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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Insightful. I was commenting about a VIP wrt a power dialog on a mobile device and posited that the reason they didn't understand a thing must be that they don't read before dismissing it. I would even say that's half of 1% of their attention and that makes complete sense. The other 99.5% is focused on the things they consider more important.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

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

Hopefully they’re really good at bringing money into the company, because their ability to save labor money for the company is abysmal.

I was asked to drive 80m to reboot a device when I'd said the previous day that rebooting would fix it (it was a phone; there's almost no real troubleshooting on the platform). I kept quiet about how financially irresponsible the request was. When I got there, the phone was already turned off for other reasons. At least I got to listen to podcasts while I drove there and back.

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

And hopefully you got paid for mileage...

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

Except that 80 metres is only a few carlengths . . .

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

I read it as miles. If some_guy meant meters, then that would add such a new level of comedy to it hahaha

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

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. 😅

[–] sukhmel 2 points 6 months ago

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