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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by notnotmike@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

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[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 months ago

Load the goddamn plane by column, window seats to aisle seats, grouped by odd/even seat numbers and make people line up largest seat number to smallest. It takes an extra five minutes before you board the plane and saves you twenty or thirty. It wouldn't even cost you the five if it was the standard.

[-] r0ertel@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

I'm with you generally. The whole boarding experience causes a tremendous amount of anxiety for me to the point that i'd rather drive for anywhere I can get to with a <16 hour drive.

MythBusters had an episode related to airplane boarding. If I remember right, the current scheme is the fastest, but it's due to the fact that everyone can't follow the rules.

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

That's the problem with society- all the damn people. *Shakes fist at cloud*.

[-] brian@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago

you'd have to have family exceptions or something if they're in the same row. you wouldn't want a small child especially having to board at a different time from their family, but even just couples travelling together are probably better to board together.

airlines without assigned seats are probably the most optimal implementation of this

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Ah yeah, true. Even with minor exceptions, I still feel like it could be done better. I'm just bitter because I had to take four different planes this week.

[-] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

You're probably right in theory, but if you think making 100 random people accomplish that in 5 minutes is realistic, you're delusional.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

What are you on about mate? No one suggested letting people organize themselves, you control by allowing the seats you want to load first. Airlines already load specific sections at a time.

If seats A and F are window seats just load that way and also load by zone, back of plane first makes most sense(depending if theres more than one door on the plane or not, most are at front because of how planes park at a gate)

They already know who is travelling together so they can choose to let whatever seats they want first. Like load an entire group if they are taking up a whole row.

Just seems like they do priority boarding as way to increase ticket price, but the actual boarding process often seems badly designed

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I flew on an a380 recently. They actually used zoned boarding! The number of people who didn't seem to get that they wouldn't be allowed to board till their zone came up was amusing.

It saved a huge amount of time.

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

My planes had groups, but I don't think they were grouped by seat.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Or just load back to front?

[-] dufkm@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Never go back to front.

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Burn the heretic.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

make people line up largest seat number to smallest

Yeah, good luck with that!

[-] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Preach

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