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Minimizing human interaction is a feature not a bug.

I like to point people toward ESR’s “how to ask questions the smart way” [0] to new people as it takes some work to learn that questions are about investigations and collaboration, not tasking.

[0] https://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

I like to go straight to #4 and skip the phone call or face to face.

Oddly, I find the search in Slack, Teams, and Discord to be so horrible I don’t create any “knowledge there.” It’s like trying to write a paper on the telephone.

Anyone putting long form stuff into an IM system is taking the way of pain.

I’ve found that a two-prong approach works best.

Detail in the email, expect people to read it or fail. And include a reference to a wiki or some more detailed version that can be collaborated on and extended.

So the email isn’t the primary source, the wiki is (really some markdown in git). But the email is the thing that people organize and find over time.

This doesn’t happen enough to me that I consider it.

> that talking to people is almost always the better choice when you get tempted to write a long reply.

I’ve heard this “conclusion” from many people over my career. I disagree as a general rule as much of my work is scientific and technical and long replies are more useful than talking as having things written down makes things reproducible and shareable.

I think long emails are bad ways to deliberate or debate or to collaboratively create. But they are great for communicating complex ideas to variable size audiences (ie, one person forwards to their team or files things off for later reference). Even better when accompanied to a link to a web version that can be revised with additional info later.

This really helps due to the async nature. Getting on the phone with someone and talking through an idea with them assumes both parties have time to do that. And is a silly suggestion when 5 people need to read something.

I find it more efficient to get a thoughtfully crafted email than a phone call that still will need to be followed up with an email to confirm all parties understand.

My, probably wrong, take is that the “talk, don’t write” people is based on their inability to logically think through, structure, and communicate their ideas and, instead, would rather connect directly and hope the solution emerges from a conversation.

It’s quite settled and there is precedent that would answer who is responsible and to what amount. There’s not a situation where only the dog is responsible.

Even if you fill in the preparer, the IRS still holds you responsible. For interest, penalties, and potential crimes.

What physical attributes did you use.

When it comes to funny or successful female comedians, I don’t think Amy Shumer would be in the top 7.

Also, maybe you’re hitting an equity filter that purposely doesn’t compare race, sex, weight, etc. Recently chatgpt said it couldn’t estimate the race and age of a person in a photo because it would violate ethical norms. The photo was of me and then I tried again with a friend of mine.

Or if you confused people and made them make mistakes.

Or exploited some addiction.

Maybe hurricane care insurance would have a high CTR even though it sucks. Maybe impulse purchases would have high CTR.

People choose to do lots of anti-user things (eg, sugar sodas and diabetes, cigarettes, 9 year car loans at 14%, etc). Enabling bad things is a bad thing.

Do you work in ads? In what world is this true?

Maybe if I searched “rav4 vs”

Cynically, this seems like the blargh Google says about how ads make our lives better. I think that’s BS and think ads are noise I have to push through to do whatever I’m trying to do.

Think about 20 years ago. People didn’t learn about air fryers by browsing the walmart aisle.

Develop demand outside of amazon and people will deep link and google into your product page.

Amazon search sucks and if your product is good you don’t need it.

Since it’s work communications, consent was already given.

When you join a company, you typically sign an agreement that talks about how the company owns all your output. Thumbs upping a Teams message is work output and they own it.

Every email sent and received. Every keystroke. Etc etc etc.

If you don’t want your employer to log and sell it, start your own company. Or use a personal device. I do the latter.

I’d say rarely in the sense that out of the 500 times (not really that much over 30 years) I’ve built similar things, I got UX mockups this detailed maybe 10% pf the time.

I was wondering the same thing. I’ve wished for just a big blob of the web to grep and regex through, but I don’t think this is that much easier than using duckduckgo or even google.

More importantly, I’ve started my own little blacklist of people and site I just ignore.

There’s people at work whose messages get completely ignored after too many times of posting verbose, useless, ai slop.

It’s not my problem because I can safely skip ai slop without fomo.

It’s extremely rare that someone smart with something smart to say produces this crap.

Like someone said upthread if the author isn’t willing to spend time writing cogently then I don’t think it’s worth my time to try to parse it.

No. It’s not economical for produce to have backup generators. Better to just move produce or let it go.

Those results are personalized based on your marketing history and surveillance capitalism.

So it really is just a reflection of your proclivities than anything societal.

> Fundamentally, Western culture objectifies women (for profit) whereas other cultures don't necessarily do that

I don’t know if this is true. I’m fairly certain that all cultures have prostitutes. And porn is more a function of technology and income rather than geography. Lots of exploitation of women in Asia, Africa, and other non-Western cultures.

Of course, this is something that all culture need to work on improving. But understanding reality is a big step to stopping or reducing this objectification.

People can be wrong about one thing and right about other things.

It’s a penalty.

Just years in prison, it’s not about restoration, it’s about punishment.

Why do yo think the US should be classified as a developing nation?

There’s a definition independent from 1st/2nd/3rd world [0] and the US’ income seems to clearly make it developed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country

It works as well as it ever did. Or the same level of not working.

This type of BS wouldn’t make me psychologically secure. It would make me afraid because I can’t trust what leadership says.

I don’t buy that he cares.

Patreon is profitable. He doesn’t have to fire anyone to continue operations. He just wants more money.

If he cared about them as beautiful people, he wouldn’t fire them.

It’s one thing if you’re bleeding cash and have to cut. Another when you discover a cheaper way to do things and don’t want to retrain and grow in new ways where you’d need people.

Patreon CEO is full of horse apples.

I had a prius and every time I started it up, it would display a big warning prompt that blocked out the rear view camera. So you had to tap ok before backing up. Every time.

My current car shows this once per driver. I always thought toyota engineers were stupid for designing such a system.

I wonder if these things are designed by people who do not drive. So they just implement to spec without thinking through whether the change produces the desired impact.

For me it was 70k. And it wasn’t the breaking. It was the poor engineering that caused the break.