The problem with this computer is the person sitting in front of it. Acronym/Saying?

[naita]

@Shoeless

Or, you can’t make the application idiot proof, but you can try to make it idiot resistant.

I’ve always used PEBCAC with a C not a K. Problem Exists Between Chair And Computer.

Well then it could be a keyboard error, couldn’t it.

[Misnomer]

@Stana_Claus

The two we used many years ago were “defective c/k (chair to keyboard) interface” and ESO (Equipment Superior to Operator) error.

I’d always seen PEBKAC, but I like both of these much better – especially ESO.

[Doctor_Jackson]

Loose nut between monitor and chair

[Tim_T-Bonham.net]

Comment from the system designer when the user manager asked that we code ‘more intelligence’ into the application, so that it would recognize what the user meant rather than what they keyed:
“there has to be some intelligence on both sides of the keyboard”.

Very apt comment, but I’ve never seen an acronym for it.

[Morgyn]

@t-bonham@scc.net

Comment from the system designer when the user manager asked that we code ‘more intelligence’ into the application, so that it would recognize what the user meant rather than what they keyed:
“there has to be some intelligence on both sides of the keyboard”.

Very apt comment, but I’ve never seen an acronym for it.

DWIM?

[Shodan]

We called that “coding the RUM instruction”. Read User’s Mind.

Later updated to RUMIA. If Any.

Regards,
Shodan

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@Morgyn

DWIM?

DWIMNWIS - Do What I Mean, Not What I Say

[rbroome]

For the old school hardware types there was/is:
Short between the keyboard and the chair.

(Back in the days when one could still see the wires in the hardware…)

[Morelin]

I often use I/O error. Idiot Operator. It helps that old school computers had an I/O connector on them.

[Thudlow_Boink]

@t-bonham@scc.net

Comment from the system designer when the user manager asked that we code ‘more intelligence’ into the application, so that it would recognize what the user meant rather than what they keyed:
“there has to be some intelligence on both sides of the keyboard”.

“On two occasions I have been asked, — “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

-Charles Babbage (1864)

[TheFaerie]

LNBK - Loose Nut Behind the Keyboard