• Madrigal@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” - Charles Babbage

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      5 months ago

      Of course modern UX design is very much based on getting the right answer with the wrong inputs (autocorrect, etc).