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The AS400/OS400-like interfaces always seem like they should be more popular super-user interfaces. They seem best at navigating tree-like data but most OS level interfaces feel tr…

The recent movie Perfect Days (2023) seems to reflect this as well. From wikipedia: "[Director Wim] Wenders was invited to Tokyo by Koji Yanai to observe the Tokyo Toilet Project, …

Is there a word/map for the transit accessibility for each point (1m^2?) on the map and drawing that? (maybe an integral of the isochrone?) E.g. pick a point on a map, sum the area…

The Heyser spiral or Heyser corkscrew seems to be a common name for this type of plot. https://www.google.com/search?q=heyser+spiral And it connects circles, e/euler's formula, and…

Wonderful, ISO-128 is exactly it and the wiki explains it perfectly. This seems like a fantastic sizing for pen sets. The 0.10, 0.13, 0.18, 0.25, 0.35, 0.50, 0.70, 1.0, 1.4, and 2.…

In another comment you mentioned easy scaling in a photocopier. And cylinder714 linked to a description of iso-paper that mentions an ISO (ISO 9175-1) for pens. Is there a term or …

Are there fields (architects, engineers?) that take advantage of the the technical pen scaling? Or scanning software that is aware of the pen/paper ratios? This seems like a great …

I'm curious about this too. Every once in a while I try going through the editor setups in this chart - https://github.com/rainbyte/haskell-ide-chart . But I run into lots of frict…

Why did the gig economy pick up tipping culture? Why did Instacart need to? I've read about why tipping exists in the restaurant industry and what happens to businesses that try to…

I enjoy BTT bunches and use a non-apple keyboard/mouse. Rebinding the f1-f4 keys to tab navigation (previous, next, close tab, new tab) works well. Rebinding extra mouse buttons to…

The phenomenon of adding lanes not reducing congestion is generally a reference to the "Downs-Thomson Paradox"( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downs–Thomson_paradox ) or "Triple Conv…