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> "thank you but not interested in this micro efficiency" smile I've seen a friend press caps lock, type a letter and press caps again to type capital letters.

> "thank you but not interested in this micro efficiency" smile I've seen a friend press caps lock, type a letter and press caps again to type capital letters. That's the smile I got when I introduced them the shift key. Also the smile my niece had when the car mechanic was explaining to him how he could spare some gas money by up-shifting early. Also the smile I had when my wife was giving me tips on how to plan meetings better. Humans suck :)

blunte 5y ago
When we follow the good suggestion, we don't suck at all. That's how humans should work. It's when we reject the wise advice because... because we're stubborn?... that is when it sucks. The thing about this url search is that they type the full url, sometimes even with the "http" bit (rarely https, but I digress), into the search field. then they get the results page a second or two later, and then _maybe_ they click the correct result if they didn't get mislead by some crappy SEO magic. That's a lot of extra work just to get to hopefully arrive at the same page they would have arrived at had they typed that url into the address field.
PeterisP 5y ago
It's the response of "I don't care about this thing, and I don't care about improving it, so please stop making me waste my attention on the thing I don't care about." In many people nowadays the scarce resource is not time or even money, but attention; and not every aspect in your life is worth your attention to try and improve it, that's premature optimization, wasting effort on improving something that ultimately is insignificant.
OJFord 5y ago
> Also the smile my niece had when the car mechanic was explaining to him how he could Apologies if it was just a typo, but in case English is a second/nth language just FYI that your 'niece' is your brother or sister's daughter; I think you mean 'nephew' (brother or sister's son). (And, er, if a niece 'identifies' as 'he/him', then I would assume (but who am I to tell them etc.) they would also identify as a son and a nephew thenceforward.)
- egeozcan 5y ago
  Nephew it is, then! Thanks for the correction!
mavhc 5y ago
Everyone does the caps lock thing now, I blame phones, but they must know about Shift to type!"£$%^&*() etc, surely.
- jlokier 5y ago
  Shift on a keyboard is different from shift on phones. On a keyboard you hold two keys down at the same time; on a phone you don't. This is why people use Caps Lock for typing capital letters, so they can press one key at a time.

blunte 5y ago

When we follow the good suggestion, we don't suck at all. That's how humans should work. It's when we reject the wise advice because... because we're stubborn?... that is when it sucks. The thing about this url search is that they type the full url, sometimes even with the "http" bit (rarely https, but I digress), into the search field. then they get the results page a second or two later, and then _maybe_ they click the correct result if they didn't get mislead by some crappy SEO magic. That's a lot of extra work just to get to hopefully arrive at the same page they would have arrived at had they typed that url into the address field.

PeterisP 5y ago

It's the response of "I don't care about this thing, and I don't care about improving it, so please stop making me waste my attention on the thing I don't care about." In many people nowadays the scarce resource is not time or even money, but attention; and not every aspect in your life is worth your attention to try and improve it, that's premature optimization, wasting effort on improving something that ultimately is insignificant.

OJFord 5y ago

> Also the smile my niece had when the car mechanic was explaining to him how he could Apologies if it was just a typo, but in case English is a second/nth language just FYI that your 'niece' is your brother or sister's daughter; I think you mean 'nephew' (brother or sister's son). (And, er, if a niece 'identifies' as 'he/him', then I would assume (but who am I to tell them etc.) they would also identify as a son and a nephew thenceforward.)

egeozcan 5y ago
Nephew it is, then! Thanks for the correction!

mavhc 5y ago

Everyone does the caps lock thing now, I blame phones, but they must know about Shift to type!"£$%^&*() etc, surely.

jlokier 5y ago
Shift on a keyboard is different from shift on phones. On a keyboard you hold two keys down at the same time; on a phone you don't. This is why people use Caps Lock for typing capital letters, so they can press one key at a time.