of skynet that does malicious things, but not because it’s trying to hurt people, just because it’s really stupid and we put it in charge of things.
  
  Yeah, the McKittrick effect (remember Wargames?)
  
  Oh like politicians and CEOs? Can we try replacing them with AI?
  
  We can't even get them to not be racist under light adversarial conditions. Billions of dollars have probably been spent on that problem to no avail.
  LLMs like ChatGPT have kind of just turned the problem of getting knowledge into a computer, into the problem of getting it back out in a controlled way. It's still hard and failure-prone but now nobody knows how it works inside.
- I've begun to think of LLMs as compression algorithms for patterns. It can take an existing pattern and apply it on unusual subjects. Like take the pattern of a limerick and apply it to the patterns of Danny Devito, that's the upper limit of their creativity. So rather than storing information, it stores these patterns making it seem more dynamic.
  The way I see it, human creativity is the combination of patterns but in a chaotic non-analytic way. We make leaps of logic that without precise knowledge of our brains can't be exactly replicated. Meanwhile LLM's just do the basic combination of patterns that result in the most generic realization of any idea.
  However the well dries up as soon as we stop training them. They'll store the basics of any field but fail to replicate new developments or conclusions until trained.
  
  However the well dries up as soon as we stop training them. They'll store the basics of any field but fail to replicate new developments or conclusions until trained.
  Exactly this is the reason we should prevent any further data collection by these bastards...
  Don't feed the beast!

Everyone gets older. Everyones body breaks down eventually. The amount of elderly who have said "I never thought something like this would happen to me". Look around Edna! What made you think you were going to avoid what happens to everyone else!?
- At least personally, the idea is that I will die before I get old.
  
  I dunno that seems awful c-c-cold. Are you just trying to cause a big s-s-sensation?
- "Everything that happens happens to someone else"
  Also the reason people don't buy even the most basic insurance, or take even the most basic disaster preparedness steps.

At most corporate pizza places only a fraction of the delivery charge goes to the driver. My job, for example, charges $4.99 for delivery and gives the drivers $0.60.
- I once interviewed to be a delivery driver for Domino's and my Dad was adamant it was a bad idea and I should find different work and then insisted that I ask them about insurance if I was going to do it.
  It felt super awkward because I was pretty young and people just don't ask those kinds of questions for minimum wage. He wanted me to ask them if they provided insurance to their drivers when they're driving cars for them on the clock and explained to me that if there's an accident while using the car for work then my insurance wouldn't cover it which I checked and indeed they wouldn't.
  The interviewer said they didn't provide insurance but asked if I was insured and if I was, wouldn't I be fine anyway? I said the insurance was not going to cover me while using the car for the job and the guy had this answer in a different tone like a kind of I've got this super clever scam that no one's ever thought of but I'll let you in on it vibe and leant forward and said "oh yeh, we know what to do here in that situation, what you do is you just say you weren't working at the time". I was incredulous but still a nervous teen and kind of meekly protested "but like what about the several pizzas in a bag and the uniform?" And he's like "oh you just tell them you were on your way home from work and that's your dinner". That, along with many other fucked up things that occurred in the brief space of time this interview occupied convinced me to nope out of there.
  Yeh dude, I'm going to try and commit insurance fraud... very poorly... for Dominos... who can't simply provide the necessary protection to allow people to do the job they're asking them to do. If I have to get my own insurance, if it has to be a special kind of more expensive insurance that's going to cover me driving for work, then I'm a contractor, not an employee and I'm going to set my own rates and they're going to be a lot higher then what they were offering considering I also have to maintain my own vehicle and pay for fuel and insurance, to a certain extent I even arguably have to use the skill of knowing how and also being licensed to drive in the first place which makes it not exactly "unskilled" labour in this first place.
  
