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A test pilot from the 2874th Test Squadron runs through a cockpit check before taking an F-111 aircraft on a night test flight, 1990

USAF B-36 crew at Arctic base, c.1950s

I dream of a new world. User interfaces that entirely remove the concept of resizing. Desktop monitors are all fixed 3:2 aspect ratios and available in one fixed physical ANSI-standard size. Windows cannot be resized by the user, the size is prescribed by the program at compile time -- this way, WYSADTIWYG: What you see at design time is what you get. You can design interfaces freely, with great liberty knowing that they will never be resized, as if it is a physical object like a piece of paper. No phones or iPads to design for and they do not exist. Keyboards have dedicated F1-F24 function keys (tilted forward). Touchscreens are an instant impossibility. No animation API in the operating system. Standardized action buttons on the keyboard (CONFIRM/REJECT). Nothing floats, everything is anchored to the window frame. Input latency is sub-millisecond. UI shows the state of important metrics and program features at all times, visible and never hidden. Nothing slides. Nothing moves. No emojis, only ascii-128 (no utf-8). Scrolling ok with scroll bar visible at all times. There is no concept of notifications. Computer state in a dedicated area on the monitor, always visible, cannot be hidden. No HDR in UI. No markdown.

First they erased borders. No one said anything. Then they removed highlights and shadows. Fine. Flat colors everywhere, nothing stands out. Ok. Tiny bit of rounding of corners. How do I resize the window? Grab handles? More rounding. Oii... Scrollbars hidden. Okkk. More rounding, but now offensive. Let's hide everything behind hamburgers Infinite scroll. Doom optimized. Everything started animating. Hmm.... Wait...why are all buttons purple? WTF? More rounding. Cookie popups Why is everything orange-purple? Holyshit...everythings moving. Blur and transparency added. Can't read shit. Rounding off is no longer possible, it's maxed out. LIQUID ASS Human Machine Interface is rolling in its grave Everything is floating. Pills. Why is the laptop warm, must be nothing, psh... Sales chat popups (w/ low IQ asmr sound effects) Pills fucking everywhere. Tabs are search bars, nope jk. <---- we are here I am going a new planet, this one is FUBAR. You guys have fun!

Stop all UI/UX development until we find out what the fuck is going on.

> update firefox > active tabs now look like search fields > inactive tabs look like nothing i am crashing out

Cybernetics goes maximally hard.

this is what happens when nerds with taste run the company sony hired a guy because he wrote them a letter explaining why their tape recorder sucked. he eventually became president and built the team that made sony look like sony incredible lore

I wish data centers looked like this today. Xerox Sigma 9 mainframe system, 1970.

Legibility in music engraving. I recently handled Bärenreiter scores in person, they're so wonderful. The pages appear to be cotton or cotton-blend and have a yellowish-beige tone. The engraving is very similar to LilyPond, not sure; beautiful nevertheless. Legibility of engraving is probably more important than glyphs in written language, because: 1) Reader is on a tempo, they can't pause; so the time allocation for cognitive effort is fixed. 2) No option to re-read or correct, it synchronous to the tempo. 3) You're extremely occupied, even when practicing for years, cognitively across the board from vision to auditory senses and motor control. It's peak human engagement on every level. 4) So many different 'word' level patterns: arpeggios, crescendos/diminuendos, chords, ties and note timing, etc. Oh and multiple staves. 5) No redundancy, yuo cna stlil raed tihs but you can't reverse engineer a score full of typos. Hard encoding with no relief for the reader. This is actually a really cool aspect of written language, that there is redundancy built-in similar to 2DID datamatrix codes. 6) The horizontal spacing is wild. It generally reflects the note duration but only relative to notes around it. A single whole note on a measure takes up less space (horizontally) than sixteen sixteenth notes in a measure. This is kind of genius idea--because spacing can be dynamic and adaptive within the same piece. It affords a higher resolving power. A very busy measure can take a larger horizontal space, than a pianissimo with quarter notes. 7) You have the flip the damn thing, so the score needs to be economical and liberally dense or you'd have to flip the page every 10s. 8) Markings such finger numbers for piano are written alongside. It's hard to express the fidelity and nuances of playing an instrument perfectly in a score, so text directions are used, i.e. the author puts little markings like "Slowly" or "Freely" for tempo, or "With feeling" for mood. I think color can probably really help. I looked it up, yes, it is used for teaching and by a few contemporary musicians but they're not standard. I wish they were since color exploits a very low level pre-attentive feature of human vision, in parallel with contrast/edges/orientation in V1 region of the vision system; before shape recognition which takes place much later. Notation is a truly fascinating system to loosely communicate auditory information and instrument performance, but timbre/swing/phrasing/dynamics is left for the performer to interpret. I can read some of it (barely) but wish to learn more, especially from typographic perspective. It's arguably more interesting than latin glyphs because of the demanding nature of it all.

In an emergency, you must wait for the 500ms animation to finish before you can arm the emergency mode.

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Amca logo is so apex and peerless.