It's not about age. It's about ability.

A lot of the people I build web pages for are poorly educated. The text we use for web is written for people with an eighth-grade education. Print material is fifth-grade.

People in the SV bubble can't imagine that there are tens of millions of people in America who cannot understand how an SPA works.

These people are invisible, even as they ladle out the food in the Google cafeteria, and polish the chrome in the Meta lobby.

It's like how a lot of people these days reach for an electric drill/driver for even the most simple projects like tightening a screw. It never occurs to them to use a screwdriver, or even a butter knife.

"…Age, Disability…"

You're going to be in for a rude awakening in 20 years when you're involuntarily a member of the groups you disdain.

Sounds like Seattle in the 2000's.

As soon as one of the locals found out you're not from there, you get the "Seattle Freeze."

Fortunately, I read about it in a book before I moved there, so I knew it when I recognized it. But that didn't make it any less uncomfortable.

I guess with SEA filled with expat tech people these days, it's either gotten much better or much worse.

You can't make the desk clerk in a ghetto cell phone store care.

I say this speaking as someone who has a T-Mobile account under the name George Washington with a Valley Forge, Pennsylvania address.

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You must live in Monaco.

Wikipedia has the United States #80.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

See also: Picture At Last!

See also: System Essentially Contrary to the American Method

I have to fill in a time sheet, but I never ever clock in and out.

If someone clocks in and out, they don't need a timesheet. It's automatically recorded.

To ask exempt employees to clock in and out demonstrates that management doesn't trust its employees, which is a failure on the part of hiring/management, not the workers.

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Because people are lazy, or new, or for some other reason turned to asking questions of strangers in a public forum rather than making the small effort to look for the solutions on their own.

It's the same reason that Let Me Google That For You was invented.

I was always in the camp that believed that the keyboard was always faster than mouse for complex workflows.

Then a couple of weeks ago I spent most of a day in a hospital emergency room with someone, and couldn't believe the way those E.R. nurses fly through the menus and options in Epic using just a mouse.

I'm now closer to believing that "muscle memory is muscle memory." But I suspect it only works if the windows appear in the exact same place all the time.

That's called mob rule. We don't act like cavemen anymore. We build entire civilizations to prevent that sort of thing. You may have read in a history book once "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

The word "all" is important.

I really feel like this used to be the default. That's how I always did it in macOS going back to the early 2000's.

Only in the last two versions or so did I notice it was no longer the default. I'm glad to see here that I can now re-enable it.

Edit: I see that I do have it enabled. But for some reason there are a lot of programs where it doesn't seem to work anymore, no matter what the settings. Off the top of my head: Half the Adobe programs I use for work.

That's why Usenet is full of posts reading "RTFM."

For some reason, instead of telling people to do that, which solves the problem, we just stopped writing manuals altogether.

You should see a doctor about that.

a lot of people genuinely don’t have the memory capabilities to remember the birthdays of various people

Because they don't try.

30 years ago, it wasn't weird to have 30, 40, even 50 phone numbers memorized. Ask anyone who was alive then. Now people just push the icon for the person they want, allowing their brains to get lazy.

Your brain: Use it or lose it.

I already have that. It's called a memory. Came free with my brain.