  Former pizza driver here: Yeah it really does work like that, the cops never ask nor do they report it unless you say "Well there I was, delivering a pizza..." and your insurance company doesn't send reps to accidents. We had people get in accidents, including me twice, every one was covered by the person's insurance without question. Nobody cares but the insurance company and everyone from the store to the cops seems to agree "fuck them." Sure it's kind of insurance fraud but they deserve it and I never saw anyone get caught in the 10+yr I worked for multiple stores/companies.
  Now, your rates going up? That's a different story. That'll happen just like any other accident, and for that reason it's better if the store pays, but that just isn't how it works at any store nor for Uber/Ubereats, etc.
- To play devil's advocate, it's not just the delivery that's included in those costs. It's also the development and maintenance of the ordering platform, vehicle maintenance, etc.
  Edit: thanks for the downvotes even though I specified I was playing devil's advocate. Also, in the Netherlands, pizza companies provide their own vehicles which seems normal to me.
  
  Vehicles are generally owned and maintained by the driver. Also, these charges long predate the digital age. They pass them off as paying for maintaining a shitty app for ordering, but it is just a convenience fee, extra money they can make off those of us who are too busy, tired, stuck, or lazy to go pick it up. Always has been, always will be. Proof: if I go the old school way and call in to order it directly they still charge it.
  
  The pizza place doesn’t pay for the vehicle’s maintenance, usually.
  
  So young. So naive.

Just google the error message. Copy, paste. Read the top 5 results.
No, click on the results and read the page.
Did you read it? Explain to me why it doesn’t work.
Still broken? Call the vendor.
- Hello Google! Hey I was trying this function in Android and it's not working. Plus when I search the first link is to your bug tracker and it's marked as non fix.
  What do you mean this is a Wendy's? What do you mean that's a free product and there's no support?

If you want your chicken extra crispy, it takes longer.

Still studying, but I often see people think that WiFi = Internet.
Thankfully, some of them at least acknowledge existence of "Exclamation mark WiFi".
- What is "Exclamation mark WiFi?"
  
  WiFi icon with exclamation mark (no internet access).
  
  !Wifi = not-wifi = there's no wifi, there's no internet! 😱
- So stupid, everyone knows it's ethernet.

Driving a car badly is much more risky than driving fast.
- But when you have an accident, speed is what kills.

Software doesn't age, it doesn't make sense for your computer to become slower as it becomes older. (some) Software just becomes more shitty and bloated with every release, which is what you're experiencing.
- I think there's room for an exception here: operating systems or other software that handles a large number of files could bog down with use as the number and size of files grow with time.
- Try Linux! Fast and reliable!
  
  Doesn't help with the bloated web and local webapps, though. Also, you'll need to choose from a set of desktop environments that were made with lower resource usage in mind. Also don't forget that while linux is often faster, a slow drive is still a slow drive and it can help only so much if you keep your OS and heavyweight software on a HDD.

Radioactive contamination: things don't transfer the property of radioactivity to everything they touch and/or irradiate. If that were the case, the entire ~~Earth~~ universe would have become radioactive gray goo long, long ago.
When radiation workers talk about "contamination," we mean radioactive compounds have physically transferred from one object onto/into another. For example, tools becoming contaminated with radioactive metal dust from equipment they touch, or clothing absorbing radioactive iodine gas from the air.
There is a form of radiation called neutron radiation that does make some formerly stable things (mainly metals) radioactive. This isn't something you're likely to encounter unless you're a specific type of radiation worker, however.
This is mainly gear-grindy to me because the reason we don't have gamma-sterilized produce in the US is completely unfounded fear that gamma irradiation "contaminates" everything it touches. So we could be having lovely fresh strawberries and peppers that last weeks longer than they usually do, but no, we can't because rAdIaTiOn ScArY 🙄
- Physics/nuclear literacy in the general public around the world is lower than bad, even many scientists from other fields seem to be genuinely uninformed or misinformed, then posting wrong and often alarming interpretations in social media, which laymen give weight to because "it's coming from a scientist", never mind that their expertise may be in areas of biology or astronomy, nothing to do with the subject they are posting about. And they themselves might have gotten their bad info/interpretation from other figures in academia.
- Now that you mention it, it does make sense but I never t thought that you could sterilize food with radioactivity.
  
