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This is an incredible collection. Thank you so much for keeping it
I still want to write some software to support community-curated lists of related links. It would include whatever I'm currently posting as "related"* plus fabulous contributions like cloudier's above. * https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
(originally posted to the wrong article, LOL) I love these little measures of attention to detail. You can tell when a craftsman really thought about their work, vs. when a mere implementer stops once the design is shippable and the requirements are met. Similar to the "Cheese in the wrong place" controversy over the Google burger emoji[1]. 1: https://www.elitedaily.com/p/googles-burger-emoji-shows-chee...
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Some scissors are more ambidextrous than others. If the blades are curved towards each other enough then you may not need sideways pressure from your thumb and fingers, and even sideways pressure in the wrong direction may not matter. I have some scissors like this and some not. Alternatively, it's possible to apply the sideways pressure in the opposite direction to the "natural" one, and thereby use scissors with th…
> If the blades are curved towards each other enough then you may not need sideways pressure from your thumb and fingers I've never heard of nor seen scissors with blades curved towards each other and I don't see why they ever would be anything but straight in that dimension.
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Also for turtles. This might be the originator of the format? It's the first I was aware of, anyway. https://poison-liker.tumblr.com/post/153488305349/official-r...
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I wonder what its like making a proposal to the unicode consortium. I watch a lot of c-span and I assume its like that.
https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html
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Right hander with right handed scissors, you pull the lower loop toward yourself and push the upper loop away, this pushes the blades into each other. If you can use the "wrong-handed" scissors, you can reverse the pull/push and get the blades together, but it feels weird/unnatural. It does work, though.
I don't see how you reverse the pull and push. It's just the blades that are different, not the open/close mechanism. You squeeze to close and unsqueeze(?) to open. The only difference is which side of the visible blade the cut is.
A rare case where Apple design showed laziness!
It’s an icon. A representation of the actual thing. It does not have to conform to actual physical requirements. It’s neat I guess, but isn’t really a productive pursuit.
> Unlike the real world tool it represents, the emoji’s job is to convey the idea, especially at small sizes. It doesn’t need to be able to swing or cut things. Nevertheless, let’s judge them on that irrelevant criterion.
I've never really understood (said like I've spent much time thinking about it!) why wrong-handed scissors are so difficult/impossible to use. We must angle them slightly, sub-consciously, w.r.t. our standing vertical (out of the plane projected forward from our figure)?
Funnily enough, you can also see well if you cut with right-handed scissors on your left side, but with the paper held above your eye-line.
That's the first time I've heard that there are left- and right-handed scissors. Is there actually a noticeable difference in usage?
You're going to love this then: There are left-handed bread knifes, and I want one. Bread knifes have a ever so slight slant to the cutting surface, to ensure that it actually goes straight through the bread. Without it the bottom of the slice will be a little more narrow, or thicker, I can't remember. Anyway, if your left handed the cut goes into the bread at an angle and the bottom get much wider than the top. This…