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I think that's the trick, right? 1% of a perfectly normal person's attention looks a lot like a really dumb person. This certainly goes for tech, but also for any number of other fields.
Had they read the message, it would have saved them a lot of time waiting for the solution that would have been near instantaneous otherwise. But their 0.5% is more important to them than your 99.5%. Hopefully they're really good at bringing money into the company, because their ability to save labor money for the company is abysmal.
And hopefully you got paid for mileage...
Except that 80 metres is only a few carlengths . . .
I read it as miles. If some_guy meant meters, then that would add such a new level of comedy to it hahaha
I'm aware that he probably meant miles, but he still used the wrong abbreviation (should have been mi). Gotta be careful about that kind of thing, although I'm not sure what the tech anecdote equivalent of the Mars Climate Orbiter would be. Someone taking it too seriously, like I'm doing here, probably. 😅
To be fair, sometimes the message appears unexpectedly right where you were going to click, and you dismiss it without being able to read.
Maybe some messages should really appear with a dismissal button disabled for several seconds