What's bugging you? **2025**

[JosephC]

16 minutes ago, TURBO said:

Entitlement in general.

Example:  Tonight, pulled in to Kwik Trip, and noticed a car pull in the handicap parking spot.  Young girl, between the ages of 18-22 imo, gets out, and runs in the store.  I get out of my car, walk over to the van she was driving.  Nothing hanging on the mirror, nothing on the license plates, obviously, this girl just thinks she can do as she pleases.  Pissed me off, but I've seen it before.

 

Minimum fine for that in Wisconsin is $150.  State law allows up to a $500 fine, so certain localities can issue tickets for that amount.  

[zurch1818]

I'm so happy to hear other more experienced coders have had the same love hate relationship with AI as me. AI has helped me port code to JavaScript for our website. I agree that i feel the art of good coding will die a little bit. Maybe it will be akin to when the computer came into the workplace in the 80's when people were doing everything manually? The computer became a tool and enhanced the best workers but didn't replace them.

Implementing untested AI code sounds like a complete disaster. Yikes! Someone should get fired for doing something like. Installing pandas there sounds awful. I've heard of it, but I have no idea of what it actually does. I've wanted to learn Python, but I just don't know why I would learn it. It seems I can do everything I need in a language I already know. When it comes to automating Excel, the dinosaur VBA seems much better suited for my needs. We don't really do data analysis, but do more calculations. I tried using the Excel Python once and it just didn't really work well. Can someone explain why I should learn it? Also, if I ever want to stop being a structural engineer and become software engineer, what would be the best way to do that?

I'm so terrified of AI written code and it breaking our work servers that I rigorously test everything. If something were to happen in our office of 70 people, I would be getting yelled at. This is the downside of being the only person in the company that codes and also has full access to the back end of the network.

The president of our engineering firm feels like we are "behind" the AI curve after he saw a presentation from a competitor. I have assured him that we are not behind. We just automated a lot of our tasks the old fashioned way of actual coding. Most of the stuff happens on the back end where the average user probably doesn't even know something happening. I'm working on front end things too...but I don't get time at work to do that as I have to put on my structural engineering hat.

[LouisEly]

22 hours ago, JosephC said:

Minimum fine for that in Wisconsin is $150.  State law allows up to a $500 fine, so certain localities can issue tickets for that amount.  

But if you're a Milwaukee Bucks player, you can park across two handicap spots, confront and become combative with police officers, and then when they arrest you, you can get paid $750,000.

[Baldkin]

On 1/15/2025 at 12:12 PM, CheezWizHed said:

I'm closing in on 30 years of embedded SW development and management of teams of developers.  

Knowing AI is a tool and using it wisely when you have a well trained model (both big conditions) makes it powerful and useful.

But I fear that instead it will be used to make people lazy and we lose the ability to know what good code actually is... and we end up with mindless zombies flooding bugs into our products. 

It's going to be worse.

 

There will only be offshore QA to ensure the AI developed code works, is secure and meets customer demands.

 

Btw, what's your SSN?

[Baldkin]

On 1/15/2025 at 9:44 PM, JosephC said:

Minimum fine for that in Wisconsin is $150.  State law allows up to a $500 fine, so certain localities can issue tickets for that amount.  

Or at 3AM in West Allis you get assaulted, threatened and pinned to the ground.

 

Then get a million dollars from the tax payers.

[Baldkin]

3 hours ago, LouisEly said:

But if you're a Milwaukee Bucks player, you can park across two handicap spots, confront and become combative with police officers, and then when they arrest you, you can get paid $750,000.

You should watch the video.

The cops should have just wrote him a ticket.

 

 

[CheezWizHed]

10 hours ago, Baldkin said:

It's going to be worse.

 

There will only be offshore QA to ensure the AI developed code works, is secure and meets customer demands.

 

Btw, what's your SSN?

1-2-3-4...wait no... that's the combination on my luggage.

[AKCheesehead]

On 1/15/2025 at 6:25 PM, TURBO said:

Entitlement in general.

Example:  Tonight, pulled in to Kwik Trip, and noticed a car pull in the handicap parking spot.  Young girl, between the ages of 18-22 imo, gets out, and runs in the store.  I get out of my car, walk over to the van she was driving.  Nothing hanging on the mirror, nothing on the license plates, obviously, this girl just thinks she can do as she pleases.  Pissed me off, but I've seen it before.

I walk in the store, there she is at the cold sandwich display.  I don't normally do this, in fact, I can say I've never confronted a person in public before, but the need to say something to this person was so strong that I simply walked up to her, said very calmly, "you know, you aren't supposed to park in a handicap spot if you aren't handicapped or disabled.  I can see you are neither."  She didn't even look in my direction, acted as disinterested as humanly possible, and said "really?" and continued looking over the sandwiches.  I said "really, someone could actually need that spot, and here you are. healthy and not caring"  Her response:  "Are you done yet?"  Again, not even looking in my direction, just not giving a crap that she has done something so despicable that a random stranger feels the need to call her out.  I said "so you don't even care, you think you can just break the law, and you simply don't care?"  Her answer: "Nope, I don't care"  You guessed it, she didn't even look in my direction.

