Arcanoloth

@Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad you like it :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK Just the way it turned out (and then was applied to more and more things). Others write top to bottom or even left to right on odd lines and right to left on even ones (boustrophedon, “as the ox plows”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  On the commercial side, it’s the curse of the pareto principle and the “good enough” approach that is the rational consequence of money-maximizing strategies.

  For volunteer/free software/etc. it’s both people being used to working in commercial settings on the one hand, and being ok with scratching one’s own itches first and foremost on the other.