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Preferences, perhaps, but needs, I'm sure not. On this, I much prefer being divorced from preferences, than designing soul-less buildings designed solely to cater to preferences, without leveraging the knowledge gained through years of study.

I often joked, back then, that MSX was a brilliant effort to persuade Japanese computer manufacturers to invest in a family of nearly identical 8-bit systems so that they could compete in price rather than features.

The SMC-70 could run CP/M software. CP/M was the MS-DOS of its time.

Now, as a contrast, another masterpiece from the city where I grew up: https://www.scribd.com/document/955270807/g10-Cultural-Cente...

One great example from the city where I grew up: https://hicarquitectura.com/2024/09/lina-bo-bardi-sesc-pompe...

Because they study architecture. The article is profoundly anti-intellectual. This discourse, that colleges indoctrinate people and, thus, cause them to disagree with some form of "truth" that the uneducated masses know.

If aesthetic sense is distributed according a bell curve, the majority of the population will have "average" taste. If you say good taste is one standard deviation above the median, then the majority will have worse taste.

It reads uncomfortably close to an anti-intellectual discourse so popular in the far-right.

When politics exclude a group, or a group feels excluded, it's easy to lure the group into supporting anti-politics, which is a nice way to say "fascism".

This is kind of where we are now, with the far-right preying on the most vulnerable people that feel ignored by politicians.

Good architects match modernism with livability. A couple months back I visited the Barbican Centre in London and it never ceases to amaze me how thoughtful is every little design item.

In my experience, the biggest issue is natural light - it's hard to beat glass walls when you need a structural skin with some windows where possible.

It's far more common than it should be.

> The worst is block sprawl and suburban slop - endless subdued and constrained repetitions of the same thing, with very minor variations.

The economic of bathtub curves incentivises designs nobody hates, even if at the cost of nobody loving them.

I really love the keycaps.

Exactly. It's tailor-built to be a GB300 tray under your desk. Unless you really need a GB300 tray under your desk, you would be better served looking elsewhere.

Every citizen should have the right to one vote. Large scale campaign financing distorts that.

Their strange notions of what democracy looks like might feel dangerous to the current government.