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Re:The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996) by cameron_b on Friday December 11, 2020 @10:27PM (#25395178)
Instead of whamming in a pointy cylinder, that stress and vibration might work it out back against the force of our whamming, we TWIST in a similar bit of hardware, only we wrap an inclined plane around the cylinder so that it cuts as we twist, making a walled channel that resists working out backwards under vibration.
Re:The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996) by na85 on Friday December 11, 2020 @10:31PM (#25395207)
Witty, but nails and screws serve different use-cases. Nails have better shear properties, for example.