Derek Peden

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Annoyances

In the spirit of “old man yells at clouds” and quietly externalising rather than audibly complaining.

  • Self-inflicted human stupidity. When so many issues are technically challenging or financially difficult, can’t we just fix the dumb stuff?
  • Any company which needlessly demands an email address, to “keep in touch”.
  • Uneducated millennials creating new words or phrases because they have failed to check if a suitable expression already exists. This forms the basis of a large percentage of this page.
  • A wide range of improvements with universal benefits is just that. The needless expression “levelling-up” must be eradicated.
  • The binning of a distribution of topics or content, in a rank from most to least favourable. This Pareto distribution can be defined across as many bins as you wish, but it makes no sense to label the preferred bin as “S” and refer to this as a “Tier List”. A further annoyance is the lack of care in ranking as a Normal distribution, favouring the centre bin and limiting positive and negative extremes.