  It is called cold pasteurization, seen some things labeled as such before.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_pasteurization
  That will inturn lead to, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation
- I was about to go hold up, but neutrons ... And then you covered it.
- What about contamination in disaster sites like Chernobyl or Fukushima? Is that also mainly radioactive substances that we're spread around the area by air/water making the whole place dangerous to live or are other previously-non-radioactive objects radioactive now?
  
  The former, unless those disasters also included neutron radiation (admittedly I don't know much about either disaster)
  
  Yea basically the main contamination issue is that radioactive substances were spread around. Contamination of the surrounding area isn’t the only issue we have to deal with, nor is it the most serious, but it is generally is the most costly remediate.
  The contamination problem is caused by radioactive matter spewed into the air and settling on the trees, buildings, ground etc… in the surrounding area.
  The main remediation strategy is to remove everything in the surrounding area including the top ~3 ft or so of soil of the and haul it off to an underground landfill to slowly decay for at least a few hundred years safely separated from humans.

I do not literally build buildings. I design them, I document them for construction, I collaborate with other people who do actually build the buildings to make sure everything's on the level.

Space is hard. You're strapping something inside a big tube with basically directed explosives at the bottom, hoping it survives the trip, then subjecting it to constant radiation, huge temperature swings, and other brutal environmental factors like micrometeoroids. Just because we've been sending satellites and people up to space for nearly 70 years doesn't mean it's gotten easier; we're just better at knowing what to expect so we can test for it. Failures in rockets or satellites or even manned spacecraft are going to happen as much as we work to prevent them.
- I feel like most people know that rocket science is hard.
  
  Well, It's not exactly brain surgery.
- You beat me to this comment

- Oh fuck, improperly designed HVAC + changes made to a building that really fuck it up... There's no fixing that folks.
  "This one room is always hot!" Well, there's no return, the door's always closed, and oh, someone replaced the door 20 years ago and now there's only a 1/4" gap between it and the floor. No, "turning up the fan speed" isn't going to fix it.
  
  Transom windows. I don't know why they aren't common. But they make it easy to close a door but still allow airflow through the house.
  
  Solution: install a doggy door with weak enough magnets to let the air flow.
- Do you have any suggestions for those interested in learning about HVAC design principles? I'm currently far enough along in experience where I've discovered I know very little because of how complex each part of the systems can be. I've ran into so many questionable setups doing inspections but would love to be able to look at a unit's specs and follow the runs making sure nothing immediately eye-catching is going on.
  I have similar experience with Electrical and Plumbing, 99% of the time it's common mistakes made by installers or not following code properly. HVAC is near impossible to fully grasp because of the code terminology and arguments over best practices. Even something as simple as a range hood gets people confused because of the exhaust type versus code requirements.

Maybe I am preaching to the choir on Lemmy, but:
Do your security updates and use different passwords for different sites.
I know it’s a pain in the ass, although it’s a much smaller one than you’re making it sound. But yes it is important, yes the “hackers” will come after you (or more accurately their automated systems will that come after everybody).
- Especially since password managers are a thing.

Nothing about game development is "easy"
- The 0.01 alpha fun to build test version is :-D
  
  Yeah, the carefree mood of preproduction is definitely the best part
- I remember my university orientation so vividly, because I was sat next to several people that were taking the "Game Development" degree. They spent the entire orientation talking about what consoles they brought with them.
  Two weeks later, they were all gone. The course was arguably harder than my CS course, based on some of the required classes they had to take. I think the dropout rate over the full degree was ~90%. CS was high, sure, but barely anyone actually graduated with the Game Development degree.
  Game dev is hard, and I'm yet to meet a game dev that didn't bemoan how utterly ruthless it was.

