Dictionaries are tough, I know.

Hahaha, damn, nice.

I like describing behaviours as effective or ineffective. “Bad” is tying judgment to it.

Being direct is generally more effective than passive/aggressive, if one’s intent is to build on a relationship, but passive/aggressive may fit the bill if you no longer give a shit and want to simply get your digs in before leaving (say a shitty boss).

I think the first example works better by leaving off the “when are you leaving” question.

But it’s still fits the definition.

In the defense of end users, they got stuff to do and can’t be bothered to take the time which will make no obvious difference to what they need to do.

The average person can’t even describe how a toaster works, let alone anything even slightly more complicated.

And these users have skillets skill sets in other areas - I don’t expect an accountant to know how a computer works, any more than they expect me to understand accountancy or finance.

So, let me get this straight - you’re saying using command line to play video instead of a gui?

Tell me, how does one do this on a TV? On an iPad? Phone?

Your excitement for command line belies an experience of nothing but GUI, so it’s something of a novelty to use command line.

Dude, get ahold of yourself. I probably wrote more command line stuff before you were born than you’ve ever thought of - I’m not going backwards.

(As a clue, wrote my first Fortran program before PC’s were even a thought at IBM).

Fuck cli except for managing systems. Even then quite often gui is faster by orders of magnitude, mostly to kickoff scripts to do what I need. GUI was a godsend, and Xerox Parc’s efforts created a common GUI language for us, thankfully was embraced. I refuse to go backwards.

And forcibly teach non-technical people to use CLI?

You are exactly the type of person that Saturday Night Live lampooned decades ago.

Which is exactly why he wants to capture the thoughts.

Not everyone is like you, don’t assume they approach the shower the way you do.

I’ve solved long-standing technical work problems in the shower.

So what? Not changing clocks is the bigger issue, and I’m someone that very much prefers DST through the winter, as it gives me more sunlight after the typical work day.

But I’d settle for a single, non-switching time.

Plus I’m sure if a state decided to go permanent DST, the Fed would have a hard time forcing the issue, as suddenly the Interstate clause would get challenged in the Supreme Court, and the Fed wants to avoid that at all costs.

It was probably designed like that because line printers were the thing in the early days of Windows.