A small units-related #peeve prob not resonating with many others, but if someone says their product has a 3000 mAh battery, I see that as:

"We've got a 3 ✖️ 1000 ➗ 1000 AmpHour battery!"

Yeah, I know Dave in marketing says big numbers look more impressive, but just say it's just a 3Ah battery.

Power bank specs are worse to a factor of ten, often quoting 20,000 mAh capacity! I'm surprised they aren't trying to do 20kmAh which would be a crime against units.

#consumerElectronics #units

Guys wearing their ballcaps backwards shading their eyes with their hand when they look in the direction of the sun

#Peeve

Every #Mastodon / #Fediverse poll that includes the text "boost for larger sample size" should be required to have "Dewey Defeats Truman" as one of the poll answers.

#peeve #PetPeeve #statistics #poll #sample #bias #DeweyDefeatsTruman #SamplingError #SamplingBias

#peeve #sysadminLife

Ah, a directory titled "10-11-01_Backup", now what god-forsaken date format did that (now departed) individual use? Is that from 2010, 2011, 2001?

not #iso8601

Maybe this marks me out as a #curmudgeon , but if you post a link to an obvious "listicle" without adding anything of substance of your own, not only will I not visit the #listicle, I may mute you entirely.

It's not personal. I just hate, with the heat of a thousand dying suns, the information sphere's equivalent of empty calories. We used to make fun of information-lite news like USA Today, but that stuff from decades ago would compare favourably to a lot of big-city newspapers' websites these days.

You *can* read deeper content. I *believe* in you.

#EmptyCalories #information #InformationSphere #JunkFood #JunkInfo #JunkContent #InformationLite #PetPeeve #peeve #grumpy #GrumpyOldMan #content

Things we can do away with in headline and blurb #writing

Scientists say...
Experts say...
Shoppers say...

And the word "this" anywhere in the title if you didn't also tell me what "this" is, as in:

"This one food will clean your laundry in your sleep!"

Specific, nouns, people. Do you speak them?

#rant #peeve

#Peeve: contrarian #units. Why say your phone has a "six thousand milliamp" battery, when you could just "six amp"? Two syllables versus six. Written, "6000 mA" vs "6 A" is the same deal, six characters versus two.

I'm also one who would also prefer saying that the Moon is 384 megameters from Earth, not 384,000 kilometers. #SI

Pet peeve: national-level mainstream media outlets that absolutely cannot differentiate correctly between a budget deficit and national debt.

#debt #deficit #NationalDebt #BudgetDeficit #MSM #media #peeve #PetPeeve