Minor things that bother you

[kphoger]

Though now that I think about it you might also have been referring to the time when Jake Bear was disgruntled about someone being insufficiently accepting (I don't remember the exact details) and made the tiny bear in his shield avatar to be rainbow-colored. He never updated his avatar again after that.

No, I was talking about the last year or two.  When Jake did that so many years ago, I'm not sure if anyone else followed suit—if so, then only one or two, as I recall.

[jgb191]

It bothers me very much that (in Calculus) some mathematicians use the 'Prime' symbol to denote derivatives.  Using the prime symbol needs to be an academic offense.  I don't even know where or how the prime symbol even came about.

The most common example of the proper denotation of derivative is: 'dy/dx'

In engineering classes, ẋ and ẍ stood in for dx/dt and d²x/dt².

The 'ẋ and ẍ' are Isaac Newton's symbols, and the 'dy/dx' are the Wilheim Leibniz notations.

It bothers me very much that (in Calculus) some mathematicians use the 'Prime' symbol to denote derivatives.  Using the prime symbol needs to be an academic offense.  I don't even know where or how the prime symbol even came about.

The most common example of the proper denotation of derivative is: 'dy/dx'

You'll want to stay away from differential equations, then. Here's just a taste:

The course I took contained DE, but it was Physics dept course called Math Methods of Physics; my Russian instructor also intensely disliked the prime symbol, so he used the Newton's notation:  'ẋ and ẍ'

[kphoger]

Why would someone "intensely dislike" a certain notation?  I mean, it's a minor thing that bothers me that is more than one notation for various things in logic (⇒ vs ⊃) (¬ vs ~) (∧ vs &), but it's certainly not something I'd describe as anything "intense".

[Scott5114]

Why would someone "intensely dislike" a certain notation?

If it were easy to confuse for something else, I suppose. I could see a sloppily-written prime symbol being easy to confuse for a 1 or a / or something. Then again I could also see difficulties distinguishing between ẋ and ẍ if there were a smudge on the paper, someone made a copy of a copy too many times, they were careless and one of the dots overlapped with the arms of the x, etc.

[jgb191]

Why would someone "intensely dislike" a certain notation?

If it were easy to confuse for something else, I suppose.

I've been used to the prime symbol to represent axis adjustments/rotation:  the x' represents the adjusted x-axis at an angle above or below the original (horizontal) x-axis; and likewise the y' represents the adjusted y-axis at an angle above or below the original (vertical) y-axis

[vdeane]

The fact that few businesses seem to be setting their holiday hours on Google Maps.  Open?  Regular hours listed with "hours might differ".  Closed?  Also regular hours listed with "hours might differ".  Is it really so hard to put this in so that people don't have to look up the social media of every place in the area and hope it's listed somewhere?  How is anyone who doesn't have family plans or something supposed to plan anything?

[Scott5114]

The fact that few businesses seem to be setting their holiday hours on Google Maps.  Open?  Regular hours listed with "hours might differ".  Closed?  Also regular hours listed with "hours might differ".  Is it really so hard to put this in so that people don't have to look up the social media of every place in the area and hope it's listed somewhere?  How is anyone who doesn't have family plans or something supposed to plan anything?

If I'm a business owner, how the heck am I supposed to know or remember what all places on the internet have ingested my store hours? What if I tell them to update it and they don't?

[Rothman]

The fact that few businesses seem to be setting their holiday hours on Google Maps.  Open?  Regular hours listed with "hours might differ".  Closed?  Also regular hours listed with "hours might differ".  Is it really so hard to put this in so that people don't have to look up the social media of every place in the area and hope it's listed somewhere?  How is anyone who doesn't have family plans or something supposed to plan anything?

Google Maps directed my wife and me to a Culver's that wasn't even open for business yet just today -- still putting the finishing touches on its construction in Ashland, OH.

Ticked me off.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

For the first time in 18 years with a license I Lord Carhorned some asshole outside of my workplace. 2 left turn lanes and 1 right turn lane. Dude was in the RTL and I was behind him waiting to go right, he realized he needed to turn left and decided he was going to try to turn left from the right turn lane which he was unable to do because of too much left-turning traffic. I blared at him until he finally gave up and just went right.

[Scott5114]

I Lord Carhorned some asshole outside of my workplace.

This could mean so many things without the rest of the post, such as:

- You argued with him about how flat your state is.
- You told him how great WalletHub data is and how it should be trusted above all else.
- You said a bunch of transphobic stuff to him.

