Firstly, I thought sans-serif typefaces were encouraged for digital media because they read better than serif fonts. But now that high pixel density displays have permeated the market, this might be a moot point.

On another note, I wonder how much of the hate TNR gets stems from its ubiquity for having been installed on almost all personal computers for the past n decades.

Paganis are beautifully designed cars, but the labelling of buttons and toggles inside the center console look cheap (IMO) because their font seems straight out of a quickly made flyer designed by bored teacher who just discovered Word Art.

If they can't do it on iPhone, they don't need to do it on Android.

I've resorted to using the online web app.

But I suppose these constraints are just targeting the machine's input mechanism and not its actual reasoning ability once the answer is read. I'm curious how Watson at the time could handle a particular category that Ken dominated: "Initials to Roman Numerals to Numbers" [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/PsQ_mT5YSvg?si=8L9uKJj1hpYU_kuf

Since covid, we no longer have assigned desks at work --- it's first come, first served. And while most are respectful of the desks we have "chosen" for ourselves, every once in a while, I'll have to sit at some other, often new desk. And that means my laptop will not recognize the monitor and that I'll have to configure it (scaling, relative position, etc).

And Windows being the mediocre OS that it is, will always select to duplicate the screens even though the logical choice is to extend. My laptop screen and the external monitor aren't even the same aspect ratio. SMH.

At least Macs have the sense to extend screens by default. Though, if I could place a Macbook on the desk, plug in the external monitor, tilt the screen back until the camera can see the monitor, the hinge sensor and cameras can work together to figure out where the monitor is relative to the laptop, and automatically determine the right settings for the monitor instead of requiring my intervention.

Gmail came in with 1 GB storage and grouping emails as conversations. To me, both of these aspects were revolutionary, and other email providers shortly followed suit.

Successor is essentially s(n) = n + 1, so that shouldn't be allowed either.

Logs would also need to state the base. No implicit use of e or 10, and lg wouldn't be allowed in place of log2.

I haven't said much other than logs and roots are binary operators with one of the operands usually implicit in the notation, so if we don't have special notation for powers and exponentiation, then we shouldn't allow the same for their inverse operations.

That can't stop an elderly candidate from running third party to spite the eligibility rules, but that's already the case.

This has serious consequences if I continue to make changes in the new doc when I think I'm still in the native doc (xlsx).

I find myself exporting to CSV, and then closing this CSV file, and finally reopening the original Excel doc.

The pop-up said Edge was based on Chrome with the added trust of MS.

I really wish I could get others to use Firefox, but they're too used to Chrome.

So it turns out, Edge isn't even good enough to fulfill its meme.

If anything, placing the Styles menu front and center in the Home tab with live preview has made document formatting very discoverable. I used to receive so many Word docs with manually adjusted fonts and line spacing. Not so much after the ribbon was introduced.

I think too many managers/execs sign off on software that's of such low quality because everything is magic to them and they don't know to dream bigger.