At this point, nothing I can do or say without really causing a scene, so I said "you should care." and as I walked away,  a dude standing there watching this transpire says "she really parked in a handicap spot?"  I said yup, and she doesn't care.  He stared at her for a few seconds, shakes his head and walks away...

Just a nasty, disgusting person...

I'm glad I said something, even though it didn't change anything.

Reading your story makes me want to float all the way across North America and chuck a slice of Cheese Mountain pizza at her.  But then again, remember that the wheel always comes around.  She'll get hers one day if she doesn't grow up and learn to be considerate of others.

[GAME05]

No way, she'll marry rich, stay skinny and never stop mentioning the charity her husband once donated to.

[nate82]

I hate working with Gen Z’s.  That is all.

[Samurai Bucky]

On 1/15/2025 at 9:25 PM, TURBO said:

Entitlement in general.

Example:  Tonight, pulled in to Kwik Trip, and noticed a car pull in the handicap parking spot.  Young girl, between the ages of 18-22 imo, gets out, and runs in the store.  I get out of my car, walk over to the van she was driving.  Nothing hanging on the mirror, nothing on the license plates, obviously, this girl just thinks she can do as she pleases.  Pissed me off, but I've seen it before.

I walk in the store, there she is at the cold sandwich display.  I don't normally do this, in fact, I can say I've never confronted a person in public before, but the need to say something to this person was so strong that I simply walked up to her, said very calmly, "you know, you aren't supposed to park in a handicap spot if you aren't handicapped or disabled.  I can see you are neither."  She didn't even look in my direction, acted as disinterested as humanly possible, and said "really?" and continued looking over the sandwiches.  I said "really, someone could actually need that spot, and here you are. healthy and not caring"  Her response:  "Are you done yet?"  Again, not even looking in my direction, just not giving a crap that she has done something so despicable that a random stranger feels the need to call her out.  I said "so you don't even care, you think you can just break the law, and you simply don't care?"  Her answer: "Nope, I don't care"  You guessed it, she didn't even look in my direction.

At this point, nothing I can do or say without really causing a scene, so I said "you should care." and as I walked away,  a dude standing there watching this transpire says "she really parked in a handicap spot?"  I said yup, and she doesn't care.  He stared at her for a few seconds, shakes his head and walks away...

Just a nasty, disgusting person...

I'm glad I said something, even though it didn't change anything.

I wish I would do more of that.

Before my dad died four years ago, both of my parents needed walkers.  I was much more sensitive to people doing exactly what you did.  My father in law doesn't need a walker, but he is not fleet a foot at 84 years old and should probably be walking with a cane.  My mom and my father in law both have the window hanger thing.

Here is another one -- the person has a handicap sticker, but they are not handicap!  Perhaps their spouse, etc. is handicapped, but they don't need it.  One would think they would be more sensitive, but they are not.

On another note -- there are some facilities that have absolute garbage for handicap accessibility.  Go to any summer baseball or softball tournament.  There are a lot of grandparents that need handicap spaces.  There are never enough.  My son was in the spring baseball sectionals at South Milwaukee and my mom had to take her walker down a hill and across the uneven grass.  Very frustrating.

However, it is really cool when we take my mom to the Brewers games -- "I must be in the front row!"  😉

[Samurai Bucky]

A few years ago, I was introduced to Leinenkugel's Canoe Paddle Kolsch.  It turned into one of my favorite beers.  Last year, we stopped seeing it at Total Wine.  I found out today that they don't make it anymore.

Today, the Samurai is a sad Samurai...

[TURBO]

2 minutes ago, Samurai Bucky said:

I wish I would do more of that.

Like I said, it is unlike me to confront someone in public, but this was just such a selfish thing to do, and rather than roll my eyes and ignore it, I couldn't stop myself from saying something this time.  It did no good though, all it did was raise my blood pressure from her reaction, or lack of reaction.

Sometimes, it's just better to realize that there are trash people out there, probably more now than ever...

[Samurai Bucky]

On 1/16/2025 at 7:36 AM, zurch1818 said:

Implementing untested AI code sounds like a complete disaster. Yikes! Someone should get fired for doing something like. Installing pandas there sounds awful. I've heard of it, but I have no idea of what it actually does. I've wanted to learn Python, but I just don't know why I would learn it. It seems I can do everything I need in a language I already know. When it comes to automating Excel, the dinosaur VBA seems much better suited for my needs. We don't really do data analysis, but do more calculations. I tried using the Excel Python once and it just didn't really work well. Can someone explain why I should learn it? Also, if I ever want to stop being a structural engineer and become software engineer, what would be the best way to do that?

My kids have learned Python in college.  My daughter's friend works for an Epic Software subsidiary and uses it to write test cases.  I'm a little older and the, "Get off my <coding> lawn" gets in the way a little.  Fortunately, I don't have a neck beard to get in the way... yet.

