TheUniverseandNetworks

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Been doing email since it began. Same frustrations.

Solutions (workarounds):

  1. Email is structured with "executive summary" & "detail". That way I can write all the words I want but people can only read the first paragraph.
  2. Never ask questions. Tell them what I'm going to choose, & give them opportunity to disagree. That way if they don't respond usefully I can take their "non-response" as a response & proceed anyway.
  3. If I need to ask a question, use a phone call or go to their desk, or (shudder) make a meeting.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Interesting article, I agree with his analysis, not sure (yet) that I agree with his conclusions. My brain needs to think about it in the background for a bit (just the way mine works).

TLDR: we should expect conversational interfaces to be an addition to the workflows we currently use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I've noticed that whenever there's a group of people together, someone will be the leader, it doesn't matter who the group are, there will be a leader & everyone will know it.

Now that leader has a choice to be a bully, or someone who tries not to be a leader.

So yes we absolutely need to train our kids what good (inclusive) leadership looks like, so they can either follow those people, or be those people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I guess it's more likely the list was drawn up before paramedic was a thing, and then no one thought to change it. The low effort option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (5 children)

"Also car has great visibility forward and fuck all backwards, rear view mirror is like double the size of the rear window (in the reflection, not side by side)."

Yeah - this is exactly why you should reverse park. When you come out again into potentially a stream of traffic, if you reverse park, you're coming out forwards, you can see them & they can see you. If you forward park you have literally no idea what you're backing out into.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The only paid app I've got is Sound Profile. Puts the phone on quiet (except for family) at night, or silent (with auto resume to normal) in meetings. It's on my & spouse's phones.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

A long time ago I was repairing my dad's camera, I found an article describing the exact fault & a link to how to fix it, but the link was dead.

Used the wayback machine to find a text only copy of the fix (no pictures) which was enough.

Was immensely proud that someone had had the idea to invent the IA & have been recommending it ever since.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

generate electricity.

not generate electricity.

generate electricity the other way around.

not generate electricity.

generate electricity.

not generate electricity.

generate electricity the other way around.

not generate electricity...

Edit: I dumbly misread your post (energy/electricity) & thought of this, which I will leave here because it made me smile & that's a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How do we know that lots of people didn't figure this out & then got on with their lives? Because there was no way for them to tell all the other people in the world, we'll never know, or if they wrote it down it's been lost, so likewise we'll never know.

Is hard to imagine what the world was like before mass literacy and mass communication.