• Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I got nothing recent, but here are a few from the past.

    I was once reading a magazine and tried to pinch-zoom a photo. I tried multiple times before I understood the depths of my stupidity.

    I once took my new car into the dealer about a month after I got it for warranty work because the washer fluid wasn’t working anymore. This was after I looked it over and couldn’t find the cause, so I assumed it was a body control module or maybe the stalk was bad. I was pushing the stalk forward instead of pulling it backwards. The tech, service writer, and myself had a good laugh about how I had forgotten how to use the damn thing. There is a freaking icon with “pull” on the stalk. I had been using it just fine and then caught the stupid one day.

    I once remarked that they should invent vizine, but for your mouth while I had cottonmouth. Before anyone steals my idea, water was invented over 12 billion years ago.

    I tried to take photos of hallucinations to show others. Yes, photos, plural.

    Before you worry, I am dedicated child-free.

    • rem26_art@fedia.io
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      6 months ago

      lmao similar to the pinch-zoom thing, I do a lot of digital art normally, but whenever I draw on paper, I reach for ctrl-Z first instead of flipping the pencil over. Probably doesnt help that If I do draw on paper, its in the same spot where I normally put my tablet

      • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I often use an electronic drawing tablet, with a button on the electronic pen configured as “undo.” The frequency with which I reflexively press on that bit of a real pen to undo a physical ink-based mistake does not reflect well on me.

  • Maxnmy's@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I tried taking a new route through a familiar building. Automatic actions took over and led me back to the entrance I came from.

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    I’m a programmer, so this is pretty much a constant thing haha. Sometimes you write the smartest shit imaginable, and sometimes you waste 4 hours on something extremely simple.

  • Aa!@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I was laid off this year. I’m a 25 year veteran programmer, and not to brag in the sea of tech folks we have here, but I am rather proud of my skills I have picked up over the years.

    My first interview this year, they set up an online development environment and had me solve a fairly simple array sort problem, and I completely choked. Something about being watched and judged while I worked broke my brain.

    I managed to ace my next interview, but they didn’t bother with the programming exercise at all.

  • moistclump@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Spent weeks without pepper because I thought the grinder thing wasn’t working. Turns out I hadn’t screwed off the cap and removed the foil. I was just about to give up and buy a new pepper grinder.

    I have pepper again.