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by smeej 3y ago
Does it matter? Whether it's instantaneous or happens over the course of hours, that type of communication contributes nothing to anything.
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by smeej 3y ago
Maybe we need to approach this a different way to get through to you. What is the advantage of asking, "Hi, are you free?" over asking, "Hi, are you free to talk for X number of minutes about Y?" Can you think of a sin
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by smeej 3y ago
First, let's define "reason": a statement offered in explanation or justification [0] > sometimes you might ask to call them instead of typing your question. Does not explain or justify. Is not a reason. The possibility
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by smeej 3y ago
This looks great! I'm curious what your roadmap looks like too! There are so many great ways to understand our fertility, not just our periods, by tracking things like cervical mucus and basal body temperature, which can not only help
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by smeej 3y ago
If you spend your time trying to account for every mistake someone might make, you're going to waste an awful lot of your life. Most people spend only a tiny amount of time sharing their screen on a call. The people who do a lot of it
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by smeej 3y ago
My notifications are always off. When I do have time to respond, if someone has sent me an actual question, I can just send them an answer. If all they've said is "Hello," now I have to send them a message asking what they
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by smeej 3y ago
People are replying to you explaining why your reasons don't support your arguments, and explaining what the real reasons for using it differently are. There's no opportunity for discourse, but it's apparently because your id
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by smeej 3y ago
You might be gathering this by everyone's responses to every single one of your comments, but you're using this tool fundamentally differently than everyone else and than it's meant to be used, and you're doing it in a
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by smeej 3y ago
So ask them for a time they're available to do that. Don't just ping them and hope to get lucky. Even if they have time to send you a "Hi" back, that doesn't mean they have time to talk to you, so you're going
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by smeej 3y ago
Who on earth calls without confirming you meant right now? But even if it happens, take the call, decline any others that come in, and explain in 5 minutes. You've still saved everybody time.
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by smeej 3y ago
The whole point if async messaging is that you'll reply when you're available. It's built into the system itself. There's no reason to add delays on both sides so people can hope they finally overlap and can have a synch
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by smeej 3y ago
Person sharing the screen is 100% responsible for making sure such notifications are turned off, not the other person sending the message.
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by smeej 3y ago
In the U.S., the norm is to start with, "Hi, this is <name> with <place>. May I speak to <your name>?" and you're right, it's vastly better! Even when they're lying, at least I know what they'
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by smeej 3y ago
I've worked entirely remotely at companies of a variety of sizes since 2017 and didn't know people do this. Who are the people who do this? I don't mean to imply they don't exist. I genuinely want to know who they are. L
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by smeej 3y ago
If you might ask to call, just ask to call. "Hi! I have a question about X that would be easier to explain on a call. Do you have time to hop on a call for 5 mins?" is a better way to start the conversation by a factor of about 10
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by smeej 3y ago
I don't see how this solves the problem? If Country A is spending 10% of it's GDP on 10 things, Country B cannot possibly outspend it in every category as a percentage of their respective GDPs, because "percentage of GDP&quot
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by smeej 3y ago
I tried switching to an ortholinear keyboard and found it ergonomically unbearable, even after tweaking the layout. My fingers DO NOT move in straight lines when I extend them! They are significantly farther apart when extended than they ar
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by smeej 3y ago
I wonder if AIs would even decide to do things in the same way we do. Most of what humans do has come from generations of having to operate within constraints that change over time. AI gets to leapfrog those constraints for a whole differen
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by smeej 3y ago
This method actually might be feasible without leaving every passenger bewildered if they combined it with Southwest's system of queuing people in numbered order before they board. Each passenger is assigned a specific boarding order i
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by smeej 3y ago
Southwest in the U.S. does this too, and you board in the order you checked in. This gives a real advantage to people on the 2nd or later leg of their trip, because they can check in for all their flights 24 hours before the first one is sc
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by smeej 3y ago
I get what you're saying, but not all of those things are self-hosted. For example, Proton Mail isn't harder to use than Gmail. Signal isn't harder to use than any other messaging app. I've had great luck convincing even
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by smeej 3y ago
This is exactly what my sister's Oklahoma church did for us and the whole community when she passed away! It was a lovely gesture, especially to see how many people loved her. My mom makes famous chocolate chip cookies, and they even a
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by smeej 3y ago
It's an interesting question, but I don't think the models are trained to be spoken-language first like humans are. I think we all ("we" meaning "people who communicate by speaking," because I'm less sur
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by smeej 3y ago
What the author adds, if they're not also a trained/well-practiced voice author, is that their inflection exactly matches how they meant the words in the book to be spoken/understood. AI isn't going to be able to do that
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by smeej 3y ago
During covid, my mom, in her 60s, was talking to her father, in his 80s. He told her the people he was really concerned about during this pandemic were "the elderly"! She laughed and pointed out to him that his daughter was old
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by smeej 3y ago
My great-grandparents got married at 14 and 18 and supported themselves. This would have been the 1920s, but nothing was apparently scandalous about their ages. The only scandal was that she was Scotch-Irish and he was Italian!
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by smeej 3y ago
I recently had the opportunity to visit my alma mater after many years away and realized the professors are now the age I thought they were almost two decades ago when I was their student. It was wild to realize just how skewed my sense of
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by smeej 3y ago
I've wondered for a long time what things my grandchildren's generation will take for granted and not be able to live without. I'll consider it a tragedy if it ends up being the case that they can't imagine having grown
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by smeej 3y ago
Google Glass still stands out as the only thing I can ever remember encountering that made me think, "Wow, that's even too dorky for me." I dislike Apple's version for other reasons, but for something to out-dork me real
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by smeej 3y ago
Just because I can't stop a ship from sinking, it doesn't mean there's no point to trying to get off of it and encourage others I might reach to do the same.

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