Ironically it’s because they paid very expensive artists.

The windows 8 logo was done by Paula Scher of Pentagram, one of the most exclusive and expensive graphic design firms.

Meeting with Microsoft early in the development process, Pentagram asked: “Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?”

Windows - https://www.pentagram.com/work/windows/story

The most delicious museum.

IIRC they have an entire floor dedicated to variants of the scream.

They really tried to hype an L as a W

Entry level positions to Gregg’s (fast food sausage roll chain) require 1000 word personal statements as part of online applications

Because people are too poor to purchase the extra output, assuming that the AI has actually lead to better productivity.

When there isn’t enough aggregate demand to absorb extra output from productivity gains, firms will opt to increase profits by reduce their costs by cutting back on spending instead.

Actually, what he meant was a seas-fire, hence the bombing of a coastal city /s

Actually, it seems that even killing the hostage is fair game.

Microsoft Copilot Tells User Suicide Is an Option - https://futurism.com/the-byte/microsoft-copilot-user-suicide

Millennials caught the tail end of physical 3rd spaces, but experienced the golden age of digital third spaces. The internet until the mid 2000s was way more decentralised and chaotic.

Instead of anonymous chatrooms and forums as digital 3rd spaces, Zoomers used less accessible proprietary options such as Discord or Twitch instead.

Google has already patented a method to use AI to fully rewrite and redesign your website if its algorithms decide it’s not engaging enough.

Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website - https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website/

Unless you forced everyone to install standardized mailboxes

This seems to be the exact direction China is going in.

In major cities, there are increasingly more smart mailbox/parcel pickup points in apartments and central areas. These aren’t “forced,” but so many essential services are locked behind these private tech platforms.

Originally designed for food delivery drop offs, but you can use them as a mailbox as well.

pandoc. Converts markdown to html, latex, pdf, and Word.

It serves as the backend behind basically every program that support some kind of rendering of markdown, e.g. quarto, ipython notebooks.

Pandoc - Pandoc User’s Guide - https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html

AI: Actually Indians

The billionaire is the economic crisis

The Gen Z stare is simply the rational response in dealing with customer facing situations where either 1. the customer is problematic, or 2. if the worker genuinely doesn’t know what what to do.

Responding or engaging to problematic customers (racist, homophobic, misogynistic) can only lead to conflict, reprimand, or lawsuits.

Responding with inaccurate information or simply saying leads to conflict, reprimand, or poor reviews.

Both have worsened as people have become more polarised, and management cuts funding and hours for training.

can u get pergnate from swallowing???

I don’t see any keyboard where the “1” and “0” are right next to each other.

Sorry, had to

Some Japanese people swear by adding some chocolate to curry.

After trying it, they’re not wrong.

Maths feels like a first class citizen in latex. The syntax is ugly, but there is some logic through the legacy jank.

Typst makes fundamental design decisions that render it unsuitable beyond extremely simply equations. In LaTeX, curly braces are nearly always reserved for enclosing arguments, to avoid confusion with actual brackets.

Typst uses normal brackets for both its scripting and actual maths.

For example, \frac{n(n+1)}{2} in latex turns into (n(n + 1)) / 2 in typst. The typst code is incredibly unclear - the first set of brackets with the slash together actually form the fraction operator, so neither end up visible.

You can see how this would start to struggle even with high school level maths, with bracketed terms and possibly fractional terms in exponents, integrals, etc.

For example, it is very difficult for me to work out the difference between the following three in typst. That is specifically not what you want from a typesetting language.

1/2(x + y)
1/x(x + y)
1/2^x(x + y)

LaTeX ignores whitespace, so you can just use a formatter to space out your code and ensure the curly braces. This is not even an option in typst, which uses the space as an escape character.

Huh? Both hover to focus and click button in background work in macOS, though hover to focus usually requires an external application. There used to be a focus follows mouse that you could enable via a terminal command, but Apple removed it.

The top menu bar kind of seems to be more of a result of historical happenstance, and maybe some different philosophies regarding Fitts law.

Bill Atkinson, who designed the UX for the Apple Lisa recounts that part of the decision was to avoid the problem of menu items being possibly obscured. If the window of some application is near the bottom or partially off the desktop, the menu bar of individual windows can become obscured and inaccessible.

Historically the menu bar would’ve been easier for normal people to learn due to consistency, and also helped with limited screen estate.

Memories of Lisa - CHM - https://computerhistory.org/blog/memories-of-lisa/

Kaomoji render correctly across all platforms, whereas emojis looks different across different vendors.

There’s even been proper academic research done confirming the discrepancy.

Emoji Face Renderings: Exploring the Role Emoji Platform Differences have on Emotional Interpretation | Journal of Nonverbal Behavior | Springer Nature Link - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10919-019-00330-1