Stuff That Really 'Grinds My Gears...'

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Because then I could try on clothes before I sewed them, saving so much time and fabric

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Since that is actually how the fashion world makes sizes - by adjusting a standard size 6 up or down, instead of, like, doing what any woman would do and adjusting for how women typically put on weight in some body areas more than others - I guess it makes sense?

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I’m in an airport. A woman across the way is reading a book. I’m curious and a little bored, so I hit up amazon, to see what is about, without thinking. Are they going to bombard me with “how to be a proper Christian woman” books now? Do i have to buy some Anton LaVay to balance the scales? Or can I just look at titles? I feel so exposed. Whoever did the cover design did a good job.

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Unfortunately, this will go on your permanent record. Don’t be surprised when Jim Bakker knocks on your door to sell you buckets of food.

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Oh shit!

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I knew people who were working on something like that, but it was for a US Military R&D effort, not a commercial product.

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That reminds me of this, and makes me hopeful that the lesson remains learned:
(Thismaybeaside-trackandI’msorry)

(Plus, it’s my absolute favourite tale about the perils of assuming ‘normality’, and also relevent to about …ooooh, maybe half of the other conversations that happen hereabouts? :innocent:)

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Yes, part of the same study actually.

Some of the individual data points were quite weird.

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Oh excellent!

This is continuation of that work, right?

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Yep. There’s now an entire directorate geared toward human factors research, and last I checked it was still headquartered at Wright Patterson.

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This pleases me.

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Now for the concept (and its application) to be expanded.

Clothing design and manufacture. 140 years ago virtually everyone had made to measure clothes. Now virtually no-one does, even though “just in time” bespoke manufacture is straightforward to do with robots.

UI/UX on things like phones. Voice and face recognition. AI in general.

Most of all, the whole “one size fits all” concept.

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Yes, but one size fits all of what?

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That’s my point – “one size fits all” doesn’t really fit anyone.

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Have you seen the labels that read, “One Size Fits Most”?

Again, most of what?

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I’ve seen it, especially on trouser socks. It’s a slightly more accurate lie.

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I usually read that as “One Size Fits Most (but not you)” and look elsewhere.

Oh hell yes, especially as the sizings are based on old sizes and measurements - that weren’t especially good even then!

And yeah, like the plane cockpits had to in the 50s, other UI/UX really really have to, much more than now.

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Okay, this grinds my gears - and it feels like it is in my head: Weather-related sinus headaches/migraines.

There’s no lots of snot to blow out of my nose, just swollen tissues in my sinus cavities. (Gee, maybe if I brushed my sinuses, I wouldn’t have cavities?) Which creates a tricksy pain that ebbs and flows; when it ebbs, I think, “YAY!”…but then it flows right back, only slightly more painful.

Argh.

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Coming off a five-day migraine, that almost sounds like a Fuck Today, over simple gear-grinding

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Not thinking that well, plus I was on this this thread to begin with.

This is my second one in a week.

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