Printing a hard copy seems to make mistakes materialize out of nowhere for me.
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It is printer's fault.
You might be joking, but there are bugs in some PDF readers that partially invert vector graphics, ruining prints that look fine on screen...
some xerox photocopiers had a "feature" where the copier would use OCR to scan the document (by default even) and then replace multiple instances of one letter (which may have all printed slightly differently before) with one instance of the same letter exactly, just copy+pasted into different places. if you were lucky it would even replace a "d" for example with a "b". the resulting documents look tampered with, not to mention that it breaks the perfect paper trail your organization is supposed to have.
I think it wasn't even an OCR bug per se, it was a bug in the image compression algorithm implementation. "Yeah these squiggles on the paper look basically the same, guess we'll save space here."
OCR would have at least been mitigated by the fact that you could see if the text didn't match the image. And since OCR isn't perfect anyway, you could even anticipate that. But if the image is screwed up, well, what do you do then?
I just sent an email misspelling the persons name 😭
I received an email where someone spelled her own name wrong. I called her out on it because I thought it was funny. I think she thinks I'm an asshole now. I spell stuff wrong all the time and often say things incorrectly too. While I think we should all endeavor to be better communicators, it's a silly thing to make someone feel bad about.
Shit, try writing a book, editing it three times, having someone proofread it, putting it out via one of the etail book sellers, then reading it and finding five glaring typos
It's like being punched in the dick, only less erotic
Finding typos in email is easy. Just hit send
I spelled alumni wrong to an alum. Yikes.
alum...inium!
And my Lemmy comments.
I'd die of cringe if I did that.
If you actually pluralize the uncountable with an S, I think I found your mistake.
Typos sounds like the Greek muse of grammar.