I think there's a spectrum of Computer Numerically...

I think there's a spectrum of Computer Numerically Controlled happiness. On the extreme negative end is fixing a broken thermoplastic extruder, and on the extreme positive end is connecting together midi dingbats and pressing buttons.

Like 27 Mar 2023 at 20:30 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

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mcc

@aeva it seems like somewhere in the dead middle must be "purchasing a piece of ordinary software, installing it on an ordinary computer, and running it" and i'm not sure if it's more interesting to think of the middle experience as a happy or unhappy one

27 Mar 2023 at 20:41 | Open on mastodon.social

aeva

@mcc I think the middle experience is one where software behaves exactly as it was supposed to, and contained no behavior that could either delight or sadden the person operating it. If such a piece of perfectly neutral software exists, it may not be possible to directly observe it.

27 Mar 2023 at 21:28 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

0xC0DEC0DE07E8

@aeva @mcc “All happy [software users] are alike; each unhappy [computer user] is unhappy in its own way.”

27 Mar 2023 at 21:44 | Open on hachyderm.io

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