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“Entwine” is one word…

The drive had a sensor that detected the notch status and either allowed (or not) the write ability.

Basically the same as SD cards today, it’s just assumed that the drive will respect that switch.

Older 5.25-inch floppies you would cut a notch in a specific place, and you could use tape to cover it and make it writable again.

VHS and audio cassettes work the same way too.

I love filter views, no real complaints there except that other people can’t manage to figure out the difference between filtering the whole sheet and setting up a filter view.

Tables seem kind of pointless but better than a separate database app I guess?

Not sure about “little pills”, do you mean the drop downs? That’s in validation, and it’s a little odd but better both in interface and function than Excel. There’s really only one version and two ways to do it: “data validation” and “insert drop-down” (the latter is just a shortcut to the former, but with relevant options selected). Checkboxes are the same (both live in the insert menu).

I’ve never known the “paste style” menu, I mostly use keyboard shortcuts when pasting. I might be misunderstanding what you’re describing there.

Some of it is just familiarity but I found Google sheets to be a breath of fresh air and still find Excel just painful.

Although Google has really gotten pretty cluttered lately as they add features and slap them in whatever menu they pick at random.

Similar but with an interface that refuses to do anything new for 20 years.

No, they could and that’s the problem.

Can they test it again please, until they can learn to behave?

Can russia please cut themselves off from the rest of the Internet?

Yeah but those extra steps are important ones.

As long as you don’t rely on the UI design matching, it is fine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

It’s just some mostly-unwritten rule of English grammar. If you do it wrong it sounds wrong but most English speakers don’t think about it.

Edit: reference.

Bill Cosby and OJ Simpson … how can you go wrong!?

Were they bad, though?

I guess I was thinking of “special characters” like Ł, ñ, ă and such.

ruby shoes that are red

You mostly nailed it but this one would be “red ruby shoes”

determiner, quantity, opinion, size, physical quality, shape, age, colour, origin, material, type, and purpose

Special characters suck in on-screen keyboards

Not as much as they do on physical keyboards with their “hold alt-gr and hope” approach.

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/R_Stevie_Moore_with_Irwin_Chusid/Swingin_Singles/csr044_swingin-singles_side-b_08_r-stevie-moore-with-irwin-chusid_so-be-it-soviet_the-undertow

I dunno that I’d consider Brave to be “the right thing” but more variety/competition is best!

I mean vaguely plausible except that I don’t think ChatGPT could do anything with what trump could ask it.

And honestly ChatGPT would probably come up with a much much more sane policy than this one