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sam henri gold

design is fun because you’ll make a largely inconsequential change one day and the outcome will be either be “it comes and goes like a passing fart” or “someone writes 1000 words about what it means for how we interact with our environment” and no in between theatlantic.com/technology/arc

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nick splendorr ✨🏳️‍⚧️

@samhenrigold More and more, I sympathize with people who hate having their tools change in an unpleasant(and unasked-for) way. Designing basic tools shouldn’t be like this! None of the software I got good at using 10 years ago still exists in a similar or functional capacity! it doesn’t feel good to one day wake up and realize somebody, somewhere, has decided you can’t do that thing you rely on anymore :[

Konrad Kołakowski

@samhenrigold @ryanashcraft Actually, why the hell, in 2024 we should still have calculators as "simulators" of those old standalone electronic calculation machines from 1970s? I never really understood or appreciate all those C, CE, MC, M+, M- buttons... Why not just type (67+5)*45 and just get a result? With all the modern text editing on hand?

Jaanus Kase

@samhenrigold they don’t mention that if they just long press Backspace in Calculator, it functions as the C that they want

Granted, it’s not discoverable

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