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the most user friendly software is the one they don't notice had work put into it, no sharp corners, rough finish, weird edges. no marks or imperfections, you're putting in all of the effort to make the thing simple.
and I wonder how much that has warped everything
well, saying queer instead of the acronyms is really more a form of compression,,,
💭lossy compression, like ambiguity in natural language, can be an expressive tool in its own right.....
getting fired for home rolling filesystem compression that is guaranteed to retrieve at least 99.7% of the file's vibe on read
In fairness, that's kind of the way of a modern economy. Driving requires knowing the law, and barely anything about cars themselves. Cooking requires almost no knowledge of where the ingredients came from, beyond "the store," and delivery makes that even more abstract.
I suspect that we worry about the abstractions when we live through erecting them, and the world goes on fine either way.
That said, unlike food and cars, software is currently in a situation where we have more abstractions hiding how things work, but no regulation keeping things safe.