[Molandfreak]

For the first time in 18 years with a license I Lord Carhorned some asshole outside of my workplace. 2 left turn lanes and 1 right turn lane. Dude was in the RTL and I was behind him waiting to go right, he realized he needed to turn left and decided he was going to try to turn left from the right turn lane which he was unable to do because of too much left-turning traffic. I blared at him until he finally gave up and just went right.

Similar situation here, I was at this intersection and the far left lane was closed. Two cars ahead of me, someone decided that they wanted to go straight from the open left turn only lane, so they made a complete stop on a yellow, wasting an entire cycle for me and the person in front of me.

[Molandfreak]

The fact that few businesses seem to be setting their holiday hours on Google Maps.  Open?  Regular hours listed with "hours might differ".  Closed?  Also regular hours listed with "hours might differ".  Is it really so hard to put this in so that people don't have to look up the social media of every place in the area and hope it's listed somewhere?  How is anyone who doesn't have family plans or something supposed to plan anything?

Businesses relying entirely on their patrons checking Google instead of posting that information on their entrance doors. Sure, I should probably know that ALDI is going to close two hours early for a holiday, but the old lady going to the store in her '96 Buick is not going to check Google before going.

[Beltway]

For the first time in 18 years with a license I Lord Carhorned some asshole outside of my workplace. 2 left turn lanes and 1 right turn lane. Dude was in the RTL and I was behind him waiting to go right, he realized he needed to turn left and decided he was going to try to turn left from the right turn lane which he was unable to do because of too much left-turning traffic. I blared at him until he finally gave up and just went right.

People routinely do stuff like that. Turn left from the right lane of a 2-lane business entrance. Block both lanes while waiting to turn left. In my younger days I would give him the air horns.

[Max Rockatansky]

For the first time in 18 years with a license I Lord Carhorned some asshole outside of my workplace. 2 left turn lanes and 1 right turn lane. Dude was in the RTL and I was behind him waiting to go right, he realized he needed to turn left and decided he was going to try to turn left from the right turn lane which he was unable to do because of too much left-turning traffic. I blared at him until he finally gave up and just went right.

It can't be a Lord Carhorn if it doesn't involve a nominal traffic infraction.

[Molandfreak]

For the first time in 18 years with a license I Lord Carhorned some asshole outside of my workplace. 2 left turn lanes and 1 right turn lane. Dude was in the RTL and I was behind him waiting to go right, he realized he needed to turn left and decided he was going to try to turn left from the right turn lane which he was unable to do because of too much left-turning traffic. I blared at him until he finally gave up and just went right.

People routinely do stuff like that. Turn left from the right lane of a 2-lane business entrance. Block both lanes while waiting to turn left. In my younger days I would give him the air horns.

The worst I have seen of these is at this Kwik Trip, where you routinely get folks in large campers refusing to use their brains and go to the light if they want to turn left. They should really put up a sign prohibiting left turns from the other entrance.

[vdeane]

If I'm a business owner, how the heck am I supposed to know or remember what all places on the internet have ingested my store hours? What if I tell them to update it and they don't?

I was under the impression that business hours on Google Maps were set by the business.  I'm also not aware of any other site on the whole internet with the "holiday hours" feature; even Yelp makes no mention of the fact that tomorrow is a holiday and just lists regular hours for everything.

The last time a major holiday fell on a Saturday on a weekend I was home instead of visiting my parents was 1/1/2022, and it seems like a lot more businesses were marking holiday hours then.  I didn't have nearly this much of a void of information.  It seems that businesses are taking it to mean that they should only input something if they're operating different hours, but that does nothing to tell people if they're open or closed or not as everyone is just assuming that not marking anything means whichever it is for themselves.  I know better than to assume either way, as I know of businesses that are closed and haven't marked it, and those that are open but haven't marked it.  Heck, I even got gas last night rather than tomorrow as would have been optimal because I couldn't confirm whether Stewart's will be open!

Making matters worse, my order of 6 chicken wings and a 10'' personal pizza is available very few places to begin with, because pizza places, like the rest of society, cater to families by default, not individuals.  So I'd have to go through every single pizza place in a four county area, dig through the menu to see if they can even do my order at all, and then dig through their social media to see if they bothered to post anything or had someone ask in the comments (and often they don't even do that).  And to do that fully requires an account at multiple social media sites, and I only have an account with Facebook.

