Anything in IT.
Urban planning. Being able to walk or take transit to all your errands gets taken for granted until you move to a suburban asphalt desert.
A clean bathroom. Or not…
UX/UI. To be specific input forms. Had to get past a captcha for an appointment. I have no idea how the site handled captchas but couldn’t get past it. No indications if it had to be capitalized, with or without spaces etc… Just gave up after trying for a while.
food you order at a restaurant.
Sound effects or music on TV and movies. Cleaners. Machine maintenance.
Localization. It’s not as easy as simply translating from one language to another!
Done right, you get something of foreign origin that feels like it was done in your backyard.
Done…less than stellar, you get “All your base are belong to us, someone set us up the bomb.”
Pic related
That powdery black finish on computer PSU’s.
IT.
came here to say this and it irks me that doing nothing has the same effect as doing something exceptionally well.
Thought you were talking about the movie, and I agreed.
then realised it was the scary IT you were talking about.
agree even more
Door handle design that makes it intuitive whether it requires pushing or pulling to open.
Norman doors! Doors that pull when you think you should push or visa versa
Product management.
Network Administration.
If the network and servers all work: What are we paying you for?
If the network or one of the servers are down: What are we paying you for?
infrastructure in general - even beyond IT. No one sits at home thinking: The sewer system is great! How reliably my shit vanishes from my toilet! Until it doesn’t.
I actually do. For some reason my children are fascinated where it all goes, so we’ve seems lots of videos on plumbing, in house and on the street. They’re absolutely bowled over by how it all works and it’s made me appreciate it so much more.
It’s also an enormous hygiene booster; running water, waste management etc. If you have a working water system in your neighbourhood you’re blessed. It’s one of those things Stone Age people would barely believe was real.
Which reminds me of a comment I read on Lemmy not too long ago - someone was wishing for a robot to handle the laundry. And I was like: “What do you think a washing machine is?!”
You guys should definitely do a field trip to a wastewater treatment plant, if you ever get the chance.
Your kids would probably have a blast.I’ve been to so many, but I don’t know how hard it is for the general public to visit one.
Since 9/11 they’re generally locked off from the public in the US. I attended some mass casualty and terrorism training and we talked with someone who ran their city water and sewer. He had a neat plan to radiate the city water system he helped them defend against.
Here is a recent ticket my team just got. I was honestly suprised how pissy it got.
Hopefully this is the easiest request you’ve had of the day. This is a request from my C-suite. Since we’ve looked at the network and everything ‘looks good.’ But they have asked us to take another look given the continued complaints from the vendor (see attached email) I’m escalating to the NE team so the “experts” can validate that there isn’t any code or anything that would be causing this cart to have faulty connections.
I mean, it’s definitely condescending, but it’s also dripping with “I was directly told to do this by someone who has the authority and the attitude to fire my entire department on a whim. I don’t think this will help, but I’m doing this specifically as CYA so I can get back to what I actually need to be doing instead.”
I don’t even hear the condescension when I read it. I just hear someone that’s incredibly annoyed at having to go through the motions for the bosses boss.
The “experts” part felt condescending to me. In a very “I know better than you, but you have the title so I have to defer to you” way.
A goalkeeper in soccer or similar. It’s a thankless job, you save 10 shots, nobody notices. But you miss one and you’ll be called a bum by your own fans. As opposed to a forward striker, who might miss 10 shots, nobody notices. But you make one and you’ll be a hero being paraded on shoulders.
Funny, I was going to say the referee - a great refereeing performance will rarely be noticeable.
Murder. Just sayin.
Sound quality.
I worked in life theater for almost a decade as a sound board op and audio engineer for a few local theaters.
People would always comment to the lighting board op how good the lights were.
But maybe one person in a whole run of a show would compliment the sound.
Boy oh boy, if a cable died mid show… The whole intermission and afterwards I’d have to hear “I do sound at my church and,” or some variation of “I’m just a hobbyist but,”.
You think I wouldn’t pull that cable and replace it if I could???
Yup, came to say the same thing. People only notice good lights and bad audio.
The whole intermission and afterwards I’d have to hear “I do sound at my church and,” or some variation of “I’m just a hobbyist but,”.
How many audio board ops does it take to change a lightbulb? One to do it, and ten more to comment that they could’ve done it better.
