assuming you are correct, what if someone is exposed to both asbestos and sawdust? And what if that person is also a smoker? And now that person also lives in a house with high radon exposure.
correct. An additional chance of 13% to get cancer is a lot, because the chances are already quite high. Trying to downplay the risks of asbestos isn't helping.
3. Call extra attention if you're asking a question, and make it easy to respond to.
Example:
>>>> Q: About the latest quote from the vendor, do you think we should
A) Negotiate and close it as-is. (We'll need to open another one immediately.)
OR
B) Batch it with the new customer requirements that just came in.
4. Keep each email to 1 purpose. Many emails > 1 email.
5. If you feel the urge to write a lengthy email, don't. Have a meeting instead.
6. Pretend you're writing an X (formerly known as a tweet) or an HN title. Keep removing words until the message cannot be made simpler. Adjectives, adverbs, and articles are the enemies of clarity.
7. If the message is succinct, put it all in the subject line followed by "<EOM>".
8. Don't have non-factual discussions over email. Have a meeting instead.
9. Email is subject to discovery. Never send anything that can be used against the company or you.
If I have one I can't help but write, I'll add in a 1 line "TLDR" or "Executive Summary" at the top, then have details below. I do spend some effort to be funny or at least amusing in the long writing. Not sure how successful that effort is.
Even better is when someone writes a "help please" email that is long and has the answer to their problem in the original email (in a log message or something) and then it gets escalated and ends up with 50 emails "adding thus and so department/person" and then I get it, and read the first message, and can answer the problem.
- Corporate firewalls don’t like people visiting .so Somalia URLs. Wouldn’t have this problem with .com. We had to fight hard for domain reputation.
- Back in the day communication between us, our registrar, a middleman registrar in Germany, and SomaliNIC wasn’t too good. We weren’t notified of a takedown report and got DNS blocked by a bunch of ISPs offline for 8 hours. Even figuring out what happened on that one was baffling.
I find the name 'plane' itself curious. As an upcoming product you make yourself quite hard to find in search engines (though "plane issue tracker" gives plane.so as first result in DDG).
For potentially confused people out there: some countries/musical traditions use a do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti(si) scale, rather than do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si or a-b-c-d-e-f-g.
This has the interesting side effect that the word solfege (sol-fa) makes little sense.
Apple e.g. Even when 2fa is activated, and no successful login happened, they will deactivate my account and force me to change my password :/. I had to change my email that I use to login to Apple.
Apple's system caused me more pain in under 1 second than anything I've experienced in the past. That's on me, of course, for using so much of their hardware and software. But still frustrating.
What happened? I logged into an Apple service from the browser on my work computer. I should have known better, I get captchas everywhere when coming from our corporate network, so it's clearly on someone's shitlist. Well, even though my authentication was successful, including the verify-pin-on-device-you-already-own part, Apple said "this is a suspicious connection" and immediately logged out every last device, invalidated all sessions, invalidated the password so I had to change it. I was still feeling the pain from that for a week or more afterwards.
And now I have a simpler Apple password than the XKCD-style one I had been using, because I got tired of typing it in over-and-over-and-over-and-over.
Is there no solution to this pain that is actually suggested (designed) by Apple? I would expect there is /something/ that they can do for you for a small, recurring fee.
Apple are the worst UI company in the world bar none.
Sum up the total amount of utterly needless pain and wanton destruction of the time of their customers and nothing comes close in the wide field of "computing". Yet they have the "Good ui" reputation, which is insane.
When people got shocked by this 15 years ago I used to ask them: "Do you know /anyone/ who owns an iPod? Think of them, three names. Now of those three do you know anyone who has not had their music collection deleted by apple software against their wishes? Among those three? No? Anyone at all?"
Nowadays there isn't one example that sabotaged literally every user, instead there a many and it has become which subset of the Apple customer smashes got you? Ask your friends. Note the solution to pay apple more.
Apple are the shiny, vicious trap. Google are less shiny so it is impossible to sustain the illusion that they do "good ui." Microsoft haha. And from there Apple have consistently led the way in the race to the bottom of customer abuse - you've got nowhere else to go! You can't survive the modern world without this stuff! But sure, Facebook, Microsoft, Google are really quick to match and desperate to find niches in which they can lead and Apple copy.
But it's sold out already.