Now, I do have a fallback plan that I know works, and even kinda like on some levels (although I'll have some withdrawal from missing my weekly dose of pizza and wings, both of which I have a food addiction for and very strongly associate with Saturday evenings - I'll even go into withdrawal if I have to have them on Friday instead for some reason, because every time I modify my routine for anything, I tend to spend the whole day imagining what I usually do at that time), but it will have knock-off effects on my routine (including requiring me to walk the bathroom trash can to the kitchen at least part of next week, since I wouldn't generate enough garbage to justify using the kitchen trash bag to empty the trash, and I don't want to get it wet/sticky if I'm not going to be taking it to the dumpsters in the near term).  Plus it could put a crimp in my movie watching schedule, as there's a rumor that the ATLA movie will unexpectedly release on July 25 (it was announced for October 9), and what flexibility I tried to put into that schedule only allowed for knocking out one weekend when I'm not traveling, not two.

Google Maps directed my wife and me to a Culver's that wasn't even open for business yet just today -- still putting the finishing touches on its construction in Ashland, OH.

Around here, you can do the opposite - there's a QuickCheck on NY 7 that recently opened that Google doesn't even know exists yet!

Businesses relying entirely on their patrons checking Google instead of posting that information on their entrance doors. Sure, I should probably know that ALDI is going to close two hours early for a holiday, but the old lady going to the store in her '96 Buick is not going to check Google before going.

Around here, it's the opposite.  People will put signs on the door, but not make any kind of announcement online, so nobody can plan in advance, and everybody is just left in a lurch when they get their and find it closed.

[dlsterner]

I Lord Carhorned some asshole outside of my workplace.

Lord Carhorn adds to his legend.  He is now also a verb.

[Max Rockatansky]

I Lord Carhorned some asshole outside of my workplace.

Lord Carhorn adds to his legend.  He is now also a verb.

FWIW, his last YouTube video was posted in October 2024.  It of course involved a road rage something.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

I Lord Carhorned some asshole outside of my workplace.

Lord Carhorn adds to his legend.  He is now also a verb.

FWIW, his last YouTube video was posted in October 2024.  It of course involved a road rage something.

I used to read and occasionally start shit on his Facebook page but then he just started deleting comments arguing with him so I blocked the page.

[Max Rockatansky]

I Lord Carhorned some asshole outside of my workplace.

Lord Carhorn adds to his legend.  He is now also a verb.

FWIW, his last YouTube video was posted in October 2024.  It of course involved a road rage something.

I used to read and occasionally start shit on his Facebook page but then he just started deleting comments arguing with him so I blocked the page.

I used to do the same from my personal account.  Getting Crash_It all spun up after his ban here was highly entertaining.  He tried to push his craft on a couple Facebook road groups but got run off from each of them. 

For a bit Crash_It was trying to do highway videos but was really bad at it (lots of glare and weird camera angles).   I blocked him finally when he tried to antagonize commenters on our Facebook page after we had an Illinois related post.  Amusingly I don't think he ever caught on that I was a road page admin and a forum member here. 

[Scott5114]

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Ma'am. Just call them on the phone. Yes, it sucks and is less convenient than Google Maps, but it's not anywhere near as inconvenient as the other stuff you mentioned.

I promise you "What are your hours on X day?" is a perfectly normal query for a customer service person to get over the phone. Boomers do this all the time. As you are a polite and normal person, I can't imagine anyone there will be perturbed by you asking. And if they are, that's a them problem.

[1995hoo]

(Pizza and wing discussion)

Why don't you just buy them today and save them and reheat them tomorrow night?

[Scott5114]

(Pizza and wing discussion)

Why don't you just buy them today and save them and reheat them tomorrow night?

If she is as attached to the flavor of the pizza and wings as she seems to be, I would imagine reheating would make the flavor profile different enough that it wouldn't satisfy the craving.

[kphoger]

People turning the wrong way from a turn lane doesn't bother me all that much—heck, it's half-expected in Mexico—but only as long as they can actually complete the movement.  What |TheHighwayMan3561| would have ticked me off too, but not because he was turning left from the right turn lane—rather, because he wasn't actually doing so.

It's got to be in the top five rules of driving:  if you screw up and can't make the movement you intended to, then just go whichever way you can go, and then turn around later and figure it out from there.

[kphoger]

If she is as attached to the flavor of the pizza and wings as she seems to be, ...

If I've learned anything about |vdeane| on this forum, it's that deviating from the usual food routine is almost unthinkable.  And other routines, too.  This is something that the rest of us, non-spectrum, type folks have a hard time understanding.