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hcktntng··on Eurosystem launches digital euro project
It will probably be another typical EU design by committee disaster, like the cookie banner laws.
hcktntng··on Norman doors are everywhere (2016) [video]
A weird thing I noticed: software developers complain about these doors a lot more than other people.

I worked in a big office building with lots of kinds of people, and on the internal chat devs would always complain about a couple of these doors.

They would also regularly complain about a few other things, which while indeed being real, they would be considered minor by other people, one example - not being able to see from a distance if an elevator is busy, with the suggestion of placing elevator availability lights throughout the floor (like plane toilet lights)

I wonder what's the cause, is it attention to detail, being a bit further on the spectrum, too much free time so you hang out on internal chat, ...