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Did AWS hide her keys, too? This story makes no sense even in block heater Alaska.

by justusethefob 5y ago

bombcar 5y ago
Apparently based on another comment the app fails silently. Which is wonderful design.
- Consultant32452 5y ago
  It's amazing to me that people think they're adding something to the conversation by posting the most banal response. "Yes, the dumb broad didn't think to walk outside and turn the car on! I shall right this wrong with my clever internet post! Behold my intelligence!"
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  - bombcar 5y ago
    To be fair if someone was using the “app didn’t work” excuse multiple times, suspicion could be raised. But for a one off occurrence? Why would you assume a car company knows what they’re doing over the person telling the story? It’s silly.
    - Consultant32452 5y ago
      There is a certain personality type common among midwits who are smart enough to think of the most obvious workaround/solution/exception but not smart enough to realize that when people communicate, especially online, they usually choose brevity over exactness. Like if I say "Humans have two feet" some midwit will come along with an article or anecdote about a person who was born without two feet. And if I say the multi-hour outage of AWS made my friend minutes late because of her car warmer, what is going through the mind of a person who offers the solution "Did she try walking to the car and turning it on manually?" These are the kinds of people that if you met them in real life you'd quickly distance yourself from them.
      - TMWNN 5y ago
        >Like if I say "Humans have two feet" some midwit will come along with an article or anecdote about a person who was born without two feet. It's autism. One of the symptoms of autism is [the inability to recognize sarcasm](http://www.healthcentral.com/autism/c/1443/162610/autism-sarcasm/ http://www.healthcentral.com/autism/c/1443/162610/autism-sar...) without the help of idiotic, illiterate signals like "/s". Your example has the same cause; people who are unable to understand nuance and social cues, whether in real life or in written form.

Did AWS hide her keys, too? This story makes no sense even in block heater Alaska.

bombcar 5y ago

Apparently based on another comment the app fails silently. Which is wonderful design.

Consultant32452 5y ago
It's amazing to me that people think they're adding something to the conversation by posting the most banal response. "Yes, the dumb broad didn't think to walk outside and turn the car on! I shall right this wrong with my clever internet post! Behold my intelligence!"
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- bombcar 5y ago
  To be fair if someone was using the “app didn’t work” excuse multiple times, suspicion could be raised. But for a one off occurrence? Why would you assume a car company knows what they’re doing over the person telling the story? It’s silly.
  - Consultant32452 5y ago
    There is a certain personality type common among midwits who are smart enough to think of the most obvious workaround/solution/exception but not smart enough to realize that when people communicate, especially online, they usually choose brevity over exactness. Like if I say "Humans have two feet" some midwit will come along with an article or anecdote about a person who was born without two feet. And if I say the multi-hour outage of AWS made my friend minutes late because of her car warmer, what is going through the mind of a person who offers the solution "Did she try walking to the car and turning it on manually?" These are the kinds of people that if you met them in real life you'd quickly distance yourself from them.
    - TMWNN 5y ago
      >Like if I say "Humans have two feet" some midwit will come along with an article or anecdote about a person who was born without two feet. It's autism. One of the symptoms of autism is [the inability to recognize sarcasm](http://www.healthcentral.com/autism/c/1443/162610/autism-sarcasm/ http://www.healthcentral.com/autism/c/1443/162610/autism-sar...) without the help of idiotic, illiterate signals like "/s". Your example has the same cause; people who are unable to understand nuance and social cues, whether in real life or in written form.