script good

ship it

no stop touching it, ship it, it's fine, perfect enemy of the good etc

script artifacts/script-altVO.txt

@@ -1,11 +1,20 @@
+the GUI should get out of the way when you don't need it. it should be like a butler that's ready at a moment's notice, and then disappears when you don't need them anymore. [simpsons clip] yeah, like that. perfect.
 never half-ass 2 things. Whole-ass 1 thing.
 your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they never asked if they should
 But then the great mistake was made, which was: well if people react to computers as though they're people, we have to put the faces of people on computers. Which in my opinion is exactly the incorrect reaction. If people are going to react to computers as though they're humans, the one thing you don't have to do is anthropomorphize them, because they're already using that part of the brain. Clippy was a program based on the research that Nass and Reeves did, and it was a tragic misinterpretation of their work."
 "i don't provide the weather, only help with the documentation"
 It's time to stop!
+Get.. outta here!
 won't somebody please think of the shareholders!
 "it's for *your* security. We're trying to protect you! It's not for our profit, of course..."
+- "the camera button on the lock screen. You go to click it... and then nothing would happen." "to me, if you want somebody to swipe, you do something that makes it look like you go to swipe. It's a meme that we've all learned, if something is round, you press it."
 coming back to this now that windows 11 is out...  imagine being able to move the taskbar.  we had no idea how good we had it back then.
 we're trying to make great products for people!
+each of these is like 1 sentence out of the article.
+at its worst point, 17 pilots crashed in a single day.
+After multiple inquiries ended with no answers, officials turned their attention to the design of the cockpit itself.
+To obtain an updated assessment of pilot dimensions, the air force authorized the largest study of pilots that had ever been undertaken.
+Out of 4,063 pilots, not a single airman fit within the average range on all 10 dimensions. If you’ve designed a cockpit to fit the average pilot, you’ve actually designed it to fit no one.
+Avoid anti-features
 the quote is very long
 Avoid anti-features

script artifacts/script-primaryVO.txt

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ That's why the only practical goal to achieve at the moment is adversarial APIs.
 
 Accursed Farms has inspiration on how to build better UIs.
 
-let's learn the lesson that clippy's project managers didn't: we already anthropomorphize our technology, computers should aim to be less like a person and more like a useful tool.
+let's learn the lesson that clippy's project managers didn't: we already anthropomorphize our technology, we should spend less effort having it pretend to be our friend, and more effort making it useful.
 
 
 
@@ -41,11 +41,10 @@ again, focus on your function. whole-ass 1 thing. Confucious said, to go beyond
 
 so, ask. Should you?
 
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 for example, keyboards on laptops.
 my laptop, much like every single other laptop I have ever seen within the last 15 years, is the least-bad design I could find. Laptop keyboards are universally moronic. 
 as a person who understands the concept of a file, I habitually save often.
-looking at my keyboard, the place where many years of muscle memory have trained me to hit the ctrl key, there’s an "fn" key instead, and the ctrl key is moved over to where i expect the windows key. fn + s is screenshot. Cinnamon's screenshot app has a white flash effect. That's why I flashbang myself *often*.
+looking at my keyboard, the place where many years of muscle memory have trained me to hit the ctrl key, there’s an "fn" key instead, and the ctrl key is moved over to where i expect the windows key. fn + s is screenshot. Cinnamon's screenshot app has a white flash effect. So I flashbang myself *often*.
 apparently, if you design a laptop keyboard, a prerequisite is some kind of brain damage that makes you think people want all kinds of bullshit instead of the keys on a keyboard. Fortunately, mine was able to be set once to let the keys do what they’re supposed to. However, on my black keyboard illuminated by my mostly black screen with a couple of points of extremely bright LEDs, I can see the unnecessary functions' white labels, and the actual f key labels have a dark blue one. 
 
 
@@ -94,8 +93,9 @@ but you may not automatically update them.
 
 because no one likes ads, if you're a professional Marketer, you market *yourself* on the grounds that you can make a stronger impression. Which means making your ads more intrusive.
 Everyone hates ads. Everyone hates pop-up ads **much** more, because they pop-up.
+I would have thought this was obvious both experientially and tautologically, and yet...
 So in the extremely rare event that a person the wider internet for something to buy, and the even more rare event that they find a good result, they might read the web page.
-imagine the *audacity* it takes to *stop them from trying to give you money* to ask them to sign up for a newsletter. You know, in case they like this experience so much they want to come back for more of it. 
+imagine the *audacity* it takes to *stop someone from trying to give you money* to ask them to participate in some extraneous junk. 
 
 
 The digital markets act of 2022 in the EU granted advertising corporations the right to view the data they've generated, the right to take their data to other platforms. In other words, big tech gatekeepers don't get to lay claim to advertisers and treat them like property. It demonstrates we all know interoperability is great and enclosure is bad, 
@@ -149,6 +149,20 @@ Why can't you move the taskbar in windows 11? so that it can look like OSX. What
 When apple speaks, the rest of the world obeys. so customization options are viewed as less and less important.
 not to mention, if you're stopped from customization, for example modding in some armor for your horse... now it's something that can be sold to you instead.
 Companies love to dumb everything down, and in response to criticism, blame it on a hypothetical group of lowest-common-denominator people. This way you're not presented with the ability to customize, it's moved behind a paywall. But the whole premise that customization is inessential is wrong.
+Normal is not a valid target. The air force learned this in the 40's.
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+and finally, a short list of features that you know goddamn well no one wants.
+no one wants to sign up for your newsletter - you aren't interesting enough to fill one out. Just get the stupid notification out of the way.
+scrolling is not an ℯ𝓍𝓅ℯ𝓇𝒾ℯ𝓃𝒸ℯ, every vehicle website ever.
+Onboarding is at best a necessary evil.
+
+The worst UX antipattern emerged a while ago.
+It picks a permitted subset of functionality, moves it away from anywhere it could interoperate with other systems, entitles itself to priority over what you're trying to look at, so it can be in front of your eyeballs. 
+customization options are viewed as less and less important.
+not to mention, if you're stopped from customization, for example modding in some armor for your horse... now it's something that can be sold to you instead.
+Companies love to dumb everything down, and in response to criticism, blame it on a hypothetical group of lowest-common-denominator people. This way you're not presented with the ability to customize, it's moved behind a paywall. But the whole premise that customization is inessential is wrong.
 Normal is not a valid target. Just ask the air force.