I'm a C# guy.  Plenty of ways to learn that.  It will allow you to work in web, windows forms, and even mobile apps.  

[LouisEly]

1 hour ago, Samurai Bucky said:

A few years ago, I was introduced to Leinenkugel's Canoe Paddle Kolsch.  It turned into one of my favorite beers.  Last year, we stopped seeing it at Total Wine.  I found out today that they don't make it anymore.

Today, the Samurai is a sad Samurai...

Not only that, but they closed the original Chippewa Falls brewery this week.  Shifted all of that production to Milwaukee.

Not a good week to be a born and bred Wisconsinite.

[NeedMoreFans]

Canoe Paddler was my favorite beer of theirs, and probably my favorite Kolsch brewed in the US.  I am not happy they got rid of it. 

[wallus]

The meltdown I have seen over Tiktok is kinda sad

[homer]

8 hours ago, wallus said:

The meltdown I have seen over Tiktok is kinda sad

and that doesn't bug you? 😁

[nate82]

4 hours ago, homer said:

and that doesn't bug you? 😁

It doesn't bug me but I think all social media is a cancer and the biggest one of them all is LinkedIn and Meta (Facebook and Instagram).  Meta is probably the main reason or the biggest reason there are so many mental health and health issues for young women and mental health issues for men especially the 13-25 year old males.

I don't use TikTok but I am going to assume it has the same issues as other social media platforms. 

[wallus]

2 hours ago, nate82 said:

It doesn't bug me but I think all social media is a cancer and the biggest one of them all is LinkedIn and Meta (Facebook and Instagram).  Meta is probably the main reason or the biggest reason there are so many mental health and health issues for young women and mental health issues for men especially the 13-25 year old males.

I don't use TikTok but I am going to assume it has the same issues as other social media platforms. 

Tiktok is worse by a mile. I only navigate it because I need to use it for marketing my business. 

[LouisEly]

3 hours ago, nate82 said:

It doesn't bug me but I think all social media is a cancer and the biggest one of them all is LinkedIn

Curious as to why you think LinkedIn is a cancer.

It made my job search a lot easier with being able to see if/who I know there, or if who someone who will vouch for me knows someone who may be the hiring manager or influential in the hiring process.  Being able to see how many people have applied is helpful too as that can say if they're really hiring or if the job has been out there for a while (1,000 applicants) and they're not really hiring/hiring freeze/laid off the HR person who was responsible for taking it down.  Seeing all of the jobs I applied for in one place and the status is very helpful.

I have a little bit of experience with the job search thing and LinkedIn made it a lot easier than it could have been.

[nate82]

1 hour ago, LouisEly said:

Curious as to why you think LinkedIn is a cancer.

It is just completely toxic and fake.  If you use it for anything other than finding a job sure it is fine.  But poke around on some of the other stuff and it is just absolute cancer. 

Stuff like this:

[LouisEly]

Based on their profiles, they are content marketing.  They are putting out content to try to get people to engage and view/consider their services, as based on their titles (recruiter, "campus to career pathway", keynote speaker, headhunter) they are likely paid by providing their services to people.

Yes, people who own their own business who provide business and professional services do a lot of content marketing on LinkedIn.  It's cheap advertising and all it costs is their time to put it together.  It's a form of advertising; like all advertising, some is good and some is not.  I would not call content marketing "toxic", even if it isn't good.

[nate82]

Are basic problem solving skills just not taught in school anymore?  I swear nearly every gen z person asks me the same question over and over again and when they run into a problem that can be solved by some small amount of basic problem solving skills they get stuck and can't move forward. 

Then I will get a response of I don't understand.  Then it is like pulling teeth to get them to explain what they don't understand.  They just say again I don't understand.  I think I am just going to repeat that and say I don't understand what you don't understand.  It feels like they just want me to fix whatever it is that they don't want to learn how to fix.  So frustrating. 

Rant time.  It feels like Gen Z just wants everything to work and when it doesn't work they have no idea how to fix or where to look to fix it or how to come up with a fix on their own.  Not every single problem is going to be documented or known how to fix sometimes you have to use your own brain and figure out a solution.  It feels like Gen Z just doesn't want to do this.  They want everything to be told to them on how to fix something.  Where has the intuitive and inventive thinking gone?  Is it just here is how you do something if it is not written down then no solution exists and you need to give up?  I would rather deal with Millennial overly complaining about anything and everything than deal with Gen Z.  It is like they are a computer that hasn't received a software update in 20-years and is now trying to do a new feature in a program that it doesn't know about. 

I guess all of that trying to figure out how to set the clock on the VCR that had very little to no instructions or someone lost the instructions set me up for success later in life. Rant done.

[GAME05]

When I went home for Thanksgiving I ended up doing some grocery shopping with The Mother. When she didn't immediately find something she'd run to ask for help. I usually had the item in my hand by the time the grocery guy got back. But your first paragraph, particularly, just made me think how "kids these days" have grown up on "just google it" and having an answer pop up for them. I suspect much of the issue relates to that and the death of just fiddling with something until you figure it out.