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I think it's amusing that both the "don't do" and "do this" examples are exactly the same length and time investment for both parties. I agree with the author,

by Cd00d 6y ago

I think it's amusing that both the "don't do" and "do this" examples are exactly the same length and time investment for both parties. I agree with the author, but it does mildly undermine the point.

FabHK 6y ago
No. For the sender, yeah, time and effort is the same (or even less, as it saves hitting carriage return/newline once), which makes it more infuriating. Because for the recipient there is an extra latency of several seconds after the useless "hi" message during which he cannot sensibly continue with his current task (switching cost), but cannot quickly resolve the interrupt either, because it is unclear what the issue is.