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Re: James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies

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Post by flopsamjetsam »

lostlogin wrote: post #99
hexbin010 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's almost impressive that they designed a port that feels so wrong when you actually get it right

I worked in an IT department at one time and encountered USB-A plugs forced into Ethernet ports. It seems so unlikely that I’ve just searched it to see if it’s possible, but am getting no hits.

This reminds me so much of the old story about how a user called support to tell them their floppy drive wasn't working. When the tech got there, the computer had no floppy drives, and the user had been forcing the disks in the gap between the drive blank plates.

Re: James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies

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Post by aristofun »

lucketone wrote: post #208
aristofun wrote: post #191

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Another signal that the design sucks :)

Alternatively, it signals that people are really lazy and/or “common education” (process for common knowledge) is lacking on this topic. (I bet it is described in the manual; but we will never know - I also have not read it)

> I also have not read it

Unless you’re a professional driver - you’re in your right. We dont have to learn how to use UI made for people. If that’s the case we could just read where the fricking inlet is.

It’s the design that is bad

Re: James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies

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Post by LtWorf »

lproven wrote: post #213
bdbdbdb wrote: post #149

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I'm also in Europe, I drive a ford, and the only fuel arrow on my dash actually points to the wrong side for filling

Petrol or diesel?

You have a car that runs on raw petrol?

Re: James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies

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Post by lproven »

LtWorf wrote: post #223
lproven wrote: post #213

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Petrol or diesel?

You have a car that runs on raw petrol?

I do not know where you are in the world but in the homeland of the English language, Britain and most of its direct (former!) colonies, "petrol" is the stuff cars and motorbikes run on and "diesel" is the stuff agricultural vehicles and heavy plant (lorries, buses) runs on. "Gas" is a phase of matter along with "liquid", "solid", and "plasma" and that is all the bare noun means. "Natural gas", and the obsolete "coal gas"/"town gas", are fuels, but for heating/cooking/light not vehicles as a rule, but generally we'd talk about propane, butane, etc.

We never, ever use "gasoline" or the Germanic "benzene" for this. Benzene is a specific chemical here, never ever a fuel.

Re: James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies

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Post by mjmas »

lproven wrote: post #225
LtWorf wrote: post #223

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You have a car that runs on raw petrol?

I do not know where you are in the world but in the homeland of the English language, Britain and most of its direct (former!) colonies, "petrol" is the stuff cars and motorbikes run on and "diesel" is the stuff agricultural vehicles and heavy plant (lorries, buses) runs on. "Gas" is a phase of matter along with "liquid", "solid", and "plasma" and that is all the bare noun means. "Natural gas", and the obsolete "coal…

Here in Australia 'gas' as a fuel always means LPG (liquified petroleum gas = propane/butane). And it is getting rarer for cars.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-19/lpg-cars-disappearing...

Re: James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies

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Post by bdbdbdb »

mjmas wrote: post #226
lproven wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not know where you are in the world but in the homeland of the English language, Britain and most of its direct (former!) colonies, "petrol" is the stuff cars and motorbikes run on and "diesel" is the stuff agricultural vehicles and heavy plant (lorries, buses) runs on. "Gas" is a phase of matter along with "liquid", "solid", and "plasma" and that is all the bare noun means. "Natural gas", and the obsolete "coal…

Here in Australia 'gas' as a fuel always means LPG (liquified petroleum gas = propane/butane). And it is getting rarer for cars. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-19/lpg-cars-disappearing...

Hence the expression "now you're cooking with gas"

That must confuse the hell out of the yanks

Re: James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies

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Post by bdbdbdb »

lproven wrote: post #213
bdbdbdb wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm also in Europe, I drive a ford, and the only fuel arrow on my dash actually points to the wrong side for filling

Petrol or diesel?

Oh I'm a week late but diesel
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