Medicine is not an exact science. Every human body is different and will react different to treatment or show different symptoms.
That your doctor couldn't diagnose you right away or a treatment is not working for you as wanted (or as it did for your neighbor) has most often nothing to do with the competence of the medical personel but with the fact, that your body is not a massproduced machine but 100% unique a änd individual biological mass.
- that is only partly true, health system (here) also proposes to make false diagnoses for making money while the really needed treatment is underpayed or not payed at all or - in some cases - not payed at all if some facts change "after" the diagnosis so that the involved doctors spent time and money while afterwards not beeing payed at all. doctors doing false diagnoses (here) are mainly following the systems suggestion to skip real treatment but instead abuse patients.
  
  That is a pretty big accusation you are putting on health care professionals.
  Of course the cost often is a deciding factor on what treatment is possible. I've seen this in european hospitals as well, that we couldn't run certain diagnostics or give certain medications because they were too expensive and would mean the hospital spends more than it gets for the patient.
  But what you are saying is that doctors and in consequence nurses, medical technicians and all kind of medical staff are all in on a conspiracy to MISDIAGNOSE ON PURPOUS (!!) causing bodily harm (again on purpous) to their patients in order to get payed by insurance?
  Please provide reliable sources and proof for this accusation of significant criminal activity that is apparently the norm in your ("here" means the US I assume?) Health care system.
  I understand that your health care system is wack. But the fish stinks from the head and that's usually not the medical staff providing your care, which you are accusing of serious crimes here.
  
  I feel like you'd have a better conspiracy statement if you at least spelled paid correctly.
- And now I am thinking how the mrna "vaccines" must have worked for every person or else...

Sometimes your printer won't print in black and white if a color is out because it uses all of the colors to create a deeper black. Depends on the model though.
And some of them use yellow as a lubricant because yellow toner has a consistency close to water.
Also, please do not copy money or your butt. Trust me.
- Also used for printer tracking dots.
- I remember hearing that money is n issue since it has some copy protection features, but your butt? What’s wrong with that? (Other than sitting on a piece of electronic equipment, lol.)
  
  Unhygenic
  Risk of destroying the copier
  Embarrasing

Something doesn't work in a particular piece of software. "Don't they test their program?". "All they need to do is X, obviously they don't know how to code!".
Sometimes it isn't as easy as you think.
- Though it being difficult doesn't excuse releasing an untested program or one with known issues...
  
  Known issues that don’t interfere with the critical user stories are usually not prioritized. They should be disclosed, and even better if workarounds are published, but fixing them usually isn’t in the budget.
  
  Sometimes you have to make a tradeoff and focus on the golden path, which means comprehensive testing has to be skipped or bugs have to be explicitly left in.
  Yes it's bad. Yes it sucks. But it's that or nothing gets released at all.
  (I wish it wasn't that way. I try hard to make sure it isn't that way at my job, but for now that's how it is)

I am the company IT guy. Not your IT guy.

The speed of the conveyor belt does not impact the cycle time. No you cannot fucking slow down the conveyor belt to make it so you can work slower. You can’t speed it up to make people work faster. The speed of the fucking conveyor belt determines how long the things stay on the fucking conveyor belt. If it’s too slow things just stack up on it
Sorry, fucking line workers, managers, and executives in a factory…
- Okay I hear you, but have we tried speeding up the conveyor belt?
  
  If you could speed the conveyor belt up, that would be greeeeat.
  
  sighs and speeds it up sure whatever vp,
- Just stick a speed module into the workers. That should help. May increase their power consumption though
  
  Expected Factorio.
- An analogy to thinking faster conveyers means faster production is thinking faster speed limits on the highways leads to higher reproduction rates (or faster graduation or whatever).
  One thing it will affect is how long a part takes to go from initial production to release. But there's a trade-off with how many products are "in fight" at once.

Paint depth on cars.
If one panel has thicker paint it means it's been in a crash
- Not anymore. Companies paint cars in such a rushed and cheap way that you can find examples all over of huge differences in paint thickness on new cars.
  
  That's not true in the least, I promise, I meter car depth constantly at work

Actors don't "act"
90% of an actor's work is preparation (memorization is just a tiny part of this- a big part of it is studying the scenes and figuring out the character's realizations and decisions)
By the time you're performing, you shouldn't have to think about the scene or dialogue at all, but just connect with your scene partner and let them guide you through it. Acting isn't about you. You're not important, it's about the moment that's in between you and the people you're performing with.
- "acting without acting"
  
  indeed

I can't "blow up" an image you screenshotted from a video your sister posted on facebook and make it look any better then a pile of angry pixel garbage. I can, however, remove the pause icon from your garbage picture.
- Well with generative AI, now we can, but that’s just cause the computer is making shit up.
  
  To be fair, that's also what our brains do most of the time.

The scientific method

That adding an exclamation mark to your password doesn’t make it secure, GREG!
- hunter2! for the win
  
  Wait. What? I only see *******
  
  I only see *******!
- So no using "Password!" or being extra tricky "Password1!".
  Why do so many sites permit users to use crappy passwords like that?
  
  Because negligence
- Correcthorsebatterystable?

A thicker, wider bicycle seat is going to be more uncomfortable on longer rides than a thinner, narrower bicycle seat.
- What if it doesn't have the bit that goes between your legs?
  I bought a seat like that because I understand that the normal bike seats put pressure on that area in a way that can lead to impotence. I haven't tried the seat yet because I'm lazy, so I don't know how comfortable it is. Though even if it isn't comfortable, it's a trade-off.
  
  It's a very small percentage of the population that is affected by bike seats without center channels. It may help you, it probably won't harm you.
  A slight warning there is some concern that the cut out collapses as the saddle ages, causing the padding to pinch your anatomy rather than support it. The less pressing on your saddle the less of a concern this is.
  The best place to have padding while riding your bike is against your anatomy. Wear a chamois if you're planning on riding longer distances. You can get them as either the classic spandex or as a pair of padded briefs you wear under some shorts.
  The most important part to bike saddle fitting is thus:
  A saddle designed to support the width of your sit bones
  A saddle designed for the posture you ride your bike with (a euro style city bike needs a much different saddle than a keirin race bike)
- I think seat type depends on riding posture. Wide seat is suitable for a city bike, where you seat upright.
  
  There's a limit to how wide your seat should be. Too wide and the seat is unable to support your sit bones and will interfere with your pedaling

Factors of safety are defined to deal with the probability of things going wrong in a manner that is acceptable to society based on a body of knowledge and experimentation. You can't just define your own.
Also, just because something is designed for a specific load doesn't mean it will fail at that load.

- https://xkcd.com/538/

Ambulance’s should be used for emergencies
- Currently working on one. Shifts nearly over. Am a CritCare certified provider.
  Didn't see a single remotely sick patient today even though we ran calls back to back for most of the day.
  
  I've been one of those calls. Woke up with chest pain and pain in my left upper arm. Called 911.
  Diagnosis was heartburn+slept wrong.

Most people don't understand the real cost of software development, because the price of apps creates skewed expectations. In practice, software companies employ a business model that amortizes costs over time, making the true investment less obvious to users. The apparent simplicity of well-designed apps can also mislead users about the complexity involved. So, if somebody sees an app that costs a dollar they might assume that the cost of developing the app might be a few hundred dollars, while in practices it can be hundreds of thousands.

There are different screen sizes. Your monitor isn't the standard universal size of every other monitor, some are larger and some are smaller. Your phone isn't the same width and height as every other phone. The website will look different on different devices.

The pharmacy is not where the people that stock the front of the store work. They are very busy trying to fill hundreds of prescriptions and deal with doctors, patients and insurance companies.
Don't ask them where to find the cosmetics that are on sale. We don't even know. We are not a service desk.

Solvent